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Pierfrancesco Pagella

@ppagella86.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Bioengineering 🇮🇹@ Linköping University 🇸🇪 Bioengineering/Genomics/Development/3R/Teeth/HeavyMetal/Photography

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Igor Adameyko @adameykolab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Research Briefings about our paper in Nature Genetics (atlas of human facial development): www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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Human facial development atlas illuminates enhancer-based control of facial individuality - Nature Genetics
The facial skeleton is essential for eating, breathing, kissing, speech and personal identity. Our spatiotemporally resolved cell atlas of human embryonic craniofacial development will facilitate a de...
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Claudio Cantù @claudiocantu81.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I will hire a Postdoc to study the genomic determinants of tumor heterogeneity Please, get in touch if interested, or help me spread the voice @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social @liu.se liu.se/en/research/...
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The Cantù Lab - Genome Regulation in Development and Disease
The Cantù Lab at LiU is focused on one important goal: to discover the mechanisms of genome regulation that drive cell differentiation and specialization during embryonic development.
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Excited to share our new paper, now published in Nature Cell Biology! 🎉 We asked a fundamental question in cell biology: How do cells maintain polarity while migrating? Especially how do cancer cells navigate confined spaces? www.nature.com/articles/s41556-026-01981-1
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CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to polarize cytoskeletal signalling modules driving bleb-based migration - Nature Cell Biology
Jha et al. show that the transmembrane protein CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to maintain an EGFR–PI3K–Rac gradient during bleb-based cell migration.
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Prisca Liberali @priscaliberali.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It is out 😍 check it out!! Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning. @cschwayer.bsky.social @silviabarbiero.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @ehannezo.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning
During regeneration, tissues must translate transient cellular variability into stable spatial organization. Tissue architecture generates a density-dependent window of heterogeneity in the mechanosen...
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
An initial idea from our previous work turned into 💣💥🔥🔥🔥: Pioneering activity of WNT-beta catenin - here, we said it: look at the preprint and let us know your thoughts!! Led by Tamina Weiss, @annanordin.bsky.social , @claudiocantu81.bsky.social at @liu.se
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
ICYMI from @cami-autorino.bsky.social & @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social 🐟
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Laura Rustarazo-Calvo @laura-rustarazo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
⚡ Our paper is now out in @natphys.nature.com ! This version now includes a detailed molecular characterisation of the optogenetic perturbations, new insights on the relevance of tricellular junctions for tissue morphology, and beautiful light-sheet timelapses. 🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adhesion-driven rigidity transition decoupled from density-driven jamming triggers epithelial organization in embryonic tissues - Nature Physics
Tissue phase transitions are key to morphogenesis. Now adhesion-driven rigidification is identified as key to epithelial organization but only if uncoupled from density-driven jamming.
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
‘Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks’ Really cool @nature.com study by @melcooperphd.bsky.social @liddelowsa.bsky.social and colleagues 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks - Nature
Communication between distant brain regions is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes.
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Claudio Cantù @claudiocantu81.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Register to The PALS Summer School in TranscriptOMICS 👉 Before April 15 And Learn how to perform: Single-cell Multiome data analysis and integration — workflow management and reproducibility from Daniel Mouzo @qmul.bsky.social @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social @remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
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Claudio Cantù @claudiocantu81.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Join 🇸🇪 🌞 The PALS Summer School in TranscriptOMICS 🧬 🧪 To learn about ➡️ Dynamics of immunological tissue architecture in the human gut ⬅️ by ⭐ professor Simon Koplev ⭐ from KTH @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social @remeseiro-lab.bsky.social REGISTER NOW! www.trippus.net/summerschool...
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Summer School 2026
Come to this beautiful Swedish inland scenario to learn the most advanced technologies to study transcriptional regulation.
