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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The 2026-2027 season of the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar kicks off Friday, October 9 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Adam Wei Jian Soh‬ Washington @duke-university.bsky.social and Stephanie Vargas Aguilar‬ from UTSW Medical Center. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4rDSSuJ #SDBPostdocSeminar

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Friday, October 9, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time
Adam Wei Jian Soh (Duke University)
How do tissues stay stretchy? Borrowing ideas from a trampoline
Stephanie Vargas Aguilar (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
A developmentally restricted γδ T cell response supports mouse heart regeneration

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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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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Applications are open for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp for pre-tenure faculty & advanced postdocs with an accepted job offer. Course objectives include: managing time, projects, and people; securing funding; and growing as teachers and mentors. Application deadline: September 9 bit.ly/3TeJFYB

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🚨 IT’S FINALLY HERE #2026SDB starts TODAY! 🧬🎰 The countdown is over, and it’s time for the developmental biology community to come together in Las Vegas! Get ready for exciting science, new ideas, and plenty of opportunities to connect. See you at #2026SDB! 🎉

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🚨 1 DAY until #2026SDB! 🪰 That’s about how long it takes a Drosophila embryo to develop and hatch into a larva. A lot can happen in 24 hours, and tomorrow, the developmental biology community comes together in Las Vegas! 🧬🎰

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🚨 2 DAYS until #2026SDB! 🐣 That’s about the time it takes a chick embryo to develop a beating heart. ❤️ Development never stops, and neither does our countdown! Pack your posters, questions, and best science. Las Vegas, here we come! 🎰🧬

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🚨 3 DAYS until #2026SDB! 🐟 That’s about how long it takes a zebrafish to go from fertilization to hatching. That’s a lot of development, and we’re almost ready to hatch some exciting new ideas in Las Vegas! 🧬🎰 See you soon!

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

✨For this #FluorescenceFriday we are highlighting 10 amazing images of development from the Young Embryologist Network 2026 Image Competition! Follow the hashtag #yenimagecompetition for full details. 📷🔬

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🌼 We look forward to hosting Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, a postdoc at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! Nicholas has been awarded the SDB Trainee Science Communication Award, check out his website to find out more! 🔬

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

✨Jeffrey Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social is a Stadtman Investigator at the NIH. He has led seminal work constructing single-cell RNAseq atlases for entire embryos using zebrafish. We are excited to host Jeffrey at the #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🔬

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Today on #ModelMonday we have a spotty squid hatchling! 🦑 The Atlantic-dwelling longfin inshore squid has huge axons which allowed Hodgkin and Huxley to discover nerve impulses propagate by action potential. Today they are an important model for cephalopod development. 🔬 📷 by Rita Alonaizan

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A 10.5 day old mouse embryo, whole mount immunofluorescence, neurofilament (green 💚) and TFAP2a (red ❤️) 📸 Image credit: Riley McMahon (Children's Medical Research Institute) #FluorescenceFriday #DevelopmentalBiology #Neuroscience #Immunofluorescence #Microscopy #ScienceArt✨ 🧬

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

✨ Excited to host invited speaker Roberto Mayor (@mayorlab.bsky.social) at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 His research explores morphogenesis, focusing on how cells migrate, interact, and generate diverse cell types during development. 🧬✨ #devbio

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Excited to host invited speaker Alexandra Joyner at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 Her research explores the genetic regulation of development and how signaling pathways shape tissue patterning and organ formation. 🧬✨ #devbio #developmentalbiology #genetics #SDB2026

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

What can we learn from model organisms? 🧬 🧫 Regeneration (Hydra, Stentor) 🌱 Stem cell niches (plant meristems) 🌸 Patterning (Mimulus) 🐟 Novel structures (sea robins) Diverse systems + fundamental questions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd... #ModelMonday

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A window into early development! 🔬✨ This 2-photon image of a Ciona neurula embryo reveals a nuclear SoxB1 reporter (grey) and a membrane Msxb reporter, color-coded along the anterior–posterior axis, highlighting the organization of the developing nervous system. 📷: Laurence Lemaire #FluoresceFriday

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🧬✨ At #2026SDB in Las Vegas, join us for a talk by Lee Niswander 🎰 Her lab uses mouse embryonic development to uncover how the nervous system, limbs, and other organs form, and how disruptions in these processes lead to major birth defects 🐭🔬

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🪱✨ Join us at #2026SDB in Las Vegas to hear from Ricardo Zayas! 🎰 His lab uses freshwater planarians to study how entire organisms regenerate from tiny body fragments 🌱🧬, focusing on adult pluripotent stem cells (neoblasts) that drive tissue renewal and regeneration. 🔬 @zayaslab.bsky.social

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🐻Tardigrades💧✨ Tiny but extraordinary! These microscopic animals can survive extreme conditions by entering a dormant state called cryptobiosis, making them a fascinating model to study stress tolerance, desiccation, DNA repair, and the limits of life. 🧬🚀📸 Image by Bob Goldstein Lab. #ModelMonday

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

🌳Like a glowing tree in the making ✨ The embryonic mouse kidney is already building an intricate network of tubules 🩵 while interstitial cells 🟡 help shape the surrounding landscape 🔬💧Proof that even future plumbing can be beautiful 📷 Image by Ewa Langner #FluorescenceFriday

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

❤️✨ Excited to welcome invited speaker Deborah Yelon to #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 Her lab studies how the vertebrate heart forms and functions, using zebrafish to understand the cellular and genetic mechanisms that drive cardiac development and regeneration. 🐟🫀🔬✨

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🧠✨ Excited to welcome invited speaker Helen Willsey to #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 Her lab studies how autism-associated genes influence embryonic development and contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders and related conditions. 🧬🐸🔬✨

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🐟 Nothobranchius furzeri ⏳ The African turquoise killifish lives fast and develops faster! Its embryos can enter diapause, making it a powerful model to study developmental arrest, environmental adaptation, aging, and lifespan biology 🧬✨ 📸 Image by Alexander Schier lab. #ModelMonday #DevBio #Aging

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

⭐️ A stony coral, Montipora capitata, primary polyps, one month of age. Autofluorescence of symbiotic algae (magenta) and GFP (green). 🔬 📸 Credit: Emma Rangel-Huerta from Stowers Institute for Medical Research #FluorescenceFriday #devbio #cnidarians 🪸

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

✨ We look forward to hosting Lesley Weaver from Indiana University at the #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 Her lab studies how inter-organ communication and hormone signaling regulate adult stem cells and maintain tissue homeostasis. 🪰✨ #devbio #drosophila 🪸

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

✨ We look forward to hosting Alfredo Varela-Echavarria from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México at the #2026SDB in Las Vegas! The Varela-Echavarria lab studies the mechanisms of regeneration in garden slugs. 🐌 ✨ #devbio #regeneration 🪸

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus, is a model for development. One urchin produces a ton of gametes and embryos are easy to manipulate in the lab for experiments.🔬 📸 Credit: Kristen Boddy from the University of North Carolina Wilmington #ModelMonday #DevBio 🪸

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

For this #FluorescenceFriday we have something a bit different. An SEM image of a sterlet sturgeon neurula embryo labelled with SOX9 which decorates the cranial neural crest - a transient embryonic tissue that shapes vertebrate faces. 🔬 #DevelopmentalBiology 📸: Jan Štundl

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

✨ Looking forward to hearing from Paul Trainor at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! Paul’s work at the Stowers Institute on neural crest development in mammals (sometimes fish and chameleons) has helped bring attention to understudied craniofacial conditions. 🔬 #devbio #Stowers25

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

✨ Excited to host Karen Sears (UCLA) at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! Karen has introduced diverse species including bats and opossums into the study of comparative embryology to understand the rules that govern mammalian development and its evolution. 🔬 #devbio

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

✨Rare model organisms can teach us how to build a body differently. In snail embryos blastomeres can be as big as the rest of the embryo! 🐌Phrontis vibex blastula stained for tubulin (gray), phalloidin (blue) and histone (magenta). 🔬 #ModelMonday #DevBio 📸: Clemens Cabernard

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Emoticons: E9.5 mouse embryo sections through otocyst, hindbrain and pharyngeal endoderm resemble eyes, nose, and smile of an emoticon. 📸 Image credit: Ankita Thawani (Baylor College of Medicine) #FluorescenceFriday #Embryology #DevelopmentalBiology #Microscopy #ScienceArt✨ 🧬

