And another successful day’s filming in the can! Thanks Tom Bennett Elena Scarpa and Laura Pellegrini - you were all great! And Courtney Lancaster, who’s a total pro by now… Exciting to see this project coming together British Society for Developmental Biology Cambridge FilmWorks

Welcome to my team UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Kia and Robin, who will work on their MSc projects UCL studying mutations we find in patients with eye malformations by modelling them in #zebrafish. Thanks @Gavin_Arno for advice on genetics and Medical Research Council and Moorfields Eye Charity for support. #genetics

One more week to apply! Join us 😉

June 20th in Paris: 'The Times of Embryonic Development’ A symposium at Collège de France Collège de France. Open, no registration, super speakers 👇🏼Pourquie Olivier Desplan Lab James Briscoe Miki Ebisuya @VanderhaeghenP2 Jean-Léon Maître @Anissakempf Thomas Gregor the Node TLecuitLab

Good things come to those who wait they say....and boy did we wait (and do a couple of more experiments). But here it is in all it's beauty the Rocha et al.! It seems that the end does justify the means. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Online now! Universal DNA methylation age across species. Study identifies and characterizes evolutionarily conserved cytosine #methylation states related to #age across mammals and establishes pan-mammalian #epigenetic clocks Ake Lu Prof Steve Horvath nature.com/articles/s4358…

We know there are differences between the left and right sides of the brain, known as brain asymmetry. But it’s not yet clear how or why this comes about. Stephen Wilson and ibianco from UCL aim to find answers, with support from our Discovery Research Awards ⤵️

Check out our recently published protocol for primary culture of zebrafish neurons!👇

Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential theguardian.com/science/2023/s…

IMF Report on the significant economic return of investment in basic research. "We find that basic scientific research affects more sectors, in more countries and for a longer time than applied research (commercially oriented R&D by firms)" See it here: imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

Pleased to announce that registration is now open for the inaugural WntUK meeting on Mon 29th April at The Francis Crick Institute Institute. Preliminary programme, registration and abstract submission below: crick.ac.uk/whats-on/inaug… Benefit from early bird registration fees up to 23rd Feb!

Presenting issue #2 of the WntUK newsletter with details of the first annual meeting in April and job vacancies. Please do send us your latest job/PhD adverts for posting to the network along with updates on newly published Wnt research papers! drive.google.com/file/d/1zCQSlY…

Hi folks, our team UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in London is growing. If you're at the postdoc stage and are interested in the mechanisms that control eye development, growth and disease, apply in this link... thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc-r… UCL Moorfields Eye Charity #Zebrafish

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At #WeinsteinCVD2024 Weinstein Cardiovascular Conference this week? Senior Editor - is around - have a chat to him about Development, the Node & The Company of Biologists! We've also put together a collection of recent articles on cardiovascular development: journals.biologists.com/dev/collection…

Got to love a good screen!

Great lab and colleagues

Hi again folks, our team UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in London keeps growing. If you're at the postdoc stage and are interested in the mechanisms that control eye development, growth and disease, apply in this link... thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc-r… UCL Moorfields Eye Charity #Zebrafish

Amazing opportunity to join Jason’s team

bye bye X, see you all on BlueSky