Turlier lab

Modeling embryo & tissue morphogenesis combining physics and computer science @CbiToulouse

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

How can we learn tissue mechanics directly from patterns and images?

In our new preprint, we introduce VertAX, a differentiable vertex-model framework in JAX for simulating epithelia, inferring parameters, and designing target tissue behaviors.

https://t.co/jEEptbCMuP
1/5

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

A true computational tour de force by Eric Neiva during his Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship in the team, now published in Journal Computational Physics: https://t.co/oniOYCXw8W

Congratulations, Eric!

@CNRSbiologie
Grateful to @EU_Commission for funding support

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

We hope VertAX can help make inverse problems & differential programming more accessible in tissue mechanics.

Thanks to @appasqui, @MaxenceErnoult, Italian colleagues, & other members of the team for this collaboration.

Comments very welcome.

Code https://t.co/jmlPJc3xS2
5/5

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

How can we learn tissue mechanics directly from patterns and images?

In our new preprint, we introduce VertAX, a differentiable vertex-model framework in JAX for simulating epithelia, inferring parameters, and designing target tissue behaviors.

https://t.co/jEEptbCMuP
1/5

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

Beyond synthetic benchmarks, we show applications to mechanical parameter inference from microscopy images and to inverse design problems in epithelial tissues. 4/5

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong.

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

Conference Alert🚨 16-21 Feb 2025
From Soft Matter to Biophysics @ Les Houches FR
https://t.co/9eZTFYXHfs
Apply by Dec 15 to explore the latest in soft matter & biophysics, focusing on functional materials & synthetic biology!
@karen_alim
@Karin__Jacobs
@MartinLenz
@HerveTurlier

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

Registrations are open for the Qlife Quantitative Biology spring school on Cell Dynamics in Developmental System March 3-April 04 2025. Great line of talks, lectures and hands-on practicals on omics, image analysis, modeling and inference: https://t.co/AHQOCaFOiD

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

Team retreat in the Pyrenees
📝⛰️🍻

[Henry De Belly @Henry_de_belly]

We recapitulate our findings in a mathematical model and show that this creates a feedback loop, where the front and back communicate through mechanical signals. @virtual_embryo @andreu_gallen

It ensures that the cell can move forward in a coordinated way.

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

Thanks to all speakers @MarinoArroyo2 @AnjaGeitmann @AlainGoriely Jessica Zhang @aland_lab @GabriellaBioMec Arezki Boudaoud Christophe Godin, Brendan Lane, Robert Nürnberg, Padmini Rangamani, Arnold Reusken, Axel Voigt, Sara Zahedi, Roman Vetter

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

Our workshop on Finite Elements for Cell & Tissue Morphogenesis at Villa Clythia @caescnrs was a great success !
Congratulations to @ericnumerics for the perfect organisation and looking forward to a next edition.

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

@HerveTurlier @cavankatenaugh @CharrierLab @sneha_arao @LenartLab @Vane_barone @Chema_MD @sdebuyl @Alex_Mc_Dougall @HitoyoshiYasuo

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

Our workshop on early embryo morphogenesis in Villefranche-sur-mer was a blast 💥
Thanks to all participants for the lively & friendly atmosphere, @RDumollard for co-organising and to @biodev_vlfr for the great welcome & fantastic setting. Looking forward to see you all again !

[kate cavanaugh @cavankatenaugh]

Some action shots from an amazing week in Villefranche-sur-mer. Thanks to @virtual_embryo and @RDumollard for pulling together some incredible minds (and microorganisms). Here is proof that there was actually some science happening!

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

An interesting perspective article in Nature by @eisensteinium on the forces that sculpt embryos and how to measure them, highlighting our 3D tension inference method foambryo by @SachaIchbiah & @HerveTurlier
https://t.co/l9o9oW8JKM

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

A huge congratulations to @ap_pasqui for 1st prize in the @eelisa_eu student scientific competition in the Chemistry and bioengineering category. Well-deserved!
More about the competition https://t.co/lrVJXFonrW

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

Great scientific discussions and insightful perspectives across biology & AI at the Fondation des Treilles, with wonderful colleagues @VirginieUhlmann @KrishnaswamyLab @MOSAICgroup1 @loicaroyer @ky396 @decbaycomp @will_prew @desi_ramram @martweig V. Vitelli, H. Isambert, C. He

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

We extended the deadline for abstract submission for young speakers to May 13 !! This is the final deadline

[Turlier lab @virtual_embryo]

Together with @GabriellaBioMec @ericnumerics @HerveTurlier we organise a 1st workshop on Finite Elements for Cell & Tissue Morphogenesis, featuring distinguished speakers.
We now accept applications from master & PhD students & postdocs, please spread !
https://t.co/oLi9ROQ6Km