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For this #FluorescenceFriday we have something a bit different. An SEM image of a sterlet sturgeon neurula embryo labelled with SOX9 which decorates the cranial neural crest - a transient embryonic tissue that shapes vertebrate faces. 🔬 #DevelopmentalBiology
📸: Jan Štundl
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✨ Looking forward to hearing from Paul Trainor at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! Paul’s work at the Stowers Institute on neural crest development in mammals (sometimes fish and chameleons) has helped bring attention to understudied craniofacial conditions. 🔬 #devbio #Stowers25
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✨Rare model organisms can teach us how to build a body differently. In snail embryos blastomeres can be as big as the rest of the embryo! 🐌Phrontis vibex blastula stained for tubulin (gray), phalloidin (blue) and histone (magenta). 🔬
#ModelMonday #DevBio
📸: Clemens Cabernard
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Emoticons: E9.5 mouse embryo sections through otocyst, hindbrain and pharyngeal endoderm resemble eyes, nose, and smile of an emoticon.
📸 Image credit: Ankita Thawani (Baylor College of Medicine)
#FluorescenceFriday #Embryology #DevelopmentalBiology #Microscopy #ScienceArt✨ 🧬
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✨ Excited to host invited speaker Nipam H. Patel at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏
His research explores the evolution of developmental mechanisms and how diverse body plans, patterns, and colors arise across species. 🧬✨ #devbio
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✨ Excited to host invited speaker Joyce Onyenedum (@JGOnyenedum) at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏
Her research explores plant diversity and the mechanisms underlying variation in plant traits. 🌱 🧬 ✨ #devbio
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🚨 Deadline extended till June 10th‼️
🚨 Last day to submit to the SDB Art Show ‼️ SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨✨ More information: sdbonline.org/2026mtg_art_sh…
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What can we learn from butterflies? 🦋
Butterfly models help us uncover how genes shape form, revealing the mechanisms behind pattern formation, cell fate decisions, and morphogenesis. #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo 🧬 📸 Photo by Ignacio Vazquez on Pexels
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🚨 Last day to submit to the SDB Art Show ‼️ SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨✨ More information: sdbonline.org/2026mtg_art_sh…
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4-cell mud snail embryo (Tritia obsoleta) 🐌
Max projection showing yolk protein granules in magenta and lipid droplets in green. Imaging by Marcus Kilwein at Princeton University. #FluorescenceFriday
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🧠🐟✨ Mayssa Mokalled will be joins us at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 Her lab studies how zebrafish achieve remarkable spinal cord regeneration 🐠💫 uncovering pro-regenerative cell types and mechanisms with the goal of informing neural repair strategies in mammals. 🧬
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✨ 2026 SDB Art Show 🎨 SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Deadline: June 1st ‼️ Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨 More information: sdbonline.org/2026mtg_art_sh…
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🦴✨ Douglas B. Menke joins us at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 His lab explores how vertebrate limb morphology evolves through changes in gene regulation 🧬🐭 with current work focused on Tbx4 enhancer elements that shape hindlimb development and evolution across species. 🐾✨
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♂️ & ♀️ generalist #pupfish (Cyprinodon variegatus) from San Salvador Island, Bahamas 🐟. Feña Palominos at the Martin Fish Speciation Lab (UC Berkeley) uses this “wild type” species to study craniofacial genetics and evolutionary developmental biology. #ModelMonday #EvoDevo
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✨ Serving egg-cellent organization and fluorescent elegance 🥚 Partial Drosophila 🪰 ovariole with WGA staining of nuclear envelopes 🔬 📸 Image by Michelle Giedt #FluorescenceFriday 🐣
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The May 8 #SDBPostdocSeminar with Jennifer Watts of @nationwidekids and Bezia Lemma of @Princeton has been posted. Thank you to moderators Priyom Adhyapok and Yiqun Wang. Watch here: youtu.be/6_PeMw3nICo
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🐟✨ Excited to welcome invited speaker Ben Lovely to #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 His lab uses zebrafish to study craniofacial development 🦴🐟 and the mechanisms underlying ethanol teratogenesis. ✨🐣
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✨ 2026 SDB Art Show 🎨 SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Deadline: June 1st ‼️ Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨 More information: sdbonline.org/2026mtg_art_sh…
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🌟 Meet the #SDB2026 Social Media Workforce!🔬 Matyas Bubna-Litic is a Postdoc in Mongera lab at University College London (see a 🔬? it’s probably him 😉). He studies how mechanics and signaling interact during tissue elongation using synthetic embryo models 🧫
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