@viji-draviam
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology. Explores cell division and microtubule regulation that maintain human chromosomes. Lead, Center for Cell Dynamics. Other contributions: BBSRC LIDo-DTP, British Society for Cell Biology & Royal Microscopy Society.
The abstract deadline has been extended to 16 March 2026 for Dynamic Cell VI, the annual meeting of the British Society for Cell Biology, with the Biochemical Society.
biochemistry.org/events-and-training/events-calendar/dynamic-cell-vi/
Travel grants are available for BSCB members.
If you are at #CellBio25 @ascbiology.bsky.social and would like to hear our work on kinetochore and centromeric truncating variants, join the session on organelle dynamics (Room108 Monday 4pm).
It was an awesome day of Aurora and MPS1 discussion! Good luck with the fabulous discoveries!
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...
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!
Thanks to the infrastructure and technician support by @qmulse.bsky.social and @qmul.bsky.social.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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
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
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
'Science is an investment' - long term and for all. Very glad to see extra funds towards scientific excellence!
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...
We are sponsoring the Scottish Cell Biology Meeting on 18th Sept. Save the date!
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.
Helen Skaer wins the Waddington medal 2025 at the @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings.
Beautiful talk on Centriole and Centrosome assembly principles by Jordan Raff at the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting
Helen receiving her medal at #biologists100 from @viji-draviam.bsky.social
#biologists100 conference is underway celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social
What a view for #biologists100 the drinks reception
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.
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.
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
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
Photo of conference venue ACC Liverpool
We are looking forward to meeting everyone in Liverpool next week for our special 100-year anniversary conference. We have a busy, fun-filled programme. You can follow all the action from Biologists @ 100 at #biologists100. 100yearsconference.biologists.com
Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.
4-year PhD studentship available in my lab to study helper helicase function in eukaryotic DNA replication. Happy to receive any enquiries directly to me. Come join us and add your figure to the lab lego collection!
institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/igc-graduate...
