Two great talks on clinical and genetic aspects of #PCD to kick start #CiliaClub. First talk from Dr. Evie Robson and second from Dr. Sunayna Best who presented their work with Dr. Hannah Mitchison from @GGM_ICH

Priyanka Anujan just presented her work in Zebrafish and Mice looking at the pathway involved in multiciliation of cells. #CiliaClub #Cilia

Anne-Gaëlle Borycki gave a great talk on primary cilia in skeletal muscle cells and hedgehog signalling #CiliaClub

Welcome to the #cilia field Miguel and Laura! Looking forward to seeing the data that will be coming out of the Miles lab from Newcastle in the coming years. #CiliaClub

Interesting structure-function data of CCDC61 shown in Takeshi's presentation. #CiliaClub He's also currently recruiting PhD Students!#structuralbiology

Xiaoming from the Malicki Lab in Sheffield is presenting her data looking at how Rod opsin is targetted to the photoreceptor cilium. Correct targeting of opsin is essential for sight. #Fightforsight Fight for Sight #CiliaClub

To round off presentations for this #CiliaClub Andrew Jarman from Edinburgh introduced us to the auditory neuron cilia in #Drosophila.

The next big cilia meeting will be in Sheffield, which is the UK Cilia Network meeting on 22nd of March. Our next #CiliaClub meeting will be in Edinburgh, September 2019.

Two members of our lab group placed in the top 3 for this competition out of 72 entries! Looking forward to seeing the art work on the walls in WTBB. #Cilia #Scienceasart

Great to see cilia feature in 2 of the top 4 images from the institute #Scienceasart competition. #cilia

Johnson Cilia Lab great seminar today Newcastle University IGM Newcastle on all things cilia #cilia

Our PhD student Rowan imaging her stem cells this afternoon #cilia #phdstudent #EyeResearchMatters #stemcells

Our Stem Cell group members spent all of yesterday extracting bovine photoreceptor outer segments (POS) using the fantastic Parinot et. al. protocol! These will be used to assess phagocytosis in retinal pigmented epithelium we have derived from iPSCs carrying patient mutations.

We continue to meet online to discuss science (as well as our favourite walking locations) as we wait to go back into the lab! #workingfromhome #teammeckel #covidtime

Although we’re still working from home, we’re almost on the verge of getting back into the lab! 🎉Meanwhile we’re soaking in all the fantastic cilia science at the 8th #UKCilia2020 e-symposium! #ciliacommunity #thesciencegoeson

Alice’s paper now on biorxiv identifying ROCK2 as a therapeutic target for ciliopathies!

This review about the mechanisms by which actin controls ciliogenesis is out today! Congratulations Claire and Alice! #cilia #actin #universityleeds frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Just out! This fantastic paper uses topological data analysis to study genotype-phenotype correlations in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia. Our own Sunayna Best was involved in this work! #PCD #cilia erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/…

Congratulations Sunayna Best @Kat_Szymanska from the lab on having this fantastic work published!

This work from our lab analysing the 100k ciliopathy cohort revealed opportunities for improved diagnosis rates, requiring better phenotyping data to facilitate accurate variant interpretation. Analysis of structural and splice variants improved diagnostic yield.