Claudio Cortes
@clcortex.bsky.social
Scientist #devbio in congenital heart disease @Oxford #microscopy🇨🇱🇦🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 #SciComm/#SciArt🔬♥🧬// He/Him // Climbing - drumming - scuba
The human #heart is a biological powerhouse that has the capacity to beat billions of times. But what prompts that very first #heartbeat? And how can #ComputationalArt help us to unravel the mystery? @clcortex.bsky.social explains in our brand new video. 🎥 https://bit.ly/HeartsAnew 1/2
Repost please !! We have extended the abstract deadline for the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Conference to June 20. scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu. Get those abstract in !
Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting
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Cool paper alert! 🚨 Spearheaded by @m-stower.bsky.social, click to learn about how mouse AP patterning involves coordination of collective cell movement, inter-tissue interactions, and much more! A great example of how powerful time lapse microscopy becomes when coupled with quantitative analyses.
Srinivas Lab@srinivas-lab.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are happy to share our new bioRxiv pre-print on A-P axis patterning. A great collaboration with Felix Zhou (UT Southwestern) & the Yeomans group (Physics, Oxford) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📰 Researchers at @tulaneu.bsky.social have discovered that if animal cells gain an extra set of chromosomes, they activate a stress signaling pathway that causes them to become more mobile and capable of engulfing neighboring cells with normal chromosome numbers. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Hey, craniofacial and development folks! Check out a new preprint from me and @crumplab.bsky.social about the developing jaw. Here, we show how major signaling pathways establish distinct compartments along the oral-aboral axis. I'm excited to share it with you all!
bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 4mo agoSignal triangulation coordinates cell fate decisions in the developing jaw https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.07.716963v1
Absolutely delighted to be hosting Dr Mo Lotfollahi from the Wellcome Sanger Institute (@sangerinstitute.bsky.social) for our next external seminar at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk)! Please join us in person if you are in Oxford on Monday 👇
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology@kiroxford.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn Monday 2 February, Dr Mo Lotfollahi will join us to present ‘Generative AI to predict and engineer human tissues and cells'. Our External Seminars are open to any member of the University of Oxford. Don't miss it! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/676...
Exciting opportunity to join the vibrant Montpellier scientific community!
CRBM-Montpellier@crbm-montpellier.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe are hiring!
Wonderful opportunity, for those interested! We're sure @pauligroup.bsky.social (pictured below) will speak highly about her experience 👩🔬
EMBO@embo.org · 6mo agoApply now! The 2026 call for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is now open with a deadline of 1 April 12:00 midday CEST. 🧪 More info here: https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/young-investigator-programme/ #LifeSciences #research #funding
New preprint from the lab! We dig into the regulatory roles of TEs in the mouse placenta, with some surprising findings. Led by the awesome @smamante.bsky.social. Particular kudos to him for navigating the many twists and turns of the project.
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Today in Oxford - the Jenkinson DevBio symposium, showcasing exciting #DevBio science from all around the UK! What a lineup 🎉 @vmetzis.bsky.social @tobyandrews.bsky.social @simoesfilipa.bsky.social @jvermot.bsky.social @idrm.ox.ac.uk
Are you working on #cellular #cross-talk in the #heart? Looking for an outlet for your work? Look no further! Molly O Reillyy, Chris 'O Shea and I are editing an edition of @jphysiol.bsky.social Deadline 6th Jan! #CardioSky physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵 Check our latest preprint
A toolkit for testing membrane-localising tags across species
Transgenic markers and tools have revolutionised how we study cells and developing organisms. Some of the elements needed to construct those tools are universally applicable (e.g. fluorescent proteins...
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Happy to share our paper now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social - and check out our thread about the findings at bsky.app/profile/vale...
Cell Reports@cp-cellreports.bsky.social · 9mo agoIn vivo differentiation of embryonic cells devoid of key reprogramming factors
Felix Zhou's u-Segment3D is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It leverages 2D cell segmentations from orthoviews to generate a ‘consensus’ 3D segmentation. It does a great job on segmenting densely packed samples, and we have used the algorithm in many applications.
Join us in Sheffield! We are keen to support early career researchers in applying for independent research fellowships (IRFs) to join our friendly and collaborative environment, in areas related to developmental biology, stem cells and regenerative biology, and neuroscience.
My institution---the Sloan Kettering Institute, the basic science arm of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center---is hiring new faculty this cycle! Applications close Nov 15. www.mskcc.org/research/ski...
Faculty Positions
The Sloan Kettering Institute is seeking innovative scientists to join our faculty.
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🚨 TLM Online Seminar Series - 05.11.25 | 16:00 UK Malte Mederacke: "The emergence of the fractal bronchial tree" Rory Cooper: " The mechanics of crocodile and tortoise head scale patterning" Please repost & to attend online please register to our 📧for the zoom link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
Our Microscopy Training Grants with @jcellsci.bsky.social could be used to support your attendance at this course. Check out the details to see if you are eligible: www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f... Or reach out if you have any questions about the grants.
JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants
About JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants are aimed at early-career researchers, working in an area covered by JCS, who would like to attend a microscopy training course. The...
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Alexa Mattheyses@mattheyseslab.bsky.social · 9mo ago🔬We are now accepting applications for the 2026 Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy course at MBL. Come learn to be an excellent microscopist! Questions? Ask here or DM me. @mblscience.bsky.social @aqlm.bsky.social #microscopy #fluorescence
#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word! www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
Assistant/associate Professor of AI-assisted Biophysics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Group Leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) jointly seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in AI-As...
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Our calcium paper is out in PLOS Biology! Check it out! #Calcium #Embryo #Development
PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 10mo agoDuring #development, distal visceral #endoderm (DVE) cells migrate to shape A-P axis specification. @m-stower.bsky.social @srinivas-lab.bsky.social &co reveal the role of Ca2+ dynamics in this, showing that inhibition of #calcium transients causes DVE arrest @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nHWxF4
Such a treasure trove! Thank you for continuing work on such a useful community tool 🐟🧬🤍
@marco-tarasco.bsky.social · 10mo ago📢 The #Danioheart atlas webpage has been updated. In addition to the whole dataset (>34,000 zebrafish heart cells across 10 developmental stages) we now provide subclusters of each major cardiac cell population. #zebrafish #heart #scRNAseq @stainierlab.bsky.social www.mpi-hlr.de/danioheartat...
Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.
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Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
A riveting read and VERY cool timelapses! Very interested in the vector space of contractility/compaction and the link with implantation, not to mention the differences in aged embryos. Read and enjoy!
Kate Cavanaugh@katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 10mo agoSee this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
Absolutely delighted to host Dr Jenna Cash from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for our next @kiroxford.bsky.social External Seminar on Monday 29 September at 12 pm ! Please join us if you want to learn more about how the most recent spatial omics technologies can be used to understand skin biology!
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology@kiroxford.bsky.social · 10mo agoOn Monday 29 September, Dr Jenna Cash from the University of Edinburgh will visit us to talk about "Derailed Cellular Choreography in the Skin Ulcer Niche: Roadblocks to Repair". Our External Seminars are open to any member of the University of Oxford. Don't miss it! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/743...
