Development is a leading research journal in the field of developmental biology, covering stem cells, regeneration, evodevo, epigenetics, morphogenesis and more
Issue 8 is complete!
On the cover: Whole-mount 3D image of an E10.0 mouse embryo created using Acto3D to visualise the pharyngeal arch arteries (white) amidst surrounding tissues, marked with SYTOX Green (blue), TNNI3 (yellow) & Tomato Lectin (red). See:
The eye-xtracellular matrix in morphogenesis: of neural crest and nidogen
A Research Highlight from our new issue, on
@CDBE30
@kwantourage
& colleagues' paper
Our Special Issue, Development at the Single Cell Level, is now complete!
The cover features the winning entry from our
#singlecell
cover competition and depicts two iconic developmental biology models: chick and zebrafish.
Aristotle, Buddhist scripture and embryology in ancient Mexico: building inclusion by re-thinking what counts as the history of developmental biology
An Open Access Review by
@jbwallingford
Microtubules spin the nucleus during neuronal migration
A Research Highlight from our latest issue, on an article featuring some wonderful videos of migrating neurons 1/4
Smooth muscle sculpts lung branching
A Research Highlight from our new issue, featuring Celeste Nelson and colleagues' paper on mouse airway development
We're excited to announce a new scheme aimed at supporting postdocs as they go on the job market. Our 'Pathway to Independence' programme will provide mentorship, support and networking opportunities to a group of researchers transitioning to independence
Development in 2020
In this thread we share some of our highlights of this unique year. We'll start with the 24 cover images of 2020, a showcase for the beauty of
#devbio
. You can find a collated cover gallery over on
@the_Node
1/12
We recently published a collection of 4 Spotlight articles that celebrate the incredible interdisciplinary contribution of Suzanne Eaton
@eaton_lab
@mpicbg
to
#devbio
1/5
Frenetic filopodia in migrating muscle precursors
In our new issue, Jared Talbot, Sharon Amacher & colleagues mapped long-distance muscle precursor migrations in
#zebrafish
with unprecedented resolution using live imaging
A microfluidic platform to investigate the role of mechanical constraints on tissue reorganization
A Research Article from Sham Tlili, François Graner and Hélène Delanoë-Ayari
We welcome submissions for our upcoming special issue on
#developmentaldisorders
, guest edited by Sally Dunwoodie and John Wallingford. Deadline: 31/01/20. More info:
Issue 8 is now complete!
On the cover: a transverse section through the hindbrain level of an E2 chick embryo immunostained for laminin (red) and SOX10 (green).
For more details, see the Research Article by Halasy et al.
Zinc: keeping neuroepithelial cells alive
A Research Highlight from our new issue, featuring Huili Li, Jing Zhang 7 Lee Niswander's paper on zinc and p53 in neural tube closure
Imaging the onset of oscillatory signaling dynamics during mouse embryo gastrulation
An Open Access Research Article from Henning Falk, Takehito Tomita, Alexander Aulehla and colleagues
As we begin to wind down for Christmas, we'd like to thank everyone who made 2018 a great year - our authors, editors, reviewers and readers, as well as everyone in
@Co_Biologists
who helps us run smoothly!
(GIF shows our 24 beautiful covers of 2018)
We are delighted to announce the next call for applications for our 'Pathway to Independence' programme - aimed at supporting postdocs going on the job market. Full details can be found at . Application deadline 31 January 2024.
Our Special Issue: Imaging Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration is now complete
The cover shows a C. elegans hermaphrodite expressing markers for the plasma membrane (fire) and nuclei (green) in the syncytial germ line from
@BauerJack92
& colleagues
As the year winds down, we’ll be celebrating the diversity of
#devbio
by tweeting some of our favourite papers of the year, showcasing different approaches, scales and species. It's the 12 days of
#Devmas
!
We've had some beautiful covers this year!
Thanks to all our authors, reviewers, editors, and in-house production and administrative staff who make it all possible
We're excited to announce that our September meeting on human development is going ahead, online!
#CoBHumanDev
🔹2 x 3h sessions per day
🔹Talks and posters
🔹Informal networking opportunities via interactive software
🔹Apply by 17 July!
Call for papers: extended deadline!
Our 2020 Special Issue on developmental disorders, guest edited by Sally Dunwoodie and John Wallingford, is accepting submissions until 17 February
More info here:
The exciting times at
@Dev_journal
continue - we're delighted to announce that Cassandra Extavour
@redmakeda
@HarvardOEB
has joined us as an editor! Cassandra brings expertise in
#evodevo
, arthropod evolution & the germline to our team of academic editors
Inter-organ communication during tissue regeneration
In this Review
@FeiSun_334786
&
@Ken_Poss_Lab
draw on recent mechanistic studies across various species, tissues & injury contexts to explore the role organs distant from an injury play in regeneration:
Delighted to announce that our next Special Issue will be on 'Imaging development, stem cells and regeneration' - due to be published in mid-2021. Submission deadline March 31 2021. More details here:
What do cows, mice, rats and humans have in common? Let's ask the Hippo
A Research Highlight showcasing new work from
@ClaudiaGerri
@NiakanLab
and colleagues
@TheCrick
The latest addition to our YouTube playlist is a collection of beautiful movies of tube elongation in lung and kidney explants, coming from
@DagmarIber
and colleagues' recent paper
#devbio
#timelapse
Congratulations to our Editor-in-Chief, James Briscoe (
@briscoejames
), on being elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (
@americanacad
)!
Branching morphogenesis
In our latest 'Development at a Glance' poster and article, Katharine Goodwin & Celeste Nelson highlight the conserved and divergent mechanisms used to construct branched tissues
We are delighted to announce our first cohort of Pathway to Independence (PI) Fellows. Following a very competitive call, we have selected eight talented postdocs who we will be supporting as they navigate the job market.
An interview with Irene Miguel-Aliaga
Our new Associate Editor
@FlyGutLab
@imperialcollege
talked to
@katemmabrown1
about growing up an anglophile, the enduring power of Drosophila and the emerging themes of metabolism, sex and plasticity in
#devbio
We're excited to announce the launch of a new
#devbio
webinar series - Development presents...
Kicking off Oct 7 with
@BulajicMilica
, Andrew Economou & José Blanco-Ameijeiras
Register here:
This thread explains what makes
#DevPres
different...
1/5
Issue 22 of 2021 is now complete!
The cover shows a 3D projection of a zebrafish larva, with nasal and temporal retinal ganglion cells labelled in green and red respectively from
@OliviaSpead
, Fabienne Poulain & colleagues.
Find out more in Spead et al.
At
@Dev_journal
we love cardiac development.
For
#ValentinesDay
, here's a 2018 cover featuring 25 mouse hearts, some broken, from Daylon James and colleagues
In our newly opened issue, two articles get to the heart of development
❤️🔬❤️
1. Yukio Saijoh & colleagues use cell cluster labelling and live imaging to interrogate heart tube formation and elongation
Save the date: 8 December at 15:00 GMT
As part of our celebrations for the 25th anniversary of our Zebrafish Special Issue, Alex Schier
@schierlab
will chair a special zebrafish themed
#DevPres
webinar
Speaker announcements to follow shortly
We are delighted to welcome Debby Silver
@TheSilverLab
@DukeU
to our editorial team. Debby will be handling papers on neural development, RNA regulation and brain evolution. Feel free to reach out to Debby if you've got a paper you might be interested in sending her way!
Spherical harmonics analysis reveals cell shape-fate relationships in zebrafish lateral line neuromasts
Read this
#OpenAccess
Techniques and Resources Article from Madeleine Hewitt, Iván Cruz and David Raible
@raiblelab
:
Human embryo implantation
Read this
#OpenAccess
Review from Joanne Muter, Vincent Lynch, Rajiv McCoy,
@BrosensJan
@uniofwarwick
, examining the foundational processes of pregnancy from an evolutionary perspective:
Terribly sad news that Kathryn Anderson passed away yesterday - the
#devbio
field has lost an inspiring colleague. If you'd like to know more about her life and work, take a look at this interview from a few years ago:
Just published in our Techniques & Resources section: an atlas of seven zebrafish hox cluster mutants from Kazuya Yamada, Akiteru Maeno, Akinori Kawamura & colleagues
Suzanne Eaton (1959-2019)
In his obituary, Frank Jülicher looks back on the life of Suzanne Eaton and reflects on how her work on Drosophila tissue morphogenesis contributed to the fields of cell and developmental biology.
The present and future of Turing models in developmental biology
Shigeru Kondo
@turingpattern
gives a personal perspective on how the Turing model has been implemented and adapted in recent years.
Control of gastruloid patterning and morphogenesis by the Erk and Akt signaling pathways
Read this 'Stem Cells and Regeneration' article by Evan Underhill and Jared Toettcher
@toettch
:
How perivascular fibroblasts get in the brain
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Hannah Jones
@hej_cell
, Vanessa Coelho-Santos, Stephanie Bonney, Kelsey Abrams, Andy Shih & Julie Siegenthaler
@SiegenthalerLab
@CUAnschutz
:
Issue 14 is complete!
Our cover is a composite of illustrations depicting Xenopus development from Natalya Zahn, Christina James-Zorn and Aaron Zorn
@ZornLab
@Xenbase
The full set of drawings are available to on Xenbase ()
Krista Angileri, Nornubari Bagia and
@CedricFeschotte
present their hypothesis on the role of TEs in tissue regeneration and suggest that the co-evolution of TEs and host control mechanisms may have contributed to difference in regenerative competency.
Postdocs going on the job market this year - check out our 'Pathway to Independence' programme: mentoring, training and networking opportunities to help with the transition to a PI position. Application deadline 31 January:
Segmentation and patterning of the vertebrate hindbrain
In their Review, Robb Krumlauf and David Wilkinson discuss how sharp patterns of segments and boundaries are formed during hindbrain development.
Wonderful news for us on both sides of the channel this week:
On Monday, our former EiC
@PourquieOlivier
was elected to the
@theNASciences
And yesterday, our Editor François Guillemot became a Fellow of the
@royalsociety
Félicitations!
Advocating developmental biology
We're excited to open our new series of review articles which make compelling arguments for the field’s importance, highlighting the achievements and potential of
#devbio
1/6
If
#COVID19
(or anything else!) causes delays to revision of your paper, don't worry - we're happy to be flexible with revision deadlines so just get in touch.
The peripheral nervous system
In this Development at a Glance article, Aliia Murtazina and
@adameykolab
@karolinskainst
provide up-to-date knowledge of the peripheral nervous system and insights into the development & heterogeneity of its different roles.
Regulation of anterior neurectoderm specification and differentiation by BMP signaling in ascidians
Read this Research Article by Agnès Roure (
@RoureAgnes
), Rafath Chowdhury (
@RafathChowdhur1
) and Sébastien Darras (
@DARRASSbastien1
):
SyNPL: Synthetic Notch pluripotent cell lines to monitor and manipulate cell interactions in vitro and in vivo
An Open Access Research Article in our Stem Cells and Regeneration section from
@matt_mala
,
@_CellySally_
and colleagues at
@crm_edinburgh
Transparent peer review at Development
We will now publish a ‘Peer review history’ file alongside published articles (on author approval), providing additional insights and opening up the process of peer review to interested readers. For more information:
We are devastated to hear the news about Suzanne Eaton - an inspiring scientist and valued colleague. Our thoughts are with her family and friends, and all those
@mpicbg
, especially
@eaton_lab
60 years apart - our first (1960) and most recent (current issue) paper with John Gurdon (then
@UniofOxford
, now
@GurdonInstitute
) on the author list!
Congratulations to Development Editor Liz Robertson and Development board member Edith Heard on their recent their election as international members of the
@theNASciences
!
Special Issue: Imaging Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration
Multiview tiling light sheet microscopy for 3D high-resolution live imaging
@aakhte
and Hans-Arno J. Müller
An interview with Claude Desplan
@nyuniversity
@katemmabrown1
met the winner of the
@___SDB___
Conklin Medal and heard about how he first became captivated by Drosophila and neural development, his mentorship style and tips for young scientists
This International Women's Day
#IWD2019
we want to thank our five women Editors - world class
#devbio
researchers whose editorial work is fundamental to how we work
PCP signalling in the rosette fancy mouse – give us a whorl
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Maureen Cetera
@maureencetera
, Danelle Devenport and colleagues: