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!

EMBO is #hiring a Policy Assistant for the EMBO Policy Programme – Apply now! www.embo.org/vacancy/poli... #JobOpening #JobSearch #CareerOpportunities 🧪

What allows lamins A and C to confer much stronger mechanical stability to the nuclei than lamin B? We show that even though all lamins can protect the nucleus from small cell intrinsic forces, only lamin A/C protect the nucleus from large deformations: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC. We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail. @Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

One the best things about a life in science is that your heroes often become your friends. My entire career stems from two papers by Ray Keller and I'm just thrilled to have a new piece out with Rob Huebner highlighting those classic papers. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🇬🇧 We are #hiring an IT Specialist to join our admin team at Physics of Life! Please share with your colleagues. 🗓️Deadline: 8th August. Apply here: tud.link/rywtux

🥁 New article 📢: #Mechanobiology of #development during #Drosophila #gastrulation using #Brillouin microscopy, now in @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/ev6ZX Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social

Perks of visiting James @harnoslab.bsky.social in Brno 🐸

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

Birth defects kill twice as many children as cancer. Animal model are crucial; no stem-cell or computer models can yet recapitulate the embryo's complexity. If you support birth defects research tell NIH that animal models are important! Click & scroll below to comment. tinyurl.com/mr3he6bx

Come manage our building @poldresden.bsky.social !!!

Fabulous job call @tudresden.bsky.social @cmcb-tud.bsky.social @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social is looking for a new head. Post is for two years in the first instance, remunerated at group leader level with lots of opportunity to drive development and science www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

Pls spread the word! We have a postdoc position available in the Rocha Lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social. Join our team to study mechanisms underlying robust organ development using zebrafish embryos and human organoids. mpi-muenster.mpg.de/career

🎉Paper alert! Congratulations to the Friedrich group at PoL @friedrich-group.bsky.social and collaborators for their new findings (+cover!) published in Science Advances. They reveal a novel mechanism for muscle growth via division of sarcomeres, throughout myofibrils Learn more: tud.link/35mkgk

🧪 Job alert 🔊 we are hiring a Research Assistant - join the Simões Group at DPAG-IDRM @ox.ac.uk supporting #cardiovascular development and regeneration research, working with #zebrafish and #human stem cell systems: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... @oxforddpag.bsky.social @idrm.ox.ac.uk (1/4)

Cool stuff… Macropinocytosis in #xenopus tissue remodelling #devbio

Come and Join our Dpt in Beautiful #Geneva ! We are looking for a #Microscopy & #Image #Analysis expert to help all of us at the Dpt.

Happy to be the next (and 1st female) @crg.eu director. The CRG always stood out to me, for its excellence in understanding life's principles, with implications for health and biodiversity, & its collaborative, open and innovative way of doing science. Thrilled to join its amazing community in 2026!

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social‬ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪 Learn more here: www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Fully in line with this opinion article on the value of human judgement in peer review. Down the line, reviewing is not about making a good summary, but providing a hierarchy of what is really important and not, weighted by the estimated pain/cost of the requests www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌙 Over 2,200 visitors, 250+ volunteers, and one unforgettable Science Night at the CMCB, @tudresden.bsky.social! Huge thanks to everyone who joined us – and to our amazing volunteers! #LNDWDD #Dresden #CMCBnews

Closing today! Come work with us! www.beckerzebrafish.net/lab-news/202...

We're #hiring! Our group in the Cell Bio Dept at Hopkins is looking for a Research Technologist to join us and study #neuralcrest #cellmigration during #devbiol! Looking to build up your lab experience? Check it out! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...

📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr We have fantastic speakers and registration is free! training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve... @karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social

Interested in these research topics? Do you want to do a PhD or postdoc? Contact me 🙂

We have been collaborating with Daria for years and I warmly recommend working with her.

Are you a research group leader in the #LifeSciences in #Chile? Join us for our first in-person EMBO Lab Leadership Course for Group Leaders in the country, taking place at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile from 15–17 October 2025. 🧪 Apply by 15 July: meetings.embo.org/event/embo-l...

Thrilled to share that my first #micropublication is out! 🧬🔬 I created a user-friendly ImageJ/FIJI plugin for nuclear segmentation and multi-channel fluorescence analysis that doesn't require programming skills. www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...

Very excited to share the first preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... We investigated neural crest migration all the way from head to tail of the Zebrafish embryo and we found their nuclei suffer dramatic deformations. Want to know of they cope with feeling squeezed? 🐟🐠🐟

Combining numerical simulations and scaling arguments, we reveal new scaling exponents for the indentation of a purely nonlinearly elastic, pressurised, or prestressed elastic shell.

After its renewal last week, our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life will be taking on new challenges! In the upcoming weeks, we will be explaining here our new scientific directions, represented by 7 interwoven Research Avenues🔬👩‍🔬 Stay tuned! Learn more: tud.link/5f2m72 #biophysics #research #dfg

We are really grateful and honored for this comment on our latest preprint! AND we share the spotlight with the Monaghan lab! Thanks @woutermasselink.bsky.social and @dev-journal.bsky.social

We are all super happy about these great news! Glad to be part of this and am looking forward to see cool science coming out of PoL 2.0 #biophysics #bioelectricity #biomechanics 🙌🏼🎉🥳🍾

On my way to Freiburg! Happy to share our @poldresden.bsky.social research and discuss with our colleagues @cibss.bsky.social thanks @walenteklab.bsky.social for the invitation 🐸

How do epithelia adapt to mechanical stresses? What roles do junctional complexes AJs & desmosomes play in this mechanotransduction? Check out our new review article by @juliaeckert.bsky.social & Virgile Viasnoff, discussing these ideas! 👇

Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision in humans enabled by upconversion contact lenses www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 😮

The medial #PrefrontalCortex (mPFC) is a key brain area for pain sensation & #ChronicPain. This study shows that modulation of a circuit projecting from nucleus reuniens of the thalamus to mPFC improves neural & behavioral indicators of chronic pain in mice @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mpMuEj

New paper dropped: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Ok #devbiolwriteclub, who’s ready to suffer? I’ll be taking on this year’s 1000 Words of Summer. I’ll try to write 1000 words a day for two straight weeks starting May 31. Who’s with me? 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/1000wordso...

Many cells during development are exposed to caspase activation and yet survive. Why some die and not others ? We found out that the memory of previous caspase activation bias significantly later death comitment and bias death distribution and single cell decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

One week left to apply to the Physics of Life MSc this year! Students learn first-class research skills and can also avail of #scholarships to aid their studies. Learn more and apply: physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/career-educa... #internationalstudents #MSc #EnglishMSc #Physics #studyabroad

✍️ The @minclab.bsky.social published a new article 📖 Current Biology 📃 Cell division: Size-scaling cytoplasmic flows transport chromosomes to the right spot 🔗 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Today, at Sip of Science, we got Denys Biriukov and molecular simulation, with Aristotle, Newton and Oppenheimer, as the main characters, and many stars around 😍💻🌃 Come and join us in two weeks at @ceitec.eu

Congratulations to Ray Keller, PhD for his election to the National Academy of Sciences. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenops #frogs

Super good opportunity here!! #sciencejob #admin

We were able to reliably predict cell fate from the very first frame ⚡️of 3 days long acquisition, and identify relevant biological processes🧬 involved in cancer persister cells, despite their known biological variability (3/n)

How do altered levels of lamins and other nuclear envelope proteins contribute to cancer metastasis, and what role does #mechanobiology play here? Learn more in our recent review by fantastic Sarah Henretta, now out in NPJ - Biological Physics and Mechanics, open access: doi.org/10.1038/s443...