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YEN 2026 - Sign up + Abstract Submission Please fill in the fields below for registration and abstract submission to YEN 2026 - https://www.youngembryologists.org/yen-2026/ Abstract submission will remain open until 15th May 2026. We look ...

Don't forget to register for the Young Embryologists Network (YEN) Conference 2026!

Francis Crick Institute, London
June 15th, 2026
Abstract Deadline: May 13th, 2026

Lots of opportunities for talks from abstracts!
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2026 Cheryll Tickle Medal Winner - Cynthia Andoniadou - BSDB - British Society for Developmental Biology In 2016, the BSDB introduced the Cheryll Tickle Medal, which is being awarded annually to a mid-career, female scientist for her outstanding achievements in the field of Developmental Biology. The BSD...

Many congratulations to Cynthia Andoniadou @pituitarylab.bsky.social, recipient of the 2026 BSDB Cheryll Tickle Medal, honouring her internationally recognised research programme in pituitary gland development and stem cell biology.

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Secondary cartilage in the murine medial pterygoid plate has a critical role in the pathfinding of the tensor veli palatini The development of the medial pterygoid plate (MPP) is followed in mouse embryos, highlighting its neural crest origin and complex development via both endochondral and membranous ossification. Using...

A new paper from the Tucker lab at @ccrb27.bsky.social has just been published in the journal of Anatomy!

Secondary cartilage in the murine medial pterygoid plate has a critical role in the pathfinding of the tensor veli palatini

Link:  doi.org/10.1111/joa....

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Join us in London for this great meeting!
Free registration
ECR-organised
Fantastic speakers
Perspectives session
Lots of slots for short talks
Did I mention free registration? And Travel Grants available!

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Legend says there is a similar study from @ccrb27.bsky.social scientists about the sound a banana makes in the tea room table, but what do I know

Multiscale Models for Life (MM4L) Centre for Doctoral Training Funded Studentship: How ECM changes shape cellular decision making Embryo, neural crest, developmental biology, cell biology, cell migration, biophysics, mechanobiology, bioengineering.

Fully funded PhD post, UK/Home student, starting 01/06/26. Interested in working at the interface of dev bio, biophysics and cell biology? Great collaboration with Amy Beedle and @leonerossetti.bsky.social Informal enquiries welcome. Deadline 15/03 #neuralcrest

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Immunofluorescence image of the forming mouse pinna at E14.5. 12-101 (muscle marker) is in red, Sox9 (cartilage and Schwann cell precursor marker) is in green and DAPI nuclear stain is in blue. Note the close proximity of the muscle and pinna cartilage cells.

New paper from the Tucker lab at @ccrb27.bsky.social published in @dev-journal.bsky.social !

Analysis of Eya1 and Tbx1 mutants highlights interactions between the muscle and developing cartilage during external ear formation.

Link: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social

How your email finds me

it appears your manuscript "in preparation" was not published in 2025 after all, mr. bond

A few days left to apply for exciting PhD and Postdoc opportunities in wonderful Copenhagen and join our efforts in understanding Epigenetic Cell Memory.

Groundbreaking

Obviously a lightbulb

Great opportunity in a fantastic lab!

Can most significant historic events be explained through infectious diseases? I want to believe YES

CCRB paper alert!
Most snakes can open their mouths so wide they can consume food that is much larger than their own head. This is partly due to their ‘free’ mandibular symphysis, found to be both bone and cartilage-free. So, how ‘free’ is that symphyseal gap?

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Life goals

Everybody asks What is the organiser but nobody asks How is the organiser

If you're heading to the cinema to see One Battle After Another today, you'll be pleased to know that there is a scene with a mini centrifuge that is properly balanced. And they change the tip for pipetting each sample.

Congrats, Jan! Exciting times for the lab!

Wow! The accuracy of the model is amazing! Congratulations!!

If there’s one place on Earth you don’t want to be, it’s in the mouth of a Komodo dragon.

Not convinced? No problem - you can see all of their deadly dental secrets in this week’s #SurprisingScience 🦎 ☠️

Woohooo! Many congrats @ingridtsang.bsky.social !!

Looking for a postdoc position? Join us at the Tucker group! We have chocolate Digestives on a weekly basis

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social

thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

A backpack side pocket with an umbrella

After living in the UK for 1 year, I've learned that the little side pocket of my backpack is not only for water bottles but also umbrellas

Fantastic work! Congrats!

So proud of the lab team at @ccrb27.bsky.social who achieved a silver LEAF accreditation as part of this. Special mention goes to Rhys Hippolyte-Belle who won the freezer challenge!