Excited to kick off 2026 as a junior PI at the University of Geneva, with a focus on multicellular coordination in organs and organisms. Looking forward to new collegiality and collaborations—plus mountains and lakes. I’m also recruiting a PhD student on excitable dynamics in organogenesis.

1/n Wanted to share this latest piece of work that came online today on how Scale-independent and Topological interactions govern the spindle orientation and in turn the decision to become embryonic/yolk nuclei. Freely available to read here: rdcu.be/ebb0l

Topological interactions drive the first fate decision in the Drosophila embryo

Nature Physics - Early positioning of the embryo nuclei is not well understood. Now, experiments show that the orientation of the mitotic spindle is controlled by topological interactions, which...

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