Enjoying #kitpqbio Coming to the end of the first week at beautiful
@KITP_UCSB

Lots of inspiring talks & provocative discussion - many now online
https://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/morpho23/

See my (personal perspective) intro into morphogen controlled tissue patterning
https://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/morpho23/briscoe/

The fabric of developmental time

Insightful commentary in @Dev_journal on how time is measured and regulated in development & the question of how developmental timing differs between species

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/14/dev201045/323885/On-time-developmental-timing-within-and-across

"Is there a recent review of the #morphogen control of tissue patterning that I can read on my summer hols?" I hear you ask

Why, yes, there is. Here's @AKicheva & my summary of the current state of the field & open questions

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-cellbio-020823-011522?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed

Our latest: Deep dynamical modelling of developmental trajectories with temporal transcriptomics

- Optimised metabolic labelling for time resolved scRNAseq
- Deep learning (VAE) for RNA velocity
- Predicting expression dynamics with a neural SDE system

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.06.547989v1

Confirming UK membership of Horizon Europe would be very good news & end all the unnecessary uncertainty

I'm hoping Sunak doesn't lose his signing pen over the weekend

BBC News - Horizon research deal with EU awaits Sunak's signature
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66116938

Congratulations to new #EMBO members including my fellow developmental biologists Anne Grapin Botton & Kathy Cheah (+ several others)

https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-announces-election-of-new-members/

ICYMI: Recordings of a fantastic symposium organised by the inimitable Denis Duboule on 'Developmental Timing'

Jean Leon Maitre
Thomas Gregor
Claude Desplan
Pierre Vanderhaeghen
Olivier Pourquie
& yours truly

https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/les-temps-du-developpement-embryonnaire