the most secret desire from Macron is to be a Trump, with good manners

Join us for the next VGZT, featuring complementary approaches to understanding dynamic tissue organization!

🗓️ Thursday, January 22nd
⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Our speakers are
👉 Chen Yuan Kam (@chenyuankam.bsky.social)
👉 Camilla Autorino (@cami-autorino.bsky.social)

congrats Eva!!!!!!!!!!

International Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series Please fill out the following survey if you are interested in the 2025-2026 International Zoom Seminars on Developmental Mechanics.

🎉 The Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series is back!
🗓️ Thurs, Jan 22
🎙️ Opening talks:
🧬Guy Tanentzapf (UBC)
— How cell adhesion molecules wire into the cytoskeleton
🌀Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff (EMBL)
@gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social
— Mapping tissue mechanics with Brillouin microscopy

Malboubi, M., Esteki, M. H., Vaghela, M. B., Korsak, L. I. T., Petrie, R. J., Moeendarbary, E., & Charras, G. (2025). The cytoplasm of living cells can sustain transient and steady intracellular pressure gradients. Elife. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
#EpithelialMechanics

Reading early onsets of debilitating blood diseases. Research with biomedical, regulatory and social impact. Quo vadis now?

We could add a bit of Brillouin dynamics to this cocktail and 🔥

Noted.

I am missing it too!!

Today our #cephalic #furrow #evolution story hits the shelves in the glossy journal form. How appropriate that it’s architects met in Paris. Missing @bruvellu.bsky.social but joined by #CF enthusiast Mateo Rauzi & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social @yuchiunwang.bsky.social Steffen Lemke #mechanicsfirst

It is Germany, not Heidelberg 🙂. And Berlin does not count as Germany

What would happen if cells would express more molecular motors ?
They would break all microtubules 😱
As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social

rupress.org/jcb/article-...

John’s legacy will continue to inspire. As a developmental biologist, I was profoundly touched by his intellect, generosity, and vision. The Gurdon Institute embodies his belief in creativity and excellence in science. That is his torch that we will carry forward.

2) The secret of his chalk drawings: John was renowned for his ability to draw morphogenetic events, e.g. gastrulation, in real-time. Once he 'confessed' that he drew them in green chalk before the class starts, and during the lecture, he followed the trace.

Two beautiful memories stand out:
1) John, The Mad Hatter: Seeing Sir John dressed as the Mad Hatter at the Gurdon Institute Christmas party was unexpected and perfect at the same time. He was radiant with joy, and his costume was absolutely perfect, it suited his playful spirit wonderfully.

John was always approachable, whether for scientific or political discussions. He was a constant presence at Institute seminars, and there was invariably a key, incisive question coming from him.

He created the Gurdon Institute, a top scientific centre at the heart of Cambridge, both geographically and intellectually. My time at the Gurdon Institute began shortly after he received the Nobel Prize.

John Gurdon will be deeply missed: a sharp mind, a warm and witty sense of humour, and a visionary who shaped our understanding of developmental biology. I admired his intelligence, envied his prominent hair🙂. Left photo, in archives of Nobel, taken by John Overton, photographer and our lab manager.

Black and white portrait of John Gurdon, 1971

John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died.
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews

John B. Gurdon, 92, Dies; Nobelist Paved Way for Cloning of Animals His work in the manipulation of cells laid the foundation for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine and led to the first cloned large mammal, a sheep named Dolly.

Dr. John Gurdon, a British biologist and Nobel laureate who in the early 1960s introduced a paradigm-shifting method of cell manipulation that led to the world’s first cloning of a large mammal, a sheep named Dolly, died on Tuesday at 92.

And of course, a legacy of Science, and great institute.

Couldn t be said better. Great scientist, noble person, great mad hatter at Gurdon parties, best gastrulation drawings on greenboards already pre drawn in disguise by him. 🙂

Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!

indeed, so one should start writing early enough

We would like to once again, thank all the sponsors for their generosity in supporting #MBIMPG2025 @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social @nikoninst.bsky.social @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social, Optics11Life, BGI, Office of Naval Research Global and Paeonia Foundation.

Order or disorder? 🙂

Congratulations Ale!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Great work from two great scientists that happen to be my friends too, so I am double happy, for Developmental Biology and for them and their groups!

Congratulations!!!!!! 🎉🎉Yu Chiun Wang and Steffen Lemke!!!!! @yuchiunwang.bsky.social

Great work, congratulations to all co-authors of this beautiful work! @paveltomancak.bsky.social

#Mechano-evo-devo
#Morphogenesis
#Mechanobiology

Interested to use cutting-edge imaging approaches to study the #evolution of #heart #morphogenesis? The Panfilio lab has a fully funded 3-year #postdoc offer in the framework of a new international #HFSP project: tinyurl.com/4p28nzs7 For details and applications, see tinyurl.com/ApplyHeartPo...