Get involved in the molecular bioscience community & have the opportunity to be a champion for your field of expertise. Your ideas could play an integral part in shaping the future conferences programme aligned to the delivery of the wider Society strategy ow.ly/eW2c50QI9eQ

How do hair cells regulate their size during development? We think mitochondrial dynamics play an important role. Fun collaborative project with Stephen Terry @AuditoryNerves butterflymind biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just one more day until #IWD2024! This morning we spoke to Ana Garcia Urbano, a LIDo PhD candidate, about the empowering support they have had along their #STEMM journey #InspireInclusion #WomenInSTEMM podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/centr…

Don’t miss this exceptional event: Self-Organization in Biology: 100 years of the Spemann-Mangold Experiment. Abstract submission deadline extended to May 17th. Slots for talks still open. Spread the word! #DevBio #CellDifferentiation #StemCells elsevier.com/events/confere…

Amazing milestone for hearing research! UK toddler has hearing restored in world first gene therapy trial theguardian.com/science/articl… #hearingtherapy

Fancy joining the Sancho Lab as a Postdoc? A few more weeks to apply 😊 So far ... so good! Please reach out for informal inquiries! 📢🧫👨‍🔬🧑‍💻👩‍🔬👩‍💻🎉🧬📢 CGTRM KCL MRC DTP School of Basic & Medical Biosciences The PostDocs Forum

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As part of the upcoming The Leverhulme Trust research project on lizard enamel evolution, I will be recruiting a new (UK) PhD student for a 1st October start! If you or someone you know is interested, here is the advert link: findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Great read from Lipovsek Lab UCL Ear Institute!!

Calling to all O-types!! amp.theguardian.com/society/articl…

Research Highlight journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15… Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology UCL Ear Institute @AuditoryNerves Stephen Terry butterflymind

Looking for a summer read?🏖️🌞📄 You're in luck 😂. Our paper on optogenetic leader cells is out Nature Physics. We found a force-velocity relation for collective cell migration. Experiments by Leone Rossetti, theory by @ricardalert. IBEC rdcu.be/dQDmM

We are thrilled to share a truly exciting discovery by cryo electron tomography: the “hemifusome”- a new cellular organelle complex containing a hemifusion diaphragm! Tavakoli et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Amirrasoul Tavakoli, shiqiong hu and @Becharakachar Tweetorial below (1/8)

We find members of the TMC family of putative #mechanosensors at the tips of #intestinal #microvilli! Bechara Kachar Modeling @Angelative and molecular dynamics simulations Sotomayor Lab at OSU suggest they may be ion channels and/or lipid scramblases, like TMC1 at #stereocilia tips!

Actin in fixed and live hair cells. Can you guess which is which.....? Images: James O'Sullivan & Claire Scott

📢PhD opportunity!! The amazing The Francis Crick Institute international PhD Programme is now open! If you are interested in mechanobiology and the ECM, come and join our lab to study the role of the ECM dynamics in tissue organisation. Please RT. crick.ac.uk/careers-study/…

Congratulations James. Very well deserved! 🥳🥳

🔔 Interested in doing a PhD within two world-leading research groups? We have a very unique, funded PhD position available in our lovely city, with Prof Walter Marcotti, Prof Prof Heather Mortiboys, and Dr Sam Webb as supervisors. Find out more here 👇 bit.ly/40qsHvU

Opportunity to work on an exciting project investigating the links between metabolism and ECM in neuroblastoma. Please RT. Anestis Tsakiridis Elena Rainero