Vermot Lab
@vermotlab.bsky.social
We study mechanotransduction during heart valve morphogenesis, blood vessel formation and left-right asymmetry in zebrafish at #ImperialCollegeLondon
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🧠 Join us @uzh-ch.bsky.social ! We are a new lab looking for PhDs, Postdocs & Master’s students interested in studying how human neural systems emerge & go awry using brain organoids, light-sheet imaging & genomics. 🚀 Deadline for LSZGS 1st Nov! www.lifescience-graduateschool.uzh.ch/en.html.
October 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🧠 Join us @uzh-ch.bsky.social ! We are a new lab looking for PhDs, Postdocs & Master’s students interested in studying how human neural systems emerge & go awry using brain organoids, light-sheet imaging & genomics. 🚀 Deadline for LSZGS 1st Nov! www.lifescience-graduateschool.uzh.ch/en.html.
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🔬For 22 years, we have been organizing #Mifobio "Functional Microscopy for Biology" the @cnrs.fr thematic school.
🎓 Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Workshops. The overall theme concerns #biological_imaging in its most interdisciplinary aspects.
👉 Program: imabio-cnrs.fr
#GDRImaBio #Mifobio2025
🎓 Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Workshops. The overall theme concerns #biological_imaging in its most interdisciplinary aspects.
👉 Program: imabio-cnrs.fr
#GDRImaBio #Mifobio2025
October 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
🔬For 22 years, we have been organizing #Mifobio "Functional Microscopy for Biology" the @cnrs.fr thematic school.
🎓 Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Workshops. The overall theme concerns #biological_imaging in its most interdisciplinary aspects.
👉 Program: imabio-cnrs.fr
#GDRImaBio #Mifobio2025
🎓 Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Workshops. The overall theme concerns #biological_imaging in its most interdisciplinary aspects.
👉 Program: imabio-cnrs.fr
#GDRImaBio #Mifobio2025
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Out @natcomms.nature.com:
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀
Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).
Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eIJm5
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀
Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).
Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eIJm5
September 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Out @natcomms.nature.com:
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀
Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).
Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eIJm5
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀
Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).
Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eIJm5
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Back from the London Zebrafish Research Network — a truly inspiring afternoon. Many thanks to @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social, @kkalyviotis.bsky.social and Eleni for putting together such an interactive programme, full of excellent talks - Tim 👏 - and great discussions. Zebbie research at its best!
October 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Back from the London Zebrafish Research Network — a truly inspiring afternoon. Many thanks to @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social, @kkalyviotis.bsky.social and Eleni for putting together such an interactive programme, full of excellent talks - Tim 👏 - and great discussions. Zebbie research at its best!
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New publication | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Plasticity of ventricle position after heart looping in heterotaxy with right isomerism
The left/right position of ventricles needs to be maintained after heart looping, an unexpected step affected in heterotaxy.
www.science.org
September 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New publication | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️
More info below ⬇️
📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya
📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
#DevBio
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya
📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
#DevBio
September 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️
More info below ⬇️
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Our latest preprint! Into morphogenesis, Yap, ECM, signaling, vertex models, feedbacks/robustness? There is something here for everyone. We discovered a positive feedback loop that extends inner ear canals, and a built-in mechanism that shuts it down when morphogenesis is done. tinyurl.com/464wsjhd
September 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Our latest preprint! Into morphogenesis, Yap, ECM, signaling, vertex models, feedbacks/robustness? There is something here for everyone. We discovered a positive feedback loop that extends inner ear canals, and a built-in mechanism that shuts it down when morphogenesis is done. tinyurl.com/464wsjhd
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How do cells navigate up gradients of adhesive proteins?
🤔
Termed "Haptotaxis", this effect is ubiquitous in cell migration, but it's mechanism was poorly understood
We show that passive friction directs cells & explains complex trajectories on gradients
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🤔
Termed "Haptotaxis", this effect is ubiquitous in cell migration, but it's mechanism was poorly understood
We show that passive friction directs cells & explains complex trajectories on gradients
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
How do cells navigate up gradients of adhesive proteins?
