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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · 10d

Always a treat to see Victoria and get updated about her science. Of course, she is always up to interesting and new stuff :)

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks to @vdeneke.bsky.social , @pauligroup.bsky.social , @dianapinheiro.bsky.social , @ehannezo.bsky.social , @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social and Alexander Aulehla for hosting me.

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · 10d

Just got back from a great visit to Vienna, spending time both at @impvienna.bsky.social and @istaresearch.bsky.social. Followed by a great visit to @embl.org. Amazing science, great and supportive colleagues and most notably incredible young trainees. It was so much fun to meet everyone.

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks, Paul! Means a lot coming from you, as your papers have been great inspiration for this study

Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · Sep 9

Super impressive study by the group of Stefano di Talia on the segmentation of zebrafish notochord. There might even be a SNIC ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tissue-wide, synchronous Erk oscillations time the segmentation of the zebrafish notochord

The generation of a periodic body plan is a fundamental property of vertebrates. While biological oscillators provide a mechanism for timing the formation of repeated structures, few examples of signa...

www.biorxiv.org

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Sep 7

Let's do it!

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The Cecere Laboratory @cecerelab.bsky.social · Sep 7

🍽️🧬 How do diet and gut microbes shape fertility across generations? 🪱🔬 Our Laboratory at #InstitutPasteur is recruiting a PhD student to study epigenetic inheritance of fertility using C. elegans. Fully funded via the International PPU program. Apply now! 🌍 #PhDposition #Epigenetics #Inheritance

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · Sep 1

🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry.

Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, [email protected], PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬

Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Programme, The call for enrollment of students in October 2026 will be open from September 1st to October 20th, 2025

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Yu-Chiun Wang @yuchiunwang.bsky.social · Sep 4

Tissue 'tectonic' collision is detrimental, but flies found two distinct solutions! Gratifying and grateful to be included in this collective effort, w/ Steffen Lemke, to crack the (or 'a') code of #cephalicfurrow, now out in @nature.com, all with @paveltomancak.bsky.social at the helm. (1/9)

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congrats, my friend! Happy to see this out. Last time we saw each other, you had just submitted the paper.

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Priyom's preprint is out on biorxiv. See below for a detailed thread. In a nutshell, she has discovered and characterized the oscillator that times notochord and spine segmentation in zebrafish. Turns out that there are uniform Erk oscillations across the entire tissue that act as timekeepers!

Priyom Adhyapok @priyomadhyapok.bsky.social · Sep 2

Building a spine is no joke, but thankfully zebrafish have their own clocks to keep the pace. Excited to share our preprint on the role of biological oscillators in coordinating notochord development! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)
Additional thread below

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Priyom Adhyapok @priyomadhyapok.bsky.social · Sep 2

Building a spine is no joke, but thankfully zebrafish have their own clocks to keep the pace. Excited to share our preprint on the role of biological oscillators in coordinating notochord development! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)
Additional thread below

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Aug 19

Heartfelt obituary of Ben Shilo by Stas Shvartsman

Ben-Zion Shilo (1951–2025)

Ben-Zion Shilo, a distinguished Israeli geneticist (Figure 1), passed away this April at the age of 73 at his home in Rehovot. Benny, as he was known to his friends and colleagues around the world, ma...

www.cell.com

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Yogesh Goyal @goyallab.bsky.social · Jul 17

Just noticed a super nice preview of our paper by @ditalialab.bsky.social and Alexandra Hiestand. As always, good editorial experience with @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell-systems...

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thanks, Sharyn!

Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Jun 22

Great dinner with current and former members of the lab, as well as current and former Duke members and friends of the lab. Great to catch up with @ceriweber.bsky.social ,Ben, @woonyunghur.bsky.social and share stories. Great @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting!

