David Oriola
@davidoriola.bsky.social
Interested in the physics of very small living things. Assistant Professor in UPC-Barcelona Tech. Full time dad. Occasional guitar player and dachshund lover. https://davidoriola.mystrikingly.com/
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Emergence and Self-organisation across biological scales! I hope you are ready for next year conference! It will be an incredible event April 20-22 2026. The first of many #LakeConference organised by
@ehannezo.bsky.social @alleninstitute.org and James Sharpe @embl.org
@ehannezo.bsky.social @alleninstitute.org and James Sharpe @embl.org
#CellBio community, this one is for you! Applications are open for the #LakeConference on Modeling Life from Cells to Tissues – co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel!
📆 April 20-22, 2026
📍 Seattle, USA
🔬 All career stages welcomed.
Apply to attend by 12/12: alleninstitute.org/events/aics-...
📆 April 20-22, 2026
📍 Seattle, USA
🔬 All career stages welcomed.
Apply to attend by 12/12: alleninstitute.org/events/aics-...
2026 Lake Conference
Join the Allen Institute for Cell Science and Circuit Neuroscience Basel in Seattle, Washington, April 20–22, 2026, for a 3 day conference, Modeling...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Emergence and Self-organisation across biological scales! I hope you are ready for next year conference! It will be an incredible event April 20-22 2026. The first of many #LakeConference organised by
@ehannezo.bsky.social @alleninstitute.org and James Sharpe @embl.org
@ehannezo.bsky.social @alleninstitute.org and James Sharpe @embl.org
We offer a 1-year postdoc on modelling multicellular systems in my group at @biocomsc-upc.bsky.social and @barcelonacollaboratorium.com in sunny Barcelona. We encourage applicants to also apply for a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship for a 2-year extension. Feel free to contact me!
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
We offer a 1-year postdoc on modelling multicellular systems in my group at @biocomsc-upc.bsky.social and @barcelonacollaboratorium.com in sunny Barcelona. We encourage applicants to also apply for a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship for a 2-year extension. Feel free to contact me!
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We’ve officially launched the MetaboDev lab at IMBA 🚀! I’m extremely grateful for all the support from the @imbavienna.bsky.social & @viennabiocenter.bsky.social community. Special thanks to @eunicechan.bsky.social, the most amazing first lab member I could have hoped for. On to the science!🔬🧬#NewPI
In our latest interview, Kristina Stapornwongkul, the newest group leader at IMBA, shares her journey to joining the institute, why she chose IMBA as the next step in her career, and her vision for her lab exploring how metabolism shapes embryonic development: https://imba.science/49fCrxl
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We’ve officially launched the MetaboDev lab at IMBA 🚀! I’m extremely grateful for all the support from the @imbavienna.bsky.social & @viennabiocenter.bsky.social community. Special thanks to @eunicechan.bsky.social, the most amazing first lab member I could have hoped for. On to the science!🔬🧬#NewPI
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Join us next week for another exciting VGZT session!
🗓️ Thursday, November 6th
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
Our speakers are
👉 David Oriola (@davidoriola.bsky.social)
👉 Nicole Edwards (@nicoleedwds.bsky.social)
See you then! 👋
🗓️ Thursday, November 6th
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
Our speakers are
👉 David Oriola (@davidoriola.bsky.social)
👉 Nicole Edwards (@nicoleedwds.bsky.social)
See you then! 👋
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Join us next week for another exciting VGZT session!
🗓️ Thursday, November 6th
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
Our speakers are
👉 David Oriola (@davidoriola.bsky.social)
👉 Nicole Edwards (@nicoleedwds.bsky.social)
See you then! 👋
🗓️ Thursday, November 6th
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
Our speakers are
👉 David Oriola (@davidoriola.bsky.social)
👉 Nicole Edwards (@nicoleedwds.bsky.social)
See you then! 👋
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With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.
mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de
📸 Stephan Spangenberg
mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de
📸 Stephan Spangenberg
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.
mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de
📸 Stephan Spangenberg
mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de
📸 Stephan Spangenberg
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Amazing!!! 🧪 The 2025 Ig Nobel prize goes to scientists from the @mpipks.bsky.social for discovering a bullet proof version to make the classic pasta alla cacio e pepe! Including a deep understanding of the pasta sauce in terms of phase separation physics 😃
Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al!
Links👇
Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al!
Links👇
September 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Amazing!!! 🧪 The 2025 Ig Nobel prize goes to scientists from the @mpipks.bsky.social for discovering a bullet proof version to make the classic pasta alla cacio e pepe! Including a deep understanding of the pasta sauce in terms of phase separation physics 😃
Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al!
Links👇
Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al!
Links👇
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One is the best EMBO/EMBL symposium is coming up and it’s going to be AWESOME. Save the date !
🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe
www.embl.org
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
One is the best EMBO/EMBL symposium is coming up and it’s going to be AWESOME. Save the date !
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Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!
September 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!
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Congratulations, Michael Dorrity and Anna Erzberger!
The two EMBL Heidelberg group leaders have received ERC Starting Grants that will enable ambitious projects related to developmental timing and tissue self-organisation, respectively.
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/awards-...
The two EMBL Heidelberg group leaders have received ERC Starting Grants that will enable ambitious projects related to developmental timing and tissue self-organisation, respectively.
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/awards-...
September 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Congratulations, Michael Dorrity and Anna Erzberger!
The two EMBL Heidelberg group leaders have received ERC Starting Grants that will enable ambitious projects related to developmental timing and tissue self-organisation, respectively.
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/awards-...
The two EMBL Heidelberg group leaders have received ERC Starting Grants that will enable ambitious projects related to developmental timing and tissue self-organisation, respectively.
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/awards-...
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🧩 Day 5! Agent-based modeling took center stage today with Alexandria Volkening 🐟🌀
From swarming to zebrafish stripes, participants explored how cells self-organize.
✨ Flash talks & a keynote by Katie Bentley wrapped up the day! #EMBOMulticellModeling
From swarming to zebrafish stripes, participants explored how cells self-organize.
✨ Flash talks & a keynote by Katie Bentley wrapped up the day! #EMBOMulticellModeling
June 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🧩 Day 5! Agent-based modeling took center stage today with Alexandria Volkening 🐟🌀
From swarming to zebrafish stripes, participants explored how cells self-organize.
✨ Flash talks & a keynote by Katie Bentley wrapped up the day! #EMBOMulticellModeling
From swarming to zebrafish stripes, participants explored how cells self-organize.
✨ Flash talks & a keynote by Katie Bentley wrapped up the day! #EMBOMulticellModeling
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🧠 Day 4 was all about 🧬 noise in biology — from master equations to stochastic simulations, led by Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo!
🔬 Group projects continued, and the day ended with a fascinating keynote by @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social on morphogen mediated tissue patterning! #EMBOMulticellModeling
🔬 Group projects continued, and the day ended with a fascinating keynote by @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social on morphogen mediated tissue patterning! #EMBOMulticellModeling
June 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🧠 Day 4 was all about 🧬 noise in biology — from master equations to stochastic simulations, led by Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo!
🔬 Group projects continued, and the day ended with a fascinating keynote by @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social on morphogen mediated tissue patterning! #EMBOMulticellModeling
🔬 Group projects continued, and the day ended with a fascinating keynote by @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social on morphogen mediated tissue patterning! #EMBOMulticellModeling
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🧬 Day 3! From spatial models and Turing patterns to the interplay of gradients and self-organisation, today was packed with insights and hands-on work.
Participants also began their group projects and wrapped up the day with an inspiring keynote by @bertaverd.bsky.social! #EMBOMulticellModelling 💡🧠
Participants also began their group projects and wrapped up the day with an inspiring keynote by @bertaverd.bsky.social! #EMBOMulticellModelling 💡🧠
June 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🧬 Day 3! From spatial models and Turing patterns to the interplay of gradients and self-organisation, today was packed with insights and hands-on work.
Participants also began their group projects and wrapped up the day with an inspiring keynote by @bertaverd.bsky.social! #EMBOMulticellModelling 💡🧠
Participants also began their group projects and wrapped up the day with an inspiring keynote by @bertaverd.bsky.social! #EMBOMulticellModelling 💡🧠
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🧪 Day 2 of the EMBO Practical Course at the Collaboratorium!
From solving ODEs in Python to applying them to gene regulatory networks and diving into object-oriented programming with VEDO. #EMBOMulticellModelling 💻🧬
From solving ODEs in Python to applying them to gene regulatory networks and diving into object-oriented programming with VEDO. #EMBOMulticellModelling 💻🧬
June 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🧪 Day 2 of the EMBO Practical Course at the Collaboratorium!
From solving ODEs in Python to applying them to gene regulatory networks and diving into object-oriented programming with VEDO. #EMBOMulticellModelling 💻🧬
From solving ODEs in Python to applying them to gene regulatory networks and diving into object-oriented programming with VEDO. #EMBOMulticellModelling 💻🧬
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🔬 Day 1 of the EMBO Practical Course on Computational Modelling of Multicellular Systems kicks off at the Collaboratorium!
Participants were welcomed by @jamesasharpe.bsky.social, setting the stage for a week of exploring how computational tools help us understand tissue and organ dynamics. 💻🧬
Participants were welcomed by @jamesasharpe.bsky.social, setting the stage for a week of exploring how computational tools help us understand tissue and organ dynamics. 💻🧬
June 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🔬 Day 1 of the EMBO Practical Course on Computational Modelling of Multicellular Systems kicks off at the Collaboratorium!
Participants were welcomed by @jamesasharpe.bsky.social, setting the stage for a week of exploring how computational tools help us understand tissue and organ dynamics. 💻🧬
Participants were welcomed by @jamesasharpe.bsky.social, setting the stage for a week of exploring how computational tools help us understand tissue and organ dynamics. 💻🧬
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Amazing defense by @alisonkickuth.bsky.social! Congratulations on the beautiful thesis!
I successfully defended my PhD thesis this week! Thank you @brugueslab.bsky.social, @poldresden.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de for the great time over the last years!
June 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Amazing defense by @alisonkickuth.bsky.social! Congratulations on the beautiful thesis!
