Eirini Maniou
@emaniou.bsky.social
Principal Investigator- Research Ireland Pathway Fellow @DCU working on the biomechanics of neural tube closure
📍Dublin, IE
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Eirini Maniou
@emaniou.bsky.social
· Jun 26
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless, has today announced €23 million in funding to support early-career researchers through the Research Ireland Pathway Programme. Read more: www.researchireland.ie/news/pathways/ #ResearchIreland
Excited to share I’m starting my group in Dublin this September, supported by a Research Ireland Pathway award. We will work on neurulation mechanics using chicken embryos and human iPSCs. Looking forward to this new adventure! #newPI #womeninSTEM
Our review on microfluidic strategies for engineering organoid culture systems is out now www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Microfluidic Platforms for Organ-on-a-Chip Models: Creating dynamic microenvironments for organoid and multi-organ systems
Organoids have revolutionized in vitro modeling of human development and disease, yet their full potential remains constrained by the limited spatial …
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November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our review on microfluidic strategies for engineering organoid culture systems is out now www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🎉🎉 We finally have a website! 🎉🎉
Did you miss a thread?
Want to know who our delegates are?
Do you want to join our big club?
Check it out:
epithelialmechanics.github.io
Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!
Did you miss a thread?
Want to know who our delegates are?
Do you want to join our big club?
Check it out:
epithelialmechanics.github.io
Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!
Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club
epithelialmechanics.github.io
October 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🎉🎉 We finally have a website! 🎉🎉
Did you miss a thread?
Want to know who our delegates are?
Do you want to join our big club?
Check it out:
epithelialmechanics.github.io
Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!
Did you miss a thread?
Want to know who our delegates are?
Do you want to join our big club?
Check it out:
epithelialmechanics.github.io
Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!
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"Killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births"
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"Killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births"
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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📣Our project, “Mechanometabolic Control of Vertebrate Limb Elongation,” has been funded by Wellcome!
Over the next 8 years, we’ll collaborate with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Nathalie Agar’s group to understand the mechanics of ECM-rich mesenchymal tissues! Funded positions available!🎉
Over the next 8 years, we’ll collaborate with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Nathalie Agar’s group to understand the mechanics of ECM-rich mesenchymal tissues! Funded positions available!🎉
September 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
📣Our project, “Mechanometabolic Control of Vertebrate Limb Elongation,” has been funded by Wellcome!
Over the next 8 years, we’ll collaborate with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Nathalie Agar’s group to understand the mechanics of ECM-rich mesenchymal tissues! Funded positions available!🎉
Over the next 8 years, we’ll collaborate with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Nathalie Agar’s group to understand the mechanics of ECM-rich mesenchymal tissues! Funded positions available!🎉
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Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳
👉 rdcu.be/eATn3
We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.
👉 rdcu.be/eATn3
We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.
August 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳
👉 rdcu.be/eATn3
We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.
👉 rdcu.be/eATn3
We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.
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Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️
August 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️
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🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio
August 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio
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Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland
Biozentrum PhD Fellowships
Share your passion for life sciences. If you are talented and highly motivated, want to broaden your horizons and are interested in a wide range of research topics, apply for one of the sought after B...
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August 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland
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Hi bsky!
Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity!
w/ A. Delahaye & @bensteventon.bsky.social
shorturl.at/v01DO
Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity!
w/ A. Delahaye & @bensteventon.bsky.social
shorturl.at/v01DO
August 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hi bsky!
Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity!
w/ A. Delahaye & @bensteventon.bsky.social
shorturl.at/v01DO
Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity!
w/ A. Delahaye & @bensteventon.bsky.social
shorturl.at/v01DO
PhD position available in our team @dublincityuni.bsky.social from September. Please share/ contact me for informal enquiries.
July 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
PhD position available in our team @dublincityuni.bsky.social from September. Please share/ contact me for informal enquiries.
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Thank you for speaking with me about my research @iamshef.bsky.social! #newPI #metabodev #MetabolismMondays
Please check out Shefali’s weekly interviews with different ECRs about metabolism and development @the-node.bsky.social! What a great initiative 👏
thenode.biologists.com/author/shefa...
Please check out Shefali’s weekly interviews with different ECRs about metabolism and development @the-node.bsky.social! What a great initiative 👏
thenode.biologists.com/author/shefa...
