Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) is a Research Department of UCL's Division of Biosciences in the Faculty of Life Sciences. @uclcdb
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Joined November 2020
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We've got an account on Bluesky. Do join our community over there to find out what's happening in Cell and Developmental Biology.
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Call now open! Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships. Each studentship provides a four-year stipend (UCL standard rate) and covers Home tuition fees. Deadline for applications 23rd April 2026.
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We welcome Neelima Sharma to CDB from the University of Chicago. Neelima joins the Centre for Integrative Anatomy as Lecturer of Computational Biology. She combines theoretical tools from systems, geometry & mechanics, with developmental biology, embryology & biomechanics.
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ALT Head and shoulders photo of Neelima Sharma, having long dark hair, brown face, smiling, wearing dark-framed spectacles and yellow jumper against a green background
Was this the FLUFFIEST #dinosaur!? 🦖 🦕#paleontology youtube.com/shorts/DQsjibeT_….
Our Laura Porro was interviewed by TV presenter Maddie Moate in the @GrantMuseum, resulting in fun, educational segments on #reptile teeth, dinosaur #diets and animal #brains!” @CIA_UCL @uclnews
Design a #Christmas card - final day to enter (noon, 29Oct2025): MRC/MRF Festive Science Image competition. Award max. £500.
Submit a digital #image, #drawing, #painting, or a #photograph, that combines striking #scientific imagery with a festive theme.
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Calling all @ucl Early Career Research staff! Applications close 03 November 2025 for UCL's #Career Aspiration Programme. Get expert #careerguidance, #coaching and other tools and support for your #careerdevelopment within and beyond academia.
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A reminder that @The_MRC has introduced a new flexible #research #grant and has removed closing dates from their board #funding opportunities. @UKRI_News Questions to [email protected] @UCL @uclbiosciences @CIA_UCL ukri.org/news/simplifying-ac…
Today, UCL officially launches its new Sustainability Plan (2025–2035) and the accompanying Be the Ripple campaign.
#sustainability #leaf #greenimpact #greendisc @ucl @UCLLifeSciences @uclbiosciences @SustainableUCL #climatechange #climate #ESG
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Our Barbara Conradt and affiliates from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität have just had their study, relating to fluorescent protein tagging of core #apoptosis pathway components from the #worm, C. elegans, published:
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Congratulations to Barbara Conradt, just elected to the @EMBO Membership. EMBO promotes excellence in #LifeSciences. Barbara said “I feel very honoured and ... look forward to interacting with other members to have a positive impact.” @ucl @CIA_UCL
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Following up on a very recent post on #wasps @GrantMuseum, we thought we'd mention #bees:
@MariusDidziokas designs custom @LEGO_Group sets as a hobby, which, if enough support, will be made & offered for sale: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-…
@CIA_UCL - what do you think, anatomically?!
ALT Close-up of prototype LEGO bee showing yellow body with black stripe, black, articulated legs, black antennae and mouth parts and amber wings on a clear plastic LEGO plinth
ALT Prototype LEGO bees and honeycomb showing 3 bees, each having a yellow body with black stripe, black, articulated legs, black antennae and mouth parts and amber wings. One bee (left, foreground) is on a clear plastic LEGO plinth; a second bee (left of centre) is facing away from us on the an upper hexagon of a 6-hexagon, amber LEGO honeycomb (shaped roughly in a Y-formation, tilted slightly to the right); and the 3rd been on the 'ground', facing left, to the right side of the 'honeycomb'. ALl against a yellow/amber background having feint hexagon watermarks all over. (phew!)
A friendly reminder that we have @YouTube channel on which we upload, when we have the #speaker's permission to do so, recordings of the #talks given by invited, external #experts in the #Cell & #Developmental #Biology field. It's here:
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Congratulations to our Vilaiwan Fernandes, 1/8 of the 2025 Lister #Prize winners ... a significant honour that recognises #researchers in the early years of running their own groups. lister-institute.org.uk/a-wa… @ucl @UCLLifeSciences @CIA_UCL #biology #brain @uclnews @ListerInstitute
For some reason the link isn't imaging properly - here is another one to the prizewinners! lister-institute.org.uk/2025…
Congratulations to our Vilaiwan Fernandes, 1/8 of the 2025 Lister #Prize winners ... a significant honour that recognises #researchers in the early years of running their own groups. lister-institute.org.uk/a-wa… @ucl @UCLLifeSciences @CIA_UCL #biology #brain @uclnews @ListerInstitute
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Congratulations to our Vilaiwan Fernandes, 1/8 of the 2025 Lister #Prize winners ... a significant honour that recognises #researchers in the early years of running their own groups. lister-institute.org.uk/a-wa… @ucl @UCLLifeSciences @CIA_UCL #biology #brain @uclnews @ListerInstitute
Delighted to note that our Dr Vilaiwan Fernandes, Principal #Research Fellow, is 1/8 prizewinners this year. As our Head of Research Department, Sandip Patel, remarked: ... This is a significant honour that recognises #researchers in the early years of running their own groups
We're very excited to announce our new #ListerFellows for 2025! This year, owing to an outstanding round of applications, we have awarded eight scientists the Lister Prize 🏆 lister-institute.org.uk/a-wa…
Congratulations to our Vilaiwan Fernandes, 1/8 of the 2025 Lister #Prize winners ... a significant honour that recognises #researchers in the early years of running their own groups. lister-institute.org.uk/a-wa… @ucl @UCLLifeSciences @CIA_UCL #biology #brain @uclnews @ListerInstitute
@UCLCDB's annual Postgraduate Research (#PGR) #Student #Symposium is on Thurs,19th. There'll be 9 posters & 18 PGR speakers ending with CDB alumnus Prof Narender Ramnani, Professor of Neuroscience, @rhul, & President of the British Neuroscience Association @BritishNeuro @uclnews
ALT A white poster with UCL logo in black and details of the location of the PGR student symposium on Thurs 19 June 2025 in the JZ Young Lecture Theatre (LT) with refreshments etc in the opposite LT, Gavin de Beer