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Sudipta Mukherjee
@sudimukherjee.bsky.social
Tissue mechanics and brain development @EBM @FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
PhD @Franze lab @University of Cambridge
Masters @Sonawane lab @TIFR Mumbai
Happy to have been part of such an amazing team of scientists! If you are curious about how stiffness regulates neuronal maturation, give this a read.
#xenopus #mechanobiology
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
An excellent opportunity to do your PhD in a fantastic lab with an incredible mentor!
The Chancellors Studentship is an excellent opportunity to do your PhD in the UK. If you are interested in doing your PhD at the interface between physics, neurobiology and mechanobiology, please get in touch.

warwick.ac.uk/services/dc/...
Warwick PGR Scholarship Competitions
warwick.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Zelda's Link: The role of gene activity-switching transcription factor Zelda in controlling tissue regeneration

📷 Anish Bose et al‪ @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social lab @uofillinois.bsky.social
in @science.org ScienceAdvances

➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with
John Ankers
August 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Huge congratulations!!!
Huge congratulations to Anish Bose @anishbose.bsky.social for winning the Development talk award at the International Society for Regenerative Biology meeting!! Presented by Elly Tanaka.
August 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Thanks,DionnHargreaves LabWoolner @dev-journal.bsky.social for highlighting our preprint! Curious how mechanical and chemical signaling guides axons or how frogs are excellent for this question? @franzelab.bsky.social @evapillai.bsky.social🐸🧠 check it out #xenopus #Devbio #mechanobiology
Thank you Dionn Hargreaves, Sarah Woolner & @dev-journal.bsky.social for highlighting our @sudimukherjee.bsky.social @franzelab.bsky.social preprint! Chuffed to see it engaged with through fresh eyes! 🙌

Interested in how mechanical & chemical signals shape tissue development? Give it a look!
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In preprints: unpicking chemical and mechanical crosstalk for axonal pathfinding

Dionn Hargreaves and Sarah Woolner @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social‬ discuss the #preprint from @evapillai.bsky.social‬ ‪@sudimukherjee.bsky.social‬ @franzelab.bsky.social‬ et al.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
June 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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So excited that our latest work is out! We have been working to understand how damaged tissue exits regeneration and returns to normal gene expression, and found a major role for the pioneer transcription factor Zelda in flies. Kudos to @anishbose.bsky.social @keatonschuster.bsky.social et al!
The pioneer transcription factor Zelda controls the exit from regeneration and restoration of patterning in Drosophila
The pioneer factor Zelda activates a specific set of developmental and structural genes to end tissue regeneration.
www.science.org
June 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
May 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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For an update on a set of recent preprints using gastruloids to investigate the interplay between morphogenesis, gene expression and physical parameters, on the robustness of patterning:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
In preprints: exploring developmental robustness and timing with gastruloids
How developmental processes are coordinated in time and space to ensure the robust formation of complex, functional patterns during embryogenesis remains an outstanding question. Investigating this in...
journals.biologists.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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🤩🤩 Check out this selection of amazing images on the Node! #devbio
thenode.biologists.com/grs-developm...
May 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Want to engage with the #mechanobiology community? Why not join this group? Just drop me a DM and I´ll add you.
go.bsky.app/G5cQqYT
November 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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High impact, small size.

We welcome papers that address findings from a single set of experiments, or that are substantial enough to stand alone in 1,500 words or fewer.

Find out more 👇
eLife Latest: Publish in a format that fits
Alongside Research Articles, eLife also publishes scientific discoveries in the form of Tools and Resources papers, Research Advances and Short Reports.
elifesciences.org
April 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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“Our comprehensive atlas serves as a valuable resource to the cardiovascular and regeneration scientific communities and their ongoing efforts to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying vertebrate heart regeneration.”

New work from Ying Su Lab 🇨🇳
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An organ-wide spatiotemporal transcriptomic and cellular atlas of the regenerating zebrafish heart - Nature Communications
Adult zebrafish possess the ability to regenerate injured hearts through a complex orchestration of molecular and cellular activities. Here, the authors present a single cell and spatially-resolved at...
www.nature.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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“Together, our results establish this optogenetic toolkit as a potent experimental platform to rapidly, directly, and adjustably activate FGF, BMP, and Nodal signaling in zebrafish embryos.”

