Young Embryologist Network
We are a UK based community of early career stem cell and developmental biology scientists. Join us at our annual conferences in May. More information at youngembryologists.org
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkDuring this time, he published a more detailed table of zebrafish cleavage and also studied karyokinesis. But that’s not all: in a collaboration with Warren Harmon Lewis, then at Wistar, they produced what is probably the first “motion picture" of zebrafish development. (6/7)
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkWow, this sounds like an incredible opportunity!
- 🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨 AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐 In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!? 20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers 🗓️ June 4-18 2026 ✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️ 🔁 pls!! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkLast couple of days to vote for your favourite 'Featured image' from 2025 ❤️🔬! focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/19/v...
- We’ve highlighted some wonderful images and researchers in our ‘Featured image’ series in 2025. To celebrate, we’re inviting you to vote for your favourite in our image competition! #FluorescenceFriday Check them out here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/19/v...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkWe're in love with this cover image! 🧡 Part II of our Special Collection celebrating the Centennial of the Discovery of The Organiser is here. This issue focuses on the work presented at the Centennial Symposium at the University of Freiburg in September 2024: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cell...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkAt first glance, looks like a Gray–Scott reaction-diffusion But it’s a fertilized starfish 🥚: proteins self-organizing into spiral waves across the membrane Same dynamics seen in ❤️/🧠/🌊, even quantum fluids. Universality in action! #ComplexSystems news.mit.edu/2020/growth-...
- Useful new tool for imaging and keeping track of large scale movements in embryo development!🔬
- Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]
- Beautiful images! Save some for the YEN 2026 image competition ;)
- Love the #SciArt gallery on @maikbischoff.bsky.social's lab website 😍 www.bischofflab.com/portfolio #microscopy #bioart #microscopymonday #cellfie #devbio #cellbio
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkMark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkHappy #FluorescenceFriday. This beautiful video shows slice by slice section of a zebrafish embryo's head. The embryo is almost completely transparent, proving that zebrafish is an amazing model system for microscopy. Brightfield, red = actin, blue = DAPI 📹: Postdoc Matyas BL (@Mongera lab, UCL)
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkSearching for physical principles of morphogenesis In this #OpenAccess Spotlight, Nikolas Claussen, Fridtjof Brauns and @streichan.bsky.social highlight the ‘physics of development’, focusing on the interplay between quantitative experiments and mathematical theory doi.org/10.1242/dev....
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkAxonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkI don’t always manage to get the cochlea out… But I love it when I do! #FluorescenceFriday
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkCan't believe it — my first‑author paper is out and my image graces the cover of @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎉 Here, we reveal how early developmental programs shape and maintain #zebrafish gill architecture throughout life 🔗 journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15... #FluorescenceFriday #LifelongDevSI
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkHappy (and spooky) #FluorescenceFriday Switching from frogs (which are underrated btw) to zebrafish has really made me appreciate transparent tissues! 🐟 28 hpf, ⚪ nuclei, 🔴 F-actin
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network🏆 First Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🖼️ “A Model Meeting” by Karla Akari Garcia Inspired by The Quaker Meeting, this watercolor honors animal research models, from mouse to axolotl, that have advanced developmental biology 🎨 A tribute to science’s often unsung heroes. #DevBioArt
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkAmazing day at #GastrulationReloaded with thought provoking science and jaw dropping methods. Also, for no reason at all, re-posting this open Collection: www.nature.com/collections/... Don’t sweat the deadline, we’ll extend it and I’ll add relevant papers that come to me @natcomms.nature.com
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network✴️Sea urchins have illuminated fertilization 🧫, early cleavage divisions 🔬, and gene regulation in embryonic patterning 🧬. A classic marine model that shaped our understanding of cell fate and axis formation. 📸 Image by Laurent Formery #ModelMonday #DevBio
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkVery 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...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkHappy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkSee 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 🧵...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network#ResultatScientifique 🔎| Faire taire les gènes est aussi crucial que les activer : le répresseur Snail révèle son rôle essentiel dans le développement embryonnaire 🧬 ✍️ @laghalab.bsky.social et Ovidiu Radulescu 📕 @natcomms.nature.com | buff.ly/pmtzA1t
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network1/12 A very special moment for me! 🎉 My first paper as corresponding author—a @jcb.org Perspective on how contact-based decision-making in collective cell migration can itself encode blueprints for complex patterns and shapes. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #cellbio #devbio #science 🧵for details
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network#Undergraduates #Postbacs @socdevbio.bsky.social is hosting a webinar Get Into Grad School September 21 at 3pm ET. Learn about doctoral programs, the key elements of a compelling grad school application, and the interview process. Register: bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
- This was the first dev bio textbook I ever picked up and inspired me to enter the field. An iconic image!
