Giulia Paci
@giuliapaci.bsky.social
Physicist having a go at biology, EMBO postdoctoral fellow @UCL in the Mao group, @EMBL alumna
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Giulia Paci
@giuliapaci.bsky.social
· Aug 11
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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✨New Year's resolutions involve learning something new?✨
Then apply for our “Introduction to Image Analysis” workshop in Cardiff in May 2026! Deadline for applications is January 16th.
🔗⬇️
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @david-j-barry.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social
Then apply for our “Introduction to Image Analysis” workshop in Cardiff in May 2026! Deadline for applications is January 16th.
🔗⬇️
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @david-j-barry.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social
Introduction to Image Analysis 2026
www.rms.org.uk
January 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
✨New Year's resolutions involve learning something new?✨
Then apply for our “Introduction to Image Analysis” workshop in Cardiff in May 2026! Deadline for applications is January 16th.
🔗⬇️
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @david-j-barry.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social
Then apply for our “Introduction to Image Analysis” workshop in Cardiff in May 2026! Deadline for applications is January 16th.
🔗⬇️
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @david-j-barry.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social
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Has napari helped your research this year? Why not say thank you to free and open source software by making a small donation? Every bit helps your friendly core team fix bugs and bring new features to life! CZI will match up to $75K in donations! opencollective.com/napari/donate
December 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Has napari helped your research this year? Why not say thank you to free and open source software by making a small donation? Every bit helps your friendly core team fix bugs and bring new features to life! CZI will match up to $75K in donations! opencollective.com/napari/donate
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Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social for this opportunity to contribute to your centenary collection with our take on the state of the field - 10 years after its modern reincarnation 🧪🌍
W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Evolutionary cell biology comes of age
Summary: This Perspective discusses how the discipline of evolutionary cell biology, by integrating evolutionary theory, comparative physiology and modern molecular approaches, works to understand how...
journals.biologists.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social for this opportunity to contribute to your centenary collection with our take on the state of the field - 10 years after its modern reincarnation 🧪🌍
W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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We're a bit late in ringing in the giving season, but it is indeed upon us. Enjoy our special edition holiday logo ☃️ and, if you can spare a bit and appreciate napari, please donate to our development efforts! 🙏 CZI will match donations up to $75K.
opencollective.com/napari/donate
opencollective.com/napari/donate
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We're a bit late in ringing in the giving season, but it is indeed upon us. Enjoy our special edition holiday logo ☃️ and, if you can spare a bit and appreciate napari, please donate to our development efforts! 🙏 CZI will match donations up to $75K.
opencollective.com/napari/donate
opencollective.com/napari/donate
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Excited to be a speaker at Dynamic Cell VI. Always a great meeting
Don't forget to register for our Spring Meeting: Dynamic Cell VI
A joint meeting with the @biochemsoc.bsky.social
Super early bird registration ends 21st Jan
A joint meeting with the @biochemsoc.bsky.social
Super early bird registration ends 21st Jan
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Excited to be a speaker at Dynamic Cell VI. Always a great meeting
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How does signalling control cortical tension?
Using optogenetics and AFM, we show that myosin recruitment and cortical tension increase proportionally with RhoA signalling.
More here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super work by Pierre Bohec with Guillaume Salbreux and @dianakhorom.bsky.social
Using optogenetics and AFM, we show that myosin recruitment and cortical tension increase proportionally with RhoA signalling.
More here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super work by Pierre Bohec with Guillaume Salbreux and @dianakhorom.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
How does signalling control cortical tension?
Using optogenetics and AFM, we show that myosin recruitment and cortical tension increase proportionally with RhoA signalling.
More here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super work by Pierre Bohec with Guillaume Salbreux and @dianakhorom.bsky.social
Using optogenetics and AFM, we show that myosin recruitment and cortical tension increase proportionally with RhoA signalling.
More here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super work by Pierre Bohec with Guillaume Salbreux and @dianakhorom.bsky.social
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My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!
December 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!
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#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Mastodon: the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693416v1
December 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Mastodon: the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693416v1
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Hello, here is a review I wrote about how cells sometimes try to synchronise with surrounding cells so that they can do a good job of building tissues during development. It is called "Keeping up with the neighbours"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#DevBio 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#DevBio 🧪
Keeping up with the neighbours: local synchronisation of cell fate decisions during development - EMBO Reports
Even before the advent of multicellular life, unicellular creatures would communicate with their neighbours to coordinate their behaviours. Multicellular organisms have the particular challenge of orc...
link.springer.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hello, here is a review I wrote about how cells sometimes try to synchronise with surrounding cells so that they can do a good job of building tissues during development. It is called "Keeping up with the neighbours"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#DevBio 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#DevBio 🧪
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Meeting schedule now online for @bsdb.bsky.social 2026 spring meeting: Molecules to Morphogenesis!
