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Two parallel lineage-committed progenitors contribute to the developing brain The hindbrain is a life-sustaining brain region. In one model, a common neural progenitor generates all brain regions. Here our studies of mouse embryos and human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) suppor...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check out this new manuscript from Loh Lab at Stanford on the developmental origins of the vertebrate CNS.

congrats Kristen - surprised it has taken this long !! You are and have always been an amazing scientist.

I’d like to see that if you figure out where u saw it.

Inspired by visits to Woods Hole @mblscience.bsky.social and Roscoff, we hope to welcome folks in #SunnyBergen to foster exchange and spark discoveries in Marine Life Sciences.

This is one of the best parts of the job - seeing talented, hard-working people being recognized and given the opportunity to start their own groups. Laurent is just getting started on echinoderms.... talented ambitious people on the lookout for a position in a great new lab.... stay tuned.

I really love my new colleague at Hopkins, here shown in her element on the last day of her new imaging mini course at Hopkins. Vanessa Barone is such an amazing addition to the faculty in Biology and Hopkins

Check out our latest work‼️Fantastic study with really cool data and findings led by @allancarbal.bsky.social in collaborarion with Stephan’s lab. The one and many ways of getting a belly…

Want a growing and awesome community studying fundamentals in developmental and cell biology using emerging marine models. Apply for this postdoc.

Antero-posterior patterning in the brittle star Amphipholis squamata and the evolution of echinoderm body plans - EvoDevo Although the adult pentaradial body plan of echinoderms evolved from a bilateral ancestor, identifying axial homologies between the morphologically divergent echinoderms and their bilaterian relatives...

evodevojournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Excellent developmental biology symposium at Hopkins today organized by Vanessa Barone. Guest speaker Jake Warner with Stanford and Biohub faculty. Really great talks and discussion.

@endofthepier.bsky.social I just saw this review of your new book from Eric Idle. I would retire - doesn't get better than that.

My first view of the finished book.

The Tree of Life. #treeoflife @johnmurrays.bsky.social.

Out 24th April. Can preorder now from all good bookshops.

And please feel free to Repost!!

(Sound up to hear me make a weird high pitched wookie growl.)

Glad I know you to be a delightful human......., that picture has the potential to scare children.

clearly they have the wrong model of starfish body plan organization 😜

Another beautiful paper from @laurentformery.bsky.social . This species, A.squamata, is a viviparous brooder - juveniles year round. Near and dear to my heart as I worked on it for my thesis. Laurent took it to another level. First installment of a new series of papers he is working on.

A Pre-Bilaterian Origin of Phototransduction Genes and Photoreceptor Cells The evolution of vision is a major novelty in animals, playing a fundamental role in developing complex behaviours. Vision initiates with a light-triggered phototransduction cascade occurring in photo...

How did vision evolve? In our latest study, we show that:
Key phototransduction genes originated in the metazoan stem group
A conserved transcriptional program in putative PRCs from ctenophores to mammals www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

your preprint looks fascinating.

Delighted to open up our new imaging center at Hopkins. This is part of an initiative supported by Stanford Humanities and Sciences to leverage marine biodiversity for biological insights.

... venal under belly. I should do that double billing again

I saw Blue Velvet and Angel Heart as a double bill at Brighton as an undergraduate - an intense, disturbing, but genius combo. Blue Velvet was unlike anything I had ever seen and deeply affecting. I still remember the way he had of peeling back the veneer of society revealing ..

no idea what you are saying but it sounds good.

Returning to Moorea for regeneration experiments in the rainy season. Turns out they really mean it. It has been chucking down for a week. Luckily the worms don't care, and Ivan and Albert are troopers.

Happy holidays.

hemichordates are the underdogs - they will prevail!

beautiful Henry. BUT, no hemichordates ! WTF

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K

🧪🌎🦑🦈🌊 Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K! 📹👏

WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE

Omg. Why study by the sea???? Where to start?

I highly recommend motivated and curiosity-driven students interested in evolutionary cell/developmental biology take a hard look at Nat Clarke's lab. He is an amazing scientist and mentor. I would apply to his lab if I was starting again. Take a look now before his lab fills up.