Daniela Münch

Are you interested and passionate about fish & chips, imaging, coding, and trying to understand how the brain works? Then please come and join us and apply for a fully-funded PhD position in computational neuroscience at the TU Braunschweig or spread the word. Thank you! (PDF tinyurl.com/5n8k97x4)

hoxd13a reporter in a zebrafish larva

Are digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

Dynamic fibroblast–immune interactions shape recovery after brain injury - Nature Spatial transcriptomic studies and lineage tracing reveal that, after brain injury, transient profibrotic fibroblasts develop from existing brain fibroblasts, infiltrate lesions, regulate the local immune response and lead to beneficial scar tissue formation.

Nature research paper: Dynamic fibroblast–immune interactions shape recovery after brain injury

go.nature.com/46smMbh

Summer break prevented me from properly advertising this serie of reviews on the function of cell death during development that I edited. There is still a lot to dig in regarding regulation of apoptosis in vivo ad I hope we managed to illustrate this well
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I had a great time attending my first ever ISRB meeting! Thanks to the organizers for putting together a fantastic conference. #ISRB2025

Celebrating our award winning trainee talks from the recent ISRB Conference in Madison given by Daniela Münch, Anish Bose and Lauren Connolly, and proudly sponsored by Development @dev-journal.bsky.social and Experimental Cell Research.

Big congrats to our postdoc @mary-flores.bsky.social, who's among the 2025 Pew Latin American Fellows! 🐟🧬🫀🧪
Onwards, always.
#PewLatinAmericanFellows #zebrafish #PILife #PostdocLife #devbio @cudevbio.bsky.social

DaniocellDesktop logo, depicting a fish on a laptop screen.

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

Development of a transgenic zebrafish embryo. Credit to Dr. Mario Mendieta-Serrano. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome - Nature The physical organization of the genome in non-bilaterian animals and their closest unicellular relatives is characterized; comparative analysis shows chromatin looping is a conserved feature of ...

I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Red nuclei and a glowing green lateral line—zebrafish never disappoint under the scope! Sensory biology meets stunning visuals. Image by Marycruz Flores @mary-flores.bsky.social 🐟🔬
#FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #Microscopy #ScienceArt

Skin T cells form stable blebs to move

Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Tanner Robertson, Anna Huttenlocher and colleagues:
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🎥T cells migrate with F-actin-poor leading edges in the epidermis of scale explants

Border-zone cardiomyocytes and macrophages regulate extracellular matrix remodeling to promote cardiomyocyte protrusion during cardiac regeneration Nature Communications - Adult zebrafish are capable of heart regeneration, but how the collagenous injury site is replaced remains unclear. Here they provide an in-depth analysis of cardiomyocyte...

Very excited to see the first Beisaw lab publication out in its final form 🥳🥳 rdcu.be/ei1I7 if you’re interested in zebrafish heart regeneration and how cardiomyocytes replace the fibrotic injured tissue (spoiler alert: macrophages play an important role), then read it here 👇

Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource - Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource Bringing you precision Cre/CreERT2 and floxed lines driven by GeneWeld CRISPR targeted integration. Mission Our mission is to provide the Zebrafish community with Cre resources that open new areas of ...

#zebrafish Our Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource is online!! zebrafishccr.org

Check out what's available, imaging and information, and make a request.

We're so very grateful to the NIH ORIP for supporting this work!

Huge thanks to Parnal Joshi from Iddo Friedberg lab for creating the website!

Identification of a Specific Granular Marker of Zebrafish Eosinophils Enables Development of New Tools for Their Study Key Points. embp was identified as a highly expressed gene in eosinophils.An Embp reporter line and Ab were generated to detect zebrafish eosinophils.Embp

📚 Full paper here: doi.org/10.4049/jimm... #OpenAccess Huge thanks to everyone who supported this research! @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de 6/6

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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15 PhD positions in Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Regeneration by Advanced Genomics and Computational tools (funded by the DANIO-ReCODE MSCA 2023 Doctoral Network) The principal objective of DANIO-ReCODE is to provide world-class doctoral training to a new generation of early-career researchers interested in understanding the complex and multilayered process of ...

We are offering 15 PhD positions in Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Regeneration by Advanced Genomics and Computational tools (funded by the DANIO-ReCODE MSCA 2023 Doctoral Network) 🇪🇸 🇭🇷 🇸🇮 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Apply now: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/290548

Just swam over to Bluesky and decided to dip my fin in the water. I am a Postdoc in the Weinstein lab and currently on the faculty job market. I developed an injury system to study cutaneous wound healing in adult zebrafish. Check out my movie showing neutrophil recruitment after injury.

🟦 First post on bluesky and first first-author pre-print! It is was a long journey and I am so grateful for all the opportunities I got to grow as a scientist, thanks to @nordenlab.bsky.social. Come cantava Rino Gaetano: il cielo è sempre più blu! 🟦

BSDB - The Fascinating World of Developmental Biology (full length) YouTube video by The Company of Biologists

Do you work in #DevBio and want to introduce the fascinating world of developmental biology to your family and friends? You can show them this science documentary, produced by the British Society for Developmental Biology, The Company of Biologists and Cambridge Filmworks!
📽️ youtu.be/avrmIs3vPUQ?...

DEV2024: From Stem Cells to Human Development From Stem Cells to Human Development 2024 marks ten years since the first of Development’s meetings on this topic. The past decade has seen tremendous advances in our ability to analyse and understa...

Save the date for Development's 2024 journal meeting 'From Stem Cells to Human Development' (16-19 Sep) organised by James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social, Olivier Pourquié and Emma Rawlins
Register for programme updates at: www.biologists.com/meetings/hum...
#CoBHumanDev

New preprint from the Rasmussen lab! Congrats to Evan and all of the others!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...