ucl.ac.uk has again performed strongly in @ResearchEngland’s KEF5, being recognised as one of the top #universities in England for #knowledge exchange. This assesses how #unis are performing in activities that positively impact the #economy and wider #society. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Congratulations to Barbara Conradt, just elected to the @embo.org Membership. EMBO promotes excellence in #LifeSciences. Barbara said “I feel very honoured and ... look forward to interacting with other members to have a positive impact.” @ucl.ac.uk www.embo.org/press-releas...

Balancing a recent post on #wasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social, now we mention #bees: Marius @didziokas.bsky.social designs custom #LEGO sets as a hobby, which, if enough support, will be made & offered for sale: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea... @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social - comments on #anatomy?!

A friendly reminder that we have a YouTube channel on which we upload, when we have the #speaker's permission to do so, recordings of the #talks given by invited, external #experts in the #Cell & #Developmental #Biology field. It's here: www.youtube.com/@uclcellandd... @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Congratulations to our Vilaiwan Fernandes, 1/8 of the 2025 Lister #Prize winners. As dept. chief, Sandip Patel says, ... a significant honour that recognises #researchers in the early years of running their own groups. lister-institute.org.uk/a-warm-welco... @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

@ucl.ac.uk ranks 9th in the 2026 QS World #University Rankings, the 3rd consecutive year it has held this position and its 14th in the global top 10. Among both #academics and #employers UCL is in the top 5% of ranked global institutions. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Our annual Postgraduate #Research (#PGR) #Student #Symposium is on Thurs,19th. There'll be 9 posters & 18 PGR speakers ending with CDB alumnus Prof Narender Ramnani, Professor of Neuroscience, @royalholloway.bsky.social, & President of the @britishneuro.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Many congratulations to Anna Franz, who has just accepted a proleptic appointment in CDB. Anna is a @wellcometrust.bsky.social & @royalsociety.org Sir Henry Dale Fellow, contributing: excellent #research on #fat cells, an UG module, public engagement, and input to @ucl.ac.uk #biosciences policy.

Camden Youth Jazz bands play @ Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, London from 14.30, 29 June 2025. It's a *free* event - bring a picnic, sit on the grass and listen to enthusiastic young #jazz musicians, including our Michael Duchen's youngest son (alto sax)! www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/camden-music...

The London Open #gardens scheme is 07-08 June 2025, giving access to private or secret hidden beauty spots, including our Michael Duchen's #allotment at Branch Hill in Hampstead. londongardenstrust.org/whatson/lond... #allotmentlife #sustainable @ucl.ac.uk

It's #PrideMonth @ucl.ac.uk! June – a month's celebration to highlight #LGBTQ+ communities and culture: come together in joy & friendship, whilst acknowledging that there is still much work to do towards #equality and #inclusion @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social #edi #diversity www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

Congratulations to several CDB people, who have been ranked highly in Research.com's Best #Scientists in the field of #Biology and #Biochemistry 2025 in UK and world-wide, based on papers and citations. More here: research.com/careers/worl... @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Our Patel lab published on Ca / #Parkinson’s disease, indicating a new pharmacological route to impede the disease. Funded by The Wellcome Trust & Parkinsons UK; collaborated with scientists from Brazil, York, KCL, California, Germany, India doi: 10.1083/jcb.202412055 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Roberto Mayor's lab, with #researchers from Dresden and the @crick.ac.uk, has published a theory of #cell migration called ‘frictiotaxis’. Instead of relying on #adhesion, cells sense a gradient of #friction within the substrate. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TOMORROW! Sign up now for a lecture from Professor Francesco Saverio Tedesco, a world-leading researcher in #muscle regeneration and #neuromuscular conditions. Saverio is lead investigator on two research projects funded by the @crick.ac.uk. Details at: www.musculardystrophyuk.org/support/even...

