Reposted by Courtney LancasterTheory of Living Matter Group @tlmcambridge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026🍹 TLM Pub Talks 🍻 Ever wondered why children grow to the same height as their parents? Why large and small people have the same number of toes, fingers, and vertebrae? Jake Cornwall-Scoones and Amy Bowen might be able to help you! Come to the Panton Arms on Oct 27th at 18:30 to learn more 1158
Reposted by Courtney LancasterBen Steventon @bensteventon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Happy to share this link to @yuritakahashi.bsky.social ‘s paper that is now out in @embojournal.org . Is you make cells migrate, they become migratory cell states! eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.comClient Challenge 12110
Reposted by Courtney LancasterNobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.” 241077515
Reposted by Courtney Lancasterstramerlab.bsky.social @stramerlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Registration now open for the #ASMB Workshop on Basement Membranes, which will be in Manchester, UK Dec 2-5. Great lineup of speakers covering all aspects of BM biology. If you would like to be considered for a talk the abstract deadline is Oct 31. www.asmb.net/basement-mem...asmb.netBasement Membrane Workshop 012
Reposted by Courtney LancasterLaboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Biophysics meets immunology in this latest pre print across LMCB labs @yanlanmao.bsky.social @actonlab.bsky.social 051
Reposted by Courtney LancasterRoland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comNo cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in ScotlandA study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective". 6461332288
Reposted by Courtney LancasterVirtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 07/09/2026🧬✨ VGZT SEASON 8 IS HERE! ✨🧬 Calling all developmental biology enthusiasts 👀 A new season of Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks is officially underway, and we have an exciting speaker line-up coming your way! Check out the poster below for everything coming up in Season 8! 👇 #devbio#gastrulation#sci 12112
Reposted by Courtney LancasterDevelopment @dev-journal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Zebrafish knock-in lines enabling live visualization of extracellular matrix dynamics during development and regeneration Read this Techniques & Resources Article from our #DevSIextracellular by @jingwenshen.bsky.social, @kenposs.bsky.social & co. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... 0164
Reposted by Courtney LancasterLondon BioImage Interest Group @biig-ucl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026We are excited to share that the first session of London BIIG will be on Friday 11th September at 12pm at the LMCB! Talks: Yongjoo Kim (UCL) & Nina Thornton (Crick) #l-biig Refreshments will be provided. Directions for LMCB can be found on our website. 1188
Reposted by Courtney LancasterBen Steventon @bensteventon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Happy to see Carlos Camacho-Macorra’s paper now out in Development! It was a fun collaboration with @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social and Alberto Ceccarelli, to determine how the notochord balances its elongation at both ends. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.comCoupling Vgll4b/Yap regulated posterior cell addition with anterior vacuolation enables robust notochord elongationRobust tissue growth control requires long-range communication between the rate of progenitor addition and tissue expansion. However, the regulatory mechanisms that couple these processes are unknown.... 1186
Reposted by Courtney LancasterSrinivas Lab @srinivas-lab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Happy to share our new eLife paper on tissue dynamics during anterior-posterior axis formation. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 13110
Reposted by Courtney LancasterAlex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The #LondonEvoDevo goes to Cambridge! Kindly hosted by @emiliapsantos.bsky.social, mark on your calendars *October 2nd* at the Main Theatre in the Department of Zoology (Cambridge). Registration (£0.00): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... All welcome to present: #PI #PhD #PostDocs, submit abstracts!docs.google.comLondonEvoDevo meeting - October 2026This event will take place on Friday October 2nd, 2026, at the Department of Zoology (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge, Downing Street CB2 3EJ, 12:30 - 18:30. There will be no posters, ... 03732
Reposted by Courtney LancasterYanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...cell.comBasement membrane turnover controls cell shapeBasement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada... 112654