***Abstracts due in by January 16***
Join the outstanding line up! Submit your abstract for a short talk, flash talk, or poster presentation:
👇👇👇
bsdb.org/meetings/
***Abstracts due in by January 16***
Join the outstanding line up! Submit your abstract for a short talk, flash talk, or poster presentation:
👇👇👇
bsdb.org/meetings/
December 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Meeting schedule now online for @bsdb.bsky.social 2026 spring meeting: Molecules to Morphogenesis!
***Abstracts due in by January 16***
Join the outstanding line up! Submit your abstract for a short talk, flash talk, or poster presentation:
👇👇👇
bsdb.org/meetings/
***Abstracts due in by January 16***
Join the outstanding line up! Submit your abstract for a short talk, flash talk, or poster presentation:
👇👇👇
bsdb.org/meetings/
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🔬 Hands-on bioimage data stewardship workshop
27/2/2026
Uni of Liverpool
Learn the complete data lifecycle from acquisition to repository submission.
Train-the-trainer format - take materials back to your facility!
✓ 25 places
✓ Up to £100 travel
✓ Apply by 7 Jan
Apply👇
3 more in Scotland, SW, SE
27/2/2026
Uni of Liverpool
Learn the complete data lifecycle from acquisition to repository submission.
Train-the-trainer format - take materials back to your facility!
✓ 25 places
✓ Up to £100 travel
✓ Apply by 7 Jan
Apply👇
3 more in Scotland, SW, SE
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🔬 Hands-on bioimage data stewardship workshop
27/2/2026
Uni of Liverpool
Learn the complete data lifecycle from acquisition to repository submission.
Train-the-trainer format - take materials back to your facility!
✓ 25 places
✓ Up to £100 travel
✓ Apply by 7 Jan
Apply👇
3 more in Scotland, SW, SE
27/2/2026
Uni of Liverpool
Learn the complete data lifecycle from acquisition to repository submission.
Train-the-trainer format - take materials back to your facility!
✓ 25 places
✓ Up to £100 travel
✓ Apply by 7 Jan
Apply👇
3 more in Scotland, SW, SE
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Want to carry a PhD in London, in one of the best Universities in the world?
We have two calls for PhD students to join our lab at Imperial College. Deadline January 12th. More details for applications in the link below. Feel free to keep in touch!
We have two calls for PhD students to join our lab at Imperial College. Deadline January 12th. More details for applications in the link below. Feel free to keep in touch!
Available Jobs – gilestro laboratory
lab.gilest.ro
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Want to carry a PhD in London, in one of the best Universities in the world?
We have two calls for PhD students to join our lab at Imperial College. Deadline January 12th. More details for applications in the link below. Feel free to keep in touch!
We have two calls for PhD students to join our lab at Imperial College. Deadline January 12th. More details for applications in the link below. Feel free to keep in touch!
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Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic
Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data | PNAS
The development of a zygote into a functional organism requires that this single progenitor
cell gives rise to numerous distinct cell types. Attemp...
www.pnas.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic
Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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I'll be coordinating the "Animals in Motion" track of this summer school, in August 2026. Apply to join us for some hands-on learning and collaboration on open-source tools for video behavioural analysis. See neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
Applications are open for the second Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Summer School, August 17-28 2025 in London, UK!
Bringing together researchers and developers of open-source software for training and collaboration. Financial support available.
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
Bringing together researchers and developers of open-source software for training and collaboration. Financial support available.
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I'll be coordinating the "Animals in Motion" track of this summer school, in August 2026. Apply to join us for some hands-on learning and collaboration on open-source tools for video behavioural analysis. See neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
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The EMBO Practical Course "Hack your microscope" in Oeiras, PT, 20–25 Apr 2026 aims to innovate, democratize advanced #imaging technologies and shape the future of open-source #microscopy – Apply now!
Deadline: 12 Dec
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-microscope
#EMBOmicroscope #EMBOevents 🧪
Deadline: 12 Dec
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-microscope
#EMBOmicroscope #EMBOevents 🧪
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The EMBO Practical Course "Hack your microscope" in Oeiras, PT, 20–25 Apr 2026 aims to innovate, democratize advanced #imaging technologies and shape the future of open-source #microscopy – Apply now!
Deadline: 12 Dec
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-microscope
#EMBOmicroscope #EMBOevents 🧪
Deadline: 12 Dec
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-microscope
#EMBOmicroscope #EMBOevents 🧪
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🌍 Heading to #CellBIO2025 meeting @embo.org @ascbiology.bsky.social ? Join us as we continue building Planetary Cell Biology, a cross scale field - from cells to biodiversity. Sunday, Dec 7 | 8:30–9:45 AM EST
Curious? www.youtube.com/@Cells4Plane...
🌱 Join the community: forms.gle/AjQ6dVBL7QT5...
Curious? www.youtube.com/@Cells4Plane...
🌱 Join the community: forms.gle/AjQ6dVBL7QT5...
Cells for Planetary Health Community Registration Form
Following the “Integrating Cell and Planetary Scales to Address Climate Resilience” workshop held in Lisbon in April 2025, we’re launching a new community dedicated to bridging scientific disciplines ...
forms.gle
December 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🌍 Heading to #CellBIO2025 meeting @embo.org @ascbiology.bsky.social ? Join us as we continue building Planetary Cell Biology, a cross scale field - from cells to biodiversity. Sunday, Dec 7 | 8:30–9:45 AM EST
Curious? www.youtube.com/@Cells4Plane...
🌱 Join the community: forms.gle/AjQ6dVBL7QT5...
Curious? www.youtube.com/@Cells4Plane...
🌱 Join the community: forms.gle/AjQ6dVBL7QT5...
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Very excited to be running our @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Summer School again in August 2026.
This has been one of the most satisifying things we've done, especially as a number of participants have gone on to become collaborators.
Full details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
This has been one of the most satisifying things we've done, especially as a number of participants have gone on to become collaborators.
Full details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
Open Software Summer School — NIU
neuroinformatics.dev
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Very excited to be running our @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Summer School again in August 2026.
This has been one of the most satisifying things we've done, especially as a number of participants have gone on to become collaborators.
Full details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
This has been one of the most satisifying things we've done, especially as a number of participants have gone on to become collaborators.
Full details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
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Paper for the #Drosophila community on a food recipe that rears dozens of species. This was a full team effort, with key contributions from UG, MSc, and PhD students! 👩🎓🎉
Plus an #infection observation re: Diet x #Microbiota 🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#EvolBiol #AcademicSky #SymbioSky
1/4
Plus an #infection observation re: Diet x #Microbiota 🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#EvolBiol #AcademicSky #SymbioSky
1/4
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Paper for the #Drosophila community on a food recipe that rears dozens of species. This was a full team effort, with key contributions from UG, MSc, and PhD students! 👩🎓🎉
Plus an #infection observation re: Diet x #Microbiota 🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#EvolBiol #AcademicSky #SymbioSky
1/4
Plus an #infection observation re: Diet x #Microbiota 🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#EvolBiol #AcademicSky #SymbioSky
1/4
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Please join us in London August 24-28 2026 for a week long BrainGlobe course.
We will teach you how to use the tools and how to contribute back to the wider BrainGlobe ecosystem.
Apply now!
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
We will teach you how to use the tools and how to contribute back to the wider BrainGlobe ecosystem.
Apply now!
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Please join us in London August 24-28 2026 for a week long BrainGlobe course.
We will teach you how to use the tools and how to contribute back to the wider BrainGlobe ecosystem.
Apply now!
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
We will teach you how to use the tools and how to contribute back to the wider BrainGlobe ecosystem.
Apply now!
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
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Registration deadline 20th Dec! We have generous travel grants for early career researchers! April is a beautiful time to visit China!
Our interdisciplinary @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social workshop on Biophysical and Molecular Mechanisms of Animal Homeostasis and Repair will take place in beautiful Haining, China, 6-10 April 2026. Exciting line up of international speakers! Register now: meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom...
Interfacing biophysical and molecular mechanisms of animal homeostasis and repair
The control of animal homeostasis and repair has been studied for decades, mostly from a molecular and biochemical perspective. Recent research shows that biophysical factors, such as mechanical forc…
meetings.embo.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Registration deadline 20th Dec! We have generous travel grants for early career researchers! April is a beautiful time to visit China!
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And that’s a wrap for the @cbias.bsky.social napari workshop as well. Two days of learning, working collaboratively and finished off with a presentation from each of five project groups detailing the progress they made. Organised by Rocco D’Antuono, @giuliapaci.bsky.social and yours truly
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
And that’s a wrap for the @cbias.bsky.social napari workshop as well. Two days of learning, working collaboratively and finished off with a presentation from each of five project groups detailing the progress they made. Organised by Rocco D’Antuono, @giuliapaci.bsky.social and yours truly
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Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
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How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1