Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff
@gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social
Mechanobiology. In Job Market 🕵️♂️. Brillouin🔬advocate. Senior postdoc@Prevedel Lab-EMBL Heidelberg. Alumni Maria Leptin (EMBL) & Nick Brown (Gurdon Institute). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3041-2503
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🥁 New article 📢: #Mechanobiology of #development during #Drosophila #gastrulation using #Brillouin microscopy, now in @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/ev6ZX
Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social
Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social
Reading early onsets of debilitating blood diseases. Research with biomedical, regulatory and social impact. Quo vadis now?
🚨 Excited to share our paper 📢 @natcomms.nature.com
We reveal how inflammation reshapes the human #bonemarrow niche 🦴, home of 🩸 stem cells, in the context of #clonalhematopoiesis and #myelodysplasia
An amazing journey with fantastic colleagues and collaborators, thank you all!
shorturl.at/ad0st
We reveal how inflammation reshapes the human #bonemarrow niche 🦴, home of 🩸 stem cells, in the context of #clonalhematopoiesis and #myelodysplasia
An amazing journey with fantastic colleagues and collaborators, thank you all!
shorturl.at/ad0st
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Reading early onsets of debilitating blood diseases. Research with biomedical, regulatory and social impact. Quo vadis now?
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Today our #cephalic #furrow #evolution story hits the shelves in the glossy journal form. How appropriate that it’s architects met in Paris. Missing @bruvellu.bsky.social but joined by #CF enthusiast Mateo Rauzi & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social @yuchiunwang.bsky.social Steffen Lemke #mechanicsfirst
October 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Today our #cephalic #furrow #evolution story hits the shelves in the glossy journal form. How appropriate that it’s architects met in Paris. Missing @bruvellu.bsky.social but joined by #CF enthusiast Mateo Rauzi & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social @yuchiunwang.bsky.social Steffen Lemke #mechanicsfirst
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What would happen if cells would express more molecular motors ?
They would break all microtubules 😱
As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social
rupress.org/jcb/article-...
They would break all microtubules 😱
As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social
rupress.org/jcb/article-...
October 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
What would happen if cells would express more molecular motors ?
They would break all microtubules 😱
As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social
rupress.org/jcb/article-...
They would break all microtubules 😱
As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social
rupress.org/jcb/article-...
John Gurdon will be deeply missed: a sharp mind, a warm and witty sense of humour, and a visionary who shaped our understanding of developmental biology. I admired his intelligence, envied his prominent hair🙂. Left photo, in archives of Nobel, taken by John Overton, photographer and our lab manager.
October 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
John Gurdon will be deeply missed: a sharp mind, a warm and witty sense of humour, and a visionary who shaped our understanding of developmental biology. I admired his intelligence, envied his prominent hair🙂. Left photo, in archives of Nobel, taken by John Overton, photographer and our lab manager.
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John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died.
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews
October 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died.
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews
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Dr. John Gurdon, a British biologist and Nobel laureate who in the early 1960s introduced a paradigm-shifting method of cell manipulation that led to the world’s first cloning of a large mammal, a sheep named Dolly, died on Tuesday at 92.
John B. Gurdon, 92, Dies; Nobelist Paved Way for Cloning of Animals
His work in the manipulation of cells laid the foundation for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine and led to the first cloned large mammal, a sheep named Dolly.
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Dr. John Gurdon, a British biologist and Nobel laureate who in the early 1960s introduced a paradigm-shifting method of cell manipulation that led to the world’s first cloning of a large mammal, a sheep named Dolly, died on Tuesday at 92.
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Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!
September 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Are you interested on how regenerating tissues transit between stages? Am sharing here our work showing that during #Xenopus tail regeneration, tissue stiffening activates a Piezo1-Yap1 mechanosensitive cascade to allow wounded epithelia to transit into regenerative states!
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We would like to once again, thank all the sponsors for their generosity in supporting #MBIMPG2025 @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social @nikoninst.bsky.social @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social, Optics11Life, BGI, Office of Naval Research Global and Paeonia Foundation.
September 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We would like to once again, thank all the sponsors for their generosity in supporting #MBIMPG2025 @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social @nikoninst.bsky.social @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social, Optics11Life, BGI, Office of Naval Research Global and Paeonia Foundation.
Great work from two great scientists that happen to be my friends too, so I am double happy, for Developmental Biology and for them and their groups!
Congratulations!!!!!! 🎉🎉Yu Chiun Wang and Steffen Lemke!!!!! @yuchiunwang.bsky.social
Congratulations!!!!!! 🎉🎉Yu Chiun Wang and Steffen Lemke!!!!! @yuchiunwang.bsky.social
Tissue 'tectonic' collision is detrimental, but flies found two distinct solutions! Gratifying and grateful to be included in this collective effort, w/ Steffen Lemke, to crack the (or 'a') code of #cephalicfurrow, now out in @nature.com, all with @paveltomancak.bsky.social at the helm. (1/9)
September 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Great work from two great scientists that happen to be my friends too, so I am double happy, for Developmental Biology and for them and their groups!
