If you're looking for a PhD position, or know someone looking checkout our interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship program! We are always looking for talented students with a physics or computational background to join our group to work on the physics of living systems!

Biozentrum, University of Basel@biozentrum.unibas.ch · 2mo ago

Ready for the next step in your scientific career? Apply now for a fully funded Biozentrum PhD Fellowship and explore a wide range of research fields before choosing your PhD lab. 🧪 Applications for the current call are open until October 18, 2026. More information 👇

I’m starting at the Hubrecht Institute at a new group leader from September. I will be hiring a PhD student through the PhD program ⬇️ If you, or anyone you know, is interested in theoretical biophysics, I will be very excited to hear from them — please send inquiries to my ISTA email for now :)

Hubrecht Institute@hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Are you excited to redefine our understanding of molecules, cells, tissues and organisms? Then we are looking for you! Applications for the Hubrecht International PhD program (HIPP) are now open and will be accepted until September 15th. Read more here 👉 www.hubrecht.eu/hipp/

1/ 🧬🔬 How does one cell become an entire animal? We can now film it in 3D 🐟, but turning those movies into accurate cell tracks is brutally hard. Enter our new #Kaggle challenge: $60K prize pool, to help crack 3D+time cell tracking at scale! 🧵👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @biohub.org

See here for a more popular-science-esque press release from ISTA Communications on our paper.

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)@istaresearch.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔬 New paper in Developmental Biology 🐟 Our researchers have now tested a largely ignored hypothesis—that the geometry of an embryo drives its development. Read more in the 🧵below. 📷 Zebrafish in ISTA’s Aquatic Facility.

Happy to see our paper out! If you are interested in cell cycles or early embryogenesis, check out our thread below ⬇️

Nikhil Mishra@nikhil-mishra.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How does a uniform zygote reliably break symmetry? How do initially identical cells diverge in cell-cycle timing and transcriptional state? In our new paper in Nature Physics, we show that embryo geometry itself is sufficient to pattern early development. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you want to discover Vienna, Austria in general (and @istaresearch.bsky.social groups in particular) now have 4-year fellowships for postdocs coming from a US institution (up to 500,000 EUR)! Contact me if interested!

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften@oeaw.bsky.social · last yr.

25 neue #Stipendien für Forschende aus den #USA 🎓 Mit 10 Millionen Euro finanziert der Fonds Zukunft Österreich das von der ÖAW initiierte neue Programm APART-USA, das vierjährige Post-Doc-Stellen an österreichischen Universitäten oder Forschungseinrichtungen schafft ⤵️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/oeaw-25...

Thanks for featuring my work with @sonnenlab.bsky.social and @marekvanoostrom.bsky.social in this thoughtful article!

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · last yr.

In preprints: robust segmentation clock outputs via cell cycle and synthetic coupling Here, @jorgelazaro.bsky.social and @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social discuss two #preprints looking into the mechanisms regulating somitogenesis through cell- and tissue-level couplings: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

How do embryos ensure precise tissue patterning? It’s all about timing cell divisions! Our new preprint reveals how cell proliferation syncs with signaling oscillations to regulate precision of somite formation and growth. Check the full story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last year, 30 developmental biologists and biophysicists got together for the 'Physics of the Early Embryonic Cell Divisions' Workshop. Find out what happened (1/3🧵) 1️⃣Building Bridges Between Biology and Physics by @irene-yuting-li.bsky.social @isaacsiuwong.bsky.social & @lena-schindler.bsky.social

Building Bridges Between Biology and Physics: Insights from a Workshop on Early Embryonic Cell Divisions - the Node

Written by Irene Li, Magdalena Schindler and Isaac Wong This is one of three reports about the "Physics of the Early Embryonic Divisions" Workshop,

thenode.biologists.com

New preprint out in collaboration with the Heisenberg Lab :)

Heisenberg Lab@heisenbergcplab.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢‼️ Exciting new preprint from the lab by @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social et al, now out on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, reveals that the early embryo geometry spatiotemporally patterns zygotic genome activation (ZGA) in zebrafish. 🐟 tinyurl.com/Biorxiv-nmis... Read on to learn more... 👇