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Delighted to introduce KELPE: mESCs with two insulated genomic landing pads, which we use to generate new synNotch and PUFFFIN neighbour-labelling lines.
They were named after kelpies, creatures from Scottish folklore, and they look pretty on a kelpie micropattern!
#DevBio #SynBio

Delighted to announce the posting of our latest preprint, which links stress-induced relocalisation of multiple organelles by dynein to adaptive changes in gene expression in the nucleus (1/n) 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

it will be a very fun symposium, please join us!!! :)

Next Monday, 9th March at 2:30 UK time, we are excited to welcome Delphine Delacour from IBDM! It’s the final talk of the term, so don’t miss it! We hope to see many of you there! 👋

Next Monday 2nd March at 2:30 pm, we will have two ECRs: Feline Lindhount @felinewlindhout.bsky.social from MRC-LMB and James Fitzsimons from SLUC. This is happening in a hybrid. Please come and join us at the Gurdon Institute if you are around. Post-talk refreshment will be provided! :)

Next Monday, 23rd Feb at 2:30 PM, we will hear two exciting talks from Marc Trani Bustos @mtrani.bsky.social and Denis Krndija @deniskrndija.bsky.social! This will be online on Zoom. Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list to receive the Zoom link and more details! See you next week👋

Next Monday 26th Jan, we are very excited to hear two talks from Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social and Susan Wopat @suewop.bsky.social!
Visit our website(ucammorphogenesisseries.com) for more details, and be sure to subscribe to our mailing list(lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/u...). See you soon!!

The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series is back! 🎉
Check out the flyer for a great lineup of speakers for Lent Term 2026!
Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list to get all the information, including the Zoom link. We are excited to see you again soon 👋

Purification and characterization of recombinant human translation initiation factor eIF3 Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) is an essential factor in protein synthesis. In mammals, it is a ~800 kDa complex composed of 12–13 subunits. Biochemical and mechanistic studies of ...

Very excited to share this method from Ramakrishna lab!
doi.org/10.1002/pro....
Here we present a method for high yield expression and purification of active and stable human eIF3 (all its 12+1 subunits!), one of the most complex and unknown translation initiation factor.
Happy expressing!!

Next Monday, 1st December at 2:30 PM (UK), we are welcoming Neha Bhatia (SLUC) for a hybrid seminar at the Gurdon Institute, followed by post-talk refreshment :)
Don’t miss our last event of this term!

Next Monday, 24th November at 2:30 PM (UK), we are welcoming two ERCs: Meng Zhu @zhumeng123.bsky.social (Harvard University) and Alex Plum @alex-plum.bsky.social (University of California San Diego). Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list to receive the Zoom link! Hope to see you all! :)

This is happening TODAY at 2:30. This is a hybrid seminar in person at the Bryan Matthews room in Physiology Building (PDN). Please do join us if you are around in Cambridge :) There are snacks and drinks provided after the talk😉

Next Monday, 17th November, we are excited to hear from two ERCs: @luca-guglielmi.bsky.social (MRC LMB) and Susannah McLaren (Gurdon Institute). This is happening in Bryan Matthews room in Physiology Building (PDN). There is a post-talk refreshment :) Everyone is welcome! See you all there👋

Next Monday, 10th November, at 2:30 PM, we are delighted to welcome @maitrejl.bsky.social from Institut Curie. Don’t forget to subscribe to our mailing list to receive the Zoom link!
See you all there! 😊

Next Monday, 27th October, we are excited to hear from two early-career researchers Min Ya (University of Illinois) and Baptiste Tesson (Institut Curie). Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list to receive the zoom link! See you all there👋

Next Monday, 13th October, at 2:30 pm (UK time), Anne Grapin-Botton will kick off the new term of the Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series! Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list to get the Zoom link!

The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series is back this Michaelmas Term 2025!
Join us for an exciting lineup of talks exploring the many facets of tissue morphogenesis. Check out the flyer for the full list of speakers!

Great work. Congratulations to the authors👏👏

We are excited to announce the first Western VGZT of Season 7! 🎉

🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Our speakers:

👉 Antonia Weberling (@a-weberling.bsky.social)

👉 Sanjay Narayanaswamy (@sanjay-n.bsky.social)

Don’t miss the exciting ISSCR Digital Webinar: Integrating Biophysics into Stem Cell Biology on October 14,2025!
Together with Windie Höfs we have organized this webinar that features paired tandem talks of experimentalists and theorists working at the interface of stem cell biology and biophysics!

We are excited to co-host Chii Jou Chan’s talk with @tlmcambridge.bsky.social‬ next Monday at 14:30, which will be the last talk of the term. Hope to see many of you there!

📢 TODAY at 2:30 PM (UK time), we have two talks from ECRs! @apramos.bsky.social will tell us how cells shape the tissue curvature during eye development. @sainikumud.bsky.social‬ will share how temperature shifts impact cell cycle and growth dynamics in Arabidopsis. See you all there!

📢 Today at 2:30 PM (UK time), we have two exciting talks! @maikbischoff.bsky.social will tell us about the balancing mechanisms of cell migration and organ morphogenesis. Harry McNamara will share how engineered systems can dissect morphogen signals in self-organisation. See you all there!

📢 TODAY, at 2:30 PM (UK time), @priscaliberali.bsky.social will tell us how single cells coordinate to shape complex tissues during crypt morphogenesis. Please subscribe to our mailing list for access to the Zoom link. See you all there!‬‬

Busy day for our lab! If you want to know more about our placental organoid work don’t miss @lucaschwarz.bsky.social’s talk at @yen-network.bsky.social. Miguel, a postdoc from the lab, will talk about his PhD work at @cammorphoseries.bsky.social and I will present at @brisunipress.bsky.social

📢 Next Monday, 19th May at 2:30 PM (UK time), we have two talks. @maos-stemcell.bsky.social and @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social will tell us how stem cells make fate decisions during early development, and how germ cells migrate under physical stress in the developing mouse embryo. Don’t miss it!

📢Today, at 2:30 pm (UK time), Kaelyn Sumigray will kick off the Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series Easter term! She will tell us how collective cell movement up the villus is regulated during intestinal morphogenesis. Please subscribe to our mailing list for access to the Zoom link.