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I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee..

A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...

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Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University Apply for the Senior Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Come and work with us! We're looking for a talented postdoc with interests in developmental biology, cancer and the primary cilia to join us @mortlab.bsky.social. An exciting MRC funded collaboration with Pleasantine Mill - @cilialab.bsky.social. Further details:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR804/s...

The Actin regulator Mena promotes Wnt signalosome endocytosis and Wnt signalling. Wnt signaling controls embryonic development and tissue maintenance. Endocytosis of Wnt-receptors is required for signalling, yet uptake mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify the acti...

Sequestration of Ena/VASP proteins impedes in vivo Wnt activation driving Xenopus embryonic development. Our results suggest Mena as a crucial mediator of Wnt signalosome endocytosis thus promoting canonical Wnt signalling.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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This image shows a mass of human stem cells, collectively known as an ‘organoid’.

We stained the neural crest cells of this organoid to better understand diseases related to defects in their development, such as Hirschsprung's disease and Neuroblastoma.

Image credit: @carmenmorenogon.bsky.social

The Dunn School PhD programme is live! 🎉

Two projects in our labs:
1) How the motor protein giant dynein-2 works
2) How signalling-essential membrane proteins get into cilia

Cryo-EM/ET, single mol & live-cell fluor microscopy, CRISPR-based genetic tools & more!

www.path.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...

Interested in how the craniofacial system develops after birth in laboratory minipig and domestic pig models? In brief, similar at birth but divergent ontogenetically! Check royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@moazenlab.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @royalsociety.org

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...

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...

Welcome to bluesky CCRB! @ccrb27.bsky.social

Research data architect – Professor Crispin Miller Multiple positions are available within a newly established Data Science Team at the CRUK Scotland Institute. The Institute is a world leading cancer research institute situated in the vibrant city of Glasgow. It hosts approximately 60 researcher scientists at any one time. The Institute has an excellent reputation for fundamental cancer research, including world-class metabolism studies and renowned in vivo modelling of tumour growth and metastasis.  

We are #hiring for a number of positions in a new Data Science Team at @cruk-si.bsky.social that will be delivering the National Mouse Genetics Network data platform, including this research data architect role:

Deadline: 28th February

Hey Bluesky, please welcome the @socdevbio.bsky.social President-Elect @rrbehringer.bsky.social!

❗ANNOUNCEMENT❗
YEN 2025 Conference will be held at @crick.ac.uk on the 19th May 2025.

We are looking forward to another exciting line-up with Nicolas Rivron, Maud Borensztein and Peter Rugg-Gunn.

This year will see a return of the YEN Image Competition so follow for updates.

Share for #YEN2025!

Congrats!

Happy to share that my PhD work got published in the special issue dedicated to the 100-year anniversary of the Spemann-Mangold Organiser:

Tissue mechanics modulate morphogen signalling to induce the head organiser
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
With @mayorlab.bsky.social and Guillaume Charras

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UK Cilia and Centrosome Network autumn meeting in Liverpool was a success!
1) Great ECR representation+diveristy✓
2) Talks from leading experts inc. EMBO-YIP Elif @cytolabkoc.bsky.social ✓
3) Superb networking opportunities ✓
Thanks to Ula @urszulamcclurg.bsky.social for pulling it all together

Deadline is today for abstracts for talks for our GRC Cilia, Mucus & Mucociliary Interactions in Pomona, California 16-21/02/25! Organized by myself, Katharina Ribbeck, Marcus Mall & Sudipto Roy! #cilia #biophysics #RareDisease #biofilms #GeneTherapies #Mucus #PCD #CF

www.grc.org/cilia-mucus-...