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Tristan Rodriguez

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Biomedical scientist working at Imperial on how cells communicate. With a passion for trying to understand the world around us.

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A really thoughtful and interesting review by @cellysally.bsky.social on how cells synchronise with their neighbours to build tissues.

12.12.2025 07:17 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Development's Pathway to Independence Programme Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:

Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building

Spread the word...

www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

03.12.2025 06:56 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Delighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

11.10.2025 08:22 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
Preprint mandates gather momentum - openRxiv By Richard Sever, PhD. Chief Science & Strategy Officer, openRxiv Preprints speed up science by enabling researchers to disseminate reports of new findings immediately. They also represent a simple wa...

New blog post. In which I analyze the new HHMI announcement and what it means for the science publishing ecosystem openrxiv.org/preprint-man...

06.10.2025 18:53 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
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Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows

Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

01.10.2025 06:15 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

πŸͺ° Calling all Drosophilists interested in nutrition…HolFast, Sebastian Sorge’s new chemically defined diet works really well. We’ve given some free HolFast aliquots to @vdrc-flies.bsky.social Please contact them directly if you fancy trying it out. Hurry while stocks last!

30.09.2025 14:17 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pathway to Independence – an interview with JoaquΓ­n Navajas Acedo.

In this interview, @mads100tist.bsky.social talks about about his research vision, zebrafish and the importance of community:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

15.08.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

1/n Dear friends, in light of the current events in Palestine and to help spread awareness, a large number of filmmakers have made their FILMS about PALESTINE AVAILABLE FOR ONLINE FOR FREE

Below, we are sharing links to films that you can watch and share to spread our message to the world:

05.08.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 6
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Thrilled to share our work using live imaging to understand how Epiblast (future embryo proper) and Primitive Endoderm (future extraembryonic tissues) cell fates segregate in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Gargantuan effort led by amazing @rpkimyip.bsky.social, David Denberg and Denis Faerberg!

02.08.2025 19:31 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

We wrote this introductory review on how concepts from dynamical systems can help us understand developmental biology, hope it’s useful to somebody! It was a lot of fun to put together, and great to collaborate with brilliant colleagues across theory and experiments

04.08.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Boundary constraints can determine pattern emergence The robust patterning of cell fates during embryonic development requires precise coordination of signalling gradients within defined spatial constraints. Using a geometrically confined in vitro syste...

New work with Saunders & Charras labs

Physical boundaries guide cell fate decisions during human trunk development

Reaction Diffusion model shows how geometry shapes biology with TBXT expression forming consistent domains regardless of colony size & shape

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

23.07.2025 05:37 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Next time, consider submitting to Biology Open. Decision with reviews within 7 working days of submission journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...

18.05.2025 11:25 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Brexit has never looked quite so daft

28.02.2025 22:29 πŸ‘ 2105 πŸ” 293 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 27
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right.
 
Portrait of Daniel Gorelick to the left, text to the right
 
100 extraordinary biologists

Daniel Gorelick

Daniel Gorelick is the current Editor-in-Chief of Biology Open, aiming to improve author experience by providing fair and timely decisions on manuscripts. Dan is Associate Professor and Zebrafish Core Director at Baylor College of Medicine, USA, investigating endocrine-disrupting chemicals’ influence on embryonic development.

#100biologists #biologists100

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Daniel Gorelick to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Daniel Gorelick Daniel Gorelick is the current Editor-in-Chief of Biology Open, aiming to improve author experience by providing fair and timely decisions on manuscripts. Dan is Associate Professor and Zebrafish Core Director at Baylor College of Medicine, USA, investigating endocrine-disrupting chemicals’ influence on embryonic development. #100biologists #biologists100

Our next extraordinary biologist this week is Daniel Gorelick, current Editor-in-Chief of @biologyopen.bsky.social and Associate Professor at @bcmhouston.bsky.social, USA. To know more about Dan’s visions for BiO, read this Editorial: doi.org/10.1242/bio.....
#100biologists

27.02.2025 11:30 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

We pay our academic editors (we don't do special issues with guest editors). Beginning in April, we also pay peer reviewers @biologyopen.bsky.social details to be announced at #biologists100 bit.ly/4h1cmCC @biologists.bsky.social

26.02.2025 22:14 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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EpiSci - Hi there! Our review β€œMechanotransduction in stem cells” is finally published. With @carstenschulte4.bsky.social we provided a comprehensive picture, that aims to cover the whole mechanotransductive pathway from the cell microenvironment to the nucleus. 1/3 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38729084/

13.05.2024 12:22 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

And I'm very embarrassed not to have acknowledged this earlier. The project was led by Shruthi Krishnan and couldn't have happened without the invaluable collaboration of the Vousden lab.

12.12.2024 11:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I very thoughtful and reflective piece.

11.12.2024 18:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A postdoctoral position is available in my lab to study the subcellular organisation of signalling of the glucagon receptor family. For more information and to apply please click here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

08.12.2024 16:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

An excellent opportunity to go to a great lab with a caring mentor.

06.12.2024 23:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This could constitute a novel tissue sparing mechanism that would minimise cell elimination in cases of maternal malnutrition or low protein diets. However, this protection would be at the expense of optimal tissue function, as it would allow the persistence of dysfunctional cells in the tissue.

06.12.2024 08:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As the key feature of loser cells is mitochondrial dysfunction, these results suggest that cell competition is eliminating these cells when amino acids are plentiful but sparing them in protein poor
environments.

06.12.2024 08:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The most interesting finding from the paper is that loser cell elimination can be prevented by decreasing the levels of extra-cellular L-proline.

06.12.2024 08:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you James 😊

05.12.2024 21:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As always, perfect choice. Thank you Sally ☺️

05.12.2024 21:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Aida 🫠

05.12.2024 21:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you πŸ™‚

05.12.2024 21:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you 😊

05.12.2024 21:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Alex!

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