A welcome and much needed reopening of pplicant-led grants today at MRC, with no closing date.
It brings massive changes to assessment, with more details now available. Focus is on evaluation by a "college of experts" but its composition is still not clear. 1/6
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Just over two weeks until our 55th @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium Tuesday April 21st 2026 15:00-17:45 BST! Join us for 6 talks from the latest rising talent!! Free & open to all.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso...
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🥁Calling all Cilia & Centrosome enthusiasts! Registration for the UK Cilia & Centrosome Network Spring meeting in Leeds is open. A homecoming to the place where '9+2' was discovered!
Great opportunity for trainees + ECRs to share work + get community feedback.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-cilia-c...
Registration deadline for our motors and filaments meeting is tomorrow - not a 1st April joke! Thanks to our generous sponsors supporting sustainable scientific conference organisation @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social we also offer registration for a free livestream, supported by bsky discussions!
📣 The Cilia2027 Best Image Competition is open! 🧬✨
🏆 1st Prize: Cover of the program & website + FREE registration to Cilia2027
🥈🥉 2nd & 3rd: Featured in the event screensaver + website
Submit your best cilia visuals: forms.gle/jUC2tnsa5Cs8...
#Cilia2027 #Microscopy #SciArt #Cilia
Check out our first lab preprint: A real team effort to understand the Plasmodium GAPM proteins, which form part of a essential bridge between the parasite's cytoskeleton and motility apparatus. Below is a sneak peek of some beautiful microscopy - light and electron! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Tubulin glycylation regulates microtubule-protein interactions that are key for ciliary stability and trafficking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
SPEx: Compartment-Resolved Proteomics via Expansion Microscopy-Guided Microdissection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
1/3 Lab #Preprint alert…A cool study led by @MullickSan22454 in collab with @ms_chirps lab showing how tubulin glycylation regulates ciliary motors and MAPs in vitro. @biorxiv_biochem. #glycylation #tubulinPTMs #cilia #Intraflagellartransport. Read more biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
Happy #FluorescenceFriday all!
Checkout these beautiful basal bodies in airway #multiciliated cells expanded via U-ExM 😍
Images captured by the super talented @maneesha07.bsky.social on a #Nikon NSPARC 🔬.
Happy to see the first paper from the lab published in the EMBO J today: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In it, we reconstitute self-assembling cooperative oligomers of human Ndc80 and Ska kinetochore complexes that stabilise microtubule ends, and study these samples using cryoET and TIRF
Interested in one of the top jobs in European biology?
@embo.org has opened a call for its next Director, to succeed Fiona Watt
Really spectacular opportunity! Spread the word...
www.embo.org/features/emb...
Exciting job opportunity in lovely Bern working in the Gluenz lab @izb-unibern.bsky.social
ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobads/e8d8d00d-ecc8-44b3-9ec5-1b9799e66080
Microcephaly-associated protein WDR62 supports purine metabolism by interacting with co-chaperone BAG2
Dominic Ng and coworkers
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I am so grateful to the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences for this honor. Can’t wait to be back to the lab and celebrate with lab members on this special recognition of their hard work.
Spectacular study revealing multiple ways by which Choanoeca flexa forms monolayers! Congratulations to @thibautbrunet.bsky.social Núria Ros-Rocher @pasteur.fr and all partners involved 👏👏👏
UKRI head commits to ‘consulting widely’ on funding reforms.
Ian Chapman tries to reassure researchers amid uncertainty over paused calls and cost pressures.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
A brief communiqué on the temporary funding pause recently announced by UKRI detailing a summary of the main changes can now be found on the network website.
www.cilianetwork.org.uk/news/4687/uk...
Great to know about this new flagship research programme on Ciliopathies launching at the Human Technopole in Milan!
Abstract deadline looming! Coming join us in June for a great meeting on developmental origins of paediatric cancers, including neuroblastoma organised by @tsakiridis.bsky.social and friends @childrenwithcancer.bsky.social #neuralcrest www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/dev...
Cool new story which discovers a novel role for the multiciliogenesis-linked transcription factor McIdas (aka Multicilin) in centriole duplication.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A 3D printed model of limb epiphysis with in culture loading rig (in a tissue incubator)
Another new phD position in sunny (usually) Southampton www.findaphd.com/phds/project... - if you like the space between biology and engineering please reach out to myself or Charles Burson-Thomas
Interesting article and accompanying spotlight on the cross-talk between ciliary homeostasis and ubiquitination (written by Jonathan Pruneda and @rbdamgaard.bsky.social).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Proud and excited to share our work with the community! Helen @helenfoster.bsky.social Foster et al. study how #cilia axonemes are built. 👀 Don't miss the gorgeous and insightful movies by @margotriggi.bsky.social, they really show our discoveries in full action!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Incredible new work on ciliary axoneme assembly spearheaded by @helenfoster.bsky.social (#NewPI) from the @gaiapigino.bsky.social. Like all good science, answers many questions & opens up many new ones!
Kudos to the entire team for this important advance in cilia biology. Lovely animation!
There was so much to unpack with this data, we teamed up with the marvellous @margotriggi.bsky.social to help explain what we think is going on. (Please also check out our model of central apparatus assembly here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)
Very happy to say that our work on how axonemes are generated is now available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - if you’ve ever wondered how the incredibly beautiful, complex structures within motile #cilia are constructed then this is for you!
Check out this thread for a nice breakdown (with videos!) of some of our questions about how dyneins generate a beat, all from our new preprint:
