A welcome and much needed reopening of pplicant-led grants today at MRC, with no closing date. It brings massive changes to assessment, with more details now available. Focus is on evaluation by a "college of experts" but its composition is still not clear. 1/6 www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Just over two weeks until our 55th @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium Tuesday April 21st 2026 15:00-17:45 BST! Join us for 6 talks from the latest rising talent!! Free & open to all. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... 1/2

🥁Calling all Cilia & Centrosome enthusiasts! Registration for the UK Cilia & Centrosome Network Spring meeting in Leeds is open. A homecoming to the place where '9+2' was discovered! Great opportunity for trainees + ECRs to share work + get community feedback. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-cilia-c...

Registration deadline for our motors and filaments meeting is tomorrow - not a 1st April joke! Thanks to our generous sponsors supporting sustainable scientific conference organisation @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social we also offer registration for a free livestream, supported by bsky discussions!

📣 The Cilia2027 Best Image Competition is open! 🧬✨ 🏆 1st Prize: Cover of the program & website + FREE registration to Cilia2027 🥈🥉 2nd & 3rd: Featured in the event screensaver + website Submit your best cilia visuals: forms.gle/jUC2tnsa5Cs8... #Cilia2027 #Microscopy #SciArt #Cilia

Check out our first lab preprint: A real team effort to understand the Plasmodium GAPM proteins, which form part of a essential bridge between the parasite's cytoskeleton and motility apparatus. Below is a sneak peek of some beautiful microscopy - light and electron! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tubulin glycylation regulates microtubule-protein interactions that are key for ciliary stability and trafficking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.26.714406v1

SPEx: Compartment-Resolved Proteomics via Expansion Microscopy-Guided Microdissection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.28.714993v1

1/3 Lab #Preprint alert…A cool study led by @MullickSan22454 in collab with @ms_chirps lab showing how tubulin glycylation regulates ciliary motors and MAPs in vitro. @biorxiv_biochem. #glycylation #tubulinPTMs #cilia #Intraflagellartransport. Read more biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Happy #FluorescenceFriday all! Checkout these beautiful basal bodies in airway #multiciliated cells expanded via U-ExM 😍 Images captured by the super talented @maneesha07.bsky.social on a #Nikon NSPARC 🔬.

Happy to see the first paper from the lab published in the EMBO J today: link.springer.com/article/10.1... In it, we reconstitute self-assembling cooperative oligomers of human Ndc80 and Ska kinetochore complexes that stabilise microtubule ends, and study these samples using cryoET and TIRF

Interested in one of the top jobs in European biology? @embo.org has opened a call for its next Director, to succeed Fiona Watt Really spectacular opportunity! Spread the word... www.embo.org/features/emb...

Exciting job opportunity in lovely Bern working in the Gluenz lab @izb-unibern.bsky.social ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobads/e8d8d00d-ecc8-44b3-9ec5-1b9799e66080

Microcephaly-associated protein WDR62 supports purine metabolism by interacting with co-chaperone BAG2 Dominic Ng and coworkers link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am so grateful to the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences for this honor. Can’t wait to be back to the lab and celebrate with lab members on this special recognition of their hard work.

Spectacular study revealing multiple ways by which Choanoeca flexa forms monolayers! Congratulations to @thibautbrunet.bsky.social Núria Ros-Rocher @pasteur.fr and all partners involved 👏👏👏

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