🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 Transcription factors SP5 and SP8 drive primary cilia formation in mammalian embryos | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you're finishing PhD soon and thinking of postdocs, see below! Especially if you're keen on combining biochemistry, imaging and cell biology, we are onto some exciting findings on molecules and mechanisms underlying a cytoplasmic division cycle autonomously of CDKs!!

New paper on DYRK kinases and primary cilium! This project began with our interest in DYRK3’s relationship to centriolar satellites. But what started as a CS-focused story soon evolved into studying DYRK kinase activity during ciliogenesis. nature.com/articles/s42...

The #PrimaryCilium dynamically assembles & disassembles, but how is this controlled? @cytolabkoc.bsky.social shows that #ciliopathy linked protein Ccdc66 regulates both #cilium stability & length in epithelial cells via microtubules, actin & vesicular trafficking @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mdTS4A

Exciting new preprint alert! Our latest research is a tour de force exploring the biology of centriolar satellites, membrane-less organelles essential for development and physiology. Below is a summary of our findings; dive into the full paper through this link 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper uncovering the role of the microtubule-associated protein CCDC66 in primary cilium stability and disassembly is now published in @plosbiology.org ! We discovered exciting new links between CCDC66, microtubules, actin, vesicular trafficking, and Wnt. 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I’ll be visiting @wachtenlab.bsky.social’ lab at the Institute of Innate Immunity in Bonn this August for a mini‑sabbatical! I would love to connect with scientists in Bonn and beyond; please reach out if you’d like to chat, collaborate, or host a seminar.

EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics department is searching for a new director. A major position to lead this field in Europe and beyond. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

ERC eligibility rules have changed! I'm among the last researchers awarded the ERC Starting Grant twice. The new rules could broaden applications but also increase competition, let's see how funding rates evolve!

As the incoming Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine, I am looking for a Director of Research. Exciting opportunity for a PhD scientist to shape the future of this new Department! Apply here: jobs.weill.cornell.edu/NY/job/New-Y...

Even in the 'good' days, students/PDs on visas were always worried that they would run afoul of the law and be asked to leave. I know - I was on a student visa myself. I can't even begin to imagine their fear and anxiety now. Time for all university leaders to collectively step up and speak out!!

The MIT McGovern Institute’s story celebrating the 10th birthday of expansion microscopy (ExM). One highlight: ExM is not only easy to do, it’s easy to modify - so lots of people are altering and applying ExM for custom purposes, leading to unexpected innovations: mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/03/03/t...

Proud to share our work spear-headed by PhD student Tommy Sroka with major contributions by #xenopus expert Kerstin Feistel. Our iAPEX #ProximityLabeling method for #MassSpec based subcellular #proteomics works by locally generating H2O2 using a D-amino acid oxidase that activates APEX2 in situ.

We had a wonderful New Year’s dinner! 2024 was full of great moments: I became an EMBO member, Leyla was born, we published important papers, presented at conferences, organized #advimaging2024, got a new microscope, welcomed new team members. Here is to more in 2025!

Sorry to miss #cellbio2024 as my 5-month-old isn't quite ready for transatlantic flights, But Cytolab is still represented! Don't miss Efe’s microsymposium talk & poster on centriolar satellites and Basak’s poster on non-ciliary functions of ciliopathy proteins.

🧪 Lab's latest!! Work by PD (and now PI) Alison Philbrook. C. elegans sensory neurons have gorgeous #cilia. We’ve always thought that a) no cilia = no sensory responses, & b) no IFT = no cilia. Punchline is we thought wrong. Read paper for more! #neuroscience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I'm excited to see that a photo of Leyla with me receiving my EMBO member certificate along with other members and EMBO Director Fiona Watt was shown in the photo gallery for the EMBO 60th anniversary celebration. What a wonderful memory for her!

Thank you Ula and the rest if the organizers for putting together such a fantastic meeting.

I look forward to visiting the University of Liverpool this Thursday to present our findings on centriolar satellites. I will also give the keynote talk and share our latest cilia findings at the UK Cilia Meeting on Friday.

Thankful to have an office for pumping, so much better than the microscope room or other awkward spots I used during my PhD/postdoc. Dedicated nursing rooms are essential for supporting women’s return to work. It’s a simple change that can make a huge difference for working moms.

Leyla participated our meeting on how to address reviewer comments.

Since I last logged into Bluesky, the number of kids in my profile has changed from 3 boys to 3 boys and a girl! Time to update my profile and build my community here.

To all UK cilia enthusiasts! Our autumn meeting this year will be in Liverpool on 22nd November. Registration is now open at forms.gle/S7VtCpyUXAGa... and abstract submission will open soon. This is an ECR focused event so priority for talks/posters will be given to trainees. Come along!