In 2018, I had the opportunity as a PhD student to write a review about chemical waves with @ditalialab.bsky.social Looking back, this was such a fun and valuable experience. If you’re curious to know more about how chemical waves regulate signaling in cells and embryos, check out our review! 🌊

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 2w ago

@vdeneke.bsky.social and @ditalialab.bsky.social review how the spatiotemporal coordination of cellular functions across large distances is controlled by chemical waves. rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of "Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells" rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

@vdeneke.bsky.social and @ditalialab.bsky.social review how the spatiotemporal coordination of cellular functions across large distances is controlled by chemical waves. rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of "Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells" rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

Congrats to both of you! And totally deserved, @alisonkickuth.bsky.social!

Brugues Lab@brugueslab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It was an honor to introduce @alisonkickuth.bsky.social during the Otto Hahn medal ceremony from the @maxplanck.de in recognition for her amazing PhD, where she discovered a new mechanism for unilateral cytokinesis (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

@drsusanna.bsky.social paper is now out in its final form. Relative to the original preprint, we now show additional mutant data and a better way to display heat maps of gene activation. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Rapid transcriptional response to a dynamic morphogen by time integration

Using quantitative live imaging, Brantley et al. reveal that cells decode dynamic BMP signaling during dorsal patterning of the Drosophila embryo by integrating activity over time. These results advan...

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Be on the lookout for an exciting meeting that Matilde @matildegalli.bsky.social , Silvia @santoslab.bsky.social and I are organizing next year in Amsterdam. It will be a lot of fun. coming-soon.embo.org/w27-24

Nice new paper from Stas Shvartsman's group presenting an elegant mathematical model for the control of metamorphosis and testing it using Erk optogenetics. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Optogenetic control of transition to metamorphosis | PNAS

System identification approaches are commonly used in engineering to infer simple yet predictive models of complex systems from their responses to ...

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Happy to have contributed, together with former student Yitong Xu, to this paper. Read the thread below from @brugueslab.bsky.social for more details.

Brugues Lab@brugueslab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Congrats, Ale and lab. A big step forward with a lot of new and unexpected observations! These waves are fascinating indeed

Alessandro De Simone@desimonelab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The lab’s first pre-print! We investigated how growth-inducing Erk activity waves are regulated in regenerating zebrafish scales. We discovered that Erk waves are followed by waves of expression of their own inhibitors, as predicted by excitable waves theory. tinyurl.com/26r2cmpj

Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1. Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)

@sushantbangru.bsky.social and @rdiegmiller.bsky.social new review on regeneration is out in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. A fun piece to write and another great collaboration with @kenposs.bsky.social.

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology@natrevmcb.nature.com · 9mo ago

New Online! Signal control during tissue regeneration in adult animals

We are hiring!

Scott Soderling@scottsoderling.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Please repost!!: We are searching for new AI-Bio faculty at Duke to be part of a new Discovery AI center. Looking for faculty who focus on pushing boundaries in ML model development in a highly interactive environment. DEADLINE for applications- Nov 1st!! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Just got back from a great visit to Vienna, spending time both at @impvienna.bsky.social and @istaresearch.bsky.social. Followed by a great visit to @embl.org. Amazing science, great and supportive colleagues and most notably incredible young trainees. It was so much fun to meet everyone.

Thanks, Paul! Means a lot coming from you, as your papers have been great inspiration for this study

Paul Francois@pfrancois.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Super impressive study by the group of Stefano di Talia on the segmentation of zebrafish notochord. There might even be a SNIC ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🍽️🧬 How do diet and gut microbes shape fertility across generations? 🪱🔬 Our Laboratory at #InstitutPasteur is recruiting a PhD student to study epigenetic inheritance of fertility using C. elegans. Fully funded via the International PPU program. Apply now! 🌍 #PhDposition #Epigenetics #Inheritance

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · 11mo ago

🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry. Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, PPU-@ox.ac.uk, PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬 Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Tissue 'tectonic' collision is detrimental, but flies found two distinct solutions! Gratifying and grateful to be included in this collective effort, w/ Steffen Lemke, to crack the (or 'a') code of #cephalicfurrow, now out in @nature.com, all with @paveltomancak.bsky.social at the helm. (1/9)

Priyom's preprint is out on biorxiv. See below for a detailed thread. In a nutshell, she has discovered and characterized the oscillator that times notochord and spine segmentation in zebrafish. Turns out that there are uniform Erk oscillations across the entire tissue that act as timekeepers!

