New preprint! In collaboration with @xujwet.bsky.social, @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social, and Akhmanova and Beekman groups, we determined the structure of the transition zone microtubule doublet in mammalian motile cilia, providing potential insights into the regulation of IFT: tinyurl.com/fssnevuc

Exciting postdoc opportunity in London exploring the links between ageing and primary cilia. Particularly suited to someone with cell sorting (FACS) experience. jobs.citystgeorges.ac.uk/en/sites/CX_...

Big congratulations to our winners: Smilla-Maria Koy (1st), Chandrama Ghosh (2nd), and Anthony Rabaté (3rd)! Check out their breath-taking micrographs and the rest of the Top 15 entries in the stunning poster attached. The future of cilia research looks beautiful. 📸 #Cilia2027

Thanks EuroCilia 🙏 I am very excited for the conference!

Made it to Leeds for the annual @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social meeting! Great opening talk by @helenfoster.bsky.social on how ciliary axonemes are assembled!! #cilia

The native structure of the Trichonympha centriole cartwheel reveals a zigzag stacking pattern https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.717336v1

A MOPD II-associated Pericentrin variant disrupts PACT domain dimerization and pericentriolar material recruitment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.01.722250v1

Hydrocephalus caused by Katnip deletion is linked to increased ciliogenesis and reduced proliferation of neuroprogenitor cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.01.722314v1

Thrilled to see this work published. Thanks to helpful reviewer suggestions, there are some exciting new insights that were not in the preprint (particularly in Figure 4). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New online: Structural basis for recognition of diverse localizing mRNAs by Egl–BicD

I’m very happy to share our latest work exploring the mechanisms underlying IFT140-associated retinal dystrophy using human stem cell models, on biorxiv. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/3)

We'll be back for our @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social 56th e-symposium August 25th 2026- register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... Sign-up to speak: forms.gle/yNtr4AKpXowD... #UKCilia2026 /fin

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...

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