Congratulations!!!!!! 🎉🎉Yu Chiun Wang and Steffen Lemke!!!!! @yuchiunwang.bsky.social
Congratulations!!!!!! 🎉🎉Yu Chiun Wang and Steffen Lemke!!!!! @yuchiunwang.bsky.social
Great work, congratulations to all co-authors of this beautiful work! @paveltomancak.bsky.social
#Mechano-evo-devo
#Morphogenesis
#Mechanobiology
#Mechano-evo-devo
#Morphogenesis
#Mechanobiology
We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)
September 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Great work, congratulations to all co-authors of this beautiful work! @paveltomancak.bsky.social
#Mechano-evo-devo
#Morphogenesis
#Mechanobiology
#Mechano-evo-devo
#Morphogenesis
#Mechanobiology
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Interested to use cutting-edge imaging approaches to study the #evolution of #heart #morphogenesis? The Panfilio lab has a fully funded 3-year #postdoc offer in the framework of a new international #HFSP project: tinyurl.com/4p28nzs7 For details and applications, see tinyurl.com/ApplyHeartPo...
July 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Interested to use cutting-edge imaging approaches to study the #evolution of #heart #morphogenesis? The Panfilio lab has a fully funded 3-year #postdoc offer in the framework of a new international #HFSP project: tinyurl.com/4p28nzs7 For details and applications, see tinyurl.com/ApplyHeartPo...
🥁 New article 📢: #Mechanobiology of #development during #Drosophila #gastrulation using #Brillouin microscopy, now in @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/ev6ZX
Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social
Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🥁 New article 📢: #Mechanobiology of #development during #Drosophila #gastrulation using #Brillouin microscopy, now in @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/ev6ZX
Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social
Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social
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Beautiful work!
Latest paper from the lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, Anna's PhD work hot off the press @plosbiology.org ! Using single cell genomics to understand tube morphogenesis, and why it's as important to switch things off as it is to switch them on!
April 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Beautiful work!
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Our field has lost an amazing scientist, mentor, and old friend. Benny, along with Mike Hoffman, had a brilliant idea in the early 1980s. The first oncogenes were being cloned and they realized if we wanted to understand their roles in cancer, we needed to understand their normal function 1/n 🧪
April 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Our field has lost an amazing scientist, mentor, and old friend. Benny, along with Mike Hoffman, had a brilliant idea in the early 1980s. The first oncogenes were being cloned and they realized if we wanted to understand their roles in cancer, we needed to understand their normal function 1/n 🧪
Calling up for recommendations for meetings in 2025 at crossroads, or partially covering: development, mechanobiology, morphogenesis.
Thanks!!!
Thanks!!!
March 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Calling up for recommendations for meetings in 2025 at crossroads, or partially covering: development, mechanobiology, morphogenesis.
Thanks!!!
Thanks!!!
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Find out more about Daniel's lab in this 'Lab meeting' post:
thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-...
thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-...
March 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Find out more about Daniel's lab in this 'Lab meeting' post:
thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-...
thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-...
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There’s been exciting work recently linking ideas from topology to biological systems. This has ranged from bird flocking (www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....), to gene networks (www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....), and now how nuclei pack in the Drosophila blastocyst (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
Geometry of gene regulatory dynamics | PNAS
Embryonic development leads to the reproducible and ordered appearance of complexity
from egg to adult. The successive differentiation of different...
www.pnas.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There’s been exciting work recently linking ideas from topology to biological systems. This has ranged from bird flocking (www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....), to gene networks (www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....), and now how nuclei pack in the Drosophila blastocyst (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
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A big shout-out for @dianapinheiro.bsky.social being featured as Woman in Science!
A well-deserved honor for a fantastic scientist and inspiring mentor, and on top of that an amazing colleague and person. Super happy to have you as my office-neighbor and friend @impvienna.bsky.social!
A well-deserved honor for a fantastic scientist and inspiring mentor, and on top of that an amazing colleague and person. Super happy to have you as my office-neighbor and friend @impvienna.bsky.social!
🎉 Our @dianapinheiro.bsky.social is featured in a Women in Science book!
The book, part of @cienciaviva.bsky.social's initiative, celebrates Portuguese women scientists. The latest volume launches tomorrow, #InternationalWomensDay, in Lisbon.
📖 Read more: imp.ac.at/news/article...
#IWD2025
The book, part of @cienciaviva.bsky.social's initiative, celebrates Portuguese women scientists. The latest volume launches tomorrow, #InternationalWomensDay, in Lisbon.
📖 Read more: imp.ac.at/news/article...
#IWD2025
March 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A big shout-out for @dianapinheiro.bsky.social being featured as Woman in Science!
A well-deserved honor for a fantastic scientist and inspiring mentor, and on top of that an amazing colleague and person. Super happy to have you as my office-neighbor and friend @impvienna.bsky.social!
A well-deserved honor for a fantastic scientist and inspiring mentor, and on top of that an amazing colleague and person. Super happy to have you as my office-neighbor and friend @impvienna.bsky.social!
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Have you read the interviews in our 'No such thing as a standard career path' series?
