Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez
@rodrigofg.bsky.social
Epithelial morphogenesis, microscopy and image analysis. Cytoskeleton and cell adhesion. Author of pyjamas.readthedocs.io and bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/junkie. Keeping a group of brilliant scientists entertained at www.quantmorph.ca. Also marathons and sushi.
Congrats to Dr. @negberry.bsky.social , who successfully defended her PhD in @bme-uoft.bsky.social @utoronto.ca last week!! Negar and I had our annual career one-on-one today, and she showed up with this totally AMAZING present. If you don’t yet, you should follow her: she is onto great things!!
October 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Congrats to Dr. @negberry.bsky.social , who successfully defended her PhD in @bme-uoft.bsky.social @utoronto.ca last week!! Negar and I had our annual career one-on-one today, and she showed up with this totally AMAZING present. If you don’t yet, you should follow her: she is onto great things!!
To celebrate the summer, our ReSCU-Net paper is out @jcb.org !! Work led by our dungeon master @ray-hawkins.bsky.social, developing a novel neural network architecture and applying it to explore the role of gap junctions in embryonic wound healing in #Drosophila 🧪.
shorturl.at/xNRKn
shorturl.at/xNRKn
August 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
To celebrate the summer, our ReSCU-Net paper is out @jcb.org !! Work led by our dungeon master @ray-hawkins.bsky.social, developing a novel neural network architecture and applying it to explore the role of gap junctions in embryonic wound healing in #Drosophila 🧪.
shorturl.at/xNRKn
shorturl.at/xNRKn
BC legislature
July 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
BC legislature
Victoria, BC
July 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Victoria, BC
We still have spots available for our Mechanobiology Workshop in Baeza, Spain, October 21-23. Please, share widely. If you want to attend, please submit your application ASAP, so that we can finalize the program (several talks will be selected from abstracts), and assign the $ for trainee support.
July 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We still have spots available for our Mechanobiology Workshop in Baeza, Spain, October 21-23. Please, share widely. If you want to attend, please submit your application ASAP, so that we can finalize the program (several talks will be selected from abstracts), and assign the $ for trainee support.
pyjamas.readthedos.io with ReSCU-Nets (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) !!
June 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
pyjamas.readthedos.io with ReSCU-Nets (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) !!
It's a great day when your postdoc (Dr. Gordana Scepanovic) tells you that they were just offered a faculty position. Not to brag (maybe a little), but we have a 100% track record for postdocs going to faculty jobs. And we have open positions for candidates interested in quantitative cell biology!!
May 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It's a great day when your postdoc (Dr. Gordana Scepanovic) tells you that they were just offered a faculty position. Not to brag (maybe a little), but we have a 100% track record for postdocs going to faculty jobs. And we have open positions for candidates interested in quantitative cell biology!!
Sunday morning in Toronto 🏃♂️🏃♀️ #TorontoMarathon
May 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sunday morning in Toronto 🏃♂️🏃♀️ #TorontoMarathon
Interested in Developmental Mechanics??? We are organizing a mechanobiology workshop in Baeza, Spain, October 21-23, 2025. Come join us (and please help us spread the word)!!!
April 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Interested in Developmental Mechanics??? We are organizing a mechanobiology workshop in Baeza, Spain, October 21-23, 2025. Come join us (and please help us spread the word)!!!
Rapamycin ... not so good for your wounds 🧪 #drosophila #devbio
January 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Rapamycin ... not so good for your wounds 🧪 #drosophila #devbio
Paper published!!! Tremendous work by Gordana Scepanovic, with key contributions by @negberry.bsky.social and @krothphd.bsky.social. We ask why is mTor signalling necessary for rapid wound repair. 🧪 #drosophila #devbio
Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kS2e5Sx5g...
Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kS2e5Sx5g...
January 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Paper published!!! Tremendous work by Gordana Scepanovic, with key contributions by @negberry.bsky.social and @krothphd.bsky.social. We ask why is mTor signalling necessary for rapid wound repair. 🧪 #drosophila #devbio
Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kS2e5Sx5g...
Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kS2e5Sx5g...
rosemary and caramelized onion sourdough bread …
January 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
rosemary and caramelized onion sourdough bread …
... and Ji created a computer model of the wound healing response with molecular resolution.
