Aida Rodrigo

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/...

Of course you did it! Massive congratulations, Anna! No doubt you will make the most of it!

HUGE congratulations, Can! Just amazing!

Metformin alters mitochondria-related metabolism and enhances human oligodendrocyte function Nature Communications - Metformin is under clinical trial for brain neuroprotection but how it may work is poorly understood. Here, the authors show that metformin helps myelin formation by human...

Our new paper on metformin, myelin, mitochondria and metabolism is now out at rdcu.be/eDbFD
Thanks to Nina and all of the team!

NIH Awards MDI Bio Lab $2.3M to Train Leaders in Regenerative Biology

MDI Bio Lab has been awarded a 5-year, $2.3M grant from the NIH to train the next generation of leaders in #regenerativemedicine.

The PI for the grant? @murawalalab.bsky.social 👏

#standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝

🚨 After 7 years in the making, my PhD thesis work is finally published in @science.org 🧬✨
What does our gut say about how we became human? During my hitchhiking journey spanning 3 countries and multiple lab moves

Hi bsky!

Do embryonic tissues have backup plans🔀? Gastruloids (model of body elongation) can build an axis through different cellular mechanisms when on adherent substrates instead of free floating. A case of developmental plasticity!

w/ A. Delahaye & ‪@bensteventon.bsky.social‬

shorturl.at/v01DO

Such great news, Josh! Congratulations! 🎉

Patterning of cell identities in the posterior E8.5 mouse embryo. Co-expression of mesoderm marker TBXT (blue) and neural marker SOX2 (green) identifies cells in the neuromesodermal (NMP) progenitor region at the intersection of their respective gene expression gradients. TBX6 (red) marks paraxial mesoderm and also marks sporadic mesoderm-committed cells emerging within the NMP region. LAMINB1 (white) marks the nuclear envelope of all cells. Credit: Matthew French.

Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu