Three-year international postdoc on advanced imaging of comparative embryo morphogenesis mechanics

From 1^st November 2025, the Panfilio Lab has an opening for a postdoc to work on an HFSP-funded project on comparative heart development in insects.  This is based at the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart, Germany), and it will offer opportunities to work with our new light sheet and spinning disc confocal microscopes (including laser ablation experiments).  It is also part of a four-lab international collaboration across Germany, UK, Chile, and Singapore, integrating imaging with modeling and biomechanical assays, and with opportunities to travel to the other labs during the project for advanced interdisciplinary training.

(The grant project description is on page 29 of the PDF embedded at: https://www.hfsp.org/bookletRG2025#GrantsBooklet_2025_webversion.pdf/31)

The official job advert is coming soon (stay tuned!), but expressions of interest are already very welcome.  Just check out the lab (https://tinyurl.com/PanfilioLabPapers, a cool movie of the beetle heart from our recent paper: MovieS1-WT-dorsal-closure*) and get in touch if you would like to know more (Kristen.Panfilio@alum.swarthmore.edu)!

* Movie description: serosal contraction and heart row formation (from our recent paper, https://doi.org/10.3390/cells13141211)