📢 Our newest episode is out!
Daylon and Arun chat with Dr. Carole LaBonne from Northwestern University about her work understanding the genesis of #NeuralCrest stem cells at the level of signaling pathways and transcription factors.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4qfiME4
Daylon and Arun chat with Dr. Carole LaBonne from Northwestern University about her work understanding the genesis of #NeuralCrest stem cells at the level of signaling pathways and transcription factors.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4qfiME4
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
📢 Our newest episode is out!
Daylon and Arun chat with Dr. Carole LaBonne from Northwestern University about her work understanding the genesis of #NeuralCrest stem cells at the level of signaling pathways and transcription factors.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4qfiME4
Daylon and Arun chat with Dr. Carole LaBonne from Northwestern University about her work understanding the genesis of #NeuralCrest stem cells at the level of signaling pathways and transcription factors.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4qfiME4
Every figure in this paper uses HCR @hcrimaging.bsky.social
Such a game changing technique for studying gene expression #xenopus #neuralcrest
Such a game changing technique for studying gene expression #xenopus #neuralcrest
October 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Every figure in this paper uses HCR @hcrimaging.bsky.social
Such a game changing technique for studying gene expression #xenopus #neuralcrest
Such a game changing technique for studying gene expression #xenopus #neuralcrest
Regionalized & Sex-dependent scRNAseq of 🐭Aorta
Carotid
Aortic Arch
Descending Thoracic
Abdominal Aortic #SmoothMuscleCell
Arch
#SecondHeartField vs #NeuralCrest SMC
339 Regional SMC mRNA features ➡️ cardiovascular trait GWAS
#AortaEd
#NatCardiovascRes 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Carotid
Aortic Arch
Descending Thoracic
Abdominal Aortic #SmoothMuscleCell
Arch
#SecondHeartField vs #NeuralCrest SMC
339 Regional SMC mRNA features ➡️ cardiovascular trait GWAS
#AortaEd
#NatCardiovascRes 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
September 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Regionalized & Sex-dependent scRNAseq of 🐭Aorta
Carotid
Aortic Arch
Descending Thoracic
Abdominal Aortic #SmoothMuscleCell
Arch
#SecondHeartField vs #NeuralCrest SMC
339 Regional SMC mRNA features ➡️ cardiovascular trait GWAS
#AortaEd
#NatCardiovascRes 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Carotid
Aortic Arch
Descending Thoracic
Abdominal Aortic #SmoothMuscleCell
Arch
#SecondHeartField vs #NeuralCrest SMC
339 Regional SMC mRNA features ➡️ cardiovascular trait GWAS
#AortaEd
#NatCardiovascRes 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Happy to share these gorgeous images of a chicken neural tube with fiery green, orange, and blue microtubules and explanted #NeuralCrest cells with green actin and pink microtubules taken by Camilo Echeverria on this #FluorescenceFriday. #DevBio @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Happy to share these gorgeous images of a chicken neural tube with fiery green, orange, and blue microtubules and explanted #NeuralCrest cells with green actin and pink microtubules taken by Camilo Echeverria on this #FluorescenceFriday. #DevBio @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social
#DBfeature #NeuralCrest🐣
SMPD3 expression is spatially regulated in the developing embryo by SOXE factors
by Michael Piacentino et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
SMPD3 expression is spatially regulated in the developing embryo by SOXE factors
by Michael Piacentino et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 19, 2024 at 11:23 AM
#DBfeature #NeuralCrest🐣
SMPD3 expression is spatially regulated in the developing embryo by SOXE factors
by Michael Piacentino et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
SMPD3 expression is spatially regulated in the developing embryo by SOXE factors
by Michael Piacentino et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Postdoc post in my lab from Autumn this year @lsiexeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
#Chromatin #StemCells #Enhancer #NeuralCrest #Transcription #CellFate
#NuRDIsTheWord
Apply and/or get in touch!
#Chromatin #StemCells #Enhancer #NeuralCrest #Transcription #CellFate
#NuRDIsTheWord
Apply and/or get in touch!
Looking for a Postdoc? A PDRA position is available in the LSI Exeter with Prof Brian Hendrich from September 2025. Do you have experience in mammalian stem cell culture and a solid understanding of molecular & biochemical lab techniques? Apply! Job Ref: Q05546 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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June 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Postdoc post in my lab from Autumn this year @lsiexeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
#Chromatin #StemCells #Enhancer #NeuralCrest #Transcription #CellFate
#NuRDIsTheWord
Apply and/or get in touch!
