@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer. Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions. Please repost! More details: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

We have an exciting, fully funded PhD studentship (UK and ROI) to investigate mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in drug resistant B-cell lymphoma. We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team. eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A 6-month postdoc position is currently available in our group. The project involves the use of hPSC-based models to dissect the links between chromosomal copy number alterations, DNA damage and tumour initiation-please spread the word-closing date=29th Sept: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON353/r...

I'm a bit late to the party over here. I'll be advertising a BBSRC-funded postdoc position soon. So if anyone wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development - please get in touch. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to sharks). towerslab.weebly.com

Really nice work by @fredwck.bsky.social and the groups of Val Wilson and Ian Chambers (including a small contribution from me from my Edinburgh postdoc years) showing how pluripotency factors can temporally orchestrate both pluripotency and it extinction: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

Application deadline for up to 5 @mrc-lms.bsky.social postdoc positions in developmental epigenetics closes soon - don’t miss out! Positions across both experimental and computational projects. Come and join our fantastic team science community!

📣 Cilia Lab is growing 📣 - we have 2️⃣ open positions at @uoe-igc.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for talented and motivated researchers interested in disease modelling & genetic therapies which target #RareRespiratoryDiseases at their root cause. 🧪🧪#ciliopathies #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia 1/4

Ecstatic to share our paper on nutrient signaling in the #EntericNervousSystem published in Nature! 🧪 We explored how neurons in the gut respond to basic nutrients that we typically ingest and tested whether they can distinguish between different nutrients 🔬 Check it out 👉 tinyurl.com/3vc756dv

Looking foward to the Northern(ish) Developmental Biology Meeting 2025 next week @sheffielduni.bsky.social! Thanks to the organisers @shaneherbert.bsky.social Raman Das @tsakiridis.bsky.social @kyracampbelllab.bsky.social

ENS aficionados, mark your calendars: the next symposium on enteric nervous system development, function and repair, will be held at KU Leuven from 7–10 April 2026. Excellent line up of speakers and the website is now live so for more details check: ens-leuven2026.eu ‪

Paper alert! I am really pleased to share the final version of the work led by Irène Amblard in the team on a regulatory switch controlling Cdx2 expression during posterior body development! #regulatorylogic #devbio @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Sissy Wamaitha from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Sponsored by the Physiological Society @physoc.bsky.social Host: Stan Strawbridge @stanleystrawbridge.bsky.social All welcome!

🚨 New paper out in Development! 🚨 We show that donor embryonic stem cells (ESCs) reshape the developing mouse embryo, not just by what they signal, but where they push. 📄 doi.org/10.1242/dev.... [1/8]

1/10🧵 New preprint! 🚀 We built a resource of 20 clonal human naïve pluripotent stem cell lines from 10 blastocysts. Explore embryo-to-embryo and clone-to-clone variation in one place. 👉doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.02.657331

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Thorsten Boroviak (PDN, University of Cambridge) @pdncambridge.bsky.social , who will talk on early embryonic development in primates. Host: Anestis Tsakiridis @tsakiridis.bsky.social All welcome!

Congratulations to Dr Claire Turner @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social and DRN's Professor Ivana Barbaric on their excellent talks in the University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social School of Biosciences Inaugural Lecture series today. www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/... www.thebarbariclab.com

The UK Stem Cell Network has just launched registrations for the meeting in September: Find out more by visiting ukstemcellnetwork.org/2025-confere... Early-bird deadline is 23rd June

Fantastic to see @tsakiridis.bsky.social's excellent work on Neuroblastoma and to finally chat some science with a social acquaintance from my PhD years some 20 years later 😮

Such a pleasure to host you for the @uoe-igc.bsky.social seminar series @tsakiridis.bsky.social. It was great to hear about your latest exciting and impactful science and it was great to catch up! Thank you for visiting us and bringing the beautiful weather!

This is insane. Labour is making the very same mistake the Tories made but in a more catastrophic way. A left-leaning party adopting an ultra-right fascist agenda: what could go wrong?

Always a pleasure to return to Edinburgh and visit @uoe-igc.bsky.social, I had a fantastic day discussing science and meeting old and new friends. Many thanks to @hannahlong.bsky.social for the warm hospitality-even the sky was blue!

How does metabolism act through generic chromatin modifiers promote specific cellular states? Simultaneous modification of transcription factors and chromatin, enhancing epigenetic signal to noise ratios. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

My first post on Bluesky! Very excited to share our work just published in @science.org. We find that “Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis” - in angiogenesis and other tissues! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

1 month left to register for this year's @bsdb.bsky.social Northern(ish) England Developmental Biology Meeting here in Sheffield (10th of July). We have a great speaker line-up and available oral presentation slots for PGRs/ECRs. For registration/details see: onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/product-cata...

Purinergic signalling and calcium dynamics: potential drivers in the onset of coordinated intestinal motility in human fetal development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649306v1

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity. Feel free to reach out with any question. PIs, please share

🚨🐣 Our new paper is out @plosbiology.org! Sonic hedgehog inhibition transforms feathers into ancestral protofeathers-like structures. These units then recover after hatching, highlighting their remarkable developmental robustness! @lanevol.bsky.social 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Looking forward to hosting Sarah McClelland @mcclellandlab.bsky.social, @qmbci.bsky.social today 1-2 pm, Medical School LT3, F Floor @drn-sheffield.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

We extended the early bird and abstract submission deadline for 'Hidden Cell, Dark Genome' to Wednesday 12th March - sign up now and join us for this exciting meeting! institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/hidden-cell-...

This is why UK gov needs to invest in PhD training & cut visa costs for scientists Long term economic growth depends on skilled people The UK should make the most of life sciences

I am grateful to @cancerresearchuk.org for choosing to support our work aiming to understand the links between distorted embryonic development and neuroblastoma initiation using our human pluripotent stem cell differentiation model: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...

Matt Towers & Alex Fletcher are advertising a fully funded PhD project to investigate feather development in @drn-sheffield.bsky.social at @sheffielduni.bsky.social 🐥🦈🔬 Come join us - it'll be a super cool project! Send me a message if you have any questions 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Today we welcome Josh Brickman @josh-brickman.bsky.social from reNEW at the University of Copenhagen, who will present his work on transcription factors and cellular memory. Alfred Denny Conference Room, 1 pm. All welcome! Host: Anestis Tsakiridis @tsakiridis.bsky.social

Save the date: 10th July 2025 An exciting Developmental Biology meeting @sheffielduni.bsky.social, co-organised by DRN members @tsakiridis.bsky.social and @kyracampbelllab.bsky.social www.sheffield.ac.uk/science/news... Thanks to @bsdb.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social for sponsorship

Looking forward to hearing about all the latest exciting work from the @vmetzis.bsky.social lab in our @drn-sheffield.bsky.social external seminar later today, 1-2 pm, Alfred Denny Building here in @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Development folks: the next Northern England Developmental Biology @bsdb.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social meeting will take place on the 10th of July in Sheffield. Great speaker line-up, cheap registration fee and plenty of slots for ECR talks. Registration deadline=31/5, see poster for details

We have a postdoc position in my group in collaboration with EMBL Rome; join us to make important discoveries in this exciting project. Very grateful to the @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding this project.

Good news on #WorldCancerDay: a national cancer plan, a commitment to ensure the needs of CYP are reflected in that plan, and the relaunch of the CYP Cancer Taskforce. Full joint response from @cclguk.bsky.social @younglivesvscancer.bsky.social www.cclg.org.uk/news/joint-y...

It's @biologists.bsky.social Centenary and I am really looking forward to their Biologists@100 meeting in Liverpool. For cell biology folk, the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting is incorporated and there are lots of great speakers. See you there?

Excited to share our new preprint:

Only a few days left to apply for our BBSRC-funded PhD project with @christoseland.bsky.social aiming to understand how biomechanical cues crosstalk with extrinsic signals to influence cell fate decisions during hESC/NMP differentiation. Please RT! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our latest: how to generate the notochord "Timely TGFβ signalling inhibition induces notochord" A thread: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists! If you join this campaign you will have the opportunity to add your name to an open letter from a large number of scientists calling on MPs to support the Climate and Nature Bill Non-scientists can also join the campaign - there are many ways to make your voice heard www.zerohour.uk

Only a few days left to submit your abstracts for our amazing spring meeting in collaboration with @biologists.bsky.social and BSCB! Submit before the 13th of December 100yearsconference.biologists.com Don't forget to apply for your conference grants by the 10th of January bsdb.org/membership/#...

How to make labs more sustainable: introducing sustainability in academia By Jeroen Dobbelaere, as part of the @biologists.bsky.social Sustainability Initiative. The first in a series of posts. www.biologists.com/stories/sust...

Only 10 days left to apply for our MRC-funded PhD project with @erainerolab.bsky.social and Zoe Mann -if you are interested in working at the interface of developmental/stem cell and cancer biology do not miss this out-happy to provide more info-for details check: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...