Santa Cruz developmental Biology Meeting 2026
This preList brings together a selection of preprints discussed at the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting 2026, held at UC Santa Cruz with the theme “Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere.” Reflecting the meeting’s broad scientific scope, from development and regeneration to evolution, tissue mechanics, and emerging technologies, this curated collection showcases work that contributed to conversations throughout the meeting.
| List by | Ingrid Tsang |
E-cadherin clustering as a regulator of morphogenesis
Girish Kale, preLights peer support
Programmable pathway profiles reveal signaling principles of TGF-β superfamily receptors
Benjamin Swedlund, Charli Lu
Reciprocal mechanochemical feedback couples neural crest migration and neurulation
Béryl Laplace-Builhé
An endodermal subpopulation gives rise to neuromesodermal progenitors in the posterior chick embryo
Alexandra Neaverson
Midgestation metabolic constraint in purine metabolism drives distinct strategies for placenta and fetal growth
Helen Tan
Eyewire II – A connectomic resource for resolving cell types and circuits of the mouse retina
Phoebe Reynolds
The Aorta-Gonad-Mesonephros niche shapes the functions of yolk sac-derived macrophages involved in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell generation ex vivo
Zoha Sadaqat
Hydrostatic pressure shapes and canalizes semicircular canal morphology to ensure vestibular function
Sristilekha Nath
Fibroblasts impair muscle stem cell self-renewal via excessive fibronectin deposition in viscoelastic hydrogel co-cultures
Jonathan Townson
Modes of natural selection on maternal and zygotic gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster embryos
Girish Kale, preLights peer support
Organoids reveal niche-specific mechanotransduction-guided human cortical patterning and cell fate acquisition.
Kanishka Parashar