Emma Rawlins

Rawlins lab members with Hans Clevers

The Rawlins lab thoroughly enjoyed meeting Hans Clevers when he visited @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social today!

A naked mole-rat

In collaboration with Nora Bourbia @ukhsa.bsky.social we have a fully funded (UK/home fees) PhD studentship available @phar.cam.ac.uk:

"Radiotherapy induced nerve damage and pain: can we prevent it?"

Naked mole-rats will be involved!

Poster for Stem Cell Summer School 2026. The info on the poster can also be found by following the link to our website.

We are delighted to announce that we are now open for applications for 2026 summer school

Dates: 11th - 18th September 2026

Deadline for applications: 8th May

See our website for info on how to apply.. and to check out our stellar speaker list!

www.stemcellsummerschool.org/apply

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Delighted to announce that @dev-journal.bsky.social has teamed up with the @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise their 2026 Journal Meeting. Registration is now open at biologists.com/meetings/dev... #HumanDev26

Register now for the 2026 Annual Meeting, themed 'Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation', from Loke the Centre for Trophoblast Research in Cambridge, UK! ⬇️

thenode.biologists.com/loke-centre-...

Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.

www.ukri.org/news/open-le... ‘You may be aware of recent pauses to some programmes. For our curiosity-driven research programmes, headroom in funding will increase, ….new opportunities opening later this year….levels of funding for curiosity-driven research will remain stable across this SR period’

We encounter some bureaucratic problems importing our fish...Does anybody have a transgenic zebrafish line that marks the basement membrane/ECM in the UK? Would need to mark optic cup and final eye for our purposes. And/or an ras-GFP/RFP line? Thanks for looking and reposting!

🚨We are recruiting two PhD students 🚨

1) Quantitative & dynamic analysis of limb-regenerative signaling centers w/ @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social 📶🧮💻
🔗https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/80704/Quantitative-and-dynamic-analysis-of-limb-regenerative-signaling-center-interactions

Academic employee for Research Group, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, reNEW

Do you want to play a key role in running a cutting-edge stem cell and embryology lab at reNEW @ucph.bsky.social ? We’re hiring a Lab Manager to support our team and help with stem cell and animal work. Apply before Feb. 1st : rb.gy/d5uf17

Great meeting!!! Amazing talks and posters today also.

Super Jenny - congratulations!

We're very excited to welcome Dr. @sumrubayin.bsky.social from the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social onto the next episode of the podcast! 🎉

Her lab studies the mouse #cerebellum to better understand the regulation of #neural stem cell behavior. 🧠

Very cool - though would be even more amazing if they could do this for the sciences also!

Julie Ahringer from @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social @geneticscam.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk gives talk on decoding genome regulation during development. Exploring how chromatin accessibility changes throughout development enable single cells to become multicellular organisms.

Brilliant meeting - thanks to the organisers!

Consider myself fortunate to hear @kottond.bsky.social speaking at #RespGen25 today.

Not the most flattering picture, but a great conference!

Airway cells in the human lung

Last chance to apply - closing Nov 3rd: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ Consider coming to Cambridge to work on a highly collaborative project on lung stem cells and lung disease with @labrawlins.bsky.social and @jennydickens41.bsky.social

📢 New in @natbiotech.nature.com!

Via live imaging of late-stage preimplantation human #embryos, Dr. Kathy Niakan at @loke-ctr.bsky.social has shown that abnormalities can arise at a later stage of development than previously thought.

🗒️: https://go.nature.com/4oIQj80
🎧: https://bit.ly/4qwoGke

Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding The formation of neural circuits depends on the precise spatial and temporal organisation of neuronal populations during development. In the vertebrate spinal cord, progenitors are patterned into mole...

Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social

We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

John Gurdon obituary: Biologist who made cloning possible He showed that specialized cells retain the genes to form an organism.

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Applications close 3 Nov: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ We are looking for 2 post docs to work between @jennydickens41.bsky.social and @labrawlins.bsky.social and with colleagues across the Cambridge and at GSK. Exciting, collaborative opportunity to dig into lung cell biology - please share!

Fabulous opportunity here - make sure you apply!

Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot ABSTRACT. Scientific misinformation is a defining challenge of our time. As public trust in science declines and falsehoods spread faster than facts, the scientific community must rethink its role in ...

Excellent article on science communication in @dev-journal.bsky.social - thank you to all the authors! doi.org/10.1242/dev.... ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Fantastic - it's so clean! Congratulations Jenny!

Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025 | shop@le A conference to engage and inspire the respiratory genetics/genomics community and promote networking colloborations. Early careers researchers are particu

Tomorrow is our final day for conference registrations so head on over to our shop page if you'd like to secure your place! Tomorrow is our final day for conference registrations so head on over to our shop page if you'd like to secure your place! shop.le.ac.uk/conferences-...

Cambridge scientists have found a new way to grow human blood cells in the lab 🧫

A major step towards regenerative therapies, this could also help scientists with better understanding blood disorders like #leukaemia.

New #research from @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3J0mO23 🧪

Exciting collaborative post doc opportunity to study lung disease mechanisms working with 2 friendly labs @jennydickens41.bsky.social @labrawlins.bsky.social and GSK colleagues www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/

Delighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...