Late post- Had an amazing time at #EDRC2025 in Alicante!
I presented my poster on my PhD project and had so many valuable chats with fellow fly people.
Feeling inspired and grateful for this community. 🪰💛
Thrilled to present my PhD research at the NET Models Meeting 2025! 🎤 My talk: Investigating the molecular mechanism of Groucho protein function in Drosophila melanogaster 🪰 Grateful for the chance to follow my mentor’s path and presentation in showing how fruit flies can advance cancer research. 💡
Anyone coming to #EDRC2025 ? See you in Alicante! 😎 Don't forget to stop by my poster!!
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Huge thanks to @gensocuk.bsky.social for the amazing conference and awardi g me with a travel grant—and to all the brilliant researchers. Science thrives on community, and this was the perfect reminder. 🙌
#WomenInSTEM #Networking #PosterPresentation #PhDLife #GeneRegulation #AcademicConferences
Sessions on enhancer-promoter communication and phase separation were especially exciting, and it was amazing to attend a conference with my supervisor!
Just returned from #Epigenetics2025 in Belfast and still buzzing from the experience! ✨
I presented my research on Gro protein function in Drosophila (including a 1-minute pitch challenge—what a rush!), and came away with invaluable feedback and lots of inspiration for future experiments.
This workshop is one of my highlights in my PhD journey! I highly recommend any Drosophila early career researcher!!! 🪰🩷
Cancer epigenomics at #Epigenetics2025 part 2/2
Vallot: Breast cancer in single-cell detail 🧫
Davies: PAX8’s solo act in ovarian cancer ⚔️
Tomkova: Activating genes with methylation ✨
Behrens: Plasticity in pancreatic tumors 🔬 @gensocuk.bsky.social
Cancer epigenomics at #Epigenetics2025, part 1/2:
Carroll: Nuclear receptors in cancer 🧬
Orr: Non-coding variant at 14q24.1 linked to breast cancer 🔍
Azad: Drug-tolerant colon cancer reprogramming 💊
Helin: Histone mods = disease switches 🎛️ @gensocuk.bsky.social
Congrats Janay 👏🏼👏🏼🏆🏆 @gensocuk.bsky.social
Epigenetic twists in immunity at #Epigenetic2025:
Mehdipour: ncRNAs = cancer’s codewriters 🧬
Nally: GSK-J4 does more than demethylate ⚗️
Bauset: Inflammatory memory in histone marks 🔥
Chuong: TEs as stealth regulators in immune response 🧫
#Immunology #CancerBiology @gensocuk.bsky.social
Epigenetic flashbacks at #Epigenetics2025:
Brickman: TFs remember, enhancers store 🧠
Metzis: A dual-function enhancer sets the Cdx2 timer ⏳
Wang: scMTR-seq = histone + RNA stories in one cell 🧬
Gribnau: Past enhancer activity maps future cell fate 🔍➡️
#Development @gensocuk.bsky.social
Started strong on day 2 💪🏼
3D genome talks at #Epigenetics2025:
Oudelaar: How genome folds regulate genes
Sandovici: Promoter contacts in adipogenesis
Feldmann: Developmental gene activation via transient interactions
Furlong: Enhancer-promoter looping in focus
@gensocuk.bsky.social
Powerful talks at #Epigenetics2025 on epigenetic memory:
Özdemir: Inheriting H3K27me3
Belton: Non-canonical imprinting insights
Cavalli: Polycomb & 3D genome in cancer
#Epigenetics #Chromatin #GeneRegulation @gensocuk.bsky.social
Cis-reg elements in the spotlight at #Epigenetics2025:
Buecker: Enhancer cooperation over distance
Vermunt: Transient repression elements
Flynn: DNA structure & communication
Bickmore: Cross-border enhancer action
#Epigenetics #GeneRegulation
🎉 Huge congratulations to Prof. Kathy Niakan on receiving the 2025 Mary Lyon Medal! @niakanlab.bsky.social's Mary Lyon Medal lecture is on the genetic approaches to study early lineage specification in human embryos.
#Epigenetics2025
This time conference is at Belfast! Looking forward to #Epigenetics2025 ! @gensocuk.bsky.social
Past ten years I spent in higher education showed me people in academia are being asked to do more and more outside of their expertise. We are scientists, but also editors, authors, graphic designers, social media advocates, public engagement officers, web designers, and so on...
Happy #ValentinesDay to all of our beloved developmental biologists from the ISDB team. Here is a heart made out of some migrating immune cells. It's only right that they are in pink. Do you spot another heart somewhere in the photo? 😌 💗
If anyone is interested 🙏🏼
🔬 Last session of the symposium!
🩸 Vascular development – K. Red Horse (Stanford)
🏗 Epithelial patterning – S. Weevers (Basel)
🛠 Tissue morphogenesis – M. Rocha Martins (Max Planck)
💪 Embryonic contractility – T. Lecuit (Marseille)
Wrapping up with organ formation!
Afternoon talks!
⚠️ PCP & what we haven’t learned – J. Wallingford (UT Austin)
❤️ Heart regeneration – J. Bakkers (Hubrecht)
🔄 Asymmetric division – A. Mietke (Oxford)
🌀 Hydra regeneration – K. Keren (Technion)
Fascinating insights on cell behavior!
🔬 Final session of the day!
🦠 Wingless morphogen gradients – Jitu Mayor (NCBS)
🐣 CRISPy Chickens: Neural tube fate – Ashley Libby (Crick)
❤️ Mechanical fractures in heart development – Christopher Chan (Crick)
📡 Signaling & tissue homeostasis – Ina Sonnen (Hubrecht)
Poster is up and I am looking forward to connect with everyone and discuss my research!! Find me at P36! #BeddingtonConf
Today's view at #BeddingtonConf at Francis Crick!
🔬 Afternoon session highlights!
🦎 Axolotl regeneration – Elly Tanaka (IMP)
⚡ Flash talks from @OfficialUoM, @TheCrick, @warwickuni, @EdinburghUni, @UCSanDiego, & AMOLF!
🦠 Senescent cells in cancer – Juan P. Martinez-Barbera (UCL)
Fascinating insights into regeneration & cancer biology!
🧬 Exciting talks at #BeddingtonConf 's first session!
🦴 Vertebral evolution – Berta Verd (Oxford)
🦋 3D cell topology & patterning – Giulia Paci (UCL)
⚡ Flash talks from Crick, UCL, ETH, Basel & Copenhagen!
Loving the deep dive into evo-devo! #Science #Symposium
I will be presenting my research at 3rd Crick Beddington Developmental Biology Symposium at The Francis Crick Institute on Monday!! Find me at poster 36 for some stickers and hear about the latest results from my research!!
Just presented my work on Groucho protein at the Oxford Brookes Faculty Symposium! It’s so inspiring to engage with researchers across disciplines—collaboration sparks innovation. 💡🧬
