Seminar next week! Another set of exciting talks on metabolism in development.

TODAY! The next instalment of the zoom seminars on metabolism in development. Join 4pm CET/3 pm UK/10 am EST

This Thursday! Two exciting talks!

We are delighted to share that Dr Vilaiwan Fernandes has been awarded a 2025 Lister Prize by @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social - a prestigious recognition of her outstanding contributions to developmental neurobiology. Read more about the award and her lecture here: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Huge congratulations to Vil Fernandes for being awarded the Lister Prize! Amazing talk as always!

Lister prize lecture - congratulations to our @ucl.ac.uk colleague Vil Fernandes🎉

☕ Coffee break video - #ListerFellow Vilaiwan Fernandes talks about her developmental neurobiology research 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARu0... Then read our recent Q&A 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/news/in-conv... @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Postdoc and RA/PhD student positions in a great lab! Apply now!

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Join us next week! Exciting talks on metabolism in development!

Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them. We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢 Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded. Aarhus University 🇩🇰 Deadline May 1 👇 Please share with anyone who might be interested!

We have FIVE GTA PhD Studentships available at UCL Life Sciences. See here for a chance to work in the Medawar Pain and Somatosensory Labs on the influence of early life experience on lifelong pain vulnerability: bit.ly/4bDLg4Z Deadline 23rd April- repost widely! @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Amazing new work from the Hurd lab:Sperm keep their mitochondria but lose their mitochondrial genomes. This new preprint identifies the nuclease responsible — and shows it reads DNA structure, not sequence. tinyurl.com/3npwwk37

A sight to be seen - both the cloisters and the moles!

Today's Spotlight features Dr Vilaiwan Fernandes - Lister Fellow and rising leader in developmental biology. Vilaiwan's research explores how brain cells grow, connect, and organise themselves during development, helping us better understand how healthy brains are built. linktr.ee/ucllifescien...

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This week! It's an hour earlier this time (3pm CET/2pm GMT/9am EST), don't miss it!

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Today! Join us on Zoom at 16:00 CET/15:00 GMT/10:00 EST. ucl.zoom.us/j/9146368438...

Coming up this week! Join us on Thursday for two exciting talks!

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2 weeks till the deadline! Join our department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social as a Research Fellow to start your lab! Reach out if you want more details.

Drosophila, metabolism, germline - what's not to like?

Yet another example of why #Drosophila is such a great organism to work with! And it's all due to painstaking curation by dedicated experts @flybase.bsky.social

Zoom Metabolism in Development meetings continue with our very own @diegosainzdelamaza.bsky.social and @lempradllab.bsky.social next week! Register to get the zoom link here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨Seeking developmental or cell biologists🔬!🚨 Our department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social is looking to support scientists seeking to establish their lab with a fellowship. Deadline: 30 Jan. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We’re back with the Metabolism in Development & Physiology online seminar series 🎉 Thu 11 Dec 2025, 16:00 CET Speakers: Heather Christofk (Professor, UCLA) Yuanlingzi Tian (PostDoc, University of Glasgow)

Reminder to apply - talk applications accepted continuously, there is no deadline. We will be seeking speakers throughout all of next year, so if you have a story on metabolism in development you're excited to share, here's the perfect place:

Our lab is actively looking for posdocs and there is NOW an Open Call for Postdoc contracts (3 years) here: www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...

Excited about your research on #metabolism in #development? We are too! Send in your abstracts to give a talk in these seminars.

New PhD opportunity studying oocyte biology. Excited about this new direction in the lab.

🔜Only one week to go 🎉! Looking forward to hosting the inaugural talks of our “Metabolism in Development & Physiology” seminar series. Join us by registering here: forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...

Please sign up for the mailing list here to get the Zoom link: forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...

Join us for a new zoom series on metabolism and development. This will be a monthly feature with PIs and trainees presenting. Sign up here (forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...) to get the Zoom link and join the mailing list.

Thanks for writing this - all of us in development need to hear this!

Interested in morphogens and how they can robustly specifiy different cell types with single-cell resolution? Check out this preprint combining experiments and modelling by our colleagues and partners in crime @ucl-cdb.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fantastic meeting! Thanks @events.embl.org for hosting, @embo.org for funding this and to organisers and all attendees for thought-provoking and exciting science!

Looking forward to this! Great chance to catch up with everyone and all the amazing Drosophila research going on!

So excited to share this preprint from the Rosin lab in collaboration with the Hawley lab and @eelcotromer.bsky.social on moth spermatogenesis! We investigate the meiotic errors that occur during the formation of apyrene sperm (that have no DNA) in silkworms! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Lovely work by @martinestermann.bsky.social and colleagues from the Capel lab! Together with our recent work (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), this really makes a strong case that lactate is crucial to supporting male germ cells in vivo - from flies to mammals.

🆕🧪‼️ New lab preprint! We study how germ cells (the cells that give rise to gametes, in this case sperm) are supported by somatic (non-germ) cells of the gonad. This matters for our understanding of reproduction - without germ cell development, animals are sterile. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Somatic cells compartmentalise their metabolism to sustain germ cell survival https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.666113v1

Essential reading! How often do we really need to change plastic pipette tips? We've been washing and reusing tips in our lab too, led by Inês Baldaia who really led on making sure that tip washing doesn't interfere with data.

Imagine a world without Flybase... Let's all help out if we can!

Last week to submit abstracts! Looking forward to #EDRC2025 and amazing #Drosophila research in Alicante! @fly-eds.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social

Remember that early bird registration closes on the 15th of May and abstract deadline is the 28th of May. Book early for the best prices and a chance to present your work at #EDRC2025

Thanks @dev-journal.bsky.social for featuring our paper - led by Rodrigo Garcia and Linus Schumacher in Edinburgh. So much exciting #germcell biology at the #GRC meeting!

Calling all fly researchers! Submit your abstracts before 28 May! Looking forward to seeing all the great #drosophila research going on at #EDRC2025 in Spain @edrc2025.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

Been looking forward to reading this since Amelie presented her poster at the #CSHL #germcells meeting!