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@embldbunit.bsky.social
Research in the Developmental Biology Unit focuses on exploring the rich diversity and complexity of living systems, taking into account their natural context.
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Exciting opportunity: EMBL CPP Fellowships are open for applications until 30 Nov! Stay for 1–6 months at any of EMBL's six sites 🔬
Who's eligible:
• Currently employed PhD researchers or postdocs
• All nationalities, no age limit
• First-time visitors to EMBL
https://s.embl.org/cpp-fellowship
Who's eligible:
• Currently employed PhD researchers or postdocs
• All nationalities, no age limit
• First-time visitors to EMBL
https://s.embl.org/cpp-fellowship
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Exciting opportunity: EMBL CPP Fellowships are open for applications until 30 Nov! Stay for 1–6 months at any of EMBL's six sites 🔬
Who's eligible:
• Currently employed PhD researchers or postdocs
• All nationalities, no age limit
• First-time visitors to EMBL
https://s.embl.org/cpp-fellowship
Who's eligible:
• Currently employed PhD researchers or postdocs
• All nationalities, no age limit
• First-time visitors to EMBL
https://s.embl.org/cpp-fellowship
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One more week to apply for this exciting symposium on collective behaviour 👇👇👇
Abstract deadline extension alert! 🚨 You now have until 25 November to submit your abstract and be one of 22 selected short talk speakers for #EESCollectivity ➡️ s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
Explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems. 🦠🐒🧬
Explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems. 🦠🐒🧬
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
One more week to apply for this exciting symposium on collective behaviour 👇👇👇
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Searching for physical principles of morphogenesis
In this #OpenAccess Spotlight, Nikolas Claussen, Fridtjof Brauns and @streichan.bsky.social highlight the ‘physics of development’, focusing on the interplay between quantitative experiments and mathematical theory
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
In this #OpenAccess Spotlight, Nikolas Claussen, Fridtjof Brauns and @streichan.bsky.social highlight the ‘physics of development’, focusing on the interplay between quantitative experiments and mathematical theory
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Searching for physical principles of morphogenesis
In this #OpenAccess Spotlight, Nikolas Claussen, Fridtjof Brauns and @streichan.bsky.social highlight the ‘physics of development’, focusing on the interplay between quantitative experiments and mathematical theory
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
In this #OpenAccess Spotlight, Nikolas Claussen, Fridtjof Brauns and @streichan.bsky.social highlight the ‘physics of development’, focusing on the interplay between quantitative experiments and mathematical theory
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
✨This week at the DB unit seminar @embl.org, Noa Ottilie Borst, a PhD student in the Crocker group @justinmcrocker.bsky.social presented her work on cell-type-specific interallelic interactions, and how they simultaneously allow for robustness and evolutionary innovation.
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
✨This week at the DB unit seminar @embl.org, Noa Ottilie Borst, a PhD student in the Crocker group @justinmcrocker.bsky.social presented her work on cell-type-specific interallelic interactions, and how they simultaneously allow for robustness and evolutionary innovation.
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You only have one more week to submit your abstract for 'Collectivity in living systems: emergence, function, and evolution' 👉 s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
Don't miss #EESCollectivity which will explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems🦠🐒🧬
Don't miss #EESCollectivity which will explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems🦠🐒🧬
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
You only have one more week to submit your abstract for 'Collectivity in living systems: emergence, function, and evolution' 👉 s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
Don't miss #EESCollectivity which will explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems🦠🐒🧬
Don't miss #EESCollectivity which will explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems🦠🐒🧬
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Check out this month's handpicked preprints in developmantal & stem cell biology on the Node
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November 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Check out this month's handpicked preprints in developmantal & stem cell biology on the Node
thenode.biologists.com/prelighters-...
thenode.biologists.com/prelighters-...
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This is happening TODAY 2:30 pm!
Next Monday, 10th November, at 2:30 PM, we are delighted to welcome @maitrejl.bsky.social from Institut Curie. Don’t forget to subscribe to our mailing list to receive the Zoom link!
