Vlad Bondarenko

joint meeting of the German, Spanish and dutch societies for developmental biology 2026

it’s already … tomorrow?!
Who is heading to #gfe2026 in Potsdam? Looking forward to seeing you all and to discuss your science. #devbio

For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, #IDWGS2026, we are featuring some of our 'Transitions in development' interviewees from the past year.

Browse our full series here: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

I invite you to check our paper entitled “Rebuilding Ukraine’s capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology” doi.org/10.1038/s415... in @natecoevo.nature.com about the Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology #USEB we organized in 2025.
#biology #evolution #school #science #Ukraine

Wow wow, congratulations, Karolina!!🎊💫👏

Congratulations!! 👏🎊🎊💫

IMBA Group Leader Nicolas Rivron has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his research on human blastoid models of early development: https://imba.science/4t0OUfR

Pleased to share our Comment piece on the power and challenges of placental #organoids for pregnancy research 🤰

@marineluciano.bsky.social recreates intestinal Villi geometry by growing epithelial cells on wavy rolling substrates. Unexpected intrication of curvature effects is observed. Thanks to all! @caterinatomba.bsky.social @sgabriele.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Different tissue, different questions, same fascination with how cells coordinate to build and rebuild complex organs.
Excited to uncover what drives this remarkable regeneration🙂 @fmiscience.bsky.social | @P.T. Engelhorn Foundation for the Promotion of Biotechnology and Life Sciences

In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.

very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Join us to study developmental cell biology with a focus on cell migration and morphogenesis.

More info about our research:
www.bischofflab.com

Job posting and application details:
focalplane.biologists.com/cell-biology...

#Science #CellBio #DevBio #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #PhDPosition #Drosophila

Using fluorescence live imaging and an in vitro implantation model, we show that human embryo attachment begins with direct cell fusion via syncytin-2–MFSD2A interaction.
With @hansclevers.bsky.social.
Great work by @tnoordzij.bsky.social & @martinacelotti.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Modelling co-development between the somites and neural tube in human trunk-like structures - Nature Cell Biology Makwana, Tilley et al. generate human stem cell-based trunk-like structures approximating Carnegie stage 13–14 of development. They use them to model and study the development of the thoracic and lumbar trunk.

Lovely little pre-Christmas present to see this out @natcellbio.nature.com! Some 🔥 new results in here since the biorvix incl (1) a new RARE-GFP reporter ✳️🙌, (2) additional NMP quantification 🔢, (3) no neural tube patterning on RA inhibition 🙅 etc. Enjoy! 😍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Investigating morphogen and patterning dynamics with optogenetic control of morphogen production Benzinger et al. develop a chemo-optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of morphogen production in vitro. Using light-controlled Sonic hedgehog expression, they recapitulate neural tube...

Good to see the peer reviewed version of this published

A chemo-optogenetic system for spatiotemporal control of gene expression

We use it to:

- Reconstruct SHH mediated neural tube patterning in vitro

- Measure extracellular half-life of Shh

www.cell.com/developmenta...

A really thoughtful and interesting review by @cellysally.bsky.social on how cells synchronise with their neighbours to build tissues.

SY-Stem 2026 is here! The symposium focusing on the next generation of stem cell researchers returns to the Vienna BioCenter from 11–13 March 2026. Register online: sy-stem.org

A poster listing the names of invited speakers at the upcoming BSDB 2026 meeting at the University of Warwick, 23-26 March

Meeting schedule now online for @bsdb.bsky.social 2026 spring meeting: Molecules to Morphogenesis!

***Abstracts due in by January 16***

Join the outstanding line up! Submit your abstract for a short talk, flash talk, or poster presentation:
👇👇👇
bsdb.org/meetings/

Join us for the second seminar in the online Metabolism in Development and Physiology series next Thursday.

Two exciting talks lined up from different career stages.

Incredibly excited to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant. This recognition means a lot for what we’ve built so far and for what’s ahead.

Thank you to all collaborators and supporters.

Looking forward to getting this project going!

Congratulations, Ina & the lab! 🥳💫

📢 a cool group, leader, and science! Great research opportunity in Barcelona

Primate embryo model leaps across developmental boundaries A stem-cell-based monkey embryo model that self-organizes into a comprehensive body plan could lead the way to more-sophisticated models of early human development.

Wow, this is a very impressive embryo model. "What sets the model described in this study apart from other embryo models is its ability to continuously mimic primate development from pre-implantation through to late gastrulation." (Nice, @amartinezarias.bsky.social!)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data | PNAS The development of a zygote into a functional organism requires that this single progenitor cell gives rise to numerous distinct cell types. Attemp...

Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic

Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📢Internships on cellular nematics!

🔬Come for the pretty images, stay for the cool physics: each project combines in vitro experiments with advanced microscopy and image analysis.

📧Feel free to DM or email me with any questions.

The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube Zhang et al. identify a global temporal chromatin program that operates across the developing vertebrate nervous system to control neural cell diversity. This mechanism, which involves Nr6a1 and NFIA/...

Good to see the peer reviewed version of this in print

The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube

A global temporal chromatin program operates across the vertebrate nervous system to control neural cell diversity

www.cell.com/developmenta...

Yellow font on blue background which reads “Eastabrook for preeclampsia screening”

I tried out the Mamdani slogan generator and this is what I came up with 🤷🏼‍♀️

homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...

How can we organize current theoretical approaches for developmental biology - from information to dynamical systems & GRNs - into a common framework?

We propose to think along Marr's 3 levels: computational problem, algorithm, implementation

Check out our review:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.24536

Huge congratulations @sarawickstrom.bsky.social & collaborators!👏 🎊🎊

Huge congratulations, @shamipourshayan.bsky.social & the team!! 👏