October 2025
We welcome Debbie Dragge & Adriana Lamas Bancalari in the lab.
Debbie has joined as murine Embryiologist, and she will be working on understanding the long-term implications of undergoing diapause. Really happy that she decided to join the team, her expertise will be extremely valuable to the lab!
Adriana has started as a CTP PhD Studentship in collaboration with bit.bio. Her project is entitled “Defining the rate limiting steps of differentiation tempo through deterministic forward programming“. Excited about the new discoveries that will come out of her project.
26.09.2025
Alpaca walk @ Yew Tree Alpacas coinciding with Debbie Dragge’s first week in the lab
29.05.2025
A project we haven’t talked much about yet, but that will soon bear the fruits of all Chiara’s hard work.
22.05.2025
06 – 09 May 2025 #EvoDevoTempo
Mementos from the EMBO Workshop Developmental timing across species: From mechanisms to evolutionary insights in Paris, France https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-dev-timing
28.02.2025
Fantastic contributions from the Rayon lab postdocs to the International CRG-BI Postdoc Symposium. A successful conference for postdocs by postdocs with Chiara in the organizing committee, and with Shota as winner of the best short talk!
25.02.2025
Installation and test of the Leica Viventis Deep Complete. This comes after building a case for support, three Light-sheet demos and some training… Great har work from Simon Walker in the imaging facility and Berta Cava.
07.02.2025
Today, the lab turns 3! We’ve grown in number, expanded our techniques, and our projects are taking off. Big thanks to the team for all their efforts. *Excited for what’s ahead—cheers to more discoveries, collaborations, and breakthroughs! 🚀
31.10.2024
07.10.2024
We welcome Berta Cava in the lab. Berta has joined as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and she will be working on understanding the long-term implications of undergoing diapause. Really happy that she decided to join the team, her expertise will be extremely valuable to the lab!
02.08.2024
1st Preprint from the lab together with Briscoe Lab! Collaborative effort led by Shota Nakanoh & Despina Stamataki, with contributions from Lorena Garcia-Perez, Chiara Azzi, Alex Pokhilko, and help from proteomics (Crick & BI) + bioinformatic teams https://t.co/vCSS73OsuZ
13.05.2024
We welcome Max Perrin in the lab. Max will become a PhD student in the lab from October 2024, but he has joined us earlier to become familiar with the lab’s projects and to skill up his lab techniques. Very excited to have Max joining the lab!
22.04.2024
23.03.2024
Ellie as part of the BI team at Cambridge Festival at the Family Weekend. ~200 people visited the stand to hear about the link between gestation time and lifespan and how our cells build and recycle various proteins as they specialise.
11.03.2024
07.02.2024
20.11.2023
We welcome Loukik Doshi in the lab. Loukik joins as a Research Assistant. He will spend 70% of the time in research and 30% of the time helping with lab management. Loukik will develop the BBSRC Pioneer project, and become the point of contact for our usual techniques. We couldn’t be more excited about his prospects in the lab!
09.11.2023
We are awarded a BBSRC Pioneer Award alongside Ian McGough, Maria Christophoru, and Jon Houseley. The Institute and The Cambridge Independent celebrate and share our sucess!
09.10.2023
We welcome Josephine Blagrove in the lab. Jo will perform a 10-week rotation in the lab as part of her BBSRC PhD studentship. She will try to implement micropatterning for our motor neuron differentiation protocols to better control cell numbers and starting conditions, which will allow us to monitor tempo more accurately.
17.08.2023
We say goodbye to Abdul Mukhar, a summer student in the lab. Abdul prepared a great final presentation of his stay in the lab. In his project, him and Eleonore overcome a number of failures and they managed to find the solutions by the end of the placement. Best of luck in what comes next to you!
22.05.2023
02.03.2023
14.12.2022
First written output from the lab: An In Preprints with Jelle van den Ameele summarising three recent preprints describing different mechanisms controlling the timing of cortical neuron maturation: read here
03.10.2022
We welcome the fist PhD student in the lab. Eleonore Ocana’s project will develop live imaging methods to measure protein dynamics and establish new models to investigate developmental timing.
05.09.2022
The Rayon lab keeps growing with the second member joining the lab! Dr. Chiara Azzi starts in the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the global and context-specific mechanisms of developmental timing.
30.06.2022
01.06.2022
First Rayon lab member to join the lab! Dr. Shota Nakanoh joins as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the causal link of protein turnover on developmental timing.
23.05.2022
14.03.2022
Post for the #BritishScienceWeek on my research on the Babraham Institute’s blog – When it comes to development, timing is everything!
17.02.2022
One month in and we are busy setting up the lab.
07.02.2022
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