We are delighted to announce that Professor Edith Heard has been appointed as our new director and chief executive!
Edith, who is currently director-general at @EMBL, will succeed Paul Nurse in leading the Crick from the summer of 2025.
🔗 https://t.co/CcJR4TFxbF
Our paper on swimming active protein droplets is finally out! 🎊🎉
https://t.co/KAraORBem2
The main result is in the title: "Phase-separated droplets swim to their dissolution".
Explanations below 🧵👇
@SoftLiv_Cornell@ETH_Materials@Cornell@CNRSingenierie@NatureComms
💥💥New pre-print alert 💥💥 👇
Xist RNA continues to fascinate: in our latest work we show that increased or decreased levels of Xist RNA directly control the expression levels of genes that escape X-inactivation 1/3
https://t.co/8aTCKAJyPQ
Want to know what's going on between the #XCI aficionados? Here's a beautiful recap of the last X chromosome inactivation #EMBO meeting for the 60+2 y of XCI discovery. #RoaringLyon https://t.co/a1s3vg9czv
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Today I followed this amazing lecture about FISH at #embl, I feel honored to be able to work with a such great scientist @HauthAntonia, after receiving her best poster award she is already teaching lessons!
What an incredible person!
A week full of interactions: 3-days training school on quantitative microscopy organized by @FMIscience and @epigeneticsHMGU + #ConsortiumMeeting with all ESRs and supervisors. Thanks to all organisers and participants for your contributions. It was great to see you all again!