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Joaquina Delas

@joadelas.bsky.social

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LMCB Group Leader at UCL. Cis-regulatory control of cell fate choice in development. https://delaslab.com/

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Mar 11

Pleased to share our latest work. Extremely fun project with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social l and @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social y.social

Curious about how cis-regulatory elements encode information? Passionate about patterning (re)engineering? Please read! (🧵 by Jake below)

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Jake Cornwall-Scoones @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social · Mar 10

Excited to share my latest work with @joadelas.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social

Predictable Engineering of Signal-Dependent Cis-Regulatory Elements

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Predictable Engineering of Signal-Dependent Cis-Regulatory Elements

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 6d

Those are some stunning movies! The thread is fascinating, I can’t wait to read the full thing.

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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 6d

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

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Stromal Immunology @stromalimmunology.bsky.social · 14d

Dr. Sophie Acton (@actonlab.bsky.social/UCL)

is a Cancer Research UK Senior Fellow with an interest in lymphoid tissue biology.

At #KSStromal26, she'll be sharing her insights on podoplanin - a molecule that controls DC motility within the lymph node.

Register now! Link in bio.

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · 18d

Organizing the National Course of Genetics 🧬 by @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es alongside @dariloops.bsky.social has been a blast!

A great opportunity for young researchers to learn and interact with leaders in the filed of #genomics during a whole week - the future is bright!

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Darío Lupiáñez @dariloops.bsky.social · 19d

🔚Last day of the #CNG2025 by the @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es

We close our scientific program with talks by @joadelas.bsky.social from UCL on developmental patterning, and Jose Manuel Franco @cnb-csic.bsky.social on transcription factors in plants 🌱

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Sociedad Española de Genética @segenetica.bsky.social · 19d

Llegamos al último día del curso #CNG2025 con @joadelas.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk, explorando los patrones espaciales y temporales en el desarrollo!

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 21d

Very excited to be on my way to the National Genetics Course in Madrid @segenetica.bsky.social

It is always very special to go back to Spain for scientific reasons. It would be hard to convince uni student Joaquina of what would come.

Impressive (aka intimidating 😂) line up

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 28d

Congratulations Ollie! Can’t wait to read it 😍

Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Sep 4

Best part of the job: visiting other places and discussing fun science. This time thanks to @sonnenlab.bsky.social

Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yay! Can’t wait to see all the amazing research

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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · Sep 2

Do you have friends with questions about fertility? Egg freezing? Embryo research? IVF? Stem Cells? If you're UK-based this Friday, the BBC are hosting a Question of Science and tickets are still available. PLUS you can submit a question in advance to ask the panelists 🎤
shorturl.at/BCTW7

A Question of Science | What's the future of fertility?

A new podcast produced for the Crick by BBC Studios Science Unit.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Sep 1

What an excellent fall program! Don't miss these talks!

FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 1

We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social!

register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Fragile Nucleosome Fall Seminars:
September 10 Grace Bower, Kvon Lab @ UC Irvine, USA
Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, UPenn, USA

September 24 Ali Wilkening, Sanulli Lab @ Stanford, USA
Juanma Schvartzman, Columbia University, USA

October 8 Sanim Rahman, Greenberg Lab @ UPenn, USA
Alex Federation, Talus Bio, USA

October 22 Alice Laigle, Croll Lab @ University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Seungsoo Kim, UC Irvine, USA

November 5 Hannah Long, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jeff Vierstra, Altius Institute, USA

November 19 Ishtiaque Hossain, Pastor Lab @ McGill, Canada
Sarah Teichmann, University of Cambridge, UK

December 3 María Mariner Faulí, Rada Iglesias Lab @ IBBTEC, Spain
Jonathan Henninger, Carnegie Mellon, USA

December 17 Rebecca Berrens, Oxford University, UK
Jean-Benoit Lalanne, University of Montreal, Canada

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Sep 1

and this one too! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's all so much fun. I need to sit down and read them all together 😍

Retrospective and multifactorial single-cell profiling reveals sequential chromatin reorganization during X inactivation - Nature Cell Biology

Kefalopoulou, Rullens et al. develop Dam&ChIC to assay chromatin state at two different time points in the same cell. The method was used to study the reorganization of LADs during cell division a...

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 28

Nice! me too please?

Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks for the live updating! Sad to be missing out but it makes us feel a bit more connected to the meeting from far.

Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 26

Check out the latest work by @dbenzinger.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social !

Building gradients in space and time.

I am extremely biased but the Dec 15 issue of Dev Cell is 🔥🔥

James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our latest: We developed a chemo-optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of morphogen production. Using dual light + small molecule control of Sonic Hedgehog production, we recapitulated neural tube patterning in vitro & measured spread of Shh

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Investigating morphogen and patterning dynamics with optogenetic control of morphogen production

Morphogen gradients provide the patterning cues that instruct cell fate decisions during development. Here, we establish an optogenetic system for the…

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 21

Read more about @sermenchero.bsky.social 's work in this PNAS Journal Club. #opossums!

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Aug 21

In #opossums and other #marsupials, #GeneExpression follows familiar rules, but at an unusual pace. In PNAS Journal Club: www.pnas.org/post/journal...

#DevelopmentalBiology #evolution #embryo #transcriptome

The arms and heads of opossums (pictured here one day before birth ) and other marsupials develop faster than their legs and back bodies.
Image credit: Sergio Menchero Fernandez/ Francis Crick Institute, London.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 14

It's more of a merry-go-round with the horses that go up and down. I know you can see it

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 14

Look fun, Ferdi! Looking forward to reading and maybe hearing all about it!

Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 13

Is the dog included? Because that might make all the difference!

Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 13

Menudo verano, Álvaro! Enhorabuena otra vez 🍾🧪

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 11

New from our colleagues across the hall, @yanlanmao.bsky.social and @giuliapaci.bsky.social

How can 3D topology tune patterning? Read below!

Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social · Aug 11

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 ⬇️

Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 11

Congrats Endika @eharo84.bsky.social and the rest of the team! It looked very fun, I cannot wait to read it!

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 6

Congratulations!! ❤️❤️

Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · Aug 5

We look forward to welcoming Shaun to the lab in the fall. Congratulations, Shaun!

Shaun Bernadet @shaunxb.bsky.social · Aug 5

Pleased to announce that I have graduated from @qmul.bsky.social with a 1st in BSc Biomedical Sciences.

Looking forward to starting my EPSRC-funded PhD with @joadelas.bsky.social at the @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social, where I will be investigating transcription factor action at enhancers.