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Grocott Lab
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Dr Tim Grocott's research group, University of East Anglia UK. 🐣 embryology & new adventures in human development via stem cells. Modelling in silico/vitro. Fascinated by signalling networks, patterning, all things early development and the eye.
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Grocott Lab @grocottlab.bsky.social · Mar 6
Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo

🧪🐣 #devbio
A still image of a stage HH4 gastrulating chick embryo electroporated with 3 different fluorescent reporter genes shown in magenta, yellow and cyan.
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 1d
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures
Beyond the crucial data they contain, these digital archives have provided an important space for academic communities to exchange ideas and resources.
www.nature.com
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 2d
#DBfeature

Research facilities in the UK, France, and Japan maintaining transgenic lines for Avian developmental biology

By Lindsay Henderson, Yuya Okuzaki, Christophe Marcelle, Mike McGrew, and Ken-ichi Nishijima

tinyurl.com/4drw4d6a
#SpecialIssue on Avian model systems
Fluorescent microscopy images of transgenic chicken resources maintained at the NARF, The Roslin Institute. (A) GFP chicken embryo with a ‘red’ graft placed into the limb bud with micro-surgery. The graft is about 50–100 μM. (B) Stage 32 HH limb bud from the CSF1R-eGFP embryo. Macrophages (green) are concentrated in areas of cell death, blood vessels (red) are labelled with SNA lectin. (C) ACTN line embryo spinal cord stage 16 HH. (D) Dorsal Root Ganglion of the nervous system of a Chameleon transgenic chicken embryo. Nerves going into the dorsal root ganglion are red, and nerves coming out are green. (E) Fluorescent image of the dorsal skin (periderm) from a membrane GFP chick embryo. (F) FUCHI cell cycle reporter embryo stage 23 HH. All images were provided by members of The Roslin Institute Chicken Embryology (RICE) group.
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 2d
Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images
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ISSCR @isscr.org · 3d
The ISSCR is proud to announce the release of Best Practices for the Development of PSC-Derived Cellular Therapies, a comprehensive new resource designed to accelerate the translation of human PSC-derived therapies into clinical trials and commercial use. https://ow.ly/gsuE50X9fvK
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Holly Lovegrove @lovegrovelab.bsky.social · 2d
Interested in cell migration and developmental biology-check out this PhD opportunity!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Anna La Torre @latorrelab.bsky.social · 2d
It's #FluorescenceFriday!
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 2d
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...
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
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Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social · 3d
Are you enthusiastic about stem cell biology and developmental biology and looking to start a PhD in 2026? Funded opportunites now available. Contact for more infomation. Links below! @lovegrovelab.bsky.social @veronicabiga.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk @ukri.org
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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 2d
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT.

#SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro
Rainbow shading of a confocal micrograph of a developing mouse neural tube. The protein actin is stained and colored in rainbow to indicate depth in the section.
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Charlotte the Procrastinator @catsbearsandme.bsky.social · 4d
#WildWomanSisterhood
They asked: "Why is it important to be kind?" I said: Because we walk past hundreds of people every day, and none of them wear signs that say, "I'm grieving," "I'm exhausted", or "I'm barely holding it together."
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 4d
Applications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme

This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social.

🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025

www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
Rotation biology PhDs | John Innes Centre
Prestigious studentships, for entry in October 2022, this multi-disciplinary PhD programme includes; plant science, microbiology, biological chemistry, applied mathematics…
www.jic.ac.uk
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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 4d
🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!
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Angie Serrano @mangieserrano.bsky.social · 4d
So, when you’re changing media in your iPSCs today, take a moment to be amazed by what frogs taught humans. 🐸

You can read the article here journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
The Developmental Capacity of Nuclei taken from Intestinal Epithelium Cells of Feeding Tadpoles
ABSTRACT. Nuclei from differentiated intestinal epithelium cells of feeding tadpoles and from control blastulae of Xenopus have been transplanted into enucleated recipient eggs. The differentiated sta...
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Alliance of Genome Resources @alliancegenome.bsky.social · 9d
Nature has published an article on the crisis facing MODs
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@zfinmod.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @yeastgenome.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social @ratgenome.bsky.social @geneontology.bsky.social @nature.com
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures
Beyond the crucial data they contain, these digital archives have provided an important space for academic communities to exchange ideas and resources.
www.nature.com
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Aleksander Szczurek @aleksszczurek.bsky.social · 4d
If you are a computational biologist come, apply and join Howard & Klose lab in a joint Norwich-Oxford collaboration on chromatin dynamics!
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 6d
VACANCY - We have an opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group, working to develop computational models of epigenetic dynamics in the Polycomb system.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Closing date - 9 November 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 36 months, full-time
Postdoctoral Researcher (Howard Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Computational and Systems Biology.
www.jic.ac.uk
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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · 5d
RIP John Gurdon
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 5d
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
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Grocott Lab @grocottlab.bsky.social · 8d
Hi Kevin, this looks great! I managed to get my attempt to work with images other than 8-bit, but it’s still not quite there. I’ll definately check this out - it looks very slick!
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Kevin Terretaz @kwolbachia.bsky.social · 8d
I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager!
I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...
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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 9d
If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 9d
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…
www.jic.ac.uk
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Cells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · 9d
We often talk about what signals does the organiser release. But have you ever stopped and asked what does it mean to be the organiser? What cells make up the organiser? Where do they go? What do they do?
Well this review by Claudio Stern may give you the answers:
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
Cell movements around the organizer/node after stage HH4. Fate maps of the ectodermal (dorsal) layer of the organizer/node, based on Selleck and Stern (1991) (Selleck and Stern, 1991). Cell movements of populations contributing to the organizer. Stages of early chick development referred to in the text. The diagrams show some of the features used to classify the stages in relation to primitive streak formation.
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 10d
The University of East Anglia seeks a Senior Research Associate in evolutionary ecology of animal behaviour and gut microbiome, with a salary of £38,784 to £46,049. Apply by 31 Oct 2025. Details: https://www.uea.ac.uk. #job
Find your place at UEA
The University of East Anglia is a home for everyone, a champion of interdisciplinarity that stands for equal opportunity in higher education. Join us at an Open Day.
www.uea.ac.uk
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 12d
Derivation of embryonic stem cells across avian species - @stemcell.keck.usc.edu go.nature.com/4gLAGcZ
Derivation of embryonic stem cells across avian species - Nature Biotechnology
Embryonic stem cells for chicken and seven other avian species are derived.
go.nature.com
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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 11d
That’s a wrap on the Avian Model Systems Meeting at the Institute! 🐦✨

Scientists came together in KC to share discoveries & highlight the power of birds in advancing biology—from evolution to regeneration. Thanks to all who joined!💡🌍

#AvianModels2025 #Biology #Science
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