The people behind the papers – Amsha Proag and Magali Suzanne 

Meet two Toulouse-based authors of a recent Development paper on the mechanics of Drosophila leg morphogenesis.

Researcers based in Queensland describe how rat pregnancy is affected by early exposure to alcohol, finding sex-specific effects in the early embryo and placental growth in response to alcohol exposure. 

The Development team are going to be out and about through June and July. Do come and meet them! Going to the Gordon conference on Developmental Biology in South Hadley, USA, June 16 – 21? Meet our Executive Editor Katherine Brown. At the ISSCR 2019: The global stem cell event in Los Angeles, 26-29 June you can meet Senior Editor Seema Grewal. Reviews Editor Alex Eve and Online Editor Aidan Maartens will be at the SDB 78th Annual Meeting in Boston, USA, July 26-30.

The Company of Biologists Workshops - Chromatin-Based Regulation of Development

Watch a short video from this workshop, where we discussed what mechanisms related to chromatin biology inform developmental processes, explored plans to integrate unsolved developmental questions with exciting new avenues in chromatin biology, and which outstanding questions in gene regulation might be best revealed in the context of dynamic cell fate transitions. Find out about upcoming workshops here.

Are TAD borders that important to prevent enhancer rewiring? preLighter Jesus Victorino highlights a preprint by Wendy Bickmore and Laura Lettice’s team which shows that tissue-specific enhancers maintain robust control of Shh gene expression after challenging the architectural chromatin context.

Catch up with other recent preLights selected for the developmental biology community.

Articles of interest in our sister journals

penner/lgl2 is required for the integrity of the photoreceptor layer in the zebrafish retina
Satu Kujawski, Mahendra Sonawane, Elisabeth Knust
Biology Open 2019 8: bio041830

Mandibular dysmorphology due to abnormal embryonic osteogenesis in FGFR2-related craniosynostosis mice
Susan M. Motch Perrine, Meng Wu, Nicholas B. Stephens, Divya Kriti, Harm van Bakel, Ethylin Wang Jabs, Joan T. Richtsmeier
Disease Models & Mechanisms 2019 12: dmm038513