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Information on the conference on vascular development and maintenance held in Bavaria, Germany in September 2026. Conference is held in a historical monastery on a lake in beautiful Bavaria. Registration is now open! Lots of great speakers that are leaders in the field. We will pick a large number of talks from abstracts to elevate early career investigators. Join us!

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SEEON ANGIOSCIENCE! Fantastic, long-running meeting on Development & Maintenance of the Vasculature.

🗓️ Sept 2026
🌍 Bavaria, Germany

Registration open! Join us!
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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

I am looking forward to co-teaching GetHired! This course is suitable for postdocs in developmental, cellular, molecular, genetics and similar research fields who are prepping for the faculty job market.

Hand written notes on the developmental cascade leading to ovaries, testis, and their hormonal and genetic interconnections

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Connecting developmental biology to societal and political issues in the classroom boosts student engagement and critical thinking, fostering a deeper understanding of both science and social justice.
- Megan Morgan Hoffman
#SpecialIssue on teaching #DevelopmentalBiology for #SocialChange

So excited to be serving as Guest Editor for a special issue in @devbiol.bsky.social on receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in development. Please consider contributing!

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
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Richard Behringer pointing to the Society for Developmental Biology sign outside the SDB office.

Check out the latest President's Corner by SDB President Richard Behringer @rrbehringer.bsky.social on challenges. www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...

Biomechanics influence morphogenesis of the lung. Really cool paper by Shelby and Victor at UT Southwestern and UTD!

Diagram showing developmental stages of the chicken embryo heart, with labeled cross-sections and ventral views from stage HH6 to HH14. Coloured regions identify anatomical structures such as the paraxial and lateral head mesoderm, neural plate, neural tube, and early and late second heart field, illustrating tissue movements and the continuum between first and second heart fields during heart formation.

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Heart cells in chick embryos emerge from a continuous field, not separate regions. Incorporation of cells into the heart depends on cell position, morphogenetic movements and break-down of tissue bridges.

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#Embryology #HeartDevelopment

To all hemocyte lovers: Angela and me are hosting a special issue on Drosophila hemocytes 🪰👾We have some brillant drosophilists around the world who agreed to submit a review to this special issue! If you are also interested to contribute, reach out to us and we can give you more information!

Image showing a CALL FOR PAPERS for a special issue of Developmental Biology on "Receptor Tyrosine Kinase signaling in Development".

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DB Special Issue highlights new insights into receptor tyrosine kinase signaling during development, with a focus on cell-cell interactions & signal transduction in the regulation of cell growth and division, differentiation & morphogenesis.

Submit here: tinyurl.com/RTKDevBio

CALL FOR PAPERS for our upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE

Ion channels are emerging as critical regulators of tissue morphogenesis in diverse animals from planaria to humans. Mutations in ion channels can cause craniofacial and limb abnormalities in frogs, mice &humans #DevBio

Submit today! shorturl.at/LPMbc

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Generation of a transgenic chicken line with reporters for limb bud mesenchyme and apical ectodermal ridge cells

Yuji Atsuta, Yi-Chen Chen, Yuna Hattori, Tatsuya Takemoto, Daisuke Saito

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Join me next week, if you have interest in reviewing for the SDB's society ( @socdevbio.bsky.social 's) official journal, Developmental Biology (DB!) Always a fun and useful discussion.

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Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG

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Features extraction from a LSCI recording of the blood vessels in a chicken egg

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Automated non-invasive laser speckle imaging of the chick heart rate and extraembryonic blood vessels and their response to Nifedipine and Amlodipine drugs

by Carol Readhead, Simon Mahler et al
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The best part about science (on top of the science) is the friendships you make on the way. 🥰

Scientists coming together to share ideas, give critical feedback, and also climb mountains 😅 Thanks Li-Kun and all for coming from so far, to meet where I grew up. 🙏

Figure showing the effects of different folic acid (FA) dosages on primary ciliogenesis in various mouse embryonic fibroblast genotypes. Panels A-D present box plots quantifying ciliated cells or percent cilia under moderate and fortified FA conditions at 225, 450, and 3600 ng/mL FA in Intu+/+, Intudm/dm, Rsg1+/+, and Rsg1β13/β13 MEFs, highlighting statistically significant differences at moderate doses. Panel E displays immunofluorescence images of MEFs stained for ARL13B (red), γ-tubulin (green), and DAPI (blue), showing cilia presence and structure with scale bars indicating 15 μm and zoom-ins at 5 μm.

