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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 3d

Dear VGZT enthusiasts,
Do you—or someone in your lab—work on exciting developmental biology research? Showcase it at VGZT, a global online seminar series connecting developmental biologists across all career stages. Apply here: www.tinyurl.com/VGZT-Nomination

VGZT Season 7 - Nomination

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks (VGZT) is an opportunity to share your science with an engaged, international audience of developmental biologists. Running from October 2025 to July 2026, this online ...

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 7d

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 13d

We are excited to announce the first Western VGZT of Season 7! 🎉

🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Our speakers:

👉 Antonia Weberling (@a-weberling.bsky.social)

👉 Sanjay Narayanaswamy (@sanjay-n.bsky.social)

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Antonia Weberling @a-weberling.bsky.social · 13d

Very excited to present my research focussing on the evolutionary differences of epiblast morphogenesis across amniotes next week at the kick-off of @vgzt2021.bsky.social season 7!
A story of 🐁,🧍,🐓 & many 🦎🦎🦎🦎

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 13d

We are excited to announce the first Western VGZT of Season 7! 🎉

🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Our speakers:

👉 Antonia Weberling (@a-weberling.bsky.social)

👉 Sanjay Narayanaswamy (@sanjay-n.bsky.social)

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Swarnabh Bhattacharya @iamzico.bsky.social · Jun 7

I’m thrilled to have our work—“Intestinal secretory differentiation reflects niche-driven phenotypic plasticity of a common signal-responsive terminal cell” (dlvr.it/TK2Fzl) featured in the Preview of this issue of @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social!

To play Paneth or goblet: Shapeshifting secretory cells read the room

The intestinal secretory lineage is thought to comprise four distinct cell types derived from one Atoh1+ progenitor, but the mechanisms that distinguish Paneth and goblet cells are unclear. Bhattachar...

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Bob Johnston @bobbyjeyeguy.bsky.social · Apr 22

Wanna grow organoids to understand human retinal development as a research assistant?

Wanna help run the lab as a lab manager?

The Johnston lab is hiring a research assistant/lab manager.

If you are interested, please apply (also please share!):

jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...

Research Technologist

jobs.jhu.edu

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Denis Krndija @deniskrndija.bsky.social · Apr 6

🥳 Thrilled to share our lab's first preprint, led by our talented postdoc Justine Creff! 👩🏻‍🔬 We tackled a fundamental question: how the epithelium withstands mechanical stress at the interface of cells with distinct geometries and mechanics, such as enterocytes (E) and goblet cells (G) (1/9)

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Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social · Apr 3

That's awesome - congrats!

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Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congratulations to Camilla Teng, for winning the "Platform presentation SDB prize" for post-docs at the Northwest SDB meeting, which sounds like it was a fantastic meeting! Camilla will be on the faculty job market soon, so look out for her! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · Mar 14

Come check out my talk, where I'll be giving (or attempting) a lesson on *actin* your age

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Mar 14

Mark your calendars for our western/evening 🌙 session seminar next week!

We’ll have a 🐁 double feature with:

Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social and

Vera Van der Weijden @vvdw.bsky.social

🗓️ Thursday, March 20th at
⏰ 10:30 PDT (!) / 13:30 EDT (!) / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Mar 14

Mark your calendars for our western/evening 🌙 session seminar next week!

We’ll have a 🐁 double feature with:

Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social and

Vera Van der Weijden @vvdw.bsky.social

🗓️ Thursday, March 20th at
⏰ 10:30 PDT (!) / 13:30 EDT (!) / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

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Hallou Lab @halloulab.bsky.social · Mar 17

🚨 Paper Alert 🚨
Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" @naturemethods👇!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A computational pipeline for spatial mechano-transcriptomics - Nature Methods

The authors present a computational framework that leverages mechanical force inference and spatial transcriptomics to enable analyses of the interplay between the transcriptomic and mechanical state.

www.nature.com

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Kaia Mattioli @kaiamattioli.bsky.social · Mar 10

born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze

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Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social · Mar 10

An exciting example of how mechanical forces pattern ECM to drive morphogenesis. Love the movies and synergy between experiment and model!

Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · Mar 10

Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · Mar 10

Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social · Mar 8

Such a cool study by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social - a nice distraction from everything else going on!

katie goodwin @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social · Mar 5

Thrilled to share my postdoc work now available on biorxiv!

See below for the thread, including tons of live imaging, mechanobiology, and some surprising findings about the nucleus and DNA damage during cell migration in the embryo!

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Mar 4

Primordial germ cells experience increasing physical confinement and DNA damage during migration in the mouse embryo https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.03.641275v1

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Feb 26

#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 21 sdbonline.org/gethired

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Brisa Palikuqi @brisapalikuqilab.bsky.social · Feb 5

Join us tomorrow for the last session for this cycle!

What happens during second visits and how to negotiate your offer?

We will discuss with @lydiagrmai.bsky.social @thuycke.bsky.social Anna Maurer and Ben Vincent

Please notice there is a slight time change at
2 PM EST/ 11 AM PST

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Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social · Dec 14

Thanks John - hope to catch up with you soon!

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Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social · Dec 13

Super excited to announce my new lab at the University of Michigan opening Jan 2025! 🎉We’ll study how cells work together to shape the GI tract, with ties to regeneration & disease.

Hiring at all levels—esp. a research tech to help launch the lab! Info: huyckelab.org

#DevBio #CellBio #Hiring

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Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social · Dec 5

Happening tomorrow! 👇

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Nov 28

Next week, we’re back with two unique development talks: mouse gastruloids 🐭 with Kristina Stapornwongkul and turtles 🐢 with Agáta Horáčková & Barbora Straková. Mark your calendar—you won’t want to miss this!
🗓️ Dec 5, 12:30 EST / 18:30 CET / 17:30 UTC 🕥

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Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social · Dec 3

I've heard great things about this program!

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Dec 2

Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3

PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists

PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists Development's Pathway to Independence programme Development is excited to announce our call for our Pathway to Independence program...

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Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social · Nov 22

🎙️tap-tap-...is this thing on? The wavy surface of a developing chick gut for #FluorescenceFriday 🐣🐤
#DevBio #Morphogenesis

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Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social · Nov 22

I'd also appreciate to be added here too! New PI at U.Michigan studying collective cell behaviors in morphogenesis. Thanks for putting all of these together!

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Tyler Huycke @thuycke.bsky.social · Nov 22

I would love to be included - thank you!

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