Reposted by Courtney LancasterGiulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social · 23/07/2026With @rocha-lab.bsky.social we are organizing a workshop on developmental robustness and it is now open for applications for early career participants! These are fantastic interactive meetings and we have a great speaker lineup - if you have any questions don’t hesitate to get in touch! 01910
Reposted by Courtney Lancasterepithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Lancaster, C., Manhart, A., & Pichaud, F. (2025). Integrins coordinate basal surface contraction and oriented cell growth to enable thickening of a curved epithelium. Current biology : CB, 35(14), 3287–3302.e3. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/hfic6qh 131
Reposted by Courtney LancasterbioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Transforming avian to mammalian modes of digit patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 021
Reposted by Courtney LancasterMargherita Battistara @mbattistara.bsky.social · 08/07/2026🪲🪰 Our preprint is out! This was a team effort with @wolframponisch.bsky.social, @matthewabenton.bsky.social and Ewa Paluch. We asked whether Drosophila and Tribolium use the same cell behaviours to fold their embryos during gastrulation. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgMorphospace analysis reveals divergent cellular behaviours driving tissue internalisation during insect gastrulationDuring gastrulation, embryonic epithelia undergo large-scale remodelling to internalise the mesoderm. Whether the cellular mechanisms underlying these tissue deformations are conserved across species ... 36725
Reposted by Courtney LancasterFranck Pichaud @fpichaud.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Hot of the press- great collaboration with our friends @lmescu.bsky.social and F. Casares @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social - building the insect eye is a feat of engineering! @uclnews.bsky.social @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk 2288
Reposted by Courtney LancasterGuillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Delighted to share our latest preprint "NucleiSky enables cross-scale multimodal registration of microscopy data using nuclei constellations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code and App: github.com/CellMigratio... 37436
Reposted by Courtney LancasterLoïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 29/06/20261/ 🧬🔬 How does one cell become an entire animal? We can now film it in 3D 🐟, but turning those movies into accurate cell tracks is brutally hard. Enter our new #Kaggle challenge: $60K prize pool, to help crack 3D+time cell tracking at scale! 🧵👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @biohub.org 17941
Reposted by Courtney LancasterCambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Next Monday, 15 June at 2:30 PM (UK time), we are excited to welcome Zoe Nahas @zoenahas.bsky.social and Toby Andrews @tobyandrews.bsky.social! This seminar will be online and will be the last one of the term. We hope to see many of you there and finish the term with great science and discussion! 074
Reposted by Courtney LancasterElena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab @squeezycellslab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026We are thrilled to announce our new preprint from the wonderful @sorayavillaseca.bsky.social Ever wondered how cells squeeze through tiny spaces in embryos? Neural crest cells use Dynein to transport their nucleus along microtubules. Check out the preprint!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 46926
Reposted by Courtney LancasterCambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026We had an amazing day #Morpho5🖐️ last Friday! Thank you to everyone who joined us for a fantastic day of science, discussion, and community!!| We're currently gathering and preparing the photos from the symposium. Stay tuned! 📸 2236
Reposted by Courtney LancasterZimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 04/06/2026DySTrack is officially published!: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... If anyone is keen on using it feel free to reach out as we are more than happy to help and demo if need be!doi.orgDySTrack – a modular smart microscopy tool for live tracking of dynamic samples on modern commercial microscopesSummary: DySTrack is an easy-to-use open-source tool that bridges standard microscope control software with the Python image analysis ecosystem to enable automated tracking of moving, drifting, or gro... 03818
Reposted by Courtney LancasterCambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Only a few days to go until the symposium this Friday! 🎉 Check the detailed programme here: ucammorphogenesisseries.com/cambridge-mo... For those who missed in person registration, online registration is still open :) Looking forward to see you all there!!!| Tag us #Morpho5 175
