Oliver Stone

We are looking for PhD students or Postdocs with an interest in developing and using new methods for functional genetics following our recent work 👉 rdcu.be/e05Oo and academic.oup.com/nar/article/52

Check out our latest preprint on the cellular mechanical basis of Voronoi tessellations in epithelia! This biophysics study is inspired by disordered tessellations observed in zebrafish hearts 🤓🐟💙 #SulaimaanLim #ChiuFanLeeLab

arxiv.org/html/2512.13...

Please check out our job post @biologists.bsky.social!

We are recruiting a Postdoc Scientist to develop cutting-edge tools and techniques for bioengineering human lymphatic networks, as part of an interdisciplinary collaboration with the group of Prof Dame Molly Stevens!

bit.ly/3La9idq

I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting!

Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!

bsdb.org/meetings/

March 23-26, 2026 - UK

Parabéns, Vanessa!

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food. It calculated how much Gaza needs – but data shows how this is being withheld The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza. Palestinians cannot leave, war has ended farming and Israel has banned fishing, so practically every calorie its population eats must be brought in from outside. Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation. Continue reading...

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

Congratulations, Taija!

The new Department of Functional Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine is looking for scientists at any level. 👉 mpi-muenster.mpg.de/780013/profil

Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis During tissue formation, dynamic cell shape changes drive morphogenesis while asymmetric divisions create cellular diversity. We found that the shifts in cell morphology that shape tissues could conco...

My first post on Bluesky! Very excited to share our work just published in @science.org. We find that “Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis” - in angiogenesis and other tissues! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Border-zone cardiomyocytes and macrophages regulate extracellular matrix remodeling to promote cardiomyocyte protrusion during cardiac regeneration Nature Communications - Adult zebrafish are capable of heart regeneration, but how the collagenous injury site is replaced remains unclear. Here they provide an in-depth analysis of cardiomyocyte...

Very excited to see the first Beisaw lab publication out in its final form 🥳🥳 rdcu.be/ei1I7 if you’re interested in zebrafish heart regeneration and how cardiomyocytes replace the fibrotic injured tissue (spoiler alert: macrophages play an important role), then read it here 👇

Excited to see our work describing an external immune organ in the #zebrafish published in JEM! Big thanks to Aurora Kraus and @zebrafishmk.bsky.social and all of our other amazing collaborators including @edanfoley.bsky.social @biomarina-vg.bsky.social #WeinsteinLab rupress.org/jem/article-... 🧪

#onlywithHCR: @degrainger.bsky.social, @oliverastone.bsky.social, and their team reveal that lymphatic endothelial cells arise from specialized progenitors. #HCRimaging helped them to visualize endothelial progenitors in whole-mount mouse embryos.

Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Microscopy image of a 3-day old, genetically modified zebrafish expressing a new arterial enhancer driving a green reporter gene and a pan-endothelial marker (red).

Vascular Development: What determines whether an endothelial cell becomes part of an artery, a vein or a capillary?
elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Congratulations Hans, @taijamakinenlab.bsky.social and team!

Mapping the transcriptional and epigenetic landscape of organotypic endothelial diversity in the developing and adult mouse Nature Cardiovascular Research - Cantu Gutierrez et al. identify the common and unique transcriptional regulatory networks in the endothelium of six different organs throughout development, and...

Excited to share this paper that is a long time coming from the lab on epigenetic/transcriptional regulation of organotypic endothelial specialization out today @naturecvr.bsky.social go.nature.com/4krSJqh

A vibrant abstract image with a network of lines in blue, purple, yellow, and red against a white background. Shape resembles a medical illustration of a woman with a painterly effect

Some great images in this years @the-node.bsky.social image competition. Including my own "Thymus in the Spotlight" image taken in the @idrm.ox.ac.uk Zeiss CoE.

Vote for your favorite here: thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

My first blue update! Sharing my most recent illustration in a scientific journal.Thank you to @oliverastone.bsky.social who contacted me to adapt his concept as the cover for his paper in @naturecvr.bsky.social. These are the original design and the journal version!

Context-dependent response of endothelial cells to PIK3CA mutation Cancer mutations in the PIK3CA gene cause congenital disorders. The endothelium is among the most frequently affected tissues in these disorders, displaying aberrant vascular overgrowth in the form of...

We are excited to share our work on Context-dependent response of endothelial cells to PIK3CA mutation. A tour the force of many; thank you all for your invaluable contribution. @aangulou.bsky.social @ruibenedito.bsky.social @debocklab.bsky.social @sandradcastillo.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellow Job in Melbourne at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - SEEK The Hogan laboratory is offering work for a highly motivated and skilled postdoctoral fellow in the area of lymphatic development and regeneration.

We have a postdoc position available in the lab! Come and work on lymphatic vascular development and regeneration. We use zebrafish, mouse, cells, tumour models and love imaging, genetics and genomics🔬
Come join us in Melbourne!

www.seek.com.au/job/82157187...

Paper alert! Congrats to Lara, @cmdooley.bsky.social , @douglasadamoski.bsky.social and Thomas Juan for their great work on identifying the first example of Transcriptional Adaption in humans!🎉

Same same but different? How blood and lymphatic vessels induce cell contact inhibition - Our new short review is out @BiochemSoc @PPPublishing #BST #vascularbiology #contactinhibition #CIP #endothelial #junctions @dzhk_germany @UKEHamburg portlandpress.com/biochemsoctr...

iFlpMosaics are now published @naturemethods. A compendium of novel genetic tools and related methods for inducing and analysing genetic mosaics in a high-throughput manner.Tweetorial 👇

nature.com/articles/s4159…

@idrmoxford.bsky.social

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!)

royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Obrigado, Vanessa!

Direct specification of lymphatic endothelium from mesenchymal progenitors - Nature Cardiovascular Research Lupu, Grainger, Kirschnick et al. show that, contrary to prevailing belief, the initial specification of mammalian lymphatic endothelial cells primarily occurs from previously unidentified mesenchymal...

DPAG's Stone Group publishes new research in
@naturecvr.bsky.social on the cellular mechanisms underpinning the formation of lymphatic endothelial cells
@oliverastone.bsky.social @degrainger.bsky.social
Read the paper here www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Paraxial mesoderm as a direct gateway to lymphatic endothelial cells - Nature Cardiovascular Research The origins of mammalian lymphatic vessels have been debated since the early twentieth century; recent data are shifting the balance toward a less widely accepted view.

Thanks also to Tanya Petrova and Valeria Orlova for their N&Vs on the paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Thank you to all the authors, in particular
Irina Lupu, @degrainger.bsky.social, Nils Kirschnick
and Friedemann Kiefer, and our collaborators Taija Mäkinen and Kari Alitalo.

Direct specification of lymphatic endothelium from mesenchymal progenitors - Nature Cardiovascular Research Lupu, Grainger, Kirschnick et al. show that, contrary to prevailing belief, the initial specification of mammalian lymphatic endothelial cells primarily occurs from previously unidentified mesenchymal...

The paper describes a paraxial mesoderm-derived progenitor for lymphatic endothelium. These lymphangioblast like progenitors directly give rise to lymphatic endothelial cells and do not transition through an intermediate venous state.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Very happy to share our work on lymphatic endothelial cell specification, which was published in Nature Cardiovascular Research this week.