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Claudio Cantù @claudiocantu81.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Join 🇸🇪 🌞 The PALS Summer School in TranscriptOMICS 🧬 🧪 To learn about ➡️ Transposable elements and the human brain ⬅️ by ⭐ professor Vivien Horvath⭐ from @umeauniversitet.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social @scilifelab.se @remeseiro-lab.bsky.social REGISTER NOW! www.trippus.net/summerschool...
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Summer School 2026
Come to this beautiful Swedish inland scenario to learn the most advanced technologies to study transcriptional regulation.
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David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
How do pairs of DNA loci - such as enhancers and promoters - find each other inside the nucleus? 🤔 Most models assume the random forces driving locus motion are independent in space New preprint by @janniharju.bsky.social: this assumption fails in living cells 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Igor Adameyko @adameykolab.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Our review “A competition model of multilineage priming and cell-fate decisions” is out: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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A competition model of multilineage priming and cell-fate decisions
In development, cells navigate highly complex gene-regulatory landscapes to make fate choices. Steinschaden et al. synthesize concepts of multilineage priming, microheterogeneity, and collective multi...
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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Congratulations @ivaskalab.bsky.social team for this study on the role of vibration in vocal cord cancer! Was a fun collaboration 🎤🎤
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
How do cells orchestrate themselves to achieve a directional movement as a group? Hi, I’m @sayukihirano.bsky.social. In this thread, I’ll highlight key mechanisms of how cells communicate with each other to perform directional collective migration.
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Fresh pre-print: our all-human, innervated & vascularized oral cancer-on-chip, all done with fully defined extracellular matrices with controlled enrichment and degradability! 🔥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
#SpatialTranscriptomics Visium + scRNAseq Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma vs paired Oral Leukoplakia vs normal tissues Inhibin A+ monocyte enriched in premalignant OLK lesions 1⃣Mesenchymal CAF 2⃣APOE+NRG1+ Mφ 3⃣TNFRSF4+ Treg ⬆️with tumor progression #CellDiscov 2023 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
In press: our brief review about the efforts to emulate the dental pulp using organ-on-a-chip approaches ”Dental Pulp-On-Chip” Microfluidic Devices for Emulating Human Dental Pulp Tissue Physiology and Pathology - Journal of Endodontics www.jendodon.com/article/S009...
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“Dental Pulp-On-Chip” Microfluidic Devices for Emulating Human Dental Pulp Tissue Physiology and Pathology
The dental pulp is a highly vascularized and innervated connective tissue located at the central part of the tooth and composed of a diverse array of cell types, including fibroblasts, multipotent mes...
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
A majestic tour-de-force by @szczotml.bsky.social lab at @liu.se - beautiful combination of function & transcriptional identity to understand how pain is encoded across the body 👇🏼👇🏼
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Mapping genome-wide binding AND protein partners of virtually any gene regulator , simultaneously, without transgenesis? YES 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Look at what @annanordin.bsky.social & @claudiocantu81.bsky.social cooked!!
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🗡️ Rebecca Fedun 🗡️ @rebeccafedun.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Please please read this.
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Ben Goult @bengoult.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Vinculin is a simple adapter protein right? Wrong! That’s been the prevailing view for the 46 years since it was discovered. Here we provide a new paradigm and show that vinculin is a complex mechanosensor itself, containing 6 binary switch domains. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The mechanical response of vinculin
Vinculin buffers force via dynamic domain unfolding/refolding under physiological load and lacks a stable head-tail lock.
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Nature @nature.com · 29/10/2025
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
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From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
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Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Tomorrow Wednesday 29th at 11am, lesson #3 of @neilshubin.bsky.social guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The evolutionary origin of bones and teeth’. The second lesson is available @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... . No registration, Free access, dentures accepted.
