Cells behaving badly!
Part of the University of Cambridge, and located in the heart of the beautiful and historic city, the Gurdon Institute is one of the University's flagship research centres, founded in 1991 to promote collaboration and research in the complementary fields of Cancer Biology and Developmental Biology.
12/10/2022
Hello followers! We're going to use the Gurdon Institute LinkedIn Page from now on:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/gurdoninstitute/
instead of posting in our various Gurdon Institute pages. These FB pages will be closed down, so please look us up and follow on LinkedIn for all the Gurdon Institute news!
16/09/2022
We present the last of our new group leader videos!
Iva Tchasovnikarova describes how her lab identifies chromatin repressors which, when mutated, result in diseases such as cancer and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Gurdon Institute | Meet Iva Tchasovnikarova Come inside the Wellcome/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, to meet Iva Tchasovnikarova and hear her describe her research on the...
15/09/2022
Why did public engagement specialists convene an ‘Insights Group’ of members of the public to meet regularly with the researchers in the Human Developmental Biology Initiative?
Find out in this Perspective by Naomi Clements-Brod, Leah Holmes and Emma Rawlins:
Engaging the public with fundamental biology - Gurdon Institute The HDBI public engagement team describe their approach to involving the public in research on the earliest stages of human development
14/09/2022
It's video bonanza week: Today we present our next video, all about the work of group leader David Fernandez-Antoran.
David's lab and collaborators have developed an innovative 3D culture technique in which epithelial tissues from mice or human can be expanded and maintained for over a year, dramatically reducing the number of animals needed to do the research.
This platform allows the lab to study cell competition and how that is influenced by environmental factors such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, carcinogens, diet and age, which can all affect tissue function and tumour evolution.
Gurdon Institute | Meet David Fernandez-Antoran Come inside the Wellcome/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, to meet David Fernandez-Antoran and hear him describe his research on...
12/09/2022
Our next new video is here:
Group Leader Sumru Bayin explains why the mouse cerebellum is the ideal model for studying regeneration, with the aim of harnessing stem cells to regenerate neurons.
Gurdon Institute | Meet Sumru Bayin Come inside the Wellcome/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, to meet Sumru Bayin and hear her describe her research on how the dev...
05/09/2022
Today we are excited to bring you the first of our new Group Leader videos: Meet Fengzhu Xiong
To study delicate embryos from chicken eggs, Fengzhu's team is expanding the toolkit of instruments, assays and algorithms with the aim of understanding how developing tissues control their mechanical properties.
Watch here:
Gurdon Institute | Meet Fengzhu Xiong Come inside the Wellcome/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, to meet Fengzhu Xiong and hear him describe his research on mechanica...
29/06/2022
Our Prospectus 2022 is out now as a smart online flipbook. Discover our research directions, plus our 2021 in review.
Read here:
https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/about-us/prospectus/prospectus-2022-flipbook/
10/06/2022
Out last month in Developmental Cell: A study from the Brand lab led by Jocelyn Tang, Anna Hakes and Robert Krautz has employed a new technique – NanoDam – to identify previously unknown temporal factors involved in generating neuronal diversity in the Drosophila brain and visual system. The technique enables rapid cell type specific, genome-wide profiling of protein-DNA interactions with high temporal and spatial resolution.
https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nanodam-finds-missing-temporal-factors/
10/06/2022
Out now in Biomedical Optics Express: George Sirinakis et al. explore the performance of 4 spinning disk geometries for super-resolution imaging. The aim is to optimise for thicker biological samples in which PAINT is used for single molecule localisation.
https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/optimising-spinning-disk-microscopy/
05/05/2022
Spread the word: We need a new IT Manager! You will need a diverse set of technical skills, plus a flexible, creative and engaging approach to service delivery, excellent people management skills, and outstanding communication skills. Closing date 29 May.
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/34752/
12/04/2022
New paper from the Surani lab!
Teasing out the complex regulatory circuitry using in vivo human primordial germ cells (hPGCs) and stem cell models recapitulating gastrulation, Walfred Tang et al. show that SOX17 enhancers are key regulatory components licensing hPGC specification from mesendodermal precursor cells.
https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/untangling-the-mechanism/
31/03/2022
We're running a event this weekend! The Great BioQuest Live! event will take place from 13:00-16:00 on Saturday 2nd April, starting at the Museum of Zoology.
Everyone is welcome and it is family friendly and free!
Follow the trail around some of the sites of scientific interest in the city centre, and find the researchers stationed along the route running fun activities...
More information on our website:
https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/events/the-great-bioquest-live/