Glover lab
@glover-lab.bsky.social
Developmental biology research group interested in the mechanisms driving embryonic pattern formation. Based at the Roslin Institute.
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We're advertising an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position on modelling ecosystem resilience/vegetation patterning with @ecogeo.bsky.social, Denis Patterson, Roy Sanderson, and John Wainright! Keen to chat with anyone trained in geography/maths/ecology/physics etc.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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Mathematical modelling of Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing Climate
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October 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We're advertising an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position on modelling ecosystem resilience/vegetation patterning with @ecogeo.bsky.social, Denis Patterson, Roy Sanderson, and John Wainright! Keen to chat with anyone trained in geography/maths/ecology/physics etc.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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Applications close 3 Nov: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ We are looking for 2 post docs to work between @jennydickens41.bsky.social and @labrawlins.bsky.social and with colleagues across the Cambridge and at GSK. Exciting, collaborative opportunity to dig into lung cell biology - please share!
October 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Applications close 3 Nov: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ We are looking for 2 post docs to work between @jennydickens41.bsky.social and @labrawlins.bsky.social and with colleagues across the Cambridge and at GSK. Exciting, collaborative opportunity to dig into lung cell biology - please share!
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The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
🚨 Excited to introduce FuChi (Fucci chicken), the first avian cell cycle reporter line. Thank you to all those who contributed to putting this paper together. I really think it showcases the power and beauty of the chick embryo as a developmental biology model. 🐥 🥚 🔬 @roslininstitute.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🚨 Excited to introduce FuChi (Fucci chicken), the first avian cell cycle reporter line. Thank you to all those who contributed to putting this paper together. I really think it showcases the power and beauty of the chick embryo as a developmental biology model. 🐥 🥚 🔬 @roslininstitute.bsky.social
On Monday, Nobel laureate Prof. Shinya Yamanaka gave the inaugural Sir Ian Wilmut lecture @roslininstitute.bsky.social. Inspiring and gracious with his time, he chatted with students & fellows in two great sessions. It was a real honour to meet Shinya, share our research, and hear his story.
September 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
On Monday, Nobel laureate Prof. Shinya Yamanaka gave the inaugural Sir Ian Wilmut lecture @roslininstitute.bsky.social. Inspiring and gracious with his time, he chatted with students & fellows in two great sessions. It was a real honour to meet Shinya, share our research, and hear his story.
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New work with Saunders & Charras labs
Physical boundaries guide cell fate decisions during human trunk development
Reaction Diffusion model shows how geometry shapes biology with TBXT expression forming consistent domains regardless of colony size & shape
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Physical boundaries guide cell fate decisions during human trunk development
Reaction Diffusion model shows how geometry shapes biology with TBXT expression forming consistent domains regardless of colony size & shape
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Boundary constraints can determine pattern emergence
The robust patterning of cell fates during embryonic development requires precise coordination of signalling gradients within defined spatial constraints. Using a geometrically confined in vitro syste...
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July 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
New work with Saunders & Charras labs
Physical boundaries guide cell fate decisions during human trunk development
Reaction Diffusion model shows how geometry shapes biology with TBXT expression forming consistent domains regardless of colony size & shape
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Physical boundaries guide cell fate decisions during human trunk development
Reaction Diffusion model shows how geometry shapes biology with TBXT expression forming consistent domains regardless of colony size & shape
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Exhausted at the thought of having to resubmit your paper to a new journal after rejection? 🙁
Did you know you can transfer your paper+reviewers reports from any journal to any of @biologists.bsky.social journals, and get a quick decision, from editors who are working biologists 😃
#biologists100
Did you know you can transfer your paper+reviewers reports from any journal to any of @biologists.bsky.social journals, and get a quick decision, from editors who are working biologists 😃
#biologists100
March 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Exhausted at the thought of having to resubmit your paper to a new journal after rejection? 🙁
Did you know you can transfer your paper+reviewers reports from any journal to any of @biologists.bsky.social journals, and get a quick decision, from editors who are working biologists 😃
#biologists100
Did you know you can transfer your paper+reviewers reports from any journal to any of @biologists.bsky.social journals, and get a quick decision, from editors who are working biologists 😃
#biologists100
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🚨🐣 Our new paper is out @plosbiology.org! Sonic hedgehog inhibition transforms feathers into ancestral protofeathers-like structures. These units then recover after hatching, highlighting their remarkable developmental robustness! @lanevol.bsky.social 🧪
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In vivo sonic hedgehog pathway antagonism temporarily results in ancestral proto-feather-like structures in the chicken
The Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) pathway is a key regulator of feather development. These authors show that in vivo Shh inhibition during early chicken embryogenesis temporarily results in unbranched and non-...
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March 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🚨🐣 Our new paper is out @plosbiology.org! Sonic hedgehog inhibition transforms feathers into ancestral protofeathers-like structures. These units then recover after hatching, highlighting their remarkable developmental robustness! @lanevol.bsky.social 🧪
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo
🧪🐣 #devbio
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Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo
🧪🐣 #devbio
March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo
🧪🐣 #devbio
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo
🧪🐣 #devbio
Our paper, from a project that started many moons ago (during my PhD), which further explores the role of PRDM14 in avian embryonic development and primordial germ cells. 🐥🔬 @devbiol.bsky.social 🥚🧫
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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PRDM14 is essential for vertebrate gastrulation and safeguards avian germ cell identity
The zinc finger transcription factor PRDM14, part of the PR domain containing protein family, is critical for mammalian primordial germ cell (PGC) spe…
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February 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our paper, from a project that started many moons ago (during my PhD), which further explores the role of PRDM14 in avian embryonic development and primordial germ cells. 🐥🔬 @devbiol.bsky.social 🥚🧫
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Let's look at some cool bilateral cellular flows videos
IMHO: this is a goldmine for #EpithelialMechanics
Movie from Asai et al 2024 shows beautiful counter rotating flows.
IMHO: this is a goldmine for #EpithelialMechanics
Movie from Asai et al 2024 shows beautiful counter rotating flows.
January 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Let's look at some cool bilateral cellular flows videos
IMHO: this is a goldmine for #EpithelialMechanics
Movie from Asai et al 2024 shows beautiful counter rotating flows.
IMHO: this is a goldmine for #EpithelialMechanics
Movie from Asai et al 2024 shows beautiful counter rotating flows.
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📣Check out our work led by @alex-plum.bsky.social ! We developed a mathematical framework for morphogen patterning in dynamic tissues, revealing key insights into how morphogenesis mediates cell-cell communication, morphogen compartmentalization and fate coordination. biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
📣Check out our work led by @alex-plum.bsky.social ! We developed a mathematical framework for morphogen patterning in dynamic tissues, revealing key insights into how morphogenesis mediates cell-cell communication, morphogen compartmentalization and fate coordination. biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Chuai, M., Serrano Nájera, G., Serra, M., Mahadevan, L., & Weijer, C. J. (2023). Reconstruction of distinct vertebrate gastrulation modes via modulation of key cell behaviors in the chick embryo. Science Advances, 9(1), eabn5429. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn5429 #EpithelialMechanics
January 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Chuai, M., Serrano Nájera, G., Serra, M., Mahadevan, L., & Weijer, C. J. (2023). Reconstruction of distinct vertebrate gastrulation modes via modulation of key cell behaviors in the chick embryo. Science Advances, 9(1), eabn5429. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn5429 #EpithelialMechanics
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Inspired by @mads100tist.bsky.social I'm going to do threads on parts of the publishing process we often get asked about. These will be from my perspective @naturecomms.bsky.social and based on my own opinions, so keep your salt handy.
January 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Inspired by @mads100tist.bsky.social I'm going to do threads on parts of the publishing process we often get asked about. These will be from my perspective @naturecomms.bsky.social and based on my own opinions, so keep your salt handy.
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Check out a new paper @science.org and its related perspective
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Superstable lipid vacuoles endow cartilage with its shape and biomechanics
Conventionally, the size, shape, and biomechanics of cartilages are determined by their voluminous extracellular matrix. By contrast, we found that multiple murine cartilages consist of lipid-filled c...
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January 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Check out a new paper @science.org and its related perspective
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
First snowy run of the year 🏃❄️🏔️🐸 #Edinburgh
January 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
First snowy run of the year 🏃❄️🏔️🐸 #Edinburgh
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🥳 We got our Christmas present - our paper was accepted in PNAS!! @pnas.org 😀🎄🎅
Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀
We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀
We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 24, 2024 at 4:00 PM
🥳 We got our Christmas present - our paper was accepted in PNAS!! @pnas.org 😀🎄🎅
Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀
We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀
We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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In vitro modelling of anterior primitive streak patterning with human pluripotent stem cells identifies the path to notochord progenitors
Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Miguel Robles-Garcia, Guillaume Blin and colleagues @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social:
https://buff.ly/3ZMtzc6
Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Miguel Robles-Garcia, Guillaume Blin and colleagues @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social:
https://buff.ly/3ZMtzc6
December 19, 2024 at 4:31 PM
In vitro modelling of anterior primitive streak patterning with human pluripotent stem cells identifies the path to notochord progenitors
Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Miguel Robles-Garcia, Guillaume Blin and colleagues @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social:
https://buff.ly/3ZMtzc6
Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Miguel Robles-Garcia, Guillaume Blin and colleagues @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social:
https://buff.ly/3ZMtzc6
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Collab with Dr Sara Clohisey (genomics/mice), Prof Neil Mabbott (immunology) and @glover-lab.bsky.social (development)
December 18, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Collab with Dr Sara Clohisey (genomics/mice), Prof Neil Mabbott (immunology) and @glover-lab.bsky.social (development)
Tiger or mouse? Patterns of self-organised mesenchymal condensates in embryonic mouse skin where the typically resticted signalling conditions of the developing hair follicle are applied across the entire tissue. #FluorescentFriday #DevBio
December 13, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Tiger or mouse? Patterns of self-organised mesenchymal condensates in embryonic mouse skin where the typically resticted signalling conditions of the developing hair follicle are applied across the entire tissue. #FluorescentFriday #DevBio
Absolutely fascinating work on crocodilian scale patterning. This video explains the research brilliantly. Congratulations to all the authors on an excellent study!!
Watch our video to learn how compressive forces sculpt the intricate head scales of crocodiles! 🎥🐊 🧪
youtu.be/vuvUrAJTg2U?...
And read the full @natureportfolio.bsky.social article here ⬇️
nature.com/articles/s41...
@genevunige.bsky.social
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And read the full @natureportfolio.bsky.social article here ⬇️
nature.com/articles/s41...
@genevunige.bsky.social
The mechanics of crocodile head scales patterning
YouTube video by The LANE channel
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December 12, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Absolutely fascinating work on crocodilian scale patterning. This video explains the research brilliantly. Congratulations to all the authors on an excellent study!!
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🚨Hyped to share our new article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We show that crocodile head scales develop from compressive folding that arises from constrained skin growth 🐊🔬
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Self-organized patterning of crocodile head scales by compressive folding - Nature
Crocodile head scales self-organize through purely mechanical compressive skin folding rather than a patterning process controlled by gene interactions.
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December 11, 2024 at 4:25 PM
🚨Hyped to share our new article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We show that crocodile head scales develop from compressive folding that arises from constrained skin growth 🐊🔬
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Megan Davey & co make the case for revisiting the use of chick embryos in biomedical research
New genome engineering tools & single cell assays means its time for a renaissance in avian research models
Great potential for #3Rs in cancer & development studies
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New genome engineering tools & single cell assays means its time for a renaissance in avian research models
Great potential for #3Rs in cancer & development studies
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A scientific case for revisiting the embryonic chicken model in biomedical research
The availability of fertilised chicken eggs and the accessibility and rapid development of the avian embryo, have been utilised in biomedical scientific research to make fundamental discoveries includ...
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December 9, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Megan Davey & co make the case for revisiting the use of chick embryos in biomedical research
New genome engineering tools & single cell assays means its time for a renaissance in avian research models
Great potential for #3Rs in cancer & development studies
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New genome engineering tools & single cell assays means its time for a renaissance in avian research models
Great potential for #3Rs in cancer & development studies
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sneak preview results of latest project in collab with @glover-lab.bsky.social !
December 2, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Sneak preview results of latest project in collab with @glover-lab.bsky.social !
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Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Development's Pathway to Independence programme
Development is excited to announce our call for our Pathway to Independence program...
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December 2, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3