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‼️The Cell and Developmental Biology Department at UCL is looking for potential candidates for their Research Career Development Fellowships with a potential for tenure-track‼️ And believe it or not, UK Research Councils are not frozen🤗 Please spread the words! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Here is the 2025 embryo alphabet from alligator to zebrafish. Developmental biology is stunning & leads to important discoveries for human medicine. @socdevbio.bsky.social

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Thrilled to give this talk in Santiago, Chile, as part of the EMBO Global Lecture Series! A wonderful chance to reconnect with old friends and forge new connections. Open to all—hope to see you there! 🌎🎙️ #ScienceCommunity #EMBOLectures

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Thank you, Marcos Simões-Costa (Harvard Stem Cell) and Joao Botelho (P Univ Catolica), for leading the chick module at the @EMBO #DevBiol course in Quintay, Chile! From grafting beads to Light Sheet microscopy with @zeiss_micro, it was an inspiring journey of discovery!

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Big thanks to Universidad Mayor & Leo Valdivia from for bringing zebrafish onsite for the EMBO #DevBiol course in Quintay, Chile! Students bred fish, injected embryos, made chimaeras w/ Corinne Houart (King's College London), and imaging w/ @LiSIUM_Chile. A hugely successful #zebrafish module

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Towing of lateral line axons in vivo in a transgenic zebrafish embryo. Great imaging at the EMBO #DevBiol course in Quintay, Chile, using a Zeiss Light Sheet microscope. Huge thanks to Universidad Mayor, Microxchile, Leo Valdivia, & LiSIUM_Chile for allowing the use of the microscope at the course

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Spectacular finale of the Drosophila module at the EMBO #DevBiol course in Quintay, Chile! Students shared insights, supported by stunning images they captured—guided by the amazing Nipam Patel, MBL-Woods Hole Director, and supported by Mathew Parent from MBL. #ScienceEducation

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The EMBO Dev Biol course in Quintay, Chile, dives into zebrafish embryos under the expert guidance of Corinne Houart (@KingsCollegeLon) & Leo Valdivia (@CIBumayor). Students are hands-on with exciting experiments, exploring the wonders of development! #DevBiol #Zebrafish

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The EMBO #DevBio course in Quintay, Chile is in full swing! Students are diving into Drosophila biology with the amazing Nipam Patel, Director of MBL- Woods Hole, leading the way. Inspiring science in Latin America! #ScienceEducation

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Join us in beautiful Quintay to celebrate 25 years of the Practical Course on Developmental Biology! To register go to biodesarrollo.unab.cl/mini-symposi... Come to enjoy a unique blend of science, sea, and food – all for free!

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We kicked off the EMBO #DevBio course in Quintay, Chile, with two outstanding virtual lectures by Anne Grapin-Botton and Nicoletta Petridou @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social, with excellent participation from Latin American students. Huge thanks to EMBO for their support!

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We're gearing up to kick off the EMBO #DevBio course in Quintay, Chile, for Latin American students in just a few days! 🎉 Huge thanks to @uandresbello, @DiarioMayor, @umayoroficial, @CIBumayor, @MBLScience, and @EMBO for making this possible! 🌎🧬 #ScienceEducation

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In 1999, we began organising Practical Courses on Developmental Biology with M Allende, first in Santiago and later in stunning Quintay, Chile. Over 25+ years, we’ve trained hundreds of students in DevBio, with over 90% becoming PIs in the field! Join us in celebrating 25 years of teaching DevBio

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The O.G. Original Gastruloid.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

Recent work of @Mayor shorturl.at/PTaB2 has revived old observations of effect of Activin on Xenopus animal caps & some expts by J Green. However, it’s worth reminding an older set of experiments from J Holtfreter that also revealed #SelfOrganization in frogs explants shorturl.at/PJYrc #gastruloids

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Seddiki, R.,..., Yan, J., Ladoux, B., & Mège, R. M. (2018). Force-dependent binding of vinculin to α-catenin regulates cell-cell contact stability and collective cell behavior. Molecular biology of the cell, 29(4), 380–388. #EpithelialMechanics https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E17-04-0231

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Excellent study on #Xenopus #gastruloids shorturl.at/PTaB2 @mayorlab.bsky.social exploring mechano-chemical interactions during #gastrulation. Another example of the versatility of multicellular embryonic self organizing systems to explore fundamental principles of #PatternFormation. #NotInTheGenes

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Neural crest of Xenopus embryos labelled with nuclear GFP

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We have moved the social media related to the Quintay Developmental Biology course, please follow us there

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#NCB2024 In March, @mayorlab.bsky.social & co reported the role of #hydrostatic pressure in regulating embryonic competence in the developing #neural crest. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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It is becoming increasingly confusing to work out where to publish if you want to comply with your funders OA policy (or with your own principles). This tool is very helpful journalcheckertool.org

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Hope you are making a new year's resolution to attendICDB in Puerto Rico next June - it is going to be an epic meeting

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Embryonic induction was discovered more than a hundred years ago, but his research has focused on the signals and molecules that control it. Now @matyasbl.bsky.social has found, using Xenopus gastruloids/animals caps that mechanics play a key role on mesoderm induction

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I am delighted to share our new preprint in which we reveal the crucial role for mechanical forces in myoblast fusion. Great work from Yoann, Sushil and Aleksandra and great collaboration with Christophe Marcelle and Amin Doostmohammadi! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Check out how #neuralcrest cells 🔬 migrate (animal= #zebrafish, white cells=sox10+, start=10 somites stage, anterior=top)

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Registration is open for a Symposium on “Cells and Embryos: #NotInTheGenes” in La Pedrera, Barcelona. 18/19 of September 2025. Attendance is free but you need to register shorturl.at/77Wqn Stembryo lab @UPFbiomed @ERC_Research

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We wrote this for the #SpemannMangold organiser centennial meeting #Freiburg 🙏 It is about whether early embryos should be on top 👆or at the bottom👇of the #hourglass🤔(and other issues)🤓 #InHoxWeTrust 🤟https://pegasus.epfl.ch/?03a82edc91bc5cc1#EKvX77Spd79oMYaisF5hwHBkts6XcGcVnRRDhd5pHNrJ

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