So excited to see our work featured on the cover of The EMBO Journal! The image is the combination of a key experiment from our paper and clever micropatterning of PUFFFIN cells.

Looking for PhD students/postdocs for my newly opened lab at the Institute of Human Biology of #Roche in Basel. We work on human lung, liver and gut #organoids. Send email + CV + motivation letter to [email protected] with header #IHB institutehumanbiology.com

"Because I’m a professor on a permanent contract, it’s easier for me to make this change" And meanwhile, we should do...? nature.com/articles/d4158….

"The number of articles produced by ‘paper mills’ — businesses that sell bogus work and authorships to scientists — is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands." nature.com/articles/d4158…

Fully funded PhD studentships KCL MRC DTP now open! Joint project available with @DarrenWilliamsLab on mechanisms controlling the mechanical properties of the central nervous system. kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/the-ex… #MRCDTP25

🤩Wonderful documentary by The Company of Biologists about the beauty of development! youtu.be/avrmIs3vPUQ?si…

See our Case study with FocalPlane Giulia Casal giuliacasal.bsky.social Jemima Burden and I have been utilising vEM to look at Giulia's nerve samples, and this is part of what we have uncovered.... vEM reveals the cellular composition of the Blood Nerve Barrier focalplane.biologists.com/2024/10/11/vem…

Explore the fascinating world of Developmental Biology in this excellent British Society for Developmental Biology documentary, with our very own Wellcome OpticalBiologyPhD PhD student Courtney Lancaster and Prof Alice Roberts💙! youtube.com/watch?v=avrmIs…

Pleased to see our paper now published in Autophagy Reports! Great work from all involved to discover more about how "protein ATG8ylation" works. The big question is still "why?" "ATG5 is dispensable for ATG8ylation of cellular proteins" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Academic ironies

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We are looking for a research technician to work on an exciting collaborative project with Rachel Lennon using a combination of fly and mammalian models to understand basement membrane physiology during development and disease. jobs.ac.uk/job/DKN082/tec…

"I’m looking for some guidance and resources ... to help me choose. I’d rather spend time considering this now than spend the rest of my career kicking myself for not being more thoughtful in my decisions." - A colleague nature.com/articles/d4158…

Happy to share that my PhD work got published in the special issue dedicated to the 100-year anniversary of the Spemann-Mangold Organiser: doi.org/10.1016/j.cdev… With Roberto Mayor Lab and @G_Charras 1/n

In the latest issue! Multiparameter imaging reveals clinically relevant cancer cell-stroma interaction dynamics in head and neck cancer dlvr.it/TGmjZ8

🚨 Paper Alert 🚨 Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" in Nature Methods👇!! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to announce that MBI-MPG Conference 2025: Mechanobiology in Time and Space. Dates: 9-12 Sep 2025 Venue: Shaw Foundation Alumni House, NUS, Singapore Website: mbi.nus.edu.sg/events/mbiconf… The deadline for early bird registration is May 31, 2025 Join us!

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by Pau Guillamat IBEC biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

Early Career Opportunity, CDB, UCL Mentorship, world-class facilities, and a supportive environment. We are particularly interested in researchers in Synthetic Dev. Biol. Mechanobiology and AI approaches. #AcademicJobs #EarlyCareerResearcher #UCL #DevelopmentalBiology