Check out our new short review "Cell sorting models in tissue development". This is our contribution to a Special Issue on Modelling and Dynamics in Current Opinion in Systems Biology. @barcelonacollaboratorium.com @biocomsc-upc.bsky.social @upc.edu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After a year of posting the pre-print, we now updated the manuscript in bioRxiv with beautiful agent-based simulations from Sotiris Samatas (EMBL) recapitulating symmetry breaking in gastruloids. @barcelonacollaboratorium.com @embl.org

New preprint! We show how mesoscopic nonequilibrium fluctuations in active gels emerge from the breaking of detailed balance at the molecular scale. Warning: Long technical paper ahead! Enjoy! @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @ubics.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2601.20483

In previous work with @davidoriola.bsky.social and Jaume Casademunt, we proposed this model and coarse-grained it to show that it gives rise to the constitutive equations of a viscoelastic active gel. link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Ja tens disponible la sobretaula amb el professor i biofísic @davidoriola.bsky.social #LSDLF 🔴YouTube: buff.ly/k10Jddt 🟢Spotify: buff.ly/ZLpeVK3 🟠iVoox: buff.ly/vhI2R8G

We offer a 1-year postdoc on modelling multicellular systems in my group at @biocomsc-upc.bsky.social and @barcelonacollaboratorium.com in sunny Barcelona. We encourage applicants to also apply for a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship for a 2-year extension. Feel free to contact me!

🚨JOB ALERT Dr. Buceta at @i2sysbio.es welcome applications for 36-month postdocs on: 👉 Mechanical markers of tissue dysfunction due to ageing – digital twins & machine learning Details here: fgcsic.es/convocatoria... 📩 Contact [email protected] to shape your proposal! @epimechfc.bsky.social

Emergence and Self-organisation across biological scales! I hope you are ready for next year conference! It will be an incredible event April 20-22 2026. The first of many #LakeConference organised by @ehannezo.bsky.social @alleninstitute.org and James Sharpe @embl.org

#modularity elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

We offer a 1-year postdoc on modelling multicellular systems in my group at @biocomsc-upc.bsky.social and @barcelonacollaboratorium.com in sunny Barcelona. We encourage applicants to also apply for a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship for a 2-year extension. Feel free to contact me!

We’ve officially launched the MetaboDev lab at IMBA 🚀! I’m extremely grateful for all the support from the @imbavienna.bsky.social & @viennabiocenter.bsky.social community. Special thanks to @eunicechan.bsky.social, the most amazing first lab member I could have hoped for. On to the science!🔬🧬#NewPI

Join us next week for another exciting VGZT session! 🗓️ Thursday, November 6th ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 David Oriola (@davidoriola.bsky.social) 👉 Nicole Edwards (@nicoleedwds.bsky.social) See you then! 👋

With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend. mpl.mpg.de/news/article... @fau.de 📸 Stephan Spangenberg

Amazing!!! 🧪 The 2025 Ig Nobel prize goes to scientists from the @mpipks.bsky.social for discovering a bullet proof version to make the classic pasta alla cacio e pepe! Including a deep understanding of the pasta sauce in terms of phase separation physics 😃 Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al! Links👇

One is the best EMBO/EMBL symposium is coming up and it’s going to be AWESOME. Save the date !

Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!

Congratulations, Michael Dorrity and Anna Erzberger! The two EMBL Heidelberg group leaders have received ERC Starting Grants that will enable ambitious projects related to developmental timing and tissue self-organisation, respectively. Learn more: www.embl.org/news/awards-...

🧩 Day 5! Agent-based modeling took center stage today with Alexandria Volkening 🐟🌀 From swarming to zebrafish stripes, participants explored how cells self-organize. ✨ Flash talks & a keynote by Katie Bentley wrapped up the day! #EMBOMulticellModeling

🧠 Day 4 was all about 🧬 noise in biology — from master equations to stochastic simulations, led by Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo! 🔬 Group projects continued, and the day ended with a fascinating keynote by @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social on morphogen mediated tissue patterning! #EMBOMulticellModeling

🧬 Day 3! From spatial models and Turing patterns to the interplay of gradients and self-organisation, today was packed with insights and hands-on work. Participants also began their group projects and wrapped up the day with an inspiring keynote by @bertaverd.bsky.social! #EMBOMulticellModelling 💡🧠

🧪 Day 2 of the EMBO Practical Course at the Collaboratorium! From solving ODEs in Python to applying them to gene regulatory networks and diving into object-oriented programming with VEDO. #EMBOMulticellModelling 💻🧬

🔬 Day 1 of the EMBO Practical Course on Computational Modelling of Multicellular Systems kicks off at the Collaboratorium! Participants were welcomed by @jamesasharpe.bsky.social, setting the stage for a week of exploring how computational tools help us understand tissue and organ dynamics. 💻🧬

Amazing defense by @alisonkickuth.bsky.social! Congratulations on the beautiful thesis!

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

50+% cut to the US National Science Foundation budget is staggering. These include cuts for research in Chemistry. Physics, Geology, Math, Engineering, Computer Science. Scientific discoveries and training of our next generation of scientists and engineers are halved. How is that helping the US?

Nucleoli as biomolecular bubble tea! Congrats to former Princeton ugrad Holly Cheng (now GS @MIT) ->Holly's senior thesis work, a close collab w Roggeveen Wang & @zs-biophys.bsky.social‬ &Stone. Come for the cool movies & stay for the viscoelasticity! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407423122

This could be one of the coolest meetings of the year!!

Flocking and active solid behavior of epithelial cells in our new study in @pnas.org Great work of Y. Shen, J. O'Byrne and @andreasschoenit.bsky.social and collaboration with A. Maitra and R. Voituriez! | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How does metabolism drive early development in the embryo? Well done to @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social (a PoL Associate) and all involved in new groundbreaking publications released in Cell Stem Cell. Read all about it below! Learn more in the press release here: tud.link/dndnvh

Congratulations Laura Avinyo! @lauavinyo.bsky.social and Heura Cardona! First paper of your PhD 🎉. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Beautiful quantified trajectory of how the skeletal pattern of the gene Sox9 emerges during limb development. @embl.org @barcelonacollaboratorium.com

Reconstructing gene expression patterns gives mouse studies a leg up Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Laura Aviñó-Esteban @lauavinyo.bsky.social, Heura Cardona-Blaya & James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Extending a warm welcome to Bluesky for the @barcelonacollaboratorium.com, our joint initiative with @embl.org Barcelona.

🚀 Ready to be inspired? Check out our Fellows' and Alumni Starter Pack! 💡✨ Dive into their groundbreaking work and join us on this journey of discovery. 🌍🔬 Follow us to explore more! 🌟 👉 go.bsky.app/DTMWAHX

📣 I’m looking for PhD students to work at the intersection of theoretical physics & biology -topics range from active cell mechanics to collective cell migration & tissue patterning! Feel free to reach out for more info (DM/email)! Please repost / share 🙂

And because it really is Christmas, another study by @davidoriola.bsky.social and @viktri08.bsky.social lab showing how cell-cell communication can drive the timing of symmetry breaking! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really happy to share with you my last work from my time in @embl.org with the @viktri08.bsky.social group. We studied the dynamics of cell fate transition in gastruloids and found that cells communicate with each other to control the timing of symmetry breaking. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My first post in @bsky.app! Happy to share the first contribution from my group on how the phenomenon of arrested coalescence can be used to explore tissue rheology www.mdpi.com/2673-4125/4/.... A review on the methods, theory and simulations of tissue fusion. Hope you enjoy it!

My first post on @bsky.app. So happy to announce that our work has been published in Development by @biologists.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Also a big thanks for "The people behind the papers" article as well! doi.org/10.1242/dev....