Congratulations Alexander! Great talk yesterday!

Despite the very frosty mornings, I think we're all glad that March has kicked off with some glorious sunshine! Our campuses are really beginning to spring back into life.

📸 Catherine Hind, Franziska Schallwig, Helen Caseldine and Liz Boyne

Here we go! @daumlab.bsky.social @mathewmclaren.bsky.social

A study of Asian hornets has found about 1,400 different species in their guts.
Learn more and read the full paper
🐝 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#AsianHornet #hornet #InvasiveSpecies
Credit: Chris Isaacs, Peter Kennedy, John de Carteret.

@exeter.ac.uk @uniexecec.bsky.social

(image from this paper www.cambridge.org/core/journal...)

Great to have Prof Álvaro San Millán Cruz @sanmillan.bsky.social in the LSI today for the LSI Distinguished Speaker Seminar. Thanks for the fantastic talk!
@exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Meanwhile in Frankfurt at the Ernst Strüngmann Forum, we are discussing the strategies for navigation across scales and species.

Lots of debate about primates vs rodents, then there's me, trying to speak up for all the single-celled organisms out there! (Next biggest organism is an ant btw...)

4/4 If WNT7A is just floating around, it can't do this. It needs to be carried by dendritic cytonemes to the right spot. This precise delivery is crucial for building the complex network of synaptic connections in our brains. #openaccess #synapse @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Good morning to the Wnt-y winter day. Harry is back - so today is Hedgehog-Friday.

We offer two fully-funded PhD studentships to investigate ribosome hibernation in stem cells via cryoET. If you are interested, please apply here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
or here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin.... If you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch!

Let's welcome LSI Exeter @lsiexeter.bsky.social to Bsky!
A great time to announce that we have many exciting cross-disciplinary PhD positions available www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... page will be updated with more projects!

Interdisciplinary PhD studentships at the Living Systems Institute
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Open PhD project in the group to study mechanical feedback in organ growth control.
This is a great opportunity for students form China to join our group at the interdisciplinary @lsiexeter.bsky.social funded by a China Scholarship Council fellowship.

morphomech.wordpress.com/recruitment/

Join our group for your PhD to study the mechanics of early eye development!
This is a great chance to work in the interdisciplinary @lsiexeter.bsky.social at the interface of developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling.

More info here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Very proud to have raised £232 for the Charity Mind in the Living Systems Institute @LSI-Exeter yesterday. Thanks to all the bakers and the people who supported by buying the cake.