Lorena Maia

Brazilian Postdoc studying neural tube formation in Xenopus embryos 🐸💚 Harnos Lab at MU #DevBio #Xenopus

[Latinx_db @latinxdb]

Attending #2026SDB? Stop by our Theme Table #9!

Our team member @EstermannMartin will be there representing Latinx in DevBio.

We'd love to meet you! 🌎🧬

[Latinx_db @latinxdb]

We're launching our Latinx DevBio interview series 🌎 🎉

Our first inspiring conversation features Dr. Rosa Navarro: Leading Developmental Biology research in Mexico 🇲🇽

Read here: https://t.co/9hdBET8cLH

Thanks, Dr. Navarro, for sharing your journey and insights with us!

[Lorena Maia @lorena_amaia]

Happy to be part of this mission 🌎🧬🐸🔬#LatinxDB

[Latinx_db @latinxdb]

✨🌎Proud to celebrate our first year as a network empowering Latinx developmental biologists worldwide. Thanks to everyone helping our mission—here’s to growth and stronger community.

@lorena_amaia @Luiza_O_Saad @EmmaRangelH @mary_fflores

[kuba sędziński @ksedzinski]

We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: https://t.co/53gtr8qx68
🎓 PhD position: https://t.co/hL3Zfk7oII
🧪 Postdoc position: https://t.co/0mVS4ZaomG

[Society for Developmental Biology @SocDevBio]

🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio

[Latinx_db @latinxdb]

🚨Join us today!

We are looking forward to seeing you there! 🌎

@EmmaRangelH @SACNAS

[Latinx_db @latinxdb]

💭Transitioning to independence isn’t only a Latinx concern!

One key takeaway from our workshop at ICDB in Puerto Rico: this is a shared challenge across the field.

🌎Proud of the diversity — celebrating Latinx representation, gender balance, and early career voices in Dev Bio!

[Society for Developmental Biology @SocDevBio]

🏆 First Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🖼️
“A Model Meeting” by Karla Akari Garcia
Inspired by The Quaker Meeting, this watercolor honors animal research models, from mouse to axolotl, that have advanced developmental biology 🎨 A tribute to science’s often unsung heroes. #DevBioArt

[Lorena Maia @lorena_amaia]

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[Xenbase @Xenbase]

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course - Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease, April 7 - 21, 2026. Application Deadline: January 16, 2026 https://t.co/F5PFY2O9ua #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"I was the worst out of 250."

Not even Nobel Prize laureates get straight A's.

Hear 2012 medicine laureate John Gurdon speak about being a non-intellectual and having a teacher that thought it was "ridiculous" that Gurdon thought about becoming a scientist.

Developmental biologist Gurdon received the medicine prize “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.”

#NobelPrize

[Amphibian Survival Alliance @amphibiansorg]

We join the world today in mourning the loss of Dr. Jane Goodall, a voice for nature and hope for our planet.

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall

We celebrate her life and legacy.
#JaneGoodall

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Rest in peace Jane Goodall, a true giant among scientists. Your breakthroughs into the secret lives of chimpanzees viewed through an anthropomorphic lens – without yet knowing that science had forbidden it – changed science forever, and with it how we see ourselves.

[kuba sędziński @ksedzinski]

🧵1/14 Preprint thread! Can we predict a cell’s fate based on its dynamics? 🔮 Our new study unveils a framework for watching development unfold in real-time, revealing how a cell's shape and movement encode info about its future fate. 🔬📄 Preprint: https://t.co/84lDgRTJgc

[Lorena Maia @lorena_amaia]

@ksedzinski @reNEW_Global @MariTolonen @bidumit @Columbia Congratulations, Kuba and team!! 👏🏽🐸

[Lorena Maia @lorena_amaia]

@Mech_Morph_Lab @ERC_Research @EMBO @FundlaCaixa @dfg_public @FCGulbenkian @PoLDresden @Xenbase Congratulations, Elias and team!! 👏🏽🐸

[Barriga Lab @Mech_Morph_Lab]

ongratulations to all co-authors! Thanks to our funders @ERC_Research @EMBO @FundlaCaixa @dfg_public
and our previous hosts @FCGulbenkian
and of course @PoLDresden and to the amazing @Xenbase and 🐸🐸community.

the full text is here: https://t.co/yiATquAjQP

[Lorena Maia @lorena_amaia]

We had a great time at #V4SDB2025 🐸🎉

[V4SDB @V4Sdb]

Wow, that was amazing! We thank everyone for attending the V4SDB 2025 meeting! You all made it an excellent conference, where we had the opportunity to hear from outstanding speakers,share ideas and experiences, and of course have some unforgettable time during social activities!

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Some frogs are thumbnail-size. But Cameroon’s Goliath frog is bigger than a whole human foot, weighing up to 3.3 kilograms. #ScienceMagArchives https://t.co/KddS6YPJDY

[A. Sánchez Alvarado @Planaria1]

Evolution’s eye game is wild, but mollusks take it to another level

Using CRISPR, we now have a new model in apple snails to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess

Evolution, it turns out, doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, and regenerates

https://t.co/s9obLA1ajj

@ScienceStowers @theNASciences @Vilcek

[Lorena Maia @lorena_amaia]

Exciting times ahead! 🤩 #DevBio #LatinxDB

[Mary Flores @mary_fflores]

LASDB board meeting during the ISDB/SDB/LASDB joint meeting in San Juan, PR 🌴✨! We’re excited for what’s ahead for developmental biology and the growing role of Latinx scientists in the field. 💪🏽🧬 🐸🐟🐣🐭🪰#DevBio #LatinxInScience @LASDB_DevBiol #LatinxDB