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Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · 1d

🧠 Join us @uzh-ch.bsky.social ! We are a new lab looking for PhDs, Postdocs & Master’s students interested in studying how human neural systems emerge & go awry using brain organoids, light-sheet imaging & genomics. 🚀 Deadline for LSZGS 1st Nov! www.lifescience-graduateschool.uzh.ch/en.html.

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

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Akankshi Munjal @akankshi.bsky.social · 12d

Our latest preprint! Into morphogenesis, Yap, ECM, signaling, vertex models, feedbacks/robustness? There is something here for everyone. We discovered a positive feedback loop that extends inner ear canals, and a built-in mechanism that shuts it down when morphogenesis is done. tinyurl.com/464wsjhd

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Denis Jabaudon @djabaudon.bsky.social · 19d

Ever wondered how robust cellular identity is to external perturbations? Here we disrupt cellular environmnent in vivo and in vitro, and find cell population specific sensitivities. Environment sculpts development yes, but not all cells are made of the same wood. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cell-extrinsic controls over neocortical neuron fate and diversity

Cell-extrinsic cues are key for neocortical cell identity and diversity.

www.science.org

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 23d

This is absolutely a must read. We are in deep trouble and I am even less optimistic than the authors.

Elisha Krieg @elishakrieg.bsky.social · 23d

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it.

Commentary in @natnano.nature.com

#nanotechnology

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Pierre Haas @lepuslapis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Another #preprint: "Elasticity and plasticity of epithelial gap closure", from the #PhD work of Maryam Setoudeh:

arxiv.org/abs/2509.05110

This one required a lot of (I think) beautiful #mechanics!

@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

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Pierre Haas @lepuslapis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our work is motivated by Tribolium serosa closure, a particularly simple instance of epithelial gap closure:

nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19356-x

@akanksha-jain.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social discovered tissue fluidisation near the gap and inhomogeneities of the contracting cable.

Regionalized tissue fluidization is required for epithelial gap closure during insect gastrulation - Nature Communications

The mechanics of embryonic tissue spreading over spherical eggs is not fully understood. Here, the authors show that during gastrulation in the red flour beetle, extraembryonic tissue epiboly is facil...

nature.com

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BaCell3D @bacell3d.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us on November 4th!
The winners of our best short talk awards will be telling their research on the @isscr.org stage!
Thank you @stemcellreports.bsky.social for co-organizing this webinar!

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David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social · Sep 4

Super excited that our group will be supported by an ERC Starting Grant!

In project "InfoFate" we will study how cells use information in dynamical, neighborhood & mechanical signals to make decisions.

We'll have PhD and Postdoc positions available, please get in touch if interested!

Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Sep 4

Why do some cells become neurons and others muscle?
Physicist Prof. David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch receives a prestigious #ERCStartingGrant to uncover how cells make life-shaping decisions. @erc.europa.eu
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

ERC Starting Grant for Physicist David Brückner

How do cells decide which role to take on in the body? Prof. David Brückner from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel is investigating this and similar questions. Over the next five years, a Star...

www.biozentrum.unibas.ch

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Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations!!!! Big and awesome news ! Hugs 🤗🎊🎊🎊🎊

Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations!!! Great day of news 🎊🎊🎊🎊

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · Sep 3

Dresden researchers @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bruvellu.bsky.social, Carl Modes, @cuencam15.bsky.social ‬ & colleagues published in @nature.com that a tissue fold in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses & may have evolved in response to mechanical forces. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Mechanical forces drive evolutionary change

A small tissue fold present in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses and may have evolved in response to mechanical forces.

www.mpi-cbg.de

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Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you @streichan.bsky.social ! I really appreciate your support and kind words as ever, and am looking forward to more fun scientific exchanges ahead!

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Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am grateful to my mentors @paveltomancak.bsky.social, Barbara Treutlein, Anastasios Pavlopoulos, Gray Camp and Krishanu Ray, colleagues, and collaborators for their invaluable support, and I look forward to starting this new chapter at the University of Zurich.

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Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · Sep 3

💡I will be recruiting masters, PhD students and postdocs who are passionate about developmental neurobiology, tissue mechanics, imaging, and computational biology. If this excites you,, reach out to come build this new venture with me!

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Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thrilled to share 🎉 I’m starting my lab at University of Zurich,
DMLS as Assistant Professor (tenure track) from Jan 2026!
The Neural MorphoGenomics & Developmental Dynamics Lab will be exploring how genes + morphogenesis shape brain development with organoids, imaging & spatial genomics 🧠🔬🧬

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Virginie Uhlmann @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social · Aug 25

Once is an exception, twice is a trend, thrice is a tradition!

Save the date for our now-traditional annual OME-NGFF extravaganza in Zurich!

Whether you’ve just heard about OME-NGFF and are curious to learn more or if you are working with it every day, there is something for everyone this year!

Joel Lüthi @joelluethi.bsky.social · Aug 25

We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉

📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025

📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...

#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr

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Visual of segmented human induced pluripotent stem cells with the key workshop dates: Symposium on November 10-11, Hackathon on November 12-14th in Zurich Switzerland

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Joel Lüthi @joelluethi.bsky.social · Aug 25

We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉

📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025

📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...

#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr

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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · Aug 25

🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods!
📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking
🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration
Let’s dive in! 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · Aug 23

A continued highlight of the year for me, right from the first @embo.org #LISH. Always a fantastic course, impressive student projects, advanced lightsheet imaging for various samples AND data analysis in two weeks. Plus I get to visit my beloved Dresden, with CBG and #LISH veterans. Bis bald!

paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · Aug 23

#LISH25 was BIG.

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Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social · Aug 21

Take 5, Dave Bruebeck @gusqgmed.bsky.social ??? My absolute favorite, too sad I missed it! 😭

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · Aug 7

Honored to receive the @isrbio.bsky.social Rising Star Award for our work in regeneration biology! Grateful to the committee and our colleagues for the recognition. A huge motivation for the lab. Excited to give the award talk in Madison next week and connect with everyone! 😎🥳🍾 shorturl.at/LnkSt

2025 Award Winners

www.isrbio.org

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · Aug 13

Day three of #LISH25 beginning with a bang by @akanksha-jain.bsky.social talking about lightsheet-powered understanding of Morphogenesis of #insects (done with me @mpi-cbg.de) and brain #organoids which is also the future of Akanksha’s newly minted independent lab.

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