Viji Draviam
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology. Explores cell division and microtubule regulation that maintain human chromosomes. Lead, Center for Cell Dynamics. Other contributions: BBSRC LIDo-DTP, British Society for Cell Biology & Royal Microscopy Society.
- If you are at #CellBio25 @ascbiology.bsky.social and would like to hear our work on kinetochore and centromeric truncating variants, join the session on organelle dynamics (Room108 Monday 4pm).
- It was an awesome day of Aurora and MPS1 discussion! Good luck with the fabulous discoveries!
- Great seminar by Viji @viji-draviam.bsky.social at @i3suporto.bsky.social and very insightful discussions. Always a pleasure to host colleagues and brainstorm!
- Reposted by Viji Draviam9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
- Reposted by Viji DraviamWonderful work by @viji-draviam.bsky.social and team. Congratulations on the publication! We're honored to be cited in your work—exciting to see our contributions supporting cutting-edge research. Looking forward to following your continued discoveries!
- FRAP-SR (60 nm) reveals subcompartments within DNA damage repair foci in live cells. FRAP in the Super-resolution regime is likely to transform many other fields of cell biology: www.cell.com/cell-reports.... Thanks to @rappopto.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social and @ukri.org for support.
- FRAP-SR (60 nm) reveals subcompartments within DNA damage repair foci in live cells. FRAP in the Super-resolution regime is likely to transform many other fields of cell biology: www.cell.com/cell-reports.... Thanks to @rappopto.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social and @ukri.org for support.
- Thanks to the infrastructure and technician support by @qmulse.bsky.social and @qmul.bsky.social.
- Join us at hashtag#mmc2025 on the 3rd of July at our community meeting with the Royal Microscopical Society on 'Optogenetics in the SR regime'. Details here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...
- With the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social, we are hosting a community meeting: "Optogenetics in the Super-resolution regime" at the Microscience Microscopy Congress (mmc2025) on the 3rd of July (Manchester, UK). More here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...
- Reposted by Viji DraviamVery happy (and frankly relieved) to see this paper finally out in peer-reviewed form. (Preprint was posted in August 2021, but this is the world we live in now). rdcu.be/erMk6
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- A noncanonical role for dynein in controlling microtubule growth in mitosis, as shown previously in interphase. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Dynein synergises with EB1 to facilitate cortex-microtubule encounter and proper spindle positioning in metaphase. Thanks to the funder @ukri.org
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- FRAP-in-SR for dynamic studies at 60nm resolution!! If you explore cell cycle, DNA damage or 53BP1, here are new tools for live-cell microscopy: a fruitful collaboration with @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social for SIM2/diSIM and @rappopto.bsky.social for localised FRAP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Maria Leptin @erc.europa.eu discussing the importance of large infrastructures for biology @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings with Jim Murray and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Nick Hopwood.
- Helen Skaer wins the Waddington medal 2025 at the @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings.
- Beautiful talk on Centriole and Centrosome assembly principles by Jordan Raff at the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting
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- Reposted by Viji DraviamHappy that Jon Chen @jonchenjk.bsky.social's cryo-ET and confocal study of RPE-1 chromatin in situ is online www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-025-00407-2 Congrats also to coauthors Tingsheng Liu, @shujuncai.bsky.social, Cai Tong Ng, Jian Shi and collaborators Weimei Ruan Uttam Surana.
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- Reposted by Viji DraviamWe are looking forward to meeting everyone in Liverpool next week for our special 100-year anniversary conference. We have a busy, fun-filled programme. You can follow all the action from Biologists @ 100 at #biologists100. 100yearsconference.biologists.com
- Reposted by Viji DraviamNow seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.
- Spread the word that I have a postdoc opening right now, and am also open to PhD applications evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi.... We have lots of follow up ideas! 15/15
- Reposted by Viji Draviam4-year PhD studentship available in my lab to study helper helicase function in eukaryotic DNA replication. Happy to receive any enquiries directly to me. Come join us and add your figure to the lab lego collection! institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/igc-graduate...
- Our spindle and kinetochore tracker paper is out! The code is available on @github.com - for those who don't like dealing with code SpinX is available via @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social. More on expanding SpinX to multicellular environments: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Viji DraviamIn a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:
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- Reposted by Viji DraviamAre you an #ECR who would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next ~6 months but don't have sufficient funding, check to see if you are eligible for our JCS-FocalPlane Training Grant. Next deadline: 22 November 2024 www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
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- Reposted by Viji DraviamA mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
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