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General – Petridou Group

Petridou Group

Critical points and transitions in embryo development

The Petridou group aims to understand how complexity arises during early embryo development by focusing on the emergence and function of collective tissue properties. To do so, we combine diverse disciplines including comparative embryology, biophysics, statistical mechanics, quantitative and synthetic biology.

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Best contribution at Theory@EMBL retreat

Our student Lena won an award for the best contribution during the recent Theory@EMBL retreat. Her talk presented her work on the effects of cell cleavage rounds on the tissue material state.

Welcome Diana!

With the new predoc course, Diana just joined our group as a predoctoral fellow. Having recently graduated from Sorbonne University in neuroscience, she is excited to learn about physics in early developmental processes during her next career step with us!

Group retreat: Role-playing and beer

Thanks to Camilla’s and Jun-Ru’s organisation, the group enjoyed a team-building experience of a brewery tour. We also played a role-playing game where we got to hunt for lost data on the way. Our reward was fish tube-holders for the whole team!

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.

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.

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