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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 8d

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows

Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology

ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · Sep 1

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease?

Do you have a great record and an exciting vision?

Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships.

Deadline 30th September...pass it on!

www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Group Leader Career Development Fellowships - Dunn School

Are you an early career researcher interested in the cell or molecular mechanisms underlying disease? Do you have an outstanding record and an innovative research plan?

www.path.ox.ac.uk

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Jul 28

Transitions in development – an interview with Jeffrey Farrell

@jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social talks about becoming a group leader, his insights on advocacy for developmental biology and his belief in unifying single-cell biology with classical approaches.

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Jeff Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hey friends - Daniocell is experiencing a temporary outage right now. The NICHD server it is hosted on got dropped from the NIH’s firewall list & so currently can’t be accessed outside the NIH. The relevant IT teams are working to resolve it. Sorry for any inconvenience. It’ll be back soon!!

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Ferenc Mueller @ferencmueller.bsky.social · Jul 13

#IZFC2025 #zebrafish #DANIO-CODE data coordination centre is back online. Note changed address: danio-code-dcc.genereg.net

DANIO-CODE DCC

This Data Coordination Center allows DANIO-CODE consortium members to submit and view their data sets annotated with standard metadata nomenclatures.

danio-code-dcc.genereg.net

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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · Jul 31

Wrote a big review with my friend and colleague @varshneylab.social on the state-of-the-art in CRISPR used experimentally in vivo. We wanted to focus on their use in experimental vertebrate animals (apparently passé now but we persist).

CRISPR-based functional genomics tools in vertebrate models - Experimental & Molecular Medicine

Recent advances in DNA sequencing have allowed scientists to gather vast amounts of genetic data, but understanding what those sequences actually do requires additional tools that allow scientists to ...

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Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · Jul 28

Speaker update for our Generative Biology workshop: we are delighted to have @nmoris.bsky.social join us. See full list of speakers on the attached flyer or on our website.

Apply by 15th August. Places available for short talks.

royalsociety.org/science-even...

Flyer for Royal Society Generative Biology workshop. Full list of speakers can also be found on the website linked to in the post.

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · Jul 30

Respiratory infections reactivate dormant metastatic breast cancer cells in mouse lungs, correlating with evidence in humans that #SARS-CoV-2 infection increases the risk of cancer-related mortality & lung metastasis

😎 biology but double whammy for cancer patients

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature

Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · Jul 8

This is why we love #cellmigration

#Leukocytes: #Neutrophils (cyan) #Macrophages (orange) chemotaxis.

I couldn't share it before the retirement of @zebrafishrock.bsky.social, but cool #microscopy in #zebrafish continue to rock !

#scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

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Patrick Murphy @pjmurphy249.bsky.social · Jul 8

Please RT: Published today, a super fun collaboration w/ @fanjumeng.bsky.social and Marnie Halpern's lab to establish methods for transgene mapping in zebrafish - TransTag enables simple and efficient transgene mapping in zebrafish via tagmentation: Cell Reports Methods www.cell.com/cell-reports...

TransTag enables simple and efficient transgene mapping in zebrafish via tagmentation

Meng et al. develop a method called TransTag for simple and efficient mapping of Tol2-based transgenes in zebrafish. TransTag robustly identifies transgene insertion sites and offers an alignment-free...

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fanjumeng.bsky.social @fanjumeng.bsky.social · Jul 8

New study online today! We present a method to identify insertion sites of Tol2 transgenes in zebrafish #zebrafish #Tol2 #Transgene www.cell.com/cell-reports...

TransTag enables simple and efficient transgene mapping in zebrafish via tagmentation

Meng et al. develop a method called TransTag for simple and efficient mapping of Tol2-based transgenes in zebrafish. TransTag robustly identifies transgene insertion sites and offers an alignment-free...

www.cell.com

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · Jun 2

Abstract deadline for #ZDM18 in Boston ends tonight (EST) for those to be considered for oral talks. More details here: www.zdmsociety.org/zdm18-abstra... #ZebrafishMeeting

ZDM18 Abstract Submission — ZDMS

www.zdmsociety.org

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Elizabeth McKenna @elizsmckenna.bsky.social · May 27

Now online in Cancer Discovery: Detection of Cancers Three Years Prior to Diagnosis Using Plasma Cell-Free DNA - by Yuxuan Wang, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Elizabeth Platz, Bert Vogelstein, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159...

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Yi Feng @fengfishlab.bsky.social · May 27

This happens tomorrow, still time to register, free webinar, cutting edge zebrafish cancer model stories! Come join us!

Yi Feng @fengfishlab.bsky.social · May 13

Free Webinar - Cancer research using zebrafish models, #ZDMS 2025 Cancer RIG Meet-up on Wednesday 28 May (10-11.30AM EST) exciting stories by rising stars of zebrafish cancer research field us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · May 16

There’s now a MedakaBase paper that you can cite, courtesy of @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social 🐠

🔗 to MedakaBase: medakabase.nbrp.jp

bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · May 16

Empowering medaka fish biology with versatile genomic resources in MedakaBase https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653297v1

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · May 16

Check out the latest microscopy preprints including our recent favorite tool (LUCID) from #WeinsteinLab 🔥

🔗 to preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · May 15

Some exciting news! NCBI has finished the annotation pipeline for our new #zebrafish reference sequence GRCz12tu:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/annot...

This is a big step up in data depth and quality and should be super helpful going forward.

Danio rerio Annotation ReportTwitterFacebookLinkedInGitHubNCBI Insights BlogTwitterFacebookYoutube

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · May 13

#ZebrafishMeeting, for those interested!

Yi Feng @fengfishlab.bsky.social · May 13

Free Webinar - Cancer research using zebrafish models, #ZDMS 2025 Cancer RIG Meet-up on Wednesday 28 May (10-11.30AM EST) exciting stories by rising stars of zebrafish cancer research field us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

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Yi Feng @fengfishlab.bsky.social · May 13

Free Webinar - Cancer research using zebrafish models, #ZDMS 2025 Cancer RIG Meet-up on Wednesday 28 May (10-11.30AM EST) exciting stories by rising stars of zebrafish cancer research field us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

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Isabella Cisneros @isabellaclsci.bsky.social · Apr 25

In this very cool 1-2 punch from the Weinstein lab, start by reading Miranda & co’s awesome pre-print about a novel epigenetic reporter and follow it up with @jimmykjm.bsky.social’s pre-print using it to characterize epigenetic reprogramming during fin regeneration: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · Apr 15

@zebrafish007.bsky.social, @zebrafishmk.bsky.social et al. #WeinsteinLab describe a previously uncharacterized external, experimentally accessible secondary lymphoid organ in the #zebrafish located above the pectoral fin. rupress.org/jem/article/...

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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · Apr 15

It has been a while since I advertised some of the tools we have released to help researchers analyze the zebrafish genome. So a brief Bluetorial on our zebrafish genomics UCSC public data hub and the bigger effort led by @ferencmueller.bsky.social to create a zebrafish ENCODE project (Danio-CODE):

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Perona Lab, Edinburgh, UK @peronalab.bsky.social · Feb 24

Our search for a flow cytometry core facility manager for King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, is finally live. Join us!

Conventional & spectral. Parasites, immune cells, algae, bacteria, yeast and more. Full-time, open-ended.

Apply by 17 March.

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Flow Facility Manager

We are looking for a facility manager for the SBS flow cytometry core facility. This is a full-time position (35 hours per week) with most of that time expected to be on campus in the flow facility. W...

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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · Feb 27

We're looking for a new Reviews Editor for Development. Come and work with our fantastic team of in-house staff and academic editors and help to shape the reviews content of the journal. Feel free to get in touch informally if you want to find out more about the role.

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Feb 27

We have an opening for a Reviews Editor on Development. If you love developmental biology and its academic community, and have an interest in publishing and science communication, this could be the role for you. Full details here: www.biologists.com/wp-content/u...

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The Royal Belgian Society for Cell and Developmental Biology @rbscdb.bsky.social · Feb 27

The @uantwerpen.be Lab for Cell Biology & Histology (CBH; www.uantwerpen.be/en/rg/celw/) has an opening for a PI position in neuro-immune signalling. CBH is active in a variety of research areas such as aging, neurodegeneration and the gut-brain axis.

www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

Zelfstandig academisch personeel (ZAP) neuro-immuun interacties in gezonde en pathologische omstandigheden | Universiteit Antwerpen

YUFE vacature

www.uantwerpen.be

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