Thrilled to receive the 2026 Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award. Exciting to see our work on brain development recognized by the European neuroscience community. Grateful to my mentors, my lab, and my family. Award lecture at FENS Forum Barcelona in July! www.fens.org/news-activit...

Excited to share our #preprint showing that #macrophages in the regenerating #zebrafish #heart are shaped by local cardiac-immune microniches, with a fibroblast-to-macrophage signal promoting regeneration over fibrotic repair www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @idrm.ox.ac.uk @oxforddpag.bsky.social

Let me post a spicy take here: most people don't read or cite other model organisms' work. Because of this, they keep rediscovering things and, most importantly, re-writing the timeline in favor of fewer and fewer models. That, plus an artificial limit of citations per paper equals this 🧪

New preprint from our lab! Rita Aires et al., looked into how tissue remodelling is regulated during limb regeneration. In short, depending on what tissues are injured, a tailored response ensures the right immune cells are recruited to ensure skeletal integration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very excited for this symposium!! looking forward to meeting everyone and learning from the community! 🤩

I am thrilled to share our new publication in @natcomms.nature.com showing that the vertebrate developmental hourglass has a cellular basis. We asked whether this embryonic pattern is already evident at the level of cells, the building blocks of complex organisms. rdcu.be/e70XT

Certain cancers are described as “glutamine addicted”. But how does this addiction arise, and how do tumors manage to bypass it? I am excited to share that the results of my postdoctoral work are finally published in @cp-molcell.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/hs7ep5sa 👇 Check the thread for more!

I’m thrilled to share that my PhD work has been just published in Cell. After a long and bumpy ride, we uncovered the core function of nuclear speckles -splicing of GC-levelled exons- and traced the evolution of this gene architecture and condensates themselves to amniotes.

A 🆕 #Ichthyosporea story Led [email protected], in Co. @gautamdey.bsky.social & @hiralshah.bsky.social+🔥team across @embl.org & @sciencesunige.bsky.social We finally have a look at what #microtubules are doing during #cellularization in #Sphaeroforma ▶️ tinyurl.com/MTSARC #ProtistsOnSky

Excited to share our work on epithelial multilayering - identifying why stem cell stay in the basal layer and how and why differentiating cells move up. Great collab with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Niessen labs! Check out preprint and great summary below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹 Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻 bit.ly/467TO0M

Curious about how to achieve organ-wide #regeneration through locally controlled cell proliferation? Check out our latest computational adventure addressing this problem in the #neuromast within the #zebrafish lateral line. doi.org/10.1016/j.jt... (1/9)

Previously we had shown that axolotl tail regeneration occurs in the absence of somitogenesis. In the updated manuscript we propose that vertebral segmentation during tail regeneration occurs through a process of buckling instability. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A study from the new "Insect Sex Determination and Development research group" is featured on the front of PNAS, uncovering a conserved genetic switch for sex determination, stable across 150 million years of evolution. Read the full press release: tinyurl.com/bdzebvdf

Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM

Start your independent as an ELISIR fellow right after your PhD, in one of the most terrific places in Europe !

Interested in doing an interdisciplinary PhD to elucidate signalling centres that orchestrates limb regeneration? Come to work with the amazing @canaztekin.bsky.social and myself!!

🚨We are recruiting two PhD students 🚨 1) Quantitative & dynamic analysis of limb-regenerative signaling centers w/ @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social 📶🧮💻 🔗https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/80704/Quantitative-and-dynamic-analysis-of-limb-regenerative-signaling-center-interactions

New paper from our lab and @friedrich-group.bsky.social !! Insights into morphogen gradient scaling to regenerate a limb at the appropriate size. #axolotl, #limbregeneration

🎉 Our deconstructed, stem-cell–based approach to studying signaling centers and limb-development cell types is out! 🥳 So nice to see it in its final form after the preprint— and huge thanks to the community for all the enthusiasm and interest since then! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 Our deconstructed, stem-cell–based approach to studying signaling centers and limb-development cell types is out! 🥳 So nice to see it in its final form after the preprint— and huge thanks to the community for all the enthusiasm and interest since then! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to present the final version of our Cadherin and gastruloid manuscript, online at @cp-cellreports.bsky.social. www.cell.com/cell-reports... Initially in BiorXiv (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) 1/12

IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇

🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate? We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !

Delighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility. See below 2 calls👇

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

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!

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminars 📅 Oct. 7th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by the @stemdevevo.bsky.social Lab , @canaztekin.bsky.social will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme « Signaling centers of appendage regeneration: from single cells to species » ➡️ buff.ly/Nvw4YZn

🧵1/14 Preprint thread! Can we predict a cell’s fate based on its dynamics? 🔮 Our new study unveils a framework for watching development unfold in real-time, revealing how a cell's shape and movement encode info about its future fate. 🔬📄 Preprint: tinyurl.com/4shf8v4x

George, our very first postdoc (super brave!), has been central to so many projects. Had a hugely risky project that paved the way for his regeneration work. Proud to share it here again #PostdocAppreciationWeek 🐸 vs 🐭 👇 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share that our Group Leader Prof. Azim Surani, together with Prof. Davor Solter, has been awarded the 2026 Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 🎉 for discovering genomic imprinting—a breakthrough that reshaped genetics and launched modern epigenetics.

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

🚀 Looking for a Bioinformatician / Data Scientist to join our crew and explore regeneration through single-cell genomics & evolutionary biology! @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social 📩 Questions? Contact us ✉️ 🔗 Apply here: www.mpg.de/25243280/bio...

Excited to share our Review on human PGC development covering the latest in vivo observations & in vitro developments, esp. in the last 5 years. Have a read! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... From: @astar-gis.bsky.social @ki.se Warwick University, @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Excited and very grateful to announce that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant by @erc.europa.eu! 🎉 This is a fantastic opportunity to further build my team at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (@mpi-ie.bsky.social) exploring new grounds in fundamental research:

🥳 Very grateful for the support of the ERC Starting Grant for my newly established lab! We will study how transposable elements contribute to mammalian embryonic development. We will have positions available next year. Stay tuned!

🥳 Thrilled to share that our lab has been awarded an ERC StGrant for our project SigReg: Signal to Regeneration! How can we unlock limb regeneration in adult mammals? It’s time to apply what we learned from 🐸 ➡️ 🐭 Thank you @erc.europa.eu for supporting ambitious science!!!

If you want to feel like you know nothing about biology, read this paper. 😭 I want to get it. But brain not cooperating.

Thrilled to share 🎉 I’m starting my lab at University of Zurich, DMLS as Assistant Professor (tenure track) from Jan 2026! The Neural MorphoGenomics & Developmental Dynamics Lab will be exploring how genes + morphogenesis shape brain development with organoids, imaging & spatial genomics 🧠🔬🧬

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Announcing this year's Life Time Achievement Award. The one and only amazing Professor Brigette Galliot. Our inspiration with both her research and her service.

We are excited to highlight our Rising Star Awardee, Dr. Can Aztekin @canaztekin.bsky.social whose work highlighting the importance of oxygen in regulating regeneration is inspiring. #Onetowatch

Very proud of our @canaztekin.bsky.social on his Rising Star Award 2025 from @isrbio.bsky.social! Find out more about his work on the structural limb #regeneration, specifically in understanding the differences in regeneration abilities across various species: s.gwdg.de/QidoUL #biology #maxplanck

1/n Fun journey continues: Our new @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social paper out on how the Inherent & Dormant Plasticity of Mouse Naive PSCs can be "Exaggerated" to Directly form ~E8.5 Transgene-Free (TF) Mouse SEMs & WITHOUT inducing 8-16-Morula-like "Embryo Founder Cells". www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

Honored to receive the @isrbio.bsky.social Rising Star Award for our work in regeneration biology! Grateful to the committee and our colleagues for the recognition. A huge motivation for the lab. Excited to give the award talk in Madison next week and connect with everyone! 😎🥳🍾 shorturl.at/LnkSt

Thrilled to bits to see our latest work online in Dev Cell! 🥳 We wanted to know how cells build functional organs with precision🫀🫁📏 Here we show how coupling of cell shape and organ function fine tunes the form and contractile power of the developing #zebrafish heart 1/n tinyurl.com/cell-stretch

Grateful and excited to launch the Otsuki Regeneration Group at the Hubrecht Institute! 🔗 www.hubrecht.eu/research-gro... We study how tissues regenerate - and use those principles to build 3D tissues in vitro. Full announcement: www.linkedin.com/in/leo-otsuk... @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social