Roberta Migale

A dual enhancer-attenuator element ensures transient Cdx2 expression during mouse posterior body formation Amblard et al. dissect the function of cis-regulatory elements regulating transient Cdx2 expression during mouse caudal body formation. They highlight the requirement of an attenuator, a transiently r...

Great to see this from @vmetzis.bsky.social & co published

Dissection of CDX2 regulatory elements identifies a repressive element that converts to an enhancer with a nuclear receptor motif switch

www.cell.com/developmenta...

Meet Professor Allan Young, the new Head of the Department of Brain Sciences | Imperial News | Imperial College London We spoke to Professor Allan Young about his journey into neuropsychopharmacology and his hopes for brain sciences.

We’re excited to welcome Prof Allan Young as the new Head of @imperialbrains.bsky.social 🎉

Check out the Q&A below where he discusses his journey into neuropsychopharmacology, his vision for the department, and his research into psychiatric illnesses.👇

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268155/...

🚨🚨 New pre-print from the lab. led by the amazing @alejotorrescano.bsky.social !

Alejo & Co. elegantly decode the spatial logic of progenitor cell organization in the developing pancreas — from individual cells to structured cellular communities 🔬🔬🧫🧪
Check-it out ⤵️

Edith Heard

Exciting day for @crick.ac.uk today: Edith Heard takes over as Director

We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story

www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...

Sex determination doesn't cease to amaze me!!

Male mice can grow ovaries if their pregnant mums are iron deficient The study is the first to show that low iron levels can affect fetal sexual development.

Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy

https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s

A microfluidic culture model of the human reproductive tract and 28-day menstrual cycle - Nature Communications The female reproductive tract constitutes the ovary, fallopian tubes, uterus, and cervix, but it is challenging to engineer this systemin vitro. Here, the authors develop a microfluidic device (EVATAR...

great to see this work published, well done !
www.nature.com/articles/nco...

I Founded Girls Who Code. Now I’m Worried About Boys Boys and men are less likely to turn to their communities for social connection and support.

Just like we need women in STEM and "Girls Who Code", we need “Men Who Nurse” and “Guys Who Teach,” pipeline programs that can offer boys pathways forward in female-typed fields. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social
time.com/7286184/worr...

EVENT alert 🚨

Academic Women Association (AWA) is inviting people to a short online presentation by Dr Ilaria Belluomo on 16 May at 10:00 am.

Open to all women at Imperial, fostering an inclusive academic network for mentorship and career development.

Link to register: tinyurl.com/2bhdpsr6

Is the UK paying the price for world’s most expensive visas? | The Observer Competing political and economic goals on immigration are resulting in the loss of valuable skills and talent in the UK

As tighter immigration policies are announced today, scientists continue to stress the importance of attracting international talent.

Our director Paul Nurse spoke to the Observer about how this affects science in the UK:

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Best post of this Friday everybody👇

We are happy to announce student and postdoc speakers. Thanks to all who submitted an abstract!
#yen2025

Hello, Bluesky 👋

This is the official account for the Society for Reproductive Biology (Australia and New Zealand).

We aim to keep you up to date with our SRB and affiliated events, disseminate key reproductive biology research and connect with a broad audience

👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🔬🌏

Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice - Nature Experiments in mouse models show that proper recovery of the intestinal microbiota following depletion, with or without faecal microbiota transplant therapy, is dependent on syntrophic interactions th...

Change what you eat, and what you eat will change you! 🍽️

😍I love this work which supports an healthy diet is more effective for microbiome recovery and health than interventions such as microbiome transplant!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best - the Node Tomotsune Ameku tells the story behind the paper "Growth of the maternal intestine during reproduction"

Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best

Tomotsune Ameku from the lab of @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk tells the behind the paper story of their work looking into maternal intestinal growth in mice during reproduction:
thenode.biologists.com/re-growing-a...

🚨Excited to share my first postdoc paper, now published in Nature Communications! We uncover a key regulator of testis development and its link to differences of sex development (DSD). 🧵
🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146…
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Interested in starting a PhD to explore ovarian biology through a cross-disciplinary approach combining live-cell microscopy and biophysics?

Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼

@srfsocietyuk.bsky.social

The Society For Reproduction and Fertility is hosting a 1-day symposium to celebrate its 75th birthday! Programme includes talks from world-leading reproductive scientists.

When: 21st June 2025
Where: the Zoological Society of London.

Early-bird rates until 30th April!
Register: lnkd.in/e_SNQqxw

we've put a Review together 👇

Just came out at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

hoping it is useful for those in the field but also for those not in the field who would like an overview on chromatin/epigenetics/replication/nuclear organisation in early embryos

Enjoy :) - feedback welcome

EUWIN - European Women in Endocrinology - join us in Copenhagen this May!

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb Grace Davidson gave birth to a baby girl two years after her sister's womb was transplanted into her body.

A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated #womb.

Mr Richard Smith from @imperialnhs.bsky.social led the organ retrieval team and has been researching womb transplantation for more than two decades.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #MedSky

expert reaction to first baby being born from a womb transplant in the UK

Faculty of Natural Sciences Image Exhibition Faculty of Natural Sciences Research Image Exhibition

🎨🔬 Art meets science this Wednesday (2 April)! Don’t miss our in-person Research Image Competition exhibition at the College Main Entrance 🏛️

Add it to your calendars 🔽
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18983...

Essay competition!

Win £250!

Share your ideas on a more sustainable future for scientific events!

Please spread the word to anyone who you think might be interested.

Closing date: World Bee Day! (that's 20 May, but you knew that didn't you)

#Sustainability

www.biologists.com/stories/essa...

Cracking the Code of Protein Degradation:
Led by #LMBalumni @leokiss.bsky.social, the Schulman Lab @mpibiochem.bsky.social in collaboration with Leo James's group at the LMB has developed new 🧪 science tech #UbiREAD to decipher the ubiquitin protein degradation code within cells.

Great to be in Liverpool this week for the @biologists.bsky.social @100 conference.
Looking forward to speaking to early-career researchers at the Career Session in room 3 today 12:45-3PM.
@bsdb.bsky.social

fascinating study! congrats @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social and the team! #pregnancy #gut #science

Viruses, vaccines, and the written word Please join us for the Inaugural Lecture of Professor John Tregoning.

It's my inaugural lecture @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on May 28th
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19099...
Please come along and listen to me talk about my science (and all the amazing people who have helped me along the way)

BTW it's free!

@imperialmed.bsky.social

A beginners guide to scientific conferences!

Perfect timing since our entire lab is off to either @bscb-official.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 in Liverpool or @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social 2025 in Harrogate next week