Roberta Ragazzini
@robertargz.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at the Crick Institute&UCL transitioning to independence. Interested in tissue, stem cells and genome biology. Fascinated by endocrine system.
Pinned
Roberta Ragazzini
@robertargz.bsky.social
· Jan 28
After discussing CUT and RUN data, stemness transcription factors and generation of new knockout primary lines, the senior members of the lab and mothers in science deserved a nice eat out #fosteringcollaborations#mothersinscience #epithelialstemcells
Two great PhD opportunities. Few days left to apply. 🍀🍀
🎉 The Bonfanti Lab is now on Bluesky!
Kicking things off with some exciting news: #PhD opportunities at the Francis Crick Institute!
📅 Apply by November 5 :
2026 #PhD recruitment @crick.ac.uk & @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social !
Collaborations with @labsancho.bsky.social and #MishtoLab
Kicking things off with some exciting news: #PhD opportunities at the Francis Crick Institute!
📅 Apply by November 5 :
2026 #PhD recruitment @crick.ac.uk & @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social !
Collaborations with @labsancho.bsky.social and #MishtoLab
October 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Two great PhD opportunities. Few days left to apply. 🍀🍀
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
The Francis Crick Institute PhD programme recruitment is now live and our lab is recruiting. If you are interested in studying the role of the extracellular matrix in tissue dynamics during development and cancer please apply – link below. Please share. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Elosegui-Artola Lab | Mechanical regulation of tissue dynamics by the extracellular matrix in development and cancer
www.crick.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The Francis Crick Institute PhD programme recruitment is now live and our lab is recruiting. If you are interested in studying the role of the extracellular matrix in tissue dynamics during development and cancer please apply – link below. Please share. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
This is a disaster if the EU doesn't follow up by doubling the budget 😬🧪
record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
September 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is a disaster if the EU doesn't follow up by doubling the budget 😬🧪
Amazing news and look forward to the exciting research ahead! 🍀🤩🍀🤩⚡️many congrats to @charleneboumendil.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Amazing news and look forward to the exciting research ahead! 🍀🤩🍀🤩⚡️many congrats to @charleneboumendil.bsky.social
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
Today, Edith Heard begins her tenure as our new Chief Executive Officer. Edith joins us from @embl.org, and will head up the new Developmental Epigenetics Laboratory alongside her executive role.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Welcome Edith Heard
Today, Edith Heard begins her tenure as Chief Executive Officer of the Francis Crick Institute
www.crick.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Today, Edith Heard begins her tenure as our new Chief Executive Officer. Edith joins us from @embl.org, and will head up the new Developmental Epigenetics Laboratory alongside her executive role.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
Reforming how research and researchers are assessed is an essential step toward ensuring a more accurate, fair, and meaningful evaluation of scientific work.
A recent pan-EMBL event provided an opportunity to reflect on this key topic.
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...
A recent pan-EMBL event provided an opportunity to reflect on this key topic.
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...
August 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Reforming how research and researchers are assessed is an essential step toward ensuring a more accurate, fair, and meaningful evaluation of scientific work.
A recent pan-EMBL event provided an opportunity to reflect on this key topic.
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...
A recent pan-EMBL event provided an opportunity to reflect on this key topic.
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
Thymic size decreases with age, but the factors driving thymic regression in later life had been ill-defined.
M. Paula Longhi & team now find smoking and sex differences contribute to thymopoietic activity in individuals aged 50 and older.
Full report: buff.ly/To6Qikz
M. Paula Longhi & team now find smoking and sex differences contribute to thymopoietic activity in individuals aged 50 and older.
Full report: buff.ly/To6Qikz
August 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thymic size decreases with age, but the factors driving thymic regression in later life had been ill-defined.
M. Paula Longhi & team now find smoking and sex differences contribute to thymopoietic activity in individuals aged 50 and older.
Full report: buff.ly/To6Qikz
M. Paula Longhi & team now find smoking and sex differences contribute to thymopoietic activity in individuals aged 50 and older.
Full report: buff.ly/To6Qikz
Very impressed by the work of my future colleague about nuclear pore mechanisms maintaining global chromatin architecture. Great story, have a look.
Very excited to share the first preprint of the lab! We show that the nuclear pore protein TPR forms biomolecular condensates which keep heterochromatin away from the nuclear pore complexes and maintains global chromatin organization. Check it out, share it, tell us what you think!!
Biomolecular condensates at the nuclear pore basket maintain global chromatin organization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665545v1
July 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Very impressed by the work of my future colleague about nuclear pore mechanisms maintaining global chromatin architecture. Great story, have a look.
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
Pleased to share my new review:
Ovulation: A cellular symphony in three movements 💥🥚
Ovulation is more than egg release—it's a tightly regulated, tissue-scale process. Here, I present a temporal framework structured as a symphony performed by the cells of the follicle.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.se...
Ovulation: A cellular symphony in three movements 💥🥚
Ovulation is more than egg release—it's a tightly regulated, tissue-scale process. Here, I present a temporal framework structured as a symphony performed by the cells of the follicle.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.se...
July 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Pleased to share my new review:
Ovulation: A cellular symphony in three movements 💥🥚
Ovulation is more than egg release—it's a tightly regulated, tissue-scale process. Here, I present a temporal framework structured as a symphony performed by the cells of the follicle.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.se...
Ovulation: A cellular symphony in three movements 💥🥚
Ovulation is more than egg release—it's a tightly regulated, tissue-scale process. Here, I present a temporal framework structured as a symphony performed by the cells of the follicle.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.se...
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
If you don’t have time to take a walk, then you don’t have time to do science. Charles Darwin would take two walks every day on his "thinking path", not as a break from science, but as a crucial part of it.
June 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
If you don’t have time to take a walk, then you don’t have time to do science. Charles Darwin would take two walks every day on his "thinking path", not as a break from science, but as a crucial part of it.
All the best to Juliane, highly recommended ! 🍀🍀
Wow what a dopamine hit to see this! Congrats @julianeg.bsky.social !! Can't wait to see what your lab comes up with 🍿🍿🍿
We are excited to officially welcome a new group leader at the MPI-IE in #Freiburg. 🎉
Dr Juliane Glaser 🥳 – she studies epigenetic mechanisms of embryonic development, with a focus on transposable elements. 👉 Interview: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6043545/2025...
Welcome, @julianeg.bsky.social!
Dr Juliane Glaser 🥳 – she studies epigenetic mechanisms of embryonic development, with a focus on transposable elements. 👉 Interview: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6043545/2025...
Welcome, @julianeg.bsky.social!
June 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
All the best to Juliane, highly recommended ! 🍀🍀
An amazing line of speakers 🔥🔥🔥highly recommended!
Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included.
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
June 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
An amazing line of speakers 🔥🔥🔥highly recommended!
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
On #WorldEnvironmentDay, we join the call to #BeatPlasticPollution 🌍
Plastic pollution isn't just harming our planet — it's affecting our health too.
💚 Say NO to plastic bags
❌ Never microwave plastic
💧 Choose refillables over disposables
#BecauseHormonesMatter
Plastic pollution isn't just harming our planet — it's affecting our health too.
💚 Say NO to plastic bags
❌ Never microwave plastic
💧 Choose refillables over disposables
#BecauseHormonesMatter
June 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
On #WorldEnvironmentDay, we join the call to #BeatPlasticPollution 🌍
Plastic pollution isn't just harming our planet — it's affecting our health too.
💚 Say NO to plastic bags
❌ Never microwave plastic
💧 Choose refillables over disposables
#BecauseHormonesMatter
Plastic pollution isn't just harming our planet — it's affecting our health too.
💚 Say NO to plastic bags
❌ Never microwave plastic
💧 Choose refillables over disposables
#BecauseHormonesMatter
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
We are recruiting at @igmm-montpel.bsky.social
Join us in a dynamic scientific environment in beautiful and sunny Montpellier 👩🔬👨🔬☀️
For questions, feel free to write to [email protected] or DM me!
Join us in a dynamic scientific environment in beautiful and sunny Montpellier 👩🔬👨🔬☀️
For questions, feel free to write to [email protected] or DM me!
📣 We are recruiting new group leaders in Innovative Biology!
RNA biology
Epigenetic regulation
Cell cycle regulation
Cancer, immunology
Virology
Application and information ⬇️
application.igmm.cnrs.fr
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
RNA biology
Epigenetic regulation
Cell cycle regulation
Cancer, immunology
Virology
Application and information ⬇️
application.igmm.cnrs.fr
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We are recruiting at @igmm-montpel.bsky.social
Join us in a dynamic scientific environment in beautiful and sunny Montpellier 👩🔬👨🔬☀️
For questions, feel free to write to [email protected] or DM me!
