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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · Oct 7

The Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative is now accepting applications. Up to $500,000 over 4 years to support bold research into pregnancy duration, fetal growth, and pregnancy complications. Deadline: Dec 4, 2025.
Apply now buff.ly/rNhJKMW #bwfrepro

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 5d

Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n

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Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv

Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 6d

Laurence Wilson and Martin Bees use high-speed 3D holographic imaging to capture the flagellar beat of single algal cells, revealing changes in the ‘handedness’ of the flagellar shapes at different points in their cycle.
#JCSciliaSI
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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 6d

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.

The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.

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TheRaCil Project @theracilproject.bsky.social · 6d

👉Do not miss talks by our coordinator Sophie Saunier and by John Sayer at #KidneyWk 2025 in Houston, TX, the meeting of the @asnkidney.bsky.social - 📅Thursday Nov 6th, 2pm, Room310A - 💊Leading Edge of Therapeutic Development in Cystic Kidney Disease session #NPH #ciliopathies @hkd-l.bsky.social

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Natalie Mosqueda @natmosqueda.bsky.social · 7d

So excited that our paper is now out with @jcellsci.bsky.social and a special thank you to the editors for featuring our work! Check out below! 🐸🔬

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 8d

@natmosqueda.bsky.social, @psutton54.bsky.social and @brownlee.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social discover that importin α plays a regulatory role in ciliogenesis and cilia length with implications for Xenopus nephrogenesis.
#JCSciliaSI
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Figure showing that palmitoylated importin α has a conserved role in regulating multiciliogenesis in X. laevis epidermal MCCs

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 6d

Amanda Smith, Lawrence Ostrowski and colleagues find that lipid nanoparticle-encapsulated Dnai1 mRNA rescues ciliary activity in primary ciliary dyskinesia mouse cell models.
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HoraniLab @horanilab.bsky.social · 7d

I am excited to share our preprint on the use of machine learning to identify abnormal cilia function. I am proud of Nicholas Hadas, a talented PhD candidate, for his hard work in compiling the code and preparing this manuscript.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Machine Learning Analysis of Cilia-Driven Particle Transport Distinguishes Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Cilia from Normal Cilia

Rational. Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetic condition that results in dysmotile cilia and abnormal mucociliary clearance. Despite advances in understanding the pathogenesis of PCD, diagnos...

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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 8d

#MembraneTraffickers! Our next online seminar is this Thursday, Nov 6 at 5 PM CEST!
We’ll hear from @agatawitkowska.bsky.social on mechanical control of neurotransmission and @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social on lipid storage mechanisms in health and disease.
Spread the word and join the discussion!

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 8d

We are thrilled to see this out in @jcellsci.bsky.social an in the special issue on Cilia. Cfap298 - which we call Kurly - is the mutant that keeps on giving us surprises! In this paper, a mutation generated by CRISPR, that deletes two aa and changes a third, specifically affects cilia motility.

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 9d

Marvin Cortez, Cullen Young, Rebecca Burdine @rburdine1.bsky.social and colleagues identify a conserved domain in Cfap298 that governs left–right symmetry breaking in vertebrates.
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Seema Grewal @seemagrewal.bsky.social · 8d

Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together.
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella

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Volume 138 Issue 20 | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists

Journal of Cell Science publishes cutting-edge science encompassing all aspects of cell biology. It is published by The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit organisation.

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 9d

Love it when a plan comes so FABULOUSLY together- you and Miao are masters of MIPs!

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Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) @vaishananth.bsky.social · 9d

Thrilled to share that this work has been accepted for publication @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳
Special shoutout to the editorial team – the process was incredibly smooth and productive. Read more here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Lifesaving treatments for the millions of Britons who suffer from rare diseases could be approved years earlier under ambitious plans by the UK medicines watchdog: www.thetimes.com/article/0653...

New drugs to be approved faster so patients don’t wait years

The medicines watchdog is changing how it oversees research of 7,000 rare diseases, which collectively affect about one in 17 Britons

www.thetimes.com

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 12d

Love that you give the awesome Foldscope 'with the candy on Halloween'🍬🍭- best of both world, Manu! Hopefully not to see the shifting microbiome in their mouths pre and post sugar... scary!!

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Anne Straube @annestraube.bsky.social · 12d

Get out your calendars! The motors are out of quarantine and we plan to assemble in person on 8th May 2026 at University of Warwick Campus for a fun day on motors and the filaments they walk along. Livestream is planned too. More details on registration, travel bursaries etc. will be revealed soon.

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 12d

Everything you wanted to know about #cilia & #signaling in one big beautiful poster format from field thought leaders @wachtenlab.bsky.social & @sorentc.bsky.social- from our just live @jcellsci.bsky.social Special Issue… 🤩🤩🤩

Soren Tvorup Christensen @sorentc.bsky.social · 12d

I’m excited to share this collaborative work with Prof. Dagmar Wachten (@wachtenlab.bsky.social), providing an accessible overview of primary cilia signalling and recent advances in cellular signaling in health and disease. Many thanks to Dagmar for a fantastic collaboration! doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Primary cilia signalling at a glance

Summary: We explore the primary cilium as a master regulator of cellular communication that integrates diverse signalling pathways to guide development and maintain homeostasis. Its dysfunction trigge...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12d

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out.

Watch and share!

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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 13d

Really excited to see this out in the open: www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/1/...! @isabellavoelkl.bsky.social explored and compared different in vitro developmental model systems to study ciliogenesis.

In vitro approaches to study centriole and cilium function in early mouse embryogenesis

Although centrioles and primary cilia play an essential role in early mammalian development, their specific function during the interval between their initial formation and the subsequent arrest of em...

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Harry Low’s Lab @lowlab.bsky.social · 13d

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.

For more details and to apply please see

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 13d

[Last month to register]
📣 Forces at Play: Emerging Themes in Mechanobiology – In Memoriam of Professor Michael P. Sheetz

📆 January 19-21
📍Institut Jacques Monod, Paris

Registrations at 🔗 mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 15d

Taiju Fujii, Norihito Murai, Kazuhisa Nakayama and colleagues find that β-arrestin connects the BBSome and GPR161, mediating the export of GPR161 from cilia upon Hedgehog signalling activation.
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Figure showing suppression of the induced export of GPR161 by GRK2 inhibition.

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 15d

Great issue! Bonus: includes Daniel's work on incorporation of tagged tubulin in flagella!

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 15d

Our Special Issue on Cilia and Flagella: from Basic Biology to Disease, guest edited by @cilialab.bsky.social‬ and @lottepedersen.bsky.social, is building. We’ll be highlighting all the articles over the next couple of weeks. Follow along at #JCSciliaSI.
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Volume 138 Issue 20 | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 21d

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

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