New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations"
Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations?
rdcu.be/e7zx7
📢We are excited to announce the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium - a full day event at SLCU @slcuplants.bsky.social (and virtually) on 5 June 2026!
🎉Come celebrate the 5th anniversary of the seminar series!
🚩Register & submit abstracts by 3 April! Check out the details: t.ly/YYM3u
Please repost!🙏
Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 logo - Shaping Life-Mechanisms of Morphogenesis. Timelapse of a developing Arabidopsis leaf imaged at 9-12 days old under a confocal microscope, with cells segmented and coloured using MorphographX software. Images by Sarah Attrill.
Registrations now open for #SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 in Cambridge, UK — Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis!
Join us explore how cellular, genetic & mechanical forces sculpt plant form
📅 22–24 Sept 2026
In-person + livestream
Limited fee waivers
www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls
#plantsi
PhD position in my team at @pasteur.fr ! The selected canddiate will work on the development of new methods combining biophysicial and machine learning modelling for single-cell multi-omics spatiotemporal data.
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series is back! 🎉
Check out the flyer for a great lineup of speakers for Lent Term 2026!
Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list to get all the information, including the Zoom link. We are excited to see you again soon 👋
We have an open PhD position here in Marseille - please spread the word :)
Deadline for application is 28th of January!
The new ShapeEmbed deep learning method helps quantify shapes in bioimages 🔬
It learns to encode 2D object outlines into descriptors that are invariant to several geometric transformations.
Great for robust cell shape analysis, classification & exploring phenotypes.
neurips.cc/virtual/2025...
Good to see the peer reviewed version of this published
A chemo-optogenetic system for spatiotemporal control of gene expression
We use it to:
- Reconstruct SHH mediated neural tube patterning in vitro
- Measure extracellular half-life of Shh
www.cell.com/developmenta...
Interested in doing an interdisciplinary PhD to elucidate signalling centres that orchestrates limb regeneration? Come to work with the amazing @canaztekin.bsky.social and myself!!
Congratulations Elise Laruelle & @robinsonsci.bsky.social on your @acceleratescience.bsky.social - @c2d3.cam.ac.uk funded project "Plant automatic cell lineage reconstruction"
More info www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-a...
Illustration by Elise Laruelle & leaf images by @sainikumud.bsky.social
Our work on training biophysical models with Jaxley is now out in @natmethods.nature.com. Led by @deismic.bsky.social, with @philipp.hertie.ai, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & @jakhmack.bsky.social et al.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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picture of the Schornacklab team
Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
www.schornacklab.net
How can we organize current theoretical approaches for developmental biology - from information to dynamical systems & GRNs - into a common framework?
We propose to think along Marr's 3 levels: computational problem, algorithm, implementation
Check out our review:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.24536
The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series is back this Michaelmas Term 2025!
Join us for an exciting lineup of talks exploring the many facets of tissue morphogenesis. Check out the flyer for the full list of speakers!
CBIAS2025 flier, showing the conference logo, listing the topics, confirmed speakers and sponsors. On the top right corner, a QR code is available to access the registration page.
The program for the #CBIAS2025 is now live – space is limited, so register now to secure your spot! 24th-25th Nov, Wellcome Trust, London (UK) - see you there!
🔗⬇️
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
New preprint!
"Understanding Shape and Residual Stress Dynamics in Rod-Like Plant Organs" 🌱
with @merozlab.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).
Please share!
Group photo of workshop attendees standing in ginkgo tree courtyard with the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University building in background.
🌿💻 Plant Models and Morphology 💻🌿
The 9th International Plant Computational Biology Workshop @slcuplants.bsky.social brought together mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists and biologists exploring plant development through models and simulations.
Huge thanks to organisers and speakers!👏
Very happy to share MODIS - a new Multi-Omics Data Integration method for Small and unpaired datasets!
We solve a long-standing problem in the field: how to perform data integration for small unpaired datasets
Our solution: learning with class imbalance on both reference and target datasets!
Amazing illustration @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social 🌺!
I wish we had something like this to illustrate the dynamics of our model!
Paper (including model, not animated sadly!)
➡️ doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Come and work with us!
We are hiring a research assistant/associate @slcuplants.bsky.social to work on the RESYDE project (www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/)
using ML for multi-scale data and modelling to understand and engineer flower development!
Details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52116/
It was very nice to attend and present at #LMRL @iclr-conf.bsky.social !
Our paper with my student Sasha Budnikova @slcuplants.bsky.social on learning mechanical models (Lockhart) from data!
openreview.net/forum?id=yQF...
Looking forward to this! Join us!
🚨 Paper Alert 🚨
Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" @naturemethods👇!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We were delighted to host @zardilis.bsky.social from Cambridge's Sainsbury Laboratory during the past two weeks! It was a fantastic opportunity to exchange ideas on the spatial biology of plants and beyond. Interesting new methods combining expression patterns, morphometric and physical features!!
Thanks Paul! Back in Cambridge full of ideas!
