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Hugh Ford
@dictyostelium.bsky.social
Postdoc at UCL working on pattern formation with Dictyostelium
Reposted by Hugh Ford
Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
May 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
New paper out in @pnas.org

We followed cells migrating along signalling gradients in 3D, and found they collectively behave as a living droplet - a self-propelling fluid that grows.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
May 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reposted by Hugh Ford
Very pleased to announce that our package for Multiscale Spatial Analysis - MuSpAn - has landed!

The preprint is on biorxiv now, but you can find a lot more details at www.muspan.co.uk, including documentation, worked tutorials (an ever-expanding list), install guides, and how to get the code!
December 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Our pre-print from the Chubb and Pearce groups at UCL

Cells swarm along self-generated gradients as an active droplet - causing patterns of cell clump shedding and cell circulation with the group

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pattern formation along signaling gradients driven by active droplet behaviour of cell groups
Gradients of extracellular signals organise cells in tissues. Although there are several models for how gradients can pattern cell behaviour, it is not clear how cells react to gradients when the popu...
www.biorxiv.org
November 23, 2024 at 11:06 AM