Bringing metabolism to the spotlight of development

New studies by groups at EMBL, led by Vikas Trivedi in Barcelona, and the Max Planck, show unexpected roles of glycolysis during embryonic development.

Metabolism shapes life

Researchers reveal how glycolysis drives early embryonic cell decisions

Metabolism Shapes Life: How Glycolysis Drives Early Embryonic Cell Decisions

Researchers from PoL (Ebisuya group), MPI-CBG (Veenvliet group), and EMBL Barcelona have uncovered the instructive potential of glycolysis in two novel publications.

How glycolysis drives early embryonic cell decisions

In preprints: puzzling together roles for glucose metabolism during gastrulation

10 million € to understand the dance of cells during embryonic development

The BREAKDANCE project, which has received an ERC «Synergy» Grant, will bring together a multidisciplinary team to study the developmental mechanisms of organisms’ body plans.

An ERC Synergy Grant for the BREAKDANCE project

Lenne group, together with 3 other groups, Merkel (CNRS), Trivedi (EMBL), and Ruprecht (CRG) – embark on BREAKDANCE

“To understand how cells form embryos, we build embryos”

Vikas Trivedi is a group leader at the newest centre at the PRBB, EMBL-Barcelona. His group is trying to understand how cells self-organise from a physics point of view. In order to study that, they use organoids.