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Cassie, a short brunette, is wearing a bright pink linen dress with her hair pulled back in a clip. She is wearing glasses and a lanyard with her name. She is smiling and standing in front of a pixelated scientific poster with the title “Multi-Omic Analysis to Identify Barriers to hPSC-derived Skeletal Muscle Maturation”. The title is white font on a sky blue background.

A photograph of the ocean of El Escambrón beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The sky is partially cloudy and light blue. The ocean is a blue-green color with a few peaceful waves. In the background are palm trees.

A photograph over a cliff near the fortress Bastión de San Sebastian in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The grass of the cliff is a vibrant green with dark green foliage. The sky is clear and a pale blue. The ocean is calm and a medium blue color. The edge of the brick fortress is barely visible along the right edge of the photograph.

So thankful to have spent the past week in Puerto Rico at #2025ICDB #2025SDB! 🌴 This was my first conference outside of NYC, and it was great to hear from so many renowned developmental biologists and receive feedback on my research.

Great to meet with old friends in a fantastic meeting!
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Celebrating Blanche Capel with fellow Capel Lab alum Lindsey Barske at #2025ICDB #2025SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social

Many congratulations to the #2025SDB Vicktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize, Erica Crespi!

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Congratulations to winners of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology (LASDB) Senior Investigator Award, Maria Leptin and Miguel Concha! 🎉

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Congratulations to Blanche Capel for being awarded the #2025SDB Edwin G. Conklin Medal!

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PI Fellows 2025 | Development | The Company of Biologists

Congratulations to @mads100tist.bsky.social for winning the #2025SDB Trainee Science Communication Award!!

Joaquín is 1 of @dev-journal.bsky.social's 2025 Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows - stay tuned for an interview w/ him in Development sometime in August!

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I'm looking forward to the #2025ICDB #2025SDB Publishing Workshop today at 10:30.

Share what matters to you as a reader, author & reviewer in this survey from @dev-journal.bsky.social's not-for-profit publisher, @biologists.bsky.social. Help shape the future.

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As cephalopods, longfin inshore squid have three hearts: two to pump blood through the gills & a third to circulate oxygenated blood around the body. @gertjanveenstra.bsky.social shows how each heart forms from a shared embryonic origin, in close concert with the gills.

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Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol inhibits Hedgehog-dependent patterning during development Highlighted Article: The psychoactive cannabinoid THC inhibits Hedgehog signaling in genetically sensitized mouse embryos, consistent with a gene–environment interaction model for the etiology of a co...

Why is it advised not to drink when pregnant? For one, Mingi Hong highlights how exposure to environmental factors, like alcohol, affects developmental processes & increases the risk of birth defects like holoprosencephaly.

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Related article in @dev-journal.bsky.social:

Essential for heart development, the protein MEF2C regulates the activity of other genes. @benoitbruneau.bsky.social (@dev-journal.bsky.social Editor) applies the latest high-resolution tech to unpick how gene networks are disrupted in time and space when MEF2C is lost.

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Neptune: a Roman god; a planet; and now a new technology developed by @anderssonlab.bsky.social to trace the differentiation of each cell within the developing mouse ectoderm – a tissue that gives rise to the skin, sensory organs (e.g. inner ear) & nervous system.

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The ornamental Polish chicken, which has an extra-feathery crown, is Cheng-Ming Chuong's species of choice to study how skin has region-specific developmental programmes by comparing feather shape, colour & pattern variation in different anatomical locations.

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@devbioquintay.bsky.social Alumni at the 2025 @isdb.bsky.social / @socdevbio.bsky.social / LASDB meeting with @mayorlab.bsky.social 🇵🇷
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Did you know that cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish) have three hearts?
Did you ever wonder how that is possible?
For the first answer to that question, come to the today's afternoon session of #2025ICDB meeting (Saturday 21 June 7PM)
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Some of the developmental staging series Developmental Dynamics has published, including Lepidodactylus lugubris

A parthenogenetic lizard, the mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris), sitting on my thumb.

Pretty cool seeing both my developmental staging series at the @devdynamics.bsky.social table and #Lepidodactylus itself in San Juan for SDB! #2025SDB #2025ICDB #devbio #GeckoEvoDevo #mourninggecko

Mechanisms of regeneration: to what extent do they recapitulate development? Summary: By comparing regeneration and development, this Review highlights new insights into morphogenesis, revealing potential non-developmental strategies for tissue regrowth.

You might not have heard of the three-banded panther worm, but it's Mansi Srivastava's animal of choice for understanding the extent to which embryonic development & regeneration share common mechanisms

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Related @dev-journal.bsky.social Review by @canaztekin.bsky.social

a black and white cat is being petting by a person . Alt: a black and white cat is being wrapped in a blanket

Schwann cells wrap neuronal axons like the tortilla around a burrito. Sarah Petersen reveals that Schwann cells promote regeneration in response to injury and aims to unpick their enigmatic nerve-wrapping dynamics.

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a small axolotl is walking on a piece of paper . Alt: a small axolotl yawning

Lots to 🩷 about an axolotl but, for @jesslamae.bsky.social, the appeal of these smiley salamanders is trying to harness their ability to regenerate limbs. Prof. Whited highlights how the removal of one limb induces changes in cell behaviour throughout the whole body.

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Zebrafish regenerate their hearts without scarring but, like humans, medaka fish cannot - unless their immune system is activated by simulating a viral infection. Ben Shih-Lei Lai 賴時磊 highlights that immune cell-dependent clearing of damage promotes heart regeneration.

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Unable to move, plants tough out unfavourable environments by changing shape. Jorge Casal explains how, in shade, plants seek sunlight by growing taller. Then in light, the accumulation of light-activated protein 'condensates' halts vertical growth.

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Pathway to Independence – an interview with Yuchuan Miao Yuchuan Miao is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University, USA, where his research focuses on the development of in vitro stem cell models of somitogenesis. Yuchuan has been selected for Develop...

Yuchuan Miao is now speaking at #2025ICDB #2025SDB, who started his own lab 3 months ago. Yuchuan is one of Development's first cohort of Pathway to Independence fellows and you can learn more about his research and career in this @dev-journal.bsky.social interview.

Here is Kim's (@ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social) well-read @dev-journal.bsky.social Review from last year's special issue on uncovering developmental diversity.

If you would like your own copy of the special issue, you can pick one up now at #2025ICDB #2025SDB - booth #4.

With friends in Puerto-Rico, at the table of King Benoît the 1st #2025ICDB #2025SDB 🤘👑

Embryos initially rely on factors deposited in the egg to grow before generating materials via their own genome. Using flies, Shelby Blythe studies how chromatin-associated proteins (histones) are modified and how these modifcations relate to zygotic genome activation.

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Sugar is usually thought of as a cellular fuel, but it also changes how cells differentiate. preLighter (@prelights.bsky.social) @martinestermann.bsky.social shows that metabolites, such as sugars, influence the development of sex organs—ovaries & testes. Sweet story!

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Segmentation and patterning of the vertebrate hindbrain Summary: This Review discusses how sharp patterns of segments and boundaries are formed during hindbrain development.

Very fundamental processes, such as sleep and swallowing, are regulated by the hindbrain. Rob Krumlauf studies how the hindbrain develops through a segmentation process - with each segment having a distinct identity.

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Learn more in Rob's @dev-journal.bsky.social Review:

Externally, humans look symmetrical but our internal organs aren't. Focusing on a key asymmetric organ, the heart, @rburdine1.bsky.social studies how asymmetry arises during zebrafish development in a process called jogging, which occurs when heart progenitors migrate.

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Neural crest cells (NCCs) give rise to many different types of cells, from neurons to fat cells. @saukaspengler.bsky.social seeks to discover how NCCs determine their fate from the perspective of key genes, which encode factors that interact with each other in a complex network.

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