Joaquina Delas

Joaquina Delas

@joadelas.bsky.social

LMCB Group Leader at UCL and Wellcome Career Development Fellow. Cis-regulatory control of cell fate choice in development. https://delaslab.com/ Leading Edge Fellow. PrePrint Editor at Development

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Very excited to this out!

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org

Dynamical systems theory can be used for cell state mapping during cell fate decisions. This study by @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social &co presents a Dynamic Landscape Analysis, revealing how morphogen signals orchestrate #cellFate decisions during #neuralTube development. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4wPoVsn

Very excited to be heading to Huelva next week for #SEBD2026.

SEBD@sebioldev.bsky.social

Excited to welcome @joadelas.bsky.social to #SEBD2026 Her lab @ucl.ac.uk investigates the #epigenetic mechanisms that guide stem cell fate and neural development. Her research focuses on how #genomic regions and epigenetic regulators control cell differentiation during mammalian #development #devbio

Check out this recent InPreprints for @dev-journal.bsky.social by @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social

Jake Cornwall-Scoones@jcornwallscoones.bsky.social

How do small axolotls regenerate small limbs while big axolotls regenerate big ones? 🦎💪 Enjoyed writing about the stellar preprint from Tardivo and Olmeda from the Tanaka and @ehannezo.bsky.social labs, pushing the limits of scaling in this remarkable system journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

This has been a very fun initiative. To many more!

preLights@prelights.bsky.social

What #preprints have the @dev-journal.bsky.social Preprint Editors been reading? Since June, they've been showcasing standout #DevBio preprints through the ‘In preprints’ series. We've collected the ones published (so far!) in one #preList ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/prelists/in-...

If you are curious about quantitative and predictive cell date decisions landscapes but our 14 figure paper seemed just a bit daunting, have a look at James' linked summary.

James Briscoe@jamesbriscoe.bsky.social

Our latest paper on building models of cell fate decisions -with David Rand, Marine Fontaine & @joadelas.bsky.social- combines developmental biology, dynamical systems theory and bioinformatics. I wrote a short piece to summarise it & explain ideas behind the approach briscoelab.org/blog-quantif...

What could a biophysicist and an immunologist talk about? ECM and tissue mechanics in lymph node remodelling! Don't miss out on this fun collaboration across two of my neighbours @yanlanmao.bsky.social and @actonlab.bsky.social led by PhD student @veronika-lachina.bsky.social

Veronika Lachina@veronika-lachina.bsky.social

My first-author PhD preprint is now online! 🎉 doi.org/10.64898/202... After a long journey, I’m excited to share this work on how cellular and extracellular mechanics shape lymph node remodelling. Huge thank you to my supervisors @actonlab.bsky.social and @yanlanmao.bsky.social for their support!

And it’s a wrap for 'Development HDBI – Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos'. #HumanDev26 @dev-journal.bsky.social Fun learning about many different systems including a flashback to hematopoiesis, and a spread from fundamental science to paths to clinical applications.

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Hello World ! Reminder about our open postdoc position 🧪🧬 Reviewing applications until October - get in touch to know more about what's hot in the lab these days ! Application details in the post below 👇👇 #EvoEpi #MolaroLab #watwat #ERC

Antoine Molaro@antoinemolaro.bsky.social

Hello World ! We have another postdoc position open in the lab! Are you a freshly minted Ph.D. with a passion for chromatin and evolution ? Come join our ERC project #EvoEpi ! Inclusive environment + cool people + great science = success details 👉 tinyurl.com/3r6zk54n Repost are always appreciated

Fun to see a familiar face. Congrats on being featured @danielajdibella.bsky.social 😍

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Check out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's directory of new labs in Latin America to learn about the work of more than 20 early-career neuroscientists who have opened labs or established independent lines of research in the region over the past five years. www.thetransmitter.org/community/th...

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Very much looking forward to this! Join us!

Tineke Lenstra@tinekelenstra.bsky.social

Sign up now for the EMBO meeting 'quantitative biology to molecular mechanisms'. Fantastic speaker lineup and plenty of speakers slots selected from abstracts. Submit your abstract before Sept 11!

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The #LondonEvoDevo goes to Cambridge! Kindly hosted by @emiliapsantos.bsky.social, mark on your calendars *October 2nd* at the Main Theatre in the Department of Zoology (Cambridge). Registration (£0.00): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... All welcome to present: #PI #PhD #PostDocs, submit abstracts!

docs.google.comLondonEvoDevo meeting - October 2026This event will take place on Friday October 2nd, 2026, at the Department of Zoology (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge, Downing Street CB2 3EJ, 12:30 - 18:30. There will be no posters, ...

Last week was an eventful one for our lab! One highlight was our afternoon out in the canal. Booked a while ago, it turned out to be the hottest June day in London (so far) At peak occupancy, we welcome summer student Donna and are joined by rotation student Kate and our Yaiza visiting from 🇪🇸

Join us in beautiful southern Spain for some fun dev bio !

Barbara Pernaute@bpernaute.bsky.social

🚨 Early Bird registration and abstract submission deadline for #SEBD2026 extended!! 📅 Early registration and abstract submission deadline: 10th July 📅 Scholarship application deadline: 29th June www.sebd2026.com #SEBD #DevBio @sebioldev.bsky.social 👇👇👇

For a minute there I thought there was some important, conserved aspect in the germ cell migration of hedgehogs and flies ! 🤣

Erez Raz@erezraz.bsky.social

A solution to a 25-year-old dispute regarding the roles of lipids and the Hedgehog protein in guiding primordial germ cells in Drosophila- doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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Interested in self-organization? See below!

James Briscoe@jamesbriscoe.bsky.social

Our latest: Minimal essential requirements for neural tube self-organisation How does a single cell give rise to a tissue with the right cell types in the right proportions? We deconstruct and rebuild a self-organising tissue from first principles A thread🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

First paper from the Kebschull lab is out!

Justus Kebschull@justuskebschull.bsky.social

POINTseq, now out in Neuron after peer review. Read it. There are barcodes, viruses, and dopamine. Congrats to @hyopilkim.bsky.social on leading our lab's first published paper!

This entire thread it's like an exhibition of beautiful science images. I have to say the evo-devo crowd really beats us all. Gorgeous!

Lionel Christiaen, PhD (he/him/his)@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social

And so it began. The CNRS Jacques Monod Conference 2026 #CJM26 in beautiful Roscoff kick started masterclassfully by Marianne Bronner on the development and evolution of the vertebrate neural crest.

An upside of not de-cluttering more often is that I found this amazing schematic from when I was sketching the figures of my first postdoc paper. How it started ⬇️How it ended Credit to my husband who gifted me a printed copy of the issue! doi.org/gs4jpk

I am excited to be part of this team of Preprint Editors! Preprints have been essential in my career and so many others, accelerating science and changing the publishing ecosystem. I'm excited to contribute to making the most of them.

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social

Meet our Preprint Editors We are pleased to welcome our first group of Preprint Editors to our editorial team, responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles. #preprints journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ed...

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Last morning of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 and a session on Stem cells and organoids where our board member @trayon.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on her most recent results on protein metabolism in developmental tempo #gfe2026

Always an excellent conference!

Young Embryologist Network@yen-network.bsky.social

YEN 2026 registration is now live! Join us for the 2026 YEN conference on the 15th of June at the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. Sign up now to attend and submit your poster/abstract: forms.gle/2HQEmZgEi4hP... Abstract submission deadline is 15 May. Stay tuned for more information!