Viji Draviam
@viji-draviam.bsky.social
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology. Explores cell division and microtubule regulation that maintain human chromosomes. Lead, Center for Cell Dynamics. Other contributions: BBSRC LIDo-DTP, British Society for Cell Biology & Royal Microscopy Society.
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Fluorescence recovery in the super-resolution regime reveals subcompartments of 53BP1 foci
Wu et al. exploit 60 nm lateral resolution of diSIM/SIM2-processed super-resolution
(SR) images to develop FRAP in the SR regime, which reveals distinct types of DNA-damage-repair-associated
53BP1 foc...
www.cell.com
FRAP-SR (60 nm) reveals subcompartments within DNA damage repair foci in live cells. FRAP in the Super-resolution regime is likely to transform many other fields of cell biology: www.cell.com/cell-reports.... Thanks to @rappopto.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social and @ukri.org for support.
It was an awesome day of Aurora and MPS1 discussion! Good luck with the fabulous discoveries!
Great seminar by Viji @viji-draviam.bsky.social at @i3suporto.bsky.social and very insightful discussions. Always a pleasure to host colleagues and brainstorm!
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It was an awesome day of Aurora and MPS1 discussion! Good luck with the fabulous discoveries!
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Wonderful work by @viji-draviam.bsky.social and team.
Congratulations on the publication!
We're honored to be cited in your work—exciting to see our contributions supporting cutting-edge research. Looking forward to following your continued discoveries!
Congratulations on the publication!
We're honored to be cited in your work—exciting to see our contributions supporting cutting-edge research. Looking forward to following your continued discoveries!
FRAP-SR (60 nm) reveals subcompartments within DNA damage repair foci in live cells. FRAP in the Super-resolution regime is likely to transform many other fields of cell biology: www.cell.com/cell-reports.... Thanks to @rappopto.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social and @ukri.org for support.
Fluorescence recovery in the super-resolution regime reveals subcompartments of 53BP1 foci
Wu et al. exploit 60 nm lateral resolution of diSIM/SIM2-processed super-resolution
(SR) images to develop FRAP in the SR regime, which reveals distinct types of DNA-damage-repair-associated
53BP1 foc...
www.cell.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wonderful work by @viji-draviam.bsky.social and team.
Congratulations on the publication!
We're honored to be cited in your work—exciting to see our contributions supporting cutting-edge research. Looking forward to following your continued discoveries!
Congratulations on the publication!
We're honored to be cited in your work—exciting to see our contributions supporting cutting-edge research. Looking forward to following your continued discoveries!
FRAP-SR (60 nm) reveals subcompartments within DNA damage repair foci in live cells. FRAP in the Super-resolution regime is likely to transform many other fields of cell biology: www.cell.com/cell-reports.... Thanks to @rappopto.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social and @ukri.org for support.
Fluorescence recovery in the super-resolution regime reveals subcompartments of 53BP1 foci
Wu et al. exploit 60 nm lateral resolution of diSIM/SIM2-processed super-resolution
(SR) images to develop FRAP in the SR regime, which reveals distinct types of DNA-damage-repair-associated
53BP1 foc...
www.cell.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
FRAP-SR (60 nm) reveals subcompartments within DNA damage repair foci in live cells. FRAP in the Super-resolution regime is likely to transform many other fields of cell biology: www.cell.com/cell-reports.... Thanks to @rappopto.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social and @ukri.org for support.
Join us at hashtag#mmc2025 on the 3rd of July at our community meeting with the Royal Microscopical Society on 'Optogenetics in the SR regime'. Details here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Join us at hashtag#mmc2025 on the 3rd of July at our community meeting with the Royal Microscopical Society on 'Optogenetics in the SR regime'. Details here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...
With the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social, we are hosting a community meeting: "Optogenetics in the Super-resolution regime" at the Microscience Microscopy Congress (mmc2025) on the 3rd of July (Manchester, UK). More here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...
June 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
With the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social, we are hosting a community meeting: "Optogenetics in the Super-resolution regime" at the Microscience Microscopy Congress (mmc2025) on the 3rd of July (Manchester, UK). More here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...
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Very happy (and frankly relieved) to see this paper finally out in peer-reviewed form. (Preprint was posted in August 2021, but this is the world we live in now). rdcu.be/erMk6
Crossover patterning through condensation and coarsening of pro-crossover factors
Nature Cell Biology - Zhang et al. provide evidence that, during meiosis, recombination proteins assemble into active droplets, the coarsening of which partially explains the phenomenon of...
rdcu.be
June 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Very happy (and frankly relieved) to see this paper finally out in peer-reviewed form. (Preprint was posted in August 2021, but this is the world we live in now). rdcu.be/erMk6
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Still thinking about my great experience at #Biologists100 — from my flash talk and poster, to the ECR session and insightful main talks, and all the chats in between!
Big thanks to @biologists.bsky.social & @bscb-official.bsky.social for the opportunity!
📸 Full post and photos on my LinkedIn
Big thanks to @biologists.bsky.social & @bscb-official.bsky.social for the opportunity!
📸 Full post and photos on my LinkedIn
April 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Still thinking about my great experience at #Biologists100 — from my flash talk and poster, to the ECR session and insightful main talks, and all the chats in between!
Big thanks to @biologists.bsky.social & @bscb-official.bsky.social for the opportunity!
