EchinoClub

The place to talk about pentaradial worlds

[Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) @MBLScience]

In @NatureComms, MBL’s Margherita Perillo (@Marghe_Perillo) and colleagues reveal design principles for the formation of tubes in the embryo that go on to become blood vessels, the digestive tract, or complex organs. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

https://t.co/eD9WKNywny

[Vanessa Barone @Vane_Barone]

I am beyond thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Biology Department at @Stanford as Assistant Professor! The Barone lab will be based at @HopkinsMarine station and will open doors on March 1st, 2024. So there is still some time, but stay tuned: Cell-Evo-Devo is coming!

[RED lab @smadar_de]

We are recruiting!
Master/PhD/Post-docs are all welcome to join us.
See our cool website for details:
https://t.co/nkuxhsvdOH
Write to me if you're interested:
[email protected]

[Amro Hamdoun @Hamdounlab]

Good news, urchin tweeps- the first lytechinus pictus genome is now online @echinobase !! Let us know if you need help working with pictus! More resources are coming fast. Time to consider getting set up.

[Jake Warner @ScientistJake]

Please RT! My lab is recruiting a PhD student for an NSF funded project to examine the gene network wiring of Antarctic sea urchins. We hope to hear from you by Dec 1st. For more information please reach out via email

[Vanessa Barone @Vane_Barone]

This meeting is such fun! @LyonsLab_SIO

[Phillip Davidson @PhilDavidson]

Can early developmental networks rapidly change, or are they evolutionarily constrained due to their importance for critical embryonic processes? We address this question by comparing early gene networks in sea urchins, now out in @NatureEcoEvo 🧵(1/n)! https://t.co/uE0SEZvoZH

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

After a long journey, our Apical GRN work is online https://t.co/gdGs53IS0z on Science Advances. We resolved experimentally the initial GRN controlling the specification of serotonergic neurons in sea urchin larvae.

[DevelopmentalDynamic @DevelopmentalDy]

Gene regulatory networks (#GRNs) control developmental progression and #morphogenesis. Learn how the fine-tuning of GRNs during the transition from early to late #skeletogenesis drives diverse outcomes in sea urchins https://t.co/FgeAB5bCXb #IsSDB #seaurchin

[nat clarke @natclarke8]

Hey, Postdocs and Grad Students! 🚨

Are you going on the job market? Need to give a practice talk? 🙋

Sign up to give a talk at VGZT to share your work! 📣

It's a great community that will give you CONSTRUCTIVE feedback (and help get your name out there) 💖

[Danila Voronov @DanVoronov]

Check out our recent paper on vision in sea urchins in @Cells_MDPI, and all the awesome people involved @PaganosPeriklis, Esther Ullrich-Lüter, @filo_caccavale, @zak_an, @ines_fournon, @Maria_Cocurullo, Carsten Lüter and @ArnoneLab

[Lauren Lubeck @LaurenLubeck]

@FormeryLaurent and I can’t stop watching these juvenile brittle stars! They look like little waving snowflakes ❄️
We’ve raised them through metamorphosis in just under a month!

[Oliveri Lab @OliveriLab]

Postdoc positions at ⁦@OliveriLab⁩ and ⁦@EchinoKate⁩ https://t.co/U1UP1obzGf

[Nikta Fakhri @FakhriLab]

Very excited our work on chiral & nonreciprocal active matter is out @Nature.
https://t.co/OWFEK0wWhu
We discovered sea star embryos form living chiral crystals with unusual material properties e.g. odd elasticity & mechanical waves.
@tzerhan29 @junang_li @pjfoster @ShreyasG86

[Elliot Jackson @ewaltjackson]

Hey sea urchin embryology folks - anybody out there have a good way to detach embryos from protamine sulfate plates other than physical removal?

[Shunsuke Yaguchi @urchin_lab]

Andorさんに共焦点顕微鏡のデモをしていただきました。ウニのプルテウス幼生の全神経（オレンジ）とセロトニン神経（緑）
素晴らしい操作性とキレイな撮れ映えで大満足　全体スキャンをタイムラプスでどうぞ

Pan-neuron (orange) & serotonin (green) in 96h pluteus

[Amro Hamdoun @Hamdounlab]

It's finally out! Please check out our paper @dev_journal on the generation of homozygous mutant Lytechinus pictus lines. A step towards better sea urchin resources. https://t.co/j7CRKwlBDS 1/4

[Lyons Lab at Scripps @LyonsLab_SIO]

#TeamCrepidula had a few big wins this week, including this lovely movie of equal spiral cleavage in Crepidula atrasolea captured by postdoc @Vane_Barone. Can you spot which quadrant becomes dorsal by the end? Lets make more snail embryo movies @MBLScience for #embryo22! 🔬🐚🐌

[Zac Swider @ZacSwider]

Starfish blastula labeled with probes for DNA and microtubules 🧵