@girishkalephd.bsky.social
Cell and Developmental biologist, expanding into ecological thinking and evolutionary comparative approaches. Interested in how elevated temperatures affect embryo survival, focusing on pre-gastrulation development, in the context of global warming🌡
I can't believe this only ended up getting 3,590 supporters when it needed 10,000; it was a sad day. This has unlocked a new fixation, and I will campaign to get this reopened... #Drosophila #Tribolium #CoolScience #FruitFlies
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🥁 New article 📢: #Mechanobiology of #development during #Drosophila #gastrulation using #Brillouin microscopy, now in @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/ev6ZX
Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social
Happening today!
17.07.2025 08:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@ethanewe.bsky.social is on the job market and you want him as your colleague! On top of everything that he already published he also has a few especially amazing papers in the works... (soon!)
02.07.2025 06:44 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1Seconded. Ethan is one of @dev-journal.bsky.social's Pathway to Independence fellows this year, and - on top of his great research programme - has been super-active in the @prelights.bsky.social community.
03.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Join us next week for our Western 🌙 KEYNOTE seminar:
🗓️ Thursday, July 17
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
Our speakers are:
Josh Brickman @josh-brickman.bsky.social
Charlene Guillot @charleneguillot.bsky.social
We are looking forward to this great season finale! 🥳
Join the VGZT Eastern KEYNOTE lecture ☀️☕ TOMORROW
🗓️ Wednesday July 09
⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET
Featuring:
1) Maithreyi Narasimha
👉Positioning tissues during Drosophila morphogenesis
Jose Silva @josesilvalab.bsky.social
👉From founder cells to organogenesis-stage embryo model
Development presents... Wednesday 9 July 15:00 BST, chaired by Alex Eve. Talk 1: Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute) ‘Tissue spreading couples matrix remodelling during avian gastrulation’ Talk 2: André Dias (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ‘Opposing Nodal and Wnt signalling activities govern the emergence of the mammalian body plan’ Talk 3: Nikhil Mishra (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) ‘Geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation in the zebrafish embryo’
Sign up to attend our next Development presents... webinar on early #embryogenesis, featuring talks from @lakshmib02.bsky.social, @dias-andre.bsky.social and @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social
📅Wed 9 July 15:00BST (UTC+1)
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#DevBio @dev-journal.bsky.social
Excited to grow our team! The Tissue Morpho and Mechanics Lab at Hopkins is seeking a full-time Lab Technologist (50% lab tech + 20% lab manager + 30% scientist) to support our research in developmental biology and biomechanics 🐸🖖🔬🧪🫵. Great opportunity to be part of a vibrant and curious group.
04.07.2025 01:16 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Next Western VGZT 🌙
🗓️ Thursday, July 03
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
Our speakers:
Alexandre Francou
👉 Intercalation dynamics driving endoderm morphogenesis during mouse gastrulation
Roberto Mayor @mayorlab.bsky.social
👉 Directional Migration of Neural Crest
A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)
25.06.2025 10:08 — 👍 82 🔁 75 💬 2 📌 1
Development presents... Wednesday 9 July 15:00 BST, chaired by Alex Eve. Talk 1: Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute) ‘Tissue spreading couples matrix remodelling during avian gastrulation’ Talk 2: André Dias (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ‘Opposing Nodal and Wnt signalling activities govern the emergence of the mammalian body plan’ Talk 3: Nikhil Mishra (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) ‘Geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation in the zebrafish embryo’
Sign up to attend our next Development presents... webinar on early #embryogenesis, featuring talks from @lakshmib02.bsky.social, @dias-andre.bsky.social and @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social.
📅Wed 9 July 15:00BST (UTC+1)
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#DevBio @dev-journal.bsky.social
New #Spotlight episode!
@ryanharrison13.bsky.social, Stefan and @reinierprosee.bsky.social talk with Katelyn Cooper, first author of a groundbreaking preprint—the first in-depth analysis of the LGBTQ+ climate in the biological sciences.
#LGBTinSTEM #preprint 🏳️🌈🔬
#shapinglife3 was a great @sfbd.bsky.social meeting! Here's my short post on @the-node.bsky.social about it :)
16.06.2025 21:03 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0🔔 Proud to share the preprint of my PhD work in the Petridou group @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org ✨
“A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics” 🐟 🔁 📶
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #biophysics
🧵⤵️
What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations?
I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!
End of the #shapinglife3 meeting, full of cool #developmentalBiology. Thanks to all of the organizers for putting together a fantastic program. I hope to come back for the next iteration. Keeping fingers crossed for similar location (building on the left was the meeting venue) @sfbd.bsky.social
06.06.2025 12:30 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@sfbd.bsky.social general assembly during #shapinglife3 meeting. This happened in ENGLISH!
05.06.2025 12:33 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0It's heartening to see requests to support @flybase.bsky.social however one can, especially from people who don't even work with flies. Just goes to show how interconnected the scientific community is. Science under threat somewhere is Science under threat everywhere ✊️
04.06.2025 05:28 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#Zebrafish people, this is our time to shine. Let's help keep an important resource up so we can keep talking shit about flies for many many years
03.06.2025 18:30 — 👍 58 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 2
May in #preprints – the #CellBio edition!
Curated by #preLighters from across the field. @girishkalephd.bsky.social @fadelvalle.bsky.social @ethanewe.bsky.social @sristi.bsky.social et al.
New discoveries and bold hypotheses you shouldn’t miss.
#preList ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/may...
Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!
28.05.2025 02:48 — 👍 77 🔁 47 💬 3 📌 3
Reimagining peer review: new #spotLights episode discussing the Fast & Fair peer review initiative launched by @biologyopen.bsky.social
@danielgorelick.bsky.social Alejandra & @jontytownson.bsky.social discuss early insights, published as a #preprint + how you can get involved⬇️
youtu.be/mM6mZIubZaw
Please join next week‘s Western 🌙 VGZT:
🗓️ Thursday, May 22
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
@aliseleit.bsky.social
👉Developmental heterochrony & evolution of segmentation in eels
@laura-rustarazo.bsky.social
👉Rigidity transitions & epithelial organization in 🐟 embryos
*Paid internship opportunity*
@biologists.bsky.social is looking for a 3-month intern this summer to work across the Node, @prelights.bsky.social and
@focalplane.bsky.social
If you're interested in #SciCommm & #publishing, and have the right to work in the UK, apply by 5 June 👇
#spotLights hits episode 10! 🙌
@jontytownson.bsky.social talks to Helena Crellin (@buckleylab.bsky.social) about her #preprint introducing an optogenetic approach to study "how forces are propagated through complex tissues during development" in #zebrafish 🧠🐟
Listen below! 🎧
🎙️ youtu.be/6uce4whDt2M
The next VGZT seminar is happening tomorrow!
🗓️ Wednesday May 14
⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET
Introducing the 2025 PI Fellows of our Pathway to Independence Programme
Over the next year, we will be supporting this talented group of eight postdocs, providing training, mentorship and networking opportunities as they apply for independent positions.
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Another month, another CellBio #preList curated by preLighters 🙌 @girishkalephd.bsky.social @vibhasingh.bsky.social @ethanewe.bsky.social @fadelvalle.bsky.social @sristi.bsky.social et al.
We read, we scout, now please check it out! 😀 #preprints
#preList ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/apr...
Next Western 🌙 VGZT coming up:
🗓️ Thursday, May 08
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
👉 @ancheldjs.bsky.social (Regulation of chromosome segregation fidelity across lineage specification)
👉 @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social (Mesoderm and endoderm formation in Nematostella)
