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Ready, steady, cooooooonga~

Posted by , on 8 July 2024

What is this? The video depicts the formation of the so-called lateral line in a transgenic zebrafish that I took when I was a student in Tatjana Piotrowski’s lab at ...

Behind the paper story: From a tiny primordium to a fully developed gynoecium

Posted by , on 5 July 2024

In this post, I invite you to join me on the journey through our recent article titled “Two Orthogonal Differentiation Gradients Locally Coordinate Fruit Morphogenesis.” This story started when I ...

AdamTS matrix metalloproteases mediate basement membrane heterogeneity required for organ elongation

Posted by , on 4 July 2024

Basement membranes (BMs) are thin, specialized extracellular matrices that surround most tissues and organs (Jayadev and Sherwood, 2017). These meshworks serve as scaffolds for cell adhesion, influencing cell signaling, cell ...

A Transgenic Optical Tool Planning Resource

Posted by , on 3 July 2024

Since the sequencing of GFP in the 1990’s, interrogation of biological questions using transgenic model organisms expressing genetically engineered fluorescent molecules has exploded across many biological fields.  Living organisms are ...

An interview with Indulekha M S, Community Manager of the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists

Posted by , on 3 July 2024

In this interview, we caught up with Indulekha M S, who joined the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB) as their Community Manager at the end of 2023.

Membrane Trafficking in Health and Disease: Focus on Neurological Diseases

Posted by , on 2 July 2024

In the last thirty years, tremendous progress has been made in the elucidation of the molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating membrane trafficking and turnover in mammalian cells, e.g., exocytosis, endocytosis ...

How we found a switch from genitalia to limbs

Posted by , on 28 June 2024

While the vertebrate body consists of diverse structures formed during embryogenesis, there is a limited number of genetic regulatory modules that are repurposed in different developmental contexts. For example, the ...

Organoids: Advances and Applications

Posted by , on 28 June 2024

Organoids have revolutionised biology and the development of organoid model systems continues to open up opportunities across a wide range of research areas. Our 2nd organoids conference will explore novel ways ...

PhD position at the Princess Maxima Center, Utrecht

Posted by , on 28 June 2024

We are looking for a motivated, talented and energetic PhD student to join our lab under the supervision of Dr. Benedetta Artegiani and Dr. Delilah Hendriks. Our lab has expertise ...

Catch up on Development presents… June webinar on mechanics and morphogenesis

Posted by , on 26 June 2024

Catch up on the Development presents... webinar on 19 June, featuring talks from Clémentine Villeneuve, Louis Prahl and Kyojiro Ikeda.

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