I participated in the II Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Evolutionary Biology that took place 15-17 July 2026 at UFMG in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil (where I currently live). It was a great opportunity to integrate back into the Brazilian community, meet old friends and initiate new collaborations. The organization was impeccable, innovative […]
Author: Bruno C. Vellutini
Biologist researching how embryos form and evolve.
Later this year I’ll be joining the Comparative Embryology of Marine Invertebrates (CEMI) course as an instructor. It will be held from November 25th to December 8th, 2026, at CEBIMar–USP, São Sebastião, Brazil. CEBIMar is where I did my master’s thesis about the embryonic development of a sea biscuit and where the Oceano and Cifonauta […]
I went to the 10th Meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology that took place in Glasgow, Scotland (9-12 June 2026). I’ve been to EED’s meetings since 2012, and this was the first after starting my position in Brazil. It was great to catch up with everyone again and meet several people that […]
EvoDevo journal rebranding I saw today that EvoDevo, one of the key journals in the field of evolutionary developmental biology, has been rebranded as Developmental Biology Advances. The announcement frames it in a positive light: This change marks an exciting new chapter, continuing to highlight the integrative research that has defined EvoDevo while expanding the […]
I deposited the codebase that powers EvoDevo Papers on Zenodo. It is now citable: Vellutini, B. C. (2026). EvoDevo Papers: a literature bot for evolutionary developmental biology. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18238617
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LiSIAW 2026
The Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop organized by LiSIUM took place last week at Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile. There were 24 participants from all over Latin America—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay! Marina Cuenca, Agustin Corbat, and I (the instructors) gave lectures and practicals ranging from the basics of digital images to advanced workflows […]
I would like to share with you a minimal set of principles that I’ve been using to organize my research papers. These principles aren’t new or revolutionary… in fact, they’re basic, even boring. However, they are the ones that stood out to me over the years as the most fundamental; the ones that nudge me […]
After many years as a postdoc in the Tomancak Lab at the MPI-CBG in Dresden, Germany, I’m starting a new position as assistant professor in the Department of Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution of the Institute of Biological Sciences of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). More news about the lab, research, teaching, and outreach […]