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Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social · 8h

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists.
🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 1d

Saddened to learn of the death of John Gurdon today. He was the supreme scientist. And truly inspirational lecturer and speaker. The Gurdon Institute @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social has been a wonderful place to run a lab - and he will be truly missed.

www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon Dies Aged 92 – Gurdon Institute

www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 1d

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College

Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.

www.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Sumru Bayin @sumrubayin.bsky.social · 1d

John Gurdon's research inspired me in my own scientific pursuits as a stem cell biologist. Starting my lab at
@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social was therefore particularly exciting. Seeing him around daily only underscored his admirable dedication to science and research. RIP John.
tinyurl.com/nha6z25h

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/

Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025 @respgen25.bsky.social · 7d

Registrations for the Respiratory Genomics Conference, and abstract submissions, closes on the 15th October. Sign up today – limited availability!

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 7d

From stem cells to human development: supporting a growing field

This Perspective from @katherine-brown.bsky.social reflects on the history of our journal meetings and their impact on both the developmental biology community and @biologists.bsky.social

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

‘From Stem Cells to Human Development’ over the years. (A,B) Official conference photos from the 2014 (A) and 2024 (B) meetings, both held at Wotton House in Surrey, UK. (C) Word cloud summarising feedback from meeting attendees at the 2014 event asked to describe their experience in four words. The largest and most immediately visible are: 'friendly atmosphere', 'interactive', 'inspirational', 'interesting', 'innovative', 'stimulating'. (D) Aggregate responses to questions from each post-event survey asking attendees to rate the meeting on a scale of 1-10 (orange bars) and whether they would recommend one of our events to a colleague. The recommendation score shows the percentage that responded ‘yes’ (green diamonds).

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 7d

Going to be a great meeting...

Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025 @respgen25.bsky.social · 7d

@martintobin.bsky.social @kottond.bsky.social @erikmelen.bsky.social @atscommunity.bsky.social @geneticepi.bsky.social @hitenmistry1.bsky.social @labrawlins.bsky.social @leicestersresearch.bsky.social

Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025 @respgen25.bsky.social · 7d

Registrations for the Respiratory Genomics Conference, and abstract submissions, closes on the 15th October. Sign up today – limited availability!

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Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social · 9d

Our 2025 GI retreat prize winners are:
🎉Social Engagement: Giada Vanacore and Shay Melamed
🙂 Research Culture: Theresa Gross-Thebing
🙌 Good Citizen: Sam Banjo
🔬Image Competition: @geraldinejowett.bsky.social
🌳Green: Tamara Romero
Thank you all for your great community spirit and positive vibes!

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 10d

Our Masters student recently left the lab to begin her PhD - hooray! Fantastic achievement which we were happy to celebrate with a punting trip, but it's always sad to say good bye to lovely people.

Rawlins lab members sitting by the river Cam with their feet in a punt.

On the Cam: Emma punting - lab members drinking wine.

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 13d

Fantastic opportunity here - we are keen to get a range of applicants!

Jenny Dickens @jennydickens41.bsky.social · 13d

*job alert**
Wanted - 2 enthusiastic postdocs to join me @thecimr.bsky.social and Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social to build complex models and use -omic approaches to understand mechanisms in human lung disease in collaboration with GSK. Contact us for more info!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/

Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 14d

Great opportunity to work with the fabulous Jenny here.

Jenny Dickens @jennydickens41.bsky.social · 14d

*PhD opportunity alert*

Interested in ILD? We are offering an exciting MRC iCASE studentship which will use spatial transcriptomics to identify + interrogate pathogenic mechanisms. Working with GSK and @labrawlins.bsky.social as part of a large collaboration:
www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/mrc-doctoral...

MRC Doctoral Training Programme iCASE PhD Studentships |

www.medschl.cam.ac.uk

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 19d

I love getting links to @biologists.bsky.social Company of Biologist trees - go peer review! forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

Landscape - The Forest of Biologists

forest.biologists.com

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Nicola Lawrence @drnicolal.bsky.social · 28d

Good morning All. Putting a request out there. If you are a National Trust member (UK), please read and vote for the Members’ resolution on increasing Tick-bite prevention awareness amongst visitors. Please also report to NT if you get bitten by a tick and sick at an NT site.

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Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Yet, despite their growing availability, access to embryos for research remains restricted."

Read this Perspective from @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social and colleagues on an important and necessary discussion for science and society. Published today in @dev-journal.bsky.social ↓

Frozen potential: embryo research at the crossroads of ethics, regulation and scientific opportunity

ABSTRACT. In an era of expanding reproductive possibilities, the human embryo has come to represent both immense potential and profound constraint. Advances in medically assisted reproduction (MAR) ha...

doi.org

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 New call for preLighters!🚨

Help us highlight the most exciting biological #preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍

Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢

More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-th...

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Sumru Bayin @sumrubayin.bsky.social · Aug 22

Excited to share our recent viewpoint with @storerlab.bsky.social led by Kirsten Sadler, on epigenetic mechanisms of regenerative resilience.

Ageing versus developmental silencing: Answers from the epigenome - Sadler - The FEBS Journal - febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

FEBS Press

It is easier for young animals to regenerate damaged or missing tissues. In this Viewpoint, we propose that this is, in part, attributed to epigenetic changes, with chromatin becoming more closed and....

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · Jul 24

This was a great opportunity for Odara who is a star! ⭐

MRC Toxicology Unit @mrc-tu.bsky.social · Jul 24

Odara Medagedara, a PhD student in the Willis and MacFarlane groups with co-supervision from the Rawlins group at the Gurdon Institute, had the pleasure and the challenge of co-organising her first conference.

Read about the symposium and how she found the experience here: buff.ly/KnP4WFo

Odara and colleagues posing for a photo with the sea and a town in the distance behind them

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Geula Hanin @geula.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 I’m looking for two enthusiastic scientists to join our team at Cambridge to explore the molecular mechanisms of lactation, early nutrition, and their long-term impact on health.

Apply here:
👉 RA: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51988/
👉 Postdoc: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/

Please share 🔬👩‍🔬

Research Assistant (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Assistant (Fixed Term) in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · Jul 23

Great work from the Dickens lab!

Jenny Dickens @jennydickens41.bsky.social · Jul 22

New preprint alert! Endogenous gene editing of alveolar organoids to investigate mechanisms of epithelial dysfunction in familial ILD. Kudos first author @eimearrutherford.bsky.social and thanks @thecimr.bsky.social @labrawlins.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Endogenous gene editing of alveolar organoids reveals that expression of pathogenic variant SFTPC-I73T disrupts endosomal function, epithelial polarity and wound healing

Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a fatal lung disease of progressive lung parenchymal scarring caused by the aberrant response of an alveolar epithelium repeatedly exposed to injury. Under...

www.biorxiv.org

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · Jul 11

Will be an excellent meeting!!

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Jul 11

Save the Date!

Development has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative to co-organise a meeting on #HumanDevelopment.

📅7 - 9 Sep 2026
📍University of Warwick, UK

Register your interest for #HumanDev26: www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...

Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. 7 - 9 September 2026 University of Warwick, UK. Resgiter your interest. #HumanDev26. Image credit: Susanna Narkilahti, Tampere University, Finland

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Jul 4

Sign up to attend our next Development presents... webinar on early #embryogenesis, featuring talks from @lakshmib02.bsky.social, @dias-andre.bsky.social ‬and @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social

📅Wed 9 July 15:00BST (UTC+1)

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#DevBio @dev-journal.bsky.social

Development presents... Wednesday 9 July 15:00 BST, chaired by Alex Eve.

Talk 1: Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (Gurdon Institute)
‘Tissue spreading couples matrix remodelling during avian gastrulation’

Talk 2: André Dias (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
‘Opposing Nodal and Wnt signalling activities govern the emergence of the mammalian body plan’

Talk 3: Nikhil Mishra (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
‘Geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation in the zebrafish embryo’

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · Jul 1

We are featuring Sally Lowell, Director of @biologists.bsky.social and current chair of the Company's Sustainability Committee, as our 50th extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @cellysally.bsky.social

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Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social · Jun 20

🌟Congratulations to Azim Surani @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk for receiving the 2025 Kyoto Prize - Basic Sciences. Azim's research fundamentally advanced our understanding of developmental biology🔬🧬 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/kyoto-prize-...
#KyotoPrize #AzimSurani #DevelopmentalBiology

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Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congratulations Amy - great news!!!

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