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Katherine W. Rogers @katwrog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Excited to share Will Anderson's publication describing his optogenetic FGF/ERK activator transgenic #zebrafish! Will demonstrated spatially localized FGF/ERK activation with 1 min light exposure at 1 dpf 👀 journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🧬 VGZT Season 8 is starting soon! Check out our 2026 speaker lineup and save the dates for exciting developmental biology talks from around the world. 🌍🤩 Keep an eye on this channel for speaker spotlights and details about each talk! See you all soon! #devbio #gastrulation #cells #models

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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

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#DevBio #Postdocs! Abstracts are being accepted for speakers in the 2026-2027 Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series. SDB postdoctoral members are eligible to apply. Deadline: September 1. #SDBPostdocSeminar bit.ly/3x1ptgb

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Eugene Valkov @eugenevalkov.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NIH Intramural Research Program is hiring via the Stadtman program. Prospective candidates should feel free to reach out to me, and I will be happy to share my experience both as an applicant and a panel member- we are looking for great new colleagues! irp.nih.gov/careers/nih-...

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Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigators | NIH Intramural Research Program

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James Gagnon @james-gagnon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In a new (ish) preprint, we used CRISPR barcodes to label germline stem cell clones in zebrafish, then tracked their contributions to sperm production for 2 years. Instead of staying stable, individual clones rose, fell, and disappeared over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Clonal dynamics deviate from neutral drift in zebrafish spermatogenesis

Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) maintain male fertility, but how their clonal dynamics change with age remains poorly understood. Here, we use in vivo CRISPR barcoding in zebrafish to label SSCs and ...

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Alex Eve @amjeve.uk · 26/07/2026

Congratulations to @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, winner of the @socdevbio.bsky.social Trainee Science Communication Award at #2026SDB. Check out Nick's not-for-profit organisation for engaging the public with developmental biology: Open Flower

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Open Flower

Flower Genetic Design

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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Come join us! 🔬🐣 The Piacentino Lab at Johns Hopkins @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc to study membrane lipids, cell migration, and invasion in neural crest and embryonic models! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social #devbiol #cellbio #lipids

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This week, we're excited to welcome Hannah Long to VGZT! ✨ 🗓️ Thursday, June 18th ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST Our speaker: 👉 Hannah Long (@hannahlong.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

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Lowe Lab @lowelab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Repost please !! We have extended the abstract deadline for the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Conference to June 20. scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu. Get those abstract in !

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Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED! There's still time to register for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting! Great science, great people, big trees! Join us! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

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Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New insights into #fertilization from the @pauligroup.bsky.social & Ikawa labs! In a tour-de-force study, we discovered ✨ SPARK ✨, a conserved sperm fertilization complex that couples sperm-egg binding to membrane fusion. Read on 🧵👇 and check out our preprint for more details! tinyurl.com/34cm4xat

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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Interpretable decoding of cell fate from a snapshot of combinatorial signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Latin American Developmental Biology @lasdb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

New edition of the great Quintay Developmental Biology Course !!! More information at: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

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Katherine W. Rogers @katwrog.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New preprint from my lab! Will Anderson developed a transgenic #zebrafish ubiquitously expressing an optogenetic FGF/ERK activator. We're having a lot of fun with it and think you will too! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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International Society for Regenerative Biology @isrbio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Join us for a Zone 3 webinar on May 15 featuring Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado from the Stowers Institute, USA, and Tania Rozario from the University of Georgia, USA. A beautiful story on planarian and tapeworm regeneration! See isrbio.org/webinars for Zoom links and details.

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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Open-rank search: 2 (!) PI positions in Pulmonary Biology at @cuanschutz.bsky.social 🌄 We are looking for new colleagues @cupediatrics.bsky.social, working in lung fibrosis, focusing on #devbio, stem cell, & regen.biology of the lung 🫁🫀. Please help spread the word! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Open Rank- Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort *** Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS! More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here: www.grc.org/developmenta... #GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️

Flier for the Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar 2027 on Developmental Biology, held at the Renaissance Touscany Il Ciocco Resort in Italy, January 17-22 2027. List of speakers, organizers, and tag line of Organizing Principles of Growth, Form, and Regeneration Driving Transformative Applications.

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Carrie Adler @carrieadler.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This year's Ethel Browne Harvey postdoctoral talks have been fantastic! The speakers were fantastic, clear, and presented amazing, cutting-edge science. Importantly: they are all on the job market. Watch their talks here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @socdevbio.bsky.social

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Exciting VGZT session this week! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, May 7th ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST Our speakers are 👉 Rui Yan 👉 Bruno Vellutini (@bruvellu.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

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James Gagnon @james-gagnon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Applications due tomorrow!

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Please repost! This comes from the good people at ChimeraX, who produce powerful up-to-date software to study protein (etc) structures, which are FREE to the community. 🙏 To stay viable and serve us, they need an experienced structural biologist to assume the leadership role on a funded project.

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Faculty Position – In-Residence

University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!

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Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS) @zdmsociety.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🚨 One week left to submit abstracts for #ZDM19! With plenty of talks available (to be selected based on abstracts), don't miss your chance to present in front of the cordial #ZDMS community 😊 For more details, visit: www.zdmsociety.org/zdm19-abstra.... Please share with your colleagues & labmates!

