Delan N Alasaadi

Privileged to have our picture selected as cover of @NatureCellBio. Congratulations 🎉 to all authors, and special thanks to @JMarcetteau for this amazing cover. Check our humble story of the role of Hydrostatic Pressure in development: doi.org/10.1038/s41556…

Early Career Opportunity, CDB, UCL Mentorship, world-class facilities, and a supportive environment. We are particularly interested in researchers in Synthetic Dev. Biol. Mechanobiology and AI approaches. #AcademicJobs #EarlyCareerResearcher #UCL #DevelopmentalBiology

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by @pauguillamat @IBECBarcelona biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to announce that MBI-MPG Conference 2025: Mechanobiology in Time and Space. Dates: 9-12 Sep 2025 Venue: Shaw Foundation Alumni House, NUS, Singapore Website: mbi.nus.edu.sg/events/mbiconf… The deadline for early bird registration is May 31, 2025 Join us!

🚨 Paper Alert 🚨 Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" in @naturemethods👇!! nature.com/articles/s4159…

@LebekTamina @Co_Biologists @_BSDB_ Well deserved 🥳

Honored to be featured in #100biologists alongside so many inspiring scientists! @Co_Biologists and @_BSDB_ supported my PhD journey through conferences, seminars, and travel grants. Proud to have two publications in CoB journals and to give back as a BSDB committee member!

In the latest issue! Multiparameter imaging reveals clinically relevant cancer cell-stroma interaction dynamics in head and neck cancer dlvr.it/TGmjZ8

Happy to share that my PhD work got published in the special issue dedicated to the 100-year anniversary of the Spemann-Mangold Organiser: doi.org/10.1016/j.cdev… With @mayor_lab and @G_Charras 1/n

@MatyasBubna Congratulations 🎉 beautiful work and approach!

My first paper is out in Cells & Development's special issue on the Spemann-Mangold Organiser! We found that mechanically stimulating Activin induced Xenopus gastruloids leads to Organiser formation ex vivo through a β-catenin-dependent mechanism.

"I’m looking for some guidance and resources ... to help me choose. I’d rather spend time considering this now than spend the rest of my career kicking myself for not being more thoughtful in my decisions." - A colleague nature.com/articles/d4158…

@NU_JEANSS Haven’t come access this paper before! Any ref would be appreciated 🙏

I'm scared #NoAorta

We are looking for a research technician to work on an exciting collaborative project with @RLWczyk using a combination of fly and mammalian models to understand basement membrane physiology during development and disease. jobs.ac.uk/job/DKN082/tec…

@schwabpa Alternatively….?

A central mistake in biology was to name genes. This over-simplification made reconciling what is happening on the molecular level a mess - it's not rare to find reports of opposite mechanisms in different contexts, claimed involvement in dozens if not hundreds of different processes, sometimes inhibiting and sometimes amplifying and most of the time being oblivious to the potential for sequence-level variation. Nobody would be surprised about this diversity of findings if we instead recognized genes as (sometimes quite lengthy and complex) pieces of sequence that carry state and interact with and are interpreted by their environment - often producing dozens of gene products that are in turn themselves context-dependent and modulated. Naturally, such a highly amorphous composition of objects has many diverse effects, and masking this complexity behind a single name more often than not ends up being a harmful abstraction. The primary role of gene names then is to give us the false appearance of comfort in the face of enormous biological complexity. One under-appreciated potential of the emergence of AI tools in biology is to undo this mistake, and - instead of assuming it away - extend our ability to lean further into this complexity.

@joadelas London, London thing 😂!

Why wear a bike helmet when you can wear a top hat? Not sure if it’s a Halloween thing or a London thing but thanks for brightening up my morning, top hat man.

vote for your favorite 3 images! for example this one ⬇️😃

Academic ironies

@aagrotis Congratulations 🎉🍾

Pleased to see our paper now published in Autophagy Reports! Great work from all involved to discover more about how "protein ATG8ylation" works. The big question is still "why?" "ATG5 is dispensable for ATG8ylation of cellular proteins" #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Explore the fascinating world of Developmental Biology in this excellent @_BSDB_ documentary, with our very own @wellcometrust @OpticalBiology PhD student @courtneyl7a7 and @theAliceRoberts! youtube.com/watch?v=avrmIs…

See our Case study with @focalplane_jcs @giulia_casal @JemimaBurden and I have been utilising vEM to look at Giulia's nerve samples, and this is part of what we have uncovered.... vEM reveals the cellular composition of the Blood Nerve Barrier focalplane.biologists.com/2024/10/11/vem…