Stefano Di Talia

Totally deserved! Congrats.

Optogenetic control of transition to metamorphosis | PNAS System identification approaches are commonly used in engineering to infer simple yet predictive models of complex systems from their responses to ...

Nice new paper from Stas Shvartsman's group presenting an elegant mathematical model for the control of metamorphosis and testing it using Erk optogenetics.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Same here, hope for many more collaborations, let’s stay in touch

Happy to have contributed, together with former student Yitong Xu, to this paper. Read the thread below from @brugueslab.bsky.social for more details.

@wythelab.bsky.social, please email me and we can discuss. We might be able to help.

Congrats! Great paper and good luck in Cambridge

Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Congrats, what an awesome paper!

Congrats, Romain. Totally deserved recognition of your lab awesome work.

Congrats, Ale and lab. A big step forward with a lot of new and unexpected observations! These waves are fascinating indeed

Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1.
Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)

@sushantbangru.bsky.social and @rdiegmiller.bsky.social new review on regeneration is out in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. A fun piece to write and another great collaboration with @kenposs.bsky.social.

We are hiring!

Always a treat to see Victoria and get updated about her science. Of course, she is always up to interesting and new stuff :)

Thanks to @vdeneke.bsky.social , @pauligroup.bsky.social , @dianapinheiro.bsky.social , @ehannezo.bsky.social , @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social and Alexander Aulehla for hosting me.

Just got back from a great visit to Vienna, spending time both at @impvienna.bsky.social and @istaresearch.bsky.social. Followed by a great visit to @embl.org. Amazing science, great and supportive colleagues and most notably incredible young trainees. It was so much fun to meet everyone.

Thanks, Paul! Means a lot coming from you, as your papers have been great inspiration for this study

Let's do it!

🍽️🧬 How do diet and gut microbes shape fertility across generations? 🪱🔬 Our Laboratory at #InstitutPasteur is recruiting a PhD student to study epigenetic inheritance of fertility using C. elegans. Fully funded via the International PPU program. Apply now! 🌍 #PhDposition #Epigenetics #Inheritance

Tissue 'tectonic' collision is detrimental, but flies found two distinct solutions! Gratifying and grateful to be included in this collective effort, w/ Steffen Lemke, to crack the (or 'a') code of #cephalicfurrow, now out in @nature.com, all with @paveltomancak.bsky.social at the helm. (1/9)

Congrats, my friend! Happy to see this out. Last time we saw each other, you had just submitted the paper.

Priyom's preprint is out on biorxiv. See below for a detailed thread. In a nutshell, she has discovered and characterized the oscillator that times notochord and spine segmentation in zebrafish. Turns out that there are uniform Erk oscillations across the entire tissue that act as timekeepers!

Building a spine is no joke, but thankfully zebrafish have their own clocks to keep the pace. Excited to share our preprint on the role of biological oscillators in coordinating notochord development! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)
Additional thread below

Ben-Zion Shilo (1951–2025) Ben-Zion Shilo, a distinguished Israeli geneticist (Figure 1), passed away this April at the age of 73 at his home in Rehovot. Benny, as he was known to his friends and colleagues around the world, ma...

Heartfelt obituary of Ben Shilo by Stas Shvartsman

Just noticed a super nice preview of our paper by @ditalialab.bsky.social and Alexandra Hiestand. As always, good editorial experience with @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Thanks, Sharyn!

Great dinner with current and former members of the lab, as well as current and former Duke members and friends of the lab. Great to catch up with @ceriweber.bsky.social ,Ben, @woonyunghur.bsky.social and share stories. Great @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting!

Excited to see @drsusanna.bsky.social 's work out as a preprint. Please read the thread below for some more information or check the paper out on biorxiv.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A heartfelt thank you to @izfs.bsky.social for this incredible honor! I'm so grateful to receive an award in memory of Dr. Chi-Bin Chien, an inspiring scientist and pioneer in the zebrafish community 🐟💙

Congrats, Victoria! Well-deserved. Ad majora.