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Nora Martin @n-martin.bsky.social · 8d

Opportunity for a Master’s/Bachelor’s student:
- Join us for up to 5 months 🗓️
- Build computational/mathematical models 💻
- Learn about genotype-phenotype maps and evolution 🧬
- Work closely with PhD student Manuela Giraud - full info here:
www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 5d

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Early career group leaders

We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 6d

How does life construct itself from within, and how might we learn to emulate its generative logic? Glad to be soon talking and discussing with @philipcball.bsky.social @bertaverd.bsky.social and other great colleagues at this @royalsociety.org event royalsociety.org/science-even...

Generative biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles | Royal Society

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Jake Cornwall-Scoones, Dr Dirk Benzinger, and Professor Sally Lowell.

royalsociety.org

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 12d

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale

apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · Jul 13

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

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Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · 26d

Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells

Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya

📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026

journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...

#DevBio

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · Sep 9

Fantastic to see this now out in published form! Well done to the authors @jamesehammond.bsky.social and @callumbucklow.bsky.social. Check it out if you're interested in vertebrate, and in particular vertebral count, evolution!

James Hammond @jamesehammond.bsky.social · Sep 8

Out now in Seminars in Cell & Dev Biol!

doi.org/10.1016/j.se...

With thanks to co-authors @callumbucklow.bsky.social and @bertaverd.bsky.social

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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · Jul 27

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Vincent Pasque @pasquelab.bsky.social · Jul 7

Exciting Research Professorship Position in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Leuven. Amazing research ecosystem, great colleagues, high quality of life, tenure track. For those interested in joining us, please see below:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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EPS Graduate School @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social · Jul 7

🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...

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EMBO @embo.org · Jul 4

Learn about tissue #development and engineering, #microscopy, #ImageAnalysis, and more at the EMBO Practical Course "Optics, Forces & Development" in Santiago, Chile, 7–17 January 2026.

Deadline: 10 October 2025

meetings.embo.org/event/26-opt...
#EMBO26optics #EMBOevents #research #training 🧪

Optics, Forces & Development

Breakthroughs in developmental biology and stem cell research, alongside rapid advances in microscopy, computing, tissue engineering, and biophysics, are transforming our understanding of the fundame…

meetings.embo.org

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Jake Cornwall-Scoones @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social · Jul 3

Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧

If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology

royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · Jul 2

Tenure!! Yeay! Well done Ina!

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thanks for all your hard work, Kevin!

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · Jun 16

Really looking forward to this. Thanks for the invitation!

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Jean Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social · Jun 16

📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr
We have fantastic speakers and registration is free!
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
@karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

Promotional poster with images of an Arabidopsis flower development over time from a cluster of identical cells to the final flower and two models of Arabirbiopsis flower meristems highligting active genes. Text reads: 9th Plant Computational Biology Workshop, 8-12 September 2025, Sainsbury Laboratory, University fo Cambridge.

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · Jun 10

Features work from Square Lab at Florida, @vlecaudey.bsky.social, Solnica-Krezel Lab at WUSTL, @rburdine1.bsky.social, @otamplin.bsky.social, @flomarlow.bsky.social, @balciunaslab.bsky.social, @bertaverd.bsky.social, @bowmaniacs.bsky.social, @thomthum.bsky.social, @singhlab.bsky.social among others!

the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Jun 10

May in preprints 📃

Better late than never! Here's a list of #preprints that came out in May in #DevBio, #StemCells, #regeneration, #EvoDevo and related fields. Congrats to all authors!

Have a browse:
thenode.biologists.com/may-in-prepr...

May 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 – use these

thenode.biologists.com

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · May 29

Our latest "Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions: Predictive Models of Neural Development From Single-Cell Data"

A rigorous mathematical foundation for Waddington's landscape to study cell fate decision making

Applied to ventral neural tube development

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions: Predictive Models of Neural Development From Single-Cell Data

Building a mechanistic understanding of cell fate decisions remains a fundamental goal of developmental biology, with implications for stem cell therapies, regenerative medicine and understanding dise...

www.biorxiv.org

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · May 29

And one more from @callumbucklow.bsky.social on how verterbal regionalisation and counts are linked in evolution. See his tutorial below. Well done Callum!

Callum Bucklow @callumbucklow.bsky.social · May 29

My third PhD manuscript is on BioRxiv: "Somitic Change Drives Changes in Vertebral Regionalisation in African Cichlids Despite Strong Canalisation of Somite Number" (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Thanks to my co-authors and supervisors @bertaverd.bsky.social and Roger Benson. Thread below...

Somitic Change Drives Changes in Vertebral Regionalisation in African Cichlids Despite Strong Canalisation of Somite Number

Vertebrae arise from somites, transient embryonic segments that rhythmically bud from the presomitic mesoderm during axial elongation. The number and identity of vertebrae are ultimately determined by...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jérôme Gros @jeromegros.bsky.social · Apr 15

Registration is now open!

Gastrulation Reloaded: Developing, engineering & evolving the body plan

📅 October 14–17, 2025
📍 Paris, France
🗓️ Abstract & early bird deadline: July 15, 2025

www.gastrulation-reloaded.conferences-pasteur.org/home

Exceptional lineup of speakers & many selected talks

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Fitz-James Lab @fitz-james-lab.bsky.social · May 23

🚨Job Alert🚨

We are looking for a technician to join us in Oxford @biology.ox.ac.uk to study epigenetics and vibration-sensing:

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The work will be varied:
Arthropod culture 🕷️🪰
Lab work (DNA/RNA extraction, sequencing library preparation…)

Apply by Mon 23 June
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my.corehr.com

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · May 22

Thank you!

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · May 20

And here's the link!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · May 19

Please help me circulate this job ad. Thanks!
@the-node.bsky.social

Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · May 19

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · May 19

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

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