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Jun 10

Excited to see @drsusanna.bsky.social 's work out as a preprint. Please read the thread below for some more information or check the paper out on biorxiv.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Susanna Brantley @drsusanna.bsky.social · Jun 10

Excited to share the bulk of my postdocotoral work from the @ditalialab.bsky.social on how cells interpret dynamic morphogen signaling during development! Many thanks to our collaborators & coauthors @shelbyflies.bsky.social, Massimo Vergassola, Jacqueline Janssen, and Anna Chao.

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Victoria Deneke @vdeneke.bsky.social · Jun 4

A heartfelt thank you to @izfs.bsky.social for this incredible honor! I'm so grateful to receive an award in memory of Dr. Chi-Bin Chien, an inspiring scientist and pioneer in the zebrafish community 🐟💙

International Zebrafish Society @izfs.bsky.social · Jun 3

We are excited to announce the winner of the Chi-Bin Chien Award, Dr. Victoria Deneke! See more about Dr. Deneke and the CBC Award here: www.izfs.org/news/congrat...

@impvienna.bsky.social @vdeneke.bsky.social

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congrats, Victoria! Well-deserved. Ad majora.

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · May 14

Very much looking forward to this meeting!

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · May 14

🔈 We’re pleased to welcome Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social as an invited speaker at #ICDB2025!
His work combines imaging and quantitative models to understand cell cycle coordination during embryonic development. 📊🧪

An announcement slide in white and blue colors, with Stefano's name, the SDB ISDB and LASDB logos and text that says Concurrent Session 5: Oscillations that shape development. Saturday, June 22nd 8:20-10am.

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Mar 17

Highly recommended! A great lab and wonderful mentor.

IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · Mar 17

👩‍🔬Curious about #fertilisation and #development? Join Andrea Pauli’s group through the Vienna BioCenter #PhD Program!

⏳Deadline: 15 April training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/

📽️Watch Andi's 'Scientist Snapshot': www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FN...

@pauligroup.bsky.social

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Mar 13

Nice News & Views on our recent paper from Tim Saunders.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Topology drives cell fate - Nature Physics

Cells take on specific fates during development based on cues, which can be genetic or mechanical. Now it is shown that the decision of cell nuclei to either migrate to the outer cortex or remain inte...

www.nature.com

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Eda Yildirim @yildirimlab.bsky.social · Mar 1

We are hiring!
Interested in X chromosome inactivation, cell biology, and epigenetics?
Funded postdoctoral position in our lab at the Koç University Mol Bio and Genetics Department, in Istanbul Türkiye. DM for more details.

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Feb 26

Congrats, this looks really cool.

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Feb 26

Also thanks to the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social for supporting Woon during his stay in Santa Barbara to perform a lot of the work that went into the paper

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Feb 26

Our paper, led by @argo-mkhrji.bsky.social and @woonyunghur.bsky.social, on cortical migration of nuclei in drosophila embryos came out today in @naturephysics.bsky.social. Argo wrote a comprehensive thread below. A great collaboration with Massimo Vergassola and @streichan.bsky.social.

Argo Mukherjee @argo-mkhrji.bsky.social · Feb 25

1/n Wanted to share this latest piece of work that came online today on how Scale-independent and Topological interactions govern the spindle orientation and in turn the decision to become embryonic/yolk nuclei.

Freely available to read here:
rdcu.be/ebb0l

Topological interactions drive the first fate decision in the Drosophila embryo

Nature Physics - Early positioning of the embryo nuclei is not well understood. Now, experiments show that the orientation of the mitotic spindle is controlled by topological interactions, which...

rdcu.be

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · Feb 7

Great new paper on spatiotemporal organization of cell division in zebrafish embryos. The mitotic waves preceding the ZGA are phase waves set by differences in N/C ratio, driven by geometry-induced asymmetric divisions. Important new insights and very interesting addition to the field.

Heisenberg Lab @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social · Feb 6

📢‼️ Exciting new preprint from the lab by @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social et al, now out on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, reveals that the early embryo geometry spatiotemporally patterns zygotic genome activation (ZGA) in zebrafish. 🐟 tinyurl.com/Biorxiv-nmis...

Read on to learn more... 👇

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