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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Registration and abstract submissions are open for our Spring Meeting - organised together with @gensocuk.bsky.social 🗓️ Monday 19th – Thursday 22nd April, 2027 📍The Octagon, Mile End, London. Submit your abstract by 18th December registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We are seeking new BSCB committee members in the following roles: - Science advocacy officer - Web & social media officer - PhD representative More info here: bscb.org/apply-to-joi... Apply by 16th October!
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We encourage BSCB members to apply for one of the following positions on the BSCB committee:-  Shadow Web and Social Media Officer  Shadow Science Advocacy Officer  Shadow PhD Representative The posit...
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our latest interview is with Stephen Tait @mitosrus.bsky.social, winner of the 2026 @bscb-official.bsky.social Hooke Medal. We caught up with Stephen to discuss this award, his research and his career path. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We are delighted to announce our new Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Culture (EDIC) Grant £1500 for initiatives to promote EDI in cell biology in UK or Ireland. BSCB members of any career stage can apply. Scope is purposefully wide - we're excited to see your ideas! bscb.org/support-gran...
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Registration and abstract submission for our spring meeting is now OPEN
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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A post about how to make microscopy images as accessible as possible. quantixed.org/2026/07/21/c...
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Colorblind II: Microscopy images and colour blindness – quantixed
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We are sponsoring Cell Death UK 2026 🗓️ 2 October 2026 📍Edinburgh Register new: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cell-death...
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We are sponsoring the 2026 UK Cell Motility Club symposium: 🗓️ 17 December 2026, 10:00-19:00 📍King’s College London To find out more and register, visit: cytoskeleton.wixsite.com/londoncellmo... Thanks to @matthias-krause.bsky.social & @squeezycellslab.bsky.social for organising
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Meet the BSCB’s 2026 Raff PhD Medal winner, Dr Eva Simpson. Watch our video about Eva’s award-winning research and career on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEiF...
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We're excited to be partnering with My Mito Mission who funded one of our summer studentships on mitochondrial research. The studentship was awarded to Hannah Jackson who will be working in Michael Clague’s lab at the University of Liverpool on TMEM11 in mitophagy. Congratulations Hannah!
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Did you know that the BSCB has a YouTube channel? If you missed the #dynamiccell meeting in April, you can catch the excellent talks from our 2026 medal winners here: www.youtube.com/@official_BSCB
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The British Society of Cell Biology promotes and supports #cellbiology research across the UK and Ireland
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Dame Honor Fell was a tissue culture pioneer - our ECR travel grants are named in her honour
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Don't miss #BSCBNextGen tomorrow
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We are delighted to announce our new Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Culture (EDIC) Grant £1500 for initiatives to promote EDI in cell biology in UK or Ireland. BSCB members of any career stage can apply. Scope is purposefully wide - we're excited to see your ideas! bscb.org/support-gran...
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🗓️SAVE THE DATE The BSCB 2027 Spring Meeting ‘Life in Motion – Cells, Genes and Beyond’ will take place on 19-22 April in London Organised together with @gensocuk.bsky.social
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social generously supports the BSCB and allows us to provide travel grants and childcare support grants
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Congratulations to Sayantika Ghosh from the University of Cambridge for winning the BSCB science writing prize 2026 You can read Sayantika winning essay 'From stones to cells – tracing the invisible' on our website: bscb.org/science-writ...
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The WINNER of our 2026 Image Competition is: Louisa Snape from @uclqsneuromuscular.bsky.social for her beautiful image of mouse neuromuscular junctions. Congratulations Louisa 👏
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We are going to be announcing our 2026 Image competition winners shortly 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Watch this space
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We are proud to support the 2nd Scottish Cell Biology Meeting on 4th September in Glasgow Register now! www.gla.ac.uk/events/confe...
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There is still time to register for @focalplane.bsky.social's inaugural plant imaging webinar tomorrow. #plantimaging focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/30/n...
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New webinar series on plant imaging - FocalPlane
New webinar series on plant imaging - News
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our #BSCBNextGen online ECR seminar is on 12th May 14.00 BST with a careers talk by @lizmillercu.bsky.social - Scan the QR code to register - all welcome!
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Veronika Lachina @veronika-lachina.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Thank you @bscb-official.bsky.social for giving me this wonderful opportunity to present my PhD research and connect with other cell biologists from all over the world
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Rachel Lawson @rlawson954.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
It was a huge honour to be able to present my PhD work recently at #DynamicCellVI ☺️ @bscb-official.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social thank you for having me and thank you for an incredible conference!
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Thank you @bscb-official.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to present my research at Dynamic Cell VI. I love all the discussion and questions I received. I also love the fact that I've actually got to meet new people and made new friends, only because of conferences like this ❤️
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
That's a wrap for #DynamicCellVI Thank you to all presenters for sharing their amazing science. The quality of ECR talks and posters has been outstanding. Thanks to @viji-draviam.bsky.social @matthias-krause.bsky.social & @biochemsoc.bsky.social for organising
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Closing #DynamicCellVI with a fantastic keynote talk by Anna Huttenlocher from @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social showcasing beautiful microscopy of immune cell migration in vivo
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
@rashmi-priya.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk is awarded the 2026 BSCB Women in Cell Biology Medal at #DynamicCellVI by @viji-draviam.bsky.social Rashmi delivered a fascinating medal talk about her research on cell and tissue mechanics during heart development.
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Its all about membranes at #DynamicCellVI - talks from Tobias Baumgart (UPenn) on shaping endocytic membranes, @kerriemcnally.bsky.social @meganclapperton.bsky.social (LMB) on imaging endosomal sorting, John James (Warwick) on building an actin cortex & Yiming Peng (Durham) on cytoplasmic crowding
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Meg Clapperton @meganclapperton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It was an absolute honour to win the #BSCB poster prize at #DynamicCellVI ! Its my first ever dynamic cell and I already can't wait for the next one! Make sure to come to our other talk today on using this tech to study endosomal dynamics?
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Day 3 at #DynamicCellVI done - disco anyone?
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Fantastic talk from our 2026 Postdoc ECR Medal Winner @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at #DynamicCellVI explaining her research on the role of 3D epithelial topology in developmental patterning Congratulations Giulia 👏👏
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Eva Simpson (University of Nottingham) is awarded the 2026 Raff Medal PhD Award at #DynamicCellVI by our PhD Rep @harrietasmith.bsky.social, before her fantastic medal talk about her research using 3D-CLEM to study meiotic chromosome organisation Congratulations Eva 👏👏
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Next at #DynamicCellVI it's the membranes & trafficking session with talks by Chuanhai Fu (University of Science and Technology of China) on microtubule assembly, Leonard de Boer @ki.se on membrane biophysics in T cell migration & @matthias-krause.bsky.social (KCL) on endophilin-mediated endocytosis
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Suzanne Madgwick @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Super proud of 2nd year PhD student Caitlin Smalley presenting her studies investigating chromatin morphology in oocytes at #DynamicCellVI in the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social session @bscb-official.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🔬 Stunning microscopy in @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social session at #DynamicCellVi feat. intravital imaging of pancreatic tumours from Paul Timpson ( @garvaninstitute.bsky.social ), dSTORM of mitotic chromosome by Xiaomeng Xing (Nottingham) & CLEM of meiotic chromatin from Caitlin Smalley (Newcastle)
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Next at #DynamicCellVI a session on computational approaches with talks by @drannaduncan.bsky.social (Aarhus) on membrane molecular dynamics simulations, @veronika-lachina.bsky.social (UCL) on modelling lymph node expansion & Katarina Harasimov (Cambridge) on imaging early human development.
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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Day 3 of Dynamic Cell VI and we are looking forward to our session on New computational and imaging technologies for analysing cell function! British Society for Cell Biology
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Rob Cross @mechanochemistry.org shares his insights on kinesin and microtubule nanomechanics at #DynamicCellVI Rob is the recipient of the @biochemsoc.bsky.social Award for Sustained Excellence 2025. Congratulations!
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hooke Medal winner Stephen Tait @mitosrus.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social is presented with his medal by BSCB president Laura Machesky before his fantastic medal talk on 'mitochondria, death and something in between' #DynamicCellVI
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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Fantastic talk by Rachel @rlawson954.bsky.social presenting her PhD work on keratins in mitosis at @bscb-official.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social #DynamicCellVI 👏👏👏 @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Continuing our cell cycle & mitosis session at #DynamicCellVI with fantastic talks by Jingyan Fu (China Agricultural University) on centrosomes, @rlawson954.bsky.social (Sheffield) on epithelial mitosis and Maria Papafoti (Warwick) on RNA granules
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Suzanne Madgwick @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Super session at #DynamicCellVI rounded up by @wetherall.bsky.social presenting our Imaging Mass Cytometry work in mammalian oocytes 😊
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Next at #DynamicCellVI a session on cell cycle & mitosis with talks by @helenkmatthews.bsky.social (@mcb-sheffield.bsky.social), @mankie06.bsky.social (Brunel), Janeth Catalina Manjarrez-González (QMUL), Edward Kaye (Dundee) & Benjamin Wetherall (Newcastle)
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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Live from Dynamic Cell VI: an inspiring start to the meeting, bringing together cell biologists, imaging specialists, and computational experts to explore cellular dynamics across multiple scales. British Society for Cell Biology
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Now at #DynamicCellVI two great short talks from Pirruntha Sivaharan on retinal cell polarity and @anhhle2702.bsky.social on tissue flows in immune cell migration, both from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Next up at #DynamicCellVI is Xing Liu from the University of Science and Technology China, one of our guest speakers from the Chinese Society of Cell Biology, talking about microtubule dynamics and phase separation in the mitotic spindle.
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
At Dynamic Cell VI #BiochemEvent? Come and browse our selection of posters, special issues and subject collections, all free to take back to the lab with you. @bscb-official.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Day 2 at #DynamicCellVI kicks off with a cytoskeleton session with talks from Roberto Dominguez (UPenn) on f-actin structure, Anne Ridley (Bristol) & @sahilkamboj.bsky.social (KCL) on mechano-sensing and @exdrososcientia.bsky.social (York) on axonal microtubules.
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Brilliant talk from @kashishsingh.bsky.social at Dynamic Cell VI highlighting their work examining cytoplasmic lattices in embryos using cryo-ET. We highlighted this work in our recent preprint list. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Preprint list: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/17/m...
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