Berta Verd
@bertaverd.bsky.social
Evolution of developmental processes.
Associate Professor @OxfordBiology & Fellow @JesusOxford.
@SteventonLab, @CRGenomica & #embryo17 alumna.
Working mother.
Associate Professor @OxfordBiology & Fellow @JesusOxford.
@SteventonLab, @CRGenomica & #embryo17 alumna.
Working mother.
Pinned
Berta Verd
@bertaverd.bsky.social
· May 19
Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
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The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.
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Opportunity for a Master’s/Bachelor’s student:
- Join us for up to 5 months 🗓️
- Build computational/mathematical models 💻
- Learn about genotype-phenotype maps and evolution 🧬
- Work closely with PhD student Manuela Giraud - full info here:
www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
- Join us for up to 5 months 🗓️
- Build computational/mathematical models 💻
- Learn about genotype-phenotype maps and evolution 🧬
- Work closely with PhD student Manuela Giraud - full info here:
www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
October 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Opportunity for a Master’s/Bachelor’s student:
- Join us for up to 5 months 🗓️
- Build computational/mathematical models 💻
- Learn about genotype-phenotype maps and evolution 🧬
- Work closely with PhD student Manuela Giraud - full info here:
www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
- Join us for up to 5 months 🗓️
- Build computational/mathematical models 💻
- Learn about genotype-phenotype maps and evolution 🧬
- Work closely with PhD student Manuela Giraud - full info here:
www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Reposted by Berta Verd
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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How does life construct itself from within, and how might we learn to emulate its generative logic? Glad to be soon talking and discussing with @philipcball.bsky.social @bertaverd.bsky.social and other great colleagues at this @royalsociety.org event royalsociety.org/science-even...
Generative biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles | Royal Society
Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Jake Cornwall-Scoones, Dr Dirk Benzinger, and Professor Sally Lowell.
royalsociety.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
How does life construct itself from within, and how might we learn to emulate its generative logic? Glad to be soon talking and discussing with @philipcball.bsky.social @bertaverd.bsky.social and other great colleagues at this @royalsociety.org event royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale
apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman
1/3
apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman
1/3
We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3
October 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale
apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman
1/3
apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman
1/3
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Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️
More info below ⬇️
📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya
📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
#DevBio
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya
📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
#DevBio
September 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️
More info below ⬇️
Fantastic to see this now out in published form! Well done to the authors @jamesehammond.bsky.social and @callumbucklow.bsky.social. Check it out if you're interested in vertebrate, and in particular vertebral count, evolution!
Out now in Seminars in Cell & Dev Biol!
doi.org/10.1016/j.se...
With thanks to co-authors @callumbucklow.bsky.social and @bertaverd.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.se...
With thanks to co-authors @callumbucklow.bsky.social and @bertaverd.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Fantastic to see this now out in published form! Well done to the authors @jamesehammond.bsky.social and @callumbucklow.bsky.social. Check it out if you're interested in vertebrate, and in particular vertebral count, evolution!
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Exciting Research Professorship Position in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Leuven. Amazing research ecosystem, great colleagues, high quality of life, tenure track. For those interested in joining us, please see below:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
July 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Exciting Research Professorship Position in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Leuven. Amazing research ecosystem, great colleagues, high quality of life, tenure track. For those interested in joining us, please see below:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...
July 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...
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Learn about tissue #development and engineering, #microscopy, #ImageAnalysis, and more at the EMBO Practical Course "Optics, Forces & Development" in Santiago, Chile, 7–17 January 2026.
Deadline: 10 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-opt...
#EMBO26optics #EMBOevents #research #training 🧪
Deadline: 10 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-opt...
#EMBO26optics #EMBOevents #research #training 🧪
Optics, Forces & Development
Breakthroughs in developmental biology and stem cell research, alongside rapid advances in microscopy, computing, tissue engineering, and biophysics, are transforming our understanding of the fundame…
meetings.embo.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Learn about tissue #development and engineering, #microscopy, #ImageAnalysis, and more at the EMBO Practical Course "Optics, Forces & Development" in Santiago, Chile, 7–17 January 2026.
