
Alexandra Schauer
@alex_schauer_
PhD student in Heisenberg lab @ISTAustria
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05-04-2020 19:59:55
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📢 We are looking for a temporary, part- time technician to join our research group! 🐟🧬 Come be a part of our team ISTAustria, on the outskirts of Vienna 😊 All details below, please use the link to apply 👇 Please RT! ista.ac.at/en/job/?title=…


My postdoc work is out on bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…! I want to thank all the co-authors (present in the Twitter world David Brückner Saren Taşçıyan 🇪🇺 🧬 🧫 🤖 XinT Alexandra Schauer ) and all the friends and colleagues in Heisenberg Lab and ISTAustria 🤩

teamstembryo MPI-CBG Dresden is hiring! We have an open position for a TA. #stembryos #gastruloids #stemcells combined with all kinds of imaging, omics, genetic/chemical/mechanical manipulations etc. Contact me for more info! And please RT mpi-cbg.de/join-us/open-p…

Visualising the endogenous Fgf8a morphogen gradient Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Rohit Krishnan Harish Rohit Krishnan Harish, Michael Brand and colleagues CRTD TU Dresden: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…


Check out our new preprint from first authors Stefanie Lehr and David Brückner. Using a stencil system for neural progenitor differentiation, we observed striking biphasic BMP signalling dynamics and self-organized patterns and studied the mechanism. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Stoked to share a new teamstembryo preprint MPI-CBG Dresden Physics of Life Dresden📢. What drives phenotypic variation in embryo models? We discovered an important role for metabolism! tinyurl.com/43e6x7su Highly relevant: tinyurl.com/576pzzy2 Trivedi Lab Miki Ebisuya Let 's eXplain (1/17)


After a very fruitful revision Current Biology, I am excited to present the final version of our paper at the end of the year🎄 Heisenberg Lab @nartimsoole Edouard Hannezo cell.com/current-biolog…

🙌What a start into the new year! Latest work by former PhD student Silvia Caballero, showing how frictional forces mediated by cortical flows help shape the ascidian oocyte, is out in Nature Physics🎉 nature.com/articles/s4156… Full🧵below for a sneak peak into the paper😁👇 Pls RT

Robust axis elongation by Nodal-dependent restriction of BMP signaling Read this Research Article by Alexandra Schauer, Kornelija Pranjic-Ferscha, Robert Hauschild & Heisenberg Lab: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15… (🎥:Blastoderm and mesendoderm morphogenesis in wildtype explants)

Conference alert! The first "Physics of cell fate decisions" conference will take place in May 2024 at ISTAustria ! Exciting speakers at the interface of physics, information theory, dev/cell bio, and data science + many slots for contributed talks! Apply before April 22!



New Development InPrints from @AshleyLibby12 & Teresa Rayon Summarising 3 recent preprints examining how glucose metabolism intersects with signalling during mammalian gastrulation journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Cell-cell contacts orchestrate tissue assembly and diverse cellular interactions. 🎯But what mediates their intricate patterns?🤔 Join me, Feyza Nur Arslan, in exploring the interplay of adhesion and subcellular mechanics in contact patterning.


Fresh out of the press Developmental Cell! w Z. Smith Yale Department of Genetics and B. Law & M. Chan Princeton University we engineer a high-content molecular recorder to reconstruct thousands of cell lineages during embryoid morphogenesis. #MeissnerLab MPI for Molecular Genetics. A🧵(1/14) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S15…

Local and global changes in cell density induce reorganisation of 3D packing in a proliferating epithelium Read this #DevSIDiversity Article by Vanessa Barone, Antonio Tagua, Jesus Andrés-San Román, Amro Hamdoun, Juan Garrido-García, Lyons Lab at Scripps & Luisma Escudero: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

My recent work with Genikhovich Group is now online as #preprint! I examined the mechanisms behind #BMP signaling in the secondary body axis patterning of the anthozoan cnidarian Nematostella (sea anemone). biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Below a short teaser.