Scott Wilcockson
@wilcocksonscott.bsky.social
Developmental biologist sciencing with Danio and Drosophila @TheCrick @devsiglab - Signalling dynamics and cell fate - anxious, queer. Opinions are the cats. he/him 🏳️🌈🇪🇺
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🚨 Exciting opportunity for 🇨🇳 students!
Apply for a PhD scholarship via CSC to join my lab @UniofExeter studying cytoneme-mediated cell communication 🧫🐟
All projects are in collaboration with top Chinese universities: Tsinghua, Zhejiang & Kunming 🌏
📅 Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
携手探索细胞交流的奥秘，让科学没有距离！加油！💪🇨🇳✨
Apply for a PhD scholarship via CSC to join my lab @UniofExeter studying cytoneme-mediated cell communication 🧫🐟
All projects are in collaboration with top Chinese universities: Tsinghua, Zhejiang & Kunming 🌏
📅 Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
携手探索细胞交流的奥秘，让科学没有距离！加油！💪🇨🇳✨
Fully Funded PhD Opportunity!
Join the LSI @exeter.ac.uk - where Maths, Physics, Bio & Biomed unite under one roof. Funded by the China Scholarship Council & University of Exeter, this is your chance to do cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in a vibrant PhD community.
tinyurl.com/y3ufdnxf
Join the LSI @exeter.ac.uk - where Maths, Physics, Bio & Biomed unite under one roof. Funded by the China Scholarship Council & University of Exeter, this is your chance to do cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in a vibrant PhD community.
tinyurl.com/y3ufdnxf
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🚨 Exciting opportunity for 🇨🇳 students!
Apply for a PhD scholarship via CSC to join my lab @UniofExeter studying cytoneme-mediated cell communication 🧫🐟
All projects are in collaboration with top Chinese universities: Tsinghua, Zhejiang & Kunming 🌏
📅 Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
携手探索细胞交流的奥秘，让科学没有距离！加油！💪🇨🇳✨
Apply for a PhD scholarship via CSC to join my lab @UniofExeter studying cytoneme-mediated cell communication 🧫🐟
All projects are in collaboration with top Chinese universities: Tsinghua, Zhejiang & Kunming 🌏
📅 Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
携手探索细胞交流的奥秘，让科学没有距离！加油！💪🇨🇳✨
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Deadline approaching – 15 Oct!
A brilliant PhD opportunity for all keen zebrafish enthusiasts, gene jockey and microscopy aficionados 🐟🧬🔬
If you find joy in embryos, lasers, and watching cells do clever things — this is your moment.
A brilliant PhD opportunity for all keen zebrafish enthusiasts, gene jockey and microscopy aficionados 🐟🧬🔬
If you find joy in embryos, lasers, and watching cells do clever things — this is your moment.
Want to help prevent aggressive NF1 cancers using cutting-edge models? The GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD @lsiexeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk to develop a humanised zebrafish model for NF1 resilience.
Apply by 20 Oct 2025
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
#PhD #biomed
Apply by 20 Oct 2025
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
#PhD #biomed
PhD:GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP Studentship | University of Exeter
The GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP is offering up to 17 funded studentships across a range of biomedical disciplines, with a start date of October 2026.
www.exeter.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Deadline approaching – 15 Oct!
A brilliant PhD opportunity for all keen zebrafish enthusiasts, gene jockey and microscopy aficionados 🐟🧬🔬
If you find joy in embryos, lasers, and watching cells do clever things — this is your moment.
A brilliant PhD opportunity for all keen zebrafish enthusiasts, gene jockey and microscopy aficionados 🐟🧬🔬
If you find joy in embryos, lasers, and watching cells do clever things — this is your moment.
My first last 🥲 and the last of my 🪰 work (for now) with Catherine Sutcliffe, the Ashe lab, @hilary.ashe.bsky.social and @shukryjhabib.bsky.social.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ovarian germline stem cell dedifferentiation is cytoneme dependent
www.pnas.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My first last 🥲 and the last of my 🪰 work (for now) with Catherine Sutcliffe, the Ashe lab, @hilary.ashe.bsky.social and @shukryjhabib.bsky.social.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Our work on germline stem cell cytonemes and BMP signalling is finally published! A great team effort from the Ashe lab, @wilcocksonscott.bsky.social and @shukryjhabib.bsky.social.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ovarian germline stem cell dedifferentiation is cytoneme dependent
www.pnas.org
September 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Our work on germline stem cell cytonemes and BMP signalling is finally published! A great team effort from the Ashe lab, @wilcocksonscott.bsky.social and @shukryjhabib.bsky.social.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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We are searching for an enthusiastic scientist to join our team and establish annual killifish as a model system for early developmental biology and biophysics! @embl.org @embldbunit.bsky.social
Apply here:
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei...
Please re-post 🙏
Apply here:
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei...
Please re-post 🙏
August 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We are searching for an enthusiastic scientist to join our team and establish annual killifish as a model system for early developmental biology and biophysics! @embl.org @embldbunit.bsky.social
Apply here:
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei...
Please re-post 🙏
Apply here:
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei...
Please re-post 🙏
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Paper alert! I am really pleased to share the final version of the work led by Irène Amblard in the team on a regulatory switch controlling Cdx2 expression during posterior body development! #regulatorylogic #devbio @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Paper alert! I am really pleased to share the final version of the work led by Irène Amblard in the team on a regulatory switch controlling Cdx2 expression during posterior body development! #regulatorylogic #devbio @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social
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If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)
June 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)
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@wilcocksonscott.bsky.social kicks off the 9th Biosensor Workgroup meeting in Boulogne sur mer, France. ERK signaling in vivo coming up! #FRBiosensorMeeting
June 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
@wilcocksonscott.bsky.social kicks off the 9th Biosensor Workgroup meeting in Boulogne sur mer, France. ERK signaling in vivo coming up! #FRBiosensorMeeting
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Are you an UK-based student and still looking for a PhD post in Life Sciences starting in autumn? Join the @lsiexeter.bsky.social - we have been awarded a few extra scholarships from the University. So, be quick and apply! www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Are you an UK-based student and still looking for a PhD post in Life Sciences starting in autumn? Join the @lsiexeter.bsky.social - we have been awarded a few extra scholarships from the University. So, be quick and apply! www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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My first post on Bluesky! Very excited to share our work just published in @science.org. We find that “Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis” - in angiogenesis and other tissues! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis
During tissue formation, dynamic cell shape changes drive morphogenesis while asymmetric divisions create cellular diversity. We found that the shifts in cell morphology that shape tissues could conco...
www.science.org
May 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My first post on Bluesky! Very excited to share our work just published in @science.org. We find that “Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis” - in angiogenesis and other tissues! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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The LSI Exeter invites you to join the first UK Zebrafish Meeting, 10/ - 12/9/ @lsiexeter.bsky.social. We are looking for motivated PhD students/ECRs to present their work - as talks and posters. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... . The deadline for the early bird registration is 15/5/. So, be quick!
April 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The LSI Exeter invites you to join the first UK Zebrafish Meeting, 10/ - 12/9/ @lsiexeter.bsky.social. We are looking for motivated PhD students/ECRs to present their work - as talks and posters. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... . The deadline for the early bird registration is 15/5/. So, be quick!
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The 9th National Meeting of the #French #Fluorescent #Biosensor #Workgroup !
👉Registration deadline : May 30, 2025
👉Website : 9bgm.univ-littoral.fr
@france-bioimaging.bsky.social @sbcf.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
@fsipieter.bsky.social @wilcocksonscott.bsky.social
@kshkarina.bsky.social
#ULCO
👉Registration deadline : May 30, 2025
👉Website : 9bgm.univ-littoral.fr
@france-bioimaging.bsky.social @sbcf.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
@fsipieter.bsky.social @wilcocksonscott.bsky.social
@kshkarina.bsky.social
#ULCO
April 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The 9th National Meeting of the #French #Fluorescent #Biosensor #Workgroup !
👉Registration deadline : May 30, 2025
👉Website : 9bgm.univ-littoral.fr
@france-bioimaging.bsky.social @sbcf.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
@fsipieter.bsky.social @wilcocksonscott.bsky.social
@kshkarina.bsky.social
#ULCO
👉Registration deadline : May 30, 2025
👉Website : 9bgm.univ-littoral.fr
@france-bioimaging.bsky.social @sbcf.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
@fsipieter.bsky.social @wilcocksonscott.bsky.social
@kshkarina.bsky.social
#ULCO
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We are hiring! A postdoc position is available in the lab studying gene expression dynamics in Drosophila embryos, as part of a larger research effort in collaboration with @mrattray.bsky.social 🧬🔬🪰
Full details are in the ad: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Full details are in the ad: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
March 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
We are hiring! A postdoc position is available in the lab studying gene expression dynamics in Drosophila embryos, as part of a larger research effort in collaboration with @mrattray.bsky.social 🧬🔬🪰
Full details are in the ad: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Full details are in the ad: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Our new paper describes how SunTag imaging of mRNA translation can be used to study ribosome pausing in development. We also adapt the system to study translation of a secreted protein. Work done in collaboration with @mrattray.bsky.social and @markashe.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
Exploiting the SunTag system to study the developmental regulation of mRNA translation
The ability to quantitatively study mRNA translation using SunTag imaging is transforming our understanding of the translation process. Here, we expand the SunTag method to study new aspects of transl...
doi.org
March 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Our new paper describes how SunTag imaging of mRNA translation can be used to study ribosome pausing in development. We also adapt the system to study translation of a secreted protein. Work done in collaboration with @mrattray.bsky.social and @markashe.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
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Is there more to defining the eve stripes in the Drosophila embryo than just transcriptional regulation? We provide evidence that spatially regulated mRNA decay is also important.
Nice new paper from Jennifer Love and @hilaryashe.bsky.social lab members shows how mRNA decay is spatially and temporally regulated, ramping up at the edges of stripes in early drosophila embryos, with mRNAs increasingly localising to P-bodies for degradation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
February 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Is there more to defining the eve stripes in the Drosophila embryo than just transcriptional regulation? We provide evidence that spatially regulated mRNA decay is also important.
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Still working on it, but now we are on bluesky I want to share our current preprint with you on"Local optogenetic NMYII activation within the zebrafish neural rod results in long range, asymmetric force propagation". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Still working on it, but now we are on bluesky I want to share our current preprint with you on"Local optogenetic NMYII activation within the zebrafish neural rod results in long range, asymmetric force propagation". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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📢‼️ Exciting new preprint from the lab by @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social et al, now out on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, reveals that the early embryo geometry spatiotemporally patterns zygotic genome activation (ZGA) in zebrafish. 🐟 tinyurl.com/Biorxiv-nmis...
Read on to learn more... 👇
Read on to learn more... 👇
February 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📢‼️ Exciting new preprint from the lab by @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social et al, now out on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, reveals that the early embryo geometry spatiotemporally patterns zygotic genome activation (ZGA) in zebrafish. 🐟 tinyurl.com/Biorxiv-nmis...
Read on to learn more... 👇
Read on to learn more... 👇
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Applications open for a new cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social *Pathway to Independence* fellows
Know a #devbio post-doc about to enter the academic job market?
Would they benefit from a little support & mentoring?
Spread the word
Deadline 31 Jan 2025
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Know a #devbio post-doc about to enter the academic job market?
Would they benefit from a little support & mentoring?
Spread the word
Deadline 31 Jan 2025
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
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...
journals.biologists.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Applications open for a new cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social *Pathway to Independence* fellows
Know a #devbio post-doc about to enter the academic job market?
Would they benefit from a little support & mentoring?
Spread the word
Deadline 31 Jan 2025
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Know a #devbio post-doc about to enter the academic job market?
Would they benefit from a little support & mentoring?
Spread the word
Deadline 31 Jan 2025
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
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We're hiring a postdoc! Please forward to people you know who are looking for positions.
Interested in studying how metabolism is wired to support fertility? 🔬🪰 Come join us!
Ad to go live next week, but informal enquiries encouraged.
Interested in studying how metabolism is wired to support fertility? 🔬🪰 Come join us!
Ad to go live next week, but informal enquiries encouraged.
December 4, 2024 at 1:30 PM
We're hiring a postdoc! Please forward to people you know who are looking for positions.
Interested in studying how metabolism is wired to support fertility? 🔬🪰 Come join us!
Ad to go live next week, but informal enquiries encouraged.
Interested in studying how metabolism is wired to support fertility? 🔬🪰 Come join us!
Ad to go live next week, but informal enquiries encouraged.
Welcome the Blue Exodus with a new preprint collab with my old gaff @mcf-uom.bsky.social @Ashelab
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cytoneme-dependent BMP signalling promotes stem cell fitness and is necessary for dedifferentiation in the #Drosophila ovarian germline
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cytoneme-dependent BMP signalling promotes stem cell fitness and is necessary for dedifferentiation in the #Drosophila ovarian germline
Ovarian germline stem cell dedifferentiation is cytoneme-dependent
Progenitor cell dedifferentiation is important for stem cell maintenance during tissue repair and age-related stem cell decline. Here, we use Drosophila ovarian germ cells as a model to study the role...
www.biorxiv.org
November 20, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Welcome the Blue Exodus with a new preprint collab with my old gaff @mcf-uom.bsky.social @Ashelab
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cytoneme-dependent BMP signalling promotes stem cell fitness and is necessary for dedifferentiation in the #Drosophila ovarian germline
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cytoneme-dependent BMP signalling promotes stem cell fitness and is necessary for dedifferentiation in the #Drosophila ovarian germline
First post, first Postdoc paper, first 🦓🐟 paper, first journal cover! 🥳
🎶On the fourth day of Christmas, Dev Cell gave to me: An improved Erk biosensor that detects oscillatory Erk dynamics driven by mitotic erasure during early development🎶
www.cell.com/developmenta...
🎶On the fourth day of Christmas, Dev Cell gave to me: An improved Erk biosensor that detects oscillatory Erk dynamics driven by mitotic erasure during early development🎶
www.cell.com/developmenta...
December 4, 2023 at 7:29 PM
First post, first Postdoc paper, first 🦓🐟 paper, first journal cover! 🥳
🎶On the fourth day of Christmas, Dev Cell gave to me: An improved Erk biosensor that detects oscillatory Erk dynamics driven by mitotic erasure during early development🎶
www.cell.com/developmenta...
🎶On the fourth day of Christmas, Dev Cell gave to me: An improved Erk biosensor that detects oscillatory Erk dynamics driven by mitotic erasure during early development🎶
www.cell.com/developmenta...