UKRI head commits to ‘consulting widely’ on funding reforms. Ian Chapman tries to reassure researchers amid uncertainty over paused calls and cost pressures. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

A brief communiqué on the temporary funding pause recently announced by UKRI detailing a summary of the main changes can now be found on the network website. www.cilianetwork.org.uk/news/4687/uk...

Great to know about this new flagship research programme on Ciliopathies launching at the Human Technopole in Milan!

Abstract deadline looming! Coming join us in June for a great meeting on developmental origins of paediatric cancers, including neuroblastoma organised by @tsakiridis.bsky.social and friends @childrenwithcancer.bsky.social #neuralcrest www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/dev...

Cool new story which discovers a novel role for the multiciliogenesis-linked transcription factor McIdas (aka Multicilin) in centriole duplication. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Another new phD position in sunny (usually) Southampton www.findaphd.com/phds/project... - if you like the space between biology and engineering please reach out to myself or Charles Burson-Thomas

Interesting article and accompanying spotlight on the cross-talk between ciliary homeostasis and ubiquitination (written by Jonathan Pruneda and @rbdamgaard.bsky.social). www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud and excited to share our work with the community! Helen @helenfoster.bsky.social Foster et al. study how #cilia axonemes are built. 👀 Don't miss the gorgeous and insightful movies by @margotriggi.bsky.social, they really show our discoveries in full action! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Incredible new work on ciliary axoneme assembly spearheaded by @helenfoster.bsky.social (#NewPI) from the @gaiapigino.bsky.social. Like all good science, answers many questions & opens up many new ones! Kudos to the entire team for this important advance in cilia biology. Lovely animation!

There was so much to unpack with this data, we teamed up with the marvellous @margotriggi.bsky.social to help explain what we think is going on. (Please also check out our model of central apparatus assembly here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)

Very happy to say that our work on how axonemes are generated is now available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - if you’ve ever wondered how the incredibly beautiful, complex structures within motile #cilia are constructed then this is for you!

Check out this thread for a nice breakdown (with videos!) of some of our questions about how dyneins generate a beat, all from our new preprint:

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... No two cilia are the same! Spatial cilia atlas reveals intrinsic cell-type dependent heterogeneity

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perturbations to primary cilia disassembly pathways underlie focal cortical dysplasia!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 3D printed micro-cilia that can move under low voltage! so cool

After 15 years as Editor-in-chief (EiC), Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social will be stepping down at the end of 2026 & we are seeking feedback from the cell biology community as part of the consultation process for appointing a new EiC. We'd love to hear from you: www.surveymonkey.com/r/GZCC9F9

I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.. A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting... A 🧵

'We have become familiar with videos of people we do not know getting detained & ripped from families and beaten by agents whose salaries we pay. As social media does its work putting pieces together about each unfolding tragedy, more of us will realize that those pieces belong to someone we know' 🥹

PhD position in my lab!

Have been trying to piece things together. Ian Chapman increasing his fiscal headroom from 5 to 20% for ‘sweeping changes’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r... and @cianodonnell.bsky.social found this - ARIA budget almost doubling by 2029/30 www.gov.uk/government/n...

🌍 Cilia2027 | Mar 8–12, 2027 | 📍 Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy Join the global cilia community for science, collaboration & discovery (+ fun!!). #Cilia2027 #CiliaBiology

We are back April 21 2026- volunteer or nominate yourself or someone with hot cilia and centrosome science to speak by dropping me an email or use the google doc forms.gle/9QoSvkmQ3gZL...! /FIN

Viscosity-mediated signal amplification enables robust left-right symmetry breaking in the mouse node https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699291v1

Ooh! A few of my favorite things #Cilia #Signaling #L/RPatterning #NodalFlow #Biophysics- congratulations @vermotlab.bsky.social @jvermot.bsky.social! 🤩

Amazing to hold @lottepedersen.bsky.social & my @jcellsci.bsky.social Special Issue on #Cilia and #Flagella in all its glossy glory & muscle-engaging brain-boosting weight! So much fabulous content from the community! Fab cover @centriolelab.bsky.social 🥰🥰 journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/ci...

Our Editor-in-Chief Dan Gorelick will be attending #CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org. Come and visit Dan @danielgorelick.bsky.social to discuss Biology Open, our Fast & Fair peer review initiative and other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.

