#devbiol — Public Fediverse posts

Very amusing to see how the vertebrate developmental neurobiology field is converging with #Drosophila and insects in general with regard to the mechanisms of brain development:

"Together, these findings suggest a lineage-based mechanism for scalable positional information that complements diffusion-based mechanisms and offers a general framework for tissue patterning."

That sentence has been used for decades to describe fruit fly brain development.

#neurobiology #DevBiol #zebrafish #mouse

#introduction. I am a plant developmental geneticist. The lab addresses a fundamental biological question: how does morphogenesis translate genotype into form? To this end we study signaling at the plasma membrane - cell wall interface and we investigate how mechanical forces influence tissue shape using 3D digital ovules.

Main interests:
#Arabidopsis #CellBiology #cellbio #CellWall #devbio #devbiol #DevelopmentalBiology #EvoDevo #imaging #lignin #MechanoBiology #microscopy #PlantBiology

"A consensus cell type atlas from multiple connectomes reveals principles of circuit stereotypy and variation", by Schlegel et al. 2023 (Greg Jefferis lab at #MRCLMB in collaboration with the Bock, Murthy, and Seung labs, and also Volker Hartenstein)

Interesting to me in particular, and here I see the hand of Volker Hartenstein (my postdoc adviser!), is the annotation of developmental units: the neuronal lineages (Fig 2 below).

#Drosophila #connectomics #neuroscience #DevBiol

@scottishwaddell

You are welcome–it's been fun to discover an entirely different slice of science and research here, starting this past October. My presence in the other side is nominal, keeping an account there as a flag and pointer to here. The move gave me the chance to follow more entomology accounts and learn more about insects and small invertebrates I'd like to map some day. Also: one has to follow more accounts here to sample the #neuroscience and #DevBiol fields as broadly as we did on the other side, as the only promotion algorithm is the boost button.

In other news, this week we installed a Bruker SkyScan microCT in the lab, courtesy of the #MRCLMB (I love this place), and we are over the moon. It's essential to quality-control samples that proceed to electron microscopy for #connectomics. But it's also going to prove useful to scan whole small animals densely at 0.5 to 1 µm isotropic resolution.

I have apparently reached the point in my career where I can 'rant' about the state of the NIH, #science #careers, bureaucracy in general, #women in STEM, etc. and my #trainees find it highly informative for making their own choices in their career journeys. Best to go in with eyes open after all :) #devbiol #devbio #STEM

@Mill_lab

Pleasantine, this would be great - but: the group was somehow generated automatically - I can't edit the intro 🙁

So we have to keep on mentioning @cilia and adding the hashtags in our "toots". :happy:

#cilia #biology #centriole #developmentalbiology #devbiol #ciliopathy #raredisease #ADPKD #BBS #PCD #flagella #cysts #kidney
#coolestorganelleontheplanet #Ciliverse

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Okay, here it is, the #Cilia group:

@cilia

My first attempt didn't work, most likely because of the "&" within the former group-name.

The way I understand this: everyone can now follow this group. If the group is mentioned in a post " @cilia ", this is shared with everyone in the group.

Deeply sorry that the name is now only "cilia" - it is meant for maximum inclusion!!!

It should include everyone:
#raredisease #ciliopathies #centrosome #centriole #devbiol

Please join!!! 🙂🙂🙂

Because the search function here doesn't work so well, as I've seen others do, here is a list of hashtags # I'm following (some of which I'm also adding to my profile):

#DevBio
#DevBiol
#Development
#Myoverse (as a possible equivalent of #Myotwitter )
#Morphogenesis
#Regeneration #MuscularDystrophy
#FSHD
#Mechanobiology
#CellBiology
#Neurobiology
#NeuroDev
#Imaging
#biorxiv
#preLights
#Microscopy
#axonguidance