Florencia di Pietro

Launching celldynamicslab.com, the homepage of our new group at EPFL working on cell fragmentation, membrane and cortex mechanics, FLIM imaging, and microfluidics tools. MSc/PhD or postdocs interested in quantitative cell biology are welcome to reach out. We're also hiring a lab manager in 2026!

Cell-type-specific nucleotide sharing through gap junctions impacts sensitivity to replication stress in Drosophila Boumard et al. demonstrate gap-junction-dependent tissue-scale nucleotide sharing, which impacts cellular sensitivity to perturbation of nucleotide homeostasis and replication stress. Drosophila wing ...

The PhD work of @bboumard.bsky.social officially out in print! Happy to share this issue with our downstairs colleagues in the BDD @frelab.bsky.social @robinjournot.bsky.social

www.cell.com/developmenta...

🔴✨ Exciting opportunity : we're hiring a PhD student! ✨🔴

👉 Don't hesitate to apply or spread the word!

⏰ Deadline 30th November 2025

ℹ️ More information and application : www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

@crg.eu @prbb.org

Highly Multiplexed Immunofluorescence Imaging of Mouse Oocytes Highly multiplexed immunofluorescence imaging methods advanced our understanding of biology across scales, from tissues down to molecules. By enabling the visualization of tens of proteins in a single...

⁉️Have you ever wanted to capture tens of proteins in a single sample?

🧫 Check out our newly published Methods Chapter !

link.springer.com/protocol/10....

A huge thanks to Cyprien Noble, the @lucaspelkmans.bsky.social Lab, Marie-Hélène Verlhac @mhverlhac.bsky.social and Marie-Emilie Terret.

A switch to non-proliferative growth sustains Drosophila wing development during the early pupal stage Using precise tissue volume quantification, El Marzkioui, Gaugué, et al. show that wing primordia continue to grow during the early pupal stage, a phase of increased cell volume driven by insulin/IGF ...

Our new paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using 3D reconstructions and volume measurements in Drosophila wing primordia, we show that growth can be uncoupled from cell proliferation and uncover a new time window for growth arrest.
With @leopoldlab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...

⚠️ Le tabac est responsable de 75 000 décès dont 46 000 par cancer chaque année en France.

Il est à l’origine de :
👉 Plus de 80% des cancers du poumon
👉 70 % des cancers ORL
👉 35 % des cancers de la vessie
👉 Nombreux autres types de cancer

➡️ C’est le 1er facteur de risque évitable de cancer.

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Screenshot of the FlyBase Fly Lab List, with the link to add a lab highlighted with a purple box.

The Fly Lab List is public wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase..., and there's link to sign one's lab up right on the page (just above the interactive map).

Our new #Mechanobiology collection examines the mechanical properties & interactions that shape the fundamental operations & structures of cells. Delve into diverse mechanical properties of membranes, organelles & other structures within & among cells 👉 https://buff.ly/3EK0uaq

An endogenous retroviral element co-opts an upstream regulatory sequence to achieve somatic expression and mobility Retrotransposons, multi-copy sequences that propagate via copy-and-paste mechanisms involving an RNA intermediate, occupy large portions of all eukaryotic genomes. A great majority of their manifold c...

To kick start the New Year, I'm delighted to share the lab's first preprint - now online:
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

See below for a couple of highlights👇
Any feedback is welcome!
"TEsky"

HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone! 🥂

Could I please get added to this pack , please ?