Critical points and transitions in embryo development
Camilla has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics in the zebrafish embryo.” She studied how emergent collective properties regulate and interact with pattern formation in…
Our student Lena has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “An optimum cell cycle heterogeneity times tissue fluidisation at the onset of zebrafish morphogenesis.” She studied the role of cell division synchrony in early embryogenesis. Lena will continue working in the Petridou…
The PhD work of our student Camilla is out on bioRxiv! Camilla has studied how emergent collective properties regulate and interact with pattern formation by tuning the length-scales and time-scales of morphogen signalling. Congratulations, Camilla!
Eric just joined our lab as a new PhD student. He studied at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he majored in Computer Science and Information Systems. As his interest in biology deepened, Eric worked on integrating single-cell RNA-seq data. In our group, he is interested in…
Our postdoctoral fellows Karen Soans and Jun-Ru Lee both qualified for the EIPOD fellowship this year! With this funding, Jun-Ru aims to understand the cellular programs underlying the diversity of early embryonic development across fish species. Karen will investigate the role of tissue compaction…
Adhesion-driven tissue rigidification triggers epithelial cell polarity”, is now on biorxiv!We investigate how the coupling of several control parameters used during a tissue phase transition impacts tissue organization at the morphological and molecular level. Congratulations to Laura and Cris!
This March, we went on an exciting joint lab retreat with the Hiiragi and the Salbreux group. In a villa on the Côte d’Azur, we presented our projects to each other, enjoyed amazing food and got collaborating!
Our PhD student Magdalena Schindler got the chance to attend a workshop on Early Embryonic Cell Divisions by the Company of Biologists; the perfect topic for her project. Together with other attendees, she summarised the highlights and outcomes of the meeting – check the summary article!
Our student Lena won an award for the best contribution during the recent Theory@EMBL retreat. Her talk presented her work on the effects of cell cleavage rounds on the tissue material state.
With the new predoc course, Diana just joined our group as a predoctoral fellow. Having recently graduated from Sorbonne University in neuroscience, she is excited to learn about physics in early developmental processes during her next career step with us!