Nicoletta Petridou awarded ERC Starting Grant
Nicoletta Petridou, Group Leader at EMBL Heidelberg, received an ERC Starting Grant for her innovative work on embryonic development.
News from our group
New Group Logo!
Thanks to Karen, our group has a new lab logo!
Welcome Jun-Ru!
Jun-Ru Lee joins the group as postdoctoral fellow. His work will aim to understand the function of the interstitial fluid between the cells, which is vital for embryo development yet very poorly characterised until now.
What’s beyond the mechanical laws?
Curious to know where developmental biology research is headed? Nicoletta and 9 other scientists gave an outlook for their fields.
Best poster prize winners of the EMBO | EMBL Symposium ‘The mechanics of life: from development to disease’
Last April, our EMBO | EMBL Symposium ‘The mechanics of life: from development to disease’ took place in Heidelberg, Germany and virtually. Participants voted for the best posters and today we present you the winners.
Welcome Karen!
Karen Grace Soans is starting her postdoc in our group. She will explore the biophysical properties of the vertebrate organiser.
Yuting receives the EIPOD fellowship
Yuting received an EIPOD fellowship to fund her postdoctoral studies in the Petridou group (EMBL, Heidelberg) and the Saka Group (EMBL, Heidelberg). She will combine expertise from both groups to study transcriptional and tissue material changes during EMT in a developing system.
Jlenia receives the EIPOD fellowship
Jlenia was awarded an EIPOD fellowship to fund her postdoc between the Petridou, the Aulehla (EMBL, Heidelberg) and the Rodenfelds (MPI-CBG, Dresden) groups. Jlenia will combine quantitative imaging analysis, metabolic profiling, biophysics in zebrafish to uncover the principles underlying PTs.
Welcome Yuting!
Yuting Lu joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Her work will address the interplay between epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and the tissue material state.
NEW Review Article on “Collective effects of cell cleavage dynamics”
This new review by Lena and Nicoletta discusses the impact of cell cycle dynamics on early embryo development. Many open questions arise in this long-standing field, which made this literature review very exciting to us. We hope you enjoy it too!