Congratulations to UC Santa Barbara's David Gross, who just won the 2026 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, for a lifetime of groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics—from the strong force to string theory.
Full story: https://ow.ly/ZzyO50YMjzv
SCIENCE written with fluorescent bacteria
For #FluorescenceFriday I'm sharing some promotional material (for education) made by Anna Pietraszewska
Temperature affects all biological rates, but how do we model its effects? Our 2-part review brings together modeling approaches from empirical curve fits to microscopic kinetics to network-level dynamics 🧵
Part I: doi.org/10.1016/j.coisb.2026.100577
Part II: doi.org/10.1016/j.coisb.2026.100578
Our latest work on shape-programmable tissues is out in @science.org. By positioning topological defects in cellular nematics, we encode frustrated 2D force fields that relax into predictable 3D shapes. Collaboration with Marino Arroyo’s lab, led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social at @ibecbarcelona.eu.
Pictures from Fanny Martinez Real and Stefan Mundlos🙏
This year, the annual symposium of my Chaire @college-de-france.fr will be on The Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms. An impressive lineup of speakers and weirds animals, including humans. Free entrance and coffee breaks. Come, have a seat, relax and enjoy the best possible basic science🤘RT🙏
Now out in its final form! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Just published in @science.org 🚀
By controlling how cells align, we show that living nematic tissues can be programmed to generate forces and fold into predictable 3D shapes.
A new platform for tissue engineering and the design of smart active materials!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We are looking for an experienced light microscopy specialist, motivated to support our users in the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility at EMBL Heidelberg.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... -closing date 11 May 2026 @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social
We tracked a zebrafish tail tip for 30h of light-sheet imaging.
It didn’t exist at t=0.
LiLiTTool: CoTracker3 + object detection → real-time microscope steering.
3D, multi-ROI, open source.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#bioimaging #lightsheet
thanks @jytinevez.bsky.social
I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions:
🔬 Postdoc
🧪 Research associate
We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms.
Come join us!
Details and application links 👇
Please repost
Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, April 10, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Biozentrum at the University of Basel) Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity in zebrafish Yiqun Wang (University of California, San Diego) Asymmetric mRNA partition mediated embryonic patterning in spiralian development revealed by spatial transcriptomics
The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held Friday, April 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch and Yiqun Wang @ucsandiego.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/42xUhYh #SDBPostdocSeminar
🐟!JOB ALERT!Duke, Durham, NC!🐟 We are looking for a research tech (our current tech is starting grad school this Fall (Yay!)). The candidate will contribute to our ongoing research projects on tissue morphogenesis using zebrafish. Please RT🙏
www.munjallab.com/join-us
I'm happy to present our new tool, EpiCure, a napari plugin to ease correction of segmentation and tracking of epithelia movies, developed in @devstempasteur.bsky.social
1 year technician position in the Roeder lab on how sepal morphogenesis is robust to environmental perturbations. Great position for a postbac. jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...
New piece on the mechanics of squamous epithelial shape transition highlighting the role of tensile forces, force transmission by Dumpy & elastic resistance by the ECM in the developing wing. Terrific work from Stefan Harmansa @morphomechanics.bsky.social with Alex Erlich🍾👏:
tinyurl.com/2p58b3w3
New paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687
Excited to share our new article, ‘Mechanical regulation of cuboidal-to-squamous epithelial transition in the Drosophila developing wing’, now online in Current Biology.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
There’s also a great accompanying Dispatch:
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
#MatrixMechanics #DevBio
We’re looking for a new team member! 🚀
Only 3 more weeks to apply to the fantastic Vienna BioCenter PhD program
Our study on shape diversity in cnidarians is now published. The final version includes extensive new data that substantially extend the original bioRxiv preprint. Congrats to everyone who contributed to this work! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@embl.org
Credit: Mylan Ansel
Expansion microscopy of a loricate choanoflagellate, generated by Mylan Ansel in our lab 🤩
(yes, the lorica expands. No, we don't understand how either)
Despite it being chaotic, active nematic turbulence can give rise to arrested labyrinthine patterns! Check out our new paper @physrevresearch.bsky.social! Work led by Ido Lavi, with Jean-François Joanny and Jaume Casademunt.
journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar is back! We assembled an amazing lineup for you, kicking off the new term of the seminar series with a talk by @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social on the 27th of January, 2:30 pm (UK time).
We are looking forward to seeing you all!
SCHEPHERD--the bioelectric cell herding platform built for YOU. Single cells, monolayers, organoids--this herds them all + new tricks. Plz try it-- we will *give* you parts! Teaser here of a steering a single cell. GS Yubin Lin's lifeblood with J. Yodh on piano; Celeste R. and Paul K. Thread 1/N
#Napari does a good job promoting the #Tribolium model. 🤔
How do pairs of DNA loci - such as enhancers and promoters - find each other inside the nucleus? 🤔
Most models assume the random forces driving locus motion are independent in space
New preprint by
@janniharju.bsky.social: this assumption fails in living cells 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Are you fascinated by self-organised patterning processes?
The brand-new Stuart lab at EMBL Barcelona is looking for a lab manager!
Hannah @htstuart.bsky.social is a fantastic scientist and mentor. Building the lab with her will be a lot of fun!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Bar...
New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations"
Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations?
rdcu.be/e7zx7
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).
A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)
Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!
Finally I can join #FluorescenceFriday as a theorist 😊.
This is a DNA-PAINT recording of E-Cadherin and F-actin in Drosophila embryonic epidermis. You can see E-cadherin clusters and their counterparts across junctions. Cover in @biophysj.bsky.social . doi.org/10.1016/j.bp... #devbio #cellbio