Reposted by Courtney LancasterYanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This exciting paper is now out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.org3D epithelial cell topology tunes signaling range to promote precise patterning | PNASCell behaviors in multicellular organisms are coordinated via both diffusible molecules and by signals based on direct cell–cell contacts. The mode... 27126
Reposted by Courtney LancasterMeng Zhu @zhumeng123.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Cambridge → Boston → Cambridge again: I’m thrilled to return to Cambridge(UK) to open my lab at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge!🥳 (mzhulab.com) We study how dev timing shapes and being shaped by plasticity, evolution & ageing. 🚩Hiring at all levels: pls email me if interested!📩mzhulab.comMeng Zhu LabWe study how development measures time and how timing matters in development, evolution and ageing. 1213734
Reposted by Courtney LancasterCambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 24/04/2026🔔 This is a quick reminder of in-person registration for the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium. We are really looking forward to welcoming you all 🥳 The deadline is a week away! Check out the details and register here: t.ly/YYM3u. Further programme details will be announced soon! Stay tuned! 168
Reposted by Courtney LancasterBerta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 613051
Reposted by Courtney LancasterNaomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I am giving a "Crash Course in Embryo Development" for the general public (no science background needed! pitched around GCSE-level) in London on 21st May www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri... We'll dip into development, with a splash of embryo models, and a pinch of ethics. And it's free! Book online 👍crick.ac.ukCrick Crash Course: Embryo development 07025
Reposted by Courtney LancasterPanos Oikonomou @eigenp.bsky.social · 18/04/20261/ 🔬🧑💻 Tired of going back and forth between GUIs and code for your 3D image analysis needs? Would you like to keep your focus in one place (notebook), without sacrificing interactivity? Here’s a tool that can help! 13816
Reposted by Courtney Lancasterthe Node @the-node.bsky.social · 15/04/2026An illustrated summary of the BSDB Spring Meeting 2026 In this post, @alexneaverson.bsky.social shares her insights on using illustration to share the joy of developmental biology at the 2026 @bsdb.bsky.social meeting. thenode.biologists.com/an-illustrat... #SciArtthenode.biologists.comAn illustrated summary of the BSDB Spring Meeting 2026 - the NodeI recently attended the BSDB Spring Meeting, and decided to spend most of my time at the conference sketching. The result is this illustrated summary - 01811
Reposted by Courtney LancasterMark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 14/04/2026If you are a UCL student you can register for the hopeful Sustainability Leadership Conference next week. I'll be there but dont let that put you off 🤓 studentsunionucl.org/sustainabili...studentsunionucl.orgSustainability Leadership ConferenceThe climate and biodiversity crisis affects us all. Our planet faces unsustainable rising temperatures and the destruction of natural habitats. But there is hope. 087
Reposted by Courtney LancasterNaomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Following several years (!) of discussion and rumination, our team of excellent colleagues - Martin Pera, @nicolasrivron.bsky.social, @amartinezarias.bsky.social, Karen Sermon and Nienke de Graeff - have published a new ethical perspective on SCBEM #embryomodels rdcu.be/fcklG [1/5]rdcu.beMorally relevant features warranting ethical oversight in human stem cell-based embryo modelsNature Cell Biology - This Perspective presents a set of attributes by which to evaluate human stem cell-based embryo models that not only include morally relevant embryo features but also take... 12911
Reposted by Courtney Lancastercanaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevoscience.orgSpecies-specific oxygen sensing governs the initiation of vertebrate limb regenerationWhy mammals cannot regenerate limbs like amphibians do presents a long-standing puzzle in biology. To uncover the underlying differences, we compared amputation responses of embryonic mouse (Mus musculus) and Xenopus laevis tadpole limbs. Lowering ... 21270115
Reposted by Courtney LancasterBioImagingUK @bioimaginguk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026 🚨A few spaces left on our Bristol Bioimage Data Stewardship workshop! 📍 20 May, 09:30 - 17:00 🔬Learn FAIR principles, data sharing, repository submission & more — then take those skills back to your facility as a trainer 🚆 Up to £100 travel support for UK academics Apply👉https://shorturl.at/2mZA 032
