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Priti Agarwal

@pritiagarwal.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @NCBS Interested in #Mechanobiology, #morphogenesis, # cell biology, #cytoskeleton, #microscopy and -omics. Previously at Mechanobiology Instt., NUS and TAU, Israel scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&…

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is a fact of academic life that preparing a 15 min talk takes 20X as long as preparing an hour talk.
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Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you are curious about quantitative and predictive cell date decisions landscapes but our 14 figure paper seemed just a bit daunting, have a look at James' linked summary.
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Tara M Finegan @tarafinegan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The International Dev Mech Seminar Series Returns Thursday! Ricardo Barrientos, UCL “The contribution of basement membrane turnover and stress relaxation on cell shape during tissue growth” & Marina Marchenko, TU Dresden “Synthetic lumen rounding directs neural progenitor division mode”
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
E-cadherin clustering as a regulator of morphogenesis prelights.biologists.com/highlights/e...
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E-cadherin clustering as a regulator of morphogenesis - preLights
Hand in hand - E-cadherin with E-cadherin: The number of E-cadherin connections influences morphogenetic tissue movements.
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Mechanics of ageing embryos!
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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
First, check out my recent bioRxiv preprint w/ @oweinerlab.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We find contractility shifts the proportion of implantation-competent embryos from young and aged females. Keep reading this for more info!
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A mechanical origin for implantation defects in embryos from aged females
Women over 35 experience a marked reduction in fertility. The origin of these fertility defects appears to reside in the implantation capacity of the embryo itself, but the mechanistic basis of this i...
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
International DevMech Seminar Series return this fall! A fantastic opportunity to share your work, exchange ideas, and connect with the global developmental mechanics community. If you're working in #DevBio, #Mechanobiology, or #Morphogenesis, consider signing up to speak!
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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Mentoring and peer-mentoring can help you: - Plan your next career steps - Connect with people that navigated similar challenges - Gain perspectives beyond your lab or institution - Exchange experiences and practical support - Build lasting connections 2/n
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Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape
Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...
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Lena Schindler @lena-schindler.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I am thrilled to share my PhD work with @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... A fun collaboration with Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Adrián Aguirre-Tamaral, @bart-smeets.bsky.social , Jef Vanghel and Tom Belpaire! Read the story in the comments below ⤵️
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Prevedel Lab @prevedel-lab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Excited to share our latest Brillouin work in @natmethods.nature.com: Standardized, Zarr-based file formats + open-source tools for Brillouin microscopy data analysis. Works across custom & commercial systems and approaches & implementations. Open science for the Brillouin community! rdcu.be/ftdjE
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Towards a standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data
Nature Methods - Towards a standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data
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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We are recruiting new mentors (and soon mentees and peer mentoring groups) for the C. elegans mentor match program. bsky.app/profile/javi...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Still two weeks left to apply for the special "From Postdoc to PI" symposium at the Heidelberg meeting in September! If you're a postdoc and are in the job market, take this opportunity to tell everyone who you are 🐟🧪 There will be a prize an all!
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Cornelia Schwayer @cschwayer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Excited to share that our work on ‘How the gut gets patterned during regeneration’ is out now cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00696-3 Thanks a lot to @priscaliberali.bsky.social @silviabarbiero.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @ehannezo.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🧵
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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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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Dear Dev Mech Enthusiasts! The Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series returns on 24 September. We have an exciting lineup of speakers. If interested in presenting your work/ attending it. Register here:https://tinyurl.com/2munv5bv @goncaerdemci.bsky.social @tarafinegan.bsky.social
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International Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series
Please fill out the following survey if you are interested in the 2025-2026 International Zoom Seminars on Developmental Mechanics. Our website: https://sites.google.com/view/devmechseminars
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International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Cells and Development is our official journal. We covers topics within cells and #devbio, but also mechanobiology, theoretical biology, differentiation, organoid, and more, in both plants and animals. Consider publishing with us!
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Max Heiman @heiman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
well put! "...while Development's IF is modest, researchers in our field trust papers published in our journal as interesting, valuable and robust science that stands the test of time... It is our Academic Editors and the Development name that define our standards, not a number."
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Phase transition in development!
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Thomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This will be on 26 June in Paris! 🤩You are welcome to join and participate in this exciting 1-day conference at the College de France on Biological computational accross areas of biology. Fantastic speakers. Free, no registration, at the heart of Paris on a lovely season. Worth planning a weekend…?
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Important announcement!!! 💫 Would you have a tooth pulled if it helped your chances to get an important grant funded? Absurd question, but the funding situation is so bad, that I bet some of you actually considered it for a second… keep your teeth! we created something that might help! 👇 (1/16)
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a more than 100 year history of supporting science through its journals, meetings, and fellowships. Help lead it into its second century! pls share www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...
