Grocott Lab

It's always special when you find your own paper in the table of contents of the journal 😍

"The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form

www.cell.com/developmenta...

Sex-specific responses of small RNAs and transposable elements to thermal stress in zebrafish germ cells Environmental fluctuations influence heritable phenotypes through complex molecular mechanisms. In zebrafish (Danio rerio), the interplay between temperature variation, transposable element (TE) activ...

🚨 New preprint alert!
Our latest work from @immler.bsky.social lab 🐟🧬

Sex-specific responses of small RNAs and transposable elements to thermal stress in zebrafish germ cells

#TESky #TE #piRNA #miRNA #zebrafish #DanioDigest
🔗 Read here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A thread 🧵...

Ending my #FluorescenceFriday with this beautiful avian retina image depicting the beautiful stratification in the avian eyes.
This is where complexity meets art.
#retina #avian #bird #plexiformlayer

“From iPSCs to Lens Organoids and the Adult Lens – Insights into Regeneration and Fibrosis following Cataract Surgery” Thurs 20 November, EFRY 01.02 LT For more information contact Geoff Mok (g.mok@uea.ac.uk) or bio.fps@uea.ac.uk

Our next Cell, Development & Molecular Biology seminar speaker will be Mona Alawadhi, PhD student in the Wormstone/Williams/Grocott labs. All welcome!

Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language.

Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.

Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!

How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.

Application deadline Jan 6th

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

Apropos of today's discussion on science Bluesky 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...

Curious how mechanics shape the developing eye? 👁️

Join us for your PhD at the interdisciplinary
@lsiexeter.bsky.social to explore early eye morphogenesis
through developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling.
lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/harma...

Supported by @swbiodtp.bsky.social

Screenshot of the Events Calendar available on the Node showing two events happening in November 2025.

Discover #DevBio and #StemCell biology conferences, meetings, training courses & workshops on our Events Calendar 🗓️ 👀

Missed one? Sign up & add relevant events here: thenode.biologists.com/events/

🎧crack on the latest episode of ‘A Question of Science - What is the Future of Fertility’ for my hot takes on follicles, female fertility & how finding the moment (or even the willing males) to procreate is an issue IVF / egg freezing can’t fix for females with careers 🤫👇link below (lmk ur thoughts)

IRR's Dr Güneş Taylor joins Professor Brian Cox to explore the science of fertility in the latest episode of A Question of Science.

Joining an expert panel, Taylor discusses the role of the ovary when it comes to fertilisation, pregnancy, and development.

🎧Listen now: www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...

In preprints: multiomics of low temperature acclimation in the era of intensifying temperature fluctuations In a warming world, all life forms – endotherms and ectotherms alike – are finding their homeostasis being challenged. The environmental change is challenging at all stages of life. How different orga...

Working in a biomed institute, its natural to think about health & medical impact of dev bio but there's more to dev bio

Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding)

And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g:

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

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...

Check out this useful #DevBio #preprint reading list on the Node.

Also, the #CellBio edition just dropped on preLights, this month curated by Matthew Davies, @sristi.bsky.social & @vibhasingh.bsky.social

#preList ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/oct...

One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.

🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio

Which features of tissue flows are most robust and how do they emerge from #EpithelialMechanics?

I’m @alex-plum.bsky.social (@mattiaserra.bsky.social group) and I’ll be sharing some papers on characterizing and controlling avian gastrulation flows.

🚨 PhD Projects 🚨

We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Apply for a Postgraduate Research Degree University of East Anglia

Learn more about postgraduate opportunities on our website:
bit.ly/48K3P6C
#PhD #PhDJourney #HomeOfTheWonderful

Batch Processing with the ImageJ Macro Language The ImageJ wiki is a community-edited knowledge base on topics relating to ImageJ, a public domain program for processing and analyzing scientific images, and its ecosystem of derivatives and variants...

Want to automate workflows in #FIJI?
Don't know where to start?
We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started.

Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding!

imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...

Professor Harriet Jones, sitting with the UEA Lasdun Wall, grass and trees behind her.

A daughter following on the work of her mother:
a computer game exploring the wonders of a hidden world ensures a lasting legacy for our lovely late colleague Prof Harriet Jones.
#UEAScience
www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

Serrano Nájera, G., Plum, A. M., Steventon, B., Weijer, C. J., & Serra, M. (2025). Control of tissue flows and embryo geometry in avian gastrulation. Nature communications, 16(1), 5174. #EpithelialMechanics
buff.ly/CMKn8rn

BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 5th November, 2-3pm, in EFRY 01.08. Speaker Caroline Beck from University of Otago, with talk title "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" All Welcome

In our next BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 5th November, 2-3pm, in EFRY 01.08 we welcome Dr Caroline Beck from University of Otago with talk title "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" Hosted by Prof. Grant Wheeler. All welcome #UEAScience

Axial Rotation Comprises Concurrent Twisting and Bending, Each Differentially Regulated by TGF-β Signaling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.683873v1

Pax6 maintains lens epithelial cell identity and coordinates secondary fiber cell differentiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684166v1

Reposting for the Monday morning scrollers! Funded PhD opportunity with me @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - spiders, their eyes, and their babies under long- and short-term light pollution!

[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...

📢 We are growing! 📢
The Cayuso Lab at the University of Portsmouth is recruiting a fully funded 3-year PhD student to investigate the mechanisms of CASK-related neurodevelopmental disorders using #zebrafish 🐠. More info and applications here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#ZebrafishJobs #DevBio

I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting!

Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!

bsdb.org/meetings/

March 23-26, 2026 - UK