Recently was Qiulin’s viva and he passed without corrections! We are so proud of all the hard work and dedication that led to this achievement! Thanks so much to everybody that joined the celebration!

Excited to share our work on the structure and function of cytoplasmic lattices within mouse embryos. A collaborative effort with @niakanlab.bsky.social and work led by @kashishsingh.bsky.social and @inaharasimov.bsky.social . It is now out on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very excited to share our newest findings! A very long team effort pursued by multiple team members -to frantically reproduce everything over and over-, we show mTOR-Polycomb synergy at promoters of developmental master regulator TFs in ESCs prior to their expression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Really exciting to see our new review published! This review explores the evolutionary history of the extra-embryonic endoderm, an evolutionarily ancient tissue co-opted to form the yolk sac, and explores how in vitro models are uncovering its biology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

A human embryo implantation model from the @Rugg-Gunn Lab *key for understanding the early extraembryonic-maternal interactions Congrats to everyone involved! It’s been great to see this project develop. Huge credit to the @babrahaminst.bsky.social authors 🥂🍾 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭! 🎉 “𝐗𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐗-𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬” 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐑𝐱𝐢𝐯! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to see this published! Well done Ahmed on spearheading a project revealing mitotic errors in human embryos arise much later than anticipated. Thank you to collaborators @bensteventon.bsky.social Leila Muresan and all of the wonderful teams at Bourn Hall and Create Fertility clinics!

We are recuiting two new Associate Professors here in Oxford Biochemistry. Come join us! Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! tinyurl.com/mr3m7bd3

Looking to pursue cutting-edge research in early development, maternal-fetal interaction, or placental biology? See 👇 - Funded PhD www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students... - Next Generation Fellowship www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... - MPhil www.mphil.bio.cam.ac.uk/mphil-pathwa...

Hot off the press! Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

One of our favourite tabs is Resources: we're listing all of our datasets, codes, beginning to upload and make accessible raw imaging data and lab protocols. Please check it out, we hope this is useful! niakanlab.com/resources/

🚀 Exciting news: our new lab website is live! 🌐 Check it out here: niakanlab.com We’ll be sharing updates on our research, publications, outreach, resources etc. Curious to hear what you think! ✨ #LabLife #Research #StemCells #DevelopmentalBiology

Today we had our lab retreat at the Eddington Postdoc Centre for the first time in a while!🧪 We had so much fun combining workshops and team-building activities, and we definitely made the most of our time together. Do you do retreats in your lab? What are they usually like? We will read you below!👇

Last Friday, we said goodbye to our amazing summer student, Yiping! Thank you for your hard work and bringing great energy to our team this summer. Wishing you the best in your next chapter!☀️

Our protocol with all the details you'll need to detect and quantify phospo-SMAD proteins in your (human) embryo, is finally out today @cp-starprotocols.bsky.social. Thanks again to my wonderful co-author @toddfallesen.bsky.social and the @niakanlab.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This project has been very special to me. I want to thank James @lab-turner.bsky.social who gave me the chance to build my own research line outside of the lab's main focus on sex chromosomes, and to our collaborators Chris Barrington, Clare Critcher, Waz Varsally, Greg Alanis @niakanlab.bsky.social

Very happy to see this nice collaboration with @niakanlab.bsky.social bear fruit. Beautiful work by @clairesimon.bsky.social culturing human embryos in the presence of FGF/ERK stimulation/inhibition. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very sorry to hear of the passing of Roger Pedersen. He was an outstanding developmental and stem cell biologist & helped to establish the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. Our thoughts are with his family. obgyn.stanford.edu/in-the-news/...

Very sorry to hear of the passing of Professor Roger Pedersen, whose visionary leadership helped establish the @scicambridge.bsky.social. I will never forget how Roger personally taught my group how to dissect early post-implantation mouse embryos; watching him at the microscope was truly inspiring

#announcement please share 📢 We're delighted to launch registration for the Annual Meeting 2025 'The Placenta at Term' bit.ly/annualmeetin... And, applications open for Placental Biology Course, returning in-person, in Cambridge bit.ly/placentalbio... 25 places, application deadline 21 March!

'Why do people have children?' That's the question we're posing at our next Forum. Join us on 12 March at West Hub, Cambridge from 3pm. Interdisciplinary dialogues, flash talks and a networking reception. Registration open on Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1151888342...

We have extended the abstract submission deadline to January 26th—don’t miss this opportunity! We’re also delighted to announce that Dr. Kathy Niakan will be delivering the 2024 Mary Lyon Medal Lecture during the conference. @gensocuk.bsky.social @niakanlab.bsky.social