Talya Dayton, PhD
@talyadayton.bsky.social
Group Leader @EMBLBarcelona | PD @TheCleversLab | PhD @MITBiology (Jacks lab) | B.A. @NewCollegeofFL | She/her | 🇵🇷🇺🇸🇪🇺| #Organoids, #Neuroendocrine cells
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#ScienceWithAView is back for Season 2
5️⃣ new episodes, each featuring 2 experts, to take you through the latest #PRBB research in cancer, genetics, Alzheimer’s, startups, and the connections between diet and mental health.
📅New episode every Thursday in November
5️⃣ new episodes, each featuring 2 experts, to take you through the latest #PRBB research in cancer, genetics, Alzheimer’s, startups, and the connections between diet and mental health.
📅New episode every Thursday in November
October 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#ScienceWithAView is back for Season 2
5️⃣ new episodes, each featuring 2 experts, to take you through the latest #PRBB research in cancer, genetics, Alzheimer’s, startups, and the connections between diet and mental health.
📅New episode every Thursday in November
5️⃣ new episodes, each featuring 2 experts, to take you through the latest #PRBB research in cancer, genetics, Alzheimer’s, startups, and the connections between diet and mental health.
📅New episode every Thursday in November
Our EMBL Barcelona lab is at #EESOrgan 2025! @embl.org
For the latest on #organoid models of #neuroendocrine #lungcancer don't miss posters 109 & 133 TODAY by Andrea Garcia & Heleen Jüngen
TOMORROW see posters 68, 80, 168, and 208 by Noah Candeli, Andrés Marco, Marina Cuenca, & Jackie Severino
For the latest on #organoid models of #neuroendocrine #lungcancer don't miss posters 109 & 133 TODAY by Andrea Garcia & Heleen Jüngen
TOMORROW see posters 68, 80, 168, and 208 by Noah Candeli, Andrés Marco, Marina Cuenca, & Jackie Severino
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Our EMBL Barcelona lab is at #EESOrgan 2025! @embl.org
For the latest on #organoid models of #neuroendocrine #lungcancer don't miss posters 109 & 133 TODAY by Andrea Garcia & Heleen Jüngen
TOMORROW see posters 68, 80, 168, and 208 by Noah Candeli, Andrés Marco, Marina Cuenca, & Jackie Severino
For the latest on #organoid models of #neuroendocrine #lungcancer don't miss posters 109 & 133 TODAY by Andrea Garcia & Heleen Jüngen
TOMORROW see posters 68, 80, 168, and 208 by Noah Candeli, Andrés Marco, Marina Cuenca, & Jackie Severino
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Happy to present for the first time my postdoc project, characterizing airway organoid architecture at the EMBO organoid conference #EESOrgan Stop by on Friday on poster #80!
@events.embl.org
@events.embl.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Happy to present for the first time my postdoc project, characterizing airway organoid architecture at the EMBO organoid conference #EESOrgan Stop by on Friday on poster #80!
@events.embl.org
@events.embl.org
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Pre-print alert 🚨
We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria?
The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria?
The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Innate immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum disrupt the blood-brain barrier
Plasmodium falciparum accumulation at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a hallmark of cerebral malaria, a life-threatening complication. Conversely, the contribution of the immune response to vascular ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Pre-print alert 🚨
We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria?
The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria?
The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Join us for hands-on training in Cancer Genomic Epidemiology! #CancerEpi2026
Gain the expertise to use the tools and approaches to detect cancer mutations, and inform equitable prevention.
🗓️ 16-18 February 2026
Apply by 3 November - bursaries available
📎 bit.ly/41mRDnD
#OncSky #GeneSky 🧪🖥️🧬
Gain the expertise to use the tools and approaches to detect cancer mutations, and inform equitable prevention.
🗓️ 16-18 February 2026
Apply by 3 November - bursaries available
📎 bit.ly/41mRDnD
#OncSky #GeneSky 🧪🖥️🧬
September 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Join us for hands-on training in Cancer Genomic Epidemiology! #CancerEpi2026
Gain the expertise to use the tools and approaches to detect cancer mutations, and inform equitable prevention.