Deadline: 10 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-opt...
#EMBO26optics #EMBOevents #research #training 🧪
Deadline: 10 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-opt...
#EMBO26optics #EMBOevents #research #training 🧪
Reposted by Berta Verd
Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷♀️🔧
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
royalsociety.org/science-even...
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
royalsociety.org/science-even...
July 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷♀️🔧
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
royalsociety.org/science-even...
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
royalsociety.org/science-even...
Reposted by Berta Verd
📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr
We have fantastic speakers and registration is free!
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
@karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social
We have fantastic speakers and registration is free!
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
@karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr
We have fantastic speakers and registration is free!
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
@karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social
We have fantastic speakers and registration is free!
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
@karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social
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🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
June 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
Reposted by Berta Verd
Features work from Square Lab at Florida, @vlecaudey.bsky.social, Solnica-Krezel Lab at WUSTL, @rburdine1.bsky.social, @otamplin.bsky.social, @flomarlow.bsky.social, @balciunaslab.bsky.social, @bertaverd.bsky.social, @bowmaniacs.bsky.social, @thomthum.bsky.social, @singhlab.bsky.social among others!
May in preprints 📃
Better late than never! Here's a list of #preprints that came out in May in #DevBio, #StemCells, #regeneration, #EvoDevo and related fields. Congrats to all authors!
Have a browse:
thenode.biologists.com/may-in-prepr...
Better late than never! Here's a list of #preprints that came out in May in #DevBio, #StemCells, #regeneration, #EvoDevo and related fields. Congrats to all authors!
Have a browse:
thenode.biologists.com/may-in-prepr...
May in preprints - the Node
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv – use these
thenode.biologists.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Features work from Square Lab at Florida, @vlecaudey.bsky.social, Solnica-Krezel Lab at WUSTL, @rburdine1.bsky.social, @otamplin.bsky.social, @flomarlow.bsky.social, @balciunaslab.bsky.social, @bertaverd.bsky.social, @bowmaniacs.bsky.social, @thomthum.bsky.social, @singhlab.bsky.social among others!
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Our latest "Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions: Predictive Models of Neural Development From Single-Cell Data"
A rigorous mathematical foundation for Waddington's landscape to study cell fate decision making
Applied to ventral neural tube development
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A rigorous mathematical foundation for Waddington's landscape to study cell fate decision making
Applied to ventral neural tube development
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions: Predictive Models of Neural Development From Single-Cell Data
Building a mechanistic understanding of cell fate decisions remains a fundamental goal of developmental biology, with implications for stem cell therapies, regenerative medicine and understanding dise...
www.biorxiv.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Our latest "Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions: Predictive Models of Neural Development From Single-Cell Data"
A rigorous mathematical foundation for Waddington's landscape to study cell fate decision making
Applied to ventral neural tube development
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A rigorous mathematical foundation for Waddington's landscape to study cell fate decision making
Applied to ventral neural tube development
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
And one more from @callumbucklow.bsky.social on how verterbal regionalisation and counts are linked in evolution. See his tutorial below. Well done Callum!
My third PhD manuscript is on BioRxiv: "Somitic Change Drives Changes in Vertebral Regionalisation in African Cichlids Despite Strong Canalisation of Somite Number" (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Thanks to my co-authors and supervisors @bertaverd.bsky.social and Roger Benson. Thread below...
Somitic Change Drives Changes in Vertebral Regionalisation in African Cichlids Despite Strong Canalisation of Somite Number
Vertebrae arise from somites, transient embryonic segments that rhythmically bud from the presomitic mesoderm during axial elongation. The number and identity of vertebrae are ultimately determined by...
www.biorxiv.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And one more from @callumbucklow.bsky.social on how verterbal regionalisation and counts are linked in evolution. See his tutorial below. Well done Callum!
Reposted by Berta Verd
Registration is now open!