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Doudna Lab @doudna-lab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"Jane Goodall showed us what a life in science could look like: rigorous discovery paired with fierce advocacy for what you study. She gave the world six decades of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and their habitats, then turned that knowledge into a global movement for conservation." (1/2)
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Carmelo Ferrai @carmeloferrai.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
SMAD4 induces opposite effects on metastatic growth from pancreatic tumors depending on the organ of residence www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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SMAD4 induces opposite effects on metastatic growth from pancreatic tumors depending on the organ of residence - Nature Cancer
Using mouse pancreatic cancer models, Tsanov et al. show that reactivation of SMAD4 at metastatic sites promotes tumor growth in the lung through RUNX1 but restrains metastatic growth through KLF4 in the liver, influenced by organ-specific epigenetic states.
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Travis Faust @travisfaust.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Thrilled to share our new paper @cp-cell.bsky.social: “Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.” This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling. 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Faust et al., Cell 2025
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We are hiring! 2 years postdoctoral fellowship, to work on the generation of all-human, vascularized and innervated organ-on-chip systems & model infection & inflammation - in Sweden 🇸🇪 @liu.se Details in the link - please help me spreading the announcement! liu.se/en/organisat...
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Open positions in bioengineering
Learn more about open scholarship positions in bioengineering at IFM.
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Claudio Cantù @claudiocantu81.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
SOX2 and NR2F1 cooperate to make #neurons in the #Thalamus for visual input from the #retina #DevBio journals.biologists.com/bio/article/... ‪ @biologyopen.bsky.social In collab w Sara Mercurio and Silvia Nicolis @btbsunimib.bsky.social Driven by Linda Serra and @annanordin.bsky.social
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SOX2 and NR2F1 coordinate the gene expression program of the early postnatal visual thalamus
Summary: The transcriptional regulators SOX2 and NR2F1 drive the development of the visual thalamus. Mutations in these genes cause visual impairment in humans.
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We are hiring! 2 years postdoctoral fellowship, to work on the generation of all-human, vascularized and innervated organ-on-chip systems & model infection & inflammation - in Sweden 🇸🇪 @liu.se Details in the link - please help me spreading the announcement! liu.se/en/organisat...
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Open positions in bioengineering
Learn more about open scholarship positions in bioengineering at IFM.
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Glad to share the latest effort to emulate dental tissues on-chip: an organ-on-chip design including human dental pulp stem cells & HUVECs, odontoblasts, and a dentin powder-containing compartment, all innervated by mouse trigeminal ganglia! 👇🏼 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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An Innovative “Tooth‐On‐Chip” Microfluidic Device Emulating the Structure and Physiology of the Dental Pulp Tissue
This work presents a “tooth-on-chip” device that mimics dental pulp tissue. By co-culturing key cell types, it recreates vascular networks, stem cell niches, the odontoblast/dentine interface, and tr...
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Emma R Andersson @anderssonlab.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
If we lose our inner ear hair cells, we lose our hearing.. but reptiles can repair their sensory organs 🐊🤩 Tune in to Vetenskapspodden on Swedish radio P1, Sun 07:03, Mon 18:33, or bit.ly/4oCDHzP from Sunday, to hear me & Helge Rask-Andersen discuss crocodiles & regeneration with Lena Nordlund!
Portrait photo of me (Emma R Andersson, Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet), Helge Rask-Andersen (Professor Emeritus at Uppsala University), and Lena Nordlund (journalist, host of Vetenskapspodden, and originally a chemist!)
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Guillaume Andrey @guandrey.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Our work bridging enhancer-promoter proximity to phenotypic outcomes in vivo is out! Shout out to @olimpiabompadre.bsky.social, to Marie Kmita's lab, and to all the co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Liebenberg syndrome severity arises from variations in Pitx1 locus topology and proportion of ectopically transcribing cells - Nature Communications
Here the authors show that reducing enhancer-promoter distance at the Pitx1 locus increases proportion of Pitx1 forelimb expressing cells, worsening skeletal defects in Liebenberg syndrome. They also ...
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Jake Cornwall-Scoones @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧 If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Always a great pleasure to see high-level work on tooth 🦷& craniofacial development!
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Closed up the Wnt Signaling GRS/GRC - honoured for the possibility of serving as co-chair in this amazing event!
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Incredibly useful thread! Thank you @juliaeckert.bsky.social !!
