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Matthew Stower @m-stower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Enjoying the great prgramme of talks at the Human Development, stem cells, models and embryos conference at Warwick this week! #humandev26

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Matthew Stower @m-stower.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Looking forward to the Imaging Mouse Development meeting starting at HHMI Janelia research campus!

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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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Shifaan Thowfeequ @shifaant.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

As a Guest Editor for @JoVE, @m-stower.bsky.social and I are organising a Topical Collection titled “Understanding Morphogenesis During Embryonic Development”. Interested in contributing? Please submit an abstract here: app.jove.com/methods-coll...

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Srinivas Lab @srinivas-lab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We are happy to share our new bioRxiv pre-print on A-P axis patterning. A great collaboration with Felix Zhou (UT Southwestern) & the Yeomans group (Physics, Oxford) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 07/10/2025

During #development, distal visceral #endoderm (DVE) cells migrate to shape A-P axis specification. @m-stower.bsky.social @srinivas-lab.bsky.social &co reveal the role of Ca2+ dynamics in this, showing that inhibition of #calcium transients causes DVE arrest @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nHWxF4

Epiblast Ca2+ waves propagate from the apical to basal domain. The images show selected time points from movies of E5.5 GCaMP6f embryos imaged using a ZEISS lattice light-sheet 7 microscope. Top row: An example of an epiblast wave involving a large proportion of the tissue captured by imaging a volume of the embryo at 20-s intervals. A total of 9/16 embryos showed at least one epiblast Ca2+ wave. Bottom row: Faster imaging at 5-s interval revealed that the Ca2+ wave in the epiblast can be preceded by a transient in a neighboring VE cell—this was observed in 5/19 events from 9 embryos (white arrowheads).

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Matthew Stower @m-stower.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Enjoying the BSDB meeting “bridging mechanics and genetics in early development” at Warwick. A great diversity of talks

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Matthew Stower @m-stower.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Great to see that Tribe with Bruce Parry is coming back for a new limited series - this was a landmark programme in 2005-2008. Absolutely worth a look. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

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Bruce Parry returns to the Tribe for BBC Two and iPlayer

After more than a decade away from TV, the filmmaker and indigenous rights advocate has a brand new three part series on the BBC

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

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Matthew Stower @m-stower.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A great meeting. Thanks to the organisers for selecting my short talk in such a packed schedule! Great fun as ever discussing development and cell science with everyone over the last few days in Liverpool #biologists100

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Vicki Metzis @vmetzis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

“Play and share” - inspiring and important words from Manu Prakash @prakashlab.bsky.social at this morning’s session #biologists100 @biologists.bsky.social

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Matthew Stower @m-stower.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Enjoying a great meeting at the CoB@100 in Liverpool. A fun poster session yesterday evening and more interesting talks today. #biologists100

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Matthew Stower @m-stower.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In sunny Liverpool ahead of the CoB@100 conference!

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Matthew Stower @m-stower.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Feeling Festive! Very happy to share our new bioRχiv pre-print – investigating the role of calcium signalling in the early mouse embryo: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Matthew Stower @m-stower.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Great to be at Oxford Digital Festival 2024 showcasing ‘Synchrony’ digital art work with It’s creator Andy Lomas

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