On Thursday, December 8th, 2022, Michel Vervoort, passed away. Michel was a beloved member of the McDonnell Initiative. He was a Professor in Developmental Genetics at Université Paris Cité, director of the Stem Cells, Development and Evolution team at the Institut Jacques Monod (co-supervised with Eve Gazave), and a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Michel’s death leaves our community, as well as the fields of stem cell biology, EvoDevo, and regeneration biology, poorer for his loss.

Featured image: Figure 6 from Álvarez-Campos, Patricia, Anabelle Planques, Loïc Bideau, Michel Vervoort, and Eve Gazave. “On the hormonal control of posterior regeneration in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii.” Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution (2022).