🗓️ 16-18 February 2026
Apply by 3 November - bursaries available
📎 bit.ly/41mRDnD
#OncSky #GeneSky 🧪🖥️🧬
Gain the expertise to use the tools and approaches to detect cancer mutations, and inform equitable prevention.
🗓️ 16-18 February 2026
Apply by 3 November - bursaries available
📎 bit.ly/41mRDnD
#OncSky #GeneSky 🧪🖥️🧬
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@cuencam15.bsky.social synthesizes what was said today about using lightsheet in research based on her experiences in prior courses, in my lab and now at EMBL Barcelona. #LISH25 #LoPaT_alumni
August 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@cuencam15.bsky.social synthesizes what was said today about using lightsheet in research based on her experiences in prior courses, in my lab and now at EMBL Barcelona. #LISH25 #LoPaT_alumni
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We are happy to show one ourt first exciting papers. We have developed a blood-brain barrier model to study the disruptive effects caused by the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
First, congratulations to the fearless @liviapiatti.bsky.social and @alinabatzi.bsky.social
rdcu.be/ezBl7
First, congratulations to the fearless @liviapiatti.bsky.social and @alinabatzi.bsky.social
rdcu.be/ezBl7
Plasmodium falciparum egress disrupts endothelial junctions and activates JAK-STAT signaling in a microvascular 3D blood-brain barrier model
Nature Communications - Here the authors show that Plasmodium falciparum egress products disrupt endothelial barrier and activate JAK-STAT and interferon type response in a 3D blood-brain barrier...
rdcu.be
August 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
We are happy to show one ourt first exciting papers. We have developed a blood-brain barrier model to study the disruptive effects caused by the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
First, congratulations to the fearless @liviapiatti.bsky.social and @alinabatzi.bsky.social
rdcu.be/ezBl7
First, congratulations to the fearless @liviapiatti.bsky.social and @alinabatzi.bsky.social
rdcu.be/ezBl7
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🚨 Deadline extended!
You now have until August 8 to apply for the Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop (Jan 5–9, 2026) at Universidad Mayor in Santiago de Chile with the support of CZI @cziscience.bsky.social and @lisium-chile.bsky.social
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You now have until August 8 to apply for the Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop (Jan 5–9, 2026) at Universidad Mayor in Santiago de Chile with the support of CZI @cziscience.bsky.social and @lisium-chile.bsky.social
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Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop 2026 – lightsheetchile
lightsheetchile.cl
July 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🚨 Deadline extended!
You now have until August 8 to apply for the Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop (Jan 5–9, 2026) at Universidad Mayor in Santiago de Chile with the support of CZI @cziscience.bsky.social and @lisium-chile.bsky.social
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You now have until August 8 to apply for the Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop (Jan 5–9, 2026) at Universidad Mayor in Santiago de Chile with the support of CZI @cziscience.bsky.social and @lisium-chile.bsky.social
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Pre-print alert 🚨: We have developed 2D and 3D stable iPSC endothelial-differentiation models through dox inducible ETS expression. We demonstrate endothelial identity and used these models for studying malaria pathogenesis research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Pre-print alert 🚨: We have developed 2D and 3D stable iPSC endothelial-differentiation models through dox inducible ETS expression. We demonstrate endothelial identity and used these models for studying malaria pathogenesis research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🎙️ ¿Podrán los miniórganos del laboratorio sustituir a los modelos animales? En este capítulo del #PRBBPodcast #AbsolutosyRelativos, @talyadayton.bsky.social ( @embl.org ) nos habla de cómo usa organoides para estudiar órganos humanos bajo estrés. 🧫🧠
🎧 Escúchalo aquí 👉 tuit.cat/srtGj
🎧 Escúchalo aquí 👉 tuit.cat/srtGj
June 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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🎙️ ¿Podrán los miniórganos del laboratorio sustituir a los modelos animales? En este capítulo del #PRBBPodcast #AbsolutosyRelativos, @talyadayton.bsky.social ( @embl.org ) nos habla de cómo usa organoides para estudiar órganos humanos bajo estrés. 🧫🧠
🎧 Escúchalo aquí 👉 tuit.cat/srtGj
🎧 Escúchalo aquí 👉 tuit.cat/srtGj
June 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🎙️ ¿Podrán los miniórganos del laboratorio sustituir a los modelos animales? En este capítulo del #PRBBPodcast #AbsolutosyRelativos, @talyadayton.bsky.social ( @embl.org ) nos habla de cómo usa organoides para estudiar órganos humanos bajo estrés. 🧫🧠
🎧 Escúchalo aquí 👉 tuit.cat/srtGj
🎧 Escúchalo aquí 👉 tuit.cat/srtGj
Want to help shape a young & dynamic research group while using #organoids to ask how #chromatin dynamics, #cell_state, & the #exposome contribute to #neuroendocrine #cancer? Apply for a postdoc position in our lab @embl.org Barcelona! #cancer_models.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
April 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Want to help shape a young & dynamic research group while using #organoids to ask how #chromatin dynamics, #cell_state, & the #exposome contribute to #neuroendocrine #cancer? Apply for a postdoc position in our lab @embl.org Barcelona! #cancer_models.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
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The @embo.org practical course on #lightsheet #microscopy is back!
Join us in #Dresden for 2 weeks with #your #samples, try the complete line-up of #lightsheet microscopes, tackle big data image analysis, sample prep, OA hardware & much more
Apply now!
Repost 🙏
meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsm
Join us in #Dresden for 2 weeks with #your #samples, try the complete line-up of #lightsheet microscopes, tackle big data image analysis, sample prep, OA hardware & much more
Apply now!
Repost 🙏
meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsm
Light sheet microscopy
Light sheet microscopy is a technology that enables near-isotropic imaging of large biological specimens over time. It opens new avenues to study biological processes with unprecedented imaging speed…
meetings.embo.org
April 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The @embo.org practical course on #lightsheet #microscopy is back!
Join us in #Dresden for 2 weeks with #your #samples, try the complete line-up of #lightsheet microscopes, tackle big data image analysis, sample prep, OA hardware & much more
Apply now!
Repost 🙏
meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsm
Join us in #Dresden for 2 weeks with #your #samples, try the complete line-up of #lightsheet microscopes, tackle big data image analysis, sample prep, OA hardware & much more
Apply now!
Repost 🙏
meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsm
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Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab!
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
March 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab!
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
@cuencam15.bsky.social we’re excited to see you on bluesky and even more excited that you’ve joined the lab! Watch this space!
-Recently started my postdoc with @talyadayton.bsky.social at EMBL Barcelona, where I will explore the role of neuroendocrine cells in the growth of human lung organoids, with a tissue mechanics twist.
3/3
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March 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
@cuencam15.bsky.social we’re excited to see you on bluesky and even more excited that you’ve joined the lab! Watch this space!
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-Recently started my postdoc with @talyadayton.bsky.social at EMBL Barcelona, where I will explore the role of neuroendocrine cells in the growth of human lung organoids, with a tissue mechanics twist.
3/3
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January 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
-Recently started my postdoc with @talyadayton.bsky.social at EMBL Barcelona, where I will explore the role of neuroendocrine cells in the growth of human lung organoids, with a tissue mechanics twist.
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Camila Weiss
(@cweissg.bsky.social ) submitted this curious amphipod we captured with Jose Palma and imaged in Chile during the EMBO Developmental Biology Practical Course. Go ahead and look at all the selected images and vote for your favourite!
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/11/v...
(@cweissg.bsky.social ) submitted this curious amphipod we captured with Jose Palma and imaged in Chile during the EMBO Developmental Biology Practical Course. Go ahead and look at all the selected images and vote for your favourite!
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/11/v...
March 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Camila Weiss
(@cweissg.bsky.social ) submitted this curious amphipod we captured with Jose Palma and imaged in Chile during the EMBO Developmental Biology Practical Course. Go ahead and look at all the selected images and vote for your favourite!
