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Christine Holt awarded the Rosenstiel Award

26 October 2022

Congratulations to Professor Christine Holt on being awarded the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research https://www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/rosenstiel-award/

Hearing in Hedgehogs: new paper from Matt Mason

25 October 2022

Working with the well-known Heffner group from the University of Toledo, Matt Mason has been investigating how ear structure in African pygmy hedgehogs relates to their audiogram and other aspects of hearing. Features of the middle ear apparatus which are sometimes considered primitive, found not just in hedgehogs but in a...

New Kolahgar Lab Paper

25 October 2022

New study: The Kolahgar lab shows a subset of intestinal precursor cells is able to sense mechanical forces at cell-cell junctions to control the production of specialised cells. More information here: https://elifesciences.org/digests/72836/forcing-gut-cells-to-maturity .

Expansion microscopy image of D. melanogaster neuron.

New Microtubules Paper from Franze Lab

12 October 2022

In this paper, we identify a new mechanism contributing to sorting microtubules in neuronal axons, and we integrate this mechanism with previously identified ones to explain why almost all microtubules in axons point in the same direction, this way enabling efficient long-range transport required for normal neuronal...

New Paper: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

24 August 2022

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have created model embryos from mouse stem cells that form a brain, a beating heart, and the foundations of all the other organs of the body – a new avenue for recreating the first stages of life. The team, led by Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz , developed the embryo model...

Exciting new paper from the Buckley Lab

23 August 2022

The Buckley lab is excited to share our new paper, in collaboration with the Zernicka-Goetz lab, just out in The EMBO Journal: ‘E-cadherin mediates apical membrane initiation site localisation during de novo polarisation of epithelial cavities’, https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2022111021 We use polarising...

New publication from Boroviak Lab

7 July 2022

An integrated atlas of human placental development delineates essential regulators of trophoblast stem cells Yutong Chen, Dylan Siriwardena, Christopher Penfold, Adam Pavlinek, Thorsten E. Boroviak Read the article here

PDN Blue Plaque unveiling for Professor Sir Michael Foster

7 July 2022

The latest blue plaque, for Michael Foster, was unveiled on the side of the Physiology Building on 6th July Physiological Society story here

New Paper Published by Boroviak Lab

21 June 2022

Molecular 3D-maps unlock new ways of studying human reproduction Scientists have identified the biochemical signals that control the emergence of the body pattern in the primate embryo. This will guide work to understand birth defects and pregnancy loss in humans. Read the University article here A hexa-species...

Magda receives 2022 NOOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award

17 June 2022

Congratulations to Magda on being named a recipient of the 2022 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award! Read more here

Christine Holt awarded the Rosenstiel Award

Hearing in Hedgehogs: new paper from Matt Mason

New Kolahgar Lab Paper

New Microtubules Paper from Franze Lab

New Paper: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

Exciting new paper from the Buckley Lab

New publication from Boroviak Lab

PDN Blue Plaque unveiling for Professor Sir Michael Foster

New Paper Published by Boroviak Lab

Magda receives 2022 NOOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award

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