Berta Verd

I am so happy to have been accepted into the EMBO YIP community! Looking forward to making the most of it over the next four years. Thanks for having me!

Not all nuclei are the same. We went to some of biology’s most exceptional nuclei 👉 dinoflagellates with genomes 80× ours 👉 Giardia’s twin nuclei 👉 ciliates carrying two nuclei in one cytoplasm & asked a simple question: what sets nuclear density? 🧵 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I'm very honored that our research was covered by the New York Times! @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social wrote a beautiful piece that captures the science & mystery of cephalopod camouflage: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/s... I want to emphasize that this project is the result of an incredible team effort...

Recruiting! Joint PhD studentship with the laboratory of Silvia Santos @santoslab.bsky.social at the Francis Crick institute to examine the mechanics and growth control of human post-gastrulation amnioids. Deadline: 03/11/2026. Details on the project: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

I absolutely adore sending our papers to @reviewcommons.org!

We have published 3 papers through @reviewcommons.org The most notable difference was always how the manuscripts were evaluated for what they were rather than for the journal in which they were eventually published. That's simply how peer review should be!

🍹 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

Happy to share this link to @yuritakahashi.bsky.social ‘s paper that is now out in @embojournal.org . Is you make cells migrate, they become migratory cell states! eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

📣 New PhD position in our lab with @vmetzis.bsky.social zis.bsky.social and @jamesware.bsky.social. Join us to uncover how regulatory elements control the timing and dynamics of gene expression. Interested in gene regulation, development and quantitative biology? 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣Our department is hiring a new group leader!📣 Want to start your team in a vibrant scientific environment in the center of Paris? I was very lucky to do that 10 years ago, reach out if you have any question. Apply by December 18th: jpi-recruitment-curie-umr3215-u934.curie.fr

How are extinction, evolution and time related? Come to our new conversation hosted by @museuciencies.cat with @amnh.org Niles Eldredge and @mncn-csic.bsky.social Susanna Manrubia. From Darwin's reflections, deep time and the fossil record to cancer, network science & pandemics. @nilese.bsky.social

We are looking for a research assistant! Come join the team: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ826/r...

TWO JOBS in our department #IntegrativeBiology at #UTAustin! Evolutionary Biology and Organismal Mechanistic Processes, both very widely defined. Come join us! Application info here: apply.interfolio.com/193270

The Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin has two open positions for assistant professors, one in evolutionary biology and one in mechanistic processes. Please share. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193270

Join us for the symposium Morphogenesis: Where Form Takes Shape Oct. 27-28 Institute Curie Paris Free attendance, but registration is required. Short talks and posters will be selected from submitted abstracts. Abstract submission deadline: Oct. 10, 2026.

We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department. Application deadline is October 15. Come be our colleague. Please RT! apply.interfolio.com/193016

Congratulations to, @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social recipient of the SEBD José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta (JLGS) Prize 2026! 🎉 Her research aims to uncover how early human development is organised. 🏆 Award ceremony at #SEBD2026 in El Rompido, Spain. #DevBio #DevelopmentalBiology Photo courtesy of @mrclmb.ac.uk

EMBL QBMM is back this year with an outstanding line-up! Plenty of talks will be selected from submitted abstracts, with emphasis on junior scientists and representation across diverse fields. The abstract deadline is the end of this week, so don’t miss out! www.embl.org/about/info/c...

What happens when evolution adds an extra pair of eyes? Male mayflies evolve an extra pair of dorsal compound eyes, the Turbanate eyes, thought to help males detect females during mating swarms. we have investigate how this remarkable evolutionary novelty develops. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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...

🎨 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...

Please share, I am hiring an evo devo postdoctoral research fellow! 📍: The Sleight Lab, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (5th oldest University in UK & English-speaking world) 📅: start after 1st December 2026 🐌: Evolution and Development (molluscs) ⌛: 3 year contract sleightlab.com/vacancies/

Just approved an order for standard lab consumables. Prices have nearly doubled since starting the lab. Meanwhile, the bar for publishing keeps rising, requiring ever more costly experiments, while grant budgets barely changed. Hard to see how this is a sustainable trajectory for academic research.

C.H. Waddington's lasting achievements in development and evolution Jonathan B. L. Bard examines some of Waddington's research papers that show why he is one of the few pre-molecular-age developmental biologists still widely remembered and how they remain significant. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

For the first time ever, the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum is coming to Dubrovnik, #Croatia, 28–30 October 2026. 🧪 Sign up now! Early bird registration deadline: 15 July 2026 https://event.fourwaves.com/eysf #EYSF2026 #LifeSciences #EarlyCareerResearchers

Our @jesusoxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk student, Bethan Sheldon, reflects on her field course in Borneo.

Applications are open for the international course “Developmental Biology” organized by the Institut Curie in partnership with @sorbonne-universite.fr 📅 Oct. 19–28, 2026 (Paris) ⏳ Jul. 19 & Sept. 18 🔗 training.institut-curie.org/courses/developmental-biology-2026

Fish #devbio strongly represented by @nordenlab.bsky.social, @zenlabpasteur.bsky.social, @campaslab.bsky.social, @cantautbelarify.bsky.social, @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @bertaverd.bsky.social among others 🐟🤩

🚨Online ECR Seminar TOMORROW- 24.06.26 | 16:00 UK Jan Rombouts (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Chandrashekar Kuyyamudi (Harvard University). Please share & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

First pre-print from the lab, a collaborative effort led by Jess Bourn @bournsupremacy.bsky.social, a fantastic PhD in my group. We resolve a key problem in development + evolution: how do we quantify heterochrony and link temporal variation to phenotype? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our new preprint by the super talented and persevering @callumbucklow.bsky.social on the integrated evolution of body elongation and vertebral shape. I guess it's not all about modularity after all!

New preprint now available on BioRxiv ( doi.org/10.64898/202...)! Thank you to @bertaverd.bsky.social, Roger Benson and my other co-authors, Hannah Ugboma, Katharine Criswell and Mexford Mulumpwa.

Dream job alert 🎉 Are you a talented videographer with a passion for nature? Join our team! Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📆 Full time. 📝 £33,954 per annum. 📍 Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid). ⚠️ Application deadline: 5 July.

Fully-funded 4-year PhD-position available! The PhD-student will investigate the effects of restocking European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm, Sweden. Application deadline is July 6. Info about the PhD-position and link to apply: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Here is the announcement of a Symposium @college-de-france.fr on 26 June on Information Flow and Computation in Biological systems. A great line of speakers on a variety of topics from embryogenesis to neuroscience, immunology and microbiology. Free entrance, come if you are in Paris end of June 🤩

Whole genome duplications over 450 million years ago enabled the emergence of different kinds of brain cells 🧠 These cellular innovations are shared across vertebrates - from primitive fish to mammals - and form the basis of the sophisticated brains seen today 👇

We have a fully funded PhD position on European eel! Please spread! 🐟 🪱 Main supervisor Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social at SLU Aqua Stockholm (scholar.google.com/citations?us...). Apply through the portal: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/

📢 We are looking for a Junior Group Leader to join us at @institutcurie.bsky.social! Having joined the department just over a year ago, I can honestly say that it is an exceptionally stimulating and supportive scientific environment, filled with outstanding colleagues — all in the heart of Paris.

Congratulations to #HFSP Awardee Sonomi Yamaguchi, recipient of an Inspiration Prize in the 5th Marie Sklodowska Curie Award! 🎉 The award recognizes outstanding women researchers with exceptional scientific achievements and future potential.🧪 📑 zurl.co/1wtaS #sts

From Whole Body to Single Cell. At www.DeepPiction.com we can see where disease begins and identify ways to make therapies safer & more effective. We’re excited to share our new paper at @nature.com! Our goal is to advance drug discovery for #Cancer, #LongCovid, #Inflammation, and more.

🔈 Heading to Euro Evo-Devo #EED2026 in Glasgow? Don't miss out our Fish Satellite Meeting! Co-organized with Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social, Ralf Schneider @ralfschneider.bsky.social, Laure Sanders @lsaunders.bsky.social and Joost Woltering, and with a list of outstanding speakers 👇

Join our Symposium S08 – Integrative Perspectives on Craniofacial Evo-Devo, at #EED2026 ! Invited speakers: Agáta Horáčková, Markéta Kaucká, Joseph Keating, Hiroki Higashiyama Contributing speakers: Taro Nojiri, Laura Wilson, Joshua Gross, Irene Soto Bajo, Richard Dearden, Tatjana Haitina

Join our symposium, next week at #EED2026 ! Invited speakers: Katie Pelletier, Erica Nadolsky, Rebecca Green and Jukka Jernvall Contributing speakers: Luisa F. Pallares, Tobias Gerber, Chiara Castelletti, Alistair P. McGregor and Tom Van Dooren Funding from @biologists.bsky.social

Professor Tim Coulson FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a biologist working at the interface of ecology and evolution, developing theory to explore how ecological change influences evolution, and vice versa. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/timothy-coulson-9070/

Looks like the 2027 Dev Bio GRC is shaping up to be another good one: www.grc.org/developmenta...

Updated GRC Developmental Biology 2027 flyer/poster with the latest roster of invited speakers. 🌱🐟🧬🐭🪰🧪🧫 Come join us to discuss the latest in #devbio at the Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort, Jan 17-22 ! #GRCDevBio2027

From this thursday May 28th onwards, Claude Desplan @NYU will give four seminars as a guest Professor @college-de-france.fr Dont' miss this great colleague and teacher, on a super interesting and timely topic! Free access, no registration and an air-conditioned auditorium🤘

“These results demonstrate that body elongation in cichlids necessitates integrated, multivariate changes in axial morphology [and] highlight the importance of morphological integration in facilitating coordinated evolutionary responses in anatomical systems.” New from @bertaverd.bsky.social et al🐠

I am looking for a Post-doc in Oxford to work with me on morphogenesis at the cellular scale, with particular emphasis on growth processes and their mechanical and dynamical consequences. Please circulate my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... This bristle is created by a single cell! Let's model it.