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I had a blast helping moderate “ From Multiscale Immune Modeling to Medical Digital Twins Virtual Conference” @smbmathbiology.bsky.social
#digitaltwins
#virtualtwins
#multiscalemodels
October 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Last call! Share your work, ideas and perspectives
@biologists.bsky.social
@the-node.bsky.social
@stemcellnetwork.ca
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social
#virtualtwins
#digitatwins
#mathematicalbiology
#insilicotrials
#cellmodels

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Virtual human development: merging experiments and theory to understand human development
This Collection invites research leveraging experimental and theoretical models, and advanced research tools to study human development.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Early Career Editor Amy Wong (Amy Wong 🇨🇦) is attending the Till & McCulloch Meeting in Ottawa, Canada in two weeks. Connect with her there to discuss whether your research is a fit for publishing in Stem Cell Reports!
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Please join us this thursday, October 2nd, at 11:00amET

BRITE with James Sharpe, head of EMBL Barcelona, will talk about "Organogenesis: Building a complete multiscale model of limb development.
Register: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Bridging Theory and Experiments: James Sharpe EMBL Barcalona. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
“Organogenesis: Building a complete multiscale model of limb development”
utoronto.zoom.us
September 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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stemcellnetwork.ca
📢 McGill University is hiring!

The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, with the Meakins-Christie Labs at the RI-MUHC, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Pluripotent Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine.

Learn more and apply. ➡️ stemcellnetwork.ca/wp-content/u...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
September 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Please join us this thursday, October 2nd, at 11:00amET

BRITE with James Sharpe, head of EMBL Barcelona, will talk about "Organogenesis: Building a complete multiscale model of limb development.
Register: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@the-node.bsky.social
@stemcellnetwork.ca
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Bridging Theory and Experiments: James Sharpe EMBL Barcalona. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
“Organogenesis: Building a complete multiscale model of limb development”
utoronto.zoom.us
September 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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stemcellnetwork.ca
🚨 BIG NEWS! SCN announces $33M to advance 36 #RegenerativeMedicine research projects and #ClinicalTrials!

Learn more. ➡️ stemcellnetwork.ca/research/res...
The Stem Cell Network Announces $33M to Advance Regenerative Medicine Research and Clinical Trials
YouTube video by Stem Cell Network - Réseau de cellules souches
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June 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Looking forward to seeing you all next week!
June 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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James Till, along with his collaborator Ernest McCulloch, laid the groundwork for today's #regenmed researchers through their discovery of stem cells in the 1960s. We are grateful for his work and its enduring impact on the health of all people around the world.
uhnresearch.ca Research at UHN @uhnresearch.ca · May 22
UHN marks the passing of Dr. James Till, whose work with Dr. Ernest McCulloch first demonstrated the existence of blood-forming stem cells in 1961 at Ontario Cancer Institute, now Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

His work has helped launch the field of #stemcell science.
May 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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stemcellnetwork.ca
(1/3) It is with profound sadness that we honour the passing of Dr. James Till, a pioneering Canadian scientist whose work, alongside Dr. Ernest McCulloch, laid the very foundation of stem cell research.

stemcellnetwork.ca/celebrating-...
Dr. James Till Drs. James Till & Ernest McCulloch
May 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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🏎️⬅️🔥 bme.ubc.ca/back-to-the-...
Back to the Future with the Yachie Lab  - UBC - SBME
Yachie Lab unveils a time-reversing system that allows scientists to isolate cell clones destined for important future roles  Congratulations to Drs. Nozomu Yachie and Soh Ishiguro on their recent pub...
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May 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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We had a great BRITE discussion! join our next one on June 12, Ala Trusina will talk about her work on "In silico 3D models of nephrogenesis: from branching epithelial tubes to early nephron. "
Please register here utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Our next BRITE talk will be on June 12, Ala Trusina will talk about her work on "In silico 3D models of nephrogenesis: from branching epithelial tubes to early nephron. "
Please register here utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Bridging Theory and Experiments: Ala Trusina "In silico 3D models of nephrogenesis: from branching epithelial tubes to early nephron. ". After registering, ...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Bridging Theory and Experiments: Ala Trusina "In silico 3D models of nephrogenesis: from branching epithelial tubes to early nephron. ". After registering, ...
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May 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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An interview with Muzlifah Haniffa

We spoke to Muzz @mhaniffa.bsky.social following her receipt of the 2025 Tickle Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology @bsdb.bsky.social‬ , to learn more about her career and her motivations:
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Photo of Muzlifah Haniffa
May 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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stemcellnetwork.ca
🔈 Abstract Submission Call for the 2025 NAVRMA Conference!