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Moderate levels of folic acid benefit outcomes for cilia based neural tube defects

David Engelhardt, Juliette Petersen, Cara Martyr, Hannah Kuhn-Gale, Lee Niswander

tiom33.short.gy/DB520,62-75

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Epithelial and mesenchymal compartments of the developing bladder and urethra display spatially distinct gene expression patterns
by Baraiya, D. H., Kavya, T. T., Mandal, A., Chakraborty, S., Sathish, N., Francis, C. M. R., & Joseph
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Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)🦎 can regrow limbs, tail, spinal cord, heart, and even parts of its brain. Axolotls are champions of regeneration and also shed light on limb patterning, wound healing, and developmental plasticity. Image from Prayag Murawala #ModelMonday #DevBio

🎉 The Midwest SDB Regional Meeting is happening soon! Join at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for exciting developmental biology from across the Midwest. 🧬 Registration deadline: September 2nd ✨. More information here: www.midwestsdbincincy.org #MIDWESTSDB25

Characterization of human oocyte maturation stages

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Transcriptomic analysis and epigenetic regulators in human oocytes at different stages of oocyte meiotic maturation

by Carla Caniçais, Joana Marques et al
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🔬Two heads are better than one… even in frogs! 🐸✨
This Xenopus laevis embryo developed with two heads, offering a striking view of early developmental patterning.
🟢 actin 🟣 neural tissue 🔵 nuclei. Image by Kourtnie Whitfield. #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #Xenopus

Cross-section of HH9 chick embryo head showing reduced PAX7 signal on CRISPR-Cas13d knockdown side (~17% decrease, n=15), highlighted in GFP+ cells.

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CRISPR-Cas13d enables targeted gene expression knockdown in chick embryos, expanding the experimental potential and versatility of this model system.

by Minyoung Kim and Erica Hutchins @drericabiophd.bsky.social

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#CRISPRCas #ChickEmbryo

Drosophila blood cells - Our special issue highlights novel findings on hemocyte diversity in Drosophila melanogaster. The reviews explore diversity in terms of ontogeny, functional specification and organ-organ communication. Submit today! https://tinyurl.com/357v25tj

CALL FOR PAPERS! 🪰

Drosophila blood cells - Our #DBspecialissue highlights novel findings on hemocyte diversity in Drosophila melanogaster. The reviews explore diversity in terms of ontogeny, functional specification and organ-organ communication.

Submit today! tinyurl.com/357v25tj

Call for papers for “Ions in Morphogenesis” Special Issue!

CALL FOR PAPERS!

Ion channels are emerging as critical regulators of tissue morphogenesis in diverse animals from planaria to humans. Mutations in ion channels can cause craniofacial and limb abnormalities in frogs, mice & humans.

Submit today! shorturl.at/LPMbc

Distribution of primitive endoderm and cellular descendants until midgestation.

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Disease susceptibility implications of preferential inactivation of the paternal X chromosome in extraembryonic endoderm of the mouse

by Virginia Papaioannou

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Beautiful cerebral organoid study by my friend and Lab neighbor Mike Buszczak! #DevBio @buszczaklab.bsky.social #UTSW

🐟 Zebrafish (Danio rerio): Clear as glass, zebrafish embryos let you watch organs form in real time. A powerhouse for studying organogenesis and regeneration, they’re also champions of transgenic expression of fluorescent proteins 🌈 image from Gopi Shah 🧪 #ModelMonday #DevBio