Dillan Saunders

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Thank you to everyone who has supported TLM talks. We will be back in Ocotber with some new exciting talks. We have plans to incorporate short talks by students and postdocs, fill out this form to express your interest forms.gle/34vMwQNVGnvm....
Have a nice summer 🌅

25.07.2025 13:59 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

African Cichlid Lake Radiations Recapitulate Riverine Axial Morphologies Through Repeated Exploration of Morphospace African cichlids comprise more than 1800 species of freshwater fishes, with remarkable adaptive radiations in Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Victoria that have given rise to extraordinary morphological...

Excited to announce my second PhD manuscript is on bioRvix (biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Thanks to all co-authors, including my supervisors @bertaverd.bsky.social and Roger Benson. Thread below...

16.05.2025 11:11 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 2

This month we welcomed Year 12 students who learnt how to “window” chicken eggs to observe live embryos—spotting eyes, brain, heart, and even twins in one rare case! 🐣
They also viewed development stages of zebrafish embryos, spotted fluorescent markers, and compared wildtype vs mutant embryos 🐟

25.04.2025 12:57 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Check out my third post in a series of poster interviews from the Crick Beddington Symposium!

01.04.2025 07:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

We do find regulative ability following neural progenitor loss but this has less to do with progenitor behaviour and more to do with the morphogenesis of the spinal cord as a key driver of tail elongation 🐟🐟

10.01.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Early embryos have an amazing ability to regulate their proportions after large changes in progenitor number. We wanted to explore whether this ability extends into post-gastrulation stages, during posterior-body formation.

10.01.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Super excited to share that my PhD work has been published!!

Thanks to @dev-journal.bsky.social and @reviewcommons.org and to the reviewers who helped improve it.

Thanks to @bensteventon.bsky.social, for being a great supervisor, Carlos and everyone else who helped along the way!

10.01.2025 14:21 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Delighted to share our new preprint on the cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant ciliate that maintains Chlorella endosymbionts in surface-associated microtubule baskets.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

21.12.2024 20:26 — 👍 285    🔁 75    💬 12    📌 7