A.S.Brumm
@asbrumm.bsky.social
PostDoc with Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social at the University of Edinburgh, previously PhD Student with Kathy Niakan at the Francis Crick Institute @thecrick.bsky.social.
Honoured to have been awarded the 2026 British Society for Developmental Biology Lewis Wolpert Medal - means so much; as i was Lewis’s last PhD student,recognition for continuing his legacy of public engagement & impact of our research on Thalidomide & Primodos survivors. bsdb.org/2026/03/24/2...
One of our favourite tabs is Resources: we're listing all of our datasets, codes, beginning to upload and make accessible raw imaging data and lab protocols. Please check it out, we hope this is useful! niakanlab.com/resources/
Niakan Lab@niakanlab.bsky.social · 11mo ago🚀 Exciting news: our new lab website is live! 🌐 Check it out here: niakanlab.com We’ll be sharing updates on our research, publications, outreach, resources etc. Curious to hear what you think! ✨ #LabLife #Research #StemCells #DevelopmentalBiology
Found this unbelievably accurate “integrated stem cell model” by JA Thomson in 1996 of marmoset ESCs 🐒 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8828827/ The simplest protocol one can think of built quite remarkable structures !?!?
Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu
Can peer review be done faster, without compromising on quality? Biology Open has embarked on an exciting experiment to find out - Editor-in-Chief Dan Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social explains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt5h...
Why is Biology Open's Fast & Fair peer review initiative exciting?
YouTube video by The Company of Biologists
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Join us! This will be a great meeting.
Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · last yr.Are you a biologist with a research interest in #embryogenesis or synthetic biology? Join our upcoming residential scientific meeting in Brighton on the topic of generative biology: royalsociety.org/science-even... @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social @dbenzinger.bsky.social @cellysally.bsky.social
Our protocol with all the details you'll need to detect and quantify phospo-SMAD proteins in your (human) embryo, is finally out today @cp-starprotocols.bsky.social. Thanks again to my wonderful co-author @toddfallesen.bsky.social and the @niakanlab.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Protocol for immunofluorescence detection and quantification of phosphorylated SMAD proteins in human blastocysts
The transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) signaling superfamily includes NODAL and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling, which lead to the phosph…
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If you’re a PhD or postdoc developmental biologist in the UK who cares about the field and the community, please nominate yourself to join the BSDB committee. Great opportunity to get involved, have real input and give back to the community @bsdb.bsky.social #biologists100
Excited to share how we use neighbour labelling to investigate cell fate decisions in neuromesodermal progenitors. Find me at Poster 165 @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100.
🧪Attending your first scientific #conference? Thinking about what to pack, or just looking to make sure you prepared all the essentials? Have a look at The Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Conferences I got to publish for @the-node.bsky.social, out now! ☺️☺️ thenode.biologists.com/the-beginner...
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The Beginners Guide to Scientific Conferences
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Have you been following the work of the HDBI - the Human Developmental Biology Initiative? A lay summary of a recent paper from researchers involved in the HDBI is now available, written by the paper's first author @asbrumm.bsky.social hdbi.org/human-epibla... #Embryos #HumanDevelopment
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here we explore the role of #Wnt and #Nodal signalling during mammalian gastrulation using #gastruloids. Building on the work of many labs, we propose that antagonistic signalling-dependent #modularity in the PS establishes the early mammalian body plan.
A temporal coordination between Nodal and Wnt signalling governs the emergence of the mammalian body plan
Nodal and Wnt signalling play an important role in the emergence of the mammalian body plan, primarily by orchestrating gastrulation and primitive streak formation. While the literature suggests that ...
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