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Daniel Ríos

@yosoyden.bsky.social

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Drosophila scientist at UNAM in Mexico City Interested in #devbio, #cellbio, #microscopy, #imageanalysis, #genderequality, #bouldering, and other things. Parent of two cats and one dog :)

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Daniel Ríos @yosoyden.bsky.social · Mar 17

The first original research paper from my lab is now out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)

Adhesion to a common ECM mediates interdependence in tissue morphogenesis in Drosophila

For organs to be functional, the cells and tissues that constitute them must effectively interact with each other and coordinate their behaviours. Halfway during Drosophila embryogenesis, two lateral ...

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Yu-Chiun Wang @yuchiunwang.bsky.social · Sep 4

Tissue 'tectonic' collision is detrimental, but flies found two distinct solutions! Gratifying and grateful to be included in this collective effort, w/ Steffen Lemke, to crack the (or 'a') code of #cephalicfurrow, now out in @nature.com, all with @paveltomancak.bsky.social at the helm. (1/9)

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Rosa Uribe, PhD @uribelab.bsky.social · Aug 26

Open rank faculty search in my department. Please re-post!

Rosa Uribe, PhD @uribelab.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Department of BioSciences at Rice U invites applications for an open rank tenure-track position to begin July 1, 2026. We seek candidates with research programs in theoretical and computational neuroscience, including candidates 1/2
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Jonathan Townson @jontytownson.bsky.social · Aug 26

I have written another #preLight post, featuring the first work from the Boukhatmi lab. Always fun to read a #fly paper, especially with #microscopy too! Check it out if you like injury repair and tissue/ECM remodeling.

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#Repair #ImmuneCells #preprint #ECM

Immune–tracheal intercellular signalling coordinates the muscle injury response in Drosophila - preLights

Something SPARC’d between us and left me Breathless: Haemolymph cells turn on repair in the Drosophila tracheal system

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · Aug 22

*sigh* I was today years old when I learnt that Schrödinger sexually abused young girls he was tutoring

The history of science (as told in classrooms & lecture halls) ought to be a hell of a lot more diverse and critical

Erwin Schrödinger - Wikipedia

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 15

📢 Last day to apply for the MBL Light Microscopy Bootcamp! 👉 www.mbl.edu/education/mb... Learn how to reveal 10 genes with HCR in situ in zebrafish embryos 🐟🔬and so much more!!

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 15

✨Not a rainbow trout… a rainbow zebrafish 🌈 🐟
The expression of 10 different genes simultaneously including Hox genes along the body axis, somites, brain regions, skeletal muscle, and heart 🔬Image by Alice Sherrard, Gabby Jerz & Nipam Patel 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Aug 15

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki

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flymuscles @flymuscles.bsky.social · Aug 13

Total disaster for the #drosophila community if flybase disappears

Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · Aug 13

News via The Transmitter www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

Harvard University lays off fly database team

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Aug 4

A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in @dev-journal.bsky.social explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning

Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore

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

From genes to patterns: five key dynamical systems concepts to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms

Summary: Dynamical systems theory provides a powerful quantitative and intuitive framework to understand developmental processes. This Primer brings key concepts of this framework to the ever-growing ...

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Aug 1

Are you an early-career researcher using Drosophila in your research?

Sign up to be matched with a mentor as part of FlyCROSS 2025-26.
Apply by 1 September 2025
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FlyCROSS 2025–26: Call for early career scientists - the Node

Do not miss this call for mentees from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026). The goal

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 29

Great opportunity here to build your skills and your professional network! Apply for the SciComm Interns program!
#devbiolwriteclub
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

Applications are now open for the 2026 SDB Science Communication Internship. Graduate student and postdoc members of the Society for Developmental Biology are eligible to apply. Deadline: August 15. Learn more: www.sdbonline.org/science_comm...

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Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · Jul 30

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

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Sergio Menchero @sermenchero.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...

Marsupial single-cell transcriptomics identifies temporal diversity in mammalian developmental programs

Menchero et al. generate a single-cell transcriptomic atlas in the opossum and show rapid progression of transcriptional programs in specific tissues relative to morphological landmarks. This shift in...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wow

Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions

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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · Jul 16

#drosophila #academia

Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Jul 16

A paper full of gems.

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Daniel Ríos @yosoyden.bsky.social · Jul 15

Very cool work, congrats @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social and everyone involved!

Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social · Jul 15

🥁 New article 📢: #Mechanobiology of #development during #Drosophila #gastrulation using #Brillouin microscopy, now in @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/ev6ZX
Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Jul 11

Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:

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Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social · Jun 22

Congratulations to winners of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology (LASDB) Senior Investigator Award, Maria Leptin and Miguel Concha! 🎉

#2025ICDB #2025SDB #ICDB2-25

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Daniel Ríos @yosoyden.bsky.social · Jun 21

Quintay alumni meet-up at the #ICDB2025 meeting in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Always great to meet with the Latin American community working in developmental biology around the world 😃
@devbioquintay.bsky.social
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Stefan Luschnig @luschnig.bsky.social · Jun 19

Spectacular work by @maikbischoff.bsky.social @peiferlabunc.bsky.social showing how Plexin/Semaphorin-guided collective cell migration of muscle precursor cells shapes the developing testis. Look at the movies! 😱
| Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plexin/Semaphorin antagonism orchestrates collective cell migration and organ sculpting by regulating epithelial-mesenchymal balance

An axon guidance factor restricts gap growth in a non-neuronal migrating cell sheet, allowing organ sculpting.

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Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social · Jun 18

Missed 'Navigating the Transition to an Independent Position' at #2025ICDB #2025SDB? @dev-journal.bsky.social have interviewed 3 of the 4 panellists:
@waisman-ar.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
@yosoyden.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
@uribelab.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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Daniel Ríos @yosoyden.bsky.social · Jun 10

We submitted our ms to @reviewcommons.org, the feedback we got was really good! We thank the reviewers for their comments. They suggested some really interesting experiments that we had not thought about, we have just posted our revision plan; you can find it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Adhesion to a common ECM mediates interdependence in tissue morphogenesis in Drosophila

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · May 12

Paracantha fruit fly, just cranking the style slider to 100 and seeing what happens.

I love it, is what happens. 💛

Strange stripy orange fly with striped and spotted wings, and banded technicolor compound eyes. Long setae all over

Close shot of the creature's wild eyes, stripy yellow and maroon and hints of light blue and green.

Top view; wings are folded, they have a transparent outer edge with dark veins like zebra stripes, and orange with like blue-ringed octopus spots on the inner surface.

Face of the creature, both compound eyes visible.

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · Apr 5

Preprint! Minos-mediated transgenesis in the pantry moth
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Aguilar-Arnal Lab @lorenaguilarlab.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Department of Cellular Biology and Physiology at the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), is seeking a member for its research staff!! See details👇
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PLEASE, SHARE!!

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Daniel Ríos @yosoyden.bsky.social · Mar 21

Thank you Eunice 🤗 the feeling is mutual!
Abrazos! 😁