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.
News from our group
Why time is of the essence in development
EMBL developmental biologists – with help from other disciplines – pursue the significance of time, timing, and transitions in organisms during their development.
Welcome Jlenia!
Jlenia Vitale is starting her postdoc at our group. She will explore the interplay of the tissue material state and the metabolism.
Understanding developmental plasticity in time and space
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.
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.
Hilde Mangold Award
For her contribution as an early career scientist in developmental biology, Nicoletta was awarded the Hilde Mangold award by the German Society of Developmental Biology (GfE).
NEW Review Article on “Critical phenomena in embryonic organization”
Camilla and Nicoletta review the role of critical phenoma in embryo development. Critical transitions may underlie many biological processes, like gene expression, cell differentiation and tissue mechanics. Yet, this field is only taking off recently in biology. Read more about it in the review!
1st Group Birthday!
We celebrated the first year of the Petridou group with a lovely raclette dinner at our group leader's home.