#Lecturer in NeuroAI & Computational #Neuroscience sought for a new programme at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence & computational #biology. Calling creative, forward-thinking #researchers to shape this new field: tinyurl.com/Lecturer-AI #AI #Job @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Congratulations to our new Head of Research Department, Professor Sandip Patel, Professor in Cell Signalling and previously (since Jan 2020) Deputy Head of the department. He replaces the excellent Professor Barbara Conradt, who led us for c. 6y. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Congratulations to our Roberto Mayor and Saverio Tedesco, who attended UCL's annual celebration of honours. Robert was awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Saverio gained Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Barbara Conradt has stepped down as our Head after years of excellent leadership. We are now in a great position to expand and meet new challenges. From tomorrow, Sandip Patel will take the helm; we wish him well & our full support. @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

On 17 Feb, @UCL starts 28 Days of #Sustainability 2025! Talks, workshops, films &c, to spark change and bring the UCL community together. Next week: Love your #planet, #tree planting, mend & repair, net zero policy and cooking! @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...

@ucl.ac.uk's #Equality, #Diversity and #Inclusion Committee of Practice is promoting our International Women's Day 2025 events in the run up to #IWD on 08 March. These events are free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/womens-healt... #AccelerateAction #edi #WomensHealth @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Prof Giles Hardingham of Edinburgh University will talk to us on Thursday about 'Neuro-glial interactions in #health and #disease'. This talk is part of our CDB #Seminar Series and will be hosted by Prof Patricia Salinas. #brain @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social #neurodegernative

#Job: #Lecturer in the UCL CDB to #research in the area of computational cell #biology, #teach at undergraduate and/or graduate level and contribute to the e-learning platform SysMIC, &c. Apply by 20 February 2025. Queries to [email protected]. Full details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Our @UCL CDB Career Development #Fellowships application has been extended to 28 Feb 2025. #Research into areas around our Centre for Engineering Life (CEL), synthetic developmental #biology, computational #cell biology or use single-cell approaches. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We look forward to welcoming Dr Margarete Diaz Cuadros of @MassGeneral & @harvardmed on Thursday for her talk on the Regulation of species-specific developmental rates by redox metabolism. Host: Alessandro Mongera. molbio.massgeneral.org/labs/diaz-cu... @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

We are looking forward to our annual #symposium next month and hearing our keynote speaker, Brandon Kilbourne, on #mammalian #locomotor systems. Thank you to The Anatomical Society and @the-node.bsky.social for their grants, enabling Brandon to travel and be here in person. #Anatomy @ucl.ac.uk

Postdoc #research job open in UCL CDB's Barrios lab [www.barrioslab.org] to work on answering: How do #memories become #behaviour? More info/apply here: tinyurl.com/Barrios-job. Supported by BBSRC. Questions to: [email protected] #memory #biology @ucl.ac.uk @UCLlifesciences

UCL CDB members: get ready for our traditional CDB New Year Celebration on Wednesday, 22 January 2025, from 17:00! Refreshments will be served in the Haldane Room, ground floor Anatomy Building. The party will follow our CDB All Staff and PhD Student meeting. Happy new year! @UCL

Have you explored our YouTube channel, yet? We post some of our #seminars, given by external guest speakers, on topics of interest to us at UCL's #Research Dept of Cell & Developmental #Biology. Check us out (below) @uclofficial.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

UCL ranks 1st in UK, 3rd in Europe and 5th globally in QS #Sustainability Rankings - we're proud to be part of this! With an overall score of 98.6 out of 100, the rankings highlight UCL’s leadership in addressing #environmental, social and governance (#esg) challenges. @uclofficial.bsky.social

Our researchers, in a paper just published in Nature Comms, offer new insights into how different #cell types are generated during animal development, which in future could help to solve some #autoimmunity, #cancer and #developmental abnormalities. doi.org/10.1038/s414... @uclofficial.bsky.social

Thank you for following us on bsky. We also recommend the UCL Centre of Integrative Anatomy's feed, here: bsky.app/profile/ucl-.... It's our specialist #interdisciplinary #research centre for every aspect of #anatomy - #comparative, #evolutionary, #developmental, #medical and #forensic