PhD position available in our team @dublincityuni.bsky.social from September. Please share/ contact me for informal enquiries.

📢Our latest preprint list is now up on FocalPlane.
This week’s list focusses on research using microscopy tools to answer questions in biology. As always, please let us know if there are other preprints that you’d like to see included.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/06/27/m...

Very curious and excited to see the cool work of the Maniou lab! Congratulations Eirini the best are yet to come!

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

2. iPSC neuroepithelial models by @hpscenthusiast.bsky.social identifying a patient mutation in VANGL2 which diminishes apical constriction in this human model
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In this work we establish a platform for robust modelling of iPSC-derived neuropethelium. Using this, we characterise disease-associated phenotypes and show that a patient identified Vangl2 mutation disrupts apical constriction. Huge thanks to @emaniou.bsky.social @paolodecoppi.bsky.social

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...