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
What is buckling, and why is it relevant in understanding epithelial morphogenesis? 🧐 I am @onenimesa.bsky.social and I will share some papers to understand this aspect of #EpithelialMechanics
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Camp Lab @graycamplab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Modular integration of epithelial, microbial, and immune components to study human intestinal biology. Amazing team project with Rubén López-Sandoval, Marius F. Harter, Qianhui Yu, Matthias Lütolf, Mikhail Nikolaev, and Nikolche Gjorevski! biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Always amazed by the sheer amount of e-mail traffic wasted by hopeless academic spam: this time, "dear Prof. [NAME]", "any contribution", from a "MEGA Journal of Case Reports" - waiting for Giga, Tera, and more!
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Cannot thank you enough @neilshubin.bsky.social for such an amazing contribution 🦷!!
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
YAP, a protein known to help #cancer cells survive treatment, behaves very differently in cell culture models depending on how they are grown in the lab, highlighting the importance of mimicking tumour architecture to guide better drug strategies. buff.ly/KQ9bkLg
Immunofluorescence images of YAP, β-catenin, and DAPI in cell cultures
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Thank you @shuntaroyamada.bsky.social and @unibergen.bsky.social for inviting me to give a talk at such a stimulating event - MRCRM 3rd International Meeting on Regenerative Medicine 2025 in Bergen, Norway! www.helse-bergen.no/en/arrangeme... Looking forward to our continued collaboration!
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Fresh out of press: our new chapter on the TBX3/WNT liaison, and how it drives metastasis-related genes expression in colorectal cancer, out on @pnas.org Enjoy the “bluetorial” by @claudiocantu81.bsky.social below! 👇🏼 #WNT #CRC @liu.se www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Registration is still open for our upcoming Gordon Research Conference (GRC, June 22-27) and Seminar (GRS, June 21 -22) on Wnt Signaling in Maine, US PhD students and postdocs, the GRS is for you, still possible to get selected for a talk - apply here! 👇🏼👇🏼 lnkd.in/d6ii4vDE lnkd.in/dfZ_v3Qk
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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine (GIMM) is one of the best research institutes in Portugal. It's currently recruiting for three Group Leaders (junior or senior) across different areas, including systems biology and bioinformatics. gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...
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Thank you very much for your generous donation and for sharing your testimony.We hope to more people feel inspired to join this mission of discovery and innovation!
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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Interested in Developmental Mechanics??? We are organizing a mechanobiology workshop in Baeza, Spain, October 21-23, 2025. Come join us (and please help us spread the word)!!!
Program and application instructions for the 2025 Mechanobiology of tissue morphogenesis and disease workshop in Baeza, Spain, October 21-23. Apply at https://www.unia.es/estudios-y-acceso/oferta-academica/formacion-continua/workshop-mechanobiology-of-tissue-morphogenesis-and-disease
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Gustavo Monasterio Ocares @gamonasterioo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
EGFR signalling in amygdala astrocytes mediates neuroimmune interactions associated with FEAR 😨 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Psychedelic control of neuroimmune interactions governing fear - Nature
Inflammatory monocytes in the brain meninges promote stress-induced fear behaviour, and the pathways involved can be modulated using psychedelic compounds.
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Pierfrancesco Pagella @ppagella86.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Registration is still open for our upcoming Gordon Research Conference (GRC, June 22-27) and Seminar (GRS, June 21 -22) on Wnt Signaling in Maine, US We have slots for short talks to be filled at both the main conference and the seminar - apply here! 👇🏼👇🏼 lnkd.in/d6ii4vDE lnkd.in/dfZ_v3Qk
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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
😱 A very hungry #PacManoid ate the original post 🍬🍬🍬 Here’s the 🧵 on our latest in @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social again! Gastruloids w/ a sweet tooth better model natural embryos: doi.org/10.1016/j.st... Spearheaded by @cryaaa.bsky.social & Alba Villaronga-Luque @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social
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