Critical points and transitions in embryo development
Our PhD student, Laura, has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Uncoupling adhesion- and density-driven rigidity transitions triggers epithelial organisation in embryonic tissues” at Heidelberg University. She studied the role of control parameters regulating tissue material phase…
PhD student from our lab, Laura, has received the Best Poster award at the recent “Mechanobiology across the tree of life” conference at EMBL Heidelberg. Congratulations, Laura!
The postdoctoral fellow in our lab, Jlenia, has won a scholarship from the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation, awarded to outstanding female scientists with children. Congratulations, Jlenia! The CNV Foundation was founded in 2004 by Professor Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a developmental…
Lisa has joined the lab recently as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She comes from Sweden, where she did both her bachelor’s and master’s in engineering physics and applied physics. She recently obtained her PhD at UC Santa Barbara, where she worked on cellular stress response in cancer…
This December, we celebrated the 5th anniversary of the lab, which started with the Laser Tag game (thanks to Karen for the organization!) and ended with a delicious Christmas dinner cooked by our group leader and a bad & good Secret Santa game. Thanks a lot to everyone for fun!
Fernanda just joined our lab as a new PhD student! She did her bachelor’s in Basic Biomedical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has worked on the cellular and biochemical mechanisms guiding brain regeneration in axolotls. In the lab, Fernanda will study how…
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…
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…