Society for Developmental Biology

This is the official account for the Society for Developmental Biology. Tweets on all the latest Dev Bio news, meetings and science!

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✨ Excited to host invited speaker Joyce Onyenedum (@JGOnyenedum) at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏
Her research explores plant diversity and the mechanisms underlying variation in plant traits. 🌱 🧬 ✨ #devbio

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🚨 Deadline extended till June 10th‼️

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🚨 Last day to submit to the SDB Art Show ‼️ SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨✨ More information: https://t.co/VYgwxNGpr3

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What can we learn from butterflies? 🦋
Butterfly models help us uncover how genes shape form, revealing the mechanisms behind pattern formation, cell fate decisions, and morphogenesis. #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo 🧬 📸 Photo by Ignacio Vazquez on Pexels

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🚨 Last day to submit to the SDB Art Show ‼️ SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨✨ More information: https://t.co/VYgwxNGpr3

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4-cell mud snail embryo (Tritia obsoleta) 🐌
Max projection showing yolk protein granules in magenta and lipid droplets in green. Imaging by Marcus Kilwein at Princeton University. #FluorescenceFriday

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🧠🐟✨ Mayssa Mokalled will be joins us at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 Her lab studies how zebrafish achieve remarkable spinal cord regeneration 🐠💫 uncovering pro-regenerative cell types and mechanisms with the goal of informing neural repair strategies in mammals. 🧬

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✨ 2026 SDB Art Show 🎨 SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Deadline: June 1st ‼️ Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨 More information: https://t.co/VYgwxNGpr3

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🦴✨ Douglas B. Menke joins us at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 His lab explores how vertebrate limb morphology evolves through changes in gene regulation 🧬🐭 with current work focused on Tbx4 enhancer elements that shape hindlimb development and evolution across species. 🐾✨

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♂️ & ♀️ generalist #pupfish (Cyprinodon variegatus) from San Salvador Island, Bahamas 🐟. Feña Palominos at the Martin Fish Speciation Lab (UC Berkeley) uses this “wild type” species to study craniofacial genetics and evolutionary developmental biology. #ModelMonday #EvoDevo

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✨ Serving egg-cellent organization and fluorescent elegance 🥚 Partial Drosophila 🪰 ovariole with WGA staining of nuclear envelopes 🔬 📸 Image by Michelle Giedt #FluorescenceFriday 🐣

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The May 8 #SDBPostdocSeminar with Jennifer Watts of @nationwidekids and Bezia Lemma of @Princeton has been posted. Thank you to moderators Priyom Adhyapok and Yiqun Wang. Watch here: https://t.co/K2XkikiOyo

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🐟✨ Excited to welcome invited speaker Ben Lovely to #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 His lab uses zebrafish to study craniofacial development 🦴🐟 and the mechanisms underlying ethanol teratogenesis. ✨🐣

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✨ 2026 SDB Art Show 🎨 SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Deadline: June 1st ‼️ Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨 More information: https://t.co/VYgwxNGpr3

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🌟 Meet the #SDB2026 Social Media Workforce!🔬 Matyas Bubna-Litic is a Postdoc in Mongera lab at University College London (see a 🔬? it’s probably him 😉). He studies how mechanics and signaling interact during tissue elongation using synthetic embryo models 🧫

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🚨 TODAY is the Early Registration Deadline! 🚨 Register by 11:59 PM ET (May 20) for the Society for Developmental Biology 2026 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 First 250 registrants get a FREE t-shirt 👕Don’t miss it! 🔗 https://t.co/tswSe28Kvd
#SDB2026 #DevBio

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🌊✨ Excited to welcome invited speaker Veronica Hinman to #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 Her research explores how gene regulatory networks evolve during embryonic development and regeneration using sea stars and sea urchins ⭐🪸 as model systems. 🐣

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🎉 The new #SDB Merch Store is officially LIVE! 👕🧢☕ Grab your favorite SDB gear including t-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, mugs & more ✨ 🛍️ Visit the store via the SDB homepage or shop directly here: https://t.co/n5oXWulEHc Show off your dev bio pride 🔬🧬🐟 #DevelopmentalBiology

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🐞 Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle) 🧬✨Tribolium helps uncover how insect body segments form and evolve through short-germ development, offering key insights into ancestral developmental mechanisms 📸 Image by Xavier Franch and David Martin. #ModelMonday #EvoDevo 🐣

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⭐️ A transgenic hydra labeling the endoderm and ectoderm of two column ends regenerating.🔬📸 Credit: Raisa Bailon-Zambrano from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus taken during the 2021 MBL Embryology Course
#FluorescenceFriday #devbio #Embryology 🪸

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✨ Looking forward to hosting Amro Hamdoun from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD at the #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 His research focus is on the cellular mechanisms, specifically transport proteins, in the sea urchin embryo and environmental toxicology. ✨ #devbio 🔬🪸