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Studying development, evolution, and regeneration of the vertebrate head skeleton, one fish at a time

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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The National Portrait Gallery greatly exceeded my expectations
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Funny I took the same pic last time I was in DC
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
M83?
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our postdoc Eric Paulissen (at far left) has been having quite the month. Just got a K99/R00 from NIDCR and now has won a 2nd place poster award at SCGDB.
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Worried about my Drosophila colleagues
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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Fantauzzo Lab @fantauzzolab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A NIH-funded postdoc position is available in our laboratory @cu-coms.bsky.social to study PDGFR dimer-specific dynamics in the mouse craniofacial mesenchyme. Please repost! Job description and how to apply: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Post-Doctoral Fellow
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Amazing talk. The pollen tube movies as well. Congrats!
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ditto
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'll be at SDB but unfortunately arrive late afternoon Thursday so will miss Elaine's talk in the graduate symposium. Looking forward to chatting with you and her.
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wonderfully comprehensive fate mapping. Would love to discuss more why you think this doesn’t support Weston’s metablast model.
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Wonderful to see this paper finally out from my brilliant colleague Qilong Ying. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Expansion and CAR engineering of granulocyte-monocyte progenitors for cellular immunotherapy
This study establishes granulocyte-monocyte progenitors as a renewable upstream platform for engineered myeloid cell therapy and introduces a CAR-Fc strategy that couples direct tumor targeting to hos...
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Congrats Christian!
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
We missed you in Ventura. Julia gave a great talk!
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Great paper. Further supports Jim Weston's model that cranial neural crest mesenchyme is essentially just mesoderm delaminating at a later post-gastrulation stages.
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Still time to register for this webinar tomorrow (13th March)!
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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Honoured to receive this recognition from @isscr.org along with excellent colleagues- particularly since they noted the ethical advances which @nicolasrivron.bsky.social and I have tried to support in the growing SCBEM field alongside our research, showing the community’s value of ethical leadership
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Not dead but in critical condition. Every once in a while I can still get it to work.
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
😍 🔗 to paper: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Gene regulatory programs underlying diversification of facial ligaments and tendons in zebrafish
Summary: Single-cell analysis and toolkit generation in zebrafish identifies gene regulatory codes and growth dynamics of distinct facial ligaments and tendons.
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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Fantastic program and initiative by @socdevbio.bsky.social for postdocs going on the job market - register! #devbio #PILife
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Yeah but check out these pharyngeal arch neural crest cells
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I’m in the same boat. Autoreply says 1/30. Hopefully NIH pushes back this requirement until they can fix this bug.
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Should still have frozen sperm. Email me.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 09/10/2025
A method to produce embryonic stem cells for a range of bird species opens up opportunities in agriculture, developmental biology and species conservation #NBTNV go.nature.com/4ntGnih rdcu.be/eJagy
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Embryonic stem cells across bird species - Nature Biotechnology
A method to produce embryonic stem cells for a range of bird species opens up opportunities in agriculture, developmental biology and species conservation.
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Wonderful collaboration of Claire Arata and co-first-author Elena Vasileva from Amatruda lab. Claire provided the neural crest driver and Elena the EWS oncofusion. Best combination since PB&J. Amazing that expression of a single oncofusion in crest produces ectopic fins. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Origin of Ewing sarcoma by embryonic reprogramming of neural crest to mesoderm
Using a zebrafish genetic model of Ewing sarcoma, Vasileva et al. provide evidence for a neural crest origin of the disease. These findings offer new insight into how a single oncogenic fusion can hij...
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Origin of Ewing sarcoma by embryonic reprogramming of neural crest to mesoderm
Using a zebrafish genetic model of Ewing sarcoma, Vasileva et al. provide evidence for a neural crest origin of the disease. These findings offer new insight into how a single oncogenic fusion can hij...
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Great to see this in print. Amazing work!
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Go back and watch some Luis Suarez highlights
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Beautiful atlas of fish gill development from the Lecaudey lab. There are few structures more amazing in biology than gills! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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A developmental atlas of zebrafish gills links early vascular patterning to adult architecture
Gills are essential for fish respiration and have a highly specialized cellular architecture enabling efficient gas exchange. Surprisingly, the developmental processes underlying gill formation in zeb...
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Amazing study!
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tdcapellini.bsky.social @tdcapellini.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature
The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Wonderful to have my second ever grad student stop by the lab today. Elizabeth Zuniga. She is now faculty working on eye development at Baylor College of Medicine. Such joy to see your former trainees doing so well.
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find
Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Wait what?!
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Library of Congress yesterday. It’s impressive inside.
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
How about this?
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
She will be a fantastic faculty hire for whoever can snag her
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I still use mine several days a week to make panini sandwiches
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
You just made my day John. Thanks so much for the kind comments.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Fish gills and human ears share the same genetic blueprint
Evolutionarily conserved molecular program used to form gills and ears.
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Wonderful backstory of this gem by @mathithiru.bsky.social & @crumplab.bsky.social from earlier this year... 🔗 to original research: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔗 to the Node article: thenode.biologists.com/fish-frogs-f...
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I've been told the decision to cancel special emphasis panels has not been finalized yet but is definitely being considered.
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Worthy event to support the engine of innovation in our country.
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 26/02/2025
When did the lubricated joints that allow our skeleton to swivel, rotate and bend evolve? @crumplab.bsky.social explores a new @plosbiology.org paper by @neelimasharma.bsky.social &co that pinpoints their origin to the earliest jawed vertebrates 🧪 Paper: plos.io/3CTC8La Primer: plos.io/4kkhXa6
Left: A phylogeny of chordates, flanked by images of a lamprey, a placoderm, a brown shark, a longnose gar and a hawksbill turtle. Agnathans such as lampreys lack synovial joints. The first putative evidence of synovial joints in the fossil record is in early gnathostomes such as the antiarch placoderm fish that lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods. Modern gnathostomes such as cartilaginous fishes (i.e., chondrichthyans such as the brown shark), bony fishes (i.e., osteichthyans such as the longnose gar), and limbed vertebrates (i.e., tetrapods such as the Hawksbill turtle) possess synovial joints in their jaws, fins/limbs, and other locations. All images used are freely available without copyright restrictions. Top right: a typical agnathan joint is shown where glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans are uniformly distributed across the cartilages (blue) that are connected by fibrous tissue (olive). Bottom right: a typical gnathostome synovial joint is shown where surface cartilage has a unique proteoglycan composition from the underlying cartilage and bone, and a fluid-filled cavity separates adjacent skeletal elements.
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Hang in there Shawn. I feel so bad for everyone at NIH right now.
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I heard SBDD was just cancelled/postponed
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Would be great if Utah joined in. Preventing childhood diseases, fighting cancer, preserving jobs seem like things all states should agree on.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Crump Lab @crumplab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
That without an understanding of developmental biology, there would be no stem cell research or regenerative medicine.
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