Eirini Maniou
@emaniou.bsky.social
Principal Investigator- Research Ireland Pathway Fellow @DCU working on the biomechanics of neural tube closure
📍Dublin, IE
📍Dublin, IE
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Eirini Maniou
@emaniou.bsky.social
· Jun 26
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless, has today announced €23 million in funding to support early-career researchers through the Research Ireland Pathway Programme. Read more: www.researchireland.ie/news/pathways/ #ResearchIreland
Excited to share I’m starting my group in Dublin this September, supported by a Research Ireland Pathway award. We will work on neurulation mechanics using chicken embryos and human iPSCs. Looking forward to this new adventure! #newPI #womeninSTEM
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New paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687
Injury-induced electrochemical coupling triggers organ growth
Organ repair and growth rely on coupling tissue-wide membrane depolarization with intracellular proliferative signaling.
www.science.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:33 AM
New paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687
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Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk
Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️🩹
Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻
bit.ly/467TO0M
Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️🩹
Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻
bit.ly/467TO0M
February 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk
Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️🩹
Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻
bit.ly/467TO0M
Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️🩹
Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻
bit.ly/467TO0M
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It was our pleasure to have @emaniou.bsky.social at @universitypress.cambridge.org talking about her recent ongoing work as a group leader in @dublincityuni.bsky.social.
January 22, 2026 at 9:20 AM
It was our pleasure to have @emaniou.bsky.social at @universitypress.cambridge.org talking about her recent ongoing work as a group leader in @dublincityuni.bsky.social.
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Looking forward to this meeting.
Early bird registration encouraged!!
Early bird registration encouraged!!
Early bird registration deadline of our joint meeting in Potsdam between March 10-13, 2026 - “Joint international meeting of the German @gfeev.bsky.social, Dutch (DSDB), and #SEBD for #DevBio “Development & Regeneration” is approaching fast. Please apply before the 15th of January!
January 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Looking forward to this meeting.
Early bird registration encouraged!!
Early bird registration encouraged!!
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There's still time to apply to be a 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellow
For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers
- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
- networking
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers
- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
- networking
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Pathway to Independence programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Pathway to Independence programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Development's Pathway to Independence programme
Launched in 2022, Development’s Pathway Independence programm...
journals.biologists.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
There's still time to apply to be a 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellow
For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers
- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
- networking
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers
- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
- networking
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
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Super cool work spearheaded by the amazing @agrigas.bsky.social! Excited for this collaboration with @manningresearch.bsky.social and for everything still to come! 🎉 Also thank you to @emaniou.bsky.social and @glgalea.bsky.social for your help!
How do sparse mesenchymal cells, with unique stellate arms spanning large gaps between cells, maintain their network while still flowing during development? In our new preprint we describe the avian PSM as a fluid under tension and develop new theory to explain it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Sparse mesenchymal cell networks as a fluid under tension
Sparse mesenchymal cellular networks are ubiquitous across animals, shaping both embryonic and adult structures through dynamic interactions with epithelia. Yet, the physical principles underlying the...
www.biorxiv.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Super cool work spearheaded by the amazing @agrigas.bsky.social! Excited for this collaboration with @manningresearch.bsky.social and for everything still to come! 🎉 Also thank you to @emaniou.bsky.social and @glgalea.bsky.social for your help!
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How do sparse mesenchymal cells, with unique stellate arms spanning large gaps between cells, maintain their network while still flowing during development? In our new preprint we describe the avian PSM as a fluid under tension and develop new theory to explain it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Sparse mesenchymal cell networks as a fluid under tension
Sparse mesenchymal cellular networks are ubiquitous across animals, shaping both embryonic and adult structures through dynamic interactions with epithelia. Yet, the physical principles underlying the...
www.biorxiv.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
How do sparse mesenchymal cells, with unique stellate arms spanning large gaps between cells, maintain their network while still flowing during development? In our new preprint we describe the avian PSM as a fluid under tension and develop new theory to explain it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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#DBfeature 🐣
Fate mapping approaches and scRNA-seq uncover how the avascular mesenchyme is critical to the normal outgrowth and patterning of digits
By C Batho-Samblas, J Smith, L Keavey, N Clancy, L McTeir, and MG Davey
tinyurl.com/2t6dau56
#SpecialIssue in #Avian Model Systems
Fate mapping approaches and scRNA-seq uncover how the avascular mesenchyme is critical to the normal outgrowth and patterning of digits
By C Batho-Samblas, J Smith, L Keavey, N Clancy, L McTeir, and MG Davey
tinyurl.com/2t6dau56
#SpecialIssue in #Avian Model Systems
December 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
#DBfeature 🐣
Fate mapping approaches and scRNA-seq uncover how the avascular mesenchyme is critical to the normal outgrowth and patterning of digits
By C Batho-Samblas, J Smith, L Keavey, N Clancy, L McTeir, and MG Davey
tinyurl.com/2t6dau56
#SpecialIssue in #Avian Model Systems
Fate mapping approaches and scRNA-seq uncover how the avascular mesenchyme is critical to the normal outgrowth and patterning of digits
By C Batho-Samblas, J Smith, L Keavey, N Clancy, L McTeir, and MG Davey
tinyurl.com/2t6dau56
#SpecialIssue in #Avian Model Systems
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Please consider applying, @dev-journal.bsky.social provides:
- Profile raising
- Mentor sessions
- Leadership training
and a growing network of supportive peers.
- Profile raising
- Mentor sessions
- Leadership training
and a growing network of supportive peers.
Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Please consider applying, @dev-journal.bsky.social provides:
- Profile raising
- Mentor sessions
- Leadership training
and a growing network of supportive peers.
- Profile raising
- Mentor sessions
- Leadership training
and a growing network of supportive peers.
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Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Development's Pathway to Independence Programme
Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...
www.biologists.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Our review on microfluidic strategies for engineering organoid culture systems is out now www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Microfluidic Platforms for Organ-on-a-Chip Models: Creating dynamic microenvironments for organoid and multi-organ systems
Organoids have revolutionized in vitro modeling of human development and disease, yet their full potential remains constrained by the limited spatial …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our review on microfluidic strategies for engineering organoid culture systems is out now www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🎉🎉 We finally have a website! 🎉🎉
Did you miss a thread?
Want to know who our delegates are?
Do you want to join our big club?
Check it out:
epithelialmechanics.github.io
Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!
Did you miss a thread?
Want to know who our delegates are?
Do you want to join our big club?
Check it out:
epithelialmechanics.github.io
Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!
Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club
epithelialmechanics.github.io
October 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🎉🎉 We finally have a website! 🎉🎉
Did you miss a thread?
Want to know who our delegates are?
Do you want to join our big club?
Check it out:
epithelialmechanics.github.io
Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!
Did you miss a thread?
Want to know who our delegates are?
Do you want to join our big club?
Check it out:
epithelialmechanics.github.io
Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!
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"Killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births"
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"Killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births"
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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📣Our project, “Mechanometabolic Control of Vertebrate Limb Elongation,” has been funded by Wellcome!
Over the next 8 years, we’ll collaborate with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Nathalie Agar’s group to understand the mechanics of ECM-rich mesenchymal tissues! Funded positions available!🎉
Over the next 8 years, we’ll collaborate with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Nathalie Agar’s group to understand the mechanics of ECM-rich mesenchymal tissues! Funded positions available!🎉
September 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
📣Our project, “Mechanometabolic Control of Vertebrate Limb Elongation,” has been funded by Wellcome!
Over the next 8 years, we’ll collaborate with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Nathalie Agar’s group to understand the mechanics of ECM-rich mesenchymal tissues! Funded positions available!🎉
Over the next 8 years, we’ll collaborate with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Nathalie Agar’s group to understand the mechanics of ECM-rich mesenchymal tissues! Funded positions available!🎉
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Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳
👉 rdcu.be/eATn3
We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.
👉 rdcu.be/eATn3
We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.
August 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳
👉 rdcu.be/eATn3
We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.
👉 rdcu.be/eATn3
We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.
Reposted by Eirini Maniou
Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️
August 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️
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🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio
August 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio
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Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland
Biozentrum PhD Fellowships
Share your passion for life sciences. If you are talented and highly motivated, want to broaden your horizons and are interested in a wide range of research topics, apply for one of the sought after B...
bit.ly
August 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland
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Hi bsky!
Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity!
w/ A. Delahaye & @bensteventon.bsky.social
shorturl.at/v01DO
Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity!
w/ A. Delahaye & @bensteventon.bsky.social
shorturl.at/v01DO
August 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hi bsky!
Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity!
w/ A. Delahaye & @bensteventon.bsky.social
shorturl.at/v01DO
Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity!
w/ A. Delahaye & @bensteventon.bsky.social
shorturl.at/v01DO
PhD position available in our team @dublincityuni.bsky.social from September. Please share/ contact me for informal enquiries.
July 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
PhD position available in our team @dublincityuni.bsky.social from September. Please share/ contact me for informal enquiries.
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Thank you for speaking with me about my research @iamshef.bsky.social! #newPI #metabodev #MetabolismMondays
Please check out Shefali’s weekly interviews with different ECRs about metabolism and development @the-node.bsky.social! What a great initiative 👏
thenode.biologists.com/author/shefa...
Please check out Shefali’s weekly interviews with different ECRs about metabolism and development @the-node.bsky.social! What a great initiative 👏
thenode.biologists.com/author/shefa...
July 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thank you for speaking with me about my research @iamshef.bsky.social! #newPI #metabodev #MetabolismMondays
Please check out Shefali’s weekly interviews with different ECRs about metabolism and development @the-node.bsky.social! What a great initiative 👏
thenode.biologists.com/author/shefa...
Please check out Shefali’s weekly interviews with different ECRs about metabolism and development @the-node.bsky.social! What a great initiative 👏
thenode.biologists.com/author/shefa...
Excited to share I’m starting my group in Dublin this September, supported by a Research Ireland Pathway award. We will work on neurulation mechanics using chicken embryos and human iPSCs. Looking forward to this new adventure! #newPI #womeninSTEM
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless, has today announced €23 million in funding to support early-career researchers through the Research Ireland Pathway Programme. Read more: www.researchireland.ie/news/pathways/ #ResearchIreland
June 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Excited to share I’m starting my group in Dublin this September, supported by a Research Ireland Pathway award. We will work on neurulation mechanics using chicken embryos and human iPSCs. Looking forward to this new adventure! #newPI #womeninSTEM
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Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
erc.europa.eu
June 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Our new review paper from @yap-lab.bsky.social is online - together with Virgile Viasnoff!
👉 'New directions in epithelial mechanoadaptation'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 'New directions in epithelial mechanoadaptation'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Our new review paper from @yap-lab.bsky.social is online - together with Virgile Viasnoff!
👉 'New directions in epithelial mechanoadaptation'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 'New directions in epithelial mechanoadaptation'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#ApicalConstriction and #DevBio afficionados - we've got two new pre-prints you may be interested in, below:
May 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#ApicalConstriction and #DevBio afficionados - we've got two new pre-prints you may be interested in, below: