Stefano Di Talia

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.

Very much looking forward to this meeting!

Highly recommended! A great lab and wonderful mentor.

Topology drives cell fate - Nature Physics Cells take on specific fates during development based on cues, which can be genetic or mechanical. Now it is shown that the decision of cell nuclei to either migrate to the outer cortex or remain inte...

Nice News & Views on our recent paper from Tim Saunders.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are hiring!
Interested in X chromosome inactivation, cell biology, and epigenetics?
Funded postdoctoral position in our lab at the Koç University Mol Bio and Genetics Department, in Istanbul Türkiye. DM for more details.

Congrats, this looks really cool.

Also thanks to the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social for supporting Woon during his stay in Santa Barbara to perform a lot of the work that went into the paper

Our paper, led by @argo-mkhrji.bsky.social and @woonyunghur.bsky.social, on cortical migration of nuclei in drosophila embryos came out today in @naturephysics.bsky.social. Argo wrote a comprehensive thread below. A great collaboration with Massimo Vergassola and @streichan.bsky.social.

Great new paper on spatiotemporal organization of cell division in zebrafish embryos. The mitotic waves preceding the ZGA are phase waves set by differences in N/C ratio, driven by geometry-induced asymmetric divisions. Important new insights and very interesting addition to the field.

What an awesome paper from Olga showing how in zebrafish the scaling of anaphase movements is controlled by cytoplasmic flows! Love to see a new role for cytoplasmic flows ;) and excited to learn that scaling of anaphase is controlled so differently in fly and fish embryos.

Chromosome segregation: Scaling speed with time and space Spatiotemporal control of subcellular events is crucial for embryogenesis. A new study in fruit flies reports that the speed of chromosome segregation upon nuclear division robustly scales with spindl...

Very nice dispatch describing Yitong's paper from Akihiro Tanaka and Yuta Shimamoto.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Thanks, Carole!!

Thanks!

Collectively, our work leads to a new paradigm for the control of positional memory during regeneration. The Fgf20a source encodes the amount of tissue removed and controls a cellular program that ensures the decay and scaled expansion of Erk gradients which in turn control tissue growth