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Hydra (Hydra vulgaris) ✨Small but mighty! Hydra can regenerate its entire body, even its head 🧠 A classic model for regeneration, stem cell dynamics, and body axis patterning 📸 Image by Daniel Bressan de Andrade #ModelMonday #DevBio #Regeneration
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Hydra (Hydra vulgaris) ✨Small but mighty! Hydra can regenerate its entire body, even its head 🧠 A classic model for regeneration, stem cell dynamics, and body axis patterning 📸 Image by Daniel Bressan de Andrade #ModelMonday #DevBio #Regeneration
The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be Friday, November 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Olya Yarychkivska from @rockefeller.edu and Anthony Galenza from Stanford University. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4gvaHqd #SDBPostdocSeminar #Celegans #drosophila
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be Friday, November 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Olya Yarychkivska from @rockefeller.edu and Anthony Galenza from Stanford University. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4gvaHqd #SDBPostdocSeminar #Celegans #drosophila
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
💚🦴 Fluorescence Friday: Halloween edition! 🎃
This glowing mouse embryo skeleton is serving serious spooky vibes 👻 Who knew bone development could look this eerie and elegant? 💀 Image by @martinestermann.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday #SpookyScience
This glowing mouse embryo skeleton is serving serious spooky vibes 👻 Who knew bone development could look this eerie and elegant? 💀 Image by @martinestermann.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday #SpookyScience
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
💚🦴 Fluorescence Friday: Halloween edition! 🎃
This glowing mouse embryo skeleton is serving serious spooky vibes 👻 Who knew bone development could look this eerie and elegant? 💀 Image by @martinestermann.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday #SpookyScience
This glowing mouse embryo skeleton is serving serious spooky vibes 👻 Who knew bone development could look this eerie and elegant? 💀 Image by @martinestermann.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday #SpookyScience
🥈 Second Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
Hyloscirtus lynchi tadpoles captured in watercolor! 🐸 A tribute to this critically endangered Andean frog, showcasing its natural colors, unique hindlimb sacs & delicate morphology. 🌿 Painting by Sebastian Plata #DevBio #ScienceArt
October 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🥈 Second Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
Hyloscirtus lynchi tadpoles captured in watercolor! 🐸 A tribute to this critically endangered Andean frog, showcasing its natural colors, unique hindlimb sacs & delicate morphology. 🌿 Painting by Sebastian Plata #DevBio #ScienceArt
Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo
Meet the real rainbow fish 🌈🐟 Using Cre-mediated recombination, each zebrafish cell expresses a unique fluorescent color, creating a living rainbow of developmental history 🎨✨ Image by Bret Pearson #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #DevBio
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Meet the real rainbow fish 🌈🐟 Using Cre-mediated recombination, each zebrafish cell expresses a unique fluorescent color, creating a living rainbow of developmental history 🎨✨ Image by Bret Pearson #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #DevBio
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💭Transitioning to independence isn’t only a Latinx concern!
One key takeaway from our workshop at ICDB in Puerto Rico: this is a shared challenge across the field. @socdevbio.bsky.social
Proud of the diversity — celebrating Latinx representation, gender balance, and early career voices in Dev Bio!
One key takeaway from our workshop at ICDB in Puerto Rico: this is a shared challenge across the field. @socdevbio.bsky.social
Proud of the diversity — celebrating Latinx representation, gender balance, and early career voices in Dev Bio!
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
💭Transitioning to independence isn’t only a Latinx concern!
One key takeaway from our workshop at ICDB in Puerto Rico: this is a shared challenge across the field. @socdevbio.bsky.social
Proud of the diversity — celebrating Latinx representation, gender balance, and early career voices in Dev Bio!
One key takeaway from our workshop at ICDB in Puerto Rico: this is a shared challenge across the field. @socdevbio.bsky.social
Proud of the diversity — celebrating Latinx representation, gender balance, and early career voices in Dev Bio!
