John Wallingford
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Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
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@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm
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@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm
Reposted by John Wallingford
Save the date for the next Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting next summer.
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
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Save the date for the next Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting next summer.
Reposted by John Wallingford
Such a wonderful and unique meeting. Small scale, very interactive, amazing speakers and participants and all on the remarkable UCSC campus,. HIGHLY recommended!!!
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
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Such a wonderful and unique meeting. Small scale, very interactive, amazing speakers and participants and all on the remarkable UCSC campus,. HIGHLY recommended!!!
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
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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
Gentle reminder that everyone should read Jacob and Monod, 1961. And then read it again every once in awhile. A master-class on clear writing (and, ya know, Nobel Prize winning stuff, too).
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Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins
The synthesis of enzymes in bacteria follows a double genetic control. The socalled structural genes determine the molecular organization of the prote…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Gentle reminder that everyone should read Jacob and Monod, 1961. And then read it again every once in awhile. A master-class on clear writing (and, ya know, Nobel Prize winning stuff, too).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Stoked to have this perspective about my favorite organelle out in JCS! Give it a read, then let's argue!
In their Perspective, John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social and colleagues present their view on the assembly and potential function of DynAPs, as well as their place within the broader context of motile ciliated cells.
#JCSciliaSI
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#JCSciliaSI
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November 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Stoked to have this perspective about my favorite organelle out in JCS! Give it a read, then let's argue!
Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm
September 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm
Somehow, i missed this paper during the pandemic, but... Wow. You know you've done something cool when the title of the paper has no verbs, no adjectives, no adverbs. Only nouns. Four of them.
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Snake Venom Gland Organoids
Wnt dependency and Lgr5 expression define multiple mammalian epithelial stem cell types. Under defined growth factor conditions, such adult stem cells…
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September 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Somehow, i missed this paper during the pandemic, but... Wow. You know you've done something cool when the title of the paper has no verbs, no adjectives, no adverbs. Only nouns. Four of them.
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Everyone knows I suffer from Drosophila envy. I blame C.W. Woodworth. He studied the fly's embryos in W.E. Castle's lab; Castle would be the first to use them for genetics. The rest is history. Woodworth's gorgeous 1889 pictures of butterfly embryos are below. Enjoy! 1/3
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August 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Everyone knows I suffer from Drosophila envy. I blame C.W. Woodworth. He studied the fly's embryos in W.E. Castle's lab; Castle would be the first to use them for genetics. The rest is history. Woodworth's gorgeous 1889 pictures of butterfly embryos are below. Enjoy! 1/3
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@socdevbio.bsky.social
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✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty
August 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty
Interested in Science Communication? Love #devbiol? Apply for the @socdevbio.bsky.social SciComms Interns Program!
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Society for Developmental Biology | SDB Science Communication Internship
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August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Interested in Science Communication? Love #devbiol? Apply for the @socdevbio.bsky.social SciComms Interns Program!
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This is totally, totally awesome! Thanks to Mark Terasaki for this astounding gift to the education mission of @mblscience.bsky.social.
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MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory
Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis [email protected]; 973.800.4119
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August 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is totally, totally awesome! Thanks to Mark Terasaki for this astounding gift to the education mission of @mblscience.bsky.social.
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Flaco Jiménez, 86, Grammy-Winning Master of the Tex-Mex Accordion, Dies
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August 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ok nerds, let's have fun. Thought experiment: NASA asks @socdevbio.bsky.social to provide a single image to be shot into space to tell the universe about #devbiol. Just one image. What is it? Waddington's landscape? Antennapedia? Spemann/Mangold's two-headed tadpole? What? Respond and RT, pls.
July 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ok nerds, let's have fun. Thought experiment: NASA asks @socdevbio.bsky.social to provide a single image to be shot into space to tell the universe about #devbiol. Just one image. What is it? Waddington's landscape? Antennapedia? Spemann/Mangold's two-headed tadpole? What? Respond and RT, pls.
Interested in science administration? Want to meet and work with senior members of the SDB? Want to help chart the future of the SDB? Then apply for the Strategic Planning Internship!
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Society for Developmental Biology | Strategic Planning Internship
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July 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Interested in science administration? Want to meet and work with senior members of the SDB? Want to help chart the future of the SDB? Then apply for the Strategic Planning Internship!
@socdevbio.bsky.social
www.sdbonline.org/strategic_pl...
@socdevbio.bsky.social
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Great opportunity here to build your skills and your professional network! Apply for the SciComm Interns program!
#devbiolwriteclub
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#devbiolwriteclub
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Applications are now open for the 2026 SDB Science Communication Internship. Graduate student and postdoc members of the Society for Developmental Biology are eligible to apply. Deadline: August 15. Learn more: www.sdbonline.org/science_comm...
July 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Great opportunity here to build your skills and your professional network! Apply for the SciComm Interns program!
#devbiolwriteclub
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiolwriteclub
@socdevbio.bsky.social
One the best things about a life in science is that your heroes often become your friends. My entire career stems from two papers by Ray Keller and I'm just thrilled to have a new piece out with Rob Huebner highlighting those classic papers.
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Quantifying convergent extension: Shih and Keller's quintessential work in developmental cell biology
Few biological fields have become more intertwined in recent years than cell and developmental biology, a fact made clear by the departments of cell a…
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July 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
One the best things about a life in science is that your heroes often become your friends. My entire career stems from two papers by Ray Keller and I'm just thrilled to have a new piece out with Rob Huebner highlighting those classic papers.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Don't know about y'all, but i am not scared of AI taking over the world. At least not today.
July 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Don't know about y'all, but i am not scared of AI taking over the world. At least not today.
Truth: I am writing the renewal for an NIH grant and i am totally, totally jazzed. Stoked to be doing science today. That is all.
July 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Truth: I am writing the renewal for an NIH grant and i am totally, totally jazzed. Stoked to be doing science today. That is all.
Last chance to tell the NIH if you think animal models are important for biomedical research! 👇👇👇👇
The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments!
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
www.fda.gov
July 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Last chance to tell the NIH if you think animal models are important for biomedical research! 👇👇👇👇
Birth defects kill twice as many children as cancer. Animal model are crucial; no stem-cell or computer models can yet recapitulate the embryo's complexity. If you support birth defects research tell NIH that animal models are important! Click & scroll below to comment.
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
tinyurl.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Birth defects kill twice as many children as cancer. Animal model are crucial; no stem-cell or computer models can yet recapitulate the embryo's complexity. If you support birth defects research tell NIH that animal models are important! Click & scroll below to comment.
tinyurl.com/mr3he6bx
tinyurl.com/mr3he6bx
The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments!
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
www.fda.gov
July 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments!
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
You want this job!!!!
Excited to grow our team! The Tissue Morpho and Mechanics Lab at Hopkins is seeking a full-time Lab Technologist (50% lab tech + 20% lab manager + 30% scientist) to support our research in developmental biology and biomechanics 🐸🖖🔬🧪🫵. Great opportunity to be part of a vibrant and curious group.
Research Technologist
Research Technologist
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July 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You want this job!!!!
Morphogenesis alert! A unifying physical principle links gastrulation in frogs, fish and flies! Stoked to be part of this new paper with Xin Li in Dave Thirumalai's lab and Robert Huebner in my group and a co-lab with @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and Margot Williams.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Emergence of cellular nematic order is a conserved feature of gastrulation in animal embryos - Nature Communications
The morphogenetic events that occur during gastrulation involve dramatic cell- and tissue-level changes. Here they show that propagation of nematic order, leading to long-range spatial correlation, is...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Morphogenesis alert! A unifying physical principle links gastrulation in frogs, fish and flies! Stoked to be part of this new paper with Xin Li in Dave Thirumalai's lab and Robert Huebner in my group and a co-lab with @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and Margot Williams.
1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cilia Alert! So excited to finally have this paper on the CPLANE complex out in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that RSG1 is a human ciliopathy protein and links CPLANE to the transition zone. 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The human ciliopathy protein RSG1 links the CPLANE complex to transition zone architecture - Nature Communications
The CPLANE complex is essential for ciliogenesis, and mutations to all but one subunit have been associated with ciliopathies. Here they identify three familial mutations in the final subunit, RSG1, t...
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July 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Cilia Alert! So excited to finally have this paper on the CPLANE complex out in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that RSG1 is a human ciliopathy protein and links CPLANE to the transition zone. 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Is John doing embryology? Or genetics? Wouldn’t you like to know. 😉
June 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Is John doing embryology? Or genetics? Wouldn’t you like to know. 😉