
Nicoletta I Petridou
@petridou_ni
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🇨🇾 Mum | Biologist inspired by physics | Group Leader @embl Developmental Biology Unit, Heidelberg @[email protected]
Heidelberg, Germany
Joined July 2018
Beyond grateful for this 🙏 wouldn’t have been possible without my lab that founded this idea and the @embl community and colleagues / mentors around the world who helped me sharpen this vision. We will be hiring soon - get in touch! https://t.co/n9fQ1v8qaN
Congratulations, Nicoletta Petridou! 👏 The EMBL Group Leader has received an ERC Starting Grant. CoRe – the funded project – aims to use physics to develop synthetic developmental biology tools to study tissue physical properties in living embryos. https://t.co/PvztsQ4gRQ
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Please join the fantastic line-up of speakers in exploring life's collectives: @icouzin, @ricard_sole, @priscaliberali, @wc_ratcliff, @SSerenaDing, @MonteiroLab, @jaschwartzman, @Daniel_R_Amor, @Pawel_Burkhardt, @oleg_igoshin
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Experimentalist, physicist or computational?? This is the conference for you if you are excited by biological collectives of any kind! 👇👇👇
We are super excited to announce our Feb 2026 conference on the "Collectivity of living systems", bringing together the broad community studying biological collectives, covering their emergence, functionality and evolution! Please RT and join!!! https://t.co/aFZ3dDXArM
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with updated link: https://t.co/vmC0jAF0PB
We are searching for an enthusiastic scientist to join our team and establish annual killifish as a model system for early developmental biology and biophysics! @embl Apply here: https://t.co/D21O7uO1r4... Please re-post 🙏
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We are searching for an enthusiastic scientist to join our team and establish annual killifish as a model system for early developmental biology and biophysics! @embl Apply here: https://t.co/D21O7uO1r4... Please re-post 🙏
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We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders @embl Heidelberg! Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels. Take a look at these four open positions 👇
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That's a wrap for #EMBLDevBio! 🧫🧬 Over the last eight days, our participants were introduced to the theoretical knowledge of biological transitions and got hands-on training using state-of-the-art methods applied in-depth in different model systems. Thank you to everyone who
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'New Technologies for Studying and Reprogramming Development' organised by Alex Dunn @ZevGartner @Adrian_Jacobo and Matthew Kutys. https://t.co/GED292LZfr
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🎉 Excited to share our new work: “Adhesion-driven tissue rigidification triggers epithelial cell polarity”, now on @biorxivpreprint ! A huge thank you to @petridou_ni , Bernat, @CristinaPallCar , Adrián, and everyone involved! 🙌 🧵⤵️
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Super excited to share our new selection-free CRISPR-Cas9 editing protocol for Dictyostelids, generating 80% KO and 30% KI efficiencies without selection in D. discoideum, and being effective in Dictyostelid species that diverged millions of years ago!
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Dictyostelids are a species-rich clade of cellular slime molds that are widely found in soils and have been studied for over a century. Most research focusses on Dictyostelium discoideum , which –...
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Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: https://t.co/bk54zNof0k
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Join us in this unique course: studying transitions theoretically and experimentally across species!
Only a few weeks left to apply! Join our course to network with amazing scientists! @karen_alim @icouzin @GSalbreux @petridou_ni @jordivangestel @meo0205 @AissamIkmi @briscoejames Thibaut Brunet, Caren Norden, Isabella Graf, Alexander Aulehla
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Only a few weeks left to apply! Join our course to network with amazing scientists! @karen_alim @icouzin @GSalbreux @petridou_ni @jordivangestel @meo0205 @AissamIkmi @briscoejames Thibaut Brunet, Caren Norden, Isabella Graf, Alexander Aulehla
If you are interested in integrating conceptual theory with cutting-edge experiments to understand complex living systems this course is for you. Application deadline: 26 March https://t.co/fLZRvkEZqK
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Congratulations, Flora Vincent! 👏 The EMBL Group Leader received the Planet Earth Award 2025 from the Alliance of World Scientists for her research on microbial interactions in the ocean and their role in climate regulation. https://t.co/m3ecc9nBX4
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🎉🎉We are beyond thrilled to be awarded @ERC_Research Synergy grant to study learning in single cell, together with J. Gunawardena @harvardmed , @jgojalvo @UPFBarcelona and D.Schmucker @UniBonn. Job advertisements coming out soon 😃😃 @MPINB_outreach @maxplanckpress
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📢We have a 3y postdoc position available in our interdisciplinary team @institut_curie #Paris Join us if you're interested in epithelial tissue morphogenesis using live imaging, quantitative biology & (opto)genetics. https://t.co/uNmshuk1YI Please RT!
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Our lab is hosting this round an ARISE Fellow to develop technologies for space- & time- resolved protein perturbations - get in touch!
Time to accelerate!⏱️ 1 month left to apply for EMBL ARISE2 fellowship program. Are you interested in the development or improvement of technologies on life science research? #ARISE2 trains you to become a future science infrastructure leader. Apply now! https://t.co/6GtZf9CiRu
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Thank you @EuroBioImaging for giving me the chance to meet so many lovely researchers in and around Vienna and learn about their work. You can read about my many stops in imaging facilities and technology-developing laboratories here ⤵️
Our Scientific Ambassador, Magdalena Schindler, PhD student at @embl, recently visited 7⃣ different facilities of @CMI_ImagingNode in Vienna.🇦🇹 Read her impressions of the cutting-edge imaging & dedicated staff supporting researchers at #EuroBioImaging's Austrian Node👨🔬🔬⤵️
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Seems like ages ago! Our story is now published in Science. Don't read the quoted post, check-out the published paper instead: https://t.co/xhWC7EQ5ai 🥳 🥳 🥳
science.org
How living systems achieve precision in form and function despite their intrinsic stochasticity is a fundamental yet ongoing question in biology. We generated morphomaps of preimplantation embryoge...
Stochasticity controls robustness in embryogenesis. Although it may sound counterintuitive, this is one of the conclusions we defend in our preprint "Temporal variability and cell mechanics control robustness in mammalian embryogenesis" (bioRχiv: https://t.co/ftWbflw7yL).
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