🏆 First Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🖼️
“A Model Meeting” by Karla Akari Garcia
Inspired by The Quaker Meeting, this watercolor honors animal research models, from mouse to axolotl, that have advanced developmental biology 🎨 A tribute to science’s often unsung heroes. #DevBioArt
Inspired by The Quaker Meeting, this watercolor honors animal research models, from mouse to axolotl, that have advanced developmental biology 🎨 A tribute to science’s often unsung heroes. #DevBioArt
October 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
🏆 First Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🖼️
“A Model Meeting” by Karla Akari Garcia
Inspired by The Quaker Meeting, this watercolor honors animal research models, from mouse to axolotl, that have advanced developmental biology 🎨 A tribute to science’s often unsung heroes. #DevBioArt
Inspired by The Quaker Meeting, this watercolor honors animal research models, from mouse to axolotl, that have advanced developmental biology 🎨 A tribute to science’s often unsung heroes. #DevBioArt
🧠Talk about having guts! 💪Embryonic mouse intestines stained for ❤️💚 nerves and 💙 endothelial cells, forming the early circuits that keep things moving (literally!) 🔬 Image by Nathan Burns. #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
October 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🧠Talk about having guts! 💪Embryonic mouse intestines stained for ❤️💚 nerves and 💙 endothelial cells, forming the early circuits that keep things moving (literally!) 🔬 Image by Nathan Burns. #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
The October 10 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and @dingwallaby.bsky.social of @upenn.edu has been posted. Thank you to moderators @sarahcolijn.bsky.social and @shyama13.bsky.social. Watch here: youtu.be/k4OJHnZV2gk
SDB Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series - Austin Seroka and Heather Dingwall
YouTube video by Society for Developmental Biology
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The October 10 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and @dingwallaby.bsky.social of @upenn.edu has been posted. Thank you to moderators @sarahcolijn.bsky.social and @shyama13.bsky.social. Watch here: youtu.be/k4OJHnZV2gk
Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
✴️Sea urchins have illuminated fertilization 🧫, early cleavage divisions 🔬, and gene regulation in embryonic patterning 🧬. A classic marine model that shaped our understanding of cell fate and axis formation. 📸 Image by Laurent Formery #ModelMonday #DevBio
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
✴️Sea urchins have illuminated fertilization 🧫, early cleavage divisions 🔬, and gene regulation in embryonic patterning 🧬. A classic marine model that shaped our understanding of cell fate and axis formation. 📸 Image by Laurent Formery #ModelMonday #DevBio
🐟 Talk about jaw-dropping evolution! 😮 Bahamian pupfishes show huge craniofacial diversity with tiny genetic tweaks. 🎏 Here’s C. desquamator, where 🟠 atp8a1 Is expressed just the jaw muscles (🩷tpm3b)🔬image from @fishfena.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday #EvoDevo
#FluorescenceFriday #EvoDevo
October 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🐟 Talk about jaw-dropping evolution! 😮 Bahamian pupfishes show huge craniofacial diversity with tiny genetic tweaks. 🎏 Here’s C. desquamator, where 🟠 atp8a1 Is expressed just the jaw muscles (🩷tpm3b)🔬image from @fishfena.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday #EvoDevo
#FluorescenceFriday #EvoDevo
The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social of @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed #SDBPostdocSeminar
October 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social of @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed #SDBPostdocSeminar
🪱 Planarian (Schmidtea mediterranea)
✨ Planarians can regenerate a complete body from tiny fragments thanks to their amazing pluripotent stem cells (neoblasts) 🧬 A star of regeneration and stem cell biology
📸 Image by Rachel Gandee #ModelMonday #DevBio
📸 Image by Rachel Gandee #ModelMonday #DevBio
October 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🪱 Planarian (Schmidtea mediterranea)
✨ Planarians can regenerate a complete body from tiny fragments thanks to their amazing pluripotent stem cells (neoblasts) 🧬 A star of regeneration and stem cell biology
📸 Image by Rachel Gandee #ModelMonday #DevBio
📸 Image by Rachel Gandee #ModelMonday #DevBio
The next #SDBPostdocSeminar will be held Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social from @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The next #SDBPostdocSeminar will be held Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social from @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed
✨ They say true beauty is on the inside… This zebrafish took that personally 🐟 🟢 Bone 🟣 tendon & ligament🔬Image by Hung-Jhen (Olivia) Chen #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #Zebrafish
September 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
✨ They say true beauty is on the inside… This zebrafish took that personally 🐟 🟢 Bone 🟣 tendon & ligament🔬Image by Hung-Jhen (Olivia) Chen #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #Zebrafish
The September 12 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social of the University of Pittsburgh has been posted. Thank you to moderators Rui Yan and Taylor Medwig-Kinney. Watch here: youtu.be/kGAtxCqFARk
SDB Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series - Sarah Colijn and Shyama Nandakumar
YouTube video by Society for Developmental Biology
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The September 12 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social of the University of Pittsburgh has been posted. Thank you to moderators Rui Yan and Taylor Medwig-Kinney. Watch here: youtu.be/kGAtxCqFARk
Mouse (Mus musculus) 🐭 is the powerhouse of mammalian genetics, essential for studying embryogenesis, organ development and gene function using transgenic technologies. 📸 Image by Zhong Hua also featured on the cover of Developmental Biology textbook (11th edition) #ModelMonday
September 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Mouse (Mus musculus) 🐭 is the powerhouse of mammalian genetics, essential for studying embryogenesis, organ development and gene function using transgenic technologies. 📸 Image by Zhong Hua also featured on the cover of Developmental Biology textbook (11th edition) #ModelMonday
Reposted by Society for Developmental Biology
Reviewer Workshop!
Interested in reviewing in #DevBio? Join us for a discussion on reviewer best practices! Sept 24th 10-11am CST.
Sign up here! forms.gle/w4NTp21RNmnL...
Interested in reviewing in #DevBio? Join us for a discussion on reviewer best practices! Sept 24th 10-11am CST.
Sign up here! forms.gle/w4NTp21RNmnL...
September 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reviewer Workshop!
Interested in reviewing in #DevBio? Join us for a discussion on reviewer best practices! Sept 24th 10-11am CST.
Sign up here! forms.gle/w4NTp21RNmnL...
Interested in reviewing in #DevBio? Join us for a discussion on reviewer best practices! Sept 24th 10-11am CST.
Sign up here! forms.gle/w4NTp21RNmnL...
Check out the latest President's Corner by SDB President Richard Behringer @rrbehringer.bsky.social on challenges. www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...
September 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Check out the latest President's Corner by SDB President Richard Behringer @rrbehringer.bsky.social on challenges. www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...
Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
#Undergraduates #Postbacs @socdevbio.bsky.social is hosting a webinar Get Into Grad School September 21 at 3pm ET. Learn about doctoral programs, the key elements of a compelling grad school application, and the interview process. Register: bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
September 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
#SDBPostdocSeminar today at 3pm ET!
Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS
September 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#SDBPostdocSeminar today at 3pm ET!
Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS
September 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS