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Calling all #ctenophore researchers and artists!
Joe Ryan is organizing the Ctenopalooza Ctwo meeting, which we will host at MBARI in California August 23-25. 🦑🧪🌊
www.mbari.org/event/ctenop...
Come swap notes with fellow enthusiasts about the latest news in comb jellies.

Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics - CMSA Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics Dates: February 23–March 11, 2026 Location: Harvard CMSA, Room G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA Mathematics, Morphometry and Mo...

I am so looking forward to this CMSA workshop! An exciting line up of instructors and speakers and no fees 👀 Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry, Morphogenesis and Mathematics - CMSA share.google/aTxvHO4dhYAg...

Society for Developmental Biology logo Society for Developmental Biology 2026 Award Winners Edwin G. Conklin Medal Headshot of Lee Niswander Lee Niswander, University of Colorado Boulder Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award Headshot of Alexandra Joyner Alexandra Joyner, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize Headshot of Roberto Mayor Roberto Mayor, University College London Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award Headshot of Jeffrey Farrell Jeffrey Farrell, National Institutes of Health Society for Developmental Biology Trainee Science Communication Award Headshot of Nicholas Desnoyer Nicholas Desnoyer, The Sainsbury Laboratory

Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners!
Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander
SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner
Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor
Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell
SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer
bit.ly/4afnjiC

Congratulations!!!

New year, new lab member! Shubham Das @shubham-das.bsky.social arrived two weeks ago and he is already imaging. :) whoop whoop! Shubham will explore mechanics of polar lobe formation in spiralian embryos. Welcome!

My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?

My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa

If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

The brand new website of the Bischoff lab

... together with my SciArt Gallery :)

So excited to share this as a new junior PI:

My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com

Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊

And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!

#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

Congratulations!!!

Save the date for the next Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting next summer.

Congrats!!! Looking forward to reading it!

We’re hiring! 🚨
Assistant Professor (TT) in Theoretical or Computational Biological Physics @univmiami.bsky.social 😀

Come build the future of interdisciplinary biophysics with us!
Apply by Dec 15 → tinyurl.com/5n9bk836

#Biophysics #PhysicsJobs #AcademicJobs #UMiami

We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo

Uhu!! Congrats!!

Congrats!! Looking forward to diving in!

🤩 congrats! Looking forward to reading this! Movies and 3D reconstructions look phenomenal!

I am very happy to announce that the Echinox Lab will open in the BIOM unit at @obs-banyuls.fr in January 2026!! 🥳

We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution.
🔽 Check our brand new lab website if you want to learn more about our future research
www.echinox.org

Juvenile sea stars inside specialized tanks

First sea stars in our brand new facility at @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social ! ⭐

The Hopkins Internships - Summer Undergraduate Research Funds Poster Fair at Hopkins showcased undergrads’ summer research on kelp, fisheries, neural activity & more. Funded internships give students a launchpad into real science alongside Stanford faculty, postdocs & grad mentors.

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Joaquín Navajas Acedo.

In this interview, @mads100tist.bsky.social talks about about his research vision, zebrafish and the importance of community:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

We had a great lab outing among the redwoods...such a treasure!

Congrats!!

This postdoc position is still open! Apply if you want to come work with us on asymmetric cell divisions in spiralian embryos! postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

I am honored and beyond happy to share that I have been awarded an @inserm.fr #ATIP-Avenir fellowship to start my own lab to study body plan evolution in #echinoderms 🤩

Stay tuned for more exciting updates coming soon!!

OMG congrats Laurent!!!

Congratulations my friend!! 😎