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After its renewal last week, our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life will be taking on new challenges! In the upcoming weeks, we will be explaining here our new scientific directions, represented by 7 interwoven Research Avenues🔬👩🔬
Stay tuned!
Learn more: tud.link/5f2m72
#biophysics #research #dfg
Stay tuned!
Learn more: tud.link/5f2m72
#biophysics #research #dfg
May 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
After its renewal last week, our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life will be taking on new challenges! In the upcoming weeks, we will be explaining here our new scientific directions, represented by 7 interwoven Research Avenues🔬👩🔬
Stay tuned!
Learn more: tud.link/5f2m72
#biophysics #research #dfg
Stay tuned!
Learn more: tud.link/5f2m72
#biophysics #research #dfg
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50+% cut to the US National Science Foundation budget is staggering. These include cuts for research in Chemistry. Physics, Geology, Math, Engineering, Computer Science.
Scientific discoveries and training of our next generation of scientists and engineers are halved.
How is that helping the US?
Scientific discoveries and training of our next generation of scientists and engineers are halved.
How is that helping the US?
May 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
50+% cut to the US National Science Foundation budget is staggering. These include cuts for research in Chemistry. Physics, Geology, Math, Engineering, Computer Science.
Scientific discoveries and training of our next generation of scientists and engineers are halved.
How is that helping the US?
Scientific discoveries and training of our next generation of scientists and engineers are halved.
How is that helping the US?
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Nucleoli as biomolecular bubble tea! Congrats to former Princeton ugrad Holly Cheng (now GS @MIT) ->Holly's senior thesis work, a close collab w Roggeveen Wang & @zs-biophys.bsky.social &Stone. Come for the cool movies & stay for the viscoelasticity! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407423122
May 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Nucleoli as biomolecular bubble tea! Congrats to former Princeton ugrad Holly Cheng (now GS @MIT) ->Holly's senior thesis work, a close collab w Roggeveen Wang & @zs-biophys.bsky.social &Stone. Come for the cool movies & stay for the viscoelasticity! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407423122
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This could be one of the coolest meetings of the year!!
Sign ups for the fall Barcelona multicellularity meeting are now up- come join us!
meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul...
meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul...
Evolution and origins of multicellularity across the tree of life
The study of the origins and evolution of multicellularity in different lineages has recently captured the attention of many research groups and is fueling the generation of numerous innovative resea…
meetings.embo.org
April 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This could be one of the coolest meetings of the year!!
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Flocking and active solid behavior of epithelial cells in our new study in @pnas.org
Great work of Y. Shen, J. O'Byrne and
@andreasschoenit.bsky.social and collaboration with A. Maitra and R. Voituriez!
| PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Great work of Y. Shen, J. O'Byrne and
@andreasschoenit.bsky.social and collaboration with A. Maitra and R. Voituriez!
| PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Flocking and active solid behavior of epithelial cells in our new study in @pnas.org
Great work of Y. Shen, J. O'Byrne and
@andreasschoenit.bsky.social and collaboration with A. Maitra and R. Voituriez!
| PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Great work of Y. Shen, J. O'Byrne and
@andreasschoenit.bsky.social and collaboration with A. Maitra and R. Voituriez!
| PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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How does metabolism drive early development in the embryo? Well done to @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social
(a PoL Associate) and all involved in new groundbreaking publications released in Cell Stem Cell. Read all about it below!
Learn more in the press release here: tud.link/dndnvh
(a PoL Associate) and all involved in new groundbreaking publications released in Cell Stem Cell. Read all about it below!
Learn more in the press release here: tud.link/dndnvh
April 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
How does metabolism drive early development in the embryo? Well done to @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social
(a PoL Associate) and all involved in new groundbreaking publications released in Cell Stem Cell. Read all about it below!
Learn more in the press release here: tud.link/dndnvh
(a PoL Associate) and all involved in new groundbreaking publications released in Cell Stem Cell. Read all about it below!
Learn more in the press release here: tud.link/dndnvh
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Congratulations Laura Avinyo! @lauavinyo.bsky.social and Heura Cardona! First paper of your PhD 🎉. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Beautiful quantified trajectory of how the skeletal pattern of the gene Sox9 emerges during limb development. @embl.org @barcelonacollaboratorium.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Congratulations Laura Avinyo! @lauavinyo.bsky.social and Heura Cardona! First paper of your PhD 🎉. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Beautiful quantified trajectory of how the skeletal pattern of the gene Sox9 emerges during limb development. @embl.org @barcelonacollaboratorium.com
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Reconstructing gene expression patterns gives mouse studies a leg up
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Laura Aviñó-Esteban @lauavinyo.bsky.social, Heura Cardona-Blaya & James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Laura Aviñó-Esteban @lauavinyo.bsky.social, Heura Cardona-Blaya & James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
February 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Reconstructing gene expression patterns gives mouse studies a leg up
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Laura Aviñó-Esteban @lauavinyo.bsky.social, Heura Cardona-Blaya & James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Laura Aviñó-Esteban @lauavinyo.bsky.social, Heura Cardona-Blaya & James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...