Development

dev-journal.bsky.social

13 October 2026 08:46

In preprints – not just a cage: vitelline membranes (VM) as scaffolds for tissue morphogenesis @yosoyden.bsky.social & co discuss preprints by @cuencam15.bsky.social & co and @lakshmib02.bsky.social & co, positioning the VM as an essential structural player in early embryogenesis.

And it's finally out!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41... go.nature.com/4fuaJzW Congrats to first author @moisesdisante and the research teams in my Synthetic Physiology Lab @unipv.bsky.social @berterolab.bsky.social and @florianjug.bsky.social .

paveltomancak.bsky.social

03 August 2026 07:33

#Twisting embryos and multiple #attachment sites in #Drosophila - now both available as #preprints. Proud of @giuliaserafini.bsky.social & @cuencam15.bsky.social, who worked together & established theory collaborations with @lepuslapis.bsky.social & @carldmodes.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de at its best

Mark Peifer (He, him)

peiferlabunc.bsky.social

02 August 2026 23:08

They were the only cameras commercially available. Big honking things 2-3 feet long and 6 inches square. Eric was a pioneer in filming video; earlier folks actually used movie cameras. look for john Bonner's video of slime molds!

Mark Peifer (He, him)

peiferlabunc.bsky.social

01 August 2026 17:33

This work takes me back to a reason I chose the Wieschaus lab for a postdoc--the movie of gastrulating embryos he was already making using parking lot surveillance cameras. Sue Zusman was one of those in the lab at the time and she went on to Richard Hynes lab pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8076515/