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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
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Join us for the next VGZT, featuring complementary approaches to understanding dynamic tissue organization!

🗓️ Thursday, January 22nd
⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Our speakers are
👉 Chen Yuan Kam (@chenyuankam.bsky.social)
👉 Camilla Autorino (@cami-autorino.bsky.social)

Don't miss out. Apply to our 2026 Advanced Research Training Courses today!

There's still time to apply to be a 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellow

For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers

- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
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Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, January 9, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Priyom Adhyapok (Duke University) A biological oscillator controls the pace of notochord segmentation Zong-Yuan Liu (University of Michigan) Endogenous FGFs drive ERK-dependent cell fate patterning in 2D human gastruloids

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, January 9 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Priyom Adhyapok @priyomadhyapok.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social and Zong-Yuan Liu @UMich. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4ncxr0M #SDBPostdocSeminar

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🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)!

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🚨 Join us this Friday for an exciting webinar on retina regeneration! Featuring Alice Accorsi @accorsi-alice.bsky.social of UC Davis and Jeff Mumm @jsmumm.bsky.social of Johns Hopkins.

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🎉 Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2026 with an exciting VGZT seminar!

🗓️ Thursday, January 8th
⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Our speakers are
👉 Jan Jakub Zylicz (@jzylicz.bsky.social)
👉 Anahi Binagui-Casas (@abinagui.bsky.social)

See you there 👋

Developmental regulation of intestinal best4+ cells best4+ /CFTR-high expressing cells are a recently described intestinal epithelial cell type potentially altered in inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer. However, their developmental origin...

Closing out 2025 with our new preprint where
@jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social and I explore development and function of zebrafish intestinal best4+ cells – molecularly described in 2019, conserved in evolution, absent in 🐭, and altered in inflammatory bowel disease.

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🎄 Final VGZT seminar before Christmas! 🎄
We’re excited to welcome keynote speaker Olivier Pourquié ✨

“Recapitulating human somitogenesis in vitro”

🗓️ Thursday, December 18th
⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Reminder: Tomorrow is VGZT day! 🚀

Don’t miss great talks from
👉 Luca Braccioli (@bracciolilab.bsky.social)
👉 Komal Makwana (on X: @Komal_Makwana4)

Development's Pathway to Independence Programme Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:

Mentoring
Profile raising
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Spread the word...

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News: VGZT has updated its official website and now has now a brand-new LinkedIn page! 🎉🚀
You can find all upcoming sessions, past talks, and updates there.

🌐 Website
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Feel free to follow, share, and and help spread the word about the seminar series! 🙌

Join us next week for another round of inspiring VGZT talks! 🤩

🗓️ Thursday, December 4th
⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Our speakers are
👉 Luca Braccioli (@bracciolilab.bsky.social)
👉 Komal Makwana (on X: @Komal_Makwana4)

See you next week 👋

Super exciting to be part of of this Research Training Group to train the next generation of material biologists :) We are already actively recruiting PhD students! Join our joint project with @jamessaenz.bsky.social !!!

Tomorrow is VGZT day! 🚀

Don’t miss the great talks from
👉 Allison Kann (@apkann.bsky.social)
👉 Joana da Silva (on X: @joanamsilva14)

Join us for next week’s exciting VGZT session! 🎉

🗓️ Thursday, November 20th
⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Our speakers are
👉 Allison Kann (@apkann.bsky.social)
👉 Joana da Silva (on X: @joanamsilva14)

See you there 👋

For what it’s worth, The Wyoming Worm lab has funding for 5 years along with exciting projects with solid foundations. We are is still looking for capable, dedicated, and fun-to-work-with lab members at all career stages. davidfay@uwyo.edu

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ISRB Zone 3 Webinar this Friday (Oct 17th). @isrbio.bsky.social Aging and Regeneration with Longhua Guo @longhuaguo.bsky.social and Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, October 10, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Austin Seroka (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) Transcription factor code specifies vagal motor innervation of organ targets during development Heather Dingwall (University of Pennsylvania) Mechanisms underlying the evolution of human sweating and fur loss

The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ of @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed #SDBPostdocSeminar

🚨 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.

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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

Join us 15 October to hear from two early-career researchers, @osvaldoics.bsky.social & Yinan Wan, working on development across scales.

Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor @amjeve.bsky.social.

📅 15 October, 09:00 BST (UTC+1)

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Stay Connected with VGZT Season 7 🌍

From Oct 2025–July 2026, join our online seminar series featuring cutting-edge developmental biology across diverse model organisms. Hear from senior PhD students, postdocs, and PIs as they share their latest discoveries with a global audience.

🚨Please share! We are hiring a post-doc! 🪱 🐀
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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)

This is an amazing opportunity! If you’re ready you should definitely apply. Very competitive package and you can choose your Max Planck insititute.

Job add showing the lab logo and the following text: WHAT WE OFFER Fully-funded fellowships up to five years Opportunity to start your own research program or lead ongoing projects. Large, diverse and extraordinary scientific network at the NIH/Bethesda campus. Working at NIH offers the possibility of living in a diverse, liberal and vibrant city: Washington DC Or in a calm residential area with great schools and good affordable housing: Bethesda and Rockville. WHO YOU ARE You share our enthusiasm for epigenetics, gene regulation, nuclear organization and mouse development. You have PhD-experience in one or more of the following: mouse development, mouse genetics, epigenetics, or computational biology.

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We are looking for postdocs to join our lab at NIH.
Apply:
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We have a fully funded 3y postdoc position open!!!! Come join us @mpi-cbg.de and @poldresden.bsky.social to understand the role of Membranes in Controlling Biogenic Crystallization :) this is part of our #HFSP funded project with @noemijimenezrojo.bsky.social and @vmonje.bsky.social! Applications👇