Delighted to see our work on the histone demethylase Lsd1 in Nematostella finally out in Nature Communications! Pawel Burkhardt @Sars_Centre Ian U Kouzel Biovitenskap på UiB nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congrats to ⁦pashucklab⁩ on receiving an NIH⁩ grant to develop technologies to visualize protease activity in cancer models! 🎉🍾🔬🧫⁦Lehigh Bioengineering⁩ ⁦Lehigh Engineers⁩ ⁦Lehigh Research⁩ ⁦Lehigh University⁩ 😎🤩🥳 www2.lehigh.edu/news/nih-funds…

Co-organizer Michael Layden are happy to announce that the 2022 Mid-Atlantic @___SDB___ Regional Meeting will be held on Monday, May 2 - Tuesday, May 3. On-site at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, with virtual options available. sdbonline.org/meeting?Resour… #2022MASDB 1/2

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📢 2022 Mid-Atlantic Society for Developmental Biology meeting launch is a go! #2022MASDB Society for Developmental Biology Visit our meeting website with all the details: sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/leh…

The #2022MASDB tee shirt shop has launched: bonfire.com/2022-masdb160-… Several styles and colors are available, in adult and youth sizes. Artwork by the fabulously talented Steph Nowotarski, PhD. Proceeds benefit Society for Developmental Biology. Check it out and order yours today!

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Sign up for the hybrid Mid-Atlantic SDB meeting being hosted at Lehigh May 2nd and 3rd by Michael Layden and Erin L Davies Ph.D. abstracts due April 1st. sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/leh…

#2022MASDB Society for Developmental Biology Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting Abstract deadline is April 3, 11:59 PM ET Short talks and posters. Submit today! sdbonline.org/abstract_submi…

.Society for Developmental Biology 2022 hybrid Mid-Atlantic regional meeting Lehigh University is a go! Test, mask up, and get ready to science hard with us tomorrow morning! Thanks to Layden lab for hosting us. #2022MASDB

#2022MASDB speaker Dr. Dylan Faltine-Gonzalez from the Layden lab studies the evolution of nervous systems and neuronal patterning. He uses Nematostella to investigate whether mechanisms of neuronal patterning are conserved between cnidarians and bilaterians. 1/2

Nervous systems are complex organs that consist of many - possibly thousands- different neuron types. But how complex is the nervous system in Cnidarians? What do we already know and what remains unexplored? "Neural Cell Type Diversity in Cnidaria" frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Michael Layden Michael Layden @lehigU will explain their work on Nematostella nervous system evo-development and the pathways that make it possible #2022SDB #EvoDevo2022

PhD position available in our group. The PhD candidate will explore single cell genomics data, generate transgenic and CRISPR lines to understand neuronal and muscular interactions in the cnidarian @Nematostella vectensis. Send your applications to [email protected]

The bioRxiv has been weaponized by many labs who use it to plant priority flags, not to accelerate research (accomplished by withholding methods and/or data). This does not serve the interests of either the scientific community, or the public.

Fist graduate student’s final 1st author paper is out. Nice work Dr. Dylan Faltine-Gonzalez nature.com/articles/s4159…

The #Aiptasia life cycle is closed! A prerequisite to settlement of larvae is actively hunting prey, not #symbiosis. Thus, carnivory likely is an ancestral feature in the cnidarian gastrula life stage: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out our new publication! Whitney Leach collaborated with Layden lab @Layla_Al_Shaer on this project: Environmental and molecular regulation of asexual reproduction in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Spread the word and mark your calendars! Cnidofest 2024 will happen August 14-17th at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA! We have kicked planning into high gear and we look forward to seeing everyone in 6 months!

Don’t forget to register for cbidofest 2024 Aug 14-17 Lehigh university. Abstract deadline is June cnidofest.org/meetings/cnido…