Kirsty Wan 🔬

We're recruiting! Please RT!📢 Looking for a biophysics postdoc to come and help us explore the secret lives of unicellular organisms and origins of LECA! (assorted #protists incl. #excavates) Apply here jobs.ac.uk/job/DIE842/pos…… by Aug 1st! (Funded by @ERC_Research and @HFSP)

We're thrilled to welcome you to Day 1 of #EESTCBio!🧬🦬 Scientific organisers Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo and Christina Hueschen have just opened the conference. We're looking forward to a few days of thoughtful discussion and exciting science 🙌

New preprint from @RebeccaNPoon's PhD! Did you know that the ciliary band metachronal wave in #Platynereis is a in fact a series of tiny waves within each multiciliated cell! What happens if you ablate some cilia?? 🌊😱 Cool #cilia collab w Gaspar! doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

What’s preventing scientists from making breakthroughs that could save and improve your life? Check out our latest publication sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @The_InnovationJ @CellPressNews @GaelleOP @chemFunMan @JosieNeuro @gfico @Dr_Ponkratov_LR @LatorreDanielaa @micromotility

Last chance to apply for this unique competition-funded NERC GW4+ PhD - joint with @NHM_London Natural History Museum exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... (entry sept 2025)!! Interdisciplinary project hosted @LSI_Exeter #cilia #parasite #snails #biophysics #schistosome

A school of juvenile striped eel catfish banding together at night for protection from predators, utilizing their sensitive barbels to navigate and find food in the dark waters. 📽: diveivanov/ig

New preprint out on the properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM): joint work between Benjamin von der Heyde, Eva Laura von der Heyde and Armin Hallmann at the University of Bielefeld and Anand Srinivasan, Sumit Birwa, Steph Höhn and myself in DAMTP. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interested in studying #motility, swimming patterns of #miracidia? NERC GW4+ DTP #PhD at @UniofExeter with Dr Kirsty Wan @micromotility in colaboration with @SchistoSSR Team at @NHM_London Dr Bonnie Webster, Dr Aidan Emery, Dr Adam Cieplinski Application deadline: 13/01/25⬇️

We are investing over £500m through our new doctoral landscape and focal awards. The funding announced today will support doctoral students to develop their skills across the biological, engineering & physical, and natural & environmental sciences: orlo.uk/Z8xKX