Ben Steventon

Happy to share this work from @alexneaverson.bsky.social where she has dissected the timing and relative contribution of the organiser and its derivates to multiple aspects of early neural development: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2027: Biological organization and the evolution of form August 22-27, 2027 Centro Cultural Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice Register at: meetings.embo.org/event/27-bio... Deadline is March 15, 2027. #VeniceEvoDevo

A new paper by @yuritakahashi.bsky.social from @bensteventon.bsky.social lab @geneticscam.bsky.social describes a feedback loop 🔁 between EMT initiation and SNAI2-induced SMAD1 signalling in 🐤 explants. Migration -> ⬆️SMAD1 -> ⬆️BMP signalling -> ⬆️migration. #devbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎉 Our paper is out today in @science.org! How does the intestine maintain the right balance of cell types? We find that signalling rhythms matter! So proud of our three shared first authors, Sonja Weterings, @hiromuneeto.bsky.social & @jddeleede.bsky.social! 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How do long-lived multipotent stem cells cope with mechanical stress in vivo? We found that neural crest cells are protected from mechanical stress during migration in confined tissue environment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🍹 TLM Pub Talks 🍻 Ever wondered why children grow to the same height as their parents? Why large and small people have the same number of toes, fingers, and vertebrae? Jake Cornwall-Scoones and Amy Bowen might be able to help you! Come to the Panton Arms on Oct 27th at 18:30 to learn more

We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

NeMo is finally out! 🐟 We present our new method to peel cellular layers and extract their nematics. If you're wondering what a fish has to do with curved nematics, check out the thread and the publication 👀👇🏼 arxiv.org/html/2609.12...

What if any dataset, any size, any number of dimensions, opened in a browser tab from a link? 🔬🧪💻 Luxar is out today: write it in Python, share it as a link, explore it in any browser. Open source. 🧵 @biohub.org Preprint: doi.org/10.5281/zen... Code: github.com/royerlab/luxar

To learn more about this work and the people behind it, we talked to Carlos Camacho-Macorra, and Benjamin Steventon @bensteventon.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Super happy to see Carlos’s work highlighted in Development. He figured out how the notochord uses Yap signaling to balance the rate of progenitor entry vs anterior expansion

Nice commentary Oslvaldo, it was a lot of fun working on this project together!

The article was spearheaded by Carlos Camacho-Macorra and led by @bensteventon.bsky.social where @alberto-ceccarelli.bsky.social and I developed a simple 1D mathematical model to understand how notochord cells coordinate their growth during tissue elongation... 2/7

New Prelight out! 🐸 @prelights.bsky.social Neural crest migration and neural tube closure: two tissues in conversation. Read it here: prelights.biologists.com/highlights/r... Original preprint from @mayorlab.bsky.social here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #NeuralCrest #Xenopus #preLights

Dear #LondonEvoDevo colleagues, don't forget to register for our next meeting (deadline on Sep 15th). It would be wonderful to see a lot of our #Cambridge colleagues.

So happy & excited to see our paper out in @plosbiology.org ! 🎉 With contributions from many past & present members of the Lowell & Wilson labs @edinuni-irr.bsky.social , and a fantastic collaboration with @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social & @alberto-ceccarelli.bsky.social. 🧵👇(1/10)

Our work on the role of the proteasome in developmental tempo is out!!!! 🐭⌛️👤⏳ Six years after identifying an association between protein stability and developmental tempo, we now demonstrate a causal link between protein turnover and developmental tempo through proteasomal degradation

First published teamwork of the lab 🎉! We wrote a review about emerging concepts of how metabolism promotes, regulates and changes during gastrulation. We hope it will be useful for anyone interested in the emerging field of developmental metabolism. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The #LondonEvoDevo goes to Cambridge! Kindly hosted by @emiliapsantos.bsky.social, mark on your calendars *October 2nd* at the Main Theatre in the Department of Zoology (Cambridge). Registration (£0.00): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... All welcome to present: #PI #PhD #PostDocs, submit abstracts!

We're hiring! We're looking for a creative and collaborative scientist to uncover how mechanics and metabolism work together to shape mammary epithelial tissues, using tunable hydrogels, fluidics, live imaging and single-cell analysis. MRC funded | Apply: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Pleased to be part of such an enthusiastic team of PhDs + postdocs, engaging with equally enthusiastic pupils eager to learn more about development and the tools we use!

How does an embryo generate the right cells in the right place? Delighted to share our latest findings on how neural crest cells acquire vagal or trunk identities Spoiler alert: The timing & combination of CDXs preconfigures cell identity & distinct HOX states www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Fintastic and elegant fate mapping work from @vprincelab.bsky.social 🐟🧪 #zebrafish

We had an amazing day #Morpho5🖐️ last Friday! Thank you to everyone who joined us for a fantastic day of science, discussion, and community!!| We're currently gathering and preparing the photos from the symposium. Stay tuned! 📸

DEADLINE EXTENDED! There's still time to register for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting! Great science, great people, big trees! Join us! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Massive shoutout to first author @abinagui.bsky.social !!! The common view is that regenerative competence declines with age. We challenge this idea by showing that axolotl tail regenerative competence is emerges during a defined embryonic window. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Deadline fast approaching to register for this great meeting! And that’s not just because of the stunning poster illustration

(1/15) Thrilled to share new Evo-Devo work where we address the molecular, cellular & morphometric basis of an extreme axis segmentation program in the Japanese eel — an animal that forms 120 vertebrae.

Really exciting to see our new review published! This review explores the evolutionary history of the extra-embryonic endoderm, an evolutionarily ancient tissue co-opted to form the yolk sac, and explores how in vitro models are uncovering its biology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Physics of Living Matter 19 @bensteventon.bsky.social announces that the Physics of Living Matter conference is back in Cambridge, UK, for its 19th edition. Find out more in this post on the Node. ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/physics-of-l...

New paper out in @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social. We uncover unexpected complexity in how metabolism changes when the embryo implants or when stem cells exit naive pluripotency, revealing a central role for dynamic TCA cycle rewiring in cell fate decisions. www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

The plasmids from Karapidaki et al. are on Addgene! Grab them here: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

19th PLM! wow Great to see this @cam.ac.uk tradition going on. PLM was there right at the start of a new era

Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026: www.plm-symposium.org

Check out this amazing illustrative tour of the @bsdb.bsky.social meeting!

Very happy to announce that I will be joining the Faculty of Biology & @cibss.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de as an Emmy-Noether funded group leader. We will tackle the molecular and genetic basis of developmental timing and size control using diverse Oryzias species. We are hiring at all levels !

The Frenster Lab is here! 🍾 I am so excited to start my #EmmyNoether funded group at @uni-freiburg.de this summer. Our group studies #CellCompetition dynamics during embryonic development using #gastruloids from multiple species. Thanks to the @dfg.de for creating this opportunity! FrensterLab.com

London Evo-Devo is back! Join us on May 5th for another excellent afternoon of talks and discussions on all things Evo-Devo. We are building a wonderful community, and we need you!

Looking forward to this exciting meeting on embryo models! Registration and abstract submission is open now: