Bruno C. Vellutini

You can now search the entire EvoDevo Papers database (~1.8k posts). Check it out on the website evodevo.brunovellutini.com or read more here: brunovellutini.com/posts/evodev...

#EvoDevo #DevBio #EvoBio

The first steps of a sea urchin - Bruno C. Vellutini The winners of this year's Nikon Small World in Motion are out, and my favorite is the 5th place entry, A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed by

The first steps of a sea urchin brunovellutini.com/posts/sea-ur...

Our new collaborative paper with Cyndi Bradham's lab at BU, led by first author @alexandralion.bsky.social is out in @devbiol.bsky.social & featured on the Sept 2025 cover! 😀🥳

PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development!
Cover art: embryos + flow fields
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

Thanks Alexa!

BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏

Super thrilled to see our review out! It was a great experience to put this together with @sameerthukral.bsky.social and @yuchiunwang.bsky.social. Use it as a primer to the field or as inspiration to brainstorm how rigidity transitions can bridge scales!

Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed

My opinion about the historic verdict coming out of Brazil, with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, is in the @nytimes.com today.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo - Poré Poré (aka Renan) - Especial "Calendário do Som" - TV Cultura - 2001

RIP Hermeto Pascoal, one of the greats! youtube.com/watch?v=TUdO...

Thanks a lot to @elisecutts.bsky.social for nicely highlighting and putting in context our article! It was very interesting to discuss together, notably about the analogies between the emergence of order in Hydra and other physical phenomena.

Hydra are a cosmos in a cuvette Anaïs Bailles on astrophysics and immortal animals

Hydra are ~basically~ immortal.

Shred 50 of the lil guys to bits and pack their cells in a blob, and that blob will grow into a new Hydra... albeit with a few extra heads!

This week's post is a Q&A @anaisbailles.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de about the physics of how Hydra coax order from chaos.🧪⚛️

Amazing news, Laurent! Congratulations!

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

Cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei (DAPI, blue) and F-actin (Phalloidin, orange), imaged by spinning disc confocal microscopy and processed using ImageJ. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.

Issue 16 is complete!

On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.

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Important story dissecting the mechanism of gut cell extrusion using organoids. Local heterogeneity of tension promotes live extrusion and basal relaxation is sufficient to kick the cell out. Nice combination of optogenetics and live imaging to demonstrate this
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Flagellar gliding in choanoflagellates Freire-Delgado and Brunet discover a new mode of cell motility in choanoflagellates, the closest relatives of animals. Under mild confinement, choanoflagellate move over surfaces without cell deformat...

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Out now in Seminars in Cell & Dev Biol!

doi.org/10.1016/j.se...

With thanks to co-authors @callumbucklow.bsky.social and @bertaverd.bsky.social

Thank you Eva!! 😊

Obrigado Allan!! It's also 🇦🇷💪 cc: @cuencam15.bsky.social :)

Hanh! Thank you :)

Thank you, Joaquín! <3

Thrilled to share 🎉 I’m starting my lab at University of Zurich,
DMLS as Assistant Professor (tenure track) from Jan 2026!
The Neural MorphoGenomics & Developmental Dynamics Lab will be exploring how genes + morphogenesis shape brain development with organoids, imaging & spatial genomics 🧠🔬🧬

Thank you Mette!

Thanks Sergio!

Thank you :)

🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!

With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠

#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG

Tissue 'tectonic' collision is detrimental, but flies found two distinct solutions! Gratifying and grateful to be included in this collective effort, w/ Steffen Lemke, to crack the (or 'a') code of #cephalicfurrow, now out in @nature.com, all with @paveltomancak.bsky.social at the helm. (1/9)

Thank you, Thibaut!

Beautiful story that combined mechanobiology, evolution, and the power of fly (opto)genetics to make sense of the cephalic furrow. It was a pleasure writing the News & Views. No doubt this is still just the beginning for the field of mechano-evo-devo! Hats off to all involved

Flies evolved a shock-absorber tissue used during embryonic development The role of tissue that forms between the head and trunk of a fly embryo has been unclear. It turns out that it absorbs forces when nearby cells move and divide.

The papers have been improved by reviewers @amartinezarias.bsky.social, @thibautbrunet.bsky.social & Cassandra Extavour. Thibaut synthesized the work beautifully in the #News_and_Views. None of that can happen without The Editor: @endofthepier.bsky.social (11/12)

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Patterned invagination prevents mechanical instability during gastrulation - Nature In Drosophila, the cephalic furrow counteracts mechanical stress as the developing head and the trunk tissues&nbsp;meet, providing evidence for how mechanical forces influence the evolution of morphog...

We had #four interdisciplinary teams, integrating dev-bio, evolution, tissue mechanics, and biophysical modeling, all going full throttle to understand the #CF. Still, it took more than 7 years to publish two papers back-to-back (10/12)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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