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Postdoc position available in the Barrios Lab! Great science and great environment!

Just planted in Development 🌳 Control of successive unequal cell divisions by neural cell fate regulators determines embryonic neuroblast cell size forest.biologists.com/landscape/?id=…

To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author Thomas Mullan and corresponding author Richard Poole UCL UCL Biosciences UCL Research Dept of Cell & Developmental Biology: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Super proud of this amazing team we have built at the #CBMSO

We’ve combined our two recent preprints on the killifish retina (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) and IBEX (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…). We’re now studying retinal development and degeneration in killifish using this technique. Shown here is the peripheral retina with 9 antibodies.

Congratulations to Oliver Hobert for being elected at the National Academy of Sciences; not often that two faculty members from the same departments receive this tremendous honor!

mime-seq 2.0 now out The EMBO Journal! A method to sequence miRNAs from specific cells of mice without the need for cell sorting or Argonaute immunoprecipitation embopress.org/doi/full/10.10… A great collaboration with Stefan L Ameres and Meinrad Busslinger, led by Ariane Mandlbauer 🧵below

Our study revealing the remarkably complex organisation of the worm's sarcolemma is now online! Almost six years of hard work for our magnum opus revealing this entirely unsuspected new case of planar cell polarity in C. elegans muscles. rdcu.be/dKnoN

New WormBook.org chapter! With Nuria Flames Lab and Richard Poole we wrote Neurogenesis in C. elegans, now in Genetics: doi.org/10.1093/geneti… We discuss neuron development specifically, but do have a look if you think about acquisition of cell identity more generally

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

Two all time favorites. You must read them together and appreciate the insight and vision!!!

The 25th International Worm Meeting is happening June 28–July 2, 2025 at UC Davis, CA. Don't miss the premier meeting of worm researchers! Abstracts open January 15, 2025: genetics-gsa.org/worm-2025/ #Worm25

After a frustrating referendum, UK scientists must now fight to pick up the pieces (SfEU for New Scientist): newscientist.com/article/209519…

We're looking for a postdoc! Despite Brexit, London remains welcoming and global. Great place for worm research. forums.wormbase.org/index.php?topi…

Strong UCL response to Brexit uncertainty for research, led by Provost & David Price. Keep abreast of latest: ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/brexit-up…

Heartening to see Nicola Blackwood and the @CommonsSTC working hard to protect UK science Scientists for EU @MRC_LMCB x.com/scientists4eu/…

Here's why science should take a seat at the Brexit negotiation table Graeme Reid UCL Public Policy The Guardian:bit.ly/29wtH5U #Brexit

Chair of @CommonsSTC (Nicola Blackwood) concerned that Brexit could 'break' Britain's knowledge economy. independent.co.uk/news/science/b…

our new #LSIExeter team unveiled! exeter.ac.uk/livingsystems/…