✨Rare model organisms can teach us how to build a body differently. In snail embryos blastomeres can be as big as the rest of the embryo! 🐌Phrontis vibex blastula stained for tubulin (gray), phalloidin (blue) and histone (magenta). 🔬
#ModelMonday #DevBio
📸: Clemens Cabernard
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/
🧰 New tool alert! ⚙️
#MorphoGrad, an open-source toolbox for simulating reaction–diffusion systems in 1D and 2D tissues, with cell-to-cell parameter heterogeneity & graphical user interface.
No heavy coding required. Explore complex morphogen gradient models interactively.
doi.org/10.1016/j.xp...
Where else but #CISM can one lecture in a hall covered in frescoes?
Just got to Udine, to lecture in the #CISM Advanced School on "Geometry, Growth, and Instability in Soft and Active Systems". This will be a fun week.
How do the physical properties of embryos affect their development?
New research from EMBL scientists and collaborators shows that tissue mechanics actively influence developmental signalling – revealing new links between physics and embryogenesis.
www.embl.org/news/science...
Studying morphogen gradient-based tissue patterning in silico while accounting for
biological variability remains challenging. Here, we present a MATLAB-based protocol
for simulating steady-state morp...
www.cell.com
Seeking a post-doc for the LaJoie lab at the Human Technopole, Milan, Italy!
We are looking for candidates from the fields of biochemistry, cell biology, and proteomics, who are interested in studying protein interactions of the nucleus 🤓
lnkd.in/dTG2CgXF
Pond vibes at the institute.
Adhesion-driven rigidity transition decoupled from density-driven jamming triggers epithelial organization in embryonic tissues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#physics
🤔🧫How do cells within a tissue move/differentiate with such remarkable precision, in the right place and right time?
👨🔬The Barriga group @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social explores the biophysical mechanisms that coordinate morphogenesis in development + regeneration
YouTube video👉 youtu.be/vJtpAVkHZzU
Tissue phase transitions are key to morphogenesis. Now adhesion-driven rigidification is identified as key to epithelial organization but only if uncoupled from density-driven jamming.
www.nature.com
Pierre Haas
EMBL
Dollie LaJoie
Nature Physics
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
