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Courtney Lancaster

@courtneyl7a7.bsky.social
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Postdoc in the Steventon Group at University of Cambridge| PhD Pichaud Group UCL | Developmental biology 🐥 🔬

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Theory 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
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Ben Steventon @bensteventon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Happy 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...
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026
BREAKING 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.”
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stramerlab.bsky.social @stramerlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Registration 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...
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Basement Membrane Workshop
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Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Biophysics meets immunology in this latest pre print across LMCB labs @yanlanmao.bsky.social @actonlab.bsky.social
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The 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...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Virtual 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
VGZT season 8
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Zebrafish 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....
Localization and regenerative responses of different ECM components in adult zebrafish. (D) Confocal imaging of scales in live col1a2mScarlet/+; fgf20aEGFP adults, indicating Col1a2-mScarlet localization in puncta and anteroposteriorly-oriented fibrils. n=2. (E) Confocal images of sections of adult lamc1eGFP/+; tcf21:DsRed2 (left), col1a2mScarlet/+ (middle) and tgfbimScarlet/+ (right) kidneys. Phalloidin (green) labels apical surface of tubules and DAPI labels nuclei in blue. White arrowhead, glomerulus. n=3.
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London BioImage Interest Group @biig-ucl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We 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.
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Ben Steventon @bensteventon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Happy 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...
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Coupling Vgll4b/Yap regulated posterior cell addition with anterior vacuolation enables robust notochord elongation
Robust 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....
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Srinivas Lab @srinivas-lab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Happy to share our new eLife paper on tissue dynamics during anterior-posterior axis formation. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The #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!
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LondonEvoDevo meeting - October 2026
This 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, ...
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Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This 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...
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Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape
Basement 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...
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Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
With @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!
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lancaster, 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
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Transforming avian to mammalian modes of digit patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Margherita 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...
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Morphospace analysis reveals divergent cellular behaviours driving tissue internalisation during insect gastrulation
During gastrulation, embryonic epithelia undergo large-scale remodelling to internalise the mesoderm. Whether the cellular mechanisms underlying these tissue deformations are conserved across species ...
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Franck Pichaud @fpichaud.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hot 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
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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Delighted 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...
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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
1/ 🧬🔬 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
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Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Next 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!
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Elena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab @squeezycellslab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We 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...
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Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We 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! 📸
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Nanami Sato @nanamism.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
All set🙌 #Morpho5
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Zimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
DySTrack 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!
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DySTrack – a modular smart microscopy tool for live tracking of dynamic samples on modern commercial microscopes
Summary: 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...
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Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Only 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
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Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This exciting paper is now out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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3D epithelial cell topology tunes signaling range to promote precise patterning | PNAS
Cell behaviors in multicellular organisms are coordinated via both diffusible molecules and by signals based on direct cell–cell contacts. The mode...
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Meng Zhu @zhumeng123.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Cambridge → 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!📩
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Meng Zhu Lab
We study how development measures time and how timing matters in development, evolution and ageing.
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Cambridge 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!
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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
New 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...
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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I 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 👍
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Crick Crash Course: Embryo development
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Panos Oikonomou @eigenp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
1/ 🔬🧑‍💻 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!
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
An 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... #SciArt
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An illustrated summary of the BSDB Spring Meeting 2026 - the Node
I recently attended the BSDB Spring Meeting, and decided to spend most of my time at the conference sketching. The result is this illustrated summary -
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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
If 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...
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Sustainability Leadership Conference
The climate and biodiversity crisis affects us all. Our planet faces unsustainable rising temperatures and the destruction of natural habitats. But there is hope.
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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Following 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]
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Morally relevant features warranting ethical oversight in human stem cell-based embryo models
Nature 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...
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canaztekin.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/... #EvoDevo
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Species-specific oxygen sensing governs the initiation of vertebrate limb regeneration
Why 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 ...
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BioImagingUK @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
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Alex Neaverson @alexneaverson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I 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.
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Katherine 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.
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Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series @cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
3 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
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Cambridge 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
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napari @napari.org · 24/03/2026
napari 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!
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napari 0.7.0
Mon, 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…
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Ben Steventon @bensteventon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Happy 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...
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Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor @ivanhcenalmor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Excited 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 ⬇️
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Grocott Lab @grocottlab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
BBSRC 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...
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PhD Investigating molecular mechanisms that regulate abundance and activity of the growth factor PEDF in the retina (TROEBERG_U26CASE) 2026/27 | UEA
PhD Investigating molecular mechanisms that regulate abundance and activity of the growth factor PEDF in the retina (TROEBERG_U26CASE) 2026/27 | UEA
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napari @napari.org · 12/03/2026
Check 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/...
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napari 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,…
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napari @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
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Cambridge 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!🙏
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
First 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 🧪
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Cells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Two 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...
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