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Our work on the role of endogenous electric fields in guiding collective cell migration in vivo is finally out @NatureMaterials !
nature.com/articles/s4156…
Congrats to all the authors, specially Fernando and @Sofia__Moreira from my lab #bioelectrics #devbio #cellmigration #xenopus
nature.com/articles/s4156…
Congrats to all the authors, specially Fernando and @Sofia__Moreira from my lab #bioelectrics #devbio #cellmigration #xenopus
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A record 7,710 proposals – a 60.4% increase to 2026 – for #ERCStG 2027! Physical Sciences & Engineering are in the lead (43%), followed by Social Sciences & Humanities (29%), and Life Sciences (28%).
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Last day to apply: our two ERC-funded Master's fellowships close tonight at 23:59 Lisbon time. For 066 (smart microscopy of infection) we are looking for physicists, engineers and computer scientists.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/472471
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/472471
Our two ERC-funded PhD-track fellowships close Tuesday 27 October. Physicists, engineers and computer scientists: one call is yours, building a smart microscope that catches infection live and images it at 20 nm. Start in December at ITQB NOVA. henriqueslab.org/pages/recruitm…
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Are plant roots really made up of concentric layers of homogeneous, differentiating cell types?
In our new study, out now in @Nature, we show a more complex picture: two distinct cell states within root lineages, shaped in part by the environment. 🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s4158…
In our new study, out now in @Nature, we show a more complex picture: two distinct cell states within root lineages, shaped in part by the environment. 🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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📢 New ISRB Webinar — Morphogenesis and pattern formation
Zone 1: Australia, East and South Asia
🗓 November 10, 2026 at 14:00 Asia/Shanghai
🎤 Kana Aoki
🎤 Toshimichi Yamada
More info: isrbio.org/webinars
Zone 1: Australia, East and South Asia
🗓 November 10, 2026 at 14:00 Asia/Shanghai
🎤 Kana Aoki
🎤 Toshimichi Yamada
More info: isrbio.org/webinars
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Si eres entusiasta y riguros@, te interesan la genética y la evolución bacterianas, y tienes buen expediente (>8.5), considera solicitar un contrato FPU 2026 para unirte a nuestro laboratorio en @unisevilla. Si eres doctor, puedes optar a un contrato Juan de la Cierva. Enlaces:
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Bioengineering's gift to AI isn't another algorithm. It's more life-like cell cultures to learn from.
LigHTS, now out in Advanced Science, makes soft, microstructured hydrogels directly in standard 1536-well plates, every well in a single 16-min light exposure. 🧵
LigHTS, now out in Advanced Science, makes soft, microstructured hydrogels directly in standard 1536-well plates, every well in a single 16-min light exposure. 🧵
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Xenopus oocytes contribute to the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. Drs. Nagel and Hegemann expressed channelrhodopsin-2 from single-celled algae in the oocytes. Light induces membrane channels to open. xenbase.org/xenbase/doNews… #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs
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We posted a preprint on all-to-all functional mapping of a cortical microcircuit in vivo. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
Yitong Qi developed molecular tools, optics, and protocols for massively parallel optogenetic stimulation and voltage imaging during animal behavior.
Yitong Qi developed molecular tools, optics, and protocols for massively parallel optogenetic stimulation and voltage imaging during animal behavior.
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New Online! Towards a systematic understanding of the diverse subtypes, biogenesis and functions of large extracellular vesicles dlvr.it/TVnJ7B
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Recently, preparing a talk made me think @ the impact of AI in #DevBio and led me to ask AI what would it do to explain the SM #organizer expt just w/ data w/o conceptual input from human interpretation of experiments. Its answer below 🧵
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📢 2027 ERC Consolidator Grant call for proposals is now open 📢
Have an excellent research idea and ready to build the team to pursue it?
This funding could be for you!
Deadline: 12 January 2027
👉 link.europa.eu/g4NrCc
Have an excellent research idea and ready to build the team to pursue it?
This funding could be for you!
Deadline: 12 January 2027
👉 link.europa.eu/g4NrCc
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🚨I have open PhD positions to join my new lab at #NIMSB🚀!! nimsb.unl.pt/join-us/
🌟I'm looking for motivated candidates, eager to join a multidisciplinary team + study the intracellular dynamics driving cancer cell migration with advanced computational methods & microscopy👾
🌟I'm looking for motivated candidates, eager to join a multidisciplinary team + study the intracellular dynamics driving cancer cell migration with advanced computational methods & microscopy👾
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@Nature : why are you writing such misleading and wrong posts? Nobody thought there is only one cell, nobody thought all npcs are the same, so if you need that level of wrong to promote the paper, it's either nit novel enough or you have not understood what you are promoting. 👎
Many scientists have long thought that a single type of starter cell gives rise to the entire brain. But experiments now challenge that fundamental picture, providing evidence that it takes not one but two flavours of progenitor cell to make the complex organ.
go.nature.com/4dJKmnY
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Congratulations @JoanaESaraiva and @SandraEdwJor on their new review on @embojournal we discussed few points about the coordination of cell state transitions in #embryo and #regeneration
Also welcome to “X” @JoanaESaraiva
link.springer.com/article/10.103…
Also welcome to “X” @JoanaESaraiva
link.springer.com/article/10.103…
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Our latest preprint, from @eerinberr is live:
Cytoskeletal disassembly by optogenetic control of RhoA signaling termination.
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
Cytoskeletal disassembly by optogenetic control of RhoA signaling termination.
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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I've just started my 2nd lab at RIKEN BDR in Kobe, Japan!
This small, focused group will compare and manipulate species-specific time and shape, in collaboration with our Dresden lab.
Interested in the stem cell zoo? Get in touch!
bdr.riken.jp/en/research/la…
This small, focused group will compare and manipulate species-specific time and shape, in collaboration with our Dresden lab.
Interested in the stem cell zoo? Get in touch!
bdr.riken.jp/en/research/la…
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Qian, @buenoscience et al reveal that proper spatial patterning of zygotic genome activation is required for embryogenesis & the existence of a surveillance system for embryo quality control exquisitely tuned to spatiotemporal ordering of genome activation hubs.la/Q04wXP8C0
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New paper from the lab!
We developed a self-organizing muscle and blood vessel-like network from bovine ES cells, bringing us one step closer to creating structured cultured beef steak! 🥩🔬
nature.com/articles/s4146…
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We developed a self-organizing muscle and blood vessel-like network from bovine ES cells, bringing us one step closer to creating structured cultured beef steak! 🥩🔬
nature.com/articles/s4146…
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Very honored and happy to serve as a Panel Chair for the current ERC AdG round. It's going to be a lot of work, but I will be seeing a lot of excellent science and will learn a mountain of new exciting things.
erc.europa.eu/system/files/2…
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Excited to share our lab's new preprint led by Ting @huanting_ong introducing paired-surface spatial mechanomics!
We link nanoindentation stiffness maps with #SpatialTranscriptomics to connect local tissue mechanics with molecular state.
🔗biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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We link nanoindentation stiffness maps with #SpatialTranscriptomics to connect local tissue mechanics with molecular state.
🔗biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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