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27.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 6450    🔁 2777    💬 128    📌 458

POV you're finally home after a week away

20.09.2025 11:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After an intense week of learning, coding and playing with advanced methods on #BioimageAnalysis, a well deserved BBQ 🔥 to recover our strength 💪 for tomorrow, the last day of the course 😢

Enjoy!

18.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

I am not a bird watcher. I have no interest in bird watching. But the best piece of media I think I've watched this year was a 2 hour, un-monetised, amateur documentary about extreme bird watching youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

31.08.2025 17:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Canonical and Non-canonical Roles of the Nucleolus in Relation to Nucleolar Function in Oocyte Meiosis The nucleolus is the most prominent nuclear organelle in almost all cells including mammalian oocytes and embryos. It is primarily responsible for ribosome biogenesis. However, non-canonical functions...

Excited to see my first book chapter is out with @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social 📖 edited by @binyammogessie.bsky.social

Ever wonder what that big weird nucleolus is up to in oocytes?🥚 No? Well. I think we make a good case for maybe you should! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-97173-0_6

22.08.2025 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A fantastic primer by Martin Anger highlighting our work on separase control in oocytes! 🥚✂️

@suzannemadgwick.bsky.social @wetherall.bsky.social @plosbiology.org

17.06.2025 10:19 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

SGO2 does not play an essential role in separase inhibition during meiosis I in mouse oocytes The protease separase plays an important role in cleaving cohesin complexes that hold chromosomes together during cell division. This study analyses the temporal regulation of separase activity during...

Our latest paper in @plosbiology.org examines meiotic Separase regulation doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003131. We also have a preprint up on BioRxiv identifying a functional and crucial chromosome periphery compartment in oocytes doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.20.629576 with the Booth lab in Nottingham.

26.04.2025 08:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The chromosome periphery (Ki67) in a mammalian prophase oocyte.

New paper out = time to actually introduce myself!

I'm Ben, a PDRA in the Egg Lab 🥚 with @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social @ Newcastle University.

I study how oocytes organise chromsomes, developing some cool new tools along the way 🔬 👨‍🔬

Let's talk #fertility, #imaging, and all things science.

25.04.2025 13:59 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Great collaboration with @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social, led by @wetherall.bsky.social! 🙌🏼🎉

25.04.2025 09:27 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0