Emma Rawlins

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...

mTOR dysregulation induces IL-6 and paracrine AT2 cell senescence impeding lung repair in lymphangioleiomyomatosis - Nature Communications Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare disease in women where TSC2 deficient mTOR signalling aberrant LAM cells and fibroblasts form nodules causing lung cysts and respiratory failure. Here the authors examine how mTOR dependent IL-6 causes senescence in alveolar type 2 cells which may result in impaired lung repair.

Fantastic work from Roya, Simon and team using in vivo mouse and in vitro human organoid models to study mechanisms of lung disease: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Great to finally see this out - congratulations!

Interested in a highly collaborative post doc project working on pulmonary fibrosis with @labrawlins.bsky.social @jennydickens41.bsky.social and GSK - then look no further... www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists.
🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

Saddened to learn of the death of John Gurdon today. He was the supreme scientist. And truly inspirational lecturer and speaker. The Gurdon Institute @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social has been a wonderful place to run a lab - and he will be truly missed.

www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

John Gurdon's research inspired me in my own scientific pursuits as a stem cell biologist. Starting my lab at
@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social was therefore particularly exciting. Seeing him around daily only underscored his admirable dedication to science and research. RIP John.
tinyurl.com/nha6z25h

Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/

Registrations for the Respiratory Genomics Conference, and abstract submissions, closes on the 15th October. Sign up today – limited availability!

‘From Stem Cells to Human Development’ over the years. (A,B) Official conference photos from the 2014 (A) and 2024 (B) meetings, both held at Wotton House in Surrey, UK. (C) Word cloud summarising feedback from meeting attendees at the 2014 event asked to describe their experience in four words. The largest and most immediately visible are: 'friendly atmosphere', 'interactive', 'inspirational', 'interesting', 'innovative', 'stimulating'. (D) Aggregate responses to questions from each post-event survey asking attendees to rate the meeting on a scale of 1-10 (orange bars) and whether they would recommend one of our events to a colleague. The recommendation score shows the percentage that responded ‘yes’ (green diamonds).

From stem cells to human development: supporting a growing field

This Perspective from @katherine-brown.bsky.social reflects on the history of our journal meetings and their impact on both the developmental biology community and @biologists.bsky.social

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

Going to be a great meeting...