Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, April 10, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Biozentrum at the University of Basel) Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity in zebrafish Yiqun Wang (University of California, San Diego) Asymmetric mRNA partition mediated embryonic patterning in spiralian development revealed by spatial transcriptomics

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held Friday, April 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch and Yiqun Wang @ucsandiego.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/42xUhYh #SDBPostdocSeminar

The March 13 #SDBPostdocSeminar with Martha Echevarría-Andino of @uwmadison.bsky.social and M. Fernanda Palominos of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social has been posted. Thank you to moderators @gopalkushawah.bsky.social and Neha Ahuja. Watch here: youtu.be/Ohzyftcq2gY

M. Fernanda (Feña) Palominos

Atp8a1 and tpm3b expression localized to craniofacial muscles in scale-eater pupfish hatchlings

Feña Palominos of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Novel craniofacial genes linked to extreme jaw evolution in pupfishes revealed by tissue-specific transcriptomics and speciation genomics" Image: Atp8a1 & tpm3b in pupfish craniofacial muscles

Martha Echevarría-Andino

Hox11 expression in a Hoxa11eGFP postnatal day 0 animal

Martha Echevarría-Andino of @uwmadison.bsky.social will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Hoxa11/Hoxd11 transcription factors regulate extracellular matrix genes during osteochondral differentiation" Image: Hox11 expression in a Hoxa11eGFP postnatal day 0 animal

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, March 13, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Martha Echevarría-Andino (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Hoxa11/Hoxd11 transcription factors regulate extracellular matrix genes during osteochondral differentiation M. Fernanda Palominos (University of California, Berkeley) Novel craniofacial genes linked to extreme jaw evolution in pupfishes revealed by tissue-specific transcriptomics and speciation genomics

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, March 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Martha Echevarría-Andino @uwmadison.bsky.social and M. Fernanda Palominos @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/47QVIEK #SDBPostdocSeminar

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, March 13, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Martha Echevarría-Andino (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Hoxa11/Hoxd11 transcription factors regulate extracellular matrix genes during osteochondral differentiation M. Fernanda Palominos (University of California, Berkeley) Novel craniofacial genes linked to extreme jaw evolution in pupfishes revealed by tissue-specific transcriptomics and speciation genomics

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held Friday, February 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Martha Echevarría-Andino @uwmadison.bsky.social and M. Fernanda Palominos @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/47QVIEK #SDBPostdocSeminar

The February 13 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @gopalkushawah.bsky.social of @stowersinstitute.bsky.social and Neha Ahuja of UT Southwestern has been posted. Thank you to moderators Zong-Yuan Liu and @parahsaramore.bsky.social Watch here: youtu.be/aEQuWbfMzWM

Neha Ahuja

Pancreatic explant (magenta - membrane, cyan - apical)

Neha Ahuja of UT Southwestern Medical Center will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Building pancreatic tubes: The Hippo modulator MERLIN is required for epithelial morphogenesis and endocrine" Image: Pancreatic explant (magenta - membrane, cyan - apical)

Gopal Kushawah

Spatio-temporal RNAs are indispensable architects of embryonic development

.@gopalkushawah.bsky.social of @stowersinstitute.bsky.social will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with his talk "Cth1 is a spatiotemporal maternal RNA decay factor essential for zebrafish development" Image: Spatio-temporal RNAs are indispensable architects of embryonic development.

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, February 13, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Gopal Kushawah (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) Cth1 is a spatiotemporal maternal RNA decay factor essential for zebrafish development Neha Ahuja (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) Building pancreatic tubes: The Hippo modulator MERLIN is required for epithelial morphogenesis and endocrine

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, February 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Gopal Kushawah @gopalkushawah.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social and Neha Ahuja at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Register today and join us. bit.ly/46K9iss #SDBPostdocSeminar

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, February 13, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Gopal Kushawah (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) Cth1 is a spatiotemporal maternal RNA decay factor essential for zebrafish development Neha Ahuja (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) Building pancreatic tubes: The Hippo modulator MERLIN is required for epithelial morphogenesis and endocrine

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held Friday, February 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Gopal Kushawah @gopalkushawah.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social and Neha Ahuja at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Register today and join us. bit.ly/46K9iss #SDBPostdocSeminar

The January 9 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @priyomadhyapok.bsky.social of @duke-university.bsky.social and Zong-Yuan Liu of @UMich has been posted. Thank you to moderators @weiyiqian.bsky.social and Robyn Allen‬. Watch here: youtu.be/pTLOq36MCNs

Zong-Yuan Liu

FGF4 (blue), FGF8 (green) and primitive streak-like cells (red) in 2D human gastruloids

Zong-Yuan Liu of @umich.edu will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with his talk "Endogenous FGFs drive ERK-dependent cell fate patterning in 2D human gastruloids" Image: FGF4 (blue), FGF8 (green) and primitive streak-like cells (red) in 2D human gastruloids

Priyom Adhyapok

Oscillator phases (circles) with averages (squares) on the unit circle as a function of time

.@priyomadhyapok.bsky.social of @duke-university.bsky.social will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "A biological oscillator controls the pace of notochord segmentation" Image: Oscillator phases (circles) with averages (squares) on the unit circle as a function of time

