Giulia Boezio
giulia-boezio.bsky.social
Giulia Boezio
@giulia-boezio.bsky.social
EMBO/MSCA postdoctoral fellow at Francis Crick Institute in the Briscoe lab. 🇬🇧
Previously PhD Stainier Lab (heart dev 💓) @MPI-HLR 🇩🇪

Developmental biologist, lineage trajectories, cell fate decisions, cellular interactions, organ formation.
Pinned
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...
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
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
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...
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
Good to see this study from Ribes & co in print: PAX3/PAX7 transcription factors control neural tube patterning by simultaneously repressing ventral fates via H3K27me3 deposition at silencers & activating dorsal fates as pioneer factors at enhancers
@ribes
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Dual transcriptional activities of PAX3 and PAX7 spatially encode spinal cell fates through distinct gene networks
How do transcription factors, with pleotropic functions, generate organized cellular diversity in developing tissues? This study shows that PAX3 and PAX7 orchestrate spinal cord patterning by acting a...
journals.plos.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
Just a few weeks left to apply for our clinical PhD programme.

We're looking for clinicians who are passionate about research to join the 3-year fully funded programme.

Learn more and see what positions are available ⬇️

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
Doctoral clinical fellows
The Crick's clinical PhD programme.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
New preprint out! Evolutionarily conserved transcriptional regulators control monoaminergic neuron development.
We uncover how ancient regulatory programs orchestrate the neurons that produce serotonin and dopamine across 550 million years of evolution.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Evolutionarily conserved transcriptional regulators control monoaminergic neuron development
To what extent conserved developmental programs specify homologous cell types is a central question in biology. Here, we address this by focusing on reconstructing monoaminergic neuron development in ...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
Our latest: *Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding*

For a summary & the digested highlights see thread🧵 from @giulia-boezio.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting!

Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!

bsdb.org/meetings/

March 23-26, 2026 - UK
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Join us next year for this amazing conference on human development from many angles

The HDBI has been one of the best things I've got to take part in during my postdoc. Excited to end it with a blast!
Save the Date!

Development has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative to co-organise a meeting on #HumanDevelopment.

📅7 - 9 Sep 2026
📍University of Warwick, UK

Register your interest for #HumanDev26: www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...
October 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
Come and join us for a fantastic conference around all things human development and growth!

Lots of talks from abstracts and a stellar lineup of invited speakers? YES.

Hope to see you all there !

@wellcometrust.bsky.social
Save the Date!

Development has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative to co-organise a meeting on #HumanDevelopment.

📅7 - 9 Sep 2026
📍University of Warwick, UK

Register your interest for #HumanDev26: www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...
July 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
We've updated our first #preprint from the lab! A collaboration with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social

🔥 now including in vivo 🐭&👤 embryo data

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
Really impressive study on spinal cord development by @giulia-boezio.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social. #neurodevelopment
Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684328v1
October 24, 2025 at 5:23 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...
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
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
We are very pleased to announce our joint meeting with the German @gfeev.bsky.social and the Dutch Developmental Biology Societies, which will take place in Potsdam from the 10-13th of March 2026. Registration is now open! www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...
October 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
🚨 Excited to introduce FuChi (Fucci chicken), the first avian cell cycle reporter line. Thank you to all those who contributed to putting this paper together. I really think it showcases the power and beauty of the chick embryo as a developmental biology model. 🐥 🥚 🔬 @roslininstitute.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Who knew that the perfect pasta sauce could lead to a Nobel Prize? Congrats to ISTA postdoc Fabrizio Olmeda and collaborators for winning the Ig Nobel Prize with their research on mastering Cacio e Pepe. Bravo! 🍝 🎉

Getting hungry? Here´s the recipe for delicious research: https://bit.ly/42vlpHm
September 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
Very excited to see the first Beisaw lab publication out in its final form 🥳🥳 rdcu.be/ei1I7 if you’re interested in zebrafish heart regeneration and how cardiomyocytes replace the fibrotic injured tissue (spoiler alert: macrophages play an important role), then read it here 👇
Border-zone cardiomyocytes and macrophages regulate extracellular matrix remodeling to promote cardiomyocyte protrusion during cardiac regeneration
Nature Communications - Adult zebrafish are capable of heart regeneration, but how the collagenous injury site is replaced remains unclear. Here they provide an in-depth analysis of cardiomyocyte...
rdcu.be
April 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This was an incredible opportunity to meet old friends, make new ones and listen to diverse and beautiful science...and -why not- go back to pretty Bad Nauheim. Thanks to Didier for creating such a friendly and collaborative community!
April 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
Reminder that the YEN Image Competition deadline is in two weeks on 1st May. Send us you scientific images and art for a chance to win a voucher and be featured on next year's YEN Conference poster.
April 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A bit late but I also finally made it to Bluesky.
What a treat to start with a fun chat with Alex. Thanks for the highlight!
Check out my third post in a series of poster interviews from the Crick Beddington Symposium!
Shared Roots and Divergent Paths in the Chick Spinal Cord 🐣

Continuing the poster interviews from the 3rd Crick Beddington Symposium, in this latest post, @alexneaverson.bsky.social chatted with @giulia-boezio.bsky.social about her #LineageTracing work in chick embryos.

#theNodeCorrespondents
April 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Shared Roots and Divergent Paths in the Chick Spinal Cord 🐣

Continuing the poster interviews from the 3rd Crick Beddington Symposium, in this latest post, @alexneaverson.bsky.social chatted with @giulia-boezio.bsky.social about her #LineageTracing work in chick embryos.

#theNodeCorrespondents
3rd Crick Beddington Symposium: Shared Roots and Divergent Paths in the Chick Spinal Cord - the Node
During the coffee break on the second day of the 3rd Crick Beddington Symposium, I approached Dr Giulia Boezio, a postdoc in the Briscoe lab at the
thenode.biologists.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Beautiful work from an exceptional scientist.
I'm so happy I made a small contribution too!
April 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by Giulia Boezio
EMBO workshop on Single cell Lineage Tracing!

Sept 18-21 in Sant Feliu, Girona, Spain.

Registration OPEN!!!!!

Tons of opportunities for talks (including some full length ones).
You don’t want to miss it!

meetings.embo.org/event/25-lin...
Lineage tracing: Dynamics, cellular memory, and somatic evolution
Recent advances in high-resolution lineage tracing technologies and single-cell genomics are allowing researchers to quantify cell state dynamics at unprecedented scales. Across cancer and immunity, …
meetings.embo.org
April 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM