So cool! How any of these processes can happen with such precision and speed in a madly dense cytoplasm never stops amazing me!

An amazing day, I was 17 and lived about 5 min away from Checkpoint Charlie!

Beautiful image and cool story, congrats, Frank!

Amazing, Emma, congrats! One to read!

Very sad news indeed…

Lovely summary of how the advent of confocal microscopy changed our research and ability to understand biology

Brilliant postdocs in my lab! Here they are, plus an undercover MPhil student, for Postdoc Appreciation Week! #LovePostdocs #NPAW2025

Cool!

If you love cytoskeleton and tissue morphogenesis, have a read!

Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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For something as classic as the Spemann-Mangold organizer first discovered in amphibians, the existence of such an organiser in mammals remains elusive. In this thought provoking review by Kate Mcdole et al, they discuss the evidence for and against such organiser in mouse. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Congrats to all newly elected Members!

In the current Cambridge temperatures, this is the only way to do lab meeting! And the first Röper Lab outing from PDN!

Amazing when something like this comes through!

#Job alert: #Postdoc position in the Iden lab within the new #DFG #SPP2493 consortium #HetCCI @hetcci.bsky.social ci.bsky.social‬. Please share, or apply if you want to dissect epithelial:non-epithelial cell-cell interactions: https://shorturl.at/W3M5#CellCellCommunicationo#epitheliai#cellbiologygy

Proud to kick-off #HetCCI, a DFG-funded research consortium in Germany (Priority Programme #SPP2493 on heterotypic cell-cell interactions in epithelia). Follow us if interested in how epithelial cells interact with non-epithelial tissues in different settings! Webpage will follow asap. #cellbiology

My pleasure! Great fun spending a day talking about lots of exciting project going on at the CABD!

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I’ll be in Sevilla to give a seminar on Friday, should be great fun, excellent science at the CABD!

An interview with Helen Skaer Helen was awarded the @bsdb.bsky.social‬ Waddington Medal, which recognises outstanding individuals who have made major contributions to UK Developmental Biology. Find out more about her research and what this award means to her: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

This will be a really interesting meeting, and in lovely Andalucia!

Check out our latest study from the lab!

Latest paper from the lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, Anna's PhD work hot off the press @plosbiology.org ! Using single cell genomics to understand tube morphogenesis, and why it's as important to switch things off as it is to switch them on!

Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), German Expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century #womensart

We are looking forward to meeting everyone in Liverpool next week for our special 100-year anniversary conference. We have a busy, fun-filled programme. You can follow all the action from Biologists @ 100 at #biologists100. 100yearsconference.biologists.com

Sad to miss this… will be a great meeting!

German MPs approve €500bn spending boost to counter ‘Putin’s war of aggression’

Very cool research from Eleanor Raffan in my department in Cambridge, showing how learning about labradors' inability to stop eating and can tell you about human obesity! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very cool preprint by my colleague Kate McDole and her postdoc Katie Goodwin @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social using beautiful imaging and quantitative methods to understand the wondrous migrations of primordial germ cells in mouse embryos doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Some master trolling by the U.K.

WTF (excuse my language) but how can 35 years after the Wall came done the conclusion in the former East near unanimously be that far right politics are the answer? Well, maybe within the forming Trump-Putin alliance this all makes sense…

Absolutely not surprising. I wish Merz would have watched more closely what happened to the Tories here.

Dem vorläufigen Endergebnis zufolge gewinnt die Union die Wahl klar. Bis zum Schluss musste das BSW um den Einzug in den Bundestag bangen. Ein Zweierbündnis hat nun eine Mehrheit: www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/fdp-...

Scary day for Germany today, let’s hope people do more of the right and less of the Right thing than polls predicted… 🇩🇪 🕊️✔️

Merry Christmas all!✨🎄🕯️🎁🎶

Only 3 days left to apply! Postdoc positions available in the Röper lab at the University of Cambridge! @PDN_Cambridge Discover the role that supracellular cytoskeletal assemblies and crosstalk play in sculpting organs in Drosophila or human organoids in culture! Links below!

Lots of exciting PhD projects, including from my lab on how to make tubular organs, either in Drosophila or human renal organoids in culture! Apply!

Such a cool study,… and cover image!

Es lebe die Fliege! Drosophila rules…Time flies like and arrow, fruit flies like a banana… Wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach…

Postdoc positions available in the Röper lab at the University of Cambridge @PDN_Cambridge! Join us and help discover the role that supracellular actomyosin assemblies and cell adhesion play in sculpting organs in Drosophila! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48942/

Postdoc position available in the Röper lab at the University of Cambridge @PDN_Cambridge! Join us and discover the role that control of cytoskeletal dynamics, crosstalk and cell adhesion play in the formation of the nephron tube in human renal organoids! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48947/

The weight of the world: Wild birds = 0.002 Gt Wild mammals = 0.007 Gt Humans = 0.06 Gt Livestock = 0.10 Gt All animals combined = 2 Gt Plastic = 8.3 Gt Bacteria = 70 Gt All plants = 450 Gt Total biomass = 546 Gt Buildings and Infrastructure = 1,100 Gt Anthropogenic CO2 emissions = 1,770 Gt

UK #CellBiology people BSCB Medals. Nominations, 1st Nov BSCB members can nominate! Details: - Hooke Medal (bscb.org/competitions...) - Women in Cell Biology Award (bscb.org/competitions...) - Post-Doc Research Medal (bscb.org/competitions...) - PhD Award- Raff Medal (bscb.org/competitions...) 🧪

So much fun to be had!

Lovely obituary of David Ish-Horowicz by his nephew www.theguardian.com/science/arti...