How does a cell become photoreceptor, and how do photoreceptors wire up with the retina and the brain? New BBI-BIOL hire Juan Angueyra employs genetic tools to answer these questions, tracking the development of retinal cells from their earliest moments. bbi.umd.edu/news/story/a-f…

Very excited to share our new preprint on visual processing in the octopus! Led by Judit Pungor judit, together with Mea (josc) 🐙 and Angelique Allen, we measured the functional organization of visual responses in the octopus brain. 🐙👁️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

Scanning eye movements in this atlantid heteropod! These eyes point forward, and left and right eye movements are linked.

We made a book! If you like weird and wonderful invert eyes, check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… Featuring contributions from Todd Oakley Natasha Picciani, PhD @plachetzki Lauren Sumner-Rooney Alex Nahm Kingston Jeanne Serb @AndySombke Ayse Yilmaz Mireille Steck Megan Porter @zapkapow and more

Fifty-two amazing scientists talked about Science & #Juneteenth Cell, “Juneteenth in STEMM and the barriers to equitable science.” Check it out! 🤩

Eye-specific detection and a multi-eye integration model of biological motion perception biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

In case you missed it, the lab's first #cnidarian paper studying #opsin evolution in the sea anemone #Nematostella vectensis is out! Check it out in EvoDevo! Congrats Kyle and the whole team! #Evodevo #sensorybiology #evolution doi.org/10.1186/s13227…

Check out our new paper on Drosophila eye development. In it we show that the Polycomb repressor safeguards imaginal disc specification by controlling the Vestigial–Scalloped complex. In its absence, the fly eye develops into a wing. Hope you like it! journals.biologists.com/dev/article-ab…

Excited to share our latest preprint on the stony coral Astrangia poculata! We present a suite of tools to manipulate gene function including gene knock-in positioning Astrangia as a powerful model for coral development and evolution. More here 👇: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to see our work, biolord, for disentanglement of single-cell data, out in Nature Biotechnology ! 🪢go.nature.com/3U3pdMQ. Eager to disentangle your data with biolord? check out: biolord.readthedocs.io. W/ @NivCohenHuji, Yedid Hoshen, & Mor Nitzan. Cover art by Reo F.

When I left this platform for a bit, I missed getting all of the papers, so I hypocritically reactivated my account. Since then I’ve mostly been a bench warmer here, but today I want to share some things from lab that we’ve been working on🧵

Check out my bro! He and his lab just published this rad story in Science Magazine looking at evolution in a long term barley experiment starting in 1929! It is beautiful work.

What if you could deliver molecular tools directly into oocytes without microinjection? In our new paper, online today Development (doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…), we introduce VitelloTag, a new cargo delivery tool to enable injection-free genome editing. 👇Read on for a short 🧵

A couple of months ago, Peter Lwigale and I celebrated our promotions with the Biosciences department Rice Natural Sciences. Two promotions for #devbio Rice University! The #devbio community is growing at Rice, and we now have a monthly SuperGroup meeting. Good times!

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we present The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists. This resource showcases the scientific excellence of nearly 400 outstanding scientists. #LatinxAtlas #HispanicHeritageMonth fredhutch.org/en/about/about…

Unbelievably graceful brachiolaria progress in metamorphosis towards juvenile starfish. Skagerrak, North Sea. #brachiolaria #marinebiology #microscopy #sealife #biology #starfish #plankton #zooplankton #ocean #microlife #microworld

Nuclear deformability facilitates apical nuclear migration in the developing zebrafish retina cell.com/current-biolog…