End of a great week of science at the GRC Lymphatics 2026, where I had the chance to show our latest results, connect to international scientists leaders in the field, and even make some friends along the way.
Looking forward to the next #GordonConference event!
I was honoured to be one of the two presenters awarded for the best scientific talk at the GRS Lymphatics 2026!
I must say I'm as grateful as I'm still stunned!
Glad to share our work from Ruhrberg lab at this GRS/GRC showing a Csf1r lineage contribution to dermal #lymphatics
Great work by first author @guillermo-diez.bsky.social!
As a great way to start the new year, our paper has just been published!
We defined pathways driving early hematopoietic development in the mouse embryo and identified and validated new markers for hemogenic endothelium and hematopoietic progenitors.
www.mdpi.com/2221-3759/14...
Glad to share our latest preprint.
We used single-cell transcriptomics to investigate differentiation trajectories during yolk sac #hematopoiesis and we identified and validated new markers for hemogenic endothelium and hematopoietic progenitors.
The Richmond 1OK race is over, and I had a blast earning this stunning medal! But the race to save our world is still on! Let's keep running it! Thank you all again for your support @wwf.org.uk
In the past 4 months I've run 220 km, raising £211 in support of @wwf.org.uk to fight climate change and preserve nature. Thanks to everyone who helped with a donation, you've been amazing!
Our editorial on the haemaropoietic microenvironment from embryonic development to aging and disease is now published!
It opens the special issue that I've organised and co-edited for the journal Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences.
doi.org/10.3389/fmol...
Run 135 km so far, only a couple of minor injuries, and collected £118 to help WWF preserve nature and fight climate change!
Can you help me reach £200?
Donate here:
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
People worldwide are already feeling the effects of #climatechange: droughts, fires, flooding, heatwaves.
I'm fundraising for WWF to disinvest from #fossilfuels and leave future generations a better planet?
Please donate today, no amount is too small!
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
@wwf.eu
And how can you help:
You can cheer (or pity) me for doing this. But most important, you can donate to WWF!
No amount is too small, every pound or euro matters!
And you can easily donate at the link below!
You should "RUN" there and have a look 😜
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
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Why am I doing it:
I'm not simply running to be the new Forrest Gump, but in support of WWF, a foundation that for many years has worked hard to limit the damage we have been doing to the environment and to save the planet.
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What is it:
From now until September I will run or hike a total of 200 km (for our British/American friends, this is roughly 125 miles). This is in preparation of a 10 km race that will take place at the Richmond RUN-FEST in London on September 14th.
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I am starting the Run-for-the-Planet Challenge @wwf.org.uk
What is it?
Why am I doing it?
And how can you help?
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Figure 1 (B) Representative immunofluorescence staining with the indicated markers of a E12.5 Pax3Cre;RosatdTom embryo section at the level of the foetal liver (FL, dotted outline); n=3 embryos. The dorsal (D), ventral (V), right (R) and left (L) side of the embryo are indicated. The dashed squares indicate two areas shown at higher magnification in the adjacent panels to visualise tdTOM+ CD45+ haematopoietic cells (arrowheads in panel 1) and tdTOM+ KDR+ endothelial cells (arrows in panel 2).
A Pax3 lineage gives rise to transient haematopoietic progenitors
Read this #OpenAccess Research Report by Giovanni Canu @giocanu.bsky.social, Christiana Ruhrberg @uclnews.bsky.social and colleagues:
https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202924
Congrats @giocanu.bsky.social from UCL's Ruhrberg Lab for spotting a new hematopoietic embryonic cell type!
It was such a nice experience to discuss and contribute to this project 😃
All about it here:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
#AcademicSky
@dev-journal.bsky.social
@dev-journal.bsky.social
Our findings not only point to #paraxial mesoderm as a likely new source of embryonic haematopoietic cells, but may also explain the bone marow phenotype sometimes observed in paediatric patients with alveolar #rhabdomyosarcoma
Now published in Development!
We show that a #Pax3 lineage has hemogenic potential and produces transient #blood progenitors in the developing #embryo.
New work from the Ruhrberg lab at UCL.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Thanks to everyone who donated! Together we stood up against cancer and helped fund life-saving research!
If you didn't donate the page will remain open to donations:
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/gio-and...
For now, time to rest.
End of this dog-walking challenge.
We passed the 100km (60miles) target by a few km, collected more than £200, and together with the thousands of dog walkers, we raised more than £650.000!!!!
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/gio-and...
Last few days of the #StandUpToCancer month! Where Ginevra and I raised money for Cancer Research UK. You can still donate! Help us reach our target: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/gio-and...
This is Ginevra after her hike yesterday (immediately after jumping into a muddy pond and having found -and having rolled into- cow poo 💩).
53 km done for the dog-walking challenge and £175 raised for the fight against cancer!
Donate today:
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/gio-and...
35 km (22 miles) already done. And £175 collected so far for Cancer Research UK @CR_UK!
The target is to walk 100km (60miles) in April to raise £300!
If you donated already, thank you
If you didn't, you can support us here:
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/gio-and...
We started strong this dog-walking month by doing 14 km in the first 2 days! And raising the first £100 for the fight against cancer with Cancer Research UK!
You can contribute too, donate here:
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/gio-and...
Ginevra received her official bandana and we are ready to raise money for Cancer Research UK!
Donate now here:
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/gio-and...
Last weekend we started warming up for the 60 miles Ginevra and I are going to walk to raise money for Cancer Research UK @CR_UK
And the challenge hasn't even started and we already raised the first £50!
You can contribute too:
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/gio-and...
#StandUpToCancer ❤️
We are walking 100 km (62 miles) throughout April, and we are going to share regular updates.
Mainly pictures of Ginevra, obviously.
Leash, check ✅
Treat bag, check ✅
Wagging tail, check ✅
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/gio-and...
Donate now to #StandUpToCancer!
This April, Ginevra 🐶 and I 😁
are going to raise money for
Cancer Research UK,
one of the main charities supporting scientists in the fight against cancer.
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/gio-and...
The quality of the journey is more important than those fleeting moments when you actually arrive at your destination, because most of your life is the journey. There will always be problems to solve and something to do.
You can’t wait until you solve your problems to be happy.
