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Emma R Andersson @anderssonlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧬 Preprint! 🧵 Our goal is to genetically manipulate every embryonic germ layer to enable high throughput in vivo studies. We previously showed mouse ectoderm can be targeted by amniotic injection, enabling cell-specific manipulation, lineage tracing, and knockouts. But how to reach mesoderm?

Schematic of method developed and application. At embryonic day 7.5, a lentiviral library carrying unique 30-nucleotide barcodes and a fluorescent reporter is injected into the mouse exocoelomic cavity. An E8 embryo cross-section shows that this cavity is continuous with the intraembryonic coelomic cavity, allowing the virus to reach and barcode mesodermal progenitors, including lateral plate and paraxial mesoderm.

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Adrienne Roeder Lab @roederlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How does a growing leaf stay flat? 🍃 Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that maintaining leaf flatness requires growth-rate coordination across the width of the leaf blade—not just between the top and bottom surfaces. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Susanna Brantley @drsusanna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Brantley Lab is hiring a Research Technician/Lab Manager! Looking for someone with a strong foundation in molecular biology, a team player, and excited about basic science. If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35995

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Research Lab Technician

The Brantley Lab is seeking a Research Technician who is passionate about basic science and being a reliable, collaborative member of an academic research team. Research in the Brantley Lab uses quant...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 10/09/2026

The growth of #plant leaves is highly dynamic and should be coordinated, but how is #leaf flatness preserved? @roederlab.bsky.social &co show that global coordination of growth across the leaf blade is required to maintain flatness in #Arabidopsis @plosbiology.org 🧪 buff.ly/QUMxOcF

While WT leaves progressively flatten, jaw-D leaves curve at the base. Gaussian curvature displayed as heatmaps on wildtype (left) and jaw-D mutant (right) leaf meshes. Gaussian curvature represents both the magnitude and direction of curvature such that values further from zero represent greater curvature. Orange arrows indicate high positive curvature that develops at the base of jaw-D leaves. Black scale bars = 200 µm.

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Susie Wopat @suewop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Since we had to contend with the heat dome temps, we sadly didn’t make our usual trip to the St. Louis Zoo, and checked out the (somewhat newer) aquarium instead! Now that know I what’s lurking beneath the surface of the Mississippi River… I don’t think I’ll be swimming in it anytime soon 🫣

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Susie Wopat @suewop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This was a particularly special #morpho26 course with this amazing group of scientists (aka team M&Ms)! Thanks to course organizers @roederlab.bsky.social + @streichan.bsky.social, as well as @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social for providing a fun + creative environment to tackle quantitative bio questions 💭

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Vought doesn’t want control over science. Vought wants to kill these agencies. He doesn't believe tax dollars should be spent on science or social programs. It's not about control; it's destruction. He intends to cancel grants and impound the money. It’s about corruption.

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Susie Wopat @suewop.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

What a fun couple of days talking optogenetics, zebrafish embryogenesis, quantitative imaging, and more! Thanks @katwrog.bsky.social for visiting and sharing your awesome science with all of us at UCSB! @streichan.bsky.social

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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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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Previously we had shown that axolotl tail regeneration occurs in the absence of somitogenesis. In the updated manuscript we propose that vertebral segmentation during tail regeneration occurs through a process of buckling instability. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Susie Wopat @suewop.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Looking forward to sharing my postdoctoral work in just a little over a week at the UCAM Morphogenesis Series! 🐟🔬🔦

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arXiv bot (cond-mat) @krxiv-cond-mat.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Elasticity without a reference state: continuum mechanics of active tension nets arxiv.org/pdf/2601.08968 Nikolas H. Claussen, Fridtjof Brauns, Boris I. Shraiman.

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, January 9 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Priyom Adhyapok @priyomadhyapok.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social and Zong-Yuan Liu @UMich. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4ncxr0M #SDBPostdocSeminar

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Friday, January 9, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time
Priyom Adhyapok (Duke University)
A biological oscillator controls the pace of notochord segmentation
Zong-Yuan Liu (University of Michigan)
Endogenous FGFs drive ERK-dependent cell fate patterning in 2D human gastruloids

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Ina Sonnen @sonnenlab.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Using fluorescence live imaging and an in vitro implantation model, we show that human embryo attachment begins with direct cell fusion via syncytin-2–MFSD2A interaction. With @hansclevers.bsky.social. Great work by @tnoordzij.bsky.social & @martinacelotti.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Mattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

📣 New preprint: Mechanochemical feedback, tissue geometry & rigid-body dynamics initiate rotational migration in Drosophila via spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. A mechanism generalizable to closed epithelia. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Vishank Jain-Sharma @vishankjs.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Happy to share our new work from my graduate lab: DynamicAtlas, a morphodynamic atlas of Drosophila development! We develop methods for morphological time alignment of live data. Surprisingly, we find that the kinematics of fly morphogenesis are *very* simple. Enjoy!  www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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DynamicAtlas: a morphodynamic atlas for Drosophila development - Nature Methods

DynamicAtlas integrates fixed and live imaging data to generate a morphodynamic atlas of Drosophila development.

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Bagnat Lab @bagnatlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

zSwim, the zebrafish lab management software we’ve been developing is now officially listed in Duke OT&C’s technology portfolio! We’re launching an official Duke pilot in March 2026 at the new Ze-Core facility! If you’re in the zebrafish community, check it out! otc.duke.edu/technologies...

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Stephanie Woo @itsthewoolab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

New paper alert! We report that #zebrafish endodermal cells use contact inhibition of locomotion as a dispersal and spacing mechanism. It’s a neat example of large-scale patterns emerging from local interactions using a simple set of rules. Summary in the thread below 1/9 doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Our November in #preprints list is now up on the Node! Check it out for the latest in #devbio and stem cell research ⤵️: thenode.biologists.com/november-in-...

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November in preprints - the Node

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv.

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1. Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)

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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Stationary and germ layer-specific cellular flows shape the zebrafish gastrula www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo

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Stephanie Woo @itsthewoolab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

If you registered for the West Coast SDB meeting, check out the updates to our meeting website. We added a detailed schedule and info on poster sizes and parking. #wcsdb2025 sdbonline.org/wcsdb2025_program

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The difference between Knowledge and Experience

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael

Maybe it’s not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate. - Ozzy Osbourne

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Susie Wopat @suewop.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

There’s a sizable group that protests every Friday at a local park in my home town. So of course I had to join my mom when I was home last week! A true testament to how community-level organization can be a powerful act of resistance in current times!

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Susie Wopat @suewop.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Had an awesome time at IZFC this year in Madison! The zebrafish community is simply the best 🧬 🐟🔬

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Give ‘em hell, Harvard.

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