Meet the BSCB’s 2026 Raff PhD Medal winner, Dr Eva Simpson. Watch our video about Eva’s award-winning research and career on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEiF...

We're excited to be partnering with My Mito Mission who funded one of our summer studentships on mitochondrial research. The studentship was awarded to Hannah Jackson who will be working in Michael Clague’s lab at the University of Liverpool on TMEM11 in mitophagy. Congratulations Hannah!

We are delighted to announce our new Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Culture (EDIC) Grant £1500 for initiatives to promote EDI in cell biology in UK or Ireland. BSCB members of any career stage can apply. Scope is purposefully wide - we're excited to see your ideas! bscb.org/support-gran...

🗓️SAVE THE DATE The BSCB 2027 Spring Meeting ‘Life in Motion – Cells, Genes and Beyond’ will take place on 19-22 April in London Organised together with @gensocuk.bsky.social

Congratulations to Sayantika Ghosh from the University of Cambridge for winning