Interested in how #fungi came about on this planet? If so, take a look at my new article that just came out in @annualreviews.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
A lovely time chatting about interesting work @events.embl.org #EESMechanobiology! as senior editor @natcellbio.nature.com & as advisory editor npj Biological Physics & Mechanics.
Got a quick selfie w/ @embojournal.org senior scientific editor Ieva Gailite at #MeetTheEditor session on Wednesday 😁🤳🏽
Very excited to be sharing our new paper, just out in Nature Cell Biology!
The big question we investigate: How do migrating cells put their front 🔴 and back 🔵 in the right place?
Our latest: Minimal essential requirements for neural tube self-organisation
How does a single cell give rise to a tissue with the right cell types in the right proportions?
We deconstruct and rebuild a self-organising tissue from first principles
A thread🧵
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A few snapshots from the @embo.org workshop “The Rules of the Game: biophysical and molecular principles in cellular evolution” — and an excuse to thank everyone who made it such a fun, stimulating, and inspiring few days at @gimminstitute.bsky.social
#EMBORulesOfTheGame
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Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
🤩🎉 Huge congratulations to @gautamdey.bsky.social & @dudinlab.bsky.social Amazing science & a beautiful example of how to achieve this together with creativity, generosity, and real intellectual partnership. So happy for you both & for all of us inspired by you! 🎉 Kudos @embo.org for this choice.
Two great scientists and humans, whose collaboration shows what it’s like to do science as a positive-sum game. Wonderful news for evolutionary cell biology and for you two @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social! 👏
Fungi are widespread on our planet and essential for life as we know it, but how did they come about? Their last common ancestor lived hundreds of millions of years ago, but its characteristics, and t...
The reliable generation of diverse cell types in precise proportions is essential for the formation of functional tissues during embryonic development. Three-dimensional organoid models derived from p...
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Congratulations, Gautam Dey and Omaya Dudin!
The two collaborators have received the 2026 EMBO Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of evolutionary cell biology.
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@dudinlab.bsky.social
@embo.org
The Rokas Lab at Vanderbilt University
Daryl Jason Verzosa David
James Briscoe
Henry De Belly
Marco Fumasoni
After a long hiatus, happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here are some amoebae squeezing themselves into narrow channels (part of a video for our preprint pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41377514/).
Sound effects by Dillon (my 4 month old who may have had a little to do with the bluesky hiatus!)
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Anne Knowlton
Yasin Dagdas
Thibaut Brunet
Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