Priyom Adhyapok@priyomadhyapok.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Building a spine is no joke, but thankfully zebrafish have their own clocks to keep the pace. Excited to share our preprint on the role of biological oscillators in coordinating notochord development! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) Additional thread below

Building a spine is no joke, but thankfully zebrafish have their own clocks to keep the pace. Excited to share our preprint on the role of biological oscillators in coordinating notochord development! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) Additional thread below

Heartfelt obituary of Ben Shilo by Stas Shvartsman

Ben-Zion Shilo (1951–2025)

Ben-Zion Shilo, a distinguished Israeli geneticist (Figure 1), passed away this April at the age of 73 at his home in Rehovot. Benny, as he was known to his friends and colleagues around the world, ma...

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Just noticed a super nice preview of our paper by @ditalialab.bsky.social and Alexandra Hiestand. As always, good editorial experience with @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Vascular scaling: A careful balancing act between proliferation and extrusion

How do vascular tissues grow with the rest of the developing organism postnatally? In this issue of Cell Systems, Pi et al. combine modeling with molecular biology to uncover how cell behaviors scale ...

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Yogesh Goyal@goyallab.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share our paper on deciphering the design & control principles of tissue scaling w/ Luisa Arispe! Amazing work by co-first authors Danielle Pi and Jonas Braun. We show *differentiated* endothelial cell proliferate in waves with ultrafast cell cycle time of ~5h www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Great dinner with current and former members of the lab, as well as current and former Duke members and friends of the lab. Great to catch up with @ceriweber.bsky.social ,Ben, @woonyunghur.bsky.social and share stories. Great @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting!

Excited to see @drsusanna.bsky.social 's work out as a preprint. Please read the thread below for some more information or check the paper out on biorxiv. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Susanna Brantley@drsusanna.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share the bulk of my postdocotoral work from the @ditalialab.bsky.social on how cells interpret dynamic morphogen signaling during development! Many thanks to our collaborators & coauthors @shelbyflies.bsky.social, Massimo Vergassola, Jacqueline Janssen, and Anna Chao.

A heartfelt thank you to @izfs.bsky.social for this incredible honor! I'm so grateful to receive an award in memory of Dr. Chi-Bin Chien, an inspiring scientist and pioneer in the zebrafish community 🐟💙

International Zebrafish Society@izfs.bsky.social · last yr.

We are excited to announce the winner of the Chi-Bin Chien Award, Dr. Victoria Deneke! See more about Dr. Deneke and the CBC Award here: www.izfs.org/news/congrat... @impvienna.bsky.social @vdeneke.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to this meeting!

Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · last yr.

🔈 We’re pleased to welcome Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social as an invited speaker at #ICDB2025! His work combines imaging and quantitative models to understand cell cycle coordination during embryonic development. 📊🧪

Highly recommended! A great lab and wonderful mentor.

IMP@impvienna.bsky.social · last yr.

👩‍🔬Curious about #fertilisation and #development? Join Andrea Pauli’s group through the Vienna BioCenter #PhD Program! ⏳Deadline: 15 April training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/ 📽️Watch Andi's 'Scientist Snapshot': www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FN... @pauligroup.bsky.social

Nice News & Views on our recent paper from Tim Saunders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Topology drives cell fate - Nature Physics

Cells take on specific fates during development based on cues, which can be genetic or mechanical. Now it is shown that the decision of cell nuclei to either migrate to the outer cortex or remain inte...

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We are hiring! Interested in X chromosome inactivation, cell biology, and epigenetics? Funded postdoctoral position in our lab at the Koç University Mol Bio and Genetics Department, in Istanbul Türkiye. DM for more details.

Our paper, led by @argo-mkhrji.bsky.social and @woonyunghur.bsky.social, on cortical migration of nuclei in drosophila embryos came out today in @naturephysics.bsky.social. Argo wrote a comprehensive thread below. A great collaboration with Massimo Vergassola and @streichan.bsky.social.

Argo Mukherjee@argo-mkhrji.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Great new paper on spatiotemporal organization of cell division in zebrafish embryos. The mitotic waves preceding the ZGA are phase waves set by differences in N/C ratio, driven by geometry-induced asymmetric divisions. Important new insights and very interesting addition to the field.

Heisenberg Lab@heisenbergcplab.bsky.social · last yr.

📢‼️ 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... 👇

What an awesome paper from Olga showing how in zebrafish the scaling of anaphase movements is controlled by cytoplasmic flows! Love to see a new role for cytoplasmic flows ;) and excited to learn that scaling of anaphase is controlled so differently in fly and fish embryos.

Olga Afonso@olgaafonso.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper alert! ‼️‼️ Super happy to share that my postdoc paper is finally out! 1/3 We looked at scaling of chromosome separation during anaphase in zebrafish embryos.