Reposted by Courtney LancasterAlex Neaverson @alexneaverson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I illustrated my way through the @bsdb.bsky.social Spring Meeting a couple weeks ago - here's my illustrated summary of the conference! I sketched (almost) all the speakers and glimpses of the science that made it such a great few days. 46522
Reposted by Courtney LancasterKatherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 01/04/2026"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below. 45733
Reposted by Courtney LancasterCambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 31/03/20263 DAYS LEFT to submit your abstract!! Don’t miss your chance to present at the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium. 👉 Submit & register here: t.ly/YYM3u #Morpho5 023
Reposted by Courtney LancasterCambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 26/03/2026🔔 Friendly reminder to register and submit your poster/talk abstracts for the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium! ⏳ Deadline in one week! Don’t miss it! 👉 Submit & register here: t.ly/YYM3u #Morpho5 143
Reposted by Courtney Lancasternapari @napari.org · 24/03/2026napari 0.7.0 is available now! 🚀🎉 It's a BIG release so read the full release notes, with highlights: napari.org/stable/relea... We want to thank everyone who has worked incredibly hard on this release including our 11 new brilliant contributors 🤩 and the community for their support and feedback!napari.orgnapari 0.7.0Mon, Mar 23, 2026 We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.7.0! napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It’s designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing… 14420
Reposted by Courtney LancasterBen Steventon @bensteventon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Happy to share this work from @alexneaverson.bsky.social where she has dissected the timing and relative contribution of the organiser and its derivates to multiple aspects of early neural development: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 14613
Reposted by Courtney LancasterIván Hidalgo-Cenalmor @ivanhcenalmor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Excited to share my first PhD project: LabConstrictor 📒🐍 Have you ever created a Jupyter notebook with all your love 🫶, only for others to be unable to install it 🥲? LabConstrictor, comes to solve this! Check out how it works in the preprint 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2603.107... or follow this thread ⬇️ 911442
Reposted by Courtney LancasterGrocott Lab @grocottlab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026BBSRC PhD opportunity with industrial placement @nrpdtp.bsky.social, @ueamedical.bsky.social, @biouea.bsky.social on regulation of growth factor PEDF abundance and activity in the retina: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...uea.ac.ukPhD Investigating molecular mechanisms that regulate abundance and activity of the growth factor PEDF in the retina (TROEBERG_U26CASE) 2026/27 | UEAPhD Investigating molecular mechanisms that regulate abundance and activity of the growth factor PEDF in the retina (TROEBERG_U26CASE) 2026/27 | UEA 033
Reposted by Courtney Lancasternapari @napari.org · 12/03/2026Check out and give feedback on the latest pre-release 0.7.0rc0! You can install with `pip install "napari[all]>=0.7.0rc0"` or via the bundled app. 😁 🥳 The release notes, with highlights, include so many great new features and changes: napari.org/dev/release/...napari.orgnapari 0.7.0⚠️ Note: these release notes are still in draft while 0.7.0 is in release candidate testing. ⚠️ Tue, Mar 10, 2026 We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.7.0! napari is a fast, interactive,… 1309
Reposted by Courtney Lancasternapari @napari.org · 11/03/2026🔬 Registration is open for our pilot Introduction to napari Workshop! napari is a powerful open-source image viewer for scientific data analysis in Python. This hands-on workshop will get you exploring multi-dimensional datasets fast. #napari #Python #ImageAnalysis #DataScience #OpenSource 12720
Reposted by Courtney LancasterCambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 09/03/2026📢We are excited to announce the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium - a full day event at SLCU @slcuplants.bsky.social (and virtually) on 5 June 2026! 🎉Come celebrate the 5th anniversary of the seminar series! 🚩Register & submit abstracts by 3 April! Check out the details: t.ly/YYM3u Please repost!🙏 12420
Reposted by Courtney LancasterZebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 08/03/2026First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪 425170
Reposted by Courtney LancasterCells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Two complementary articles from the lab of Anming Meng and Katie McDole discussing the history and biology of organizer in 🐟, 🐸, and 🐭. Even after more than 100 years since its discovery, major questions remain, especially for mammals. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd... doi.org/10.1016/j.cd... 02713