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/11/v...
(@cweissg.bsky.social ) submitted this curious amphipod we captured with Jose Palma and imaged in Chile during the EMBO Developmental Biology Practical Course. Go ahead and look at all the selected images and vote for your favourite!
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/11/v...
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How do embryos ensure precise tissue patterning? It’s all about timing cell divisions! Our new preprint reveals how cell proliferation syncs with signaling oscillations to regulate precision of somite formation and growth. Check the full story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
How do embryos ensure precise tissue patterning? It’s all about timing cell divisions! Our new preprint reveals how cell proliferation syncs with signaling oscillations to regulate precision of somite formation and growth. Check the full story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Imagine being an engineer asked to build a material that withstands 100% strain, 150 times per minute—for a lifetime. Now imagine having to build it while it’s already functioning. That’s exactly what the heart does.
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 9:54 AM
Imagine being an engineer asked to build a material that withstands 100% strain, 150 times per minute—for a lifetime. Now imagine having to build it while it’s already functioning. That’s exactly what the heart does.
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhD
Find out how video games helped scientists visualise limb development.
Laura Aviñó-Esteban, PhD student at EMBL Barcelona and first author of a recently published study, explains how video games helped her solve the problem of fragmented limb dev. visualisation. 💻🧪
www.embl.org/news/science...
Laura Aviñó-Esteban, PhD student at EMBL Barcelona and first author of a recently published study, explains how video games helped her solve the problem of fragmented limb dev. visualisation. 💻🧪
www.embl.org/news/science...
March 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Find out how video games helped scientists visualise limb development.
Laura Aviñó-Esteban, PhD student at EMBL Barcelona and first author of a recently published study, explains how video games helped her solve the problem of fragmented limb dev. visualisation. 💻🧪
www.embl.org/news/science...
Laura Aviñó-Esteban, PhD student at EMBL Barcelona and first author of a recently published study, explains how video games helped her solve the problem of fragmented limb dev. visualisation. 💻🧪
www.embl.org/news/science...
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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
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...
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We are very excited that former Birnstiel Award laureate Kristina Stapornwongkul will return to the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social upon starting her own lab at @imbavienna.bsky.social.
www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/researc...
www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/researc...
Kristina Stapornwongkul to start research group at IMBA
Developmental biologist Kristina Stapornwongkul, currently a postdoctoral researcher at EMBL Barcelona, will join IMBA as group leader in autumn of 2025. The Stapornwongkul lab will study how the nutr...
www.oeaw.ac.at
March 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
We are very excited that former Birnstiel Award laureate Kristina Stapornwongkul will return to the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social upon starting her own lab at @imbavienna.bsky.social.
www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/researc...
www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/researc...
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Any master students interested in (live) volumetric imaging techniques, organoid culture, image analysis and/or micro-fabrication could drop me a line? Please share :)
March 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Any master students interested in (live) volumetric imaging techniques, organoid culture, image analysis and/or micro-fabrication could drop me a line? Please share :)
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Excited to share a recent preprint by Oliver Newsom, where we evaluate the functional contributions of serum for cancer cell proliferation. Inside:
A broadly applicable serum-free media,
Quantitative lipid uptake characterization,
Evidence lipid scavenging > synthesis for cancer cell proliferation.
A broadly applicable serum-free media,
Quantitative lipid uptake characterization,
Evidence lipid scavenging > synthesis for cancer cell proliferation.
Defined media reveals the essential role of lipid scavenging to support cancer cell proliferation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637975v1
February 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Excited to share a recent preprint by Oliver Newsom, where we evaluate the functional contributions of serum for cancer cell proliferation. Inside:
A broadly applicable serum-free media,
Quantitative lipid uptake characterization,
Evidence lipid scavenging > synthesis for cancer cell proliferation.
A broadly applicable serum-free media,
Quantitative lipid uptake characterization,
Evidence lipid scavenging > synthesis for cancer cell proliferation.
Reposted by Talya Dayton, PhD
