Roberta Migale
@drmigaleroberta.bsky.social
👩🏻🔬 Assistant Professor and Group Leader at Imperial College London | IRDB |🔎 Regulation of gonadal development, function, and fertility 🧬
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Great to see this from @vmetzis.bsky.social & co published
Dissection of CDX2 regulatory elements identifies a repressive element that converts to an enhancer with a nuclear receptor motif switch
www.cell.com/developmenta...
Dissection of CDX2 regulatory elements identifies a repressive element that converts to an enhancer with a nuclear receptor motif switch
www.cell.com/developmenta...
A dual enhancer-attenuator element ensures transient Cdx2 expression during mouse posterior body formation
Amblard et al. dissect the function of cis-regulatory elements regulating transient
Cdx2 expression during mouse caudal body formation. They highlight the requirement
of an attenuator, a transiently r...
www.cell.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Great to see this from @vmetzis.bsky.social & co published
Dissection of CDX2 regulatory elements identifies a repressive element that converts to an enhancer with a nuclear receptor motif switch
www.cell.com/developmenta...
Dissection of CDX2 regulatory elements identifies a repressive element that converts to an enhancer with a nuclear receptor motif switch
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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We’re excited to welcome Prof Allan Young as the new Head of @imperialbrains.bsky.social 🎉
Check out the Q&A below where he discusses his journey into neuropsychopharmacology, his vision for the department, and his research into psychiatric illnesses.👇
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268155/...
Check out the Q&A below where he discusses his journey into neuropsychopharmacology, his vision for the department, and his research into psychiatric illnesses.👇
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268155/...
Meet Professor Allan Young, the new Head of the Department of Brain Sciences | Imperial News | Imperial College London
We spoke to Professor Allan Young about his journey into neuropsychopharmacology and his hopes for brain sciences.
www.imperial.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
We’re excited to welcome Prof Allan Young as the new Head of @imperialbrains.bsky.social 🎉
Check out the Q&A below where he discusses his journey into neuropsychopharmacology, his vision for the department, and his research into psychiatric illnesses.👇
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268155/...
Check out the Q&A below where he discusses his journey into neuropsychopharmacology, his vision for the department, and his research into psychiatric illnesses.👇
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268155/...
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🚨🚨 New pre-print from the lab. led by the amazing @alejotorrescano.bsky.social !
Alejo & Co. elegantly decode the spatial logic of progenitor cell organization in the developing pancreas — from individual cells to structured cellular communities 🔬🔬🧫🧪
Check-it out ⤵️
Alejo & Co. elegantly decode the spatial logic of progenitor cell organization in the developing pancreas — from individual cells to structured cellular communities 🔬🔬🧫🧪
Check-it out ⤵️
Spatially organized cellular communities shape functional tissue architecture in the pancreas https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649169v1
April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🚨🚨 New pre-print from the lab. led by the amazing @alejotorrescano.bsky.social !
Alejo & Co. elegantly decode the spatial logic of progenitor cell organization in the developing pancreas — from individual cells to structured cellular communities 🔬🔬🧫🧪
Check-it out ⤵️
Alejo & Co. elegantly decode the spatial logic of progenitor cell organization in the developing pancreas — from individual cells to structured cellular communities 🔬🔬🧫🧪
Check-it out ⤵️
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Exciting day for @crick.ac.uk today: Edith Heard takes over as Director
We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story
www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...
We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story
www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...
Edith Heard
www.crick.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Exciting day for @crick.ac.uk today: Edith Heard takes over as Director
We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story
www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...
We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story
www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...
Sex determination doesn't cease to amaze me!!
Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy
https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s
https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s
Male mice can grow ovaries if their pregnant mums are iron deficient
The study is the first to show that low iron levels can affect fetal sexual development.
go.nature.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Sex determination doesn't cease to amaze me!!
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Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy
https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s
https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s
Male mice can grow ovaries if their pregnant mums are iron deficient
The study is the first to show that low iron levels can affect fetal sexual development.
go.nature.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy
https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s
https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s
great to see this work published, well done !
www.nature.com/articles/nco...
www.nature.com/articles/nco...
A microfluidic culture model of the human reproductive tract and 28-day menstrual cycle - Nature Communications
The female reproductive tract constitutes the ovary, fallopian tubes, uterus, and cervix, but it is challenging to engineer this systemin vitro. Here, the authors develop a microfluidic device (EVATAR...
www.nature.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
great to see this work published, well done !
www.nature.com/articles/nco...
www.nature.com/articles/nco...
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Just like we need women in STEM and "Girls Who Code", we need “Men Who Nurse” and “Guys Who Teach,” pipeline programs that can offer boys pathways forward in female-typed fields. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social
time.com/7286184/worr...
time.com/7286184/worr...
I Founded Girls Who Code. Now I’m Worried About Boys
Boys and men are less likely to turn to their communities for social connection and support.
time.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Just like we need women in STEM and "Girls Who Code", we need “Men Who Nurse” and “Guys Who Teach,” pipeline programs that can offer boys pathways forward in female-typed fields. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social
time.com/7286184/worr...
time.com/7286184/worr...
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EVENT alert 🚨
Academic Women Association (AWA) is inviting people to a short online presentation by Dr Ilaria Belluomo on 16 May at 10:00 am.
Open to all women at Imperial, fostering an inclusive academic network for mentorship and career development.
Link to register: tinyurl.com/2bhdpsr6
Academic Women Association (AWA) is inviting people to a short online presentation by Dr Ilaria Belluomo on 16 May at 10:00 am.
Open to all women at Imperial, fostering an inclusive academic network for mentorship and career development.
Link to register: tinyurl.com/2bhdpsr6
Microsoft Forms
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May 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
EVENT alert 🚨
Academic Women Association (AWA) is inviting people to a short online presentation by Dr Ilaria Belluomo on 16 May at 10:00 am.
Open to all women at Imperial, fostering an inclusive academic network for mentorship and career development.
Link to register: tinyurl.com/2bhdpsr6
Academic Women Association (AWA) is inviting people to a short online presentation by Dr Ilaria Belluomo on 16 May at 10:00 am.
Open to all women at Imperial, fostering an inclusive academic network for mentorship and career development.
Link to register: tinyurl.com/2bhdpsr6
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As tighter immigration policies are announced today, scientists continue to stress the importance of attracting international talent.
Our director Paul Nurse spoke to the Observer about how this affects science in the UK:
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Our director Paul Nurse spoke to the Observer about how this affects science in the UK:
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Is the UK paying the price for world’s most expensive visas? | The Observer
Competing political and economic goals on immigration are resulting in the loss of valuable skills and talent in the UK
observer.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
As tighter immigration policies are announced today, scientists continue to stress the importance of attracting international talent.
Our director Paul Nurse spoke to the Observer about how this affects science in the UK:
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Our director Paul Nurse spoke to the Observer about how this affects science in the UK:
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Best post of this Friday everybody👇
my 14yo made a power point of what she wants her future to look like and this is my favorite slide
May 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Best post of this Friday everybody👇
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Hello, Bluesky 👋
This is the official account for the Society for Reproductive Biology (Australia and New Zealand).
We aim to keep you up to date with our SRB and affiliated events, disseminate key reproductive biology research and connect with a broad audience
👨🔬👩🔬🔬🌏
This is the official account for the Society for Reproductive Biology (Australia and New Zealand).
We aim to keep you up to date with our SRB and affiliated events, disseminate key reproductive biology research and connect with a broad audience
👨🔬👩🔬🔬🌏
March 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Hello, Bluesky 👋
This is the official account for the Society for Reproductive Biology (Australia and New Zealand).
We aim to keep you up to date with our SRB and affiliated events, disseminate key reproductive biology research and connect with a broad audience
👨🔬👩🔬🔬🌏
This is the official account for the Society for Reproductive Biology (Australia and New Zealand).
We aim to keep you up to date with our SRB and affiliated events, disseminate key reproductive biology research and connect with a broad audience
👨🔬👩🔬🔬🌏
Change what you eat, and what you eat will change you! 🍽️
😍I love this work which supports an healthy diet is more effective for microbiome recovery and health than interventions such as microbiome transplant!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
😍I love this work which supports an healthy diet is more effective for microbiome recovery and health than interventions such as microbiome transplant!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice - Nature
Experiments in mouse models show that proper recovery of the intestinal microbiota following depletion, with or without faecal microbiota transplant therapy, is dependent on syntrophic interactions th...
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Change what you eat, and what you eat will change you! 🍽️
😍I love this work which supports an healthy diet is more effective for microbiome recovery and health than interventions such as microbiome transplant!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
😍I love this work which supports an healthy diet is more effective for microbiome recovery and health than interventions such as microbiome transplant!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best
Tomotsune Ameku from the lab of @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk tells the behind the paper story of their work looking into maternal intestinal growth in mice during reproduction:
thenode.biologists.com/re-growing-a...
Tomotsune Ameku from the lab of @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk tells the behind the paper story of their work looking into maternal intestinal growth in mice during reproduction:
thenode.biologists.com/re-growing-a...
Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best - the Node
Tomotsune Ameku tells the story behind the paper "Growth of the maternal intestine during reproduction"
thenode.biologists.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best
Tomotsune Ameku from the lab of @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk tells the behind the paper story of their work looking into maternal intestinal growth in mice during reproduction:
thenode.biologists.com/re-growing-a...
Tomotsune Ameku from the lab of @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk tells the behind the paper story of their work looking into maternal intestinal growth in mice during reproduction:
thenode.biologists.com/re-growing-a...
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🚨Excited to share my first postdoc paper, now published in Nature Communications! We uncover a key regulator of testis development and its link to differences of sex development (DSD). 🧵
🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146…
1/7
🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146…
1/7
April 29, 2025 at 5:24 AM
🚨Excited to share my first postdoc paper, now published in Nature Communications! We uncover a key regulator of testis development and its link to differences of sex development (DSD). 🧵
🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146…
1/7
🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146…
1/7
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Interested in starting a PhD to explore ovarian biology through a cross-disciplinary approach combining live-cell microscopy and biophysics?
Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼
Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼
January 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Interested in starting a PhD to explore ovarian biology through a cross-disciplinary approach combining live-cell microscopy and biophysics?
Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼
Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼
The Society For Reproduction and Fertility is hosting a 1-day symposium to celebrate its 75th birthday! Programme includes talks from world-leading reproductive scientists.
When: 21st June 2025
Where: the Zoological Society of London.
Early-bird rates until 30th April!
Register: lnkd.in/e_SNQqxw
When: 21st June 2025
Where: the Zoological Society of London.
Early-bird rates until 30th April!
Register: lnkd.in/e_SNQqxw
April 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The Society For Reproduction and Fertility is hosting a 1-day symposium to celebrate its 75th birthday! Programme includes talks from world-leading reproductive scientists.
When: 21st June 2025
Where: the Zoological Society of London.
Early-bird rates until 30th April!
Register: lnkd.in/e_SNQqxw
When: 21st June 2025
Where: the Zoological Society of London.
Early-bird rates until 30th April!
Register: lnkd.in/e_SNQqxw
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we've put a Review together 👇
Just came out at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
hoping it is useful for those in the field but also for those not in the field who would like an overview on chromatin/epigenetics/replication/nuclear organisation in early embryos
Enjoy :) - feedback welcome
Just came out at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
hoping it is useful for those in the field but also for those not in the field who would like an overview on chromatin/epigenetics/replication/nuclear organisation in early embryos
Enjoy :) - feedback welcome
April 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
we've put a Review together 👇
Just came out at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
hoping it is useful for those in the field but also for those not in the field who would like an overview on chromatin/epigenetics/replication/nuclear organisation in early embryos
Enjoy :) - feedback welcome
Just came out at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
hoping it is useful for those in the field but also for those not in the field who would like an overview on chromatin/epigenetics/replication/nuclear organisation in early embryos
Enjoy :) - feedback welcome
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EUWIN - European Women in Endocrinology - join us in Copenhagen this May!
Pencil 12 May at 15:45 for the Women in Endocrinology reception in your Congress diary, meet colleagues and hear about support for women in #endocrinology. And don't miss the symposium ‘Navigating success as a woman in endocrinology’ on 13 May.
Find out more: ow.ly/XIvz50VtxWK
Find out more: ow.ly/XIvz50VtxWK
April 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
EUWIN - European Women in Endocrinology - join us in Copenhagen this May!
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A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated #womb.
Mr Richard Smith from @imperialnhs.bsky.social led the organ retrieval team and has been researching womb transplantation for more than two decades.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #MedSky
Mr Richard Smith from @imperialnhs.bsky.social led the organ retrieval team and has been researching womb transplantation for more than two decades.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #MedSky
First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
Grace Davidson gave birth to a baby girl two years after her sister's womb was transplanted into her body.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated #womb.
Mr Richard Smith from @imperialnhs.bsky.social led the organ retrieval team and has been researching womb transplantation for more than two decades.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #MedSky
Mr Richard Smith from @imperialnhs.bsky.social led the organ retrieval team and has been researching womb transplantation for more than two decades.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #MedSky
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expert reaction to first baby being born from a womb transplant in the UK
www.sciencemediacentre.org
April 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
expert reaction to first baby being born from a womb transplant in the UK
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🎨🔬 Art meets science this Wednesday (2 April)! Don’t miss our in-person Research Image Competition exhibition at the College Main Entrance 🏛️
Add it to your calendars 🔽
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18983...
Add it to your calendars 🔽
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18983...
Faculty of Natural Sciences Image Exhibition
Faculty of Natural Sciences Research Image Exhibition
www.imperial.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🎨🔬 Art meets science this Wednesday (2 April)! Don’t miss our in-person Research Image Competition exhibition at the College Main Entrance 🏛️
Add it to your calendars 🔽
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18983...
Add it to your calendars 🔽
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18983...
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Essay competition!
Win £250!
Share your ideas on a more sustainable future for scientific events!
Please spread the word to anyone who you think might be interested.
Closing date: World Bee Day! (that's 20 May, but you knew that didn't you)
#Sustainability
www.biologists.com/stories/essa...
Win £250!
Share your ideas on a more sustainable future for scientific events!
Please spread the word to anyone who you think might be interested.
Closing date: World Bee Day! (that's 20 May, but you knew that didn't you)
#Sustainability
www.biologists.com/stories/essa...
Essay competition: Innovative ideas for the future of sustainable events
21 March 2025 In the light of climate change, biologists are working together to find a way of running scientific meetings in a more sustainable manner. We are putting a call out to everyone (biologis...
www.biologists.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Essay competition!
Win £250!
Share your ideas on a more sustainable future for scientific events!
Please spread the word to anyone who you think might be interested.
Closing date: World Bee Day! (that's 20 May, but you knew that didn't you)
#Sustainability
www.biologists.com/stories/essa...
Win £250!
Share your ideas on a more sustainable future for scientific events!
Please spread the word to anyone who you think might be interested.
Closing date: World Bee Day! (that's 20 May, but you knew that didn't you)
#Sustainability
www.biologists.com/stories/essa...
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Cracking the Code of Protein Degradation:
Led by #LMBalumni @leokiss.bsky.social, the Schulman Lab @mpibiochem.bsky.social in collaboration with Leo James's group at the LMB has developed new 🧪 science tech #UbiREAD to decipher the ubiquitin protein degradation code within cells.
Led by #LMBalumni @leokiss.bsky.social, the Schulman Lab @mpibiochem.bsky.social in collaboration with Leo James's group at the LMB has developed new 🧪 science tech #UbiREAD to decipher the ubiquitin protein degradation code within cells.
Scientists from the Schulman-Lab and James-Lab @mrclmb.bsky.social developed the new technology #UbiREAD to decipher the intricacies of the #proteindegradation code within cells.
❕Publication: @cp-molcell.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iZ0Fhe
❕Press Release: bit.ly/4bXt6K7
@leokiss.bsky.social #ubiquitin
❕Publication: @cp-molcell.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iZ0Fhe
❕Press Release: bit.ly/4bXt6K7
@leokiss.bsky.social #ubiquitin
March 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Cracking the Code of Protein Degradation:
Led by #LMBalumni @leokiss.bsky.social, the Schulman Lab @mpibiochem.bsky.social in collaboration with Leo James's group at the LMB has developed new 🧪 science tech #UbiREAD to decipher the ubiquitin protein degradation code within cells.
Led by #LMBalumni @leokiss.bsky.social, the Schulman Lab @mpibiochem.bsky.social in collaboration with Leo James's group at the LMB has developed new 🧪 science tech #UbiREAD to decipher the ubiquitin protein degradation code within cells.