We hope these stories from #DevBio scientists show that many valid career paths exist 🛣️🎢
If you want to share your story, get in touch! #AcademicSky #SciSky
We hope these stories from #DevBio scientists show that many valid career paths exist 🛣️🎢
If you want to share your story, get in touch! #AcademicSky #SciSky
No such thing as a standard career path - the Node
Introducing a new careers interview series, featuring developmental biologists who have had vastly different career trajectories.
thenode.biologists.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Have you read the interviews in our 'No such thing as a standard career path' series?
We hope these stories from #DevBio scientists show that many valid career paths exist 🛣️🎢
If you want to share your story, get in touch! #AcademicSky #SciSky
We hope these stories from #DevBio scientists show that many valid career paths exist 🛣️🎢
If you want to share your story, get in touch! #AcademicSky #SciSky
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Thrilled and proud about our latest advancement in Brillouin microscopy - enabling true light-sheet like mechanical imaging at high throughput. Out today in @naturephotonics.bsky.social
Congratulations Carlo! @carlobevilacqua.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eaDiX
Congratulations Carlo! @carlobevilacqua.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eaDiX
Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer
Nature Photonics - A Fourier-transform imaging spectrometer enables two-dimensional spectral Brillouin imaging at a throughput of up to 40,000 spectra per second over a...
rdcu.be
February 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Thrilled and proud about our latest advancement in Brillouin microscopy - enabling true light-sheet like mechanical imaging at high throughput. Out today in @naturephotonics.bsky.social
Congratulations Carlo! @carlobevilacqua.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eaDiX
Congratulations Carlo! @carlobevilacqua.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eaDiX
📣 Wanna hear our story about the complex mechanical dynamics that cell populations undergo during the most important morphogenetic event? -Of course I am talking about gastrulation 🙂🤘. Join us this Wed at 10:00 CET, details -> @vgzt2021.bsky.social @embl.org @prevedel-lab.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
📣 Wanna hear our story about the complex mechanical dynamics that cell populations undergo during the most important morphogenetic event? -Of course I am talking about gastrulation 🙂🤘. Join us this Wed at 10:00 CET, details -> @vgzt2021.bsky.social @embl.org @prevedel-lab.bsky.social
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The evolution of shape diversity through the lens of physics—explored in our new paper! A fruitful collaboration between our lab @EMBL, Salbreux’s lab @unige & others, led by @BailleulRichar1—now independent at @ENS_ULM—& Nicolas Cuny. bit.ly/3WRqdEa
February 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The evolution of shape diversity through the lens of physics—explored in our new paper! A fruitful collaboration between our lab @EMBL, Salbreux’s lab @unige & others, led by @BailleulRichar1—now independent at @ENS_ULM—& Nicolas Cuny. bit.ly/3WRqdEa
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Images and videos are great at catching people's attention 📸👀
Check out our 'Show and tell' series, where researchers use an image or a video to hook you into reading more about a paper or a technique that's of interest to the #DevBio community:
https://thenode.biologists.com/show-and-tell/
Check out our 'Show and tell' series, where researchers use an image or a video to hook you into reading more about a paper or a technique that's of interest to the #DevBio community:
https://thenode.biologists.com/show-and-tell/
Show and tell - the Node
Show and tell To provide more visual content on the Node, we are starting a new series called ‘Show and tell’. The aim of these short posts is to act
thenode.biologists.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Images and videos are great at catching people's attention 📸👀
Check out our 'Show and tell' series, where researchers use an image or a video to hook you into reading more about a paper or a technique that's of interest to the #DevBio community:
https://thenode.biologists.com/show-and-tell/
Check out our 'Show and tell' series, where researchers use an image or a video to hook you into reading more about a paper or a technique that's of interest to the #DevBio community:
https://thenode.biologists.com/show-and-tell/
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Every paper has a story behind it.
Check out our 'Behind the paper stories', where we discover the highs and lows, the unexpected turns, and the fascinating discoveries from the breadth of #DevBio and #StemCell research:
Check out our 'Behind the paper stories', where we discover the highs and lows, the unexpected turns, and the fascinating discoveries from the breadth of #DevBio and #StemCell research:
Behind the paper stories - the Node
Behind the paper stories Every paper has a story behind it, and we regularly commission scientists to tell theirs. In this collection you'll discover the
thenode.biologists.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Join us next week (Wednesday!) for the next VGZT morning/eastern session ☀️ ☕️ seminar!
We are looking forward to exciting 🪰🪲 talks by:
Juan Manuel Gómez @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social
and
Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social
🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 12
⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC
We are looking forward to exciting 🪰🪲 talks by:
Juan Manuel Gómez @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social
and
Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social
🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 12
⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC
February 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Join us next week (Wednesday!) for the next VGZT morning/eastern session ☀️ ☕️ seminar!
We are looking forward to exciting 🪰🪲 talks by:
Juan Manuel Gómez @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social
and
Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social
🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 12
⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC
We are looking forward to exciting 🪰🪲 talks by:
Juan Manuel Gómez @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social
and
Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social
🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 12
⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC