Natasha Shylo

Sosa Lab - Postdoctoral Researchers We are seeking postdocs to start in 2026!

The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum.

If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

Join us next week for another exciting VGZT session!

🗓️ Thursday, November 6th
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Our speakers are

👉 David Oriola (@davidoriola.bsky.social)
👉 Nicole Edwards (@nicoleedwds.bsky.social)

See you then! 👋

[2026] – Endogenous retroviruses in human embryogenesis

My lab is seeking two PhD candidates to investigate the function and regulation of endogenous retroviruses in the early stages of human development 🦠👩‍🔬. Apply through the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) program: www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRS/applic.... www.molgen.mpg.de/5094682/Fuey...

I absolutely love this amazing original piece of art by my student Terry Wu. I missed the adult frog made from lab paper towels the first time I saw it. Such amazing talent and excited to see biology inspiring our students! Thank you Terry!

This book sounds amazing! Is there a way for those of us US-based to purchase it?

We are excited to announce the second Western VGZT of Season 7!

🗓️Thursday, October 16th
⏰9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Our speakers:
👉 Hidenobu Miyazawa (on X: @HidenobuAnzo)
👉 Girish Kale (@girishkalephd.bsky.social)

See you next week! 👋

VGZT Season 7 - Nomination Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks (VGZT) is an opportunity to share your science with an engaged, international audience of developmental biologists. Running from October 2025 to July 2026, this online ...

Dear VGZT enthusiasts,
Do you—or someone in your lab—work on exciting developmental biology research? Showcase it at VGZT, a global online seminar series connecting developmental biologists across all career stages. Apply here: www.tinyurl.com/VGZT-Nomination

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

Don't forget to tune in tomorrow! Zoom link is available on Slack and in the email.

Biomedical Data Science in Context Program for Undergraduates Explore the Biomedical Data Science in Context (BDSiC) program at JAX — a two-week, residential J-Term experience for undergraduates eager to build technical skills, work on real biomedical data proje...

Experiential #DataScience training opportunity for undergraduate students to strengthen programming, statistics and genomics skills!

📅 January 3 – 17, 2026
📍 @jacksonlab.bsky.social (Bar Harbor, ME)
💸 Full scholarships cover travel, housing, meals
🔜 Apply by October 15: www.jax.org/education-an...

Very excited to present my research focussing on the evolutionary differences of epiblast morphogenesis across amniotes next week at the kick-off of @vgzt2021.bsky.social season 7!
A story of 🐁,🧍,🐓 & many 🦎🦎🦎🦎

We are excited to announce the first Western VGZT of Season 7! 🎉

🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Our speakers:

👉 Antonia Weberling (@a-weberling.bsky.social)

👉 Sanjay Narayanaswamy (@sanjay-n.bsky.social)

Very excited to be one of the organizers for the 7th season of the amazing #VGZT seminar series. Stay tuned for the first talks coming October 2nd!

Thrilled that our preprint on anole oocyte formation is now online @holyanole.bsky.social !
Such a great collaboration merging our expertise in anole reproductive tract morphology and early embryogenesis to understand how egg cells form!

Mammals & Lice We are interested in understanding what drives host-parasite relationships. We are using the Anoplura (sucking lice) parasite and mammalian host system to generate a comprehensive sucking louse phylog...

Hi! We need lice for our diversity and adaptation project. Specifically, we need lice from zebras, camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos) & aardvarks. If you or someone you know might have lice, I'm happy to discuss our inclusive collaboration plans!
sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...

@a-weberling.bsky.social & I characterize oogenesis from initiation in the germinal bed to ovulatory follicles for the first time in the brown anole, a powerful reptile model for evo-devo & functional genetics!
Full preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sosa Lab

The Sosa Lab website is now live!
www.sosaneurolab.com

We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.

It's good to say this and reinforce that there is no link, but it's just as important to say this:

Even if there were a link between MMR and autism, YOU SHOULD STILL GET VACCINATED! I am autistic and my life is not worse than dying of measles!

I'm excited to share that I've started my lab @stanford.edu in the Neurobiology Department! neurobiology.stanford.edu/who-we-are/f...

#stanford #newPI #neuroscience

So happy to be a part of this awesome collaboration that started in the heart of lockdowns. Looking forward to many more cool discoveries to come.

Injecting some joy in the skyline - today was my first day as an assistant professor! 😊

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Joaquin Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social will receive the SDB Trainee Science Communication Award #ICDB2025 for his role in promoting Developmental Biology and Zebrafish in social media 🐟🧪

A room full of people sitting and looking up at a screen. In the front row is a young boy, laying down on his back across several chairs, and with his head hanging off the last chair where the aisle is. He is clearly not paying any attention to anything happening in the room and looks very bored.

I brought my six year old son to a talk that I gave today.

I think he got a lot out of it!

Okay I know you all are watching some sort of train crash, BUT

our 4-yo just marched into the room and said
“You know what? I LOVE BOOKS.
I love books more than probably anyone.”

Putting out the #zebrafish batsignal (or I guess fish signal). Does anyone in the US have ccdc40 mutant embryos they would be willing to send me? Also potentially interested in mutants in other motile cilia genes.

My paper being cited in the wild! 🥹🦎

Welcome to the Stowers Institute!

Pre‐oviposition development of the brown anole (Anolis sagrei) Background The brown anole, Anolis sagrei, has emerged as a representative squamate species for developmental studies during the past decades. Novel functional tools have been established to manipul.....

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Very excited to announce the publication of our study on early anole embryogenesis @devdynamics.bsky.social

Read the full article here!

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@stowersinstitute.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@oxfordwomenshealth.bsky.social
@loyolachicago.bsky.social