#Chromatin #StemCells #Enhancer #NeuralCrest #Transcription #CellFate
#NuRDIsTheWord
Apply and/or get in touch!
I have never felt so accepted in the scientific community as I do at SDB. That meeting is where I made the connections that helped me to get a postdoc in the Bronner Lab at Caltech to begin studying #NeuralCrest cells in chick embryos. 13/
November 9, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I have never felt so accepted in the scientific community as I do at SDB. That meeting is where I made the connections that helped me to get a postdoc in the Bronner Lab at Caltech to begin studying #NeuralCrest cells in chick embryos. 13/
Sox10+ #NeuralCrest SMAD4 KO e9.5🐭abolishes
NC-derived #SmoothMuscleCell investment in remod #AorticArchArteries
BUT lack of NC-SMC doesn't⏬aortic arch SMC coverage-> Compensated by #SecondHeartField SMCs?🤓
@sophie_astrof @DevelopmentalDy 2023
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
NC-derived #SmoothMuscleCell investment in remod #AorticArchArteries
BUT lack of NC-SMC doesn't⏬aortic arch SMC coverage-> Compensated by #SecondHeartField SMCs?🤓
@sophie_astrof @DevelopmentalDy 2023
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
September 1, 2023 at 11:02 PM
Sox10+ #NeuralCrest SMAD4 KO e9.5🐭abolishes
NC-derived #SmoothMuscleCell investment in remod #AorticArchArteries
BUT lack of NC-SMC doesn't⏬aortic arch SMC coverage-> Compensated by #SecondHeartField SMCs?🤓
@sophie_astrof @DevelopmentalDy 2023
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
NC-derived #SmoothMuscleCell investment in remod #AorticArchArteries
BUT lack of NC-SMC doesn't⏬aortic arch SMC coverage-> Compensated by #SecondHeartField SMCs?🤓
@sophie_astrof @DevelopmentalDy 2023
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#YAP #Lumenogenesis #EmbryonicCompetence 😎
Mechanosensitive #NeuralCrest induction in early #Embryogenesis
#YAP & Wnt signaling suppressed by (naturally or artificially) elevated Hydrostatic pressure during embryonic cavity #Blastocoel formation
#NatureCellBio 2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mechanosensitive #NeuralCrest induction in early #Embryogenesis
#YAP & Wnt signaling suppressed by (naturally or artificially) elevated Hydrostatic pressure during embryonic cavity #Blastocoel formation
#NatureCellBio 2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
#YAP #Lumenogenesis #EmbryonicCompetence 😎
Mechanosensitive #NeuralCrest induction in early #Embryogenesis
#YAP & Wnt signaling suppressed by (naturally or artificially) elevated Hydrostatic pressure during embryonic cavity #Blastocoel formation
#NatureCellBio 2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mechanosensitive #NeuralCrest induction in early #Embryogenesis
#YAP & Wnt signaling suppressed by (naturally or artificially) elevated Hydrostatic pressure during embryonic cavity #Blastocoel formation
#NatureCellBio 2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We developed a transgene-free method to isolate neural crest cells using antibody labelling + FACS — tested in Podarcis muralis. It works as well as transgenic tools, opening doors for NCC research in non-model species! Link in comment.
#DevBio #scRNAseq #NeuralCrest #EvoDevo
#DevBio #scRNAseq #NeuralCrest #EvoDevo
May 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We developed a transgene-free method to isolate neural crest cells using antibody labelling + FACS — tested in Podarcis muralis. It works as well as transgenic tools, opening doors for NCC research in non-model species! Link in comment.
#DevBio #scRNAseq #NeuralCrest #EvoDevo
#DevBio #scRNAseq #NeuralCrest #EvoDevo
Superb work by @justincotney.bsky.social
on the cellular & genetic mechanisms shaping the human face, with insights into normal facial variation and disease risk (+ specific impact of Neanderthal-introgressed sequences)
Wonderful resource for #NeuralCrest fans 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
on the cellular & genetic mechanisms shaping the human face, with insights into normal facial variation and disease risk (+ specific impact of Neanderthal-introgressed sequences)
Wonderful resource for #NeuralCrest fans 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Gene expression patterns of the developing human face at single cell resolution reveal cell type contributions to normal facial variation and disease risk
Craniofacial development gives rise to the complex structures of the face and involves the interplay of diverse cell types. Despite its importance, our understanding of human-specific craniofacial dev...
