Ina Sonnen

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Feb 1 deadline approaching for our @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social QBio summer course on Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals. @streichan.bsky.social
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You now have until 14 January to submit your abstract for the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Biological oscillators: rhythms and synchronisation across scales'! 👉 s.embl.org/ees26-04-bl

Using fluorescence live imaging and an in vitro implantation model, we show that human embryo attachment begins with direct cell fusion via syncytin-2–MFSD2A interaction.
With @hansclevers.bsky.social.
Great work by @tnoordzij.bsky.social & @martinacelotti.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Incredibly excited to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant. This recognition means a lot for what we’ve built so far and for what’s ahead.

Thank you to all collaborators and supporters.

Looking forward to getting this project going!

Don’t miss the @isscr.org Annual Meeting 2026 in Montreal.
I will give a talk in the “Systematic and metabolic regulation of development” session.
#ISSCR2026

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Huge congrats to Dr. Sonja Weterings!

Yesterday Sonja from my lab @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social delivered an outstanding PhD defense. Her thesis explores how frequency encoding shapes cell type composition in the intestine.

We’re so proud of her, and we’re going to miss her!

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I agree, it would be super interesting to zoom in further into specific regions. We were aiming for detection of low abundance proteins and decided against sectioning further. But definitely the next step, also with mass spec getting more and more sensitive.

This was an excellent collaboration with Michiel Vermeulen. Thanks to @ wilkemeijer.bsky.social, @virginiar-andra.bsky.social & Suzan Stelloo for the amazing work. And of course, to all other authors!

@hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social
@rimls.bsky.social

Key findings:
• Mapped novel oscillatory proteins and transcripts that could play a role in somitogenesis
• Discovered a dynamic, antagonistic ligand–receptor pattern in R-Spondin/LGR signalling
• Perturbing ligand dynamics impairs signalling strength and somite differentiation

Preprint alert!
We combined microfluidics, proteomics, and RNA-seq to map spatiotemporal protein expression during mouse somitogenesis and found a novel regulatory strategy: dynamic antagonistic gradients fine-tune signalling strength.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Congratulations Simona!!

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Thank you for the kind words and highlighting this milestone. I’m thrilled and honoured to have reached tenure.
Big thanks to my lab, colleagues, mentors, friends and family who’ve supported me along the way.
Excited to keep doing what I love - now with slightly more security.

It was fun reflecting on how my career path took me from a focus on cancer research to developmental biology, the urge to understand how development and tissue homeostasis work and how my time at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch contributed to this. Thank you, Katrin Bühler-Popowski, for the interview!

W2 TT W3 professorship in the Dynamics of Biological
Systems at @uni-saarland.de - only a few days left to apply! (June 13) www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...

Delighted that our work on positional memory is now published. We asked how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka.
🧵1/14

I am just on my way to Switzerland and looking forward to a fun and exciting day at the Institute of Cell Biology in Bern tomorrow.

Signaling switches: Metabolism regulates gastruloid self-organization Metabolic regulation of embryonic development is increasingly recognized. Villaronga-Luque et al. and Stopornwongkul et al. show that metabolic activity influences gastruloid formation from mouse embr...

Thoughtful preview article by María Rodríguez Colman & @sonnenlab.bsky.social on recent papers from our lab and @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social lab! Grateful for their in-depth analysis of the papers and their big-picture perspective on the role of metabolism in development.
doi.org/10.1016/j.st...

In preprints: a new preprint curation initiative from Development

In preprints: robust segmentation clock outputs via cell cycle and synthetic coupling

Here, @jorgelazaro.bsky.social and @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social discuss two #preprints looking into the mechanisms regulating somitogenesis through cell- and tissue-level couplings:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Thanks for featuring my work with @sonnenlab.bsky.social and @marekvanoostrom.bsky.social in this thoughtful article!

We challenged our researchers to describe their work in 10 words or less. See how they did in this video!

Thank you for highlighting our preprint on the coordination between cell proliferation and the segmentation clock www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Well done @virginiar-andra.bsky.social from our lab for being awarded the Best Poster Prize at the International Dutch Embryo Model Meeting today for our work on “Spatiotemporally resolved omics reveals dynamic antagonistic gradients” in embryo segmentation. Congratulations!

And what a talk that was!

I’m very proud of Sonja from my lab who presented our work on frequency encoding of cell-type composition in the small intestine as an invited speaker at Sy-stem 2025.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks :-)

And a great collaboration with @irene-yuting-li.bsky.social and Ben Simons to understand how this coupling affects the somitogenesis.