Katja Röper

So cool! Where would you like to take this mobile lab?

Happy to share this work from Carlos Camacho de la Maccora that reveals how rates of posterior progenitor addition and anterior vacuolation are balanced across the notochord. With Alberto Ceccarelli and @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social we present a model of long-range communication to provide robustness.

Join for our exciting meeting in Spain!
Deadline for abstracts today!

If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff

Our take on a really interesting new study by the Franz lab at UCL, a version of epithelial polarity where you would not expect it! Read our Spotlight and the original paper!

Very cool story!

Spatiotemporal coordination of Slit-Robo repulsion and neurturin-Gfrα attraction guides multipolar migration during retinal lamination Multipolar migration is a conserved neuronal migration mode in the developing brain, enabling emerging neurons to navigate in crowded environments and…

Check out the tour de force by @jalehtimaki.bsky.social in its final form: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... . An elegant combination of transcriptomics, F0 screens and high end imaging unravels the cues that guide cells (here retinal horizontal cells) in an increasingly crowded tissue. #proudPI

Cool new paper from the Munro lab!

A long while when travelling in Southern Patagonia we went on a boat trip through Magellan Strait and Beagle Channel, in Darwin’s footsteps whilst reading the Voyage, and everything around there still looks as Darwin described it, amazing!

So cool! How any of these processes can happen with such precision and speed in a madly dense cytoplasm never stops amazing me!

An amazing day, I was 17 and lived about 5 min away from Checkpoint Charlie!

Beautiful image and cool story, congrats, Frank!

Amazing, Emma, congrats! One to read!

Very sad news indeed…

Slightly confusing that the image is a developing Drosophila eye!

Lovely summary of how the advent of confocal microscopy changed our research and ability to understand biology

Brilliant postdocs in my lab! Here they are, plus an undercover MPhil student, for Postdoc Appreciation Week! #LovePostdocs #NPAW2025

Cool!

If you love cytoskeleton and tissue morphogenesis, have a read!

Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Gastrula organizer in the mouse embryo.

Cell migration and morphogenesis in the organizer.

The AVE and PrCP in the formation of the head in mouse.

For something as classic as the Spemann-Mangold organizer first discovered in amphibians, the existence of such an organiser in mammals remains elusive. In this thought provoking review by Kate Mcdole et al, they discuss the evidence for and against such organiser in mouse.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Congrats to all newly elected Members!

In the current Cambridge temperatures, this is the only way to do lab meeting! And the first Röper Lab outing from PDN!

Amazing when something like this comes through!

#Job alert: #Postdoc position in the Iden lab within the new #DFG #SPP2493 consortium #HetCCI @hetcci.bsky.social ci.bsky.social‬. Please share, or apply if you want to dissect epithelial:non-epithelial cell-cell interactions: https://shorturl.at/W3M5z #CellCellCommunication #epithelia #cellbiology