Welcome Karen!
Karen Grace Soans is starting her postdoc in our group. She will explore the biophysical properties of the vertebrate organiser.
Author: Magdalena Schindler
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!
3rd group birthday
After another year, we celebrated the third year of the Petridou group with new faces and cheese at our group leader's home.
Welcome Jlenia!
Jlenia Vitale is starting her postdoc at our group. She will explore the interplay of the tissue material state and the metabolism.
GIF-Nexus Grant
Together with the group of Assaf Zaritsky, we received funding for 4-year funded postdoc positions through GIF-Nexus. At the interface of developmental biology and data science, we aim to find early predictors of tissue rigidity phase transitions during zebrafish morphogenesis. Apply!
DFG Grant
Together with the group of Bernat Corominas-Murtra (Uni Graz), our lab received the Weave Lead Agency Collaborative grant. By combining theory and experiments we will explore the role of tissue phase transitions in embryo pattern formation. We are recruiting!
2nd Group Birthday!
We celebrated the another year of fun work in the Petridou group with a lovely raclette dinner at our group leader's home.