🤔
Termed "Haptotaxis", this effect is ubiquitous in cell migration, but it's mechanism was poorly understood
We show that passive friction directs cells & explains complex trajectories on gradients
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🤔
Termed "Haptotaxis", this effect is ubiquitous in cell migration, but it's mechanism was poorly understood
We show that passive friction directs cells & explains complex trajectories on gradients
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
#Undergraduates #Postbacs @socdevbio.bsky.social is hosting a webinar Get Into Grad School September 21 at 3pm ET. Learn about doctoral programs, the key elements of a compelling grad school application, and the interview process. Register: bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
September 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
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Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️
August 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️
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🚨 Two weeks left to apply for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) Programme.
Apply by: 30 September 2025.
Ready to take the next step in your science career?
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
Apply by: 30 September 2025.
Ready to take the next step in your science career?
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
September 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🚨 Two weeks left to apply for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) Programme.
Apply by: 30 September 2025.
Ready to take the next step in your science career?
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
Apply by: 30 September 2025.
Ready to take the next step in your science career?
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
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.@ahxanjaved.bsky.social, @sarawickstrom.bsky.social & team discover that Piezo1 balances membrane & cortex tension to stabilize intercellular junctions & maintain the epithelial barrier.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess
September 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
.@ahxanjaved.bsky.social, @sarawickstrom.bsky.social & team discover that Piezo1 balances membrane & cortex tension to stabilize intercellular junctions & maintain the epithelial barrier.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess
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New preprint! 🚨 We uncover a slow adaptation to stretch that links star-bundling of keratin filaments with nuclear escape from its keratin cage. Led by @tomgolde.bsky.social 🙌
@IBECBarcelona
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@IBECBarcelona
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New preprint! 🚨 We uncover a slow adaptation to stretch that links star-bundling of keratin filaments with nuclear escape from its keratin cage. Led by @tomgolde.bsky.social 🙌
@IBECBarcelona
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@IBECBarcelona
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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)
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Very happy to share our new study from CAM team @ijmonod.bsky.social and @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social (MPZPM) on the unanticipated “hidden fluidity” in jammed epithelia. Congrats to Yuan Shen and great collaboration with Walter Kob.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The complex microscopic dynamics of cells in high-density epithelial tissues
Epithelial tissues line the surfaces of vital organs and are often densely packed in a disordered, mechanically arrested state, referred to as jammed or glassy state. While collective migration at low...
www.biorxiv.org
September 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Very happy to share our new study from CAM team @ijmonod.bsky.social and @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social (MPZPM) on the unanticipated “hidden fluidity” in jammed epithelia. Congrats to Yuan Shen and great collaboration with Walter Kob.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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OK--fluorescent protein friends. We want an antibody to TagRFP that works in immunofluorescence. Any suggestions? Re-post please
September 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
OK--fluorescent protein friends. We want an antibody to TagRFP that works in immunofluorescence. Any suggestions? Re-post please
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The first paper of our lab is finally out, and I feel very proud and grateful to our wonderful team! @Jannik Rothkegel, @Sylvia Kaufmann, @Michaela Wilsch-Braueninger, @Catarina Lopes <3
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Purine Molecular Interactions Determine Anisotropic Shape of Zebrafish Biogenic Crystals
Many organisms self-organize crystals for vision, pigmentation, or storage. In zebrafish, iridophores produce anisotropic crystals in iridosomes. Using imaging and genetic tools, crystal growth is sh...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The first paper of our lab is finally out, and I feel very proud and grateful to our wonderful team! @Jannik Rothkegel, @Sylvia Kaufmann, @Michaela Wilsch-Braueninger, @Catarina Lopes <3
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods!
📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking
🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration
Let’s dive in! 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking
🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration
Let’s dive in! 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods!
📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking
🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration
Let’s dive in! 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking
🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration
Let’s dive in! 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Happy to see our work, led by @ivanbassi.bsky.social, out today in @jem.org! #Zebrafish help us find new treatments for a #rare_disease affecting #lymphatic vessels! Congrats to all authors and thanks to #MDBRide4Rare, #ODC_UPenn, @erc.europa.eu for support @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social
Bassi et al. @karinayaniv.bsky.social @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social use #zebrafish to help identify new treatments for a severe lymphatic malformation. rupress.org/jem/article/...
#CardiovascularBiology #HumanDiseaseGenetics
#CardiovascularBiology #HumanDiseaseGenetics
August 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Happy to see our work, led by @ivanbassi.bsky.social, out today in @jem.org! #Zebrafish help us find new treatments for a #rare_disease affecting #lymphatic vessels! Congrats to all authors and thanks to #MDBRide4Rare, #ODC_UPenn, @erc.europa.eu for support @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social
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Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
ki.se
June 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Join junior group leaders using #Drosophila to understand development, #CellBiology, #evolution and more at the EMBO Workshop on Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila, 21–27 June 2026 in Kolymbari, Greece.
Deadline: 3 November
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
#EMBOevents #GeneSky 🧪
Deadline: 3 November
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
#EMBOevents #GeneSky 🧪
Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila
The principal theme of the EMBO Workshop is the Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila. Supported by EMBO over four decades, this will be the 24th biennial “Crete meeting”. With the a…
meetings.embo.org
August 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Join junior group leaders using #Drosophila to understand development, #CellBiology, #evolution and more at the EMBO Workshop on Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila, 21–27 June 2026 in Kolymbari, Greece.
Deadline: 3 November
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
#EMBOevents #GeneSky 🧪
Deadline: 3 November
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
#EMBOevents #GeneSky 🧪
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🇬🇧 We are #hiring a Financial Assistant to join our admin team at Physics of Life! Do you thrive in an international environment and speak both English and German? We would love to hear from you!
Apply and learn more here: tud.link/rywtux
🗓️Application deadline: 21st August
#financejobs #dresden
Apply and learn more here: tud.link/rywtux
🗓️Application deadline: 21st August
#financejobs #dresden
🚨 #WeAreHiring! Leite das gerne an deine Kollegen weiter! Wir suchen eine/n Projektassistent/in für unser internationales Team bei Physics of Life! Bewerbt euch bis zum 21. August. Mehr Infos hier: tud.link/rywtux
#joboffer #jobalert #jobdestages #sachsenjobs #dresdenjobs
#joboffer #jobalert #jobdestages #sachsenjobs #dresdenjobs
August 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🇬🇧 We are #hiring a Financial Assistant to join our admin team at Physics of Life! Do you thrive in an international environment and speak both English and German? We would love to hear from you!
Apply and learn more here: tud.link/rywtux
🗓️Application deadline: 21st August
#financejobs #dresden
Apply and learn more here: tud.link/rywtux
🗓️Application deadline: 21st August
#financejobs #dresden
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🚨 We’re hiring. The Roman group study how cells communicate to keep organs healthy – and how this goes wrong in disease & ageing. Level A (Postdoc) | Clayton campus Apply by 8 Sept: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
August 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
🚨 We’re hiring. The Roman group study how cells communicate to keep organs healthy – and how this goes wrong in disease & ageing. Level A (Postdoc) | Clayton campus Apply by 8 Sept: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Thank you @the-node.bsky.social for inviting me to write a 'Behind the Story' piece on our recent study!
Exploring the Uncharted Waters of Endothelial Tip Cell Migration: A Story of Aquaporins, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Angiogenesis thenode.biologists.com/exploring-th...
Exploring the Uncharted Waters of Endothelial Tip Cell Migration: A Story of Aquaporins, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Angiogenesis thenode.biologists.com/exploring-th...
Exploring the Uncharted Waters of Endothelial Tip Cell Migration: A Story of Aquaporins, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Angiogenesis - the Node
Behind the Paper Story of “Combined forces of hydrostatic pressure and actin polymerisation drive endothelial tip cell migration and sprouting angiogenesis”.
thenode.biologists.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thank you @the-node.bsky.social for inviting me to write a 'Behind the Story' piece on our recent study!
Exploring the Uncharted Waters of Endothelial Tip Cell Migration: A Story of Aquaporins, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Angiogenesis thenode.biologists.com/exploring-th...
Exploring the Uncharted Waters of Endothelial Tip Cell Migration: A Story of Aquaporins, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Angiogenesis thenode.biologists.com/exploring-th...