New work from @leanneiannucci.bsky.social & @katwrog.bsky.social 🔥
An optogenetic toolkit for robust activation of FGF, BMP, and Nodal signaling in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649426v1
April 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Are material phase transitions more than simple regulators of tissue deformability? Check our latest work uncovering that rigidity transitions can trigger cell polarity! Congratulations to @laura-rustarazo.bsky.social , @crisp-c.bsky.social and Adrián for leading this work!
🎉 Excited to share our new work: “Adhesion-driven tissue rigidification triggers epithelial cell polarity”, now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social !

A huge thank you to @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social, Bernat, @crisp-c.bsky.social, Adrián, and everyone involved! 🙌

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March 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Nervous system of a five-day-old zebrafish larva. Credit to Dr. Nathan Martin of @plavickilab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
March 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Proteins that allow water to move in and out of cells help shape the development of new blood vessels.
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March 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Hyaluronic acid deposition & a soft ECM promote digit regeneration in mice. 🐁

@jontytownson.bsky.social covers the first #preprint from the @storerlab.bsky.social delving into the importance of the ECM in wound regeneration in mice.

#preLight ⬇️ 👀
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/h...
Hyaluronic Acid and Emergent Tissue Mechanics Orchestrate Digit Tip Regeneration - preLights
Mui and team show hyaluronic acid deposition and a soft ECM promote digit regeneration in mice.
prelights.biologists.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Check out these feather buds on the chicken embryo's wing! Our latest study @plosbiology.org reveals that temporary inhibition of sonic hedgehog signalling transforms feathers into simple, protofeather-like structures—similar to those of their dinosaur ancestors🔬🦖🧪

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
March 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Researchers at the Crick have found that pregnancy in mice leads to the irreversible growth of their small intestine.

www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
Pregnancy irreversibly remodels the mouse intestine
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and prepare ...
www.crick.ac.uk
March 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Prof. Tomohisa Toda erhält den Joseph-Altman-Ward 🏆 Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Toda untersucht den Alterungsprozess des menschlichen Gehirns anhand von langlebigen zellulären Komponenten. Der Preis ist mit 10.000 US-Dollar dotiert.

👇 Mehr erfahren: www.fau.de/2025/03/news...
Tomohisa Toda mit Joseph-Altman-Award geehrt
Tomohisa Toda, Professor für neurale Epigenomik an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, erhält den Joseph-Altman-Award.
www.fau.de
March 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Issue 5 is complete!

On the cover: A 3D reconstruction from a light-sheet fluorescent microscopy image stack depicts parallel networks of vessels (PECAM1+, CD31, magenta) and nerves (PRPH+, yellow) in a human heart at 10.0 post-conceptional weeks. See De Bono et al.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
March 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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3D reconstruction of a 3-day-old #zebrafish heart beating. Credit to Michael Weber (prev. @mpi-cbg.de). #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
March 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Recent work from our lab: Niepukolie Nipu shows that methylene blue, at recommended concentrations used in embryo medium, affects metabolism and behaviour in larvae. These findings point to an overlooked confound relevant to larval zebrafish use in (eco)toxicity testing and the zebrafish community.
March 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Happy to share our review on methodology for measuring and manipulating mechanical forces with specific focus on developmental biology! Congrats to authors @clemvilleneuve.bsky.social @mccreery.bsky.social and hats off to the community for developing awesome tools www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Measuring and manipulating mechanical forces during development - Nature Cell Biology
This Review discusses the recent advances in experimental approaches to interrogate the mechanical forces that mediate tissue deformations during development, highlighting the insights afforded at bot...
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The next set of Gulmohar talks is here!

We have Kirti Gupta from @rashmi-priya.bsky.social lab at @crick.ac.uk and @nehaghosh.bsky.social from Treisman lab at NYU School of Medicine.

🗓️March 11
⏰6 PM IST

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February 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM