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So proud of my son Cameron Vargesson who will be appearing in his 2nd West End show this year! This time its Carousel: A Concert at the Royal Festival Hall in July. So proud. instagram.com/p/C8pM9cZKIeb/…

The Francis Crick Institute crick.ac.uk/news/2024-07-2… so sad to say goodbye to my mentor, colleague and friend. He made research fun and exciting

My son Cameron auditioned successfully (out of a large pool of candidates) for his 3rd West End theatre performance of the year - performs next month in the concert version of ‘I am Harvey Milk’ at the Cadogan Hall. So proud. instagram.com/p/C_wOwT6I_ZT/…

George Boyne: the university principal with Aberdeen in his blood thetimes.com/article/60f036…

Happy to share our collaborative work 🥳Lab E. Herrera Neil Vargesson Martin Collinson #BLM Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC University of Aberdeen Aberdeen Neuroscience Identification of lens-regulated genes driving anterior eye developmen... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵

The Naked Scientists podcast ‘Question of the Week’ about if Thalidomide alters DNA and could be passed onto children of survivors thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/quest…

Delighted to share our latest collaborative research article….. on the origins of phocomelia. Embryonic Vascular Dysgenesis: The Origin of Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency - Hootnick - 2025 - Birth Defects Research - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Love this pic from 2008 in Madrid. Some legends of developmental biology…. John Fallon, Lewis Wolpert, Marion Ros and Lee Niswander. Happy memories and miss John and Lewis so much.

Delighted to share our (Jim Smith) Biography of the great developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Writing it brought back very happy memories as well as a few emotional moments. oxforddnb.com/display/10.109…

Latest collaborative paper with my long-term collaborator Nigel H Greig. Demonstrating a new pomalidomide based compound to combat neuroinflammation. jbiomedsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…