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Paul Gerald L. Sanchez and Stefano Vianello

EMBL/EPFL

Paul 🇵🇭 [@poljiology]:  I am a postdoc in Alexander Aulehla’s lab at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany 🇩🇪. At EMBL, I use microfluidics-based entrainment to study the nature and mechanism of synchronization of signalling oscillations during embryonic development. Before starting my research at EMBL, I studied and taught biochemistry at the University of the Philippines Manila, and I was a research assistant in Dr. Chih-Yen King’s lab at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.

Stefano 🇮🇹🇪🇺: I am a PhD student in Matthias Lütolf’s lab at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland 🇨🇭. I am interested in early mammalian embryonic development, and I use self-organising in vitro models to investigate endoderm development and how embryonic mechanics play into cell fate specification and morphogenesis. I graduated in Genetics at the University of Cambridge (UK), and did my Master’s in Alfonso Martinez-Arias’ lab, focusing on the developmental consequences of Wnt and Notch interaction.

On this same platform, we also curate the preList on Gastruloids.

Preprint selection statement:

As of mid-2020 we have decided to deliberately prioritise preprints from lesser-“known” research groups and from historically marginalised scientific communities. This decision comes as a direct response to bioRxiv’s limited success in disrupting established neocolonial patterns of knowledge dissemination (Abdill et al; 2020), and the increasingly documented evidence that the full availability of diverse science favoured by preprints  fails to proportionally translate into publication (Abdill et al; 2020), consideration (Amano et al; 2021), or media reporting (Davidson and Greene 2021) when faced with the instutionalised biases of  Western academic spaces. PreLights does not inherently challenge such patterns either. Our decision is mainly grounded on calls for knowledge equity, and reflections on positionality and representation in scientific publishing (as per the Knowledge Equity Lab: “asking whose knowledge, voices, stories, and experiences are being represented; whose knowledge do we consider valid and important, whose knowledge are we learning from?”).

Paul Gerald L. Sanchez and Stefano Vianello has added 8 preLight posts

Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity

Tatsuya Amano, Violeta Berdejo Espinola, Alec P. Christie, et al.



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Transcriptome analysis of developmental stages of cocoa pod borer, Conopomorpha cramerella: A polyphagous insect pest of economic importance in Southeast Asia

Chia Lock Tan, Rosmin Kasran, Wei Wei Lee, et al.



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Development of the foregut in Katharina tunicata (Mollusca; Polyplacophora)

Brandy S. Biggar



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Bacteriological and histopathological findings in cetaceans that stranded in the Philippines from 2017 to 2018

Marie Christine M. Obusan, Jamaica Ann A. Caras, Lara Sabrina L. Lumang, et al.



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Embryological manipulation to probe early evo-devo in the fish Astyanax mexicanus

Jorge Torres-Paz, Sylvie Rétaux



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Hedgehog signaling is required for endomesodermal patterning and germ cell development in Nematostella vectensis

Cheng-Yi Chen, Sean A. McKinney, Lacey R. Ellington, et al.



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A unicellular relative of animals generates an epithelium-like cell layer by actomyosin-dependent cellularization

Omaya Dudin, Andrej Ondracka, Xavier Grau-Bové, et al.



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Embryo geometry drives formation of robust signaling gradients through receptor localization

Zhechun Zhang, Steven Zwick, Ethan Loew, et al.



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