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

✨ Excited to host invited speaker Nipam H. Patel at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 His research explores the evolution of developmental mechanisms and how diverse body plans, patterns, and colors arise across species. 🧬✨ #devbio

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

✨ Excited to host invited speaker Joyce Onyenedum at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 Her research explores plant diversity and the mechanisms underlying variation in plant traits. 🌱 🧬✨ #devbio

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

What can we learn from butterflies? 🦋 Butterfly models help us uncover how genes shape form, revealing the mechanisms behind pattern formation, cell fate decisions, and morphogenesis. #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo 🧬 📸 Photo by Ignacio Vazquez on Pexels

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🚨 Last day to submit to the SDB Art Show ‼️ SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨✨ More information: www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_art_...

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

4-cell mud snail embryo (Tritia obsoleta) 🐌 Max projection showing yolk protein granules in magenta and lipid droplets in green. Imaging by @microscopemarcus.bsky.social at Princeton University. #FluorescenceFriday

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🧠🐟✨ Mayssa Mokalled will be joins us at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 Her lab studies how zebrafish achieve remarkable spinal cord regeneration 🐠💫 uncovering pro-regenerative cell types and mechanisms with the goal of informing neural repair strategies in mammals. 🧬

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

✨ 2026 SDB Art Show 🎨 SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Deadline: June 1st ‼️ Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨 More information: www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_art_...

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🦴✨ Invited speaker Douglas B. Menke joins us at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 His lab explores how vertebrate limb morphology evolves through changes in gene regulation 🧬🐭 with current work focused on Tbx4 enhancer elements that shape hindlimb development and evolution across species. 🐾✨ #evodevo

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

♂️ & ♀️ generalist #pupfish (Cyprinodon variegatus) from San Salvador Island, Bahamas 🐟. @fishfena.bsky.social at the Martin Fish Speciation Lab (UC Berkeley) uses this “wild type” species to study craniofacial genetics and evolutionary developmental biology. #ModelMonday #EvoDevo

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

✨ Serving egg-cellent organization and fluorescent elegance 🥚 Partial Drosophila 🪰 ovariole with WGA staining of nuclear envelopes 🔬 📸 Image by Michelle Giedt #FluorescenceFriday 🐣

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🐟✨ Excited to welcome invited speaker Ben Lovely to #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 His lab uses zebrafish to study craniofacial development 🦴🐟 and the mechanisms underlying ethanol teratogenesis. ✨🐣

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🌟 Meet the #SDB2026 Social Media Workforce!🔬 Matyas Bubna-Litic @matyasbl.bsky.social is a Postdoc in Mongera lab at University College London (see a 🔬? it’s probably him 😉). He studies how mechanics and signaling interact during tissue elongation using synthetic embryo models 🧫

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🌊✨ Excited to welcome invited speaker Veronica Hinman to #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 Her research explores how gene regulatory networks evolve during embryonic development and regeneration using sea stars and sea urchins ⭐🪸 as model systems. 🐣

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🎉 The new #SDB Merch Store is officially LIVE! 👕🧢☕ Grab your favorite SDB gear including t-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, mugs & more ✨ 🛍️ Visit the store via the SDB homepage or shop directly here: sdb-official-merch.printify.me Show off your dev bio pride 🔬🧬🐟 #DevelopmentalBiology

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🐞 Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle) 🧬✨Tribolium helps uncover how insect body segments form and evolve through short-germ development, offering key insights into ancestral developmental mechanisms 📸 Image by Xavier Franch and David Martin. #ModelMonday #EvoDevo 🐣

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

⭐️ A transgenic hydra labeling the endoderm and ectoderm of two column ends regenerating.🔬📸 Credit: Raisa Bailon-Zambrano from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus taken during the 2021 MBL Embryology Course #FluorescenceFriday #devbio #Embryology 🪸

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

✨ Looking forward to hosting Amro Hamdoun from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD at the #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 His research focus is on the cellular mechanisms, specifically transport proteins, in the sea urchin embryo and environmental toxicology. ✨ #devbio 🔬🪸

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