Linked in post from Sarah Bray
The Company of Biologists (known for its 5 journals, Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models and Mechanisms, Biology Open, as well as its charitable activities) is looking to appoint a new CEO. An opportunity to guide the next chapter! More information here:
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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below.
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International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A new paper published in @jcb.org by postdoc Jorge Diaz from the Mayor lab at UCL shows that during collective migration, epithelial-like clusters generate traction force mainly through cryptic protrusions at the centre, while mesenchymal clusters do so at their periphery: doi.org/10.1083/jcb....
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 26/03/2026
Stage-specific #transcriptomics of a leader cell reveals cell machineries driving collective invasion. New study from Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social, Ronen Zaidel-Bar and colleagues (Tel Aviv University): rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Migration #Motility #Development #Trafficking #Celegans
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Thomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New piece on the mechanics of squamous epithelial shape transition highlighting the role of tensile forces, force transmission by Dumpy & elastic resistance by the ECM in the developing wing. Terrific work from Stefan Harmansa @morphomechanics.bsky.social with Alex Erlich🍾👏: tinyurl.com/2p58b3w3
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Thomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Thank you Jose Pastor-Pareja and colleagues for writing a nice comment in @currentbiology.bsky.social on the article by Stefan Harmansa and Alex Erlich: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Check out this nice new paper from Ronen Zaidel-Bar's lab led by Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social: "Stage-specific transcriptomics of a leader cell reveals cell machineries driving collective invasion" (we contributed a little bit) rupress.org/jcb/article-...
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Stage-specific transcriptomics of a leader cell reveals cell machineries driving collective invasion
Agarwal et al. define the stage-specific gene expression programs of a leader cell that drives collective tissue invasion during organ development. By comb
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Leader cell behaviour during invasion in C. elegans!
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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Reminder that I will be speaking this Wednesday about my postdoc work. You have been warned. 🧪
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Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
And if you are interested in the back story ...
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The people behind the papers – Veronica Castle, Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez and Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan
Boundaries between tissues are important for establishing correct patterning during development and must be able to resist forces generated in the tissue from processes such as cell division. In a new...
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🎉 The Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series is back! 🗓️ Thurs, Jan 22 🎙️ Opening talks: 🧬Guy Tanentzapf (UBC) — How cell adhesion molecules wire into the cytoskeleton 🌀Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff (EMBL) @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social — Mapping tissue mechanics with Brillouin microscopy
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International Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series
Please fill out the following survey if you are interested in the 2025-2026 International Zoom Seminars on Developmental Mechanics.
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Oh my God! I am on Cover of the journal Biology Open (third last row)☺️Thank you ‪@biologyopen.bsky.social
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I'll be presenting about "Breaking Biological Barriers" at Night Science Seminar Series on 12 Jan. I'll also try to say some things you don't normally hear people say about the academic process... cassyni.com/events/TjxgV...
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
For everyone interested and enthusiastic about #development #cell biology# morphogenesis # organogenesis # mechanics! 👇
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Alex Eve @amjeve.uk · 11/12/2025
#LifeChangingArancini
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Alfonso Martinez Arias @amartinezarias.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Enjoying a visit @DBT_inStem & @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social Beautiful campus, great Science, amazing students Thank you @InamdarManeesha for the opportunity and @kvijayraghavan.bsky.social for a stimulating conversation
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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
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Post Doctoral Associate - Biology
Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to...
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Our Lab @ NCBS, Bangalore is hiring PhD students! If you’re excited about cell & developmental biology, tissue mechanics, and imaging — come join us! We use C. elegans to uncover how forces shape organs 🧫🔬 CSIR/DBT/ICMR fellowship holders encouraged to apply!Apply 👉 lnkd.in/gr9EUHnp
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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Nice piece on the @dev-journal.bsky.social PI fellows programme. I was lucky to be part of the first cohort and cannot speak highly enough about the impact it can have. I sincerely hope it continues and if so I encourage everyone interested to apply!
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Excellent opportunity for early career researchers in the job market! Don't miss it!
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Alex Eve @amjeve.uk · 02/12/2025
Please consider applying, @dev-journal.bsky.social provides: - Profile raising - Mentor sessions - Leadership training and a growing network of supportive peers.
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Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
So called microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) are not "organizing centers". They don't control their position (network center), nor MT orientation, length and shape (network shape). The actual organizers are MTs, molecular motors and regulators of MT +ends. MTOCs nucleate MTs. Let's rename MTOCs.
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Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs Editorial @nature.com this week And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/d41...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social
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q.e.d Science
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
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Teresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Model organisms as platforms for training scientific minds www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The secret to our big brains? Going with the flow(Tissue fluidization)!
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