It was a fantastic experience and opportunity to share our polar body story at the Australian Reproduction Update. And excited to met many people in the reproduction field and learn about new techniques and ideas 🔬 #ARU2024

Inverse blebs in mouse blastocyst now peer-reviewed Nature Cell Biology with Markus Schliffka and Argo Mukherjee! nature.com/articles/s4155… Check out the excellent tweetorial from Markus Schliffka and celebrate with this latrunculin-treated embryo that is inverse blebbing like there is no tomorrow!

I’m excited to receive my first poster award! Thank you so much for this amazing conference 👨🏻‍🔬

Thank you so much for the opportunity to present at this fantastic #ARNA24 conference! I shared our study on how the polar body establishes RNA asymmetry at the very start of embryo development, leading to cell diversity rather than identical cells.

Following our review on Monozygotic #twins, our commentary paper on this topic is now online! We highlighted the vital role of #liveimaging in studying monozygotic twins and provided practical insights for predicting and reducing twinning in #IVF clinics. ZenkerLab ARMI

If the development of one #embryo is not fascinating enough, what about two at the same time? A new commentary by our lab led by Hongbin Jin on monozygotic #twins is now published in Herald Scholarly Open Access🇺🇸: heraldopenaccess.us/openaccess/see…

After publishing a detailed review of monozygotic twin development in IVF, Hongbin Jin from ZenkerLab was invited to publish a commentary piece, discussing how live imaging techniques can be used in IVF clinics to monitor #twin development - read the insightful commentary here:

Proud to start 2025 with a paper just published in MHR | Foundations of Reproductive Science For long time we believed that the first 2 cells of the mammalian くま were identical to each other (both Lori Shea). This was inaccurate not to say incorrect. Now we also know why... academic.oup.com/molehr/advance…

Today a group of ARMI staff and students took part in Monash's #PrideMarch! 🏳️‍🌈❤️ We're grateful for our passionate community members and so proud to be supporting an inclusive culture at ARMI #Pride Monash University

Very happy to be a part of ARMI and show our work and skills to the Minister 🔬

A visit from the Minister for Health presented us with a prime opportunity to demonstrate microinjections into living mouse embryos by Hongbin Jin and to explain how our research on early embryos can result into impactful discoveries and translational outcomes, delivered by Tia.

Happy to contribute to building this amazing microinjection platform and exploring many possibilities in embryos!

Lab meeting with the Zenker Lab In our latest 'Lab meeting' post, we meet the Zenker lab ZenkerLab, based ARMI in Melbourne, Australia. The lab is interested in all things #StemCells, #EmbryonicDevelopment and #LiveImaging. Meet the Lab: thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-wi…

Where are we? Who are we? What are we doing? Read the answers in the Node "Lab meeting" feature about us. Plus, why is Australia such a special country to live due to its stunning nature, multicultural society and high quality of life. ARMI

Amazing long-term live embryo imaging!!

I’m excited, relieved, and honored to announce that my paper describing non-canonical mitotic mechanisms in the early mouse embryo is out in Science Magazine ! (link at end of 🧵)

🎉 Very excited to receive the Best Poster Presentation award at the Hunter Meeting Hunter Meeting! Huge thanks to the organisers for putting together such an inspiring showcase of developmental and cell biology, and the opportunity to share my work! ZenkerLab ARMI

Meet Dr Hongbin Jin, postdoctoral researcher at ARMI in the ZenkerLab. He studies the earliest days of life, fertilised embryos, to understand how a single cell becomes many. #EmbryoResearch #DevelopmentalBiology