A short talk on some recent research: Completed projects Paper in Nature Communications: Nuclear dynamics during syncytial blastoderm formationPaper in eLife: Mechanisms that coordinate cell movements during collective cell migration Paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell: Complex RhoA dynamics in C. elegans zygotesEditor of a new themed journal issue: Biology of single-celled stages of multicellular organisms Paper in Current Opinion in Insect Science: Development, evolution, & ecology of insect eggsOpen source tool: Device for physically constricting tissues Paper in Nature: Predictable patterns of insect egg evolutionPaper in Scientific Data: Egg traits from 6,700+ insect species Paper in PNAS: Modeling insect wing vein patternsPaper in Biology Open: Quantifying geometric traits of diverse insect wings Paper in Biology Open: Customizable molds for high-throughput live-imagingTool available: Instructions and design files for customizable molds (UPDATED) Paper in Developmental Biology: Embryogenesis of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatusPapers in Current Biology and PNAS: Cricket germ cell specification Paper in Development: Planar polarity in the epidermis of Drosophila melanogasterPaper in Journal of Morphology: Resilin and the mechanics of insect wing flexibility Resource for teaching: Animations of egg scaling and embryogenesisCreative coding: Generative images inspired by biological pattern formation