📸 Full post and photos on my LinkedIn
Big thanks to @biologists.bsky.social & @bscb-official.bsky.social for the opportunity!
📸 Full post and photos on my LinkedIn
A noncanonical role for dynein in controlling microtubule growth in mitosis, as shown previously in interphase. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Dynein synergises with EB1 to facilitate cortex-microtubule encounter and proper spindle positioning in metaphase. Thanks to the funder @ukri.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
A noncanonical role for dynein in controlling microtubule growth in mitosis, as shown previously in interphase. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Dynein synergises with EB1 to facilitate cortex-microtubule encounter and proper spindle positioning in metaphase. Thanks to the funder @ukri.org
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'Science is an investment' - long term and for all. Very glad to see extra funds towards scientific excellence!
"Science is an investment.
We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."
— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."
— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
May 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
'Science is an investment' - long term and for all. Very glad to see extra funds towards scientific excellence!
FRAP-in-SR for dynamic studies at 60nm resolution!! If you explore cell cycle, DNA damage or 53BP1, here are new tools for live-cell microscopy: a fruitful collaboration with @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social for SIM2/diSIM and @rappopto.bsky.social for localised FRAP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
FRAP-in-SR: Fluorescence recovery in the Super-Resolution regime reveals subcompartments of 53BP1 foci
We combine Lattice Structured Illumination Microscopy (diSIM/SIM2 with ~60 nm resolution), Lattice Light-sheet microscopy and Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) to explore 53BP1 dynamic...
www.biorxiv.org
May 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
FRAP-in-SR for dynamic studies at 60nm resolution!! If you explore cell cycle, DNA damage or 53BP1, here are new tools for live-cell microscopy: a fruitful collaboration with @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social for SIM2/diSIM and @rappopto.bsky.social for localised FRAP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We are sponsoring the Scottish Cell Biology Meeting on 18th Sept. Save the date!
April 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We are sponsoring the Scottish Cell Biology Meeting on 18th Sept. Save the date!
Maria Leptin @erc.europa.eu discussing the importance of large infrastructures for biology @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings with Jim Murray and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Nick Hopwood.
March 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Maria Leptin @erc.europa.eu discussing the importance of large infrastructures for biology @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings with Jim Murray and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Nick Hopwood.
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Helen Skaer wins the Waddington medal 2025 at the @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings.
March 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Helen Skaer wins the Waddington medal 2025 at the @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings.
Beautiful talk on Centriole and Centrosome assembly principles by Jordan Raff at the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting
March 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Beautiful talk on Centriole and Centrosome assembly principles by Jordan Raff at the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting
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Helen receiving her medal at #biologists100 from @viji-draviam.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Helen receiving her medal at #biologists100 from @viji-draviam.bsky.social
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What a view for #biologists100 the drinks reception
March 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
What a view for #biologists100 the drinks reception
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#biologists100 conference is underway celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#biologists100 conference is underway celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social
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Happy that Jon Chen @jonchenjk.bsky.social's cryo-ET and confocal study of RPE-1 chromatin in situ is online www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-025-00407-2
Congrats also to coauthors Tingsheng Liu, @shujuncai.bsky.social, Cai Tong Ng, Jian Shi and collaborators Weimei Ruan Uttam Surana.
Congrats also to coauthors Tingsheng Liu, @shujuncai.bsky.social, Cai Tong Ng, Jian Shi and collaborators Weimei Ruan Uttam Surana.
March 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Happy that Jon Chen @jonchenjk.bsky.social's cryo-ET and confocal study of RPE-1 chromatin in situ is online www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-025-00407-2
Congrats also to coauthors Tingsheng Liu, @shujuncai.bsky.social, Cai Tong Ng, Jian Shi and collaborators Weimei Ruan Uttam Surana.
Congrats also to coauthors Tingsheng Liu, @shujuncai.bsky.social, Cai Tong Ng, Jian Shi and collaborators Weimei Ruan Uttam Surana.
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Don’t forget about the available incentives for travel to our Biologists @ 100 conference: Up to £150 for international train journeys and a prize of £700 in our sustainable travel blog competition.
Find out more at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/sustainability
#biologists100
Find out more at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/sustainability
#biologists100
March 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Don’t forget about the available incentives for travel to our Biologists @ 100 conference: Up to £150 for international train journeys and a prize of £700 in our sustainable travel blog competition.
Find out more at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/sustainability
#biologists100
Find out more at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/sustainability
#biologists100
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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
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Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.
Spread the word that I have a postdoc opening right now, and am also open to PhD applications evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi.... We have lots of follow up ideas! 15/15
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/PostDocs//UArizona.AminoAcidSubstitutionModels
Postdoc position: amino acid substitution models
A postdoc position is available with PI Joanna Masel
(https://www.masellab.org/) at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Tucson
is a vibrant city of n...
evol.mcmaster.ca
February 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.
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4-year PhD studentship available in my lab to study helper helicase function in eukaryotic DNA replication. Happy to receive any enquiries directly to me. Come join us and add your figure to the lab lego collection!
institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/igc-graduate...
institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/igc-graduate...
February 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
4-year PhD studentship available in my lab to study helper helicase function in eukaryotic DNA replication. Happy to receive any enquiries directly to me. Come join us and add your figure to the lab lego collection!
institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/igc-graduate...
institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/igc-graduate...