Joaquina Delas
@joadelas.bsky.social
LMCB Group Leader at UCL. Cis-regulatory control of cell fate choice in development.
https://delaslab.com/
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Joaquina Delas
@joadelas.bsky.social
· Nov 12
We have a new lab photo. Busy times in the Delas Lab!
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
Join us in Roscoff ! All of the things below, plus I hear the seafood is incredible.
Very last chance to join us (Deadline tomorrow Feb 10!) at this Developmental Biology meeting!
Have a nice story? Come and discuss it with editors from @embojournal.org @plosbiology.org and @dev-journal.bsky.social !
A one hour info session from @erc.europa.eu will also be presented!
Have a nice story? Come and discuss it with editors from @embojournal.org @plosbiology.org and @dev-journal.bsky.social !
A one hour info session from @erc.europa.eu will also be presented!
Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
February 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Join us in Roscoff ! All of the things below, plus I hear the seafood is incredible.
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The lab turns 4 ⌛️🐭⏳👤
Science happened…
More productive & fun than ever.
Huge thanks to the amazing lab members who make it all possible!!
(Light-sheet microscope movie by Berta Cava Cami)
Science happened…
More productive & fun than ever.
Huge thanks to the amazing lab members who make it all possible!!
(Light-sheet microscope movie by Berta Cava Cami)
February 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
The lab turns 4 ⌛️🐭⏳👤
Science happened…
More productive & fun than ever.
Huge thanks to the amazing lab members who make it all possible!!
(Light-sheet microscope movie by Berta Cava Cami)
Science happened…
More productive & fun than ever.
Huge thanks to the amazing lab members who make it all possible!!
(Light-sheet microscope movie by Berta Cava Cami)
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Re-upping this as the deadline for abstract submission if so close ❗️🧪🧬🔬
Come discuss your latest research with movers and shakers in the field, including luminaries and journal editors. A whole-encompassing learning experience and networking opportunity. Not to be missed!
Come discuss your latest research with movers and shakers in the field, including luminaries and journal editors. A whole-encompassing learning experience and networking opportunity. Not to be missed!
Jacques Monod Conference alert ❗️Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 in Beautiful Roscoff
Pass the word, Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en and see you there. 😎🧪🔬🧬
Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 in Beautiful Roscoff
Pass the word, Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en and see you there. 😎🧪🔬🧬
Accueil | CNRS - Conférences Jacques Monod (CJM)
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr
January 30, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Re-upping this as the deadline for abstract submission if so close ❗️🧪🧬🔬
Come discuss your latest research with movers and shakers in the field, including luminaries and journal editors. A whole-encompassing learning experience and networking opportunity. Not to be missed!
Come discuss your latest research with movers and shakers in the field, including luminaries and journal editors. A whole-encompassing learning experience and networking opportunity. Not to be missed!
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🎉I am very excited to share that the Di Bella lab started at Fundacion Leloir in Argentina 🇦🇷. We will continue to study genetic and molecular mechanisms behind neuronal diversification in the cerebral cortex. We are now hiring at all levels 🧠
www.leloir.org.ar/nuevo-labora...
www.leloir.org.ar/nuevo-labora...
January 23, 2026 at 3:10 PM
🎉I am very excited to share that the Di Bella lab started at Fundacion Leloir in Argentina 🇦🇷. We will continue to study genetic and molecular mechanisms behind neuronal diversification in the cerebral cortex. We are now hiring at all levels 🧠
www.leloir.org.ar/nuevo-labora...
www.leloir.org.ar/nuevo-labora...
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Very excited to receive this award and truly grateful to the @bscb-official.bsky.social who have been supporting me throughout my postdoc since I moved to the UK!
We are delighted to announce that @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social has been awarded the 2026 BSCB Postdoctoral researcher medal
You can read about Giulia's work on how tissues withstand mechanical stress here:
bscb.org/postdoctoral...
You can read about Giulia's work on how tissues withstand mechanical stress here:
bscb.org/postdoctoral...
January 22, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Very excited to receive this award and truly grateful to the @bscb-official.bsky.social who have been supporting me throughout my postdoc since I moved to the UK!
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A reminder to join the Metabolism in Development & Physiology Seminar this Thursday 15 Jan 2026, 16:00 CET featuring these exciting speakers:
Heidi Lempradl (Professor, VAI)
Diego Sainz de la Maza (PostDoc, UCL)
Heidi Lempradl (Professor, VAI)
Diego Sainz de la Maza (PostDoc, UCL)
January 13, 2026 at 9:34 AM
A reminder to join the Metabolism in Development & Physiology Seminar this Thursday 15 Jan 2026, 16:00 CET featuring these exciting speakers:
Heidi Lempradl (Professor, VAI)
Diego Sainz de la Maza (PostDoc, UCL)
Heidi Lempradl (Professor, VAI)
Diego Sainz de la Maza (PostDoc, UCL)
A Spaniard that has made bringing a French cake a yearly tradition 😆
Galette des rois @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social , courtesy of @joadelas.bsky.social 👑
January 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM
A Spaniard that has made bringing a French cake a yearly tradition 😆
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🚨Seeking developmental or cell biologists🔬!🚨
Our department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social is looking to support scientists seeking to establish their lab with a fellowship. Deadline: 30 Jan. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Our department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social is looking to support scientists seeking to establish their lab with a fellowship. Deadline: 30 Jan. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🚨Seeking developmental or cell biologists🔬!🚨
Our department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social is looking to support scientists seeking to establish their lab with a fellowship. Deadline: 30 Jan. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Our department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social is looking to support scientists seeking to establish their lab with a fellowship. Deadline: 30 Jan. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Looking forward to this. I’ve heard amazing things (about the conference, the venue and the food! 😉)
Join us!
Join us!
Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
December 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Looking forward to this. I’ve heard amazing things (about the conference, the venue and the food! 😉)
Join us!
Join us!
Many hours of zoom to this moment.
Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data.
Congrats to everyone involved, most importantly Dillon and Eric.
Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data.
Congrats to everyone involved, most importantly Dillon and Eric.
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 1:47 PM
Many hours of zoom to this moment.
Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data.
Congrats to everyone involved, most importantly Dillon and Eric.
Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data.
Congrats to everyone involved, most importantly Dillon and Eric.
Some days you just need to watch tiny goats jumping around in colorful pajamas.
I've had a rough day, and I think I've earned this.
GOAT PAJAMA PARTY.
Goats are from @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.
GOAT PAJAMA PARTY.
Goats are from @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Some days you just need to watch tiny goats jumping around in colorful pajamas.
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT
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@mpercharde.bsky.social & I after presenting our experience of setting up the @mrc-lms.bsky.social Roving Researcher scheme to support Postdocs on leave, in the Research Culture session at #MRCBiomedicine2025
Look at that view! Blooming love London
Look at that view! Blooming love London
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@mpercharde.bsky.social & I after presenting our experience of setting up the @mrc-lms.bsky.social Roving Researcher scheme to support Postdocs on leave, in the Research Culture session at #MRCBiomedicine2025
Look at that view! Blooming love London
Look at that view! Blooming love London
It's always special when you find your own paper in the table of contents of the journal 😍
"The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form
www.cell.com/developmenta...
"The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form
www.cell.com/developmenta...
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It's always special when you find your own paper in the table of contents of the journal 😍
"The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form
www.cell.com/developmenta...
"The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form
www.cell.com/developmenta...
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
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🚨Reposts appreciated‼️If I had read this PhD offer five years ago, I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second to apply 😉
Passionate about gene regulation, chromatin, and developmental biology? Just contact @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social at @ibbtec.bsky.social 🧬✨
#PhD #3DGenome
Passionate about gene regulation, chromatin, and developmental biology? Just contact @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social at @ibbtec.bsky.social 🧬✨
#PhD #3DGenome
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🚨Reposts appreciated‼️If I had read this PhD offer five years ago, I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second to apply 😉
Passionate about gene regulation, chromatin, and developmental biology? Just contact @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social at @ibbtec.bsky.social 🧬✨
#PhD #3DGenome
Passionate about gene regulation, chromatin, and developmental biology? Just contact @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social at @ibbtec.bsky.social 🧬✨
#PhD #3DGenome
We have a new lab photo. Busy times in the Delas Lab!
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We have a new lab photo. Busy times in the Delas Lab!
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
OFERTA DE EMPLEO (por favor difundir):
Ofrecemos un contrato predoctoral de 4 años asociado a nuestro proyecto PID2024-157249OB-I00. El objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un nuevo mecanismo patológico según el cual la competición entre promotores puede llegar a ocasionar enfermedades congénitas
👇
Ofrecemos un contrato predoctoral de 4 años asociado a nuestro proyecto PID2024-157249OB-I00. El objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un nuevo mecanismo patológico según el cual la competición entre promotores puede llegar a ocasionar enfermedades congénitas
👇
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
OFERTA DE EMPLEO (por favor difundir):
Ofrecemos un contrato predoctoral de 4 años asociado a nuestro proyecto PID2024-157249OB-I00. El objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un nuevo mecanismo patológico según el cual la competición entre promotores puede llegar a ocasionar enfermedades congénitas
👇
Ofrecemos un contrato predoctoral de 4 años asociado a nuestro proyecto PID2024-157249OB-I00. El objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un nuevo mecanismo patológico según el cual la competición entre promotores puede llegar a ocasionar enfermedades congénitas
👇
Go to sleep in London, wake up in Edinburg! Great experience aboard the Caledonian Sleeper train.
Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.
Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.
October 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Go to sleep in London, wake up in Edinburg! Great experience aboard the Caledonian Sleeper train.
Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.
Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.
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Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding
The formation of neural circuits depends on the precise spatial and temporal organisation of neuronal populations during development. In the vertebrate spinal cord, progenitors are patterned into mole...
www.biorxiv.org
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Very excited for this Developmental Biology meeting next May. Join us!
I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Very excited for this Developmental Biology meeting next May. Join us!
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We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
October 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
Tomorrow wednesday 22nd at 11am, lesson #2 of Neil Shubin, Guest Prof @college-de-france.fr ‘Discovering how fish evolved to walk’. Wonderful first lesson @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... Fish friends in Paris, please RT🤘 Swim the Seine till St Michel, then get out and walk left. Free access
October 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Tomorrow wednesday 22nd at 11am, lesson #2 of Neil Shubin, Guest Prof @college-de-france.fr ‘Discovering how fish evolved to walk’. Wonderful first lesson @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... Fish friends in Paris, please RT🤘 Swim the Seine till St Michel, then get out and walk left. Free access
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
We are looking forward to spending the next two days discussing INTERESTING THINGS at our workshop on Generative Biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles #GenBio25
Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants
Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants
En route to Brighton—for the 1st time—for the @royalsociety.org Generative Biology meeting organised by @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social, @dbenzinger.bsky.social & @cellysally.bsky.social. Happy to chat about @dev-journal.bsky.social, @the-node.bsky.social & @biologists.bsky.social. Also have freebies!
October 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We are looking forward to spending the next two days discussing INTERESTING THINGS at our workshop on Generative Biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles #GenBio25
Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants
Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants