Barriga Lab

We study the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying tissue morphogenesis @PoLDresden @tudresden_de @ERC_Research @EMBO_YIP

[Barriga Lab @Mech_Morph_Lab]

Our work on the role of endogenous electric fields in guiding collective cell migration in vivo is finally out @NatureMaterials !
https://t.co/UVEMt5ZGdl
Congrats to all the authors, specially Fernando and @Sofia__Moreira from my lab #bioelectrics #devbio #cellmigration #xenopus

[Marina Oliva @molivarina]

Are plant roots really made up of concentric layers of homogeneous, differentiating cell types?

In our new study, out now in @Nature, we show a more complex picture: two distinct cell states within root lineages, shaped in part by the environment. 🧵👇

https://t.co/OXSI992sPl

[International Society for Regenerative Biology @ISRBio]

📢 New ISRB Webinar — Morphogenesis and pattern formation
Zone 1: Australia, East and South Asia

🗓 November 10, 2026 at 14:00 Asia/Shanghai

🎤 Kana Aoki
🎤 Toshimichi Yamada

More info: https://t.co/xaUEYsKz3y

[Bacterial Genetics and Evolution Lab @BalbontinLab]

Si eres entusiasta y riguros@, te interesan la genética y la evolución bacterianas, y tienes buen expediente (>8.5), considera solicitar un contrato FPU 2026 para unirte a nuestro laboratorio en @unisevilla. Si eres doctor, puedes optar a un contrato Juan de la Cierva. Enlaces:

[Francesco Pasqualini @fspasqualini]

Bioengineering's gift to AI isn't another algorithm. It's more life-like cell cultures to learn from.

LigHTS, now out in Advanced Science, makes soft, microstructured hydrogels directly in standard 1536-well plates, every well in a single 16-min light exposure. 🧵

[Xenbase @Xenbase]

Xenopus oocytes contribute to the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. Drs. Nagel and Hegemann expressed channelrhodopsin-2 from single-celled algae in the oocytes. Light induces membrane channels to open. https://t.co/LlMxVC937I #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs

[Adam Cohen @AdamEzraCohen]

We posted a preprint on all-to-all functional mapping of a cortical microcircuit in vivo. https://t.co/enxvQaV5wW
Yitong Qi developed molecular tools, optics, and protocols for massively parallel optogenetic stimulation and voltage imaging during animal behavior.

[Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @NatRevMCB]

New Online! Towards a systematic understanding of the diverse subtypes, biogenesis and functions of large extracellular vesicles dlvr.​it/TVnJ7B

[Alfonso Martinez Arias @AMartinezArias]

Recently, preparing a talk made me think @ the impact of AI in #DevBio and led me to ask AI what would it do to explain the SM #organizer expt just w/ data w/o conceptual input from human interpretation of experiments. Its answer below 🧵

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

📢 2027 ERC Consolidator Grant call for proposals is now open 📢

Have an excellent research idea and ready to build the team to pursue it?

This funding could be for you!

Deadline: 12 January 2027

👉 https://t.co/SKga4Pab0n

[Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal, PhD @gomez_mariscal]

🚨I have open PhD positions to join my new lab at #NIMSB🚀!! https://t.co/AnkzeWDn8K
🌟I'm looking for motivated candidates, eager to join a multidisciplinary team + study the intracellular dynamics driving cancer cell migration with advanced computational methods & microscopy👾

[Peter Walentek @WalentekLab]

@Nature : why are you writing such misleading and wrong posts? Nobody thought there is only one cell, nobody thought all npcs are the same, so if you need that level of wrong to promote the paper, it's either nit novel enough or you have not understood what you are promoting. 👎

[Barriga Lab @Mech_Morph_Lab]

Congratulations @JoanaESaraiva and @SandraEdwJor on their new review on @embojournal we discussed few points about the coordination of cell state transitions in #embryo and #regeneration

Also welcome to “X” @JoanaESaraiva

https://t.co/cMBXC2eKAu

[Joel Boerckel @jboerckel]

Our latest preprint, from @eerinberr is live:
Cytoskeletal disassembly by optogenetic control of RhoA signaling termination.
https://t.co/ocqYtQx6B5

[Miki Ebisuya @EbisuyaMiki]

I've just started my 2nd lab at RIKEN BDR in Kobe, Japan!

This small, focused group will compare and manipulate species-specific time and shape, in collaboration with our Dresden lab.

Interested in the stem cell zoo? Get in touch!

https://t.co/QXxsvXbi9e

[Barriga Lab @Mech_Morph_Lab]

@EbisuyaMiki Congratulations Miki!

[Journal of Cell Biology @JCellBiol]

Qian, @buenoscience et al reveal that proper spatial patterning of zygotic genome activation is required for embryogenesis & the existence of a surveillance system for embryo quality control exquisitely tuned to spatiotemporal ordering of genome activation https://t.co/32ioNQpD5e

[Barriga Lab @Mech_Morph_Lab]

@EbisuyaMiki Congratulations and good luck with what is next!

[Miki Ebisuya @EbisuyaMiki]

New paper from the lab!

We developed a self-organizing muscle and blood vessel-like network from bovine ES cells, bringing us one step closer to creating structured cultured beef steak! 🥩🔬
https://t.co/mnyaFK9gJB

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[Adriano Aguzzi @AdrianoAguzzi]

Very honored and happy to serve as a Panel Chair for the current ERC AdG round. It's going to be a lot of work, but I will be seeing a lot of excellent science and will learn a mountain of new exciting things.
https://t.co/whqY8if1TP

[Jennifer Young @nano_jenn]

Excited to share our lab's new preprint led by Ting @huanting_ong introducing paired-surface spatial mechanomics!

We link nanoindentation stiffness maps with #SpatialTranscriptomics to connect local tissue mechanics with molecular state.

🔗https://t.co/TlCjIAmASO

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