Kick ass talk from Robert J. Huebner at #frogfest2021! If you wanna read more about it, check out his paper in bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great to see a dispatch about our new paper in Current Biology. Thanks @helenkmatthews! Cell biology: How cancer cells coerce normal cells into tumorigenesis sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The amazing Andrea Wills Wills Lab gives the Inaugural IXB Young Investigator Award Lecture at #frogfest21 #womeninstem

New on the Node: BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report – Stephanie Leadbitter Read about Stephanie's research on mechanical regulation of cell division in developing tissues in the Woolner Lab The University of Manchester , funded by a Gurdon/British Society for Developmental Biology summer studentship

Congratulations Dr Emma Johns on passing your viva yesterday! Thanks to @integrintraffic and Alex Fletcher for acting as examiners. In addition to being an amazing interdisciplinary scientist, Dr Johns is also a fabulous potter, check out the family of frogs she made for us 🐸🐸🐸

We are so looking forward to the BSDB Spring Meeting this year. We once again join forces with our friends at BSCB. Check out the programme, submit your abstract, and register here: registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend/r…

Started the day off with a fantastic lecture by Sarah Woolner Woolner Lab Stoked to check out some animal caps later today!

Roberto Roberto Mayor Lab zooms in after his talk this morning to help out with some neural crest explants!

New pre-print alert from the Miller lab MCDB Michigan 🎉 Grad student Shahana Chumki, PhD shows how Rho-mediated junction remodeling is regulated in developing epithelia. Check it out! 🐸👀🔥

Biggest story on the front page of the Financial Times. Rightly. UK commits scientific, business and cultural suicide.

🚨 Application deadline *tomorrow* for a postdoc with me @mathsatshefuni Sheffield Math Bio on modelling tissue patterning - please consider applying, or forwarding on to anyone who might be interested! jobs.ac.uk/job/CQL924/res…

Post-doc position available modelling epithelial mechanics, closing date 19 Sept 2022 jobs.ac.uk/job/CSR834/res… Woolner Lab University of Manchester Department of Mathematics

Thanks Yanlan Mao for setting up this petition. Age limits on fellowships/grants are stifling and can prevent the best research being funded. Remove academic age limits on ERC grants - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9SLy7pNf via Change.org UK

Interested in how mechanical forces regulate cells and tissues? We're looking for a postdoc, ideally with experience in proteomics, to join us in the Woolner lab. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…

We are thrilled to announce that our Wellcome application to establish a Discovery Research Platform for Cell-Matrix Biology The University of Manchester was successful! 🎉 Here’s what to expect #cellmatrixbiology 👇 (thread)

Come join the Manchester Xenopus community: the Dorey lab are recruiting a Research Associate to study the response of neural progenitor cells to spinal cord injury. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Now online at Bull. Math. Bio. doi.org/10.1007/s11538…

Baby you’re a fiiiiirework!!! Explanted Xenopus neural crest cell, microtubules (green) and actin (magenta). Imaging in frogs rocks- this is done room temp, no incubation, no problem. 🐸🔬✨ By Micaela Lasser, Helen Willsey Helen Willsey Lab ZEISS Microscopy LSM980 fast airyscan

Check out our new preprint on bioRxiv. We show that NuMA localisation is sensitive to tissue stretch and acts to fine-tune division orientation. Mitotic spindle orientation and dynamics are fine-tuned by anisotropic tissue stretch via NuMA localisation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The localisation of the mitotic spindle orientation protein, NuMA, is highly dynamic and sensitive to tissue stretch. Frogs are also great for live imaging 🐸 Check out our preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…