Heart of a developmental biologist, head of a mathematician/physicist. Posts from Tom and lab members.
https://twhiscock.github.io/
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🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate?
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
New paper from the lab out now in Development @dev-journal.bsky.social, led by the wonderful (Dr!) Daniel Muzatko. We re-examined activator-inhibitor mechanisms of symmetry breaking (aka Turing patterns) and found some surprising things! doi.org/10.1242/dev.....
🚨 theory/math devbio preprint alert!!! 🚨
Led by my v. talented PhD student, Daniel Muzatko, we’ve found some rather general and intriguing constraints on reaction-diffusion systems that allow them to self-organize developmental patterns:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🚨Job alert in theory/math devbio 🚨
I’m currently advertising postdoc positions to join my group. We’re building reaction-diffusion models to understand some of the crazy things embryos can do. We are based in a beautiful part of Scotland :). Please share! www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese...
🚨Job alert in theory/math devbio 🚨
I’m currently advertising postdoc positions to join my group. We’re building reaction-diffusion models to understand some of the amazing things embryos can do. We are based in a beautiful part of Scotland! Please share! www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...
PS The lead author, Daniel Muzatko, is currently on the postdoc job market so please get in touch if you are looking for a stellar new postdoc!
PPS The Hiscock Lab is still actively hiring embryo-curious theoreticians of all types, see here for opportunities: twhiscock.github.io
Along the way, we developed a freely available Julia package that allows complex reaction-diffusion PDEs to be analysed quickly (millions of parameter sets per minute) and easily (in just a few lines of intuitive code!). Check it out here: github.com/hiscocklab/R...
Please allow me to introduce... our new preprint 🎉 Together with Michael Zhao, Anna Erzberger and Alexander Aulehla, we investigate pattern formation due to aggregation in confined systems.
You can find it at arxiv.org/abs/2509.08533
@michaelzhao.bsky.social @erzbergerlab.bsky.social
🚨 Paper Alert 🚨
Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" @naturemethods👇!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fresh from the press💥 We asked what happens when you evolve gene regulatory networks computationally at scale. Do general principles of GRN evolution jump out? Is the process predictable? Read on to find out @prxlife.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @ucl-ipls.bsky.social 👉 journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
