Karen J Liu
@karenjliu.bsky.social
Professor of Genetics & Development, King's College London. Neural crest biology - MOUSE🐭 🐸HUMAN🐭 🐸 FROG sneaky 🐣
⭐️ My opinions will someday be the opinions of my employer.⭐️
⭐️ My opinions will someday be the opinions of my employer.⭐️
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It's Halloween in CCRB! Today we held our traditional Pumpkin Carving Competition, and it was a very competitive one!
Congratulations to @karenjliu.bsky.social 's lab for the win!
Can you guess which was the winner?
Congratulations to @karenjliu.bsky.social 's lab for the win!
Can you guess which was the winner?
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It's Halloween in CCRB! Today we held our traditional Pumpkin Carving Competition, and it was a very competitive one!
Congratulations to @karenjliu.bsky.social 's lab for the win!
Can you guess which was the winner?
Congratulations to @karenjliu.bsky.social 's lab for the win!
Can you guess which was the winner?
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Neuroblastoma-associated ALK variants have distinct cellular and biochemical activities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.677354v1
September 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Neuroblastoma-associated ALK variants have distinct cellular and biochemical activities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.677354v1
Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social
Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node
The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...
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August 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social
Wow, International Xenopus Meeting (IXC25) -- Matt Guille and EXRC opens the meeting with old friends new science @xenbase.bsky.social xenopusresource.org/20th-interna...
#science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
#science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
August 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Wow, International Xenopus Meeting (IXC25) -- Matt Guille and EXRC opens the meeting with old friends new science @xenbase.bsky.social xenopusresource.org/20th-interna...
#science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
#science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node
The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...
thenode.biologists.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...
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Reposted by Karen J Liu
‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum
With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.
www.wsj.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
Congrats to our very own Pleasantine Mill! Well deserved. 🐭 @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social go NMGN Congenital Anomalies Cluster
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Wolpert medal is Pleasantine Mill!
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March 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Congrats to our very own Pleasantine Mill! Well deserved. 🐭 @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social go NMGN Congenital Anomalies Cluster
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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Wolpert medal is Pleasantine Mill!
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March 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Wolpert medal is Pleasantine Mill!
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We are looking forward to meeting everyone in Liverpool next week for our special 100-year anniversary conference. We have a busy, fun-filled programme. You can follow all the action from Biologists @ 100 at #biologists100. 100yearsconference.biologists.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We are looking forward to meeting everyone in Liverpool next week for our special 100-year anniversary conference. We have a busy, fun-filled programme. You can follow all the action from Biologists @ 100 at #biologists100. 100yearsconference.biologists.com
Very excited to be working with @marcotrizzino.bsky.social on unravelling CHD3 function in craniofacial neural crest! Parallel human and mouse experiments & disease modelling 🐭🔬 with @profsimonfisher.bsky.social
Thank you to @ukri.org MRC for awarding our grant on the role of CHD3 in neural crest/craniofacial development (and associated syndromes), together with the brilliant @karenjliu.bsky.social! And in collaboration with @profsimonfisher.bsky.social
Exciting times!
Exciting times!
March 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Very excited to be working with @marcotrizzino.bsky.social on unravelling CHD3 function in craniofacial neural crest! Parallel human and mouse experiments & disease modelling 🐭🔬 with @profsimonfisher.bsky.social
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Thank you to @ukri.org MRC for awarding our grant on the role of CHD3 in neural crest/craniofacial development (and associated syndromes), together with the brilliant @karenjliu.bsky.social! And in collaboration with @profsimonfisher.bsky.social
Exciting times!
Exciting times!
March 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thank you to @ukri.org MRC for awarding our grant on the role of CHD3 in neural crest/craniofacial development (and associated syndromes), together with the brilliant @karenjliu.bsky.social! And in collaboration with @profsimonfisher.bsky.social
Exciting times!
Exciting times!
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'NIH suggests that indirect and direct costs are substitutes when in reality they are complements: (...) If NIH puts more money into direct project funding, that funding generates additional indirect costs for more labs, more safety & compliance officers, and more buildings & their utility costs.'
Is flat 15% fair?
An NIH funding policy is misguided and damaging
www.science.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
'NIH suggests that indirect and direct costs are substitutes when in reality they are complements: (...) If NIH puts more money into direct project funding, that funding generates additional indirect costs for more labs, more safety & compliance officers, and more buildings & their utility costs.'
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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...
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March 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
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To celebrate International Women's Day we recorded a special podcast series, interviewing 6 different women with different roles in our department. Check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7GoTzSh...
March 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
To celebrate International Women's Day we recorded a special podcast series, interviewing 6 different women with different roles in our department. Check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7GoTzSh...
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I am grateful to @cancerresearchuk.org for choosing to support our work aiming to understand the links between distorted embryonic development and neuroblastoma initiation using our human pluripotent stem cell differentiation model: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...
Understanding the genetic roots of aggressive childhood cancer: Research aims to improve Neuroblastoma treatment
Scientists have secured £1.5 million from Cancer Research UK (CRUK) to investigate the genetic secrets behind neuroblastoma - aiming to improve treatments for this aggressive childhood cancer.
www.sheffield.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I am grateful to @cancerresearchuk.org for choosing to support our work aiming to understand the links between distorted embryonic development and neuroblastoma initiation using our human pluripotent stem cell differentiation model: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...
Reposted by Karen J Liu
Reposted by Karen J Liu
It's #RareDiseaseDay! Rare diseases are individually rare but collectively common, affecting 3.5 million people in the UK. Bring out your stripey socks to raise awareness #RareDisease #ShowYourStripes @medicsforrare.bsky.social
Find out more about RareDisease at www.m4rd.org www.rarediseaseday.org
Find out more about RareDisease at www.m4rd.org www.rarediseaseday.org
February 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It's #RareDiseaseDay! Rare diseases are individually rare but collectively common, affecting 3.5 million people in the UK. Bring out your stripey socks to raise awareness #RareDisease #ShowYourStripes @medicsforrare.bsky.social
Find out more about RareDisease at www.m4rd.org www.rarediseaseday.org
Find out more about RareDisease at www.m4rd.org www.rarediseaseday.org
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We have an opening for a Reviews Editor on Development. If you love developmental biology and its academic community, and have an interest in publishing and science communication, this could be the role for you. Full details here: www.biologists.com/wp-content/u...
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February 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We have an opening for a Reviews Editor on Development. If you love developmental biology and its academic community, and have an interest in publishing and science communication, this could be the role for you. Full details here: www.biologists.com/wp-content/u...
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New paper from our lab is out! We investigated the function of the NuRD subunit CHD3 in cranial neural crest specification. CHD3 variants are the cause of Snijder-Block-Campeau Syndrome, which manifests with craniofacial anomalies and intellectual disability 1/n
CHD3 regulates BMP signalling response during cranial neural crest cell specification https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.14.638260v1
February 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
New paper from our lab is out! We investigated the function of the NuRD subunit CHD3 in cranial neural crest specification. CHD3 variants are the cause of Snijder-Block-Campeau Syndrome, which manifests with craniofacial anomalies and intellectual disability 1/n
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Birth defects are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life (🧵). Birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. Birth defects are diseases of developmental biology. Here are CDC statistics for 2021. 1/5
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February 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Birth defects are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life (🧵). Birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. Birth defects are diseases of developmental biology. Here are CDC statistics for 2021. 1/5
wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...
wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...
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This, from @dereklowe.bsky.social, is a must-read overview of the state of play in US funding agencies www.science.org/content/blog...
What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This, from @dereklowe.bsky.social, is a must-read overview of the state of play in US funding agencies www.science.org/content/blog...
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We are featuring Nadia Rosenthal as our first extraordinary biologist of the week. Nadia is the Scientific Director of the @jacksonlab.bsky.social, USA, and she drew the first cover image - Adam Emergent - when @dmmjournal.bsky.social was first launched in 2008.
#100biologists
#100biologists
January 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We are featuring Nadia Rosenthal as our first extraordinary biologist of the week. Nadia is the Scientific Director of the @jacksonlab.bsky.social, USA, and she drew the first cover image - Adam Emergent - when @dmmjournal.bsky.social was first launched in 2008.
#100biologists
#100biologists
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in recent years, a number of animal species have successfully made a transition to life in urban environments
January 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
in recent years, a number of animal species have successfully made a transition to life in urban environments
Reposted by Karen J Liu
Only ONE WEEK left to submit your abstract for the 2025 Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes GRS 🚨⏰ Deadline Dec 29th, make sure to grab your spot by applying here: www.grc.org/neural-crest...
2025 Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes (GRS) will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
December 23, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Only ONE WEEK left to submit your abstract for the 2025 Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes GRS 🚨⏰ Deadline Dec 29th, make sure to grab your spot by applying here: www.grc.org/neural-crest...