📍 Banff, AB
📅 Sept 16-19, 2025

NAVRMA is now accepting abstract submissions:
- Mechanisms of Tissue Regeneration
- Novel Cell Therapies and Genetic Engineering
- and more!

Deadline to submit abstracts is June 2, 2025.
Abstracts - North American Veterinary Regenerative Medicine Association
Abstract Submission Call Deadline to submit abstracts is June 2, 2025.We are excited to solicit abstract presentations in the following fields:Mechanisms of Tissue RegenerationNovel Cell Therapies and...
www.navrma.org
May 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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We had a great BRITE discussion! join our next one on June 12, Ala Trusina will talk about her work on "In silico 3D models of nephrogenesis: from branching epithelial tubes to early nephron. "
Please register here utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Our next BRITE talk will be on June 12, Ala Trusina will talk about her work on "In silico 3D models of nephrogenesis: from branching epithelial tubes to early nephron. "
Please register here utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@thenode.bsky.social @stemcellnetwork.ca @dev-journal.bsky.social
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Bridging Theory and Experiments: Ala Trusina "In silico 3D models of nephrogenesis: from branching epithelial tubes to early nephron. ". After registering, ...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Bridging Theory and Experiments: Ala Trusina "In silico 3D models of nephrogenesis: from branching epithelial tubes to early nephron. ". After registering, ...
utoronto.zoom.us
May 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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CloneSelect published in Nature Biotechnology
@natbiotech.nature.com. This retrospective clone isolation method using CRISPR base editors is a powerful tool in broad biology. A history of Soh in the Yachie lab. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A multi-kingdom genetic barcoding system for precise clone isolation - Nature Biotechnology
A barcoded CRISPR base editing system isolates target clones from complex mammalian, yeast and bacterial populations.
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May 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Janet Rossant, President of @gairdnerawards.bsky.social, Canada, Senior Scientist Emeritus at SickKids, Canada, and former @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Janet Rossant to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Janet Rossant Developmental and stem cell biologist Janet Rossant is President of the Gairdner Foundation, Canada, a Senior Scientist Emeritus at SickKids, Canada, and a previous Development Editor. Janet published her first two papers on the mouse inner cell mass in JEEM (now Development) in 1975. #100biologists #biologists100
May 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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"Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" NO MORE?

Scientific American, who coined the phrase in 1957, says it's time to retire it given all we've learned about the bean-shaped organelles.

Instead, they suggest the MOTHERBOARD of the cell. wdu think?🧪
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
The Hidden Social Lives of Mitochondria
When these energy-giving organelles thrive, so do we
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May 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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In our latest #SciArt profile, we meet Queralt Tolosa @queralttolosa.bsky.social, a biochemist/developmental biologist turned scientific illustrator.

Find out about her background, her artistic influences and how she ended up becoming a scientific illustrator:
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Steampunk Zebrafish Embryo – Digital artwork representing the dynamic world of Cell and Developmental Mechanobiology, blending biological accuracy with a steampunk aesthetic. Ribosomal RNA Modifications Fingerprint – Cover illustration for Molecular Cell, Volume 85, Issue 1 (2025), depicting findings from the study “Epitranscriptomic rRNA Fingerprinting Reveals Tissue-of-Origin and Tumor-Specific Signatures” by Milenkovic, I. et al.
May 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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‼️10 days left to register and submit your abstract!! Come and join us to help relaunch the UK EvoDevo meetings. An exciting day with friends and good science!

Register and submit your abstract here 👉🏻 eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...
May 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This is an interdisciplinary perspective that joins modelling and experimental work in development ! @smbmathbiology.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @stemcellnetwork.ca
#mathematicalmodeling
April 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Join us May 1st!
Linus Schumacher and Guillaume Blin will talk about their collaboration on pattern formation in vitro models of human development
@the-node.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @dev-journal.bsky.social @stemcellnetwork.ca @smbmathbiology.bsky.social

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Bridging Theory and Experiments: Linus Schumacher and Guillaume Blin will talk about their collaboration on pattern formation in vitro models of human devel...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Bridging Theory and Experiments: Linus Schumacher and Guillaume Blin will talk about their collaboration on pattern formation in vitro models of human devel...
utoronto.zoom.us
April 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Great talk by Leah Edelstein-Keshet @fieldsinstitute.bsky.social @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #mathematicalbiology
April 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM