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Roberta Migale
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👩🏻‍🔬 Assistant Professor and Group Leader at Imperial College London | IRDB |🔎 Regulation of gonadal development, function, and fertility 🧬
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 16d
Great to see this from @vmetzis.bsky.social & co published

Dissection of CDX2 regulatory elements identifies a repressive element that converts to an enhancer with a nuclear receptor motif switch

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A dual enhancer-attenuator element ensures transient Cdx2 expression during mouse posterior body formation
Amblard et al. dissect the function of cis-regulatory elements regulating transient Cdx2 expression during mouse caudal body formation. They highlight the requirement of an attenuator, a transiently r...
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Imperial Medicine @imperialmed.bsky.social · Sep 5
We’re excited to welcome Prof Allan Young as the new Head of @imperialbrains.bsky.social 🎉

Check out the Q&A below where he discusses his journey into neuropsychopharmacology, his vision for the department, and his research into psychiatric illnesses.👇

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268155/...
Meet Professor Allan Young, the new Head of the Department of Brain Sciences | Imperial News | Imperial College London
We spoke to Professor Allan Young about his journey into neuropsychopharmacology and his hopes for brain sciences.
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Spagnoli_Lab. @labspagnoli.bsky.social · Apr 17
🚨🚨 New pre-print from the lab. led by the amazing @alejotorrescano.bsky.social !

Alejo & Co. elegantly decode the spatial logic of progenitor cell organization in the developing pancreas — from individual cells to structured cellular communities 🔬🔬🧫🧪
Check-it out ⤵️
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · Apr 17
Spatially organized cellular communities shape functional tissue architecture in the pancreas https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649169v1
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Sep 1
Exciting day for @crick.ac.uk today: Edith Heard takes over as Director

We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story

www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...
Edith Heard
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Roberta Migale @drmigaleroberta.bsky.social · Jun 4
Sex determination doesn't cease to amaze me!!
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Nature @nature.com · Jun 4
Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy

https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s
Male mice can grow ovaries if their pregnant mums are iron deficient
The study is the first to show that low iron levels can affect fetal sexual development.
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Nature @nature.com · Jun 4
Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy

https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s
Male mice can grow ovaries if their pregnant mums are iron deficient
The study is the first to show that low iron levels can affect fetal sexual development.
go.nature.com
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Roberta Migale @drmigaleroberta.bsky.social · May 27
great to see this work published, well done !
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A microfluidic culture model of the human reproductive tract and 28-day menstrual cycle - Nature Communications
The female reproductive tract constitutes the ovary, fallopian tubes, uterus, and cervix, but it is challenging to engineer this systemin vitro. Here, the authors develop a microfluidic device (EVATAR...
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · May 20
Just like we need women in STEM and "Girls Who Code", we need “Men Who Nurse” and “Guys Who Teach,” pipeline programs that can offer boys pathways forward in female-typed fields. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social
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I Founded Girls Who Code. Now I’m Worried About Boys
Boys and men are less likely to turn to their communities for social connection and support.
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NIHR Imperial BRC @imperialbrc.bsky.social · May 13
EVENT alert 🚨

Academic Women Association (AWA) is inviting people to a short online presentation by Dr Ilaria Belluomo on 16 May at 10:00 am.

Open to all women at Imperial, fostering an inclusive academic network for mentorship and career development.

Link to register: tinyurl.com/2bhdpsr6
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · May 12
As tighter immigration policies are announced today, scientists continue to stress the importance of attracting international talent.

Our director Paul Nurse spoke to the Observer about how this affects science in the UK:

observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Is the UK paying the price for world’s most expensive visas? | The Observer
Competing political and economic goals on immigration are resulting in the loss of valuable skills and talent in the UK
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Roberta Migale @drmigaleroberta.bsky.social · May 9
Best post of this Friday everybody👇
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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · May 9
my 14yo made a power point of what she wants her future to look like and this is my favorite slide
Power point slide with a corgi in a gilt frame in the right corner. The slide reads “No children. No husband. I want to live all by myself. I want to come home from my self rewarding job and have everything exactly where I left it. And no GROSS children.”
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Young Embryologist Network @yen-network.bsky.social · May 5
We are happy to announce student and postdoc speakers. Thanks to all who submitted an abstract!
#yen2025
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Society for Reproductive Biology (Aus/NZ) @reproductionsrb.bsky.social · Mar 26
Hello, Bluesky 👋

This is the official account for the Society for Reproductive Biology (Australia and New Zealand).

We aim to keep you up to date with our SRB and affiliated events, disseminate key reproductive biology research and connect with a broad audience

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Roberta Migale @drmigaleroberta.bsky.social · May 1
Change what you eat, and what you eat will change you! 🍽️

😍I love this work which supports an healthy diet is more effective for microbiome recovery and health than interventions such as microbiome transplant!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice - Nature
Experiments in mouse models show that proper recovery of the intestinal microbiota following depletion, with or without faecal microbiota transplant therapy, is dependent on syntrophic interactions th...
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · May 1
Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best

Tomotsune Ameku from the lab of @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk tells the behind the paper story of their work looking into maternal intestinal growth in mice during reproduction:
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Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best - the Node
Tomotsune Ameku tells the story behind the paper "Growth of the maternal intestine during reproduction"
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Martín Estermann @martinestermann.bsky.social · Apr 29
🚨Excited to share my first postdoc paper, now published in Nature Communications! We uncover a key regulator of testis development and its link to differences of sex development (DSD). 🧵
🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146…
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Christopher Thomas @ovarylab.bsky.social · Jan 2
Interested in starting a PhD to explore ovarian biology through a cross-disciplinary approach combining live-cell microscopy and biophysics?

Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼
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Roberta Migale @drmigaleroberta.bsky.social · Apr 16
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Roberta Migale @drmigaleroberta.bsky.social · Apr 16
The Society For Reproduction and Fertility is hosting a 1-day symposium to celebrate its 75th birthday! Programme includes talks from world-leading reproductive scientists.

When: 21st June 2025
Where: the Zoological Society of London.

Early-bird rates until 30th April!
Register: lnkd.in/e_SNQqxw
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ME Torres-Padilla @metorrespadilla.bsky.social · Apr 10
we've put a Review together 👇

Just came out at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

hoping it is useful for those in the field but also for those not in the field who would like an overview on chromatin/epigenetics/replication/nuclear organisation in early embryos

Enjoy :) - feedback welcome
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Wiebke Arlt @wiebkearlt.bsky.social · Apr 11
EUWIN - European Women in Endocrinology - join us in Copenhagen this May!
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European Society of Endocrinology @esendocrinology.bsky.social · Apr 10
Pencil 12 May at 15:45 for the Women in Endocrinology reception in your Congress diary, meet colleagues and hear about support for women in #endocrinology. And don't miss the symposium ‘Navigating success as a woman in endocrinology’ on 13 May.
Find out more: ow.ly/XIvz50VtxWK
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Imperial Medicine @imperialmed.bsky.social · Apr 8
A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated #womb.

Mr Richard Smith from @imperialnhs.bsky.social led the organ retrieval team and has been researching womb transplantation for more than two decades.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #MedSky
First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
Grace Davidson gave birth to a baby girl two years after her sister's womb was transplanted into her body.
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Science Media Centre UK @smclondon.bsky.social · Apr 7
expert reaction to first baby being born from a womb transplant in the UK
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Imperial Science @imperialsci.bsky.social · Mar 31
🎨🔬 Art meets science this Wednesday (2 April)! Don’t miss our in-person Research Image Competition exhibition at the College Main Entrance 🏛️

Add it to your calendars 🔽
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18983...
Faculty of Natural Sciences Image Exhibition
Faculty of Natural Sciences Research Image Exhibition
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Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · Mar 31
Essay competition!

Win £250!

Share your ideas on a more sustainable future for scientific events!

Please spread the word to anyone who you think might be interested.

Closing date: World Bee Day! (that's 20 May, but you knew that didn't you)

#Sustainability

www.biologists.com/stories/essa...
Essay competition: Innovative ideas for the future of sustainable events
21 March 2025 In the light of climate change, biologists are working together to find a way of running scientific meetings in a more sustainable manner. We are putting a call out to everyone (biologis...
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