www.biorxiv.org
February 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Superb work by @justincotney.bsky.social
on the cellular & genetic mechanisms shaping the human face, with insights into normal facial variation and disease risk (+ specific impact of Neanderthal-introgressed sequences)
Wonderful resource for #NeuralCrest fans 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
on the cellular & genetic mechanisms shaping the human face, with insights into normal facial variation and disease risk (+ specific impact of Neanderthal-introgressed sequences)
Wonderful resource for #NeuralCrest fans 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out how #neuralcrest cells 🔬 migrate (animal= #zebrafish, white cells=sox10+, start=10 somites stage, anterior=top)
November 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Check out how #neuralcrest cells 🔬 migrate (animal= #zebrafish, white cells=sox10+, start=10 somites stage, anterior=top)
I am so grateful to @hypothesisfund.bsky.social for this honor. I am excited about the work we will be doing to decode the decisions that cells make:
Should they stay or should they go? Phenomenal to be chosen alongside @drstarbird.bsky.social! 🤩 #DevBio #CellBio #NeuralCrest
Should they stay or should they go? Phenomenal to be chosen alongside @drstarbird.bsky.social! 🤩 #DevBio #CellBio #NeuralCrest
June 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I am so grateful to @hypothesisfund.bsky.social for this honor. I am excited about the work we will be doing to decode the decisions that cells make:
Should they stay or should they go? Phenomenal to be chosen alongside @drstarbird.bsky.social! 🤩 #DevBio #CellBio #NeuralCrest
Should they stay or should they go? Phenomenal to be chosen alongside @drstarbird.bsky.social! 🤩 #DevBio #CellBio #NeuralCrest
In this #evodevo project, we explored how the #neuralcrest influences the development of the endostyle — the evolutionary precursor of the thyroid gland. The endostyle, an endoderm-derived organ unique to chordates and key to filter feeding, is found in vertebrates only in #lamprey
August 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
In this #evodevo project, we explored how the #neuralcrest influences the development of the endostyle — the evolutionary precursor of the thyroid gland. The endostyle, an endoderm-derived organ unique to chordates and key to filter feeding, is found in vertebrates only in #lamprey
The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held Friday, March 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time featuring Joshua York from Northwestern University and Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social from @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/3YjeNdt #SDBPostdocSeminar #neuralcrest
March 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held Friday, March 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time featuring Joshua York from Northwestern University and Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social from @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/3YjeNdt #SDBPostdocSeminar #neuralcrest
Fantastic week in Tuscany at the Neural Crest and Placodes GRC 🤩
A of great science.
Glad to see our friendly #neuralcrest community is thriving and going strong 🤘🏻
Clearly #neuralcrestisthebest
And yes I didn’t follow @adameykolab.bsky.social in the pool and I still think this wise
A of great science.
Glad to see our friendly #neuralcrest community is thriving and going strong 🤘🏻
Clearly #neuralcrestisthebest
And yes I didn’t follow @adameykolab.bsky.social in the pool and I still think this wise
April 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Fantastic week in Tuscany at the Neural Crest and Placodes GRC 🤩
A of great science.
Glad to see our friendly #neuralcrest community is thriving and going strong 🤘🏻
Clearly #neuralcrestisthebest
And yes I didn’t follow @adameykolab.bsky.social in the pool and I still think this wise
A of great science.
Glad to see our friendly #neuralcrest community is thriving and going strong 🤘🏻
Clearly #neuralcrestisthebest
And yes I didn’t follow @adameykolab.bsky.social in the pool and I still think this wise
We're #hiring! Our group in the Cell Bio Dept at Hopkins is looking for a Research Technologist to join us and study #neuralcrest #cellmigration during #devbiol! Looking to build up your lab experience? Check it out! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...
jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...
Research Technologist
Research Technologist
jobs.jhu.edu
June 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We're #hiring! Our group in the Cell Bio Dept at Hopkins is looking for a Research Technologist to join us and study #neuralcrest #cellmigration during #devbiol! Looking to build up your lab experience? Check it out! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...
jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...
