I'm looking for a postgraduate intern to join my group at @humantechnopole.bsky.social, modelling how pili dynamics drive bacterial motility and aggregation. Finishing a master's in physics, computational biology, or a similar field? Get in touch: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Internsh...

I'm looking for a postgraduate intern to join my group at @humantechnopole.bsky.social, modelling how pili dynamics drive bacterial motility and aggregation. Finishing a master's in physics, computational biology, or a similar field? Get in touch: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Internsh...

Final thought: development is not one fixed script. Evolution finds different mechanical solutions to the same morphogenetic problem. Or, more simply: when things get crowded, the beetle finds another dimension. 🪲 #EvoDevo #gastrulation #morphogenesis #development #Drosophila #Tribolium

Exciting new preprint by @mbattistara.bsky.social that I'm proud to have contributed to. Together with @matthewabenton.bsky.social and Ewa Paluch!

Margherita Battistara@mbattistara.bsky.social · 4w ago

🪲🪰 Our preprint is out! This was a team effort with @wolframponisch.bsky.social, @matthewabenton.bsky.social and Ewa Paluch. We asked whether Drosophila and Tribolium use the same cell behaviours to fold their embryos during gastrulation. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Morphospace analysis reveals divergent cellular behaviours driving tissue internalisation during insect gastrulation

During gastrulation, embryonic epithelia undergo large-scale remodelling to internalise the mesoderm. Whether the cellular mechanisms underlying these tissue deformations are conserved across species ...

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🔔 This is a quick reminder of in-person registration for the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium. We are really looking forward to welcoming you all 🥳 The deadline is a week away! Check out the details and register here: t.ly/YYM3u. Further programme details will be announced soon! Stay tuned!

Interested in stochastic tissue morphodynamics in development and disease? Join us at HT @humantechnopole.bsky.social We are recruiting a postdoc for a project combining image analysis, morphometrics, and modelling in collaboration with experimentalists. More information: tinyurl.com/3kc7s4rz

📢We are excited to announce the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium - a full day event at SLCU @slcuplants.bsky.social (and virtually) on 5 June 2026! 🎉Come celebrate the 5th anniversary of the seminar series! 🚩Register & submit abstracts by 3 April! Check out the details: t.ly/YYM3u Please repost!🙏

We opened 4 PhD positions at @humantechnopole.bsky.social together with Polimi (see 👇). My lab offers a PhD project on "Computational Morphogenesis": use state-of-the-art machine learning methods together with realistic simulations to build digital twins of developing tissue. Apply by March 26.

Human Technopole@humantechnopole.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🎓 How can #AI and #datascience unlock new insights into human health? 📊 We’re offering 4 #PhD positions through Polimi’s DADS Programme in the groups of Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Francesca Ieva, @janfunkey.bsky.social and Fernanda Pinheiro. Apply by 26 March 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/news/4-ph...

🚨 #postdoc to be hired in the Paluch Lab 🚨 If you know anyone experienced with and, more importantly, excited about nanoscale architecture of #actincortex and super-res & electron #microscopy do encourage them to apply👇 Amazing colleagues, can only recommend 😉 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Excited to share this new work from Ana Raffaelli, in collaboration with Ewa Paluch's lab and involving several of my colleagues at Cyclana Bio. In this paper, we show that basement membrane mechanics instructs developmental signalling and fate patterning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨 New Preprint from the Paluch & Chalut Labs 🚨 Ana Raffaelli et al show that the stiffness of substrate (in vitro) / basal membrane (in vivo) determine how cells interpret biochemical signals (BMP4) and which fates they acquire #mechanobiology #hESCs #substratemechanics doi.org/10.64898/202...

Next Monday, 16th Feb at 2:30 pm, we are excited to welcome Alexander Mietke from the University of Oxford! This will be an online session. Please join our mailing list to get the details of the talk! Hope to see many of you there :)

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

New preprint out! We use optogenetics, AFM, and active surface modelling to link signalling ⚡ → mechanics ⚙️ → cell shape 🔵

Guillaume Charras@gcharras.bsky.social · 8mo ago

How does signalling control cortical tension? Using optogenetics and AFM, we show that myosin recruitment and cortical tension increase proportionally with RhoA signalling. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Super work by Pierre Bohec with Guillaume Salbreux and @dianakhorom.bsky.social

I'm super excited to announce that I will join the Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan in April 2026 as a Research Group Leader.

Good news in rough times: Our work on generalising Lifshitz-Slyosov-Wagner (LSW) theory to active systems, led by the all-mighty Jonathan Bauermann, is out on PRL!! Special thanks to Christoph Weber @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher. doi-org.sire.ub.edu/10.1103/f5x9...

Join us next week (Wednesday!) for the next VGZT morning/eastern session ☀️ ☕️ seminar! We are looking forward to exciting 🪰🪲 talks by: Juan Manuel Gómez @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social and Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social 🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 12 ⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC

1/6 🧪 Preprint-Alert! We looked at how molecules move across phase boundaries, e.g., in liquid droplets, taking into account that chemical potentials inside and outside the boundary can be different! This unites recent work with stuff from the 60s and has cool consequences 👇 shorturl.at/j0U6i

Transport kinetics across interfaces between coexisting liquid phases

We investigate the kinetics of material transport across interfaces in phase-separated mixtures. Using non-equilibrium thermodynamics we derive the interfacial kinetics, describing the movement of the...

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