Entering the new year with gratitude: for family, for friends, for trainees who push the ideas further and further, for collaborators who make the science and journey exciting, for a community that reminds me science and curiosity have to be protected. Wishing everyone enriching, colorful 2026!
Fantastic place for science.
After years of crystallization, in @natbiotech.nature.com,
@zernickagoetz.bsky.social and I discuss the evolutionary origins of multicellularity & how physical constraints inevitably drive cellular self-organization. Harnessing these rules may help us better understand & engineer life rdcu.be/flTKa
Decoding the origins of cellular self-organization for engineered biology - @qichen-lab.bsky.social @zernickagoetz.bsky.social go.nature.com/4e1m3Br
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
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Mitochondria form dynamic networks that can be represented as graphs. But the space of graphs is complex. In poster 376 at CellBio2025 Monday Dec 8, Raphie Mostov presents a mathematical approach to represent mitochondria far more simply.
Stentor is a single cell with a complex cortical pattern showing anterior/posterior polarization In poster 410 at CellBio2025 Monday Dec 8, Yina Hudnall shows a role for posterior-enriched mRNA that encoding DNA binding proteins.
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
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This Perspective positions cellular self-organization as a foundational principle for the origin of multicellular life and discusses how decoding this concept with stem cell-based models will advance ...
The cell is a crowded place where organelles are packed together . In poster B365 at CellBio2025 Monday Dec 8 in the Quantitative Modeling session room 122, Mary Mirvis uses soft x-ray tomography to explore how packing interactions affect organelle shape and interaction.
🌈 At a time when progress can't be taken for granted, I 'm especially proud to share this @natcellbio.nature.com Q&A piece. I had the pleasure to discuss with @gunawanlab.bsky.social about his inspiring journey as an LGBTQIA+ immigrant. #PrideInSTEM
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
A new hypothesis on the emergence of multicellularity from former #ListerFellow @zernickagoetz.bsky.social and @qichen-lab.bsky.social. "Multicellularity may have begun not when cells stuck together — but when a single cell became unequal inside itself." How might this model affect your own studies?
James Briscoe
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
This June, we celebrate Pride by discussing with Felix Gunawan, assistant professor at the University of Toronto and co-affiliate group leader at the University of Münster, about his personal and acad...
Decoding the origins of cellular self-organization for engineered biology - @qichen-lab.bsky.social @zernickagoetz.bsky.social go.nature.com/4e1m3Br
The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
This Perspective positions cellular self-organization as a foundational principle for the origin of multicellular life and discusses how decoding this concept with stem cell-based models will advance ...
