Rethinking RNA-binding proteins: Riboregulation challenges prevailing views RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are best known as effectors along the entire gene expression pathway and as constituents of RNA-protein machines such as t…

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Simmonds lab and Dept. of #CellBiology @ualberta.bsky.social alumni Matt Anderson-Baron reaches a new milestone with their #YEG biotech - Future Fields Closes Oversubscribed $8M Series A to Turn Flies Into Bioreactors share.google/RJvHTcdh4ugS...

Dr. Chris Winrow, former trainee with Rick Rachubinski lists Rick's " keys to the research game", as well as his current efforts in research commercialization working at Merck. @ualberta.bsky.social

The last session of the Canadian Developmetnal Biology Conference goes into overtime with a couple of last-minute talks thanks to Dr. Katia Del Rio-Tsionis (Miami University, Ohio) and Dr. Curtis French (Memorial University of Newfoundland). #justcantstop! #newts! #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Next speaker in the (sadly) final session of the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference is Gabriel Bossé, Université Laval talking about “Investigating the neurodevelopmental impact of polydrug exposure using zebrafish” #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Kicking off thje last session of the Canadian Developmental Biology meeting, Gurpreet Moroak, Simon Fraser University tells us about “Tumor growth in Drosophila larval epithelial tissue induces distant organ wasting through fat body metabolic dysregulation” #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Continuing with the our morning session at the Canadian Developmental Biollgy Conference. Here we have Jeff Rasmussen from University of Washington telling us aobut "Building and maintaining the touch system: Insights from zebrafish skin". #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

First trainee talk for Day 4 of the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference. Andy Cheng, University of Alberta, telling us about how “Lipid coordination between peroxisomes, peroxins, and lipid droplets” affects early fly development. #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Here we go with Day 4 of the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference! Starting us off is Brittany Carr, University of Alberta speaking abourt “The role of prominin-1 in photoreceptor development and disease”. #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social @drbjcarr.bsky.social

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Last talk of a long Day 3 of the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference from trainee Andreas Dauter - “A Model of the Middle: How do cell behaviours shape the embryonic face?” #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

“Twisting Cytokinesis: Cell Adhesion and Cortical Flow Underlie Chiral Morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans Embryos”

Update from the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference Day 3! - YuXuan (Rain) Xiong, Graduate Student, UBC is seen here presenting their reserach on morphogenesis #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social (Go Oilers! - ahead 1-0 at end of the first period)

Canadian Developmental Biology Conference Day 3 continues - Min Zhu Postdoctoral Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children, “Tissue stiffness mapping by light sheet elastography" #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

When you want to see the talks at the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference, but Oilers are playing game 4 of the conference final! #CDBC2025

One thing I enjoy about the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference is diversity! - here is Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan, Dept Physics and Astronomy, Western University showing how “Cell divisions challenge tissue boundaries and sharpen them through tissue fluidity” #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Our first trainee talk of the Day3 evening session! Maria Sharkova, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta tells us about “Unveiling the Photoreceptor Outer Segment Cage Formed by Calyceal Processes, Müller Glia, and the Retinal Pigment Epithelium”. #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

The evening session for Day 3 of the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference continues with a talk from Arif Ashraf, University of British Columbia entitled "Function of nuclear envelope proteins beyond the nuclear envelope". #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Evening session at the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference starts with Heather Szabo-Rogers, from the University of Saskatchewan talking about "Insights from Robinow Syndrome reveal crosstalk between HH and Wnt/PCP pathways” #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

The meeting is only half done, but I wanted to take the opportunity to thank our Canadian Developmental Biology Conference sponsors! #CDBC2025
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Nguyen's 60 sec science talk. Great job!
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Cytonemes!

Heather Bruce, University of British Columbia speaks about “How the old becomes new: tracking morphological and gene network evolution over half a billion years” at the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference - Day 3 #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Canadian Developmental Biology Conference Day 3 - Muhammed Simsek, McMaster University speaks about “Signalling dynamics required for sequential segmentation of vertebrate embryos”. #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

And here is Menghao Lu, University of British Columbia giving the first trainee talk for Day 3 of the Canadian Developmental Biology Confernce - “The functions of CaMKII and PKC in Wnt-dependent neurite pruning in C. elegans” #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Canadian Developmental Biolgy Conference Day 3 begins here in Kelowna! Starting us off is Jessica Rosin, University of British Columbia telling us about their work into "New insights into immune regulation of craniofacial morphogenesis" #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Evening session at the Canadian Developmental Biology Confernce continues with - Kevin Wei, University of British Columbia tells us about “Evolved embryonic suppression of recently expanded retroelements through heterochromatin nucleation”

Next up at the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference - PDF Craig Jacobs speaking about “A non-linear response to Hedgehog signalling provides a mechanism for novel directions of shape change during development” #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Next up for the evening session at the Canadian Developmental Biology Conference Soeren Huettner Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University telling us about how “CTCF is essential for limb muscle development by preventing ectopic gene expression in myogenic progenitors" #CDBC2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Canadian Developmental Biology Conference - Day 2 Evening Session starts with Deniz Top, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta speakiing about "Coordination of distinct transcription programs between different neurons regulate coherent behavior”

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