Joaquina Delas
@joadelas.bsky.social
LMCB Group Leader at UCL. Cis-regulatory control of cell fate choice in development.
https://delaslab.com/
https://delaslab.com/
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We have a new lab photo. Busy times in the Delas Lab!
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT
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@mpercharde.bsky.social & I after presenting our experience of setting up the @mrc-lms.bsky.social Roving Researcher scheme to support Postdocs on leave, in the Research Culture session at #MRCBiomedicine2025
Look at that view! Blooming love London
Look at that view! Blooming love London
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@mpercharde.bsky.social & I after presenting our experience of setting up the @mrc-lms.bsky.social Roving Researcher scheme to support Postdocs on leave, in the Research Culture session at #MRCBiomedicine2025
Look at that view! Blooming love London
Look at that view! Blooming love London
It's always special when you find your own paper in the table of contents of the journal 😍
"The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form
www.cell.com/developmenta...
"The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form
www.cell.com/developmenta...
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It's always special when you find your own paper in the table of contents of the journal 😍
"The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form
www.cell.com/developmenta...
"The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
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🚨Reposts appreciated‼️If I had read this PhD offer five years ago, I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second to apply 😉
Passionate about gene regulation, chromatin, and developmental biology? Just contact @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social at @ibbtec.bsky.social 🧬✨
#PhD #3DGenome
Passionate about gene regulation, chromatin, and developmental biology? Just contact @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social at @ibbtec.bsky.social 🧬✨
#PhD #3DGenome
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🚨Reposts appreciated‼️If I had read this PhD offer five years ago, I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second to apply 😉
Passionate about gene regulation, chromatin, and developmental biology? Just contact @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social at @ibbtec.bsky.social 🧬✨
#PhD #3DGenome
Passionate about gene regulation, chromatin, and developmental biology? Just contact @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social at @ibbtec.bsky.social 🧬✨
#PhD #3DGenome
We have a new lab photo. Busy times in the Delas Lab!
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We have a new lab photo. Busy times in the Delas Lab!
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
Last month Maria and Shaun joined us to start their PhDs.
Learn more about our research and our team: delaslab.com
We will be recruiting another postdoc next year so have a look through our recent work and get in touch if you are interested.
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
OFERTA DE EMPLEO (por favor difundir):
Ofrecemos un contrato predoctoral de 4 años asociado a nuestro proyecto PID2024-157249OB-I00. El objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un nuevo mecanismo patológico según el cual la competición entre promotores puede llegar a ocasionar enfermedades congénitas
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Ofrecemos un contrato predoctoral de 4 años asociado a nuestro proyecto PID2024-157249OB-I00. El objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un nuevo mecanismo patológico según el cual la competición entre promotores puede llegar a ocasionar enfermedades congénitas
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November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
OFERTA DE EMPLEO (por favor difundir):
Ofrecemos un contrato predoctoral de 4 años asociado a nuestro proyecto PID2024-157249OB-I00. El objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un nuevo mecanismo patológico según el cual la competición entre promotores puede llegar a ocasionar enfermedades congénitas
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Ofrecemos un contrato predoctoral de 4 años asociado a nuestro proyecto PID2024-157249OB-I00. El objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un nuevo mecanismo patológico según el cual la competición entre promotores puede llegar a ocasionar enfermedades congénitas
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Go to sleep in London, wake up in Edinburg! Great experience aboard the Caledonian Sleeper train.
Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.
Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.
October 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Go to sleep in London, wake up in Edinburg! Great experience aboard the Caledonian Sleeper train.
Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.
Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.
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Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding
The formation of neural circuits depends on the precise spatial and temporal organisation of neuronal populations during development. In the vertebrate spinal cord, progenitors are patterned into mole...
www.biorxiv.org
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Very excited for this Developmental Biology meeting next May. Join us!
I am very excited to announce the opening of the submission site for the upcoming Conférences Jacques Monod on Developmental Biology, May 18-22, 2026 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social and I have an exciting program of speakers and slots for selected short talks, etc.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Very excited for this Developmental Biology meeting next May. Join us!
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We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
October 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
Tomorrow wednesday 22nd at 11am, lesson #2 of Neil Shubin, Guest Prof @college-de-france.fr ‘Discovering how fish evolved to walk’. Wonderful first lesson @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... Fish friends in Paris, please RT🤘 Swim the Seine till St Michel, then get out and walk left. Free access
October 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Tomorrow wednesday 22nd at 11am, lesson #2 of Neil Shubin, Guest Prof @college-de-france.fr ‘Discovering how fish evolved to walk’. Wonderful first lesson @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... Fish friends in Paris, please RT🤘 Swim the Seine till St Michel, then get out and walk left. Free access
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We are looking forward to spending the next two days discussing INTERESTING THINGS at our workshop on Generative Biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles #GenBio25
Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants
Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants
En route to Brighton—for the 1st time—for the @royalsociety.org Generative Biology meeting organised by @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social, @dbenzinger.bsky.social & @cellysally.bsky.social. Happy to chat about @dev-journal.bsky.social, @the-node.bsky.social & @biologists.bsky.social. Also have freebies!
October 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We are looking forward to spending the next two days discussing INTERESTING THINGS at our workshop on Generative Biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles #GenBio25
Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants
Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants
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October 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
We made it to Gastrulation Reloaded!
We didn’t think we’d be late but we had to go in circles around the block. I would not have thought any other institute would be harder to get into than The Crick!
We didn’t think we’d be late but we had to go in circles around the block. I would not have thought any other institute would be harder to get into than The Crick!
October 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We made it to Gastrulation Reloaded!
We didn’t think we’d be late but we had to go in circles around the block. I would not have thought any other institute would be harder to get into than The Crick!
We didn’t think we’d be late but we had to go in circles around the block. I would not have thought any other institute would be harder to get into than The Crick!
Come and be our neighbours!
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Come and be our neighbours!
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Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
How does life construct itself from within, and how might we learn to emulate its generative logic? Glad to be soon talking and discussing with @philipcball.bsky.social @bertaverd.bsky.social and other great colleagues at this @royalsociety.org event royalsociety.org/science-even...
Generative biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles | Royal Society
Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Jake Cornwall-Scoones, Dr Dirk Benzinger, and Professor Sally Lowell.
royalsociety.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
How does life construct itself from within, and how might we learn to emulate its generative logic? Glad to be soon talking and discussing with @philipcball.bsky.social @bertaverd.bsky.social and other great colleagues at this @royalsociety.org event royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Thrilled to share that the lab has been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award to keep exploring the evolution of 6-methyladenine #6mA in Eukaryotes. We'll open postdoc (3️⃣) and tech (1️⃣) positions to start in 2026, please share with candidates or reach out if you’d like to join us.
October 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Thrilled to share that the lab has been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award to keep exploring the evolution of 6-methyladenine #6mA in Eukaryotes. We'll open postdoc (3️⃣) and tech (1️⃣) positions to start in 2026, please share with candidates or reach out if you’d like to join us.
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
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Dr. Sophie Acton (@actonlab.bsky.social/UCL)
is a Cancer Research UK Senior Fellow with an interest in lymphoid tissue biology.
At #KSStromal26, she'll be sharing her insights on podoplanin - a molecule that controls DC motility within the lymph node.
Register now! Link in bio.
is a Cancer Research UK Senior Fellow with an interest in lymphoid tissue biology.
At #KSStromal26, she'll be sharing her insights on podoplanin - a molecule that controls DC motility within the lymph node.
Register now! Link in bio.
September 24, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Dr. Sophie Acton (@actonlab.bsky.social/UCL)
is a Cancer Research UK Senior Fellow with an interest in lymphoid tissue biology.
At #KSStromal26, she'll be sharing her insights on podoplanin - a molecule that controls DC motility within the lymph node.
Register now! Link in bio.
is a Cancer Research UK Senior Fellow with an interest in lymphoid tissue biology.
At #KSStromal26, she'll be sharing her insights on podoplanin - a molecule that controls DC motility within the lymph node.
Register now! Link in bio.
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
Organizing the National Course of Genetics 🧬 by @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es alongside @dariloops.bsky.social has been a blast!
A great opportunity for young researchers to learn and interact with leaders in the filed of #genomics during a whole week - the future is bright!
A great opportunity for young researchers to learn and interact with leaders in the filed of #genomics during a whole week - the future is bright!
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Organizing the National Course of Genetics 🧬 by @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es alongside @dariloops.bsky.social has been a blast!
A great opportunity for young researchers to learn and interact with leaders in the filed of #genomics during a whole week - the future is bright!
A great opportunity for young researchers to learn and interact with leaders in the filed of #genomics during a whole week - the future is bright!
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
🔚Last day of the #CNG2025 by the @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es
We close our scientific program with talks by @joadelas.bsky.social from UCL on developmental patterning, and Jose Manuel Franco @cnb-csic.bsky.social on transcription factors in plants 🌱
We close our scientific program with talks by @joadelas.bsky.social from UCL on developmental patterning, and Jose Manuel Franco @cnb-csic.bsky.social on transcription factors in plants 🌱
September 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🔚Last day of the #CNG2025 by the @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es
We close our scientific program with talks by @joadelas.bsky.social from UCL on developmental patterning, and Jose Manuel Franco @cnb-csic.bsky.social on transcription factors in plants 🌱
We close our scientific program with talks by @joadelas.bsky.social from UCL on developmental patterning, and Jose Manuel Franco @cnb-csic.bsky.social on transcription factors in plants 🌱
Reposted by Joaquina Delas
Llegamos al último día del curso #CNG2025 con @joadelas.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk, explorando los patrones espaciales y temporales en el desarrollo!
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Llegamos al último día del curso #CNG2025 con @joadelas.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk, explorando los patrones espaciales y temporales en el desarrollo!
Very excited to be on my way to the National Genetics Course in Madrid @segenetica.bsky.social
It is always very special to go back to Spain for scientific reasons. It would be hard to convince uni student Joaquina of what would come.
Impressive (aka intimidating 😂) line up
It is always very special to go back to Spain for scientific reasons. It would be hard to convince uni student Joaquina of what would come.
Impressive (aka intimidating 😂) line up
September 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Very excited to be on my way to the National Genetics Course in Madrid @segenetica.bsky.social
It is always very special to go back to Spain for scientific reasons. It would be hard to convince uni student Joaquina of what would come.
Impressive (aka intimidating 😂) line up
It is always very special to go back to Spain for scientific reasons. It would be hard to convince uni student Joaquina of what would come.
Impressive (aka intimidating 😂) line up