Dillan Saunders
@dillansaunders.bsky.social
A developing developmental biologist. Postdoc at the University of Cambridge in the Steventon lab.
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Thank you to everyone who has supported TLM talks. We will be back in Ocotber with some new exciting talks. We have plans to incorporate short talks by students and postdocs, fill out this form to express your interest forms.gle/34vMwQNVGnvm....
Have a nice summer 🌅
Have a nice summer 🌅
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July 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Thank you to everyone who has supported TLM talks. We will be back in Ocotber with some new exciting talks. We have plans to incorporate short talks by students and postdocs, fill out this form to express your interest forms.gle/34vMwQNVGnvm....
Have a nice summer 🌅
Have a nice summer 🌅
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Excited to announce my second PhD manuscript is on bioRvix (biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Thanks to all co-authors, including my supervisors @bertaverd.bsky.social and Roger Benson. Thread below...
African Cichlid Lake Radiations Recapitulate Riverine Axial Morphologies Through Repeated Exploration of Morphospace
African cichlids comprise more than 1800 species of freshwater fishes, with remarkable adaptive radiations in Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Victoria that have given rise to extraordinary morphological...
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May 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Excited to announce my second PhD manuscript is on bioRvix (biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Thanks to all co-authors, including my supervisors @bertaverd.bsky.social and Roger Benson. Thread below...
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This month we welcomed Year 12 students who learnt how to “window” chicken eggs to observe live embryos—spotting eyes, brain, heart, and even twins in one rare case! 🐣
They also viewed development stages of zebrafish embryos, spotted fluorescent markers, and compared wildtype vs mutant embryos 🐟
They also viewed development stages of zebrafish embryos, spotted fluorescent markers, and compared wildtype vs mutant embryos 🐟
April 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This month we welcomed Year 12 students who learnt how to “window” chicken eggs to observe live embryos—spotting eyes, brain, heart, and even twins in one rare case! 🐣
They also viewed development stages of zebrafish embryos, spotted fluorescent markers, and compared wildtype vs mutant embryos 🐟
They also viewed development stages of zebrafish embryos, spotted fluorescent markers, and compared wildtype vs mutant embryos 🐟
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Check out my third post in a series of poster interviews from the Crick Beddington Symposium!
Shared Roots and Divergent Paths in the Chick Spinal Cord 🐣
Continuing the poster interviews from the 3rd Crick Beddington Symposium, in this latest post, @alexneaverson.bsky.social chatted with @giulia-boezio.bsky.social about her #LineageTracing work in chick embryos.
#theNodeCorrespondents
Continuing the poster interviews from the 3rd Crick Beddington Symposium, in this latest post, @alexneaverson.bsky.social chatted with @giulia-boezio.bsky.social about her #LineageTracing work in chick embryos.
#theNodeCorrespondents
3rd Crick Beddington Symposium: Shared Roots and Divergent Paths in the Chick Spinal Cord - the Node
During the coffee break on the second day of the 3rd Crick Beddington Symposium, I approached Dr Giulia Boezio, a postdoc in the Briscoe lab at the
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April 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Check out my third post in a series of poster interviews from the Crick Beddington Symposium!
Super excited to share that my PhD work has been published!!
Thanks to @dev-journal.bsky.social and @reviewcommons.org and to the reviewers who helped improve it.
Thanks to @bensteventon.bsky.social, for being a great supervisor, Carlos and everyone else who helped along the way!
Thanks to @dev-journal.bsky.social and @reviewcommons.org and to the reviewers who helped improve it.
Thanks to @bensteventon.bsky.social, for being a great supervisor, Carlos and everyone else who helped along the way!
A tail of two tissues: post-gastrulation tissue scaling in zebrafish ensures proper body proportions
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from @dillansaunders.bsky.social, Carlos Camacho-Macorra & @bensteventon.bsky.social @geneticscam.bsky.social:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from @dillansaunders.bsky.social, Carlos Camacho-Macorra & @bensteventon.bsky.social @geneticscam.bsky.social:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
January 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Super excited to share that my PhD work has been published!!
Thanks to @dev-journal.bsky.social and @reviewcommons.org and to the reviewers who helped improve it.
Thanks to @bensteventon.bsky.social, for being a great supervisor, Carlos and everyone else who helped along the way!
Thanks to @dev-journal.bsky.social and @reviewcommons.org and to the reviewers who helped improve it.
Thanks to @bensteventon.bsky.social, for being a great supervisor, Carlos and everyone else who helped along the way!
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Delighted to share our new preprint on the cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant ciliate that maintains Chlorella endosymbionts in surface-associated microtubule baskets.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 21, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Delighted to share our new preprint on the cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant ciliate that maintains Chlorella endosymbionts in surface-associated microtubule baskets.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...