- Mouse (Mus musculus) 🐭 is the powerhouse of mammalian genetics, essential for studying embryogenesis, organ development and gene function using transgenic technologies. 📸 Image by Zhong Hua also featured on the cover of Developmental Biology textbook (11th edition) #ModelMonday
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkIssue 16 is complete! On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkWe are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkBubna-Litic, M., & Mayor, R. (2025). Beyond mechanosensing: How cells sense and shape their physical environment during development. Current opinion in cell biology, 94, 102514. #EpithelialMechanicsReview buff.ly/Ea2ZoFg
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network#FocalPlaneFeatures meets @prelights.bsky.social @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh have picked 2 fantastic #cellbio preprints & will be presenting their preLights alongside research talks from @probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez. Register: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/08/20/f...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkAxolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)🦎 can regrow limbs, tail, spinal cord, heart, and even parts of its brain. Axolotls are champions of regeneration and also shed light on limb patterning, wound healing, and developmental plasticity. Image from Prayag Murawala #ModelMonday #DevBio
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkBird’s eye view, literally. 🐦👁️ Glowing quail embryo eye for #FluorescenceFriday, #DevBio 🧪🔬
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network✨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
- If you are interested in a career in science communication or just want to improve you comms skills check out this internship by the SDB!
- 🚨Only 4 days to apply!!!🚨Join the SDB SciComm Internship! Gain hands-on experience writing stories on the latest developmental biology discoveries🔬Connect with top mentors & earn $500 to attend the SDB Annual Meeting 🎉! 👉 www.sdbonline.org/science_comm... #SciComm #DevBio
- Our friends at the SDB need your help promoting the beauty of biological development!
- Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkGot stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- ✨Development meets design in this embryonic chameleon lung 🫁 🦎. Smooth muscle swirls 🟣 and branching tips and cartilage 🟢 come together in reptilian lung morphogenesis. Image taken by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social 🔬🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
- Interesting review about the role of ECM in development!
- Maybe it's time we rethink the idea that development is a cell centric process? In this beautiful review, María-del-Carmen and @stramerlab.bsky.social discussed how the ECM underlies and influences many morphogenesis processes from wing unfolding to mammary gland development. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network✨Development meets design in this embryonic chameleon lung 🫁 🦎. Smooth muscle swirls 🟣 and branching tips and cartilage 🟢 come together in reptilian lung morphogenesis. Image taken by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social 🔬🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkDev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkSave the Date! Development has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative to co-organise a meeting on #HumanDevelopment. 📅7 - 9 Sep 2026 📍University of Warwick, UK Register your interest for #HumanDev26: www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkA cryosection immunofluorescence image of a Xenopus embryo showing fibronectin in 🔵, DAPI in ⚪, and Sox9 - a marker of the neural crest in 🟠. Image credit: Kai Weissenbruch from UCL #FluorescenceFriday #devbio
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network🪼 How did the animal body plan evolve? This ‘fundamental’ study in Clytia sheds light on how Wnt3 coordinates both gene expression and planar cell polarity during axis formation, offering key insights into the origins of morphogenesis. buff.ly/e1Un958 #DevBio
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkSave the Date! Development has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative to co-organise a meeting on #HumanDevelopment. 📅7 - 9 Sep 2026 📍University of Warwick, UK Register your interest for #HumanDev26: www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkSave the date! March 23-26 will be the dates for our 2026 @bsdb.bsky.social annual meeting: Molecules to Morphogenesis! Excited to reveal more details soon! Want to attend with a reduced rate, and have access to conference/travel grants for other meetings too? Don't forget to join the BSDB :)
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkThis year's EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) will take place in Vilnius, #Lithuania from 24–26 Sep 2025. The EYSF brings together scientists across #Europe for #networking and scientific exchange – Apply now: meetings.embo.org/event/25-eysf 🧪 Abstract submission by 1 Aug Registration by 15 Aug
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkFor today's #FluorescenceFriday I'm thrilled to share that ScienceAdvances was so nice to pick my picture as this week's featured image! It's actually a still of a video😊 Check out the paper to learn more science.org/doi/10.1126/... #cellbio #devbio #cellmigration #science Thank you @aaas.org
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkNext Thurs, join us for the next Western VGZT 🌙 🗓️ Thursday, June 19 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Featuring: @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social 👉Exploring physiological constraints by sculpting with stem cells @sermenchero.bsky.social 👉What marsupials can teach us about time
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkStudents (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included. training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkGrand opening of #TCTeAC @woodstocknightsci.bsky.social by @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @odedrechavi.bsky.social in #Prague Lucerna cinema.
