A picture snapped with phone camera today: a rare 'supernumerary' #rainbow over Hamilton with repeating colour sequence due to very small droplet sizes giving rise to interference patterns of #light by its #wave nature. 🧪

Fascinating timelapses of #somite clock with cadherins from Kageyama Lab @dev-journal.bsky.social : journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...! A new player in clock and #fgf gradient cross-talk besides previously discovered Dusps linking both transcriptional and post-translationally. 🧪🔬 #devbio

4/5 We can further observe ERK signal dynamics with live translocation reporter (yellow), which shuttles into the nuclei (cyan) from cytoplasm at the moment MEK inhibitory drug is being perfused into the imaging chamber (~24min).

3/5 And as we perfuse 💉drugs 💊 and rinse them out in a pulsated fashion we can reconstitute somites in segmentation clock mutants (as I had done by hand in my postdoc @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... ) now in a fully automated fashion, notice 5 boundaries forming at the end of movie 🐟:

2/5🐟 embryos can stably be imaged on stage in sub-cellular resolution:

1/5 Lab's first manuscript 🎉 is out @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social today! Beautifully, it is performed by a senior undergraduate thesis student, Mohammed! We developed a 3-D printed #zebrafish embryo imaging chamber 🔬and connected it to syringe pumps to be able to perfuse drugs in a timely fashion. 🧪

Last day of #BSC2025 with fantastic developmental #biophysics talks: Ahmad Mahmood/ WisemanLab, Abby Gerhold from @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social, @pfrancois.bsky.social, @katwrog.bsky.social + keynote by Stas Shvartsman from @princetonmolbio.bsky.social #drosophila #zebrafish #celegans #plants.

Great #zebrafish talk on tissue biomechanics going on at the @biophyscanada.bsky.social meeting @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social given by @manningresearch.bsky.social #bsc2025

1/2 We are hosting the Biophysical Society of #Canada annual meeting @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social in May 20-23rd. This is a single stream event with sessions on #computational &theoretical #biophysics, new tools for biophysics, #development, mechanics of cells &tissues, #AI in biophysics,...🧪+

Teaching developmental #biology is always a joy! Today, we covered how a 19 y/o undergrad student, Alfred Sturtevant, generated the first ever gene map; and published this as a solo author paper in Morgan's #embryology lab! #drosophila 🧪

Very happy that our very own Ph.D. student Dila won the 3 min talk award at the Graduate Research Day @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social Biology! Way to go 🎣! #zebrafish 🧪

We hosted Tetsuto Miyashita from @museumofnature.bsky.social visiting us @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social Biology! It was a truly inspiring seminar on #fossils and #Zebrafish (what else one really can ask for) and insightful discussions for all of us! 🧪