At a glance...
Contributor on preLights: a preprint highlighting initiative from 'The Company of Biologists'
Coordinator for preLights peer support activity, as a member in the preLights Ambassador scheme
International Representative for 'Young Embryologist Network' (YEN)
Participations in March for science
preLights (i.e. community review for preprints in the form of a 'news and views' type article)
F2 segregation analysis: the ‘Formula 1 grand prix' of experiments to establish genotype-phenotype correlations
preLights https://doi.org/10.1242/prelights.37723 (co-authored with Jennifer Ann Black)
Highlighted preprint, 'Ali Seleit, Ian Brettell, Tomas Fitzgerald, Carina Vibe, Felix Loosli, Joachim Wittbrodt, Kiyoshi Naruse, Ewan Birney, Alexander Aulehla (2024). Modular control of time and space during vertebrate axis segmentation.
bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.30.555457v1'
Highlighted preprint, 'Jakob Gierten, Bettina Welz, Tomas Fitzgerald, Thomas Thumberger, Oliver Hummel, Adrien Leger, Philipp Weber, David Hassel, Norbert Hübner, Ewan Birney, Joachim Wittbrodt (2024). Natural genetic variation quantitatively regulates heart rate and dimension.
bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.01.555906v2'.
Diversity: the next frontier. These are the challenges of the STEM field. Its mission: to tackle global problems; to seek out new answers and new questions; to boldly go into a future where all voices are heard!
preLights https://doi.org/10.1242/prelights.35717 (co-authored with preLights community manager Reinier Prosee)
Highlighted preprint, 'Reena Debray, Emily A. Dewald-Wang, Katherine K. Ennis (2023). Mentoring practices predictive of doctoral student outcomes in a biological sciences cohort.
bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.18.553806v2'.
These cells are made for walking, up a friction-gradient they move, One of these days these cells are gonna crawl away from you.
preLights https://doi.org/10.1242/prelights.34966
Highlighted preprint, 'Adam Shellard, Peter A. E. Hampshire, Namid R. Stillman, Christina Dix, Richard Thorogate, Albane Imbert, Guillaume Charras, Ricard Alert, Roberto Mayor (2023). Frictiotaxis underlies adhesion-independent durotaxis.
bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.01.543217v1'.
May the (3D map of the) force be with you, and guide you through the labyrinth of embryonic development.
preLights https://doi.org/10.1242/prelights.34464
Highlighted preprint, 'Sacha Ichbiah, Fabrice Delbary, Alex McDougall, Rémi Dumollard, Hervé Turlier (2023). Embryo mechanics cartography: inference of 3D force atlases from fluorescence microscopy.
bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.12.536641v1'.
To ‘big embryo’ (BE), or not to BE, that’s the question.
preLights https://doi.org/10.1242/prelights.34203
Highlighted preprint, 'Xueying C. Li, Lautaro Gandara, Måns Ekelöf, Kerstin Richter, Theodore Alexandrov, and Justin Crocker (2022). Laboratory evolution of flies to morphogen dosage via rapid maternal changes reveals predictable outcomes.
bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.28.509860v2'.
Roses are red, violets are blue, when the disk proper grows, hippo stretches peripodial epithelium too.
preLights https://doi.org/10.1242/prelights.34010
Highlighted preprint, 'Sophia Friesen, Iswar K. Hariharan (2023). Coordinated growth of linked epithelia is mediated by the Hippo pathway.
bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.26.530099v1'.
Self-organization and spontaneous symmetry-breaking allow the annual killifish embryos to resume normal development after the “summer break”.
preLights https://doi.org/10.1242/prelights.29520
Highlighted preprint, 'Philip B. Abitua, Deniz C. Aksel, Alexander F. Schier (2021). Axis formation in annual killifish: Nodal coordinates morphogenesis in absence of Huluwa prepatterning.
bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.16.440199v1'.
EMBO | EMBL Symposium: The organism and its environment
This preList contains preprints discussed during the 'EMBO | EMBL Symposium: The organism and its environment', organised at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (May 2023). https://prelights.biologists.com/prelists/embo-embl-symposium-the-organism-and-its-environment/
19th International Congress of Developmental Biology.
This preList contains preprints discussed during the '19th International Congress of Developmental Biology', organised by the ISDB in Algarve, Portugal (Oct 2022). https://prelights.biologists.com/prelists/19th-international-congress-of-developmental-biology/
Meeting report
19th International Congress of Developmental Biology ISDB2021. https://thenode.biologists.com/meeting-report-19th-international-congress-of-developmental-biology-isdb2021/meeting-reports/ (along with Niveda Udaykumar)
JCS Journal Meeting 2024: Diversity and Evolution in Cell Biology, in Spain. https://www.biologists.com/stories/jcs-journal-meeting-2024-diversity-and-evolution-in-cell-biology-in-spain/