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Nicoletta I Petridou

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🇨🇾 Mum | Biologist inspired by physics | Group Leader @embl Developmental Biology Unit, Heidelberg @[email protected]

Heidelberg, Germany
Joined July 2018
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@petridou_ni
Nicoletta I Petridou
1 year
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
@embl
EMBL
1 year
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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@EMBLEvents
EMBL Events
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✨ How do bird flocks form, diseases emerge, or heartbeats start? Many of life's most fascinating phenomena emerge from interactions among its building blocks. Join the brand-new @EMBO | @embl Symposium 'Collectivity in living systems: emergence, function, and evolution' and
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@jordivangestel
Jordi van Gestel
29 days
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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@petridou_ni
Nicoletta I Petridou
29 days
Experimentalist, physicist or computational?? This is the conference for you if you are excited by biological collectives of any kind! 👇👇👇
@jordivangestel
Jordi van Gestel
29 days
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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@petridou_ni
Nicoletta I Petridou
2 months
with updated link: https://t.co/vmC0jAF0PB
@petridou_ni
Nicoletta I Petridou
2 months
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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Nicoletta I Petridou
2 months
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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@EMBLHeidelberg
EMBL Heidelberg
2 months
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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@EMBLEvents
EMBL Events
3 months
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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@Co_Biologists
The Company of Biologists
4 months
'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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@laura_rustarazo
Laura Rustarazo-Calvo
6 months
🎉 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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@jordivangestel
Jordi van Gestel
6 months
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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@FlyGutLab
Irene Miguel-Aliaga
6 months
Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: https://t.co/bk54zNof0k
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@petridou_ni
Nicoletta I Petridou
7 months
Join us in this unique course: studying transitions theoretically and experimentally across species!
@AleReversi
Alessandra Reversi
7 months
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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@AleReversi
Alessandra Reversi
7 months
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
@AleReversi
Alessandra Reversi
7 months
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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@embl
EMBL
7 months
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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@KoseskaL
Koseska_Lab
11 months
🎉🎉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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@bellaiche_y
YBellaïcheLab
11 months
📢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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@petridou_ni
Nicoletta I Petridou
11 months
Our lab is hosting this round an ARISE Fellow to develop technologies for space- & time- resolved protein perturbations - get in touch!
@embl
EMBL
11 months
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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@LenaSchindler6
Lena Schindler
11 months
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 ⤵️
@EuroBioImaging
Euro-BioImaging ERIC
11 months
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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@DimitriFabreges
Dimitri Fabrèges
1 year
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 🥳 🥳 🥳
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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...
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Dimitri Fabrèges
3 years
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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