Excited to announce the 2025 UK C. elegans Meeting will be in Durham on the 3-4th April (co-organised with @dweinkove and Josana Rodriguez). There will also be an ECR workshop the previous day - more details here:

Our Special Issue on Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics is now complete. You can explore our ToC here: https://t.co/qYGgHoGFLz ‘Breaking symmetry’ from @AntaraC9 was the winning image from our cover competition with @focalplane_jcs. The image is a MEF labelled with phalloidin

*Note to reviewers of our next grants/papers. This is a joke; we are excellent scientists who plan very well and never need luck as our experiments are perfectly designed and always work, and we never mess up an imaging session and go home to bed early.

Obligatory Aurora pictures. Just like microscopy, you need a bit of planning and a lot of luck, and you'll always worry that going to bed early means you're missing the best bit.

Less than a week to submit abstracts for the 2024 UK Worm Meeting - 19th of April at @biouea in Norwich. Registration is free for @GenSocUK members.

After multiple flight cancellations, rebookings, and a sprint through the airport, the Davies lab will be at ASCB. #cellbio2023

We have a 4-year @BBSRC funded @NRPBIODTP PhD position on RNA modifications and gene expression. If you are excited about genetics, embryonic development and @nanopore sequencing, do apply. Funding is for UK students only. #RNA #phd @biouea @EarlhamInst

I want to share the amazing resource that came out of this great collaboration - https://t.co/rUJg8Dq6u5 - a place to learn what you need to learn to do great quantitative microscopy, and where to learn it. Please check it out and let us know what you think, and/or contribute!

Very cool and needs a careful read. An interesting key point is that "Abundance of Myosin-II is a good predictor of cortical tension but is not sufficient to determine tension at cell-cell contacts."

🚨Summer Project🚨In Nottingham, @nottm_bbsrc_dtp run a summer school scheme where up to 10 students from underrepresented backgrounds who will be going into their final year in Oct 2023 are able to undertake a funded 10 week summer research project. @blackpassiflora and I (1/3)

Thanks to @alperakay_ et al for organizing a wonderful wormy day.

If anyone from the North is planning on attending #UKWormMeeting23 at UEA in January and wants to coordinate travel/carshares, get in touch!

Email me for information about the project and application process, and see more details here: https://t.co/rj3L9CqP6B https://t.co/p5JLqcenEC https://t.co/cuKUtl8KFJ

The project uses genetics/microcopy/cell biology to investigate how cell identity may play a role in contributing to successful cell division. It is part of the NLD BBSRC DTP, so there is the opportunity for collaboration with colleagues in Newcastle and professional internships

The application deadline for this funded PhD position is getting closer (9th Jan) Come use different biological models to study cell division! UK, EU and worldwide students are eligible to apply! Details in thread:

Our structure of dynein-dynactin on microtubules is now out in @Nature! Thanks to @janetiwasa for this beautiful movie showing how cargos might use pairs of adaptors to recruit their motors. https://t.co/1ucGtWg16a

How it started. How it's going. Two infrared images of the Trapezium in Orion separated by 36 years. L: first light image with IRCAM on UKIRT, Maunakea, 23 Oct 1986 (my PhD project) R: raw image from NIRcam on JWST, L2, 26 Sep 2022 (my GTO project) 🙂

Kick off of another day of great science at the Emerging Concepts in Cell and Developmetal biology 2022 #ECCDB2022 @NewPICellDev

Always good to get hear back from company reps. 😟

BREAKING: The #USS pension plan has reported a SURPLUS of £1.8bn - nearly 18 months after reporting a £14bn deficit. The surplus is disclosed in the scheme's June monitoring report published today. Details to follow