January 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
... and Ji created a computer model of the wound healing response with molecular resolution.
There are a few fun technical developments here: Ana Maria set up a technique to quantify actin rigidity in living embryos using a spinning disk confocal:
January 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
There are a few fun technical developments here: Ana Maria set up a technique to quantify actin rigidity in living embryos using a spinning disk confocal:
Happy New Year!!
To celebrate 2025, here is our new pre-print showing a key role for cofilin and actin turnover in embryonic wound healing ... by modulating actin rigidity!! Work led by @anamcarmo.bsky.social, with key contributions by Ji Hong Sayo. 🪰🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
To celebrate 2025, here is our new pre-print showing a key role for cofilin and actin turnover in embryonic wound healing ... by modulating actin rigidity!! Work led by @anamcarmo.bsky.social, with key contributions by Ji Hong Sayo. 🪰🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Happy New Year!!
To celebrate 2025, here is our new pre-print showing a key role for cofilin and actin turnover in embryonic wound healing ... by modulating actin rigidity!! Work led by @anamcarmo.bsky.social, with key contributions by Ji Hong Sayo. 🪰🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
To celebrate 2025, here is our new pre-print showing a key role for cofilin and actin turnover in embryonic wound healing ... by modulating actin rigidity!! Work led by @anamcarmo.bsky.social, with key contributions by Ji Hong Sayo. 🪰🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Exactly. Good thing we have cookies 🍪
December 24, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Exactly. Good thing we have cookies 🍪
Ode to Denmark
December 23, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Ode to Denmark
Lard and cinnamon cookies 🍪
December 22, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Lard and cinnamon cookies 🍪
We are declaring today #ReSCU-NetThursday!!!
@ray-hawkins.bsky.social
@negberry.bsky.social
@krothphd.bsky.social
🧪 #Drosophila
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@ray-hawkins.bsky.social
@negberry.bsky.social
@krothphd.bsky.social
🧪 #Drosophila
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 5, 2024 at 11:22 AM
We are declaring today #ReSCU-NetThursday!!!
@ray-hawkins.bsky.social
@negberry.bsky.social
@krothphd.bsky.social
🧪 #Drosophila
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@ray-hawkins.bsky.social
@negberry.bsky.social
@krothphd.bsky.social
🧪 #Drosophila
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
What is cooler than neural networks? Recurrent neural networks!!! Take a look at our pre-print describing #ReSCU-Nets, a recurrent nn architecture to segment and track biological structures from microscopy movies. Work led by the great @ray-hawkins.bsky.social ... 🧪🪰
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 4, 2024 at 3:51 PM
What is cooler than neural networks? Recurrent neural networks!!! Take a look at our pre-print describing #ReSCU-Nets, a recurrent nn architecture to segment and track biological structures from microscopy movies. Work led by the great @ray-hawkins.bsky.social ... 🧪🪰
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Officially kicking off the holiday season …
December 1, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Officially kicking off the holiday season …
Since I have so many new friends 😄, I thought I'd advertise this. Together with @pritiagarwal.bsky.social and Lance Davidson, we run a Developmental Mechanics seminar series on Zoom (originally started by Ronen Zaidel-Bar). This coming Thursday, we have our last session for 2024. Join us!!
November 19, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Since I have so many new friends 😄, I thought I'd advertise this. Together with @pritiagarwal.bsky.social and Lance Davidson, we run a Developmental Mechanics seminar series on Zoom (originally started by Ronen Zaidel-Bar). This coming Thursday, we have our last session for 2024. Join us!!
Last, but not least, we are also interested in the collective cell behaviours that contribute to the internalization of the mesectoderm, a group of neuronal and glial progenitors that form the ventral midline.
November 13, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Last, but not least, we are also interested in the collective cell behaviours that contribute to the internalization of the mesectoderm, a group of neuronal and glial progenitors that form the ventral midline.
We also investigate how cardiac progenitors move collectively to form the heart tube. #Drosophila 🧪
November 12, 2024 at 2:45 PM
We also investigate how cardiac progenitors move collectively to form the heart tube. #Drosophila 🧪