Michael Levin Lewis Wolpert said: "Developmental biology is like a conjuring trick: when it goes right, you don't see how it's done, but when something goes wrong, the whole mechanism is revealed." This quote appears in Wolpert's book "The Unnatural Nature of Science" (1994).

This week was my very first week as a Post-doc in EPFL in the lab of Mahmut Selman Sakar. The goal of my project will be to do develop #TissueEng methods using cell mechanics, mechanobiology and #optogenetics. I am glad I joined such a nive place and team ! :D

Une plateforme de microchirurgie robotisée permettant d’effectuer des dissections de haute précision et de résolution micrométrique permet de mieux comprendre la formation du corps des vertébrés au cours du développement embryonnaire. go.epfl.ch/7034d9

A very nice tool for #mechanobiology from MICROBS team lead by Mahmut Selman Sakar in EPFL. A team I now had the pleasure to join 2 weeks ago! 😃 Thanks Idylle for their trust.

Email I sent in response to Nature Communications´s request for me to act as a reviewer today (part 1 of 2). #OpenAccess isn´t open if those of us in developing countries are economically excluded from publishing equitably.

My paper featured in the Nature Communications "From molecules and cells to organisms" Editor's Highlights page ! 🥳 nature.com/collections/bb…

Travailler au CNRS, avantages : emploi à vie garanti (sauf peut-être en cas de meurtre avéré d'un collègue ?), impunité pendant 8 ans en cas de faute grave. Inconvénient : les collègues sont potentiellement des "harceleurs" (pour rester gentil...).

Just wrapped up the #CellMech2023 meeting. It was a great experience. Here are some highlights from the talks I attended. Apologies for not adding them all 👇 1/n 🧵

Congrats Arthur!