Join us in a dynamic scientific environment in beautiful and sunny Montpellier 👩🔬👨🔬☀️
For questions, feel free to write to [email protected] or DM me!
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
This research was led by Daniel Sheridan with co-senior authors Robin Lovell-Badge and @krizzot.bsky.social.
May 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This research was led by Daniel Sheridan with co-senior authors Robin Lovell-Badge and @krizzot.bsky.social.
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
173 years ago, Santiago Ramón y Cajal was born. Doctor, scientist, Nobel Prize winner, and father of modern #neuroscience. His work still lights the way for science lovers everywhere.
#SantiagoRamónyCajal
📸 Credit: Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid.
🧪
#SantiagoRamónyCajal
📸 Credit: Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid.
🧪
May 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
173 years ago, Santiago Ramón y Cajal was born. Doctor, scientist, Nobel Prize winner, and father of modern #neuroscience. His work still lights the way for science lovers everywhere.
#SantiagoRamónyCajal
📸 Credit: Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid.
🧪
#SantiagoRamónyCajal
📸 Credit: Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid.
🧪
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
I just learned that I was promoted to Professor -- with these little ones by my side the whole way (I started at URI when our oldest was 12 weeks old). Sharing as a reminder that parenting and academia can coexist.
April 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I just learned that I was promoted to Professor -- with these little ones by my side the whole way (I started at URI when our oldest was 12 weeks old). Sharing as a reminder that parenting and academia can coexist.
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
On this day 2 years ago, the MATISSE study showed the safety and efficacy of the RSV vaccine during pregnancy. This and a similar newborn vaccine can prevent infant RSV disease. Revisit the study: nej.md/3Mc1hmg 1/3
#MedSky #IDSky #OBGYN
#MedSky #IDSky #OBGYN
April 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
On this day 2 years ago, the MATISSE study showed the safety and efficacy of the RSV vaccine during pregnancy. This and a similar newborn vaccine can prevent infant RSV disease. Revisit the study: nej.md/3Mc1hmg 1/3
#MedSky #IDSky #OBGYN
#MedSky #IDSky #OBGYN
Reposted by Roberta Ragazzini
'Emergence and properties of adult mammalian epidermal stem cells'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
'Emergence and properties of adult mammalian epidermal stem cells'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The power of the thymus 🍀
Research led by Yasmine Belkaid & her team shows that the maternal immune system plays a key role in lactation.
Unconventional T cells help develop mammary glands & promote milk production—essential for newborn health.
🔗 Read more: www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...
Unconventional T cells help develop mammary glands & promote milk production—essential for newborn health.
🔗 Read more: www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...
March 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The power of the thymus 🍀
An amazing scientist, a very good mentor and resilient women in STEM. Wishing you all the best for your new lab 🍀
"If I had stopped at the first thoughts of self-doubt, I’d never be where I am now."
Dr Roberta Migale's career is a story of persistence & mentorship.
Discover how she’s supporting #WomenInSTEM & shaping reproductive health research ⤵️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261854/... @imperialmdr.bsky.social
Dr Roberta Migale's career is a story of persistence & mentorship.
Discover how she’s supporting #WomenInSTEM & shaping reproductive health research ⤵️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261854/... @imperialmdr.bsky.social
Celebrating MDR's Women - Dr Roberta Migale | Imperial News | Imperial College London
To mark Women at Imperial Week, we interviewed three of MDR's outstanding female staff. In our final interview, we spoke to Dr Roberta Migale.
www.imperial.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
An amazing scientist, a very good mentor and resilient women in STEM. Wishing you all the best for your new lab 🍀
Wonderful work by amazing collaborators in the field of cancer neuroscience. Check it out.
Crick researchers have found that certain aggressive lung cancer cells can develop their own electric network, similar to the body’s nervous system.
This can allow tumour cells to go ‘off grid,’ making them harder to treat.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-02...
This can allow tumour cells to go ‘off grid,’ making them harder to treat.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-02...
Lung cancer cells can go ‘off grid’
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute have found that some particularly aggressive lung cancer cells can develop their own electric network, like that seen in the body’s nervous system. This un...
www.crick.ac.uk
February 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Wonderful work by amazing collaborators in the field of cancer neuroscience. Check it out.