Congratulations to Roberta Fiorino, predoc in the Trainor Lab, for receiving an award for the best talk at GRC #NeuralCrest & Cranial Placodes. The talk was titled "Genetic Modifiers Can Modulate the Phenotypic Variability of Craniofacial Diseases". #DevBio
April 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Congratulations to Roberta Fiorino, predoc in the Trainor Lab, for receiving an award for the best talk at GRC #NeuralCrest & Cranial Placodes. The talk was titled "Genetic Modifiers Can Modulate the Phenotypic Variability of Craniofacial Diseases". #DevBio
#Pericyte progenitors #Zebrafish🐟
nkx3.1 marks early🧠 pericyte progenitor from #ParaxialMesoderm & #NeuralCrest
Ablating nkx3.1+ progeny 24~48hpf➡️
⏬Pericyte
Arterial mispatterning
⏫🧠hemorrhage
1/3🧵
Sarah Childs lab bioRxiv 2023
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
nkx3.1 marks early🧠 pericyte progenitor from #ParaxialMesoderm & #NeuralCrest
Ablating nkx3.1+ progeny 24~48hpf➡️
⏬Pericyte
Arterial mispatterning
⏫🧠hemorrhage
1/3🧵
Sarah Childs lab bioRxiv 2023
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 10, 2023 at 7:57 PM
#Pericyte progenitors #Zebrafish🐟
nkx3.1 marks early🧠 pericyte progenitor from #ParaxialMesoderm & #NeuralCrest
Ablating nkx3.1+ progeny 24~48hpf➡️
⏬Pericyte
Arterial mispatterning
⏫🧠hemorrhage
1/3🧵
Sarah Childs lab bioRxiv 2023
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
nkx3.1 marks early🧠 pericyte progenitor from #ParaxialMesoderm & #NeuralCrest
Ablating nkx3.1+ progeny 24~48hpf➡️
⏬Pericyte
Arterial mispatterning
⏫🧠hemorrhage
1/3🧵
Sarah Childs lab bioRxiv 2023
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, March 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time featuring Joshua York from Northwestern University and Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social from @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/3YjeNdt #SDBPostdocSeminar #neuralcrest
March 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, March 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time featuring Joshua York from Northwestern University and Diana Fulmer @dianafulmer.bsky.social from @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/3YjeNdt #SDBPostdocSeminar #neuralcrest
Super fun to se my photo on the cover of the latest issue of Developmental Dynamics. Sox10 expression in a common wall lizard embryo in somite stage 37 visualized with in situ hybridization. #EvoDevo #NeuralCrest #DevBio
Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...
Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...
June 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Super fun to se my photo on the cover of the latest issue of Developmental Dynamics. Sox10 expression in a common wall lizard embryo in somite stage 37 visualized with in situ hybridization. #EvoDevo #NeuralCrest #DevBio
Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...
Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...
Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social
Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node
The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...
thenode.biologists.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social
But then the Q was, are #mitochondria enriched in all neurons or in a select set of neurons. We showed that the #ENS has #neurons from 2 lineages - #NeuralCrest and #mesoderm By studying the distribution of the targeted M2 antigen, we found that the enrichment is only in mesodermal neurons (5/n)
November 30, 2024 at 5:45 PM
But then the Q was, are #mitochondria enriched in all neurons or in a select set of neurons. We showed that the #ENS has #neurons from 2 lineages - #NeuralCrest and #mesoderm By studying the distribution of the targeted M2 antigen, we found that the enrichment is only in mesodermal neurons (5/n)
Pleased to share my latest pre-print from my PhD work
🚨MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos. 🐸🧬 @biouea.bsky.social
#miRNA #Xenopus #neuralcrest #ectoderm #RNA-seq
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🚨MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos. 🐸🧬 @biouea.bsky.social
#miRNA #Xenopus #neuralcrest #ectoderm #RNA-seq
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos.
Neural crest (NC) cells form a multipotent stem cell population specified during neurulation, which undergo an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and migrate extensively in the developing embr...
www.biorxiv.org
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Pleased to share my latest pre-print from my PhD work
🚨MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos. 🐸🧬 @biouea.bsky.social
#miRNA #Xenopus #neuralcrest #ectoderm #RNA-seq
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🚨MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos. 🐸🧬 @biouea.bsky.social
#miRNA #Xenopus #neuralcrest #ectoderm #RNA-seq
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to be part of this project led by Hugo Urrutia 👏 Check out our new paper 👇 #neuralcrest #placodes #devbio
#DBfeature
Tlx3 mediates neuronal differentiation and proper condensation of the developing trigeminal ganglion
by Hugo Urrutia, Jan Stundl, Marianne Bronner @janstundl.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tlx3 mediates neuronal differentiation and proper condensation of the developing trigeminal ganglion
by Hugo Urrutia, Jan Stundl, Marianne Bronner @janstundl.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 3, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Excited to be part of this project led by Hugo Urrutia 👏 Check out our new paper 👇 #neuralcrest #placodes #devbio