Vicky Sleight

#IAmAScientistBecause I was born curious & want a lifestyle not just a career! Inspired by people @MBERC_PlymUni too.

A new combination technique enables DNA sequencing and high-resolution imaging in intact cells — offering new insights into progeria and aging. broad.io/expansion-in-s… @JD_Buenrostro @insitubiology @ajaylabade31 @CarolineComenho @z_chiang @ScienceMagazine

The peer-reviewed version of expansion in situ genome sequencing is now out in Science! The news is bittersweet – when we first revealed this last September, I never guessed it would be my final paper in academia, but a lot has changed. A few parting thoughts:

😻 HUGE NEWS! We've done it! One of the "Magnificent 8" – key missing lineages for understanding animal origins – is ALIVE in our lab! Previously just DNA whispers, Maop 2 could now open a new chapter for research. 📖 We will soon formally "introduce" it to the scientific world.…

Molecular biology research is a game that you can’t win without strict rules 🎲. Here are my 6 rules and reflections as I leave this lab: Rule #1: Everything gets a code! Tubes aren’t the place for descriptions (1/6) 🧵

Great to have my former postdoc & now Full Professor, Kin Ming Kwan from The Chinese University in Hong Kong @CUHKofficial visit today @MDAndersonNews He is here for his son's graduation @RiceUniversity . Ming made the 1st knockout mouse in Asia as a PhD student @HKUniversity

The University of Aberdeen - ranked among the world’s top 250 universities - has a proud heritage dating back to 1495. Home to over 14,000 students from more than 130 countries, we blend historic tradition with modern ambition. Based in the vibrant city of Aberdeen, we are…

🌟We have great satellite meetings!🥳😎 - Spiralia 🐌🪱 - Arthropods 🦋🦗🪰🪳 - Fishes🐠🐟🐡 - Non-bilaterian 🪼🪸 Remember to register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

1/12 🚨🚨🚨 New paper in @ScienceMagazine @ScienceAdvances! We demonstrate the hidden, recent origins of reef fish diversity in the Miocene by leveraging genome-wide data to reveal the evolutionary history of wrasses, parrotfishes, and relatives! #science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best Tomotsune Ameku from the @FlyGutLab @TheCrick tells the behind the paper story of their work looking into maternal intestinal growth in mice during reproduction: thenode.biologists.com/re-growing-adu…

i'm just a senior postdoc, standing in front of a career that i have worked really hard for, asking higher education in the united states to not completely implode in front of my eyes before i even get a chance to say the words 'my lab studies'

🚨Excited to share my first postdoc paper, now published in Nature Communications! We uncover a key regulator of testis development and its link to differences of sex development (DSD). 🧵 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/?

Registration is open! evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

✨We are excited to announce that registration for our upcoming meeting at the University of Miami, Coral Gables Campus, July 22-25 ✨ Register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

Enhancing the Cre-loxP system: Two new genetic tools – roxCre and loxCre – can improve the performance of the Cre-loxP system for making genetic modifications in vivo. buff.ly/7Dfnzf4

How accurate are 'gene regulatory networks' inferred from scRNA-seq data? This comprehensive analysis in @naturemethods concludes: 1. The areas under the precision-recall curve are moderate 2. Methods not using pseudotime-ordered cells are more accurate

Thrilled to announce Prof. Bernie Degnan (@UQscience @UQ_News) as our opening plenary lecture at #ICIM6🇨🇱! His work on animal multicellularity reshaped EvoDevo. Don't miss his talk: "Origin of animal complexity" 🧬 ⏳Registration is OPEN 👉 icim6.com/dates-and-regi…

Monday was my last day as a group leader at the Francis Crick Institute. I got my job at the Crick in 2020, almost exactly 5 years ago, right as COVID was beginning. I had finished my PhD in 2019, and had always told myself that I would only ever be an academic if I could find a…

🚨Registration for the UK #EvoDevo meeting is open! Join us on July 11th @QMUL to enjoy an exciting day of talks, posters, friends, and superb science! -Registration: shorturl.at/9cQGL -More info: londonevodevo.ac.uk Supported by @AzentaSciences @Novogene_Europe

We are excited to welcome everyone to Liverpool for this week’s Biologists @ 100 conference. We will posting across our social media channels all week and you can follow the action at #biologists100

Last year, it took me over a week to learn and visualize protein structures in Blender. Today, with Claude and Blender MCP, it took me less than 30 minutes. Thanks to @AnthropicAI, @Blender, and @buildmodels. Special thanks to @sidahuj for the MCP integration.