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, January 9, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Priyom Adhyapok (Duke University) A biological oscillator controls the pace of notochord segmentation Zong-Yuan Liu (University of Michigan) Endogenous FGFs drive ERK-dependent cell fate patterning in 2D human gastruloids

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, January 9 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Priyom Adhyapok @priyomadhyapok.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social and Zong-Yuan Liu @UMich. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4ncxr0M #SDBPostdocSeminar

The December 12 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @weiyiqian.bsky.social from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine and Robyn Allen of @universityofky.bsky.social has been posted. Thank you to moderators Olya Yarychkivska and Anthony Galenza‬. Watch here: youtu.be/yKFlB_nB2lo

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Primary fibroblasts from Acomys and Mus vary in proliferation and myofibroblast transformation Top left: Acomys dimidiatus adult Top right: Mus musculus adult Bottom left: Primary fibroblasts from Acomys Bottom right: Primary fibroblasts from Mus

Robyn Allen of @universityofky.bsky.social will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Fibroblasts from highly regenerative mammals resist mechanical cues to drive regeneration" Image: Primary fibroblasts from Acomys and Mus vary in proliferation and myofibroblast transformation

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A zebrafish posterior lateral line primordium is depositing a sensory organ at its rear (left)

.@weiyiqian.bsky.social at NYU Grossman School of Medicine will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with his talk "Tug of war — Tissue splitting driven by cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions" Image: A zebrafish posterior lateral line primordium is depositing a sensory organ at its rear (left)

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, December 12, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Weiyi Qian (New York University Grossman School of Medicine) Tug of war — Tissue splitting driven by cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions Robyn Allen (University of Kentucky) Fibroblasts from highly regenerative mammals resist mechanical cues to drive regeneration

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be (today) Friday, December 12 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Weiyi Qian @weiyiqian.bsky.social at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Robyn Allen @universityofky.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/46rb0NZ #SDBPostdocSeminar

The November 14 #SDBPostdocSeminar with Olya Yarychkivska of @rockefeller.edu and Anthony Galenza of Stanford University has been posted. Thank you to moderators @austinseroka1.bsky.social and @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬. Watch here: youtu.be/JF9PA6TKZ8s

Anthony Galenza

Cross section of a Drosophila midgut with its single cell layer barrier epithelium

Anthony Galenza of Stanford University will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with his talk "Membrane-bending proteins promote formation of a curved apical domain during de novo polarization in Drosophila intestinal stem cell progeny" Image: Fly midgut with its single cell layer barrier epithelium

Olya Yarychkivska

Linker cell at the tail of a C. elegans male

Olya Yarychkivska of @rockefeller.edu will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Myelin regulatory factor 1, identified by single cell transcriptomics, primes a migrating cell for non-apoptotic cell death" Image: Linker cell at the tail of a C. elegans male

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, November 14, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Olya Yarychkivska (The Rockefeller University) Myelin regulatory factor 1, identified by single cell transcriptomics, primes a migrating cell for non-apoptotic cell death Anthony Galenza (Stanford University) Membrane-bending proteins promote formation of a curved apical domain during de novo polarization in Drosophila intestinal stem cell progeny

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, November 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Olya Yarychkivska from @rockefeller.edu and Anthony Galenza from Stanford University. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4gvaHqd #SDBPostdocSeminar #Celegans #Drosophila

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, November 14, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Olya Yarychkivska (The Rockefeller University) Myelin regulatory factor 1, identified by single cell transcriptomics, primes a migrating cell for non-apoptotic cell death Anthony Galenza (Stanford University) Membrane-bending proteins promote formation of a curved apical domain during de novo polarization in Drosophila intestinal stem cell progeny

The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be Friday, November 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Olya Yarychkivska from @rockefeller.edu and Anthony Galenza from Stanford University. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4gvaHqd #SDBPostdocSeminar #Celegans #drosophila

The October 10 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ of @upenn.edu has been posted. Thank you to moderators @sarahcolijn.bsky.social and @shyama13.bsky.social. Watch here: youtu.be/k4OJHnZV2gk

headshot of Heather Dingwall

Mouse eccrine glands (left) and hair follicles (right) stained for K14 (green) and DAPI (magenta)

.@dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ of @upenn.edu will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Mechanisms underlying the evolution of human sweating and fur loss" Image: Mouse eccrine glands (left) and hair follicles (right) stained for K14 (green) and DAPI (magenta)

headshot of Austin Seroka

Vagal axons extending towards organ targets during development

.@austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with his talk "Transcription factor code specifies vagal motor innervation of organ targets during development" Image: Vagal axons extending towards organ targets during development

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, October 10, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Austin Seroka (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) Transcription factor code specifies vagal motor innervation of organ targets during development Heather Dingwall (University of Pennsylvania) Mechanisms underlying the evolution of human sweating and fur loss

The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ of @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed #SDBPostdocSeminar

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, October 10, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Austin Seroka (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) Transcription factor code specifies vagal motor innervation of organ targets during development Heather Dingwall (University of Pennsylvania) Mechanisms underlying the evolution of human sweating and fur loss

The next #SDBPostdocSeminar will be held Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ from @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed

The September 12 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ of the University of Pittsburgh has been posted. Thank you to moderators Rui Yan and Taylor Medwig-Kinney. Watch here: youtu.be/kGAtxCqFARk