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bertrandbenazeraf.bsky.social
Developmental Biologist, Team Leader, Toulouse. Morphogenesis, Interdisciplinarity, Timelapse, Bird embryos 🐥 my positions, likes, and RT are personals.
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Our latest in @dev-journal.bsky.social: an in vivo CRISPR screening approach in chick embryos to study neural cell specification from the caudal lateral epiblast (CLE) Identifies role for super elongation complex component MLLT3 A thread... journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Birth defects are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life (🧵). Birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. Birth defects are diseases of developmental biology. Here are CDC statistics for 2021. 1/5 wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

My PhD paper is now online! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Big thanks to @mongeralab.bsky.social, K. Guevorkian and O. Pourquié! See the tweetorial below ⤵️

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Announcing this upcoming conference: GASTRULATION RELOADED: Developing, engineering, and evolving the body plan Join us as we explore the latest research on gastrulation and axis formation/elongation, featuring common, exotic, and synthetic embryos! 📅 14–17 October 2025 📍 Paris, France

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Happy #FluorescenceFriday to those who celebrate! Here's a beautiful quail neural tube and somites labelled for microtubules 🟠 and actin 🔵. Imaged by Power-RA Siew Zhuan Tan. #devbio 🧪🔬👩‍🔬

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Pure axonal Mayhem for this #FluorescenceFriday! growth, turn, collapse, stalling, retraction fibers...🧐⁉️ #Neuroscience #CellBiology #LiveImaging 🧪

submitted 49 days ago • 9 comments

The Munro (Chicago), Lenne and Rupprecht (Marseille) groups seek 2-3 postdoctoral fellows to join a newly funded (NSF/ANR) international collaboration on the multiscale dynamics of cell contact formation and remodeling.

submitted 1025 days ago • 1 comment

🥳 We got our Christmas present - our paper was accepted in PNAS!! @pnas.org 😀🎄🎅 Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀 We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

Happy last #FluorescenceFriday before Xmas! It's been a long, stressful 2024 that ended on a high with news of 3 successful grants. Nearly time to rest, relax & regroup before an exciting 2025. Enjoy this beautiful quail neural tube & somites imaged by talented undergrad Avelynn Ang Xin Li 😍🧪#devbio

submitted 70 days ago • 6 comments

Our latest: how to generate the notochord "Timely TGFβ signalling inhibition induces notochord" A thread: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 71 days ago • 7 comments

The plasmids for our CRISPR-Cas13d approach are now available via @addgene.bsky.social !! www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Starting the week strong! Cheering myself up for the next challenges with 15 min of axonal growth cone dynamic madness. F-actin (cyan) and membrane (magenta) show their dance. One image taken every 10 s.🧠🔬 #MicroscopyMonday #LiveImaging #Neuroscience #Microscopy

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

A cross-section through the quail neural tube. Look at those beautiful microtubules! ❣️ Imaged by the wonderful Dr Siew Zhuan Tan 🧪 #devbio

submitted 106 days ago • 11 comments

Happy #FluorescenceFriday to those who celebrate! Here's another beautiful quail neural tube and somites, imaged by Dr Siew Zhuan Tan. That fibronectin is on fire! ❤️‍🔥 🧪 👩‍🔬 #devbio

submitted 105 days ago • 3 comments