Aida Rodrigo

When you share an office with the queen of the #axolotls (aidarodrigo.bsky.social) you also get to share the birthday joy! 🥳 Happy 2nd birthday to the OG axolotls (treats baked by Laura Arbanas and @cellysally.bsky.social’s daughter)

🐸 Amphibians take over Europe!!
📍 Prague. July 3–5, 2026.

The European Amphibian Conference 2026 is coming: 3 days of cutting-edge science, bold ideas, iconic speakers, and serious frog & axolotl energy ✨

👉 Register. Submit. Be there. Do not miss it.
amphib-conf2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

Stunning!

Myelin sheaths in the central nervous system can withstand damage and dynamically remodel Myelin damage is a hallmark of several neurological disorders, but how it occurs remains to be fully understood. In this study, we found that early damage in zebrafish and rodent demyelination models ...

Latest from the lab, led by @ara-donia.bsky.social and @juliavdkorput.bsky.social

Huge team effort, with immense contributions by friends from nearby and around the globe.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Axolotl duty? My turn next weekend! 🫡
Stay warm, Josh!

Final reminder: abstract deadline today for the @bsdb.bsky.social 2026 meeting! Don’t miss it :)

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bsdb.org/meetings/

PhD position(s)🚨deadline 20th Jan

1-development of brain & behaviour in the precocial spiny mouse tinyurl.com/yaxhy5y2
2-social behaviour & neurophysiology in a menstruating rodent using AI tinyurl.com/ykv93cts

apply ✍️

@ai4bicdt.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social

Just over a week to our FIRST event for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣- 13/01/2026 15:00-17:30 GMT. What better way to fire up those neural circuits than dipping into the latest breaking #Cilia and #Centrosome science 🧪? Free and open to everyone- /1

Keeping up with the neighbours: local synchronisation of cell fate decisions during development - EMBO Reports Even before the advent of multicellular life, unicellular creatures would communicate with their neighbours to coordinate their behaviours. Multicellular organisms have the particular challenge of orc...

Hello, here is a review I wrote about how cells sometimes try to synchronise with surrounding cells so that they can do a good job of building tissues during development. It is called "Keeping up with the neighbours"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#DevBio 🧪

Hahaha! Nah, they look friendly! :)

Our new facility, the UK's only dedicated axolotl research colony, is an exciting next step into regenerative medicine.

"What we learn from axolotls could one day help us unlock new treatments for everything from spinal cord injuries to degenerative diseases." - @aidarodrigo.bsky.social

#Cilia and #Centrosome friends- tomorrow is the big day!! 🎉 🎉

Organoids for #PCD, #CryoET of the base of motile cilia, TZ organization in #IRDs, macrophages & cystic niches in #PKD, how pro-inflammatory lipids & #adipogenesis AND cilia as signal-sending organelles shedding #EVs! 🤩 😍 Join us!!

No te vi! Pero lo de colonizar... en ello estamos! 🫡

Huge congratulations again, Alejandro! 🎉

Registro "Biología del Desarrollo Sintética: Diseñando la Vida" Curso Electivo de Verano, dirigido a estudiantes de pregrado Programa: Link Fechas: 5 al 15 de Enero de 2026 Lugar: Santiago de Chile, clases presenciales (Campus Manuel Montt, U. Mayor) Para estudian...

Help us to promote this DevBiol course (in Spanish)
¡Nuevo curso gratuito de Biología del Desarrollo (en español)!
Aprende sobre los procesos que dan origen a la vida
Cupos limitados → forms.gle/sfSV1GTae2nC...
Detalles y programa: drive.google.com/file/d/1-9dd...
#BiologíaDelDesarrollo

We are hiring!

I'm hiring a postdoc! If you're interested in researching mechanisms of 3D tissue morphogenesis and have experience studying cell dynamics and performing quantitative image analysis, consider joining us @mbisg.bsky.social! www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/jobs/seeking...

A masterpiece! Massive congrats, Çağrı! 🎉

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Good news! Pre-registration is open for the Rising Stars Symposium at @ibfg.bsky.social, Salamanca, Spain 🌟

📝 Fill out the following pre-registration form now! ➡️ forms.gle/2QUz6M71LrSk...

⚠️ Form deadline: Sunday 26 October, 2025

#IBFG #bioscience #talent #research #postdoc

Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4 - Nature Communications Here they perform a systematic dissection of OCT4 and reveal how intrinsically disordered regions can be used to serve specific functions during reprogramming and embryonic development. This can be exploited to engineer more efficient and specific reprogramming factors.

Hot off the press!

Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4

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

Stunning! Congrats, James and team!

🚨 Excited to introduce FuChi (Fucci chicken), the first avian cell cycle reporter line. Thank you to all those who contributed to putting this paper together. I really think it showcases the power and beauty of the chick embryo as a developmental biology model. 🐥 🥚 🔬 @roslininstitute.bsky.social

Go @lizihegarty.bsky.social! 🎉

One of your future coworkers in the Currie Lab, an adorable axolotl.

💥OUR LAB IS HIRING!!💥

We are hiring a research assistant/lab manager to assist with managing our axolotl colony and enabling some kick-ass science! Looking for high levels of organization, collaboration, problem solving and curiosity.

Application link: tinyurl.com/3tpvphpm
#SciJob #JobAlert

#EMDS2025 attendees - if anyone is looking for a postdoc position and likes what they see of #Edinburgh, please come and speak to me or @lizihegarty.bsky.social (poster 71) or @erinwatson.bsky.social (poster 35).

An image of two BSDB supplement covers from Journal of Experimental Embryology and Morphology.

The Company of Biologists and the British Society for Developmental Biology: a model partnership

As part of the #biologists100 anniversary, Saanjbati Adhikari and Raman Das review the relationship between @biologists.bsky.social and @bsdb.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Thirst for knowledge?

The 2025 Stem Cell Summer School starts next Friday! We have an uncommonly spectacular array of faculty, and have no doubt that our delegates will also be spectacular

Follow ‪@stemcellsummer.bsky.social‬ and #SCSS2025 for updates during the meeting

🧵How to write and manage your first research budgets

The point of funding is to convert it into quality research. A well-spent research budget should fund the idea it was raised on, plus revision experiments, plus preliminary data for the next grant. So you need to spend, while avoiding waste.

Building and rebuilding complex tissues: strategic visions from a research-led workshop ABSTRACT. How complex tissues develop and regenerate post-injury is one of the most fascinating and important processes in biology. Recent technical advances that enable the generation of a quantitati...

New article out now!

Our researchers @sumrubayin.bsky.social, @bensteventon.bsky.social, and @storerlab.bsky.social share key takeaways from a workshop on complex tissue regeneration, highlighting the need for more collaboration and interdisciplinary work.

➡️ journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...