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InSDB is thrilled to welcome Indulekha M S to the team! She joins us as our community manager. In her new role, she will be organizing community activities for InSDB and helping us build our outreach and social media activities as well. With a master’s from IISER-Tvm, she is an academic-turned-science communicator, interested in the […]

By Niveda Udaykumar My first foray into developmental biology came during my undergraduate Zoology class in 2013. The class was on the famous Spemann-Mangold Organizer, and I remember that I found the class quite interesting. After my Masters, as any student at that stage would do, I started applying for PhD programs. I appeared for […]

If you’re a DevBio enthusiast, I am sure you’ve come across The Node. Run by the journal Development and its publisher, Company of Biologists, this community website, is part of our inspiration. But in case you haven’t, read on! Joyce You, The Node’s Community Manager, tells about the Node and what they do. About the […]

By Mitali Patil My first peek into the world of ‘developmental biology’ was years before I knew that such a field of study existed. Thanks to Foldscope – an origami paper microscope and a humble puddle on a sea beach in Mumbai that I got excited about looking at innards of all kinds of eggs. […]

What is InSDB?Developmental biology is the study of how a single-celled seed or embryo gives rise to the complex shapes and forms of plants and animals around us. Many scientists in India work in this field and InSDB is the national society that represents this community. What will the InSDB community manager do?InSDB wants to […]

Maneesha Inamdar Dear Colleagues, Greetings! I am thrilled to announce the launch of the brand new logo and website for the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB).  The new logo is based on the impressive, iridescent feathers of the peacock, our National Bird. It is pointing skyward with a gastrula at the center, in the colorful eye […]

By: Aadya Nageswaran It is one thing to observe Drosophila embryos under a microscope (they look like grains of rice with two appendages), but it is quite another, more mind-blowing experience, to watch that same tiny bundle of cells under a foldscope, and capture a time lapse of its growth. That is precisely what I […]

Dr Cuckoo Mahapatra, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo, Orissa

Aliziran Red (bone) and Alcian Blue (cartilage) staining of the middle ear region of a 12 day chicken embryo. Unlike mammals, with 3 ossicles, birds only have one ossicle, the columella. Raj Ladher, NCBS, Bangalore

Section of the invaginating inner ear placode from a 2 day chick embryo. Actin (green), RhoA (red) and nuclei (blue) are shown Raj Ladher, NCBS, Bangalore

Experimental upregulation of Wnt pathway in Hydra vulgaris leads to development of ectopic tentacles all over the body column. This image from Surendra Ghaskadbi lab at ARI, Pune, India shows sites of ectopic tentacles marked by the expression of noggin. The lab studies regeneration in hydra with particular emphasis on cell signalling pathways.