Emma Rawlins
@labrawlins.bsky.social
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Developmental biology, University of Cambridge
https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/people/emma-rawlins/
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Stem Cell Summer School
5 days ago
Still time to apply! Deadline extended to 25th May! This is an enriching, immersive, interactive week of talks and discussions with leaders in the field. A brilliant oppportunity for PhD students, postdoc, new PIs. See our testimonials:
www.stemcellsummerschool.org/testimonials
Spread the word!
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Development
13 days ago
📣 One week left for early-bird registration. We have teamed up with the
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
-funded consortium Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise our 2026 Journal Meeting. Register by 8 May for early-bird registration at
biologists.com/meetings/dev...
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#HumanDev26
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Development
16 days ago
John Gurdon (1933-2025) Sir John Gurdon was a towering figure in developmental biology, respected and admired throughout the world. In this Obituary, Jim Smith writes about his legacy.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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The Company of Biologists
19 days ago
One week until the early-bird deadline for
@dev-journal.bsky.social
Meeting in September on Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. Check out the programme & great line-up of speakers at
tinyurl.com/85aeazvs
and secure your discounted registration by 8 May:
tinyurl.com/a87am9d6
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Excited to be thinking about the upcoming EMBO workshop on quantitative tissue morphgenesis
meetings.embo.org/event/26-tis...
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Quantitative tissue morphogenesis - models, manipulations and mechanisms
Tissue morphogenesis, the formation of stereotypical tissue shapes and sizes, relies on the precise spatiotemporal regulation of many cellular behaviours including cell division, migration and re-arr…
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-tissue-morphogenesis
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Fantastic - congratulations
@storerlab.bsky.social
and the whole team! Great work!
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about 1 month ago
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The Company of Biologists
about 1 month ago
One month until early-bird deadline for
@dev-journal.bsky.social
& @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium HDBI's 2026 Meeting on Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. Check out the programme
biologists.com/meetings/dev...
and register by 8 May
www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
about 1 month ago
The Company of Biologists
@biologists.bsky.social
has a more than 100 year history of supporting science through its journals, meetings, and fellowships. Help lead it into its second century! pls share
www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...
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Young Embryologist Network
about 1 month ago
This is not an April fool's! The YEN 2026 Conference is really happening on June 15th! We are excited to have Kay Elder, Diana Pinheiro and Christopher Thomas. We are looking forward to your abstract submissions! Sign up here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Excited to be part of the EMBO tissue morphogenesis workshop in September:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-tis...
#EMBOTissueMorphogenesis
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Quantitative tissue morphogenesis - models, manipulations and mechanisms
Tissue morphogenesis, the formation of stereotypical tissue shapes and sizes, relies on the precise spatiotemporal regulation of many cellular behaviours including cell division, migration and re-arr…
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-tissue-morphogenesis
about 2 months ago
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Such beautiful work here - congratulations
@mariapalcolea.bsky.social
and the lab!!
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The Rawlins lab thoroughly enjoyed meeting Hans Clevers when he visited
@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
today!
3 months ago
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Ewan St. John Smith
3 months ago
In collaboration with Nora Bourbia
@ukhsa.bsky.social
we have a fully funded (UK/home fees) PhD studentship available
@phar.cam.ac.uk
: "Radiotherapy induced nerve damage and pain: can we prevent it?" Naked mole-rats will be involved!
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Stem Cell Summer School
3 months ago
We are delighted to announce that we are now open for applications for 2026 summer school Dates: 11th - 18th September 2026 Deadline for applications: 8th May See our website for info on how to apply.. and to check out our stellar speaker list!
www.stemcellsummerschool.org/apply
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The Company of Biologists
3 months ago
Delighted to announce that
@dev-journal.bsky.social
has teamed up with the @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise their 2026 Journal Meeting. Registration is now open at
biologists.com/meetings/dev...
#HumanDev26
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the Node
3 months ago
Register now for the 2026 Annual Meeting, themed 'Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation', from Loke the Centre for Trophoblast Research in Cambridge, UK! ⬇️
thenode.biologists.com/loke-centre-...