Gastrulation Reloaded: Developing, engineering & evolving the body plan
📅 October 14–17, 2025
📍 Paris, France
🗓️ Abstract & early bird deadline: July 15, 2025
www.gastrulation-reloaded.conferences-pasteur.org/home
Exceptional lineup of speakers & many selected talks
Gastrulation Reloaded: Developing, engineering & evolving the body plan
📅 October 14–17, 2025
📍 Paris, France
🗓️ Abstract & early bird deadline: July 15, 2025
www.gastrulation-reloaded.conferences-pasteur.org/home
Exceptional lineup of speakers & many selected talks
April 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Registration is now open!
Gastrulation Reloaded: Developing, engineering & evolving the body plan
📅 October 14–17, 2025
📍 Paris, France
🗓️ Abstract & early bird deadline: July 15, 2025
www.gastrulation-reloaded.conferences-pasteur.org/home
Exceptional lineup of speakers & many selected talks
Gastrulation Reloaded: Developing, engineering & evolving the body plan
📅 October 14–17, 2025
📍 Paris, France
🗓️ Abstract & early bird deadline: July 15, 2025
www.gastrulation-reloaded.conferences-pasteur.org/home
Exceptional lineup of speakers & many selected talks
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🚨Job Alert🚨
We are looking for a technician to join us in Oxford @biology.ox.ac.uk to study epigenetics and vibration-sensing:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
The work will be varied:
Arthropod culture 🕷️🪰
Lab work (DNA/RNA extraction, sequencing library preparation…)
Apply by Mon 23 June
🧪
We are looking for a technician to join us in Oxford @biology.ox.ac.uk to study epigenetics and vibration-sensing:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
The work will be varied:
Arthropod culture 🕷️🪰
Lab work (DNA/RNA extraction, sequencing library preparation…)
Apply by Mon 23 June
🧪
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my.corehr.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🚨Job Alert🚨
We are looking for a technician to join us in Oxford @biology.ox.ac.uk to study epigenetics and vibration-sensing:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
The work will be varied:
Arthropod culture 🕷️🪰
Lab work (DNA/RNA extraction, sequencing library preparation…)
Apply by Mon 23 June
🧪
We are looking for a technician to join us in Oxford @biology.ox.ac.uk to study epigenetics and vibration-sensing:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
The work will be varied:
Arthropod culture 🕷️🪰
Lab work (DNA/RNA extraction, sequencing library preparation…)
Apply by Mon 23 June
🧪
Please help me circulate this job ad. Thanks!
@the-node.bsky.social
@the-node.bsky.social
Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
May 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Please help me circulate this job ad. Thanks!
@the-node.bsky.social
@the-node.bsky.social
Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
May 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
Latest from the lab!
@callumbucklow.bsky.social's beautiful paper on the dynamics of morphological evolution using African cichlids & showing that evolution repeats itself.
Congrats Callum and co-authors.
Check out the tutorial below.
@callumbucklow.bsky.social's beautiful paper on the dynamics of morphological evolution using African cichlids & showing that evolution repeats itself.
Congrats Callum and co-authors.
Check out the tutorial below.
Excited to announce my second PhD manuscript is on bioRvix (biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Thanks to all co-authors, including my supervisors @bertaverd.bsky.social and Roger Benson. Thread below...
African Cichlid Lake Radiations Recapitulate Riverine Axial Morphologies Through Repeated Exploration of Morphospace
African cichlids comprise more than 1800 species of freshwater fishes, with remarkable adaptive radiations in Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Victoria that have given rise to extraordinary morphological...
biorxiv.org
May 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Latest from the lab!
@callumbucklow.bsky.social's beautiful paper on the dynamics of morphological evolution using African cichlids & showing that evolution repeats itself.
Congrats Callum and co-authors.
Check out the tutorial below.
@callumbucklow.bsky.social's beautiful paper on the dynamics of morphological evolution using African cichlids & showing that evolution repeats itself.
Congrats Callum and co-authors.
Check out the tutorial below.
Reposted by Berta Verd
Reposted by Berta Verd
Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Building AI models or the data to train them?
Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
pls RT!
Building AI models or the data to train them?
Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
pls RT!
May 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Building AI models or the data to train them?
Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
pls RT!
Building AI models or the data to train them?
Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
pls RT!
Reposted by Berta Verd
Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷♀️🔧
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...
April 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷♀️🔧
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...