Looking to pursue cutting-edge research in early development, maternal-fetal interaction, or placental biology? See 👇

- Funded PhD www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students...
- Next Generation Fellowship www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat...
- MPhil www.mphil.bio.cam.ac.uk/mphil-pathwa...

Hot off the press!

Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

One of our favourite tabs is Resources: we're listing all of our datasets, codes, beginning to upload and make accessible raw imaging data and lab protocols. Please check it out, we hope this is useful!

niakanlab.com/resources/

🚀 Exciting news: our new lab website is live! 🌐
Check it out here: niakanlab.com
We’ll be sharing updates on our research, publications, outreach, resources etc.
Curious to hear what you think! ✨

#LabLife #Research #StemCells #DevelopmentalBiology

Today we had our lab retreat at the Eddington Postdoc Centre for the first time in a while!🧪
We had so much fun combining workshops and team-building activities, and we definitely made the most of our time together.
Do you do retreats in your lab? What are they usually like?
We will read you below!👇

Last Friday, we said goodbye to our amazing summer student, Yiping! Thank you for your hard work and bringing great energy to our team this summer. Wishing you the best in your next chapter!☀️

Our protocol with all the details you'll need to detect and quantify phospo-SMAD proteins in your (human) embryo, is finally out today @cp-starprotocols.bsky.social.
Thanks again to my wonderful co-author @toddfallesen.bsky.social and the @niakanlab.bsky.social.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This project has been very special to me. I want to thank James @lab-turner.bsky.social who gave me the chance to build my own research line outside of the lab's main focus on sex chromosomes, and to our collaborators Chris Barrington, Clare Critcher, Waz Varsally, Greg Alanis @niakanlab.bsky.social

Delighted to see this out! Human embryos depend on FGF/ERK signalling to specify epiblast versus primitive endoderm cells. Well done Claire Simon and the lab for their contributions! Many thanks to Mary Herbert @josh-brickman.bsky.social @cwhanna.bsky.social labs for brilliant contributions!

Very happy to see this nice collaboration with @niakanlab.bsky.social bear fruit. Beautiful work by @clairesimon.bsky.social culturing human embryos in the presence of FGF/ERK stimulation/inhibition. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very sorry to hear of the passing of Roger Pedersen. He was an outstanding developmental and stem cell biologist & helped to establish the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. Our thoughts are with his family.

obgyn.stanford.edu/in-the-news/...

Very sorry to hear of the passing of Professor Roger Pedersen, whose visionary leadership helped establish the @scicambridge.bsky.social. I will never forget how Roger personally taught my group how to dissect early post-implantation mouse embryos; watching him at the microscope was truly inspiring

Thanks very much for an outstanding talk Margarida!

Congratulations Busma and the Loke CTR team!!

#announcement please share 📢

We're delighted to launch registration for the Annual Meeting 2025 'The Placenta at Term' bit.ly/annualmeetin...

And, applications open for Placental Biology Course, returning in-person, in Cambridge bit.ly/placentalbio...
25 places, application deadline 21 March!

Congratulations Christina and to everyone involved! It's terrific recognition of the public dialogue!

'Why do people have children?'

That's the question we're posing at our next Forum. Join us on 12 March at West Hub, Cambridge from 3pm.
Interdisciplinary dialogues, flash talks and a networking reception.

Registration open on Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1151888342...

We have extended the abstract submission deadline to January 26th—don’t miss this opportunity!

We’re also delighted to announce that Dr. Kathy Niakan will be delivering the 2024 Mary Lyon Medal Lecture during the conference. @gensocuk.bsky.social
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