Society for Developmental Biology
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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
🏆 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
✴️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
.@dingwallaby.bsky.social of @upenn.edu will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Mechanisms underlying the evolution of human sweating and fur loss" Image: Mouse eccrine glands (left) and hair follicles (right) stained for K14 (green) and DAPI (magenta)
October 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
.@dingwallaby.bsky.social of @upenn.edu will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Mechanisms underlying the evolution of human sweating and fur loss" Image: Mouse eccrine glands (left) and hair follicles (right) stained for K14 (green) and DAPI (magenta)
.@austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with his talk "Transcription factor code specifies vagal motor innervation of organ targets during development" Image: Vagal axons extending towards organ targets during development
October 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
.@austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with his talk "Transcription factor code specifies vagal motor innervation of organ targets during development" Image: Vagal axons extending towards organ targets during development
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
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
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...
Image by @shyama13.bsky.social: Super-resolved ring canal (~200nm opening, green) on cell membrane (red) of fly larval fat cell
September 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Image by @shyama13.bsky.social: Super-resolved ring canal (~200nm opening, green) on cell membrane (red) of fly larval fat cell
.@shyama13.bsky.social of the University of Pittsburgh will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response"
September 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
.@shyama13.bsky.social of the University of Pittsburgh will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response"
.@sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington University in St. Louis will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Novel roles for centriolar protein WDR90 in endothelial cells and cardiac tissue" Image: Cell expressing a mutant version of WDR90 displays overly stabilized and curvy microtubules
September 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
.@sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington University in St. Louis will kick off the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Novel roles for centriolar protein WDR90 in endothelial cells and cardiac tissue" Image: Cell expressing a mutant version of WDR90 displays overly stabilized and curvy microtubules
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
✨Drosophila melanogaster 🪰The fly that changed science 🔬Drosophila has been a cornerstone for understanding genetic control of development, axis patterning, and organogenesis 🧪 GIF from Bruno Vellutini #ModelMonday #DevBio
September 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
✨Drosophila melanogaster 🪰The fly that changed science 🔬Drosophila has been a cornerstone for understanding genetic control of development, axis patterning, and organogenesis 🧪 GIF from Bruno Vellutini #ModelMonday #DevBio
✨Nervous about development? Don’t be! 🧠 E13.5 🐁 embryo showing nerves (🩵) and endothelial cells (💙) weaving together in the developing pup 🔬 image by Nathan Burns 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #MouseEmbryo
September 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
✨Nervous about development? Don’t be! 🧠 E13.5 🐁 embryo showing nerves (🩵) and endothelial cells (💙) weaving together in the developing pup 🔬 image by Nathan Burns 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #MouseEmbryo