See you all there! 😊
See you all there! 😊
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is happening TODAY 2:30 pm!
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Please join us for this exciting new conference on the emergence, function and evolution of biological collectives - unpacking the wonderful world of self-organization: www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Collectivity in living systems: emergence, function, and evolution
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November 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Please join us for this exciting new conference on the emergence, function and evolution of biological collectives - unpacking the wonderful world of self-organization: www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Only a few days left for abstract submission at the brand new EMBO|EMBL Symposium Collectivity in living systems: emergence, function and evolution. We have stellar speakers in cell, animal collectives & beyond @priscaliberali.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social @ricardsole.bsky.social
Join us!
Join us!
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Only a few days left for abstract submission at the brand new EMBO|EMBL Symposium Collectivity in living systems: emergence, function and evolution. We have stellar speakers in cell, animal collectives & beyond @priscaliberali.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social @ricardsole.bsky.social
Join us!
Join us!
✨ In this week's DB unit seminar @embl.org, Hidenobu Miyazawa, a postdoc in the Aulehla group, shared insights on the role of glycolysis in mouse embryo axis segmentation #DevelopmentalBiology #Glycolysis #MouseEmbryos
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
✨ In this week's DB unit seminar @embl.org, Hidenobu Miyazawa, a postdoc in the Aulehla group, shared insights on the role of glycolysis in mouse embryo axis segmentation #DevelopmentalBiology #Glycolysis #MouseEmbryos
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Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
🔥 A new review by @aikmi.bsky.social and @mohannad-dardiry.bsky.social challenging the paradigm of organismal terminal differentiation #developmentalbiology
Phenotypic plasticity as the foundation of lifelong development
In this #LifelongDevSI Hypothesis, @mohannad-dardiry.bsky.social & @aikmi.bsky.social (@embl.org) challenge the paradigm of organismal terminal differentiation
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
In this #LifelongDevSI Hypothesis, @mohannad-dardiry.bsky.social & @aikmi.bsky.social (@embl.org) challenge the paradigm of organismal terminal differentiation
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🔥 A new review by @aikmi.bsky.social and @mohannad-dardiry.bsky.social challenging the paradigm of organismal terminal differentiation #developmentalbiology
✨Thomas Beavis, a PhD student in the Vincent group
@floravincent.bsky.social @embl.org , was our speaker at this week's DB seminar. He discussed his research on how diatom-ciliate symbiosis affects cell fate and function #symbiosis #marinebiology #protists
@floravincent.bsky.social @embl.org , was our speaker at this week's DB seminar. He discussed his research on how diatom-ciliate symbiosis affects cell fate and function #symbiosis #marinebiology #protists
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
✨Thomas Beavis, a PhD student in the Vincent group
@floravincent.bsky.social @embl.org , was our speaker at this week's DB seminar. He discussed his research on how diatom-ciliate symbiosis affects cell fate and function #symbiosis #marinebiology #protists
@floravincent.bsky.social @embl.org , was our speaker at this week's DB seminar. He discussed his research on how diatom-ciliate symbiosis affects cell fate and function #symbiosis #marinebiology #protists
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What are these?
You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social
see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵
You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social
see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵
October 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
What are these?
You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social
see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵
You are looking at embryos of a sea squirt. Each of the 'soap bubbles' is a living cell, about a fourtieth of a millimetre in size. The outlines of the cells are visible thanks to fluorescent markers identified by Hitoyoshi Yasuo @hitoyas.bsky.social
see doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵
Soraya Zwahlen, a PhD student in the Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social group @embl.org, was our speaker at the DB seminar this week. She discussed a cell-ecosystem approach to studying marine microbial interactions under pollutant stress. #MarineMicrobiology #MicrobialInteractions
October 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Soraya Zwahlen, a PhD student in the Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social group @embl.org, was our speaker at the DB seminar this week. She discussed a cell-ecosystem approach to studying marine microbial interactions under pollutant stress. #MarineMicrobiology #MicrobialInteractions
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Please allow me to introduce... our new preprint 🎉 Together with Michael Zhao, Anna Erzberger and Alexander Aulehla, we investigate pattern formation due to aggregation in confined systems.
You can find it at arxiv.org/abs/2509.08533
@michaelzhao.bsky.social @erzbergerlab.bsky.social
You can find it at arxiv.org/abs/2509.08533
@michaelzhao.bsky.social @erzbergerlab.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Please allow me to introduce... our new preprint 🎉 Together with Michael Zhao, Anna Erzberger and Alexander Aulehla, we investigate pattern formation due to aggregation in confined systems.
You can find it at arxiv.org/abs/2509.08533
@michaelzhao.bsky.social @erzbergerlab.bsky.social
You can find it at arxiv.org/abs/2509.08533
@michaelzhao.bsky.social @erzbergerlab.bsky.social
Welcome on board, Corentin Bisot!
Corentin is a new postdoc in the van Gestel group @jordivangestel.bsky.social in the DB unit @embl.org.
He will study the link between multicellularity and the physical constraints of migration in soils.
Corentin is a new postdoc in the van Gestel group @jordivangestel.bsky.social in the DB unit @embl.org.
He will study the link between multicellularity and the physical constraints of migration in soils.
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Welcome on board, Corentin Bisot!
Corentin is a new postdoc in the van Gestel group @jordivangestel.bsky.social in the DB unit @embl.org.
He will study the link between multicellularity and the physical constraints of migration in soils.
Corentin is a new postdoc in the van Gestel group @jordivangestel.bsky.social in the DB unit @embl.org.
He will study the link between multicellularity and the physical constraints of migration in soils.
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Have you submitted your abstract for #EESCollectivity? No? It's about time! This new event will discuss how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems, from cells to animal groups. 🦠🐾
👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
October 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Have you submitted your abstract for #EESCollectivity? No? It's about time! This new event will discuss how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems, from cells to animal groups. 🦠🐾
👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
✨Luc Lederer, a PhD student in the Aulehla group, spoke at the DB seminar @embl.org this week. He investigates whether phase waves during somitogenesis contain functional information for tissue patterning, as well as how we can manipulate and understand the mechanisms behind them #DevBio
October 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
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🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 08.10.25 | 16:00 UK
Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration"
Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration"
Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
October 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 08.10.25 | 16:00 UK
Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration"
Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
Pablo Sáez: "Decision-making during cell migration"
Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
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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
1/3
apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman
1/3
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
October 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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
1/3
apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman
1/3
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Don’t miss this upcoming #LMBSeminar from Bonnie Bassler!
Join us at 11am on Monday 13th October to hear all about ‘Quorum sensing across domains: From viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes’
More details: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join us at 11am on Monday 13th October to hear all about ‘Quorum sensing across domains: From viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes’
More details: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Don’t miss this upcoming #LMBSeminar from Bonnie Bassler!
Join us at 11am on Monday 13th October to hear all about ‘Quorum sensing across domains: From viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes’
More details: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join us at 11am on Monday 13th October to hear all about ‘Quorum sensing across domains: From viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes’
More details: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
The DB unit also celebrated Anne Ephrussi at this wonderful symposium! Anne was our unit head from 2007-2021. Congratulations on a remarkable career, Anne! 🎉
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The DB unit also celebrated Anne Ephrussi at this wonderful symposium! Anne was our unit head from 2007-2021. Congratulations on a remarkable career, Anne! 🎉
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How to swap the foot for a tentacle and vice versa? Find out in our new story featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social uncovering a transcription factor toggle switch behind the identity of Hydra's extremities.
Issue 17 is complete!
On the cover: Image of three Hydra specimens. A wild-type Hydra (centre) and two transformants showing switch of foot (pink) to tentacle (yellow) (right) and tentacles to feet (left).
See Research Article by Ferenc et al.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
On the cover: Image of three Hydra specimens. A wild-type Hydra (centre) and two transformants showing switch of foot (pink) to tentacle (yellow) (right) and tentacles to feet (left).
See Research Article by Ferenc et al.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
How to swap the foot for a tentacle and vice versa? Find out in our new story featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social uncovering a transcription factor toggle switch behind the identity of Hydra's extremities.