When it's your turn to do lab meeting and you don't have new results to show

Massive congratulations to s.llorente-armijo for an epic defence of her PhD thesis MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) 🎉 Thanks to @mrmikerobson1 Boris Lenhard for examining #PhDdone #xenopus #hic #evolution #development #3Dgenome

ICYMI: we are hiring! Come and join us ⁦MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS)⁩ for a #postdoc #regulatorylogic #devbio #stemcellmodels in an excellent environment with fantastic support and colleagues :) thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc-i…

Closing on the 13th of October is a PostDoc position in the Development and Transcriptional Control group led by Vicki Metzis lms.mrc.ac.uk/vacancies/mrc-…

Another week celebrating #FluorescenceFriday with this beautiful montage of zebrafish embryos stained for DAPI and neural crest cells at 3 different stages: 10, 17, and 26 somites taken by a talented PhD student Zimeng Wu and postdoc Jonas Hartmann.

A chance to do brilliant things in a brilliant lab in London!

📢Melanie Chan is an #ECRusing a computational approach to analyse large-scale #WGS (whole genome sequencing) and single-cell data to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying kidney and bladder malformations. @Drmelaniechan works with Juanma Vaquerizas

From pandemic to PhD: Congratulations Dr ⁦Julia Silverman⁩ on this huge achievement! So proud! Many thanks to examiners ⁦Ben Steventon⁩ and ⁦VAzuara Lab⁩ A super exciting week ⁦Imperial Medicine⁩ ⁦MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS)⁩ #devtranscon

We are now accepting applications for the next cohort of #PhD students to start October 2025 MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS). Checkout the wide range of collaborative projects including one from us with Omer Karin! We welcome applications from diverse fields and backgrounds. lms.mrc.ac.uk/study-here/phd…

Delighted to be hosting Joaquina Delas today MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) Imperial Medicine! Looking forward to hearing all about her latest work and new lab UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology supported by Wellcome #enhancerlogic #neuraltube #timing

Closing on the 20th of October is a PostDoc position in the Development and Transcriptional Control group led by Vicki Metzis lms.mrc.ac.uk/vacancies/mrc-…

🔴🟡🟢Thank you to everyone who came to our coffee morning celebrating Black scientists as part of #BlackHistoryMonth! 🔴🟡🟢 Hope you all had fun and learnt something new!

The macrophages that pretend to be a neuron 🤣🤣🤣take a look at our study published in Nature and see how macrophage exert ms modulation of sensation and action via glutamate. Fantastic collaboration with digiovannilab @LabPerrier nature.com/articles/s4158…

❗ANNOUNCEMENT❗ YEN 2025 Conference will be held at The Francis Crick Institute on the 19th May 2025. We have an exciting line-up with Nicolas Rivron, Maud Borensztein and Peter Rugg-Gunn. This year will see a return of the YEN Image Competition so follow for updates. Share for #YEN2025!

Also don't forget to follow us on bsky (yen-network) and instagram (YEN_network) if you use those platforms for extra content like this movie of cranial neural crest cells migrating through a zebrafish embryo (Image Credit: Jonas Hartmann)

Only one month left before the abstract submission deadline: Sunday 13th April 2025! Register now using the QR code below. See you at YEN2025!

Each year our Scientific Pespectives sessions focus on a topic we think is important to highlight. At YEN2025 we will be joined by Rob Tetley (Nikon Microscope Solutions) and Simon Hanassab (Imperial College London) who will talk about how new technologies can advance dev bio and IVF research.

Deadline for abstract submission & registration approaching The time is now!!!! meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev-t…

Check out the YEN 2025 Image Competition! We have many beautiful entries of all sorts of model organisms. Thanks again to all who contributed. #YEN2025 #YENImageCompetition

Voting for the YEN image competition will close on Monday 19th May. Check out the images and vote for your favourite! #YEN2025