I published a cephalic furrow thread about our paper on Twitter and Mastodon. We recently updated the manuscript on bioRxiv. In addition to the tissue mechanics, this new version includes gene expression data comparing Drosophila with Clogmia, a fly that has no cephalic furrow… It gives us some hints about the patterning changes associated with […]
Live footage of entoprocts! Tiny colonial invertebrates that capture food with a crown of ciliated tentacles
Cifonauta, our image database for marine biology, is 8 years old today! Almost 12k photos and videos annotated with species names, geolocation, habitat, life mode, microscopy technique and more. Visit: http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br Follow: @cifonauta
A chubby ribbon worm juvenile #Nemertean #WormWednesday
Fly Station is ready for the #LNdWDD @mpicbg
The Pluteus Trip is a music compilation that I created inspired by the life of these nifty echinoderm larvae named pluteus. It was released more than ten years ago on my (now defunct) music blog, ccNeLaS. The album is freely available at: https://archive.org/details/ThePluteusTrip Download it, read the description below, and enjoy the trip! Plutei are […]
This is a brachiopod embryo at the gastrula stage, showing its outer surface and the blastopore at the bottom. To visualize the cell membranes, I stained the sample for F-actin (filamentous protein fibers present in cells) and acquired a volumetric image stack in a confocal microscope. Then, I converted the original data to a 3D […]
Here is how a typical session of imaging embryos under Lightsheet Microscopy goes. A glimpse into my day-to-day work :) Assemble the incubation chamber: Collect and mount the embryos: Acquire a short timelapse from multiple angles: Transfer (lots of) data for image processing ;)
The pelagosphera larva of #Sipuncula. Photo by Alvaro Migotto via @cifonauta http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/photo/10874/
The ribbon worm Tubulanus #WormWednesday #Nemertea