Richard Behringer

Developmental biologist, geneticist, & reproductive biologist. PhD.
Son of an immigrant. Hispanic Filipino American. Endurance athlete.

[Society for Developmental Biology @SocDevBio]

The Society for Developmental Biology is hosting a session "Developmental Biology is for All" at @SACNAS on Saturday, October 31 at 1:15 pm. Join @clawedfeet, @WhimsicalAllium, @ceri_weber, and @DJuanFarmer1 at #SACNAS2026. Visit @clawedfeet at Booth 744.

[Frederik Schulz @frederikschu]

Check out our new preprint on Sissivirus: A giant virus with a ~4Mb genome - the largest reported for a viral isolate - with 43% repetitive DNA!

Exciting collaboration with Julien Andreani, Mart Krupovic and Bernard La Scola!
https://t.co/mOwl6Jk3UI

[ISSCR @ISSCR]

The ISSCR was proud to collaborate with the @AllenInstitute and the @SocDevBio on the inaugural Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Early Career Symposium.

Read more about this collaboration: https://t.co/tVXr8pqEJm

[Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) @MBLScience]

🧬 Oops, we missed World #CRISPR Day yesterday… we were a little busy gene editing cells in the lab! Want to get hands-on with CRISPR? Our Advanced Research Training Courses offer opportunities to learn cutting-edge techniques.

🔗 https://t.co/tqz62DMsDf

[Richard Behringer @rrbehringer]

Bright field image of paint fill of E15.5 mouse inner ear by Albert Noyes/Suzi Mansour @UUtah showing complex morphology. @SocDevBio @NIH_NIDCD

[Scholarships and Jobs in Europe, US, Canada, AU... @Scholarshipps]

The University of Lausanne in Switzerland invites application for vacant (24) PhD, Postdoctoral and Academic Positions https://t.co/hZ6aZxwXtX

[International Society of Differentiation @intlsocdiff]

Deadline extended: Submit to the "Enteric Nervous System Development and Repair" focus issue by January 31, 2027.
Editors: Julia Ganz and Rosa Uribe
Learn more and submit: https://t.co/xx62xcFMUJ 🔬

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#devbio #developmentalbiology #research

[Nick Desnoyer @NickDesnoyer]

We spent two weeks with Niko and shot this conversation on the final day.

I finished feeling more motivated than ever. The Paintunia, the art, and where it’s all going :)

[Warmflash lab @WarmflashLab]

Happy to share our latest preprint in collaboration with @BashorLab. Great work by first author Alena Streletskaia. https://t.co/7GK4OF5R9l

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

Harvard’s FAS is launching 25 tenure-track faculty searches, FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra announced, loosening a hiring freeze instituted last spring as the school draws an influx of philanthropic support.

@abbysgerstein and @amannmahajan report.

https://t.co/bIUybWNBuP

[David R. Liu @davidrliu]

First announced patient dosing of an in vivo prime editing treatment (to correct ATP7B H1069Q, one of the most common genetic causes of Wilson disease). There are now at least three prime editing clinical trials underway—for CGD (ex vivo, with positive clinical outcomes), for Wilson disease (in vivo), and for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD, in vivo).

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”

[Richard Behringer @rrbehringer]

Apply for full-time tenure-track faculty member
(Asst/Assoc Prof) Yanagimachi Institute for Biogenesis Research @uhmanoa w/research focus broadly on reproductive biology. https://t.co/J6pwnl2wpC @SSRepro @SocDevBio

[UC Berkeley MCB @berkeleyMCB]

Reminder🎗️: MCB is hiring Assistant Professors across 3 divisions! 🗓️ Application Deadline: October 19, 2026

[Xiaoxu Yang @shishenyxx]

The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is continuing a multi-year recruiting initiative for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. See details here https://t.co/RHizeHjaEw

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga.

Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source. In the early 2000s, he and Georg Nagel discovered channelrhodopsin, an algal protein with unique properties, found on the surface of the cell. When it is illuminated by blue light, a channel opens through the protein. Charged ions then flow into the cell, creating an electrical impulse. They found that regardless of which cell they put the protein in, those cells became light sensitive.

#NobelPrize

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

[Stowers Grad School @StowersGrad]

Applications are NOW open for the Stowers Summer Scholars Program! 🔬

Spend 8 weeks immersed in science—work alongside Stowers scientists, gain hands-on lab experience and become part of our collaborative scientific community.

🔗Apply here: https://t.co/TWmy0ChZk9

[plasmidsaurus @plasmidsaurus]

Since 2021, you've sent us your plasmids and woken up to the full sequence. Now we're taking the miniprep off your plate too.

With ZeroPrep colony sequencing, you send us a colony, plate, or overnight culture and get whole plasmid sequences back overnight or even the same day. No miniprep. No PCR. No bias.

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Which clone are you sequencing first? 🤔

Send in samples today: https://t.co/uq4GBMUNlJ

[Richard Behringer @rrbehringer]

@uribelabrice Thank you Rosa 🙏🏼

[Richard Behringer @rrbehringer]

I got on the podium! 3rd place, Men's Supported Category, meaning my gear was carried from camp to camp. Well, there were only 3 of us in this category who finished. 😀