A small but very meaningful milestone for me 🪰📘
I contributed a chapter to the 2nd edition of Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science
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A Halloween treat just for fun! My beloved journal covers have come to life today. Check them out here! www.behance.net/gallery/2364...
A scientific touch for the Holidays: Drosophila bone china baubles!
A little peek at my illustration work from the last year! I had some really creative scientific commissions and also expanded into new areas, creating teaching resources for subjects like History and Design (loved it!). If you're curious, check my portfolio at:
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What a beautiful museum, @nhm-london.bsky.social
📢 BioImagingUK Community Meeting 2026 is GO!
📅 12 Oct | 10:00–17:00
📍 Natural History Museum, London
✅ Free to attend (lunch included!)
Careers, funding, community updates & more
Travel bursaries for techs & ECRs — apply by 8 May
Register👇 LINK in comments
#Bioimaging
Vote for a @dev-journal.bsky.social cover from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology
We’re excited to launch a cover competition to select an image from the 2025 cohort of @devbioquintay.bsky.social. Voting closes on 24 June 2026.
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Exploring the telomere bouquet and its nucleus-to-cytoplasm connection across species. A beautiful commission for Julia Cooper to start the year, featured in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology (doi.org/10.1101/cshp...). Check out my portfolio at Behance.net/MariaDiaz_delaLoza!
I finally had some time to improve my poster about staging Drosophila embryos in collaboration with @stramerlab.bsky.social and we would like to share this with the community! You can find it here or at a higher resolution on my portfolio: www.behance.net/gallery/2458...
#DrosophilaEmbryogenesis
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Our new paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using 3D reconstructions and volume measurements in Drosophila wing primordia, we show that growth can be uncoupled from cell proliferation and uncover a new time window for growth arrest.
With @leopoldlab.bsky.social
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Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science, Second Edition is a unique resource that provides extensive review articles on contemporary topics in insect s...
Using precise tissue volume quantification, El Marzkioui, Gaugué, et al. show that
wing primordia continue to grow during the early pupal stage, a phase of increased
cell volume driven by insulin/IGF ...
