The mitotic waves made it onto the Sächsische Zeitung, a regional newspaper published in Dresden (thanks to Katrin Boes from MPI-CBG). They wrote a nice little piece about the video. I translated it to English (using DeepL…). You can read it below. Scientist receives coveted film award Dresden researcher turns little fruit flies into movie […]
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Posts about biology usually related to my research on the evolution of embryonic development in animals.
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Colormap for mitotic waves
In a recent email exchange, someone asked me what the colors in the video of mitotic waves mean and how did I get them. How the microscope technique results in the array of colors in the cells (purple to yellow and red). Could you briefly explain where the colors come from and how you visualised […]
Our brachiopod Wnt paper has been peer-reviewed, was accepted, and is now published in BMC Biology! The article is open-access: Vellutini, B. C., Martín-Durán, J. M., Børve, A. & Hejnol, A. Combinatorial Wnt signaling landscape during brachiopod anteroposterior patterning. BMC Biol. 22, 1–23 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01988-w
My video of mitotic waves won Nikon’s 2024 Small World in Motion video competition! I’m thrilled 🎉 To learn more about the video, check out Nikon’s press release and their article for the series Masters of Microscopy. There’s also a blog post that I wrote a couple of years ago with some biological information and […]
spotLights is a podcast-like, interview series to highlight the people and stories behind the latest preprints. It is part of the preLights initiative organized by The Company of Biologists. The first spotLights episode is out, and it features… me 🥸 The conversation was about the cephalic furrow preprint, which was also reviewed by preLighters earlier […]
I recently finished the revision of our paper about the Wnt signaling landscape in brachiopod development. This is work from my PhD time in the Hejnol Lab in Norway. We posted it on bioRxiv last September, and sent to a journal later that year. Following the reviewers’ feedback, we added new data, made significant improvements […]
Visualizing the dynamics of gene expression patterns over time is a challenge. But this is a nice way.
EvoDevo Papers is a bot that shares research articles in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (or evo-devo). Originally, I created it as a Twitter bot, and everything was going well for years… until Twitter’s takeover. The new policies and API restrictions made it unsustainable to continue posting there. In response to that, I decided […]
Kinya Ota’s Lab investigates the embryonic development and evolutionary biology of goldfish. Their YouTube channel has a great diversity of videos describing laboratory techniques, culture conditions, developmental time lapses, and a lot more. I’ve seen a few videos about fertilization and embryos, but I just found out that they’re doing a series on goldfish evo-devo! […]
preLights is a (another) great initiative from The Company of Biologists where teams of scientists review and comment on preprints of interest for the biology community. I was delighted to hear that they were going to highlight our cephalic furrow preprint (Vellutini et al.) combined with the cephalic furrow preprint of Lemke and Wang labs […]