Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD

Research Fellow in Hume group @UoNLifeSci. Interested in #GeneticDisorders #Cytoskeleton. Love travelling, reading and learning new things. She/Her.

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

Finally made it to Bluesky.. see you all there!

@asifami.bsky.social

[Anne Straube (bsky: anne.mechanochemistry.org) @AnneStraube]

Get out your calendars! The motors are out of quarantine and we plan to assemble in person on 8th May 2026 at University of Warwick Campus for a fun day on motors and the filaments they walk along. More details on registration, travel bursaries etc. will be revealed soon.

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

@xZoeAlicex @TeessideUni @TU_NHC Congratulations! 👏

[Viji Draviam @Draviam_LAB]

Chengchen Wu presented FRAP-SR at the #mmc2025 workshop on “Optogenetics in the SR regime’. Thanks to @RoyalMicroSoc for offering the opportunity to host the workshop.

[Shekhar lab @sshekhr]

A must read for young scientists!

A career in science requires a thick skin.

https://t.co/qT0cj1fRzW

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

Excited to speak on actin & organelle transport @ #BiochemEvent @BiochemSoc (Thurs, Session V, OC022) - thanks to @Official_BSCB for supporting my trip!

Bit of a fiery start (literally, city centre fire 😬), but here’s to a smoother rest of the week.

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

Also, the conference was fantastic - filled with stunning science and engaging discussions. Grateful to the sponsors and organisers for bringing such an inspiring event together - already sad that it’s over 😔.

@Official_BSCB
@_BSDB_
@Co_Biologists

#biologists100

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

Won the best postdoc poster award!! 🎉

Thank you @Official_BSCB, @Co_Biologists and my amazing supervisor - Dr Alistair Hume, who constantly inspires, supports and challenges me to grow.

#biologists100

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

For anyone who has seen my poster and is interested in looking at the movies, please come to my flash talk “Actin in organelle transport..”

When: Organelle Dynamics session, Hall 1C

When: 13.30-15.00

#biologists100

[FocalPlane @focalplane_jcs]

We caught up with Allan Carrillo-Baltodano, who acquired this beautiful image of an actinotroch that you can view in our image gallery at #biologists100. Keywords from Allan’s research are #spiralia and #evodev.

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

For anyone who has seen my poster and is interested in looking at the movies, please come to my flash talk “Actin in organelle transport..”

When: Organelle Dynamics session, Hall 1C

When: 13.30-15.00

#biologists100

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

And the poster is up!
#129
#biologists100

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

And the poster is up!
#129
#biologists100

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

Excited to be presenting @ #biologists100

For pretty movies: flash talk, session=organelle dynamics

For interesting data on actin in organelle transport: poster #129

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

Excited to be presenting @ #biologists100

For pretty movies: flash talk, session=organelle dynamics

For interesting data on actin in organelle transport: poster #129

[Viji Draviam @Draviam_LAB]

Our spindle and kinetochore tracker paper is out! The code is available on GitHub - for those who don't like dealing with code SpinX is available via
@zeiss_micro
@arivis
More on expanding SpinX to crowded environments: https://t.co/I23YWcrZlF

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

@LautaroBaro @pharma_john @zech_lab @Dr_akrrrs @JuanesLab @cla_angione @TeessideUni Congratulations Lauti! 👏

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

Had a great time presenting my latest work at #Actin2024 in Bristol!

Thank you Prof Harry Mellor for organising the conference again this year and giving me the opportunity to speak.
#BSCB
#RMS

Now on to attending the #UKmembranetraffickingmeeting2024 in London on Monday!

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

@DuccioConti @AndreaMusacchi1 @AriannaEVerza @VCmentowski @EMBO Congratulations, Duccio! 👏

[Aishwarya Ravi @aishwarya12ravi]

Pleased to share that our contribution for a collaborative study led by Prof. Eugen Kerkhoff is out! If you’re interested in the evolution of SPIRE and actomyosin transport of exocytic vesicles, go check it out 🤩. Thrilled to have been a part of this research! 👏🏼

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

Beautiful work! Congratulations Alistair, Deb, Asmahan, Noura, Tobias and Eugen 👏

[Pawel Burkhardt @Pawel_Burkhardt]

Our latest: An actin-myosin driven exocytic transport mechanism preceding animals? Nice collaborative work led by Eugen Kerkhoff including beautiful choanoflagellate overexpression studies by @aishwarya12ravi out now in @CommsBio. @MSarsCentre @UiBmatnat https://t.co/4SI6hMGxkk

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

And won the second prize!!

Thank you so much @vmdraviam for inviting me. It was great being back and meeting everyone 😍

#CIVa
#CenterofCellDynamics #QMUL
#BrunelUniversityLondon
#UKRI

[Asifa Islam, MBBS PhD @AsifaIslam_]

To hear about kinetochore gene variants, please come to my talk (flash talks second session) or find me during the poster session.

Poster #5
#InternationalSymposiumOnGrnomicInstabilityAndImpactOfGeneticVarwants
@QMUL