A special day as we celebrate the successful viva of Dr Tamina Lebek, who developed her brilliant #PUFFFIN cell-neighbour-labelling system during her PhD.
I must say we've outdone ourselves this time with the cake (credit: Rosa), and the amazing hat (credit: Jen, Sophie, Aisling, Alicia) topped with a felted pufffin that I'm very proud to say I made myself (also shown here in its embryonic form).
Excellent short video by Tamina Lebek explaining her new neighbour-labelling technology and her dreams of a PUFFFIN zoo!
As summer ends, puffins leave the islands around Scotland and migrate long distances, heading westwards across the Atlantic, or southwards to Africa, and with some individuals venturing into the Mediterranean Sea.
This one ended up on the cover of today's @embojournal 😃
..Neighbour-labelling in intact tissues!
Here we benefited from outstanding collaborators
Giulia Boezio and James Briscoe at the Crick used #PUFFFIN to achieve neighbour-labelling in chick embryos (new Fig5) #PUFFFHEN
and Lida Zoupi used lenti-PUFFFIN to demonstrate neighbour labelling in mouse brain slice cultures (new Fig EV5) #PUFFFMOUSE
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I'm completely in love with the images that Tamina Lebek and I have just submitted to be #NotTheCover? #MaybeTheCover! #FingersCrossedForTheCover🤞
"And now my tummy's beginning to rumble...."
We had great success combining our #PUFFFIN system with HALOtag technology to achieve super-bright colour-of-choice neighbour-labelling
We had rather less success resisting the temptation to name this "PUFFHalo"
So, Rosa made the most amazing Puffhalo Crumble cakes for yesterday's lab meeting. The eyes of a gruffalo, the beak of a puffin, topped with a delicious crumble #CakesOfMastodon
