Development, Regeneration and Neurophysiology

Call for Abstracts Extended! 🌟
Join us this September in Sheffield for 'Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal & Artificial Intelligence', an ASAB Interdisciplinary Workshop.

@asab.org @sheffielduni.bsky.social
#ArtificialIntelligence #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience I #AcademicWorkshop #ASAB

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Derek Boyd from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, talking on the biological, environmental, and social factors that shaped respiratory health in English cities during the Industrial Revolution

Host: Samantha Purchase

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Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Giselle Wiggin from Nxera Pharma, Cambridge, talking on the application of structure-based drug design to GPCR drug discovery.

Host: Tanya Whitfield

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Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Sissy Wamaitha from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Sponsored by the Physiological Society @physoc.bsky.social

Host: Stan Strawbridge
@stanleystrawbridge.bsky.social

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Join researchers from the University of Sheffield’s Neuroscience Institute on 14 and 15 June at the Sheffield Winter Garden for NeuroFest, an interactive showcase of neuroscience research

Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 June 2025, 11am-4pm

Sheffield Winter Garden, 90 Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 2LH

Thanks a lot for hosting me @helenkmatthews.bsky.social, I had a great time !

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series (joint with MCB @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social) is Dr Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social from UCL
@ucl.ac.uk

Giulia is a biophysicist interested in mechanics and developmental patterning.

Host: Helen Matthews
@helenkmatthews.bsky.social
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1/10🧵 New preprint! 🚀
We built a resource of 20 clonal human naïve pluripotent stem cell lines from 10 blastocysts. Explore embryo-to-embryo and clone-to-clone variation in one place.
👉doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.02.657331

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Thorsten Boroviak (PDN, University of Cambridge) @pdncambridge.bsky.social , who will talk on early embryonic development in primates.

Host: Anestis Tsakiridis @tsakiridis.bsky.social

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Now out! Chapters in a CTDB issue ‘Development of the Senses’, eds. G. Richardson and D. Wu:

Ceriani F et al. (2025) – Maturation of the mammalian auditory pathway
doi.org/10.1016/bs.c...

Whitfield TT (2025) – Development of semicircular canals and otoliths
authors.elsevier.com/a/1l8PbFzn7W...

Second year PGR symposium with @drn-sheffield.bsky.social!
Exciting day full of science 🧬

Congratulations to Dr Claire Turner @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social and DRN's Professor Ivana Barbaric on their excellent talks in the University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social School of Biosciences Inaugural Lecture series today.

www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...

www.thebarbariclab.com

It was fantastic to have @lbates.bsky.social visit last week! Thank you for sharing your exciting work!

The speaker in our DRN external seminar series today is Dr Lawrence Bates @lbates.bsky.social from the University of Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, presenting his work on early human development.

Host: Stanley Strawbridge @stanleystrawbridge.bsky.social

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Today we welcome Dr Vishnu Muraleedharan Saraswathy (Washington University in St Louis washu.bsky.social) for an online seminar on neuronal repair during spinal cord regeneration in the #zebrafish.

Host: Emily Noël @noelresearchlab.bsky.social

Looking forward to today's talk by Professor Matthew Mason @pdncambridge.bsky.social

“Getting into a twist: Comparative anatomy and evolution of the cochlea”

to mark the opening of this superb Anatomy exhibition organised by DRN member Daniela Cacciabue, with @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social

Always a massive pleasure to come up to Sheffield and get to chat to the brilliant scientists up here

The speaker today in our DRN external seminar series is Chrissy Hammond from the University of Bristol, talking on bone biology and regeneration in the #zebrafish.

Wednesday 30th April
1 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room

Host: Freek van Eeden

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The speaker today in our DRN external seminar series is Jason Halliwell from the University of Copenhagen, talking on the factors that drive human genome instability.

Monday 31st March
2 pm, Alfred Denny Conference Room

Host: Ivana Barbaric

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Picture of Andrew Plygawko in a FocalPlane-branded polaroid-style selfie frame next to his poster on Neuroblast-like asymmetric cell divisions produce cell fate diversity in the Drosophila embryonic midgut.

As part of our #polaroidproject at #biologists100, we caught up with @andrewplygawko.bsky.social to learn more about his research on #EMT and #polarity in the Drosophila midgut. #poster

Had a fab time presenting some our recent work on fish cardiac morphogenesis at Biologists @100 @biologists.bsky.social ❤️. So many great discussions and awesome scientists. Big thank you to @bsdb.bsky.social for supporting my attendance! #biologists100 #bioimaging #developmentalbiology

Thanks for inviting me! Had a wonderful day in Sheffield hearing about great science.

Today we welcome Laura Andreae @landreae.bsky.social from King’s College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social , who will present her work on building synaptic connections in the developing brain.

Alfred Denny Conference Room, 1pm.

Host: Andrew Lin @andrewclin.bsky.social

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Thank you- wonderful to visit Sheffield, meet everyone and hear about their exciting work!

Check out these feather buds on the chicken embryo's wing! Our latest study @plosbiology.org reveals that temporary inhibition of sonic hedgehog signalling transforms feathers into simple, protofeather-like structures—similar to those of their dinosaur ancestors🔬🦖🧪

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Thanks for visiting us @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social and @drn-sheffield.bsky.social, Karuna @zkrna.bsky.social !

We all enjoyed your talk, which generated lots of interesting discussion.

#zebrafish #rna #development

In vivo sonic hedgehog pathway antagonism temporarily results in ancestral proto-feather-like structures in the chicken The Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) pathway is a key regulator of feather development. These authors show that in vivo Shh inhibition during early chicken embryogenesis temporarily results in unbranched and non-...

🚨🐣 Our new paper is out @plosbiology.org! Sonic hedgehog inhibition transforms feathers into ancestral protofeathers-like structures. These units then recover after hatching, highlighting their remarkable developmental robustness! @lanevol.bsky.social 🧪

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Prof Karuna Sampath, University of Warwick, is visiting us today - Alfred Denny Conference room, 1pm: "Identifying the mechanisms governing extra-embryonic yolk syncytial layer development" Hosted by @iansudbery.bsky.social

Had a lovely time in Sheffield giving a talk and getting lots of exercise walking up all those hills…! Thanks @tsakiridis.bsky.social for the invite!

Looking forward to hosting Sarah McClelland @mcclellandlab.bsky.social, @qmbci.bsky.social today 1-2 pm, Medical School LT3, F Floor @drn-sheffield.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social