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Don’t you dare calling Maria that.
She is working around the clock within the constraints that are there...Politics…If anybody believes in basic fundamental research it is her!

José João Freitas (not on Bluesky) conducted mysterious and important work during his masters and defended today with the rare grade of 20/20! Well deserved! #proudPI … great things to come from this young man!

Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.

He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.

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Thank you A. Perez-Ramos and P. Bovolenta for this great perspective on our article about Optic Cup morphogenesis @dev-journal.bsky.social !

The dream team! Congrats to all. Hope to see you often in Cambridge then Sara 🙂

He was one of the best, and a fantastic colleague and mentor. What a loss, but he will be remembered…my condolences to all that were close to him.

In case it was unclear that I have the best lab ever…I do! Just a regular ‘girls night out’ and boy was there singing 😉

Last corrida do Tejo as a resident…for many reasons it did not go very well for me this year but @dianamorales defended the lab honor!
It is all about finishing in the end…😉
And a good reason to be back in 2026 and do better!

Such a fantastic workshop indeed! Great group of people, fantastic science all around, deep discussions lab meeting style and a lot of fun in a beautiful environment! Thanks Michel and Seth for pulling this off!!!

This work exemplifies how experiment and physics can go hand in hand to understand shape formation in development, and it comes with an unexpected twist....it all starts apically in the end...Check it out!

The Optic cup is actively shape programmed by independently patterned apical forces During morphogenesis, initially flat tissues often must transition into complex 3D shapes, reminiscent of shape-programmable systems in physics and engineering. One key question in developmental biolo...

The Friday second try: After intense work, especially in the last year, this work is finally ready to be seen by the public. Led by @apramos.bsky.social and great collaboration with @carldmodes.bsky.social group especially @liormoneta.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Company of Biologists Workshops 2027: Excited to share that our workshop concept, "Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development”, has been selected! 🤩@giuliapaci.bsky.social and I are looking forward to organizing it. Stay tuned for details! @biologists.bsky.social

Look who is here: @carldmodes.bsky.social ! It took a while but I can be persistent....more this afternoon :-)

We had our traditional @nordenlab.bsky.social summer BBQ! This time without BBQ but with Indian food, Murder Mystery (it was Ze) and some real blood in the end (tall people should avoid my house). But overall lots of fun and games. Looking forward doing that in Cambridge in the rain ;-)...

You get it! Can you call the editors please ...:-) ?

'horizontal cells are the most social cells in the eye!' weeeelllll...one cell type they run away from... :-)

Spatiotemporal Coordination of Guidance Cues Directs Multipolar Migration During Retinal Lamination Multipolar migration is a conserved neuronal migration mode in the developing brain, enabling emerging neurons to navigate crowded environments and reach precise laminar positions. Yet how these cells...

New preprint from the lab showcasing work led by @jalehtimaki.bsky.social on retinal patterning by non-canonically migrating neurons that sense spatiotemporally diverse guidance cues. Full thread about the content done by Jaakko here on Bluesky, check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There is only so much caffeine one man shall drink...

Great Opportunity! Trained by very good people ;-) and very cool questions...!

Congrats! And how sad, we missed each other by a day :-(

Crowd Control: The position & shape of cell nuclei influence organ formation (organogenesis)

📹 ‪@lcferme.bsky.social et al @gimmfoundation.bsky.social
in @science.org Advances

➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/7/7 with John Ankers

Congratulations to @marianagil (not on Bluesky) for successfully defending her thesis today.
The end of an era of the first batch of people joining the lab in Portugal…thanks to all jury and lab member for making this a memorable day!!!

Did @nerlielisa.bsky.social run at all...? She looks fresh as a peach ...

A long overdue get together to celebrate the arrival of summer. Great company fun conversations, we all learned a lot…😉. Take note that @catfigueiredo.bsky.social has her eyes (well at least one) open! This was the only one out of 12 pictures…her secret super power!

We are delighted to welcome Dr Caren Norden to PDN as the new Charles Darwin Professor of Animal Embryology. This position plays a vital role in sustaining our thriving community of developmental and reproductive biologists.
Read the story in full at www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-care...
#WomenInSTEM 🧪

That is a mighty great issue of science advances 😉…congrats !

It would not have been possible without the help of our great collaborators @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social and @CarlModes (not on Bluesky?). Really fun cross-disciplinary effort.

The amazing tour de force of the great @lcferme.bsky.social is now out in its final form in @ScienceAdvances (not on Bluesky???). It was hard work and all the conceptual advance was her doing. Check it out: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Thank you everyone for the supportive messages … it means a lot, it’s a big (amazing) change.

I do not set foot in The Eagle‘s… we discussed that 😉 I will take you to another nice place 🙂