Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026
The Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026, Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis, brought together researchers exploring the cellular, genetic and mechanical processes that shape plant form. This preList highlights preprints that were discussed or mentioned at the meeting. If you notice any missing preprints, please contact us at preLights@biologists.com
| List by | Ingrid Tsang |
'Preprints by preLighters': A novel reaction-diffusion architecture for engineering self-organized patterns in mammalian cells
Reinier Prosee, Benjamin Swedlund
A single genetic innovation at the origin of plant terrestrialization
Naveenkumar Muthiah
MechanoMaST – a multimodal pipeline for spatially registering mechanical and transcriptomic tissue data
AND
Paired-surface spatial mechanomics links tissue stiffness maps to spatial transcriptomics
Felipe Del Valle Batalla
Choreographed morphogenetic events underlie early foregut development in the mouse embryo
Ruoheng Li
Clonal embeddings allow exploratory analysis of lineage-resolved single-cell data
Marine Secchi
Expanded implementation of Fast & Fair paid peer review reduces time to first decision without reducing review quality in a biology journal
AND
Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal
Jonathan Townson
Vectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions
Lochlan Walsh
SPOTTER: Automated Tissue-Barcoding Platform for Spatial Proteomics and Phosphoproteomics
TheLangeLab, Felix Kraus
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
Additive baselines furnish no evidence for epistasis learning by MULTI-evolve
Leonie Brüne