Registration deadline extended to 5th January. Festive greetings!

During the #biologists100 conference, the Node's conference reporter @jens-cells.bsky.social spoke with Clare Benson, Luke Simpson and @m-stower.bsky.social. Here, each researcher tells us more about the work that they presented at the conference.👇 thenode.biologists.com/throwback-to...

Great quote Waddington Seen @DBT_inStem #Embryo #CellsRUs #NotInTheGenes

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

Tristan Guyomar and I wrote a review on physical mechanisms coordinating regeneration - Featured: signalling/mechanical gradients, travelling waves and nematic fields - Dramatis personae: axolotls, hydra, planaria, spiny mice and zebrafish (ofc) with a jellyfish cameo tinyurl.com/3upzrdbs

Final week to register! #EMBOevents

A new research facility dedicated to axolotls, will be opening soon. Hosting the UK’s only dedicated axolotl research colony and will support world class studies into regeneration, ageing, cancer resistance and stem cell biology. edin.ac/4pAAJeW @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @aidarodrigo.bsky.social

🚨 Preprint Friday! 🚨 Thrilled to highlight this collab with David Brown at Duke @cutitoutdave.bsky.social and Ken Poss at UW Madison/Morgridge @kenposs.bsky.social. By comparing 3(!!) regenerating models we identify a conserved role for Sp-family TFs in appendage regeneration (and more).....🧵

Are you a #devbio postdoc planning to go on the job market in 2026? Then this is the initiative for you! Offering training, networking, mentoring and profile-raising components, Development's PI Programme can give you that extra support you might need while navigating this challenging time...

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Delighted to be in the EMBO YIP list! @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social

🎉 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/...

Congratulations Elise Laruelle & @robinsonsci.bsky.social on your @acceleratescience.bsky.social - @c2d3.cam.ac.uk funded project "Plant automatic cell lineage reconstruction" More info www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-a... Illustration by Elise Laruelle & leaf images by @sainikumud.bsky.social

Registration deadline 20th Dec! We have generous travel grants for early career researchers! April is a beautiful time to visit China!

If you’re not aware of BiO’s Fast & Fair initiative, do listen to this podcast or find out more on the website (journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...). We’re trying to tackle two big issues with the peer review process - how to make it quicker & how to recognise the crucial work of peer reviewers

Delighted to share this latest manuscript @nature.com Ethylene regulating root cell wall mechanics in compacted soil in collaboration with Wanqi and Staffan Persson @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @ukri.org @uonresearch.bsky.social @lucas-de-lion.bsky.social @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social rdcu.be/eR4or

Thrilled to have contributed to this @nature.com study on ethylene and cell wall mechanics in root compaction responses!! — Featuring Jiao Zhang, Lucas Peralta Ogorek, @borgesaugust.bsky.social , Bipin Pandey, Staffan Persson, Wanqi Zhang, Malcolm Bennett & more!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking forward to my visit to Fac Biologicas @ucm.es (biologicas.ucm.es) in #Madrid, my alma mater, where I studied (and dreamt) 50 years ago!

Are you a postdoc or Asst. Prof on the job market? Check out our listing and consider applying! The search is very broad and it’s in a great department, location, university! Even with the crazy schedule that comes with being a PI- I love my job @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social!

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.

About stress inference bsky.app/profile/epim...

📚 Welcome to the Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club! 🌟 We're all about sharing research papers and threads. If you'd like to contribute, please send DM us! 💬 Our goal is to build a community that fosters knowledge sharing. Explore our previous 🧵 here 👇

We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕 🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in... 🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... 🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

We're advertising a PhD at the intersection of mathematical ecology, metallobiology, and microbiology to study the impact of metals on microbial communities with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social @kateduncan.bsky.social and Denis Patterson. Come join us in lovely Durham! iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Help us to promote this DevBiol course (in Spanish) ¡Nuevo curso gratuito de Biología del Desarrollo (en español)! Aprende sobre los procesos que dan origen a la vida Cupos limitados → forms.gle/sfSV1GTae2nC... Detalles y programa: drive.google.com/file/d/1-9dd... #BiologíaDelDesarrollo

Speaking of time, @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social 's lab recently developed a new method, ForSys, that uses all available dynamic information. It also tracks the elements of the tissue over time and uses their movement to further inform the stress inference algorithm. bsky.app/profile/epim...