If you’re at #CellBio2025, please do reach out if you’d like to find out more about publishing in @jcellsci.bsky.social (and if you’re not, here’s a list of reasons for why you should choose JCS: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... 😁)

Bummed to miss #ASCB this year (one of my fav meetings), but the lab is well represented! Stop by poster B169 today and Maneesha will tell you all about her work on basal bodies and cilia homeostasis in multiciliated cells 👇 #CellBio2025

Our Editors will be attending #CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org. Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.

Thrilled to share our work on the 🔥 single-celled predator Podophrya collini, which rewires its cell morphology to hunt more efficiently. Huge thanks to our amazing team—Amy, Lauren, Omaya, Marine, Mari, and especially Scott—for making this shine! ✨

Exciting new findings on mechanisms of Wnt signalosomes --from Sheng-yuan Wu's PhD project in @matthias-krause.bsky.social lab! Great collaborators, great story. #xenopus 🐸

We’re excited for the UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium this afternoon featuring the #JCSciliaSI! To discover more about the research in this issue, check out these JCS snapshots, video highlights from authors about their research: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/11/24/j...

An outstanding opportunity. @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social could amplify this (maybe they have)?

Our lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The position is intentionally broad, as we are looking for outstanding researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to advance our understanding of cilia and ciliopathies: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526

I saw her at the poster session at ASCB 2024! very very impressive work and such a cool model system to study.

Key transcripts encoded centrin-like proteins, a frequent component of sensory/contractile structures in protists. We visualized tentacle ultrastructure by U-ExM with @dudinlab.bsky.social lab, discovering stunning tip and collar structures 🤯that add structural complexity to new tentacle formation.

Thanks for the shoutout! @jcellsci.bsky.social :)

While trying to steer clear of the ‘best organelle’ debate, we’re delighted to highlight #JCSciliaSI, guest edited by @cilialab.bsky.social & @lottepedersen.bsky.social. And, we hope that even the most ardent fans of other organelles can agree that cilia are certainly beautiful to image!

Rudolfo Karl, Elvira Mass, Dagmar Wachten @wachtenlab.bsky.social and colleagues discover that renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease. #JCSciliaSI journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Thrilled to share "in situ APEX activation" (iAPEX), a proximity labeling technology for subcellular #proteomics applied to primary #cilia. iAPEX uses an enzymatic cascade, in which a D-amino acid oxidase locally produces H2O2 to activate ascorbate peroxidase. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you’re at #sfn25 you definitely don’t want to miss this nanosymposium on cilia, tomorrow from 1-4pm! Come learn about neuronal cilia, they do some pretty cool stuff!

In an eight-person rowing boat, each rower contributes to movement but also has a unique role: balancing, powering, or setting the rhythm and pace. In our latest collaborative work we asked – do the eight dynein “rowers” in #cilia and #flagella operate in the same way?

Very excited to share this one! Our comprehensive structure, genetics and biophysics dissection of which flagellar dyneins and other proteins are needed for flagella to beat and drive cells swimming behaviours: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together. Happy reading! #cilia #flagella journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

Amanda Smith, Lawrence Ostrowski and colleagues find that lipid nanoparticle-encapsulated Dnai1 mRNA rescues ciliary activity in primary ciliary dyskinesia mouse cell models. #JCSciliaSI journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Laurence Wilson and Martin Bees use high-speed 3D holographic imaging to capture the flagellar beat of single algal cells, revealing changes in the ‘handedness’ of the flagellar shapes at different points in their cycle. #JCSciliaSI journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Exciting project!

This was a fun chat. Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social for featuring me and spotlighting our work. Check out the special issue on Cilia and Flagella journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13.... We have an article on Axonemal Dynein Assembly Factors (DNAAFs) which may be useful for the field.

📣 Here it is — our overview on ciliary proteomics! Great discussions and writing with @mick-lab.bsky.social and Ronald Roepman 🙏🙏 Hope we didn’t miss anything important - apologies if we did! #cilia #ciliopathies #proteomics @theracilproject.bsky.social @for5547.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yc8ztn5v

Great Science! Great food and great company in Oberbronn! Thank you to the organizers of the CFC meeting 2025! Thank you for all the fantastic talks & posters! + unbeatable morning runs! @club-cfc.bsky.social @bastinlab.bsky.social @alexbnmrh.bsky.social #cilia #flagella #centrosome #ciliopathies