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This is the official account for the Society for Developmental Biology. Skeets on all the latest Dev Bio news, meetings and science! www.sdbonline.org
🏅 Fourth Place – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
🪰 Pop Art Drosophila! by Jenn-Yah Yu A bold color block print of six female fruit flies in a 3×2 grid, same design, different color combos. A Warhol-inspired take where shifting palettes echo phenotypic variation. 💥🎨 #DevBioArt
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🐠 Medaka (Oryzias latipes) ✨ A tiny fish with big developmental insights! 🧬 Medaka is perfect for studying sex determination, germ cell development, pigmentation, and environmental effects on embryos 📸 Image by Philipp Keller #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🌊 Developmental biologists say gastrulation is the most important moment of your life… and this sea urchin is making sure it looks fabulous for the occasion 💅
🔴 Laminin 🟢 Skeletal cells 🔵 Membranes 📸 Image from David McClay #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Save the date! @isscr.org, @alleninstitute.org & @socdevbio.bsky.social are collaborating to present a 3-day scientific symposium led by early-career scientists. The Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Early Career Symposium will be held September 23-25, 2026 in Seattle, WA. Learn more: bit.ly/4p98dkv
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🥉 Third Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
✨ “Fluorescent Flight” by Jessica Wilkins 🦋 A glowing celebration of development and motion, where vivid fluorescence meets the elegance of form and flight. A stunning fusion of science and art! 💫 #DevBioArt #ScienceArt
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, November 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Olya Yarychkivska from @rockefeller.edu and Anthony Galenza from Stanford University. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4gvaHqd #SDBPostdocSeminar #Celegans #Drosophila
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Hydra (Hydra vulgaris) ✨Small but mighty! Hydra can regenerate its entire body, even its head 🧠 A classic model for regeneration, stem cell dynamics, and body axis patterning 📸 Image by Daniel Bressan de Andrade #ModelMonday #DevBio #Regeneration
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be Friday, November 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Olya Yarychkivska from @rockefeller.edu and Anthony Galenza from Stanford University. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4gvaHqd #SDBPostdocSeminar #Celegans #drosophila
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
💚🦴 Fluorescence Friday: Halloween edition! 🎃
This glowing mouse embryo skeleton is serving serious spooky vibes 👻 Who knew bone development could look this eerie and elegant? 💀 Image by @martinestermann.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday #SpookyScience
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🥈 Second Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
Hyloscirtus lynchi tadpoles captured in watercolor! 🐸 A tribute to this critically endangered Andean frog, showcasing its natural colors, unique hindlimb sacs & delicate morphology. 🌿 Painting by Sebastian Plata #DevBio #ScienceArt
October 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Meet the real rainbow fish 🌈🐟 Using Cre-mediated recombination, each zebrafish cell expresses a unique fluorescent color, creating a living rainbow of developmental history 🎨✨ Image by Bret Pearson #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #DevBio
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reposted by Society for Developmental Biology
💭Transitioning to independence isn’t only a Latinx concern!

One key takeaway from our workshop at ICDB in Puerto Rico: this is a shared challenge across the field. @socdevbio.bsky.social

Proud of the diversity — celebrating Latinx representation, gender balance, and early career voices in Dev Bio!
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🏆 First Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🖼️
“A Model Meeting” by Karla Akari Garcia
Inspired by The Quaker Meeting, this watercolor honors animal research models, from mouse to axolotl, that have advanced developmental biology 🎨 A tribute to science’s often unsung heroes. #DevBioArt
October 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
🧠Talk about having guts! 💪Embryonic mouse intestines stained for ❤️💚 nerves and 💙 endothelial cells, forming the early circuits that keep things moving (literally!) 🔬 Image by Nathan Burns. #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
October 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The October 10 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ of @upenn.edu has been posted. Thank you to moderators @sarahcolijn.bsky.social and @shyama13.bsky.social. Watch here: youtu.be/k4OJHnZV2gk
SDB Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series - Austin Seroka and Heather Dingwall
YouTube video by Society for Developmental Biology
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October 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
✴️Sea urchins have illuminated fertilization 🧫, early cleavage divisions 🔬, and gene regulation in embryonic patterning 🧬. A classic marine model that shaped our understanding of cell fate and axis formation. 📸 Image by Laurent Formery #ModelMonday #DevBio
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
🐟 Talk about jaw-dropping evolution! 😮 Bahamian pupfishes show huge craniofacial diversity with tiny genetic tweaks. 🎏 Here’s C. desquamator, where 🟠 atp8a1 Is expressed just the jaw muscles (🩷tpm3b)🔬image from @fishfena.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday #EvoDevo
October 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ of @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed #SDBPostdocSeminar
October 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
🪱 Planarian (Schmidtea mediterranea)
✨ Planarians can regenerate a complete body from tiny fragments thanks to their amazing pluripotent stem cells (neoblasts) 🧬 A star of regeneration and stem cell biology
📸 Image by Rachel Gandee #ModelMonday #DevBio
October 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The next #SDBPostdocSeminar will be held Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ from @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
✨ They say true beauty is on the inside… This zebrafish took that personally 🐟 🟢 Bone 🟣 tendon & ligament🔬Image by Hung-Jhen (Olivia) Chen #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #Zebrafish
September 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The September 12 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ of the University of Pittsburgh has been posted. Thank you to moderators Rui Yan and Taylor Medwig-Kinney. Watch here: youtu.be/kGAtxCqFARk
SDB Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series - Sarah Colijn and Shyama Nandakumar
YouTube video by Society for Developmental Biology
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September 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM