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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · 25d

It was an awesome day of Aurora and MPS1 discussion! Good luck with the fabulous discoveries!

Carlos Conde @carlos-conde.bsky.social · 25d

Great seminar by Viji @viji-draviam.bsky.social at @i3suporto.bsky.social and very insightful discussions. Always a pleasure to host colleagues and brainstorm!

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Sep 1

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...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

www.nytimes.com

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RAPP OptoElectronic @rappopto.bsky.social · Aug 6

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!

Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thanks to the infrastructure and technician support by @qmulse.bsky.social and @qmul.bsky.social.

Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Viji Draviam on X: "Chengchen Wu presented FRAP-SR at the #mmc2025 workshop on “Optogenetics in the SR regime’. Thanks to @RoyalMicroSoc for offering the opportunity to host the workshop. https://t.co/R3eReHbn0y" / X

Chengchen Wu presented FRAP-SR at the #mmc2025 workshop on “Optogenetics in the SR regime’. Thanks to @RoyalMicroSoc for offering the opportunity to host the workshop. https://t.co/R3eReHbn0y

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Jun 30

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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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Jun 24

We will hear short talks from the Kimber lab (Manchester), Peckham group @michellepeckham.bsky.social (Leeds), Chris Powers (Zeiss) @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social and Chengchen Wu (QMUL) @qmul.bsky.social.

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Jun 24

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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Abby Dernburg @adernburg.bsky.social · Jun 19

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...

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Imogen Ramsden @imogen-ramsden.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · May 15

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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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · May 5

'Science is an investment' - long term and for all. Very glad to see extra funds towards scientific excellence!

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 5

"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 🇫🇷

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · May 8

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

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are sponsoring the Scottish Cell Biology Meeting on 18th Sept. Save the date!

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Mar 27

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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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Mar 25

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Mar 25

Helen Skaer wins the Waddington medal 2025 at the @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings.

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Viji Draviam @viji-draviam.bsky.social · Mar 25

Beautiful talk on Centriole and Centrosome assembly principles by Jordan Raff at the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · Mar 24

Helen receiving her medal at #biologists100 from @viji-draviam.bsky.social

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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · Mar 24

What a view for #biologists100 the drinks reception

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · Mar 24

#biologists100 conference is underway celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social

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Mitosis Lab @mitosislab.bsky.social · Mar 17

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.

Cryo-ET visualization of chromatin at the nucleosome level in RPE-1 cells arrested in G1 phase and metaphase.

Cryotomograms of a metaphase RPE-1 cell.

3-D class averages of mononucleosomes and ordered stacked dinucleosomes in G1 and metaphase.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · Mar 23

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

Sustainable travel incentives

Find out more about the incentives available for travel to Biologists @ 100

Travelled by train? Claim up to £150 for international train journeys

Tell us how you made your travel to the conference more sustainable. £700 sustainable travel blog prize.

100yearsconference.biologists.com/sustainability

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