Mike Dorrity
@mwdorr.bsky.social
Group Leader at EMBL Heidelberg. temperature, single cell genomics, proteins, and lots of fish.
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Please join us for this exciting new conference on the emergence, function and evolution of biological collectives - unpacking the wonderful world of self-organization: www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Collectivity in living systems: emergence, function, and evolution
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November 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Please join us for this exciting new conference on the emergence, function and evolution of biological collectives - unpacking the wonderful world of self-organization: www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Group Leader – AI in Biology
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Very excited to share - the ERC StG is a game-changer for us 🙏 We're going to learn the rules for timing control across cell types in the embryo and we think we can tune them too 🎛️ ⏳📈- reach out if you’d like to be involved !
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Very excited to share - the ERC StG is a game-changer for us 🙏 We're going to learn the rules for timing control across cell types in the embryo and we think we can tune them too 🎛️ ⏳📈- reach out if you’d like to be involved !
EMBL is an amazing place to start a lab and bring new direction to your research program (ask me how I know) - come join us in Heidelberg !
To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept @embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...
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August 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
EMBL is an amazing place to start a lab and bring new direction to your research program (ask me how I know) - come join us in Heidelberg !
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To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept @embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept @embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!
Group Leader – Molecular Systems Biology Unit
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Molecular Systems Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing original biological ...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!
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🔔 Proud to share the preprint of my PhD work in the Petridou group @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org ✨
“A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics” 🐟 🔁 📶
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #biophysics
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“A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics” 🐟 🔁 📶
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #biophysics
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June 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🔔 Proud to share the preprint of my PhD work in the Petridou group @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org ✨
“A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics” 🐟 🔁 📶
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #biophysics
🧵⤵️
“A closed feedback between tissue phase transitions and morphogen gradients drives patterning dynamics” 🐟 🔁 📶
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #biophysics
🧵⤵️
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We have updated our preprint on GxE and epipstatic interactions in vertebrates, lead authors Bettina Welz and @saulpierotti.bsky.social, a collaboration between my lab, @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social, Felix Loosli and Kiyoshi Naruse's lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Discovery and characterisation of gene by environment and epistatic genetic effects in a vertebrate model
Phenotypic variation arises from the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. However, disentangling these interactions for complex traits remains challenging in observational cohorts such...
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May 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We have updated our preprint on GxE and epipstatic interactions in vertebrates, lead authors Bettina Welz and @saulpierotti.bsky.social, a collaboration between my lab, @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social, Felix Loosli and Kiyoshi Naruse's lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I attended the exciting symposium organized by @floravincent.bsky.social @mwdorr.bsky.social, @nicoledubilier.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & Susanna Coelho
LOTs of takeaways from the Symposium (from biology to climate change)
🚨Here are a few important ones in my listicle below 👇
LOTs of takeaways from the Symposium (from biology to climate change)
🚨Here are a few important ones in my listicle below 👇
May 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I attended the exciting symposium organized by @floravincent.bsky.social @mwdorr.bsky.social, @nicoledubilier.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & Susanna Coelho
LOTs of takeaways from the Symposium (from biology to climate change)
🚨Here are a few important ones in my listicle below 👇
LOTs of takeaways from the Symposium (from biology to climate change)
🚨Here are a few important ones in my listicle below 👇
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New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find
Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...
phys.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thanks for all the great discussions - @msarscentre.bsky.social is a one-of-kind research environment ! and very sunny in my limited sampling..
How does temperature impact development? 🌡️ Michael Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social from @embl.org shared his integrated approach to revealing the relationship between temperature stress and developmental rate in fishes 🐟🐠 Thank you for a great talk and discussions! 👏
April 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Thanks for all the great discussions - @msarscentre.bsky.social is a one-of-kind research environment ! and very sunny in my limited sampling..
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How does temperature impact development? 🌡️ Michael Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social from @embl.org shared his integrated approach to revealing the relationship between temperature stress and developmental rate in fishes 🐟🐠 Thank you for a great talk and discussions! 👏
April 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
How does temperature impact development? 🌡️ Michael Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social from @embl.org shared his integrated approach to revealing the relationship between temperature stress and developmental rate in fishes 🐟🐠 Thank you for a great talk and discussions! 👏
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I am hiring for a research technician role in my new lab at UC Irvine studying how transcription factors control cell identity. If you know any graduating undergrads or postbacs looking for a position, please spread the word! Apply by May 9 for full consideration. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09594
Junior / Assistant Specialist: Kim Lab, Developmental & Cell Biology
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
April 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I am hiring for a research technician role in my new lab at UC Irvine studying how transcription factors control cell identity. If you know any graduating undergrads or postbacs looking for a position, please spread the word! Apply by May 9 for full consideration. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09594
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We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
April 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
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EMBOMtg Paris May 6-9
@aydoganlab.bsky.social @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social @brunetlab.bsky.social @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social @mwdorr.bsky.social @beyerlab.bsky.social @franckp.bsky.social @janereznick.bsky.social @olmedo-lab.bsky.social @perez-carrasco.bsky.social
meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev...
@aydoganlab.bsky.social @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social @brunetlab.bsky.social @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social @mwdorr.bsky.social @beyerlab.bsky.social @franckp.bsky.social @janereznick.bsky.social @olmedo-lab.bsky.social @perez-carrasco.bsky.social
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Developmental timing across species: From mechanisms to evolutionary insights
Like choreography, development consists of a highly ordered suite of steps and transitions. Modifying developmental tempo can affect final size and composition of tissues, as well as their plasticity…
meetings.embo.org
March 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Want to start an independent research group? ...with core funding, outstanding facilities & a curiosity-driven culture? Join us at @embl.org
We are recruiting across research themes, inc (epi)genomics, human dev bio, predictive modelling & neurobiology👇
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We are recruiting across research themes, inc (epi)genomics, human dev bio, predictive modelling & neurobiology👇
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Group Leader - Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Adaptation
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated scientist to establish and lead an independent research laboratory at the EMBL Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit in Rome. EMBL provides a unique environmen...
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February 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Want to start an independent research group? ...with core funding, outstanding facilities & a curiosity-driven culture? Join us at @embl.org
We are recruiting across research themes, inc (epi)genomics, human dev bio, predictive modelling & neurobiology👇
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
We are recruiting across research themes, inc (epi)genomics, human dev bio, predictive modelling & neurobiology👇
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
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Still time to submit an Abstract for the @embl.org symposium on the Wild Frontiers of Model Systems !
If you’re into unconventional, non model systems, bringing more ecology in our understanding of biological processes, Lab-field interface this is for you.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#protistsonsky
If you’re into unconventional, non model systems, bringing more ecology in our understanding of biological processes, Lab-field interface this is for you.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#protistsonsky
Wild frontiers of model organisms
www.embl.org
January 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Still time to submit an Abstract for the @embl.org symposium on the Wild Frontiers of Model Systems !
If you’re into unconventional, non model systems, bringing more ecology in our understanding of biological processes, Lab-field interface this is for you.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#protistsonsky
If you’re into unconventional, non model systems, bringing more ecology in our understanding of biological processes, Lab-field interface this is for you.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#protistsonsky
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📢Job alert! #joboffer #plantscijobs
Are you interested in plant gene regulation and synthetic biology? I have two open #postdoc positions in my #EmmyNoether group @hhu.bsky.social. See below for more information (or visit www.synthetic-biology.hhu.de/available-po...).
Please share!
Are you interested in plant gene regulation and synthetic biology? I have two open #postdoc positions in my #EmmyNoether group @hhu.bsky.social. See below for more information (or visit www.synthetic-biology.hhu.de/available-po...).
Please share!
January 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📢Job alert! #joboffer #plantscijobs
Are you interested in plant gene regulation and synthetic biology? I have two open #postdoc positions in my #EmmyNoether group @hhu.bsky.social. See below for more information (or visit www.synthetic-biology.hhu.de/available-po...).
Please share!
Are you interested in plant gene regulation and synthetic biology? I have two open #postdoc positions in my #EmmyNoether group @hhu.bsky.social. See below for more information (or visit www.synthetic-biology.hhu.de/available-po...).
Please share!
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Xmas teaser: Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc to study "The Hallmarks of Thermal Adaptation" in Aquatic Chordates as part of the EIPOD-LinC program www.embl.org/about/info/p... and the partnership between @embl.org and @msarscentre.bsky.social.
EIPOD-LinC Fellowship Programme – Postdoctoral Programme
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December 23, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Xmas teaser: Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc to study "The Hallmarks of Thermal Adaptation" in Aquatic Chordates as part of the EIPOD-LinC program www.embl.org/about/info/p... and the partnership between @embl.org and @msarscentre.bsky.social.
Fish friends and beyond - I’m co-organizing a conference and it’d be great to see you there. Check it out!
Join us for a brand new EMBO/EML Symposium on 'Wild frontiers of model organisms' in April 2025 ❗
Bottom line:
- great line up of speakers: M. McFall-Ngai, Jb Raina, M. Prakash, E Santos etc...
- to explore old models but in new context or ways of building new model systems
s.embl.org/ees25-02 1/n
Bottom line:
- great line up of speakers: M. McFall-Ngai, Jb Raina, M. Prakash, E Santos etc...
- to explore old models but in new context or ways of building new model systems
s.embl.org/ees25-02 1/n
Wild frontiers of model organisms
s.embl.org
December 19, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Fish friends and beyond - I’m co-organizing a conference and it’d be great to see you there. Check it out!
Behind in posting, but thinking back to sunnier months…we had a great scientific retreat on theory in biology, trajectories, timing and environmentally-sensitive growth with our friends in the Vu lab and S. Werner. Thanks to Soham for the excellent photo!
December 10, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Behind in posting, but thinking back to sunnier months…we had a great scientific retreat on theory in biology, trajectories, timing and environmentally-sensitive growth with our friends in the Vu lab and S. Werner. Thanks to Soham for the excellent photo!
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Join us for a brand new EMBO/EML Symposium on 'Wild frontiers of model organisms' in April 2025 ❗
Bottom line:
- great line up of speakers: M. McFall-Ngai, Jb Raina, M. Prakash, E Santos etc...
- to explore old models but in new context or ways of building new model systems
s.embl.org/ees25-02 1/n
Bottom line:
- great line up of speakers: M. McFall-Ngai, Jb Raina, M. Prakash, E Santos etc...
- to explore old models but in new context or ways of building new model systems
s.embl.org/ees25-02 1/n
Wild frontiers of model organisms
s.embl.org
December 4, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Join us for a brand new EMBO/EML Symposium on 'Wild frontiers of model organisms' in April 2025 ❗
Bottom line:
- great line up of speakers: M. McFall-Ngai, Jb Raina, M. Prakash, E Santos etc...
- to explore old models but in new context or ways of building new model systems
s.embl.org/ees25-02 1/n
Bottom line:
- great line up of speakers: M. McFall-Ngai, Jb Raina, M. Prakash, E Santos etc...
- to explore old models but in new context or ways of building new model systems
s.embl.org/ees25-02 1/n
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Out now in Dev Cell! scRNAseq trajectories describe the cascade of gene expression as cells differentiate, but turning them into a clear understanding of the underlying biology of a cell type's development remains challenging. authors.elsevier.com/c/1k9qj5Sx5g... (1/)
November 26, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Out now in Dev Cell! scRNAseq trajectories describe the cascade of gene expression as cells differentiate, but turning them into a clear understanding of the underlying biology of a cell type's development remains challenging. authors.elsevier.com/c/1k9qj5Sx5g... (1/)
My lab is looking for a postdoc shared with @OliverStegle (incoming). Join us to design ambitious multi-sample single-cell experiments in developing embryos, model temporal response patterns, test predictions.
Open to different backgrounds and expertise. If you’re interested, get in touch soon!
Open to different backgrounds and expertise. If you’re interested, get in touch soon!
December 23, 2023 at 9:58 AM
My lab is looking for a postdoc shared with @OliverStegle (incoming). Join us to design ambitious multi-sample single-cell experiments in developing embryos, model temporal response patterns, test predictions.
Open to different backgrounds and expertise. If you’re interested, get in touch soon!
Open to different backgrounds and expertise. If you’re interested, get in touch soon!
Very thankful to the anonymous reviewers, whose input added new dimensions to our study:
- new sci-rna-seq experiments for 🥶 and atf6 mutants
- upr mutant fails to accelerate development at high temperature 🤯
- explicit DE testing of temperature (not stage) responsive genes
- new sci-rna-seq experiments for 🥶 and atf6 mutants
- upr mutant fails to accelerate development at high temperature 🤯
- explicit DE testing of temperature (not stage) responsive genes
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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November 28, 2023 at 5:47 PM
Very thankful to the anonymous reviewers, whose input added new dimensions to our study:
- new sci-rna-seq experiments for 🥶 and atf6 mutants
- upr mutant fails to accelerate development at high temperature 🤯
- explicit DE testing of temperature (not stage) responsive genes
- new sci-rna-seq experiments for 🥶 and atf6 mutants
- upr mutant fails to accelerate development at high temperature 🤯
- explicit DE testing of temperature (not stage) responsive genes