Critical points and transitions in embryo development
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.
Karen Grace Soans is starting her postdoc in our group. She will explore the biophysical properties of the vertebrate organiser.
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 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.