Berta Verd

Opportunity for a Master’s/Bachelor’s student:
- Join us for up to 5 months 🗓️
- Build computational/mathematical models 💻
- Learn about genotype-phenotype maps and evolution 🧬
- Work closely with PhD student Manuela Giraud - full info here:
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Early career group leaders We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Generative biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles | Royal Society Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Jake Cornwall-Scoones, Dr Dirk Benzinger, and Professor Sally Lowell.

How does life construct itself from within, and how might we learn to emulate its generative logic? Glad to be soon talking and discussing with @philipcball.bsky.social @bertaverd.bsky.social and other great colleagues at this @royalsociety.org event royalsociety.org/science-even...

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale

apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

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Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️

Fantastic to see this now out in published form! Well done to the authors @jamesehammond.bsky.social and @callumbucklow.bsky.social. Check it out if you're interested in vertebrate, and in particular vertebral count, evolution!

Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Exciting Research Professorship Position in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Leuven. Amazing research ecosystem, great colleagues, high quality of life, tenure track. For those interested in joining us, please see below:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...

Optics, Forces & Development Breakthroughs in developmental biology and stem cell research, alongside rapid advances in microscopy, computing, tissue engineering, and biophysics, are transforming our understanding of the fundame…

Learn about tissue #development and engineering, #microscopy, #ImageAnalysis, and more at the EMBO Practical Course "Optics, Forces & Development" in Santiago, Chile, 7–17 January 2026.

Deadline: 10 October 2025

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#EMBO26optics #EMBOevents #research #training 🧪

Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧

If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology

royalsociety.org/science-even...

Tenure!! Yeay! Well done Ina!

Thanks for all your hard work, Kevin!

Really looking forward to this. Thanks for the invitation!

📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr
We have fantastic speakers and registration is free!
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
@karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social

Promotional poster with images of an Arabidopsis flower development over time from a cluster of identical cells to the final flower and two models of Arabirbiopsis flower meristems highligting active genes. Text reads: 9th Plant Computational Biology Workshop, 8-12 September 2025, Sainsbury Laboratory, University fo Cambridge.

🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

Features work from Square Lab at Florida, @vlecaudey.bsky.social, Solnica-Krezel Lab at WUSTL, @rburdine1.bsky.social, @otamplin.bsky.social, @flomarlow.bsky.social, @balciunaslab.bsky.social, @bertaverd.bsky.social, @bowmaniacs.bsky.social, @thomthum.bsky.social, @singhlab.bsky.social among others!

Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions: Predictive Models of Neural Development From Single-Cell Data Building a mechanistic understanding of cell fate decisions remains a fundamental goal of developmental biology, with implications for stem cell therapies, regenerative medicine and understanding dise...

Our latest "Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions: Predictive Models of Neural Development From Single-Cell Data"

A rigorous mathematical foundation for Waddington's landscape to study cell fate decision making

Applied to ventral neural tube development

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

And one more from @callumbucklow.bsky.social on how verterbal regionalisation and counts are linked in evolution. See his tutorial below. Well done Callum!

Registration is now open!

Gastrulation Reloaded: Developing, engineering & evolving the body plan

📅 October 14–17, 2025
📍 Paris, France
🗓️ Abstract & early bird deadline: July 15, 2025

www.gastrulation-reloaded.conferences-pasteur.org/home

Exceptional lineup of speakers & many selected talks

🚨Job Alert🚨

We are looking for a technician to join us in Oxford @biology.ox.ac.uk to study epigenetics and vibration-sensing:

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The work will be varied:
Arthropod culture 🕷️🪰
Lab work (DNA/RNA extraction, sequencing library preparation…)

Apply by Mon 23 June
🧪

Thank you!

And here's the link!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Please help me circulate this job ad. Thanks!
@the-node.bsky.social

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

Latest from the lab!

@callumbucklow.bsky.social's beautiful paper on the dynamics of morphological evolution using African cichlids & showing that evolution repeats itself.

Congrats Callum and co-authors.

Check out the tutorial below.

Sign up here. Registration is free

royalsociety.org/science-even...

Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

Building AI models or the data to train them?

Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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pls RT!

Poster for a Royal Society funded workshop on “generative biology” at the interface between synthetic and developmental biology. The workshop is scheduled for 20-21 October 2025, and features the following speakers: Philip Ball, David Brückner, Francesca Ceroni, Jamie Davies, Pulin Li, Mattias Malaguti, Yolanda Schaerli, Ricard Solé, Berna Sozen, Ben Steventon, Jared Toettcher, Vikas Trivedi, Berta Verd, Sara Wickström. Places available for short talks and posters

Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧

If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology

www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...

Modularity of the segmentation clock and morphogenesis Vertebrates have evolved great diversity in the number of segments dividing the trunk body, however the developmental origin of the evolvability of this trait is poorly understood. The number of segme...

Segmentation clock & tissue development are decoupled - explanation for evolution of flexible body plans?
#EvoDevo #SegmentationClock

Study from Verd Lab @bertaverd.bsky.social @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social

🆕 #preprintpeerreview @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

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