July 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thank you for speaking with me about my research @iamshef.bsky.social! #newPI #metabodev #MetabolismMondays
Please check out Shefali’s weekly interviews with different ECRs about metabolism and development @the-node.bsky.social! What a great initiative 👏
thenode.biologists.com/author/shefa...
Please check out Shefali’s weekly interviews with different ECRs about metabolism and development @the-node.bsky.social! What a great initiative 👏
thenode.biologists.com/author/shefa...
Excited to share I’m starting my group in Dublin this September, supported by a Research Ireland Pathway award. We will work on neurulation mechanics using chicken embryos and human iPSCs. Looking forward to this new adventure! #newPI #womeninSTEM
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless, has today announced €23 million in funding to support early-career researchers through the Research Ireland Pathway Programme. Read more: www.researchireland.ie/news/pathways/ #ResearchIreland
June 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Excited to share I’m starting my group in Dublin this September, supported by a Research Ireland Pathway award. We will work on neurulation mechanics using chicken embryos and human iPSCs. Looking forward to this new adventure! #newPI #womeninSTEM
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Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
erc.europa.eu
June 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Our new review paper from @yap-lab.bsky.social is online - together with Virgile Viasnoff!
👉 'New directions in epithelial mechanoadaptation'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 'New directions in epithelial mechanoadaptation'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Our new review paper from @yap-lab.bsky.social is online - together with Virgile Viasnoff!
👉 'New directions in epithelial mechanoadaptation'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 'New directions in epithelial mechanoadaptation'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#ApicalConstriction and #DevBio afficionados - we've got two new pre-prints you may be interested in, below:
May 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#ApicalConstriction and #DevBio afficionados - we've got two new pre-prints you may be interested in, below:
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Hello Bluesky world!
🚨New Preprint 🚨
Thrilled to share my second paper from my PhD in the @glgalea.bsky.social lab. @ucl.ac.uk
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🚨New Preprint 🚨
Thrilled to share my second paper from my PhD in the @glgalea.bsky.social lab. @ucl.ac.uk
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Patient-specific iPSC models of neural tube defects identify underlying deficiencies in neuroepithelial cell shape regulation and differentiation
Spina bifida and anencephaly are neural tube defects caused by failure of embryonic neural tube closure. Successful closure requires elongation and apical constriction of neuroepithelial cells. These ...
doi.org
May 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Hello Bluesky world!
🚨New Preprint 🚨
Thrilled to share my second paper from my PhD in the @glgalea.bsky.social lab. @ucl.ac.uk
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🚨New Preprint 🚨
Thrilled to share my second paper from my PhD in the @glgalea.bsky.social lab. @ucl.ac.uk
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Introducing the 2025 PI Fellows of our Pathway to Independence Programme
Over the next year, we will be supporting this talented group of eight postdocs, providing training, mentorship and networking opportunities as they apply for independent positions.
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Over the next year, we will be supporting this talented group of eight postdocs, providing training, mentorship and networking opportunities as they apply for independent positions.
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
PI Fellows 2025 | Development | The Company of Biologists
journals.biologists.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Introducing the 2025 PI Fellows of our Pathway to Independence Programme
Over the next year, we will be supporting this talented group of eight postdocs, providing training, mentorship and networking opportunities as they apply for independent positions.
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Over the next year, we will be supporting this talented group of eight postdocs, providing training, mentorship and networking opportunities as they apply for independent positions.
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
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Over on @the-node.bsky.social. Reflections on the end of an era: a look back at my time on Development. So many things I could have written about in this post - it's been a wonderful 13 years at Development - but these are some of the things that have particularly stuck in my mind...
The end of an era - the Node
As you may have seen in an earlier post, I'm moving on from Development after 13+ years as the journal's Executive Editor. The good news (for me at
thenode.biologists.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Over on @the-node.bsky.social. Reflections on the end of an era: a look back at my time on Development. So many things I could have written about in this post - it's been a wonderful 13 years at Development - but these are some of the things that have particularly stuck in my mind...
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1 month left to register for this year's @bsdb.bsky.social Northern(ish) England Developmental Biology Meeting here in Sheffield (10th of July). We have a great speaker line-up and available oral presentation slots for PGRs/ECRs. For registration/details see: onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/product-cata...
May 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
1 month left to register for this year's @bsdb.bsky.social Northern(ish) England Developmental Biology Meeting here in Sheffield (10th of July). We have a great speaker line-up and available oral presentation slots for PGRs/ECRs. For registration/details see: onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/product-cata...
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📢 Fresh off the press and featuring new exciting experiments! 🧪
We show how glycolytic activity instructs germ layer proportions through regulation of Nodal and Wnt signaling - happy to finally share this 😊
doi.org/10.1016/j.st...
B2B with @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social lab: doi.org/10.1016/j.st... 🤩
We show how glycolytic activity instructs germ layer proportions through regulation of Nodal and Wnt signaling - happy to finally share this 😊
doi.org/10.1016/j.st...
B2B with @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social lab: doi.org/10.1016/j.st... 🤩
April 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
📢 Fresh off the press and featuring new exciting experiments! 🧪
We show how glycolytic activity instructs germ layer proportions through regulation of Nodal and Wnt signaling - happy to finally share this 😊
doi.org/10.1016/j.st...
B2B with @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social lab: doi.org/10.1016/j.st... 🤩
We show how glycolytic activity instructs germ layer proportions through regulation of Nodal and Wnt signaling - happy to finally share this 😊
doi.org/10.1016/j.st...
B2B with @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social lab: doi.org/10.1016/j.st... 🤩
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We are highlighting Kate Storey, who served as a Director at @biologists.bsky.social from 2007 to 2022 and co-founded the Company’s Workshop programme, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists
April 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We are highlighting Kate Storey, who served as a Director at @biologists.bsky.social from 2007 to 2022 and co-founded the Company’s Workshop programme, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists
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Super proud of superstar postdocs @nerlielisa.bsky.social and @liujinghui.bsky.social for our lab's most recent preprint! We uncover how wound-induced electrical currents are generated and transmitted in tissues, triggering proliferation, essential for organ #regeneration #bioelectricity #QBio 👇
How can organs regenerate fast? Bioelectricity helps -- by coupling sub-second electrical injury signals to regenerative proliferation.
First preprint from my potsdoc :D with @liujinghui.bsky.social @ritamateus.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and collaborators @mpipks.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social
First preprint from my potsdoc :D with @liujinghui.bsky.social @ritamateus.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and collaborators @mpipks.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Super proud of superstar postdocs @nerlielisa.bsky.social and @liujinghui.bsky.social for our lab's most recent preprint! We uncover how wound-induced electrical currents are generated and transmitted in tissues, triggering proliferation, essential for organ #regeneration #bioelectricity #QBio 👇
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If you’re a PhD or postdoc developmental biologist in the UK who cares about the field and the community, please nominate yourself to join the BSDB committee. Great opportunity to get involved, have real input and give back to the community @bsdb.bsky.social #biologists100
March 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you’re a PhD or postdoc developmental biologist in the UK who cares about the field and the community, please nominate yourself to join the BSDB committee. Great opportunity to get involved, have real input and give back to the community @bsdb.bsky.social #biologists100
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Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab!
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
March 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab!
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
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🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨
Passionate about ovarian biology? This cutting-edge PhD project combines live-cell microscopy & biophysical modelling to explore the dynamic ovary! 🧬🔬
I'm happy to chat more—DM or email me to set up a Zoom call 📩 And please share! 🙌🏼
[email protected]
Passionate about ovarian biology? This cutting-edge PhD project combines live-cell microscopy & biophysical modelling to explore the dynamic ovary! 🧬🔬
I'm happy to chat more—DM or email me to set up a Zoom call 📩 And please share! 🙌🏼
[email protected]
March 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨
Passionate about ovarian biology? This cutting-edge PhD project combines live-cell microscopy & biophysical modelling to explore the dynamic ovary! 🧬🔬
I'm happy to chat more—DM or email me to set up a Zoom call 📩 And please share! 🙌🏼
[email protected]
Passionate about ovarian biology? This cutting-edge PhD project combines live-cell microscopy & biophysical modelling to explore the dynamic ovary! 🧬🔬
I'm happy to chat more—DM or email me to set up a Zoom call 📩 And please share! 🙌🏼
[email protected]