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Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research in Cambridge launch registration for the 2026 Annual Meeting, themed 'Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation' - the Node
The 2026 Loke CTR annual meeting theme, “Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation” brings together leading clinical and basic scientists to explore
https://thenode.biologists.com/loke-centre-for-trophoblast-research-in-cambridge-launch-registration-for-the-2026-annual-meeting-themed-epigenetics-of-embryogenesis-and-placentation/uncategorized/
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Mill_lab
3 months ago
www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
‘You may be aware of recent pauses to some programmes. For our curiosity-driven research programmes, headroom in funding will increase, ….new opportunities opening later this year….levels of funding for curiosity-driven research will remain stable across this SR period’
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Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community
UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.
https://www.ukri.org/news/open-letter-from-ian-chapman-to-research-and-innovation-community/
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NordenLab
4 months ago
We encounter some bureaucratic problems importing our fish...Does anybody have a transgenic zebrafish line that marks the basement membrane/ECM in the UK? Would need to mark optic cup and final eye for our purposes. And/or an ras-GFP/RFP line? Thanks for looking and reposting!
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5 months ago
🚨We are recruiting two PhD students 🚨 1) Quantitative & dynamic analysis of limb-regenerative signaling centers w/
@osvaldo-chara.bsky.social
📶🧮💻 🔗https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/80704/Quantitative-and-dynamic-analysis-of-limb-regenerative-signaling-center-interactions
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Jan Żylicz
5 months ago
Do you want to play a key role in running a cutting-edge stem cell and embryology lab at reNEW
@ucph.bsky.social
? We’re hiring a Lab Manager to support our team and help with stem cell and animal work. Apply before Feb. 1st :
rb.gy/d5uf17
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Academic employee for Research Group, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, reNEW
https://rb.gy/d5uf17
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Great meeting!!! Amazing talks and posters today also.
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Stem Cell Podcast
6 months ago
We're very excited to welcome Dr.
@sumrubayin.bsky.social
from the
@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
onto the next episode of the podcast! 🎉 Her lab studies the mouse
#cerebellum
to better understand the regulation of
#neural
stem cell behavior. 🧠
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Very cool - though would be even more amazing if they could do this for the sciences also!
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Alex Cagan
6 months ago
Julie Ahringer from
@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
@geneticscam.bsky.social
@cam.ac.uk
gives talk on decoding genome regulation during development. Exploring how chromatin accessibility changes throughout development enable single cells to become multicellular organisms.
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Brilliant meeting - thanks to the organisers!
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6 months ago
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Consider myself fortunate to hear
@kottond.bsky.social
speaking at
#RespGen25
today.
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Not the most flattering picture, but a great conference!
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Last chance to apply - closing Nov 3rd:
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
Consider coming to Cambridge to work on a highly collaborative project on lung stem cells and lung disease with
@labrawlins.bsky.social
and
@jennydickens41.bsky.social
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Stem Cell Podcast
7 months ago
📢 New in
@natbiotech.nature.com!
Via live imaging of late-stage preimplantation human #embryos, Dr. Kathy Niakan at
@loke-ctr.bsky.social
#embryos
has shown that abnormalities can arise at a later stage of development than previously thought. 🗒️:
https://go.nature.com/4oIQj80
🎧:
https://bit.ly/4qwoGke
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Giulia Boezio
7 months ago
Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with
@jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding
The formation of neural circuits depends on the precise spatial and temporal organisation of neuronal populations during development. In the vertebrate spinal cord, progenitors are patterned into mole...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684328v1
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Barbara Marte
7 months ago
new out in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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John Gurdon obituary: Biologist who made cloning possible
He showed that specialized cells retain the genes to form an organism.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03418-5
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Applications close 3 Nov:
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
We are looking for 2 post docs to work between
@jennydickens41.bsky.social
and
@labrawlins.bsky.social
and with colleagues across the Cambridge and at GSK. Exciting, collaborative opportunity to dig into lung cell biology - please share!
7 months ago
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Fabulous opportunity here - make sure you apply!
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7 months ago
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Excellent article on science communication in
@dev-journal.bsky.social
- thank you to all the authors!
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot
ABSTRACT. Scientific misinformation is a defining challenge of our time. As public trust in science declines and falsehoods spread faster than facts, the scientific community must rethink its role in ...
https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.205206
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Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025
7 months ago
Tomorrow is our final day for conference registrations so head on over to our shop page if you'd like to secure your place! Tomorrow is our final day for conference registrations so head on over to our shop page if you'd like to secure your place!
shop.le.ac.uk/conferences-...
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Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025 | shop@le
A conference to engage and inspire the respiratory genetics/genomics community and promote networking colloborations. Early careers researchers are particu
https://shop.le.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/university-events/respiratory-genomics/respiratory-genomics-conference-2025
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University of Cambridge
7 months ago
Cambridge scientists have found a new way to grow human blood cells in the lab 🧫 A major step towards regenerative therapies, this could also help scientists with better understanding blood disorders like #leukaemia. New #research from
@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
#leukaemia
#research
ttps://bit.ly/3J0mO23
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Exciting collaborative post doc opportunity to study lung disease mechanisms working with 2 friendly labs
@jennydickens41.bsky.social
@labrawlins.bsky.social
and GSK colleagues
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
7 months ago
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Delighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including
@jamesnathanlab.bsky.social
@jellevda.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Fantastic work from Roya, Simon and team using in vivo mouse and in vitro human organoid models to study mechanisms of lung disease:
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Great to finally see this out - congratulations!
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mTOR dysregulation induces IL-6 and paracrine AT2 cell senescence impeding lung repair in lymphangioleiomyomatosis - Nature Communications
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare disease in women where TSC2 deficient mTOR signalling aberrant LAM cells and fibroblasts form nodules causing lung cysts and respiratory failure. Here the authors examine how mTOR dependent IL-6 causes senescence in alveolar type 2 cells which may result in impaired lung repair.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64036-3
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Interested in a highly collaborative post doc project working on pulmonary fibrosis with
@labrawlins.bsky.social
@jennydickens41.bsky.social
and GSK - then look no further...
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
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Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
7 months ago
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Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
7 months ago
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists. 🔗
www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...
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Saddened to learn of the death of John Gurdon today. He was the supreme scientist. And truly inspirational lecturer and speaker. The Gurdon Institute
@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
has been a wonderful place to run a lab - and he will be truly missed.
www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...
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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon Dies Aged 92 – Gurdon Institute
https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laureate-professor-sir-john-gurdon-dies-aged-92/?_thumbnail_id=11328
7 months ago
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James Briscoe
7 months ago
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
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Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-sir-john-gurdon-frs-1933-2025
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Sumru Bayin
7 months ago
John Gurdon's research inspired me in my own scientific pursuits as a stem cell biologist. Starting my lab at
@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
was therefore particularly exciting. Seeing him around daily only underscored his admirable dedication to science and research. RIP John.
tinyurl.com/nha6z25h
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Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny
@jennydickens41.bsky.social
, or me, with any questions. 😀
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
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Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
7 months ago
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Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025
8 months ago
Registrations for the Respiratory Genomics Conference, and abstract submissions, closes on the 15th October. Sign up today – limited availability!
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Development
8 months ago
From stem cells to human development: supporting a growing field This Perspective from
@katherine-brown.bsky.social
reflects on the history of our journal meetings and their impact on both the developmental biology community and
@biologists.bsky.social
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Going to be a great meeting...
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7 months ago
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Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
8 months ago
Our 2025 GI retreat prize winners are: 🎉Social Engagement: Giada Vanacore and Shay Melamed 🙂 Research Culture: Theresa Gross-Thebing 🙌 Good Citizen: Sam Banjo 🔬Image Competition:
@geraldinejowett.bsky.social
🌳Green: Tamara Romero Thank you all for your great community spirit and positive vibes!
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