Fantastic!

Yanlan Mao@yanlanmao.bsky.social · 6d ago

This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Looking forward to the #2026SDB Satellite Symposium, 'Decoding the Human Embryo: Dissecting Developmental Processes in Our Species'. If you're interested in human development, register for @dev-journal.bsky.social and HDBI's meeting #HumanDev26. But be quick – registration closes tomorrow!

DEVHDBI2026: Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos

For 2026, the journal has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise this event.

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I'm looking for a postgraduate intern to join my group at @humantechnopole.bsky.social, modelling how pili dynamics drive bacterial motility and aggregation. Finishing a master's in physics, computational biology, or a similar field? Get in touch: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Internsh...

🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Postdoc position available now in the Smith Group lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/smith... to test the hypothesis that differentiation biases between human pluripotent stem cell lines may be eliminated by reversion to the naïve state. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...

This week's lab cleaning was very satisfying and gave us a beautifully clean lab - good team work too!

Still time to apply! Deadline extended to 25th May! This is an enriching, immersive, interactive week of talks and discussions with leaders in the field. A brilliant oppportunity for PhD students, postdoc, new PIs. See our testimonials: www.stemcellsummerschool.org/testimonials Spread the word!

Stem Cell Summer School@stemcellsummer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are delighted to announce that we are now open for applications for 2026 summer school Dates: 11th - 18th September 2026 Deadline for applications: 8th May See our website for info on how to apply.. and to check out our stellar speaker list! www.stemcellsummerschool.org/apply 🧪

📣 One week left for early-bird registration. We have teamed up with the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded consortium Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise our 2026 Journal Meeting. Register by 8 May for early-bird registration at biologists.com/meetings/dev.... #HumanDev26

John Gurdon (1933-2025) Sir John Gurdon was a towering figure in developmental biology, respected and admired throughout the world. In this Obituary, Jim Smith writes about his legacy. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

One week until the early-bird deadline for @dev-journal.bsky.social Meeting in September on Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. Check out the programme & great line-up of speakers at tinyurl.com/85aeazvs and secure your discounted registration by 8 May: tinyurl.com/a87am9d6

Excited to be thinking about the upcoming EMBO workshop on quantitative tissue morphgenesis meetings.embo.org/event/26-tis...

Fantastic - congratulations @storerlab.bsky.social and the whole team! Great work!

Mekayla Storer@storerlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Proud to share this work with @kevinchalut.bsky.social and Byron Mui. Why do some injuries scar while others regenerate? Using digit tip models, we show the ECM is a key driver. HA-rich ECM promotes regeneration, and boosting it can shift healing away from fibrosis. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One month until early-bird deadline for @dev-journal.bsky.social & @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium HDBI's 2026 Meeting on Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. Check out the programme biologists.com/meetings/dev... and register by 8 May www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a more than 100 year history of supporting science through its journals, meetings, and fellowships. Help lead it into its second century! pls share www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

This is not an April fool's! The YEN 2026 Conference is really happening on June 15th! We are excited to have Kay Elder, Diana Pinheiro and Christopher Thomas. We are looking forward to your abstract submissions! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excited to be part of the EMBO tissue morphogenesis workshop in September: meetings.embo.org/event/26-tis... ＃EMBOTissueMorphogenesis

Such beautiful work here - congratulations @mariapalcolea.bsky.social and the lab!!

Maria Alcolea@mariapalcolea.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 New paper from our lab just published in Nature🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Discover how 🌱 tumour formation is shaped by tissue context from the very beginning. Cancer is not driven by genetics alone ✨Fantastic team led by Greta Skrupskelyte, Eduardo Rojo, @hariajith.bsky.social

The Rawlins lab thoroughly enjoyed meeting Hans Clevers when he visited @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social today!

In collaboration with Nora Bourbia @ukhsa.bsky.social we have a fully funded (UK/home fees) PhD studentship available @phar.cam.ac.uk: "Radiotherapy induced nerve damage and pain: can we prevent it?" Naked mole-rats will be involved!

We are delighted to announce that we are now open for applications for 2026 summer school Dates: 11th - 18th September 2026 Deadline for applications: 8th May See our website for info on how to apply.. and to check out our stellar speaker list! www.stemcellsummerschool.org/apply 🧪

Delighted to announce that @dev-journal.bsky.social has teamed up with the @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise their 2026 Journal Meeting. Registration is now open at biologists.com/meetings/dev... #HumanDev26

Register now for the 2026 Annual Meeting, themed 'Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation', from Loke the Centre for Trophoblast Research in Cambridge, UK! ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/loke-centre-...

www.ukri.org/news/open-le... ‘You may be aware of recent pauses to some programmes. For our curiosity-driven research programmes, headroom in funding will increase, ….new opportunities opening later this year….levels of funding for curiosity-driven research will remain stable across this SR period’

Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community

UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.

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We encounter some bureaucratic problems importing our fish...Does anybody have a transgenic zebrafish line that marks the basement membrane/ECM in the UK? Would need to mark optic cup and final eye for our purposes. And/or an ras-GFP/RFP line? Thanks for looking and reposting!

🚨We are recruiting two PhD students 🚨 1) Quantitative & dynamic analysis of limb-regenerative signaling centers w/ @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social 📶🧮💻 🔗https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/80704/Quantitative-and-dynamic-analysis-of-limb-regenerative-signaling-center-interactions

Do you want to play a key role in running a cutting-edge stem cell and embryology lab at reNEW @ucph.bsky.social ? We’re hiring a Lab Manager to support our team and help with stem cell and animal work. Apply before Feb. 1st : rb.gy/d5uf17

Academic employee for Research Group, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, reNEW

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Great meeting!!! Amazing talks and posters today also.

Sergiu P. Pasca@sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The inaugural conference on #assembloids and complex cell-cell interactions starting tonight at @cshlnews.bsky.social ! Amazing energy and inspiring opening keynote by Ruslan Medzhitov.

We're very excited to welcome Dr. @sumrubayin.bsky.social from the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social onto the next episode of the podcast! 🎉 Her lab studies the mouse #cerebellum to better understand the regulation of #neural stem cell behavior. 🧠

Very cool - though would be even more amazing if they could do this for the sciences also!

UK Research and Innovation@ukri.org · 9mo ago

Applications open: New Generation Thinkers 2026 AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast. Apply by Jan 2026

Julie Ahringer from @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social @geneticscam.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk gives talk on decoding genome regulation during development. Exploring how chromatin accessibility changes throughout development enable single cells to become multicellular organisms.