I will be opening my research group at the Max Delbrück Center later this year to unravel the principles governing the unique context sensing capacity of the liver www.mdc-berlin.de/schwayer and am looking for enthusiastic PhD applicants.

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The mammalian liver possesses a regenerative capacity that is unmatched by any other organ. Following injury, liver epithelial cells can proliferate or even change their identity, enabling the organ t...

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Looking for a PhD? Applications are now open for PhD positions at the Max Delbrück Center. 🧵 www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...

We have a postdoc position available in the lab and would like to spread the word. Please apply if you are interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Interested in using #Drosophila genetics & advanced imaging combined with modeling to study inter-organ transport and epithelial dynamics? We’re hiring a #PhD student @uni-muenster.de, based at the Multiscale Imaging Center and @sfb1348.bsky.social Graduate School. Apply here tinyurl.com/ypx74a5d

New preprint: how does one sperm protein "key" recognize two different egg-coat receptors — the real "lock", and a decoy? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How a single sperm protein recognizes highly divergent egg coat components

For successful fertilization, sperm must recognize and penetrate the egg coat, called vitelline envelope (VE) or, in mammals, zona pellucida (ZP). In abalone, sperm acrosomal protein lysin dissolves t...

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This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape

Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...

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Check out our new review in Reproduction! 💥🥚🔬 In “The explosion of life”, @anitabichisecchi.bsky.social, @petramikec.bsky.social and I explore how live imaging has shaped our understanding of ovulation, revealing the cellular and tissue dynamics that drive egg release. doi.org/10.1093/repr...

Check out our new review in Reproduction! 💥🥚🔬 In “The explosion of life”, @anitabichisecchi.bsky.social, @petramikec.bsky.social and I explore how live imaging has shaped our understanding of ovulation, revealing the cellular and tissue dynamics that drive egg release. doi.org/10.1093/repr...

Excited to share our latest! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This was a highly collaborative endeavor– the best way to do science. We asked how a developing tissue achieves the right shape despite all the variability along the way. Short answer: Hydrostatic pressure. Read on for the long answer!

Very happy to have this work finally published! How do embryos sculpt their shape? We map the contractile & adhesive forces shaping early C. elegans embryos. With K. Yamamoto @ittoku04.bsky.social G. Charras' lab @gcharras.bsky.social & my team @turlierlab.bsky.social shorturl.at/xv7G5 1/6

Latest work from the team driven by our fantastic post-doc Maribel Arjona. Using cytoplasm extract fractions and active rheology, we adress how endomembranes, that pack the cell interior, influence the mechanics of the cytoplasm! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

bioRxiv Biophysics@biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Composite Endomembrane Suspension Governs Cytoplasm Rheology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.20.739612v1

I feel honored that my Perspective article with @mayorlab.bsky.social on collective cell migration has been featured in this special collection. Many thanks to the curators, @wumin-lab.bsky.social and Gabriele Stephan, as well as @jcb.org rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellBio #CellMigration

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 3w ago

This collection explores emergent phenomena in #CellBiology incl. how cellular events are rapidly coordinated by waves of chemical & electrical signals, how tissue patterning is governed at the cellular level & how cellular interfaces guide cellular migration & morphology rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

What determines how epithelial cells divide when shape cues disappear? Our new work shows that division follows the axis of maximal stress anisotropy. This “principal-stress rule” links mechanics, proliferation, and homeostasis. Amazing work from @luanger.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Leaving the 2026 #HFSP awardees meeting in Geneva inspired and with new ideas for #dormancy biology and #killifish research. Thank you @hfspo.bsky.social for bringing together innovative, diverse science—and amazing scientists I might never have met otherwise. Grateful to be part of this community!

Saw this today 💚 A Luna Moth. Isn't she beautiful?!

The videos of the talks from speakers at the conference @college-de-france.fr on Information processing and biological computation on June 26 are available at the link below. Or on YouTube directly. Enjoy!

Collège de France@college-de-france.fr · 4w ago

#Science #Biologie 🔬 « Information Flow and Computation in Living Systems » 🖥️ Les vidéos du colloque organisé par le Pr @thomaslecuit.bsky.social, titulaire de chaire Dynamiques du vivant, sont disponibles.  👉 https://tinyurl.com/v7mb5kjp

Just approved an order for standard lab consumables. Prices have nearly doubled since starting the lab. Meanwhile, the bar for publishing keeps rising, requiring ever more costly experiments, while grant budgets barely changed. Hard to see how this is a sustainable trajectory for academic research.

Thrilled to share our new paper on cell extrusion. A beautiful study with a tremendous amount of data, led by the fantastic @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are excited to announce the results of the YEN 2026 Image Competition! Thanks to all who submitted an entry. This year amazing work has been shared with us complementing our perspectives talks on art+science. We congratulate the winners of the YEN and public votes! #yen2026 #yenimagecompetition

We just celebrated with alumni & current members the 25yrs anniversary of our group @ibdm.bsky.social and @centuri-ls.bsky.social. Lots of joy to witness the scientific paths of so many talented ex members. Big smiles, laughs and fun 🤩. So thankful for having had such colleagues. Let’s keep going 😊

Lots of fun and new ideas from our joint lab retreat near Saint-Jurs with @guignardlab.bsky.social, @axonreg2lab.bsky.social, and @raphclement.bsky.social 🙌🏼☀️🛶

How do cells combine cell-intrinsic & tissue-level cues create stable patterns during intestinal regeneration? 🤔 Our paper w/ @cschwayer.bsky.social @silviabarbiero.bsky.social @ehannezo.bsky.social @priscaliberali.bsky.social is out! 🥳 A thread on the theory part 🧵⬇️ www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning

During regeneration, tissues must translate transient cellular variability into stable spatial organization. Tissue architecture generates a density-dependent window of heterogeneity in the mechanosen...

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Thanks Focal Plane for the invitation to share not only some images but also the scientific motivations behind this crazy project.

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · last mo.

Bringing together science & art, @manuelthery.bsky.social & the CytoMorpho lab describe their project on how cells adapt their shape to their environment using the Musée d’Orsay as their template! The full performance was presented over two nights at the museum earlier this year. #sciart #cellbio

Lots of fun and new ideas from our joint lab retreat near Saint-Jurs with @guignardlab.bsky.social, @axonreg2lab.bsky.social, and @raphclement.bsky.social 🙌🏼☀️🛶

Excited to share that our work on ‘How the gut gets patterned during regeneration’ is out now cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00696-3 Thanks a lot to @priscaliberali.bsky.social @silviabarbiero.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @ehannezo.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🧵

Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning

During regeneration, tissues must translate transient cellular variability into stable spatial organization. Tissue architecture generates a density-dependent window of heterogeneity in the mechanosen...

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It is out 😍 check it out!! Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning. @cschwayer.bsky.social @silviabarbiero.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @ehannezo.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning

During regeneration, tissues must translate transient cellular variability into stable spatial organization. Tissue architecture generates a density-dependent window of heterogeneity in the mechanosen...

cell.com

Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

Week-end reading? Check out our new review on development and regeneration of glandular epithelia! With two fantastic co-authors: @robinjournot.bsky.social and @candice-merle.bsky.social ! 🤗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Shared molecular and cellular programs during regeneration of glandular epithelia

An emerging concept across multiple adult tissues implies that regeneration involves the transient reactivation of developmental programs, rather than…

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🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

We were honored to host Dr. Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social who visited us from @CECAD.bsky.social in Cologne, and spoke about his exciting work on proteostasis in mammalian oocytes.