Mechanical forces can affect the way tissue grows. Ideally, we want to characterize them without interfering with the processes we are studying. Is there a way to achieve this? I am @borgesaugust.bsky.social Welcome to my stress inference tutorial! #EpithelialMechanics

Borges, A., Miranda-Rodriguez, J. R., Ceccarelli, A., Ventura, G., Sedzinski, J., Lopez-Schier, H., & Chara, O. (2025). ForSys: non-invasive stress inference from time-lapse microscopy. iScience, 28, 113685. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/jQ96TCK

Register for your place at this exciting @embo.org workshop in China now! Places are filling up fast! @biologists.bsky.social

Excited to take part on this @embo.org workshop - register now and see you in Haining! Thanks @yanlanmao.bsky.social for putting together such an interdisciplinary programme! 🧪

Are you, like me, fascinated by the interface between biophysical and molecular mechanisms of animal homeostasis and repair? Join us at this amazing @embo.org workshop in Haining, China!

Postdoc or PhD position to unveil the amazing problem of limb regeneration!!! Come to work with the great @canaztekin.bsky.social and myself!!

Our ForSys method to infer the mechanical state of a tissue in space and time is published now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/iscience/ful... (1/10)

Borges, A., & Chara, O. (2024). Peeking into the future: inferring mechanics in dynamical tissues. Biochemical Society transactions, 52(6), 2579–2592. #EpithelialMechanicsReview buff.ly/sntsjqb

Looking for an interesting interdisciplinary PhD on spinal cord regeneration? Join us to explore how tissues rebuild after injury — combining biology, physics, and computational approaches! PIs: Karel Dorey, @ramandas.bsky.social, and @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social. 👉: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New article out now! Our researchers @sumrubayin.bsky.social, @bensteventon.bsky.social, and @storerlab.bsky.social share key takeaways from a workshop on complex tissue regeneration, highlighting the need for more collaboration and interdisciplinary work. ➡️ journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

These are great - and could support your attendance to the 2025 CBIAS napari workshop for example! www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

Summer break prevented me from properly advertising this serie of reviews on the function of cell death during development that I edited. There is still a lot to dig in regarding regulation of apoptosis in vivo ad I hope we managed to illustrate this well www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!

Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️

An exciting new paper from the lab! Check it out:

Check out this work from @gserranonajera.bsky.social and Apolline Delahaye! They show how gastruloids can employ different morphogenetic strategies to set up a body axis. It nicely builds from Guillermo’s PhD work recapitulating gastrulation modes in the chick: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It is day 3 of our #ResearchAppreciationDay2025 countdown! Dr Filipa Simões and team reveal how immune cells shape the heart from the earliest stages and guide regeneration in species like zebrafish. 🔬 Read the review: shorturl.at/kIYBf

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Giulia Paci In this interview, @giuliapaci.bsky.social talks about physics, mechanics, comics, her research journey, and the importance of public engagement: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Hot off the press!!! Proudly presenting our lab's new review on how do cells communicate to control organ size :) We focus specially on dynamic connections that operate at different timescales to regulate organ growth and morphogenesis. #devbio #SizeandShape www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Final hours to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025! 📢 Don’t miss your chance to take part in talks and hands-on sessions with other plant modelling enthusiasts🪴 Deadline tomorrow (31 July) - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa... #ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

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

Cells in a regenerating axolotl limb somehow know their place—but how? In our new paper, we trace the dynamics of positional memory, release open-source code to quantify it, and introduce a theoretical framework for proximalisation. 🧵👇 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)

🧪 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)