- Reposted by Young Embryologist Network📣 🔬 Save the Date – July 3rd in #Paris #France 🔬 📣 We’re excited to announce the first meeting of the #photoacoustic #imaging #working_group of #GDRImabio taking place on July 3rd at @sorbonne-universite.fr ✅ Free event – Register and submit your abstract here: 👉 shorturl.at/sLz9I
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkThis year's EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) will take place in Vilnius, LT from 24–26 Sep 2025. The EYSF brings together scientists across #Europe for #networking and scientific exchange – Apply now! 🧪 Abstract submission by 1 Aug Registration by 15 Aug meetings.embo.org/event/25-eysf
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkJob Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!
- Check out this meeting in London. Also the poster is hilarious!
- 🚨We’re proud that The Genetics Society @gensocuk.bsky.social supports the upcoming UK EvoDevo meeting. Register for only £5 and submit your abstracts before June 1st! Link to register: eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkMy entry SMILE made it into the top ten 😁 Alongside many great entries. My favourite is Minnie's Bow!
- See the winners of the YEN Image Competition 2025. Thanks for everyone who sent us their amazing embryology images! #yen2025 thenode.biologists.com/yen-image-co...
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkIt was a lot of fun to speak at YEN this week @yen-network.bsky.social. It is such an honour to be awarded the Sammy Lee Medal for my work on engineering CREs
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkCheck out these images from the YEN 2025 conference!
- See the winners of the YEN Image Competition 2025. Thanks for everyone who sent us their amazing embryology images! #yen2025 thenode.biologists.com/yen-image-co...
- See the winners of the YEN Image Competition 2025. Thanks for everyone who sent us their amazing embryology images! #yen2025 thenode.biologists.com/yen-image-co...
- Our final talk for the day was Nicolas Rivron from IMBA, Vienna who gave the Sammy Lee memorial lecture, giving us a glimpse into the world of in vitro systems (blastoids) used to study the first steps of implantation and how it has evolved across primates. Thank you for the inspiring lecture!
- Our second perspective talk was by Rob Tetley from Nikon Instruments with beautiful example movies developmental dynamics across scales sharing his experience in making the most of resonant scanning confocal imaging.
- Our last short talk of the day was Sarah Bowden @sarahbowden.bsky.social from @uni-freiburg.de on the role of Foxi1 for mucociliary progenitor and ectodermal specification in Xenopus
- @mitisbio.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk spoke about the dynamics of calcium oscillations and their role during peri-gastrulation in the mouse embryo
- Isha Goel from PDN Cambridge talked about how they're using chimeras to untangle extrinsic vs intrinsic effects on limb growth regulation
- Jasmina Al-Mousawi from @embl.org Rome shared how they can increase IVF staging precision to capture embryonic genome activation (EGA) dynamics
- After a lunch break we were back with Maud Borensztein from @igmm-montpel.bsky.social talking about X chromosome reactivation and interesting kinetic differences across genes
- Aleksandra Byrska from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social showed how they can track centromeres live to study molecular and even mechanical changes associated with human oocyte aging
- We heard from @marieyvonne.bsky.social at Cambridge who's using zebrafish embryos to study the interplay between signalling and forces during asymmetric cell division and their role in cell fate (+ a great acknowledgement slide)
- @camilledion.bsky.social of @mrc-lms.bsky.social presented a talk on the role of L1TD1 in germ cell regulation and male fertility.
- This year's Scientific Perspectives are all about technologies in embryology. We had a great talk by Simon Hanassab from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on the importance and potential of using ML and AI to improve reproductive research.
- Luca Schwarz from @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social presented his blastocyst-derived trophoblast organoid as an in vitro model of human placenta to investigate ExMe (extraembryonic mesenchyme)
- Reposted by Young Embryologist NetworkThe Young Embryologist Network Conference was amazing! So much inspiration seeing all the brilliant work 🧬 🔬 🌎! I could only attend virtually this year, but it’s now a top priority to be there in person next time. Huge congrats to the organizers — what a fantastic event! #YEN2025
- Thank you to everyone who has registered to attend YEN 2025! You can still register for online attendence to hear talks and look at online posters. We have sent out a programme to our attendees so if you haven't heard from us just email us or reach out on social media. #yen2025
