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This week's #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of the classical models of #devbio, the neural crest cells. Here is a beautiful video of neural crest cells with GFP-tagged focal adhesion kinase (🔵) and LifeAct-RFP (🟣) migrating on a Fibronectin matrix.
📹: Adam Shellard
📹: Adam Shellard
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This week's #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of the classical models of #devbio, the neural crest cells. Here is a beautiful video of neural crest cells with GFP-tagged focal adhesion kinase (🔵) and LifeAct-RFP (🟣) migrating on a Fibronectin matrix.
📹: Adam Shellard
📹: Adam Shellard
In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween!
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween!
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
A cryosection from an embryo stained for the neural crest (🟠) using HCR, and DAPI (⚪).
Can you guess what embryo this is?
#FluorescenceFriday
Image credit: Ines Fernandez Mosquera, PhD student at @ucl.ac.uk
Can you guess what embryo this is?
#FluorescenceFriday
Image credit: Ines Fernandez Mosquera, PhD student at @ucl.ac.uk
August 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
A cryosection from an embryo stained for the neural crest (🟠) using HCR, and DAPI (⚪).
Can you guess what embryo this is?
#FluorescenceFriday
Image credit: Ines Fernandez Mosquera, PhD student at @ucl.ac.uk
Can you guess what embryo this is?
#FluorescenceFriday
Image credit: Ines Fernandez Mosquera, PhD student at @ucl.ac.uk
A classical neural crest migration. Even if the movie is a little bit shaky, their migration is still somehow mesmerising. It must be the stripes! 🤔 #fluorescencefriday
Movie by Kai Weissenbruch
Movie by Kai Weissenbruch
August 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A classical neural crest migration. Even if the movie is a little bit shaky, their migration is still somehow mesmerising. It must be the stripes! 🤔 #fluorescencefriday
Movie by Kai Weissenbruch
Movie by Kai Weissenbruch
A cryosection immunofluorescence image of a Xenopus embryo showing fibronectin in 🔵, DAPI in ⚪, and Sox9 - a marker of the neural crest in 🟠.
Image credit: Kai Weissenbruch from UCL
#FluorescenceFriday #devbio
Image credit: Kai Weissenbruch from UCL
#FluorescenceFriday #devbio
August 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A cryosection immunofluorescence image of a Xenopus embryo showing fibronectin in 🔵, DAPI in ⚪, and Sox9 - a marker of the neural crest in 🟠.
Image credit: Kai Weissenbruch from UCL
#FluorescenceFriday #devbio
Image credit: Kai Weissenbruch from UCL
#FluorescenceFriday #devbio
One our postdocs, Kai Weißenbruch, just won the Prize for Best Talk at the Cambridge-London Cell Motility conference for his talk on Frictiotaxis - how cells migrate toward regions of higher friction. This video shows a cell repolarises itself in a uniform friction channel. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
June 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
One our postdocs, Kai Weißenbruch, just won the Prize for Best Talk at the Cambridge-London Cell Motility conference for his talk on Frictiotaxis - how cells migrate toward regions of higher friction. This video shows a cell repolarises itself in a uniform friction channel. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
A cluster of neural crest cell migrating on some micro patterns (📹 Kai Weißenbruch). Also congratulations to former postdoc Adam Shellard, Kai Weißenbruch, and PhD student Peter A. E. Hampshire on their recent paper on friction-based migration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A cluster of neural crest cell migrating on some micro patterns (📹 Kai Weißenbruch). Also congratulations to former postdoc Adam Shellard, Kai Weißenbruch, and PhD student Peter A. E. Hampshire on their recent paper on friction-based migration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy #ValentinesDay to all of our beloved developmental biologists from the ISDB team. Here is a heart made out of some migrating immune cells. It's only right that they are in pink. Do you spot another heart somewhere in the photo? 😌 💗
February 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Happy #ValentinesDay to all of our beloved developmental biologists from the ISDB team. Here is a heart made out of some migrating immune cells. It's only right that they are in pink. Do you spot another heart somewhere in the photo? 😌 💗
If you're a researcher who has a research paper or microscopy videos, please send them to us at ISDBandCnD@gmail.com, we'll post them to our social media to help you connect and network with others!
Here is a beautiful video of neurulation in 🐸 by postdoc Kai Weissenbruch @UCL #FluorescenceFriday
Here is a beautiful video of neurulation in 🐸 by postdoc Kai Weissenbruch @UCL #FluorescenceFriday
December 6, 2024 at 5:29 PM
If you're a researcher who has a research paper or microscopy videos, please send them to us at ISDBandCnD@gmail.com, we'll post them to our social media to help you connect and network with others!
Here is a beautiful video of neurulation in 🐸 by postdoc Kai Weissenbruch @UCL #FluorescenceFriday
Here is a beautiful video of neurulation in 🐸 by postdoc Kai Weissenbruch @UCL #FluorescenceFriday
For our very first #FluorescenceFriday on #BlueSky, let's go back to arguably the most fundamental process of development: mitosis. I just never get tired of watching the chromosomes dance. Sample: ectodermal cells, nuclei: H2B-mCherry, plasma membrane: RFP-CAAX.
November 30, 2024 at 12:06 AM
For our very first #FluorescenceFriday on #BlueSky, let's go back to arguably the most fundamental process of development: mitosis. I just never get tired of watching the chromosomes dance. Sample: ectodermal cells, nuclei: H2B-mCherry, plasma membrane: RFP-CAAX.