Sally Lowell

@cellysally.bsky.social

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Developmental & stem cell biologist, University of Edinburgh Digs repetition Also digs local coordination between cells in development and disease #SustainableConferencing #Music #Science #MoreScience Mastodon @CellySally@biologists.social

Data. A mouse model of glioblastoma leads to inevitable death within 50 days. Delivery of HSV+TK plus IL2, driven by a strong and specific synthetic superenhancer, allows almost all mice to survive even after nearly 150 days. From Fig5 of Koeber et al 2026
Pictures of james briscoe, one avec mullet
Tamina Lebek wearing an amazing hat topped with puffins and covered in images from her PhD
Flyer for Royal Society Generative Biology workshop. Full list of speakers can also be found on the website linked to in the post.
A tasty cheese and veg quiche decorated with a FACS plot. Axis are labelled 530 and 610 using courgettes, the axis are asparagus spears, the data is presented as chopped red pepper (610+ cells) and chopped courgette (530+ cells) and the gate is drawn using rosemary leaves. It is marvellous. The same data is represented ina more conventional format in the adjacent photo.
Restaurant table with a view of Edinburgh Castle
Steve Royle presenting a slide inviting people to apply to organise a CoB funded workshop
James Briscoe presenting the many reasons you should consider publishing in Development
Manu Prakash and me, both smiling
Pleasie Mill showing a quote from Wolpert: "I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world"
Four people on a stage discussing sustainability in science.
Chris Whitewoods showing a conference slide of a section through a leaf
Entrance to Erics, legendary Liverpool music venue, with blue plaque
Jen Annoh and me in front of a sign welcoming us to Biologists@100
Drop of pond water through a microscope, filled with creatures
A daphnia swimming around in a drop of pondwater to the sound of a girl being amazed
Yellow wall festooned with different individually wrapped teabags.
Intergalactic rock stars playing a storming set. Sweet Baboo is just out of shot. It looks as if I'm standing on the stage with them, but that is becuase there was no stage.
A photograph of my computer screen showing a young woman delivering a seminar. She is showing a slide entitled "A new approach to label, isolate and profile neighbours". She is carrying a small sleeping baby in a sling on her front. Irrelevantly, there is also a very small picture of Adam Ant on the wall behing my computer screen: this is there for a very good reason related to surviving a career in science, which I will reveal on demand.
The cover of the book "Breaking Through, my life in science" by Katalin Karikó, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023. The cover shows two pictures: one of the author as a young girl, and one of the author as a young woman at her lab bench. There are two quotes on the cover: "Riveting. A true story of a brilliant biochemist who never gave up or gave in" - Bonnie Garmus "Anyone who has ever doubted that science, innovation and persistence can change the world should read this book"- Bill Gates
Development presents... webinar on Wednesday 20 November 15:00GMT. Featuring BSDB prize winners. Chaired by Marysia Placzek. Talk 1: Tamina Lebek (The University of Edinburgh) ‘PUFFFIN – Illuminating cellular neighbourhoods in model systems of development’ Talk 2: Callum Bucklow (University of Oxford) ‘Developmental mechanisms of macroevolutionary change in the African Cichlid vertebral column’ Talk 3: Hannah Bruce (University of Liege) ‘A cleaved cytosolic FOXG1 promotes excitatory neurogenesis by modulation of mitochondrial translation – a new therapeutic target for brain disorders’ Talk 4: Stanley Strawbridge (University of Cambridge) ‘Spatiotemporal chromatin binding strategies for transcription factors in pluripotent cells’
The cover of the 16 Sept edition of EMBO journal featuring fluorescent cells organised into the shape of a puffin. The strapline reads "Illuminating cellular neighbourhoods with PUFFFIN"
The delegates and faculty from the 2023 Summer School standing at the meeting location beside the beautiful Aegean sea, looking very happy.