Our 2025 GI retreat prize winners are: 🎉Social Engagement: Giada Vanacore and Shay Melamed 🙂 Research Culture: Theresa Gross-Thebing 🙌 Good Citizen: Sam Banjo 🔬Image Competition: @geraldinejowett.bsky.social 🌳Green: Tamara Romero Thank you all for your great community spirit and positive vibes!

✨ Congratulations to our amazing Postdoc @geraldinejowett.bsky.social – winner of this year’s Image Competition! 🏆🧬 Want to know more about the research we do? 👀 Check it out over at @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Members from the MRC Toxicology Unit, Department of Pharmacology and the Gurdon Institute took part in the Chariots of Fire event, a charity race that takes a scenic route through central Cambridge. Read more about the event here: buff.ly/QgJr1DK @phar.cam.ac.uk @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that our Group Leader Prof. Azim Surani, together with Prof. Davor Solter, has been awarded the 2026 Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 🎉 for discovering genomic imprinting—a breakthrough that reshaped genetics and launched modern epigenetics.

The first patients were enrolled into a clinical trial of alpelisib in Dent disease 2 at Bambino Gesù Hospital, funded by Lowe Syndrome, Trust UK and Association USA, and Dent Disease Foundation. The drug was identified by the Gallop and Devuyst labs. Read more: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/first-p...

We're loving hosting students for the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social ASTP programme, along with @mrc-mbu.bsky.social . As ever, so impressed with the next generation of scientists!

We had a such a great week with this lovely group of students on @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social ASTP programme- they did some fantastic presentations on Friday! Well done to all of them 👋👋👋

Check out this list of posts on @prelights.bsky.social, discussing #preprints in #DevBio and #StemCell biology. Featured #preLight is by Jethro Lundie-Brown @scicambridge.bsky.social on a preprint by @sumrubayin.bsky.social & co. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

🌟Congratulations to Azim Surani @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk for receiving the 2025 Kyoto Prize - Basic Sciences. Azim's research fundamentally advanced our understanding of developmental biology🔬🧬 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/kyoto-prize-... #KyotoPrize #AzimSurani #DevelopmentalBiology

🎉 Congratulations to the Rawlins Lab on receiving an ERC Advanced Grant for their LungDeCode project! 🫁🔬The project lays the foundation for future human lung regeneration. #ERCGrant #GurdonInstitute #SBS_Cambridge

🆕 New publication from the Tchasovnikarova Lab! CRAMP1 drives linker histone expression to enable Polycomb repression 🧬 Read the full study in Molecular Cell: 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Epigenetics #Chromatin #GeneRegulation #Polycomb #GurdonInstitute #SBS_Cambridge

🗓️#CambridgeFlyClub 2nd meeting this year on July 16th (Weds) 4pm at @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social. Our speakers are Carmina Santa-Cruz Mateos from Sarah Bray's lab @pdncambridge.bsky.social and Jimena Berni from University of Sussex. It's not the Dmel on our poster, guess what species is it?

Welcome 2025 Fellows and congratulations to all! Excited to see our @geraldinejowett.bsky.social in the list! @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Amazing to host Jen Sucre to give a talk @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social yesterday. Fun times and the most beautiful lung images. Plus a relaxing evening with the whole lab - thanks all! Warm June evening in Cambridge - Pimms was required!

A beautiful day to celebrate #CambridgePride with the Old Addenbrooke’s Neighbourhood @phar.cam.ac.uk @mrc-tu.bsky.social @cambiochem.bsky.social @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈

The Gurdon Institute Public Engagement team, Lowe Syndrome Association patient charity and Gallop laboratory have written an article about their co-production collaboration for the 2024 International Lowe Syndrome Symposium www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted through the bite of an infected tick. If caught early, antibiotic treatment is usually effective but treatment delay can lead to long term debilitating symptoms. Prevention is better than cure, please read here!

Today we welcomed Dr Sumru Bayin for our Group Leader Seminar! Dr Bayin is CSCI's Affiliate PI, and Group Leader at @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social. She was hosted by @bertiegottgens.bsky.social and presented on 'Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain.' Thanks to all who joined!

We are looking forward to @schierlab.bsky.social talk tomorrow at 11 AM in our Tea Room

We're looking forward to host Professor Merixtell Huch back @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social on Tuesday, 29 April at 11AM.

My lab decided to celebrate international women's day this year - though women in STEM is clearly every day 😀

If you are in or around Cambridge UK, join us at the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social family weekend on 29th and 30th March. Stop by my stand and learn some tick bite prevention techniques in #TickBitePreventionWeek. Sharing resources from @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social

Starting the new year with the last chapter of my PhD finally published on how physical forces and neighbour interaction regulate extrusion in @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social in collaboration with Doostmohammadi group. Details below:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02716-5

It was a lovely event - thanks for organising @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social public engagement team! Great that 2 lab members could showcase their work also.

We had an excellent time yesterday welcoming science enthusiasts to @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social and sharing our research as part of @camfest1.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social 🧠 Thank you everyone for joining us in person or online.

Congratulations to Mien Chew (Rawlins Lab) who won 1st prize and Ana Hernandez Rodriguez (Xiong Lab) who won runner up for the PhD poster presentations at the Biologist100 conference 🧬 Thank you to the organisers: biologist.bsky.social and bsdb.bsky.social

Enjoy a facinating new publication from the Surani lab here at the Gurdon Institute 🗞️ It explores "The emergence of human primordial germ cell-like cells in 3D gastruloids". Read the full article here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #DevBio #research #science #GurdonInstitute

Join us on Monday, 17 March at 4pm for drinks and nibbles and meet Prof. Christine Holt, Professor Emerita of Developmental Neuroscience. Christine will share with us her journey and the challenges she faced. This event will kick off the Couch Talks, an initiative organized by the WIDE Committee.

It was great to be back @cambridgeuni.bsky.social to give a talk @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social Developmental Biology Seminar Series, and to talk science with people from @scicambridge.bsky.social, @loke-ctr.bsky.social, and @mrclmb.bsky.social! Spring has sprung @christscollegecam.bsky.social!

@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social We celebrate the contributions of women in science and beyond. We recognise women who inspire, lead and push the boundaries of discovery every day. Together we work towards a future where science thrives through diversity, inclusion and equality. #InternationalWomensDay

Should be fun events @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Cambridge Festival 2025 - 25 March 6pm Join Prof. Emma Rawlins 👩🏻‍🔬🫁 @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social and her team 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬 for an evening of drinks 🍷🍻🍕 nibbles, discussion and discovery 🔬🧪. Come for the science, stay for the conversation 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏽‍♂️—don’t miss out on this exciting event!

📢 We are delighted to host @mhaniffa.bsky.social on Thursday for our Gurdon Institute Seminar Series, hosted by Emma Rawlins and @sumrubayin.bsky.social All welcome 😀 🗓️ Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 11 am 🎙️ The tapestry of human prenatal immunity 📍Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road CB2 1QN