Reposted by Priti AgarwalPiali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It is a fact of academic life that preparing a 15 min talk takes 20X as long as preparing an hour talk. 91179
Reposted by Priti AgarwalJoaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If 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. 12012
Reposted by Priti AgarwalTara M Finegan @tarafinegan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The 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” 065
Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026E-cadherin clustering as a regulator of morphogenesis prelights.biologists.com/highlights/e...prelights.biologists.comE-cadherin clustering as a regulator of morphogenesis - preLightsHand in hand - E-cadherin with E-cadherin: The number of E-cadherin connections influences morphogenetic tissue movements. 1193
Reposted by Priti AgarwalKate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025First, 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!biorxiv.orgA mechanical origin for implantation defects in embryos from aged femalesWomen 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... 2379
Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026International 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! 041
Reposted by Priti AgarwalJavier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Mentoring 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 112
Reposted by Priti AgarwalYanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This 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...cell.comBasement membrane turnover controls cell shapeBasement 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... 112654
Reposted by Priti AgarwalLena Schindler @lena-schindler.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I 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 ⤵️ 614239
Reposted by Priti AgarwalPrevedel Lab @prevedel-lab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Excited 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/ftdjErdcu.beTowards a standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy dataNature Methods - Towards a standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data 2145
Reposted by Priti AgarwalJavier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 02/07/2026We are recruiting new mentors (and soon mentees and peer mentoring groups) for the C. elegans mentor match program. bsky.app/profile/javi... 034
Reposted by Priti AgarwalMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Still 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! 047
Reposted by Priti AgarwalCornelia Schwayer @cschwayer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Excited 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! 🧵cell.comMultiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterningDuring regeneration, tissues must translate transient cellular variability into stable spatial organization. Tissue architecture generates a density-dependent window of heterogeneity in the mechanosen... 87723
Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Dear 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.socialtinyurl.comInternational Developmental Mechanics Seminar SeriesPlease 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 1169
Reposted by Priti AgarwalInternational Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Cells 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! 095
Reposted by Priti AgarwalMax Heiman @heiman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026well 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." 1197
Reposted by Priti AgarwalThomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026This 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…? 01910
Reposted by Priti AgarwalOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Important 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) 57031
Reposted by Priti AgarwalMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026The 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... 02637
Reposted by Priti AgarwalKatherine 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. 45733
Reposted by Priti AgarwalInternational Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 26/01/2026A 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.... 02710
Reposted by Priti AgarwalJournal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 26/03/2026Stage-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 021
Reposted by Priti AgarwalThomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 25/03/2026New 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 03816
Reposted by Priti AgarwalThomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Thank 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... 081
Reposted by Priti AgarwalOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Check 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-...rupress.orgStage-specific transcriptomics of a leader cell reveals cell machineries driving collective invasionAgarwal et al. define the stage-specific gene expression programs of a leader cell that drives collective tissue invasion during organ development. By comb 0141
Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Leader cell behaviour during invasion in C. elegans! 142
Reposted by Priti AgarwalThibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Final 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) 16382152
Reposted by Priti AgarwalOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026It’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 👇👇👇🔥). 27838
Reposted by Priti AgarwalMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Reminder that I will be speaking this Wednesday about my postdoc work. You have been warned. 🧪 56528
Reposted by Priti AgarwalRodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @rodrigofg.bsky.social · 20/02/2026And if you are interested in the back story ...journals.biologists.comThe people behind the papers – Veronica Castle, Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez and Gonca Erdemci-TandoganBoundaries 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... 063
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 microscopytinyurl.comInternational Developmental Mechanics Seminar SeriesPlease fill out the following survey if you are interested in the 2025-2026 International Zoom Seminars on Developmental Mechanics. 1118
Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Oh my God! I am on Cover of the journal Biology Open (third last row)☺️Thank you @biologyopen.bsky.social 120
Reposted by Priti AgarwalOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I'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...cassyni.comCassyni | Science starts with a seminarSeamlessly organise, run and publish academic research talks. Get started in minutes. 1177
Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025For everyone interested and enthusiastic about #development #cell biology# morphogenesis # organogenesis # mechanics! 👇 030
Reposted by Priti AgarwalAlfonso Martinez Arias @amartinezarias.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Enjoying 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 184
Reposted by Priti AgarwalNat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Interested 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!tinyurl.comPost Doctoral Associate - BiologyCurrent 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... 05450
Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Our 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/gr9EUHnplnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 087
Reposted by Priti AgarwalJames Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Nice 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! 062
Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Excellent opportunity for early career researchers in the job market! Don't miss it! 021
Reposted by Priti AgarwalAlex Eve @amjeve.uk · 02/12/2025Please consider applying, @dev-journal.bsky.social provides: - Profile raising - Mentor sessions - Leadership training and a growing network of supportive peers. 11211
Reposted by Priti AgarwalManuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · 27/11/2025So 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. 106716
Reposted by Priti AgarwalDr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · 02/11/2025nature.com7 basic science discoveries that changed the worldOzempic, 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. 032
Reposted by Priti AgarwalEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Why 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... 014856
Reposted by Priti AgarwalOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.socialqedscience.comq.e.d ScienceCritical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation 1720467
Reposted by Priti AgarwalTeresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Model organisms as platforms for training scientific minds www.nature.com/articles/s41... 15930
Priti Agarwal @pritiagarwal.bsky.social · 10/10/2025The secret to our big brains? Going with the flow(Tissue fluidization)! 020