Alex Fellows

Do you know an outstanding cell biologist? Nominations are open for our 2026 medals:

🔬Hooke Medal for outstanding contribution in cell biology
👩‍🔬Women in Cell Biology medal
🧫 Postdoctoral Researcher medal
🔬Raff PhD medal award

Deadline 1st November

Great review of the super #NeuroBioUK2025 meeting in September. Well done to everyone who organised it @exdrososcientia.bsky.social @alexfellows1.bsky.social and @dozenoaks.bsky.social for putting together such a great meeting for the community! 👏🧠🔬 tinyurl.com/4jn7yrmt roll on next year!

Happy to share the inaugural paper from the lab. We describe a molecular mechanism for the activation of outer dynein arm motors that power the vital motion of cilia.

Open access link below:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's a cool animated summary

Wonderful to see our paper on the #organelle signatures of #neurons and #astrocytes out in final form - congratulations, Shannon Rhoads and team!🎉 t.co/BPxKlbU6Ou

The poster hall at the National STEM learning centre with astronauts suspended from the ceiling.

Poster boards are ready and waiting for #NeuroBioUK - let’s get this science party started 🥳

In York for #NeuroBioUk25! As you can tell from my face..I'm excited!

🚨WiNUK Day 2026 is coming to Birmingham this April!🚨
This year’s theme is neurodiversity🧠🌈
🗓️ Happening during #AutismAwarenessMonth
🗣️ Open call for talks, posters & panels (all genders welcome!)
📅 Deadline: Sun 14 Sept
#WiNUKDay2026 #Neurodiversity #WomenInSTEM

Beautiful data from @dvillarroelc.bsky.social showing a key role for TBK1 in #AxonalTransport of signalling endosomes:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@uclqsion.bsky.social @mndassoc.bsky.social #ALS #MND

Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

#Reproducibility

NeuroBioUK - Programme 9 AM Arrival, registration & coffee Session 1: Organelle and synaptic signalling Session Chair: 9:45 AM Introduction 9:50 AM Sally Horton, The Francis Crick Institute, "CDKL5 in synaptic formation,...

The programme is up for #NeuroBioUK25 - take a look! And don’t forget to register by the 3rd of September…. neurobiouk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/programme

Do you love the brain? So do we!

Poster and registration deadline is the 3rd September for NeurobioUK 2025. We have an awesome line up of speakers this year. Come and join us in York!

neurobiouk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/registration

Senior Academic and Early Career Promotions 2024-25 Huge congratulations to the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology staff who have been awarded a promotion in this year's promotions round.

It's an honour to become a Professor at such a wonderful institution @uclqsion.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social. The @uclqsneuromuscular.bsky.social is an amazing place to work and I couldn't have done it without my fantastic team, mentors and collaborators:

www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

Excited to share our latest work with @simonbullock11.bsky.social! We looked at how diverse mRNAs get selected for subcellular localization and it turns out that a single protein can recognize different RNA elements using shared features that weren’t apparent before.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest work, in collaboration with the terrific @kashishsingh.bsky.social in the Carter lab @mrclmb.bsky.social is out. So proud of this study and everyone involved...

YouTube video by MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Structure Prediction and Design using AlphaFold – Sami Chaaban

Great talk by @sami-c.bsky.social about the proper use and caveats of AlphaFold2/3 predictions, highly recommended to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7vy...

Full lineup now announced for the 2026 #JCSimaging! Everything from #cryo #CLEM #superresolution #ExM #tissueimaging and more! Save the date and spread the word!

Really, really amazing conference. We went last year and the scientific programme and atmosphere were incredible! I 100% recommend attending + submitting an abstract for a talk - spread the word! 🧠

Neurobiologists 🧠!! If you want to give a talk at NeurobioUK this year, the deadline is the 1st August. Don't miss your chance to be part of an absolutely awesome meeting.

An image montage advertising NeuroBioUK - 12th of September 2025 in York. The image is York cathedral superimposed over a fluorescent cortex mouse section coloured to look a bit like a dawn sky.

Registration is now open for NeuroBioUK 2025!
This year we're looking forward to hearing from our plenary speaker @cathyabbott.bsky.social. As ever, all other talks chosen from submitted abstracts so get submitting - we can't wait to see you there!

neurobiouk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/registration

Very excited to share our latest preprint! We looked at loss and gain of function, innervation, reinnervation, and in vivo axonal transport in a FUS-ALS mouse model!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@uclqsion.bsky.social @beccasimkin.bsky.social @andrewtosolini.bsky.social @frattalab.bsky.social

We’ve been quietly working on something BIG… Launching June 16th! 🎉 If you’re a father in STEMM (or know one) who wants to make change & promote caregiving inclusion in the workplace, get in touch!
#FathersWhoCare #StrongEnoughToCare #AcademicDads

Registration is open for the third #NeuroBioUK!! @dozenoaks.bsky.social @alexfellows1.bsky.social and I are excited to see you again in York!

Journal of Cell Science Meeting 2026 Imaging Cell Dynamics Date: 11 – 14 May 2026 Venue: Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain Register your interest

After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti.
To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

This year's poster winners with the Microtubule meeting organizers. Well done to all poster presenters for showcasing some great science!

Great to see our story on dynein & kinesin co-dependence published www.nature.com/articles/s41..., and absolutely chuffed that it's made the front cover (thanks NSMB!). A brilliant News & Views too by Steven Markus www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Collab between @carter-lab.bsky.social & Straube lab🔬

We are happy to announce that @biologists.bsky.social will sponsor the first UK Zebrafish Meeting @lsiexeter.bsky.social. Are you a PhD student/ECR who wants to present your work? Talk or poster? 👍 Deadline for the early bird registration is 15/5/. So, be quick! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins....

The Microtubule meeting program is out and is looking great this year again! biology.ed.ac.uk/microtubule/...

Join Adam's Lab! He is an amazing scientist and the project is so cool!

Molecular mechanism for cargo-mediated initiation of kinesin-1 activation Kinesin-1 is a dynamic heterotetrameric assembly of two heavy and two light chains (KHC and KLC) that mediates microtubule-based intracellular transport of many different cargoes. The complex adopts a...

New preprint on kinesin inhibition and activation - collaborative effort across Bristol Biochem and Chemistry with Woolfson and Schaffizel labs and JJ Phillips in Exeter 1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If this resonates with you, there are always plenty of ECR slots available for NeuroBioUK. Make sure you join the email list neurobiouk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/contact