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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And it’s a wrap for 'Development HDBI – Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos'. #HumanDev26 @dev-journal.bsky.social Fun learning about many different systems including a flashback to hematopoiesis, and a spread from fundamental science to paths to clinical applications.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Also last week: our first review led by @jackpcw.bsky.social Cis-regulatory strategies in developmental patterning We discuss how cells choose their fate either changing their regulatory landscape or using the same elements without accessibility changes. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Another highlight was moving into my new office 🥳 with my name on the door! 💥 (and I didn't even have to print it in my own label printer this time 😆)

Happy person next to her new office, showing her name

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Last week was an eventful one for our lab! One highlight was our afternoon out in the canal. Booked a while ago, it turned out to be the hottest June day in London (so far) At peak occupancy, we welcome summer student Donna and are joined by rotation student Kate and our Yaiza visiting from 🇪🇸

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

That didn’t take long at all

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Great back-to-back short talks by Shayma and Eleanor PhD students in the labs of my former postdoc colleagues @kenzoivanovitch.bsky.social and @trayon.bsky.social So special to see their trainees shine! #YEN2026 @yen-network.bsky.social

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

So much fun! Zebrafish development under the microscope. Starting them early 😂

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Such a pleasure to welcome Roser Vento Tormo @sangerinstitute.bsky.social to the LMCB seminar series @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social I have looked up to Roser since our university years in Valencia where she was a year ahead and I had to keep looking higher as she became a single cell superstar ⭐️

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

And if anyone forgot their pens, I’ve got you covered! I found a surprise one in my pocket and it’s paw patrol themed. Can’t beat that.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Excited for the next few days full of developmental biology at Roscoff. Typical weather and great views cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

An upside of not de-cluttering more often is that I found this amazing schematic from when I was sketching the figures of my first postdoc paper. How it started ⬇️How it ended Credit to my husband who gifted me a printed copy of the issue! doi.org/gs4jpk

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I am excited to be part of this team of Preprint Editors! Preprints have been essential in my career and so many others, accelerating science and changing the publishing ecosystem. I'm excited to contribute to making the most of them.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Back at @cruk-ci.bsky.social for a seminar on our work. Hopefully nobody came for the cancer biology. Exciting as well as intimidating to go back to my home for the second half of my PhD.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Stunning sunny day to celebrate the lab’s 2nd anniversary. Thank you to everyone for the good wishes and for coming to celebrate with us.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Another session of the London Developmental Neurobiology chalk talk series! Thank you to our funder, @crick.ac.uk - university partners networking fund and the co-organizers @giulia-boezio.bsky.social and Vil Fernandes

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

More info: Please send your CV, a letter of intent and a brief (1-page) outline of your future research plans to Olive Byrne (o.byrne@ucl.ac.uk). For informal enquiries, contact Sophie Acton (s.acton@ucl.ac.uk) or Jonathan Chubb (j.chubb@ucl.ac.uk). The initial closing date is 13 April 2026.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

📣 We are looking for new colleagues 🔬🧬🧪 The @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London @ucllifesciences.bsky.social are looking for outstanding candidates to sponsor for career development fellowships. Fellows would then be assessed for tenured positions at the end of the fellowship term.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

It's always special when you find your own paper in the table of contents of the journal 😍 "The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form www.cell.com/developmenta...

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We have a new lab photo. Busy times in the Delas Lab! Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs. Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We made it to Gastrulation Reloaded! We didn’t think we’d be late but we had to go in circles around the block. I would not have thought any other institute would be harder to get into than The Crick!

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Very excited to be on my way to the National Genetics Course in Madrid @segenetica.bsky.social It is always very special to go back to Spain for scientific reasons. It would be hard to convince uni student Joaquina of what would come. Impressive (aka intimidating 😂) line up

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Best part of the job: visiting other places and discussing fun science. This time thanks to @sonnenlab.bsky.social

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

When you go to your Faculty website to look up some info and find your image in the cover 😍🔬 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences...

Screenshot of website with microscopy image

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Last week I had the immense pleasure of hosting @justuskebschull.bsky.social at the @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social. It doesn’t get any better than listening to great science from a great friend, and seeing old and new colleagues interacting.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

On my way to Erlangen! Looking forward to presenting our work on cis-regulatory strategies for developmental patterning, meeting lots of new people and catching up with friends.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Wonderful second day at the 3rd Beddington symposium @crick.ac.uk www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/the...

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

My now traditional annual Galette des Rois. By someone that does not bake (yeah, true, this does not count as baking) and is not French 🤷‍♀️

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Finally… Dec: Our lab was so kindly invited to more holiday parties that we could attend. We had a great time with the Lloyd, Riccio and Bell labs on their annual British countryside frosty walk. Our lab space also got refurbished … but that’s a 2025 highlight when it’s all back up on the shelves!

four people on a cold day in the country side

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Oct: The best part of this job: Seminars! I hosted @arnaudkr.bsky.social and my again colleague @kenzoivanovitch.bsky.social and I was hosted by my former colleague Vicki Metzis and visited the @mrc-lms.bsky.social myself. Such wonderful days of discussing science! (photo credit: Vicki)

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

July: I attended a Company of Biologists workshop for the first time (Building to Understand: The Constructionist Approach to Studying Gene Regulation). Such a great experience. Every ECR that sees a relevant one should apply!! www.biologists.com/workshops/

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The summer is full of #NewPI highlights. Marcella gets her firsts colonies! And I order boxes instead of units…

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

May: The Delas Lab officially starts. I think the highlight here is my first successful order! The summary of starting a lab is that it’s ….slow…

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

April: I attended my first BSDB (I know, embarrassing) and we uploaded the work I was presenting to biorxiv during the conference itself! Also first last-author pre-print (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) . To many more both BSDB and pre-prints!

person presenting at a conference and their title slide

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Jan: Special seminar invite to the Institute of Biomedicine in Valencia (next to home). Made it into a weekend and grandma was very excited. She saw me arrive with travel cot, car seat, pram and baby late at night and said “oh, dear, I hope they pay you very well to do this”. I laughed so hard.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

For #FluorescenceFriday we have a developing spinal cord (🐭) image from our lab - and this one is special because it's sectioned, stained and imaged all by our master student Zoe 😍🧪

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I guess it’s official! Holiday season is coming!

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Back home after a couple of wonderful days in Santander. Amazing science and… look at this! Thank you @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social for the excuse to visit and congrats to the new Dr Mariner Fauli

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We took our *first* lab picture! You can get to know us on the now updated website. delaslab.com Bear with us while we get some cool science done 🧪🧫🔬👩‍💻. It's slow but it will happen 💪

A group of people in front of a building

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Starting a lab is not easy. Having supportive colleagues around make all the difference. Colleagues that read your grants are great, colleagues that explain you how to get reimbursed for things are genius. But colleagues that 3D print you Millenium Falcon falcon holders are just heroes.

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is too good to be an accident 😂 surely they’ve coordinated to get this place going

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

It’s been such exciting times in the very very new Delás lab. So glad I can share here now! We had our first journal club - yes, don’t laugh. It was exciting. Everyone (undergrads to postdoc) presented a section and discussed. Starting is hard but moments like this make all the difference!

Picture of a screen with a presentation titled “journal club, Delás lab, Nov 2024)

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Our latest from @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social lab: How temporal & spatial pattering cues are integrated in the vertebrate neural tube to organise cell type generation during development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Powerful lecture by Sohier Elneil for #InternationalWomensDay @thecrick.bsky.social, who has been "Bringing into medicine what so many of us have been told is "normal", just because it happens to women". Excellent intro words by Veronica Kinsler

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Or if you just want to look at the pretty cover :)

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

One year ago already?!?! It's hard to believe Now free to read: www.cell.com/developmenta...

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

I am excited to share that I will be starting my lab at UCL as part of the LMCB @LMCB_UCL in 2024. We will be studying how cis-regulatory elements controls cell fate decisions during development. We are recruiting at all levels. Learn more and reach out!

Fluorescence microscopy pictures of spinal cord development and cellular models

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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Are we doing #fluorenceFriday in this place? I never contributed much but I enjoyed seeing all of yours. For today I will share: “microscopy picture and proud author”

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