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I have a position open for a Research Associate - Postbac opportunity. For those with curiosity and tenacity, a chance to delve deeply into a project, learn new techniques, and publish papers, all in a friendly environment. Suited for recent college (BS) grads with prior relevant experience.

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A trio of #Postdoc job openings in the #WeinsteinLab at NIH 🐟🔬 Epigenetics of development: zfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... Vascular-associated tissues & organs: zfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... Angiogenesis & Lymphangiogenesis: zfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... h/t @zfinmod.bsky.social 🧪

Dorsal view of a transgenic adult zebrafish. You can see the branched lymphatic system (in orange) within the brain (left) as well as scales on the body of the animal (in blue). Credit to Daniel Castranova at Weinstein Lab.

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED! ⏰ Apply to Optical Microscopy & Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences (OMIBS) by April 8. Click the link in the bio for more info.

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

☀️ Join us next week for another great Eastern VGZT session! 🗓️ Wednesday, April 8th ⏰ 9:00 BST / 10:00 CEST / 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 18:00 AEST Our speakers are: 👉 Leqian Yu 👉 Tatsuo Shibata See you there! 👋

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Akankshi Munjal @akankshi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🐟!JOB ALERT!Duke, Durham, NC!🐟 We are looking for a research tech (our current tech is starting grad school this Fall (Yay!)). The candidate will contribute to our ongoing research projects on tissue morphogenesis using zebrafish. Please RT🙏 www.munjallab.com/join-us

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Opportunities — Principles of Tissue Morphogenesis (Munjal Lab)

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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

🚨JOB ALERT🚨PLEASE SPREAD and RT Searching for a motivated Master’s student @bokelab.bsky.social @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate how proteostasis in oocytes influences dormancy and fertility. Reach out to me (adriano.bolondi@crg.es) to join us in sunny Barcelona! See details below👇

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Abhinav Sur @abhinavsur.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📢📢 My lab at the University of Arizona is opening soon and I'm RECRUITING — especially techs/specialists with interest in aquaculture or zebrafish husbandry. Please share! 🏔️ 🌵 Lab website: lnkd.in/eZHk8DxA Apply/more info: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #zebrafish #husbandry #aquatic #marine

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Interested in #scicomm? Want to support the collaborative & supportive #zebrafish community? We are currently recruiting team members for our social media & Slack accounts. If keen, please send an email with your motivations & experiences to Kevin Thiessen (contact details: zfin.org/ZDB-PERS-190...)

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Tomorrow is VGZT day! 🤩 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 GMT / 17:30 CET  ⚠️ 1 hour earlier than usual in GMT/CET Don’t miss our fantastic speakers:  👉 Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla  👉 Margherita Perillo

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European Zebrafish Society (EZS) @ezsociety.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Don’t miss your chance to submit your abstract for the 13th European Zebrafish Meeting! submit here: www.ezm2026.org/abstracts/

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

APPLICATIONS OPEN! Apply to Comparative Developmental Biology by July 26. This intensive 2-week lab course is designed for graduate students in their second or later year of Ph.D studies and post-docs. 🔗Info: go.mbl.edu/CDB

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Carlo Colantuoni @carlocolantuoni.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

In 1 hour: DDD seminar, Feb. 17, 2026 @ 1PM Eastern US: Dr. Annerieke Sierksma (in Dr. Bart De Strooper's group at KU Leuven) will share her recent work on "Polygenic risk for Alzheimer’s disease shapes microglial inflammatory and antigen-presentation programs in vivo". carlocolantuoni.org/seminar

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SeminarPage | Carlo Colantuoni

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EMBO @embo.org · 16/02/2026

Registration now open for the EMBO Workshop "Quantitative tissue morphogenesis - models, manipulations and mechanisms" in #Alibaug, India, 28 September–1 October 2026. Deadline: 30 April 2026 meetings.embo.org/event/26-tissue-m… #EMBOTissueMorphogenesis #EMBOevents 🧪

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Do you have a vision for a Workshop but don’t have the time to arrange the logistics or raise the funding? Submit your idea to us in our annual call for topics. We'll provide all necessary support for successful applications. Find out more at biologists.com/workshops/pr...

Want to organise one of our Workshops?

You focus on the science, we focus on the logistics.

Next deadline for topic proposals:
29 May 2026

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European Zebrafish Society (EZS) @ezsociety.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

📅EZM2026-Save the date! We are delighted to welcome you to the 13th European Zebrafish Meeting in Vienna, Austria! 📑Submit your abstract by March 15 2026! ✅Early bird registrations are now open until April 15th 2026 We are looking forward to seeing you there!

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Switching fields or wanting to become an expert in #zebrafish research? The @mblscience.bsky.social 2026 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course offers a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field! Application deadline: March 2 Please spread the word! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Join us for the next VGZT, featuring complementary approaches to understanding dynamic tissue organization! 🗓️ Thursday, January 22nd ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Chen Yuan Kam (@chenyuankam.bsky.social) 👉 Camilla Autorino (@cami-autorino.bsky.social)

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