Antonia Weberling

Honouring our friend Dr. Svetlana Jovanic who passed away after battling cancer for almost 3 years.

a passionate researcher
a keen photographer
a generous and loyal friend.

She investigated #zebrafish & #gastruloids using #lightsheet #microscopy.

We will not forget her.

🧬🇬🇧 UK Evo-Devo Starter Pack go.bsky.app/SgRdF9T

Had a lovely time presenting my new chameleon study at the UK #EvoDevo meeting on Friday!
Great discussions and really interesting talks!

If there is still space, could I please be added?
I'm working on comparative analysis of embryogenesis across the amniote phylum using non-model organisms.

Congratulations to Svetlana and all coauthors, this is such a cool study!

The preprint of my dear friend Svetlana Jovanic showing that
"cell behaviour during gastrulation is robust to the deficiency of yolk topology & signalling originating from the yolk syncytial layer."
is now online!
Super interesting read! #zebrafish #embroids #DevBio

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

Congratulations @aaronhgriffing.bsky.social & team!

such cool data!

really impressive imaging and 3D reconstructions!

I'm over the moon to announce that my first novel "Leopold - the Boy at the Lake" will be published later this year at Wichern Verlag in Germany.

Just got the cover in - now, it starts to feel real...

Freue mich wahnsinnig, dass mein #Erstling dieses Jahr im Wichern Verlag erscheinen wird!

Thanks so much!

Congratulations! A really nice study!

Amazing! Thank you so much!

Hello Angelo,
may I ask whether you could add me to the starter pack? I'm setting up my independent research in evodevo - comparing early embryogenesis in amniotes. we have just published our first study in that direction focussing on early development of the brown anole - more soon to follow...

Thank you to all collaborators for such an amazing project
@aussiebiologist.bsky.social
@shylonatasha.bsky.social
@thomsanger.bsky.social
@holyanole.bsky.social
@hollfelderlab.bsky.social
Marta Marchini, Katherine Starr, Melainia McClain, & Hannah Wilson

Looking forward to our next projects!

Pre‐oviposition development of the brown anole (Anolis sagrei) Background The brown anole, Anolis sagrei, has emerged as a representative squamate species for developmental studies during the past decades. Novel functional tools have been established to manipul.....

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Very excited to announce the publication of our study on early anole embryogenesis @devdynamics.bsky.social

Read the full article here!

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@stowersinstitute.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@oxfordwomenshealth.bsky.social
@loyolachicago.bsky.social

YouTube video by Jan Toman Biologické čtvrtky ve Viničné; A. Weberling: Of the chameleon that looked human; přednáška

Thrilled that I was invited to the Biological Thursday Seminar Series @charlesuni.cuni.cz
to present on my research focussing on diversity in amniote embryogenesis
"Of the chameleon that looked human - Exploring diversity in amniote embryos"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOrw...

Congratulations @ashleehutchinson.bsky.social
Such a beautiful work!
very happy to have been part of it!

Haha, actually, the first part of the licenses just came in!

if you match the refractive index of the clearing medium with a non toxic liquid - e.g. glycerol - that you then use to fill the chamber with, you could embed your sample in a tube and thereby not have toxic medium in the entire chamber

Congratulations! Such a beautiful study!

Very happy that our study on early anole lizard embryogenesis is featured in the December #preprint list of @the-node.bsky.social

want to know more?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@shylonatasha.bsky.social @thomsanger.bsky.social @holyanole.bsky.social @aussiebiologist.bsky.social

I spy with my little eye some pre-oviposition anole embryos @a-weberling.bsky.social @aussiebiologist.bsky.social @holyanole.bsky.social @thomsanger.bsky.social

Primitive to visceral endoderm maturation is essential for mouse epiblast survival beyond implantation Implantation of the mouse blastocyst initiates a complex sequence of tissue remodelling and cell differentiation events required for morphogenesis, du…

Very happy that my final PhD paper focussing on the maturation of the primitive into the visceral endoderm and its impact on embryo survival in mice is now published: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Huge thanks to my PhD supervisor & my collaborators for making this project possible

thank you so much!
Looking forward to our first comparative studies!

Thank you!!!
Looking forward to our next projects!

This project would not have been possible without my fantastic collaborators: @aussiebiologist.bsky.social & @shylonatasha.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social @thomsanger.bsky.social @loyolachicago.bsky.social @hollfelderlab.bsky.social & @holyanole.bsky.social

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We also used our staging system to follow the establishment of the central nervous system and the migration of neural crest cells. Our dataset enables cross species comparison of these developmental steps with other studies focussing on the veiled chameleon and common wall lizard.

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We provide whole embryo cross sections of consecutive time points of anole development. Our dataset enables investigations into the development of specific organs e.g. eye or heart. This lays the basis for cross-clade comparative studies to compare & contrast morphogenesis of different organs.

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Chicken form a monolayered epiblast disk, which then gastrulates. The anole develops very differently and gives rise to a multilayered, hollow dome. This dome establishes its anterior-posterior axis and gastrulates. Do non-avian reptiles follow chicken peri-gastrulation morphogenesis?

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Early non-avian reptile development is difficult to access. It occurs before the egg is laid & spans from fertilisation to limb-bud formation when eye pigmentation starts. The brown anole passes through 26 developmental stages & exhibits striking divergence from the common reptile model chicken

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New Preprint
Reptiles comprise ~23,000 species with an incredible range of diversity. The basis is laid during embryogenesis but is severely understudied.
We study the brown anole, a model for evolutional studies & describe its early embryogenesis for the first time:
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...