Speaker update for our Generative Biology workshop: we are delighted to have Naomi Moris join us. See full list of speakers on the attached flyer or on our website.

Apply by 15th August. Places available for short talks.

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/10/generative-biology/

Scientists have found a new way to recreate inner ear hair cells in the lab to study hearing loss.
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/106550?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_pr
#DevBio #CellBio

How did the animal body plan evolve?

This ‘fundamental’ study in Clytia sheds light on how Wnt3 coordinates both gene expression and planar cell polarity during axis formation, offering key insights into the origins of morphogenesis.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/104508?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
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It is absolutely crazy to think we no longer need model organism research. - Carole Labonne https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160625001824?dgcid=author #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Bresteau et al. report that apical size reduction via macropinocytosis serves as a malleable and less destructive form of tissue remodeling that can alleviate the need for cell loss. https://www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNewsRead.do?id=1024 #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Cyborg tadpoles: Sheng et al. developed soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic arrays that integrate seamlessly into developing embryos’ brains. https://www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNewsRead.do?id=1023 #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

2025 Midwest Regional Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, Sept. 19-21: Registration and Abstract Submission now open! https://midwestsdbincincy.org #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Hi! I'm a bot that shares research papers in EvoDevo (or Evolutionary Developmental Biology).

Currently, I index a few journals in the field and post links to articles that were published recently, one per day.

Since my posts are set to “quiet public”, they don't appear on Mastodon's feeds or hashtags searches. So, please, boost the papers you find worth sharing!

Any feedback is welcome. Thanks :)

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Our latest preprint:

It is very useful to be able to measure the properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbours in 3D tissues, but it is also complicated & difficult

The talented Matt French devised computational approaches that helped us overcome many of these difficulties

This helps us work out when where & how cells make differentiation decisions by talking to their neighbours during axis elongation

Hope it's useful! Comments welcome

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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.03.610492v1

#Introduction

Hello!

I'm a synthetic developmental biologist at The University of Edinburgh.

I'm interested in understanding how cells influence their neighbours in mammalian models of #DevBio and disease.

I use #SynBio to identify neighbours of cells of interest (e.g. healthy neighbours of mutant cells), and to engineer cell behaviour in response to these interactions.

I do this in pluripotent #StemCells and their derivatives.

I look forward to keeping up with everyone's cool research!

Hi everyone, we updated our paper on cephalic furrow mechanics with an exciting evo-devo twist :)

What can this fold tell us about the interplay between genetic patterning, tissue mechanics, and the evolution of morphogenesis?

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.30.534554v2

Hey there!
I'm a French researcher in developmental biology, focusing on mammalian sex determination and gonadal development at the genetic level. I have a PhD in bioinformatics but I do wet and dry lab.
I am a free (as in freedom) and open source software advocate, formerly actively involved in FOSS groups.
I love dataviz, photography, classic rock music, and playing video games.
I moved from another Mastodon instance.
#introductions #stem #DevBio #genetics #genomics #transcriptomics #SexDet

Hi #ScienceMastodon. We, @Dev_journal are a community journal covering all areas of #devbio. Development is led by Editor-in-Chief James Briscoe & published by the not-for-profit @Co_Biologists.

We will toot about #research papers, #reviews, #interviews, charitable activities, and news from @the_node.

We’ve moved over to our own instance @biologists.social, & hope that you’ll join us there for friendly chats between biologists!

https://biologists.social/about

Hi #ScienceMastodon. The Node (https://thenode.biologists.com) is the community website for and by #devbio and #stemcell biologists, where you can read the latest news and stories, check out jobs and events pages and interact with colleagues from around the world.

The Node is run by the journal @Dev_journal and its publisher, @Co_Biologists.

We’ve moved over to our own instance @biologists.social, & hope that you’ll join us there for friendly chats between biologists!

https://biologists.social/about

#Introduction

Hello #BiologyMastodon

I'm a prof of stem cell and developmental biology in Edinburgh. I'm here to hear about your interesting research
#DevBio #StemCells

I rather like our planet, and I'm co-founder and Chair of the Sustainable Conferencing Initiative at the Company of Biologists
#SustainableConferencing #SustainableScience

I also love music, and if I like your paper I might suggest a theme tune for it
#PaperThemeTune #music

Hi everyone. We’re #Co_Biologists, a not-for-profit #publisher dedicated to inspiring the #biology community:

- We publish five #journals: @Dev_journal @J_Cell_Sci @J_Exp_Biol @DMM_Journal & @BiologyOpen
- We facilitate scientific #meetings & provide #grants for #researchers
- We run three #community sites: @the_node @preLights @focalplane_jcs
- We are committed to #OpenAccess
- We have initiatives to support early-career researchers #ECRs

I'm excited to announce that our cephalic furrow paper is out! We investigated the function of this enigmatic invagination using live imaging and modeling and found that it plays a mechanical role during fly gastrulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.30.534554

Hi everyone!

The Vincent lab twitter account completes its migration to Mastodon.
Follow us for cool #DevBio science, mostly working with #Drosophila. We are generally interested in the signalling activities that control patterning, growth and apoptosis in epithelia. Our #morphogen of choice is #Wnt.

Here you may also find the occasional rant from JP once he gets used to the new format. Until then, this account is mostly managed by postdoc Ines.

Hi #ScienceMastodon, time for an #introduction!

I'm an #EvoDevo biologist interested in how tissue #mechanics influences the #evolution of #morphogenesis. I study a deep and mysterious epithelial invagination that forms at the head-trunk boundary of #flies during #gastrulation, known as the #CephalicFurrow (see video below!). Currently, based in Germany as a postdoc in the Tomancak Lab at MPI-CBG. Looking forward to meeting you!