One of my favorite @nature covers for this week’s issue

Want to work at the intersection of morphometry and representation learning for bioimage analysis? We have TWO open postdoctoral positions! Each comes with its own challenging biological question, unique dataset, and exceptional team of collaborators! Details below👇

We've been interested in this question forever: why are girls born with so many (sometimes more than a million) primordial ovarian follicles? A new paper in press in Biology of Reproduction with Dr. Sean Lawley (U of Utah) provides some new insights: academic.oup.com/biolreprod/adv…

Exciting news! Our paper on how directional reversal affects pattern formation of active filaments is out now in Physical Review Research . Check it out for more information! journals.aps.org/prresearch/abs…. Special thanks to Ali Malek, Stefan Karpitschka and Stefan Klumpp Max Planck School Matter to Life

Spatial epigenome+transcriptome co-profiling technologies published nature today! Now we are able to see the gene regulatory network in the tissue context. Looking forward to more spatial technologies development in my lab Penn Path & Lab Medicine and Penn Epigenetics nature.com/articles/s4158…

oh WOW!!! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Very happy to introduce this big chunk of my PhD work 🥳

This PRX Life paper debuts DisNet2D, a deep #NeuralNetwork for image analysis. The method merges tracking and segmentation to achieve low error rate, allowing advanced image analysis of densely-packed cells. 📝 go.aps.org/4430Ykx

How many academic papers are written with the help of ChatGPT? To answer this question, we analyzed 14mln PubMed abstracts from 2010 to 2024 and looked for excess words: ** Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary ** arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016 1/11

I just wrote a numpy 3D-array viewer with Three.js and #anywidget. If you want to tinker with it, here's the standalone app: py.cafe/kolibril13/thr… It’s powered by PyCafe and runs entirely in your local browser thanks to Pyodide.

New insights from the Hiiragi group show that the variability in how and when cells divide during embryonic development isn't an obstacle. Contrary to what scientists traditionally believed, this variability promotes healthy development. Dimitri Fabrèges hubrecht.eu/variability-ce…

A new paper by Edouard Hannezo ISTAustria, Bernat Corominas-Murtra Uni Graz/University of Graz, Takashi Hiiragi and Dimitri Fabrèges Hubrecht Institute and more, published in Science Magazine, sheds light on the complex process of mammalian embryo development.

Fluctuation-driven morphological patterning: An unconventional approach to morphogenesis, Oded Agam and Erez Braun #Biophysics go.aps.org/3zYoPYb

Super happy to see this heroic effort by Dimitri Fabrèges and Bernat Corominas out! Via a quantitative atlas of the developmental trajectories of dozens of embryos, we can see how robust shapes and fates arise from highly stochastic cellular processes! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/n

The desynchronization of cell divisions in early mammalian embryos—once seen as a random process—instead plays a crucial role in ensuring robust development, shedding light on how embryos maintain precision despite biological noise, researchers report in Science.

Sharing 2 new papers from the lab where we investigate ovarian mechanics during ageing using biophotonics, and propose its use in understanding tissue hydraulics during folliculogenesis - congrats to the teams! doi.org/10.1007/s12551… doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…