Critical points and transitions in embryo development
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.
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.
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!
After another year, we celebrated the third year of the Petridou group with new faces and cheese at our group leader's home.
EMBL developmental biologists – with help from other disciplines – pursue the significance of time, timing, and transitions in organisms during their development.
Jlenia Vitale is starting her postdoc at our group. She will explore the interplay of the tissue material state and the metabolism.
A two-week practical course introduced participants to the intricacies of studying the dynamic interplay between organisms and their changing environment and how it impacts development and evolution.
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!
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!
We celebrated the another year of fun work in the Petridou group with a lovely raclette dinner at our group leader's home.