We have a new lab photo. Busy times in the Delas Lab! Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs. Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.

Which features of tissue flows are most robust and how do they emerge from #EpithelialMechanics? I’m @alex-plum.bsky.social (@mattiaserra.bsky.social group) and I’ll be sharing some papers on characterizing and controlling avian gastrulation flows.

PhD position available in our team @dublincityuni.bsky.social from September. Please share/ contact me for informal enquiries.

📢Our latest preprint list is now up on FocalPlane. This week’s list focusses on research using microscopy tools to answer questions in biology. As always, please let us know if there are other preprints that you’d like to see included. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/06/27/m...

Excited to share I’m starting my group in Dublin this September, supported by a Research Ireland Pathway award. We will work on neurulation mechanics using chicken embryos and human iPSCs. Looking forward to this new adventure! #newPI #womeninSTEM

2. iPSC neuroepithelial models by @hpscenthusiast.bsky.social identifying a patient mutation in VANGL2 which diminishes apical constriction in this human model www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hello Bluesky world! 🚨New Preprint 🚨 Thrilled to share my second paper from my PhD in the @glgalea.bsky.social lab. @ucl.ac.uk doi.org/10.1101/2025...