🚨 I'm hiring at all levels! Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology? I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the evolution of cell adhesion using marine inverts + comparative genomics. 🔗: https://t.co/975qBVaxGt Please repost!

Our new collaborative paper with @CyndiBradham's lab at BU, led by first author @Alex_T_Lion is out in @Dev_Bio_Journal & featured on Sept 2025 cover! 🥳😃 Proud of our @univmiami contributions!! PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development! https://t.co/mhjW11pKl8

Interested in skeletal development? Biomineralization? Invertebrate body plans? Imaging? Then this three year postdoc @sotonbiosci is for you! There are still ~2 weeks left to apply. Details are here: https://t.co/xnI111jwLi and please reach out to me if you're interested!

Calling all computational evolutionary biologists, we're hiring! Apply:

🌟We have great satellite meetings!🥳😎 - Spiralia 🐌🪱 - Arthropods 🦋🦗🪰🪳 - Fishes🐠🐟🐡 - Non-bilaterian 🪼🪸 Remember to register here:  https://t.co/Q5gOoPnfXp

🌟We are excited to announce the non-bilaterian satellite symposia at PASEDB meeting Miami July 22, 2025! 🪼🪸#PASEDB2025 #pasedb #evodevo Organizers: Drs. Athula Wikarmanayake, Bill Browne & @natclarke8 Register here: https://t.co/Q5gOoPnfXp

‼️ Attention non-bilaterian enthusiasts: Join us for the non-bilaterian satellite symposium at PASEDB 2025 this July! Come hear the latest in cnidarians, sponges, ctenophores & more! Talks will be selected from abstracts. Contact me with questions. Register at the link below:

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: https://t.co/vHA6sDoEMm https://t.co/6gxsBDkYFh

My lab @WUSM_BMB is hiring! We’re looking for a talented Postdoc and Research Tech to join us in studying the structure and function of molecular machines and massive membrane protein assemblies. Apply here: Postdoc: https://t.co/ngOAXFLWYd Research Tech: https://t.co/pEyiT5Wtbc

https://t.co/Lp6vsE3IEb How a localised Wnt3 ligand establishes a consistent body axis. It controls both β-catenin and PCP pathways and systematically coordinates gene expression, tissue polarity and morphology. It also highlights a cell polarity-driven axis evolution scenario.

@univmiami I’m honored to have this opportunity to continue my work, and deeply grateful to all my mentors that have helped me get here: @MartinLabMIT, Brady Weissbourd, Chris Lowe, James Nelson, and all the friends and peer mentors who have helped along the way.

@univmiami I will be hiring at all levels – postdoc, technician/research specialist, and PhD. If you are interested in exploratory science and organismal cell biology, please get in touch! (If you are applying to grad school right now, UM applications are still open!)

@univmiami Our initial focus will be on mechanisms of cell adhesion and morphogenesis. How did the first animals hold their cells together? Are there deeply conserved mechanisms underlying embryonic morphogenesis in metazoans?

I’m delighted to share that I will be starting my lab @univmiami in Spring 2025! We will study cellular and developmental biology in non-bilaterian animals – cnidarians, ctenophores, placozoans, and sponges – to explore early animal evolution.

I don't know if I'm fully done with this space yet, but I'm going to give the blue one a try. Find me: @natclarke.bsky.social !

Cell and developmental biologists--Join us at the 2025 Cell Contact and Adhesion @GordonConf. We've assembled a strong and diverse program of speakers at the cutting-edge of science in our field 1/n Please RT https://t.co/YmU29Ajutg

Here’s an hour of wild Pacific Coast jellyfishes swimming to help alleviate the existential dread: https://t.co/StJUBWBjea

Check the paper out here (full-text link):

We found an EGF gradient in the early fly embryo that enriches adherens junctions along the DV axis. This junctional pattern serves as a scaffold for actomyosin enrichment to drive tissue flow during gastrulation. Disrupting this EGF signal inhibits cell movement!

Thrilled to share our latest work from my postdoc with @MartinLabMIT in @Dev_Cell ! We uncovered a mechanism linking DV axial patterning with AP axis extension through patterned cell-cell adhesion. Intrigued? Dive into the details here!