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Crump Lab
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Studying development, evolution, and regeneration of the vertebrate head skeleton, one fish at a time
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Worried about my Drosophila colleagues
September 16, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!!

Please spread the word and apply!

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu
September 2, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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fantauzzolab.bsky.social
A NIH-funded postdoc position is available in our laboratory @cu-coms.bsky.social to study PDGFR dimer-specific dynamics in the mouse craniofacial mesenchyme. Please repost! Job description and how to apply: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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August 21, 2026 at 7:40 PM
crumplab.bsky.social
Wonderful to see this paper finally out from my brilliant colleague Qilong Ying. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Expansion and CAR engineering of granulocyte-monocyte progenitors for cellular immunotherapy
This study establishes granulocyte-monocyte progenitors as a renewable upstream platform for engineered myeloid cell therapy and introduces a CAR-Fc strategy that couples direct tumor targeting to hos...
www.cell.com
June 25, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Still time to register for this webinar tomorrow (13th March)!
socdevbio.bsky.social Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Mar 10
The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, March 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Martha Echevarría-Andino @uwmadison.bsky.social and M. Fernanda Palominos @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/47QVIEK #SDBPostdocSeminar
Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, March 13, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Martha Echevarría-Andino (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Hoxa11/Hoxd11 transcription factors regulate extracellular matrix genes during osteochondral differentiation M. Fernanda Palominos (University of California, Berkeley) Novel craniofacial genes linked to extreme jaw evolution in pupfishes revealed by tissue-specific transcriptomics and speciation genomics
March 12, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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nmoris.bsky.social
Honoured to receive this recognition from @isscr.org along with excellent colleagues- particularly since they noted the ethical advances which @nicolasrivron.bsky.social and I have tried to support in the growing SCBEM field alongside our research, showing the community’s value of ethical leadership
isscr.org ISSCR @isscr.org · Mar 3
The ISSCR also recognizes five outstanding scientists with Honorable Mention distinctions for the 2026 Early Career Impact Award. The award is supported by the @cheninstitute.bsky.social. Learn more: https://ow.ly/ivGb50YoFaZ
March 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
😍

🔗 to paper: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
February 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Fantastic program and initiative by @socdevbio.bsky.social for postdocs going on the job market - register!
#devbio #PILife
socdevbio.bsky.social Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Jan 21
#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired
GetHIRED! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN - Application due Thursday, March 5 Ideal for Postdoctoral Researchers Academic Job Market Insight -Take stock of what you want -Know your options -Prepare outstanding job packet materials -Organize your research & chalk talks -Perfect your interview & avoid the pitfalls Course Features -Six asynchronous online modules -Virtual meetings with an experienced facilitator -Peer feedback, support, & expert advice Course Dates: April 14 – June 23, 2026 Course Fee: SDB Members: $499; Non-Members: $599 Deadline: March 5, 2025 Society for Developmental Biology logo QR Code for GetHIRED! website
January 30, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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A method to produce embryonic stem cells for a range of bird species opens up opportunities in agriculture, developmental biology and species conservation #NBTNV go.nature.com/4ntGnih
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Embryonic stem cells across bird species - Nature Biotechnology
A method to produce embryonic stem cells for a range of bird species opens up opportunities in agriculture, developmental biology and species conservation.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
crumplab.bsky.social
Wonderful collaboration of Claire Arata and co-first-author Elena Vasileva from Amatruda lab. Claire provided the neural crest driver and Elena the EWS oncofusion. Best combination since PB&J. Amazing that expression of a single oncofusion in crest produces ectopic fins.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Origin of Ewing sarcoma by embryonic reprogramming of neural crest to mesoderm
Using a zebrafish genetic model of Ewing sarcoma, Vasileva et al. provide evidence for a neural crest origin of the disease. These findings offer new insight into how a single oncogenic fusion can hij...
www.cell.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
crumplab.bsky.social
Beautiful atlas of fish gill development from the Lecaudey lab. There are few structures more amazing in biology than gills!

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A developmental atlas of zebrafish gills links early vascular patterning to adult architecture
Gills are essential for fish respiration and have a highly specialized cellular architecture enabling efficient gas exchange. Surprisingly, the developmental processes underlying gill formation in zeb...
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August 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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tdcapellini.bsky.social
1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature
The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
crumplab.bsky.social
Wonderful to have my second ever grad student stop by the lab today. Elizabeth Zuniga. She is now faculty working on eye development at Baylor College of Medicine. Such joy to see your former trainees doing so well.
June 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find
Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...
phys.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Fish gills and human ears share the same genetic blueprint
Evolutionarily conserved molecular program used to form gills and ears.
www.nature.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Wonderful backstory of this gem by @mathithiru.bsky.social & @crumplab.bsky.social from earlier this year...
🔗 to original research: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 to the Node article: thenode.biologists.com/fish-frogs-f...
March 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
crumplab.bsky.social
Worthy event to support the engine of innovation in our country.
February 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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When did the lubricated joints that allow our skeleton to swivel, rotate and bend evolve? @crumplab.bsky.social explores a new @plosbiology.org paper by @neelimasharma.bsky.social &co that pinpoints their origin to the earliest jawed vertebrates 🧪 Paper: plos.io/3CTC8La Primer: plos.io/4kkhXa6
Left: A phylogeny of chordates, flanked by images of a lamprey, a placoderm, a brown shark, a longnose gar and a hawksbill turtle. Agnathans such as lampreys lack synovial joints. The first putative evidence of synovial joints in the fossil record is in early gnathostomes such as the antiarch placoderm fish that lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods. Modern gnathostomes such as cartilaginous fishes (i.e., chondrichthyans such as the brown shark), bony fishes (i.e., osteichthyans such as the longnose gar), and limbed vertebrates (i.e., tetrapods such as the Hawksbill turtle) possess synovial joints in their jaws, fins/limbs, and other locations. All images used are freely available without copyright restrictions. Top right: a typical agnathan joint is shown where glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans are uniformly distributed across the cartilages (blue) that are connected by fibrous tissue (olive). Bottom right: a typical gnathostome synovial joint is shown where surface cartilage has a unique proteoglycan composition from the underlying cartilage and bone, and a fluid-filled cavity separates adjacent skeletal elements.
February 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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February 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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nature.com
Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise

https://go.nature.com/4hDJnFM
Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
Nature - Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life — but with a twist.
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February 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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The amazing Ted Tseng
January 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Nice article in Scientific American about our work on outer ear evolution and a complimentary study from the lab of Maksim Plikus on role of unique lipids in mammalian ear cartilage. www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-...
Our Ears Share a Common Ancestry with Fish Gills
The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears
www.scientificamerican.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
crumplab.bsky.social
The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in Nature, Mathi Thiruppathy and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer ear evolution - Nature
Nature - Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer ear evolution
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January 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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📢🧪For your holiday travel reading, check out our new pre-print! Using a new joint resection injury model, we describe an innate regeneration program in adult #zebrafish that reestablishes all major synovial joint cell types, including lubricated articular cartilage. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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December 17, 2024 at 2:56 PM