📢Registrations are now open for InSDB-ISD 25! This year, the meeting will take place at IISER Berhampur from 15-17 December. Register here: insdb.in/insdb-isd-regi…

Happy to share a preprint of my PhD work Andrea Brand! We created a chromatin state model for quiescent and proliferating neural stem cells in Drosophila and found that quiescent cells gain active chromatin to support stem cell functions. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What controls condensate composition and function beyond binding stoichiometry? We show that condensate microenvironments play a key role, and can be probed by a micropeptide killswitch in live cells. nature.com/articles/s4158… out now in nature with Henri Niskanen Denes Hnisz & team.

In preprints: unpicking chemical and mechanical crosstalk for axonal pathfinding dionn.hargreaves and Woolner Lab discuss the #preprint from Eva Pillai, Sudipta Mukherjee, FranzeLab 🇺🇦 et al. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Thanks a lot for choosing our preprint and for the very nice prelight!

Thank you dionn.hargreaves, Woolner Lab, and Development for highlighting our Sudipta Mukherjee FranzeLab 🇺🇦 preprint! Chuffed to see it through different eyes! 🙌

3D reconstruction of a 3-day-old zebrafish heart beating. Credit to Dr. Michael Weber (OpenSPIM). For those interested, you can read more about the acquisition and post-processing here: nature.com/articles/nmeth… #ZebrafishZunday

Finding commonality in autism and congenital heart disease Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Nia Teerikorpi, Tomasz Nowakowski @labnowakowski, Jeremy Willsey Willsey Lab, Helen Rankin Willsey Helen Willsey & co UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UC San Francisco: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Super excited that our paper is out. It describes a new mechanism for dealing with tissue crowding that does not involve cell extrusion. nature.com/articles/s4146…

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by Pau Guillamat IBEC biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 Second preprint of the week! We uncover the multiscale dynamics of active viscoelastic buckling in epithelia. We harness these mechanical instabilities for synthetic morphogenesis. Led by Nimesh Chahare🙌. Theory by Marino Arroyo and team. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Out now! Our very first paper from the lab, an impressive feat by Toby Andrews where we show how a developing heart grows and scales up its morphological complexity to keep beating...an excellent summary below ⬇️ cell.com/developmenta...

📢 Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences! embl.org/about/info/emb…

Thrilled to share 🎉 I’m joining University of Zurich DMLS as Assistant Professor (tenure track)! I’ll launch the Neural MorphoGenomics & Developmental Dynamics Lab, exploring how genes + morphogenesis shape brain development using organoids, imaging & spatial genomics 🧠🔬🧬

🧵1/14 Preprint thread! Can we predict a cell’s fate based on its dynamics? 🔮 Our new study unveils a framework for watching development unfold in real-time, revealing how a cell's shape and movement encode info about its future fate. 🔬📄 Preprint: tinyurl.com/4shf8v4x

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 A postdoc position is open in my lab at the Dept. of Biological Sciences, TIFR Mumbai 🧠 Focus: #zebrafish #imaging #interdisciplinary 📅 Deadline: October 10, 2025 🔗 More details: symmetry-lab.com/contact/ Please share widely! Tata Institute of Fundamental Research DBS TIFR

The Lipid Brain Atlas is out now! If you think lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by Luca Fusar Bassini with Gioele La Manno's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Find out more about postgraduate opportunities at PDN at pdn.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate/h…