David Strutt

The Northern England Developmental Biology @_BSDB_ @Co_Biologists meeting takes place on July 10th in Sheffield. Register by May 31st - its gonna be cool 😎 (see the poster below for details)!

@ScienceShef @JCellBiol Just to be clear – this was all Hannes and his team of collaborators. My contribution was miniscule!!

Congratulations to Prof David Strutt & Dr Hannes Maib for their paper being featured @JCellBiol annual collection - highlighting 12 of the most outstanding papers that captivated readers over the past year. tinyurl.com/3pvtfkzd

Our latest work is out!! Short thread below. cell.com/developmental-…

📢We have a 3y postdoc position available in our interdisciplinary team @institut_curie #Paris Join us if you're interested in epithelial tissue morphogenesis using live imaging, quantitative biology & (opto)genetics. institut-curie.org/team/bellaiche Please RT!

Postdoc position available in the Röper lab at the University of Cambridge! @PDN_Cambridge Join us and discover the role that control of cytoskeletal dynamics, crosstalk and cell adhesion play in the formation of the nephron tube in human renal organoids! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48947/

@hannes_maib @ChrisToseland It's not ideal, but the statement goes on to say: 'This assumes on-going funding for the FLF which supports those looking to establish themselves as leaders in new fields or ways of working' so it's FLFs in place of SRFs (so fewer fellowships overall?)

@ChrisToseland Please do not make this into a zero sum game of ECR vs senior fellowships. Both are needed for the academic system to work and externally funded ECRs are still the best way for long term legacy planning

This decision is out of step with University finance pressures: (1) Senior fellowships provide opportunities for researchers when Universities won’t have positions (2) Adding more ECRs into the system will cause roadblocks in a few years when there are no permanent positions

Beautiful work, showing radial cell behaviours in #morphogenesis, similarly to my previous work ⁦@MRC_LMB⁩ ⁦in @katjaroeper⁩ lab. “Radially patterned morphogenesis of murine hair follicle placodes ensures robust epithelial budding” cell.com/developmental-…

Our latest on planar polarity mechanisms. Painstaking work by Alexandre Carayon, investigating mechanisms of cell-scale polarisation in the fly wing. Enjoy it (if this is your thing)! @struttlab @UK_Wnt @MCB_Sheffield @DRN_Sheffield

@Ruby_Peters_ @sheffielduni Welcome also to the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) Cluster in Biosciences!

Incredibly excited to share that I have joined @sheffielduni as an Early Career Research Fellow in the Physics of Life. My lab will use and develop fancy microscopes to investigate all things actin. I will soon be recruiting a PhD student, if you are interested, get in touch!

Matakatsu and Fehon @UChicagoBSD show that Dachsous and Fat function together to restrict growth by coordinately removing a “core complex” consisting of Dachs, Dlish, and Approximated from the junctional cortex. hubs.la/Q02SmKvR0 #CellSignaling #Development

New work by @theajacobs_ @Sfb1348 @uni_muenster shows how actomyosin contractility at #tricellular junctions is modulated to control epithelial permeability in #Drosophila. See our preprint @biorxivpreprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

For my planar polarity follower(s?), we have a new paper out on Fat-Dachsous. Fat-Dachsous are known to interact (signal?) in trans between cells, but we now find a second (more important!) trans-interaction suggesting new models for Fat-Ds clustering sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Can't argue with first read the Drosophila papers, but read the frog, fish and mouse ones too!

@MadS100tist @AMartinezArias @gastrulateordie @jbwallingford @Equipe_lenne @d_brueckner @MorphoLab_AS_AR One last thought, I like the definitions here, distinguishing between self-assembly and self-organisation, which are often conflated…. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cp…

So gastruloids ARE Keller Explants. I KNEW IT! #IYKYK

Check out our new preprint on the Activation of Planar Cell Polarity Signaling by Shear Forces to Coordinate Vascular Cell Dynamics done in collaboration with @GalicLab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How do butterflies grow intricate nanostructures on their wings? Our work, out today, extends our understanding of the role of actin. By @vickyjlloyd @sheffielduni rdcu.be/dIrgO

Our latest work on the interplay between microtubule and actin forces during cell shape changes is now out in @NatureComms. Congratulations to @SameedhaThale and @Amrita_Singh_22!!! rdcu.be/dECXn

Maib (@hannes_maib), @Fran_Bottanelli @petiaadarska @struttlab and colleagues present a toolkit for visualisation of phosphoinositides in fixed cells and tissue, enabling multiplex and super-resolution characterisation of these crucial signalling #lipid. hubs.la/Q02rZg790

We´re hiring! 2-year #postdoc position opening in my lab @uni_muenster to work on membrane trafficking and epithelial tissue dynamics in #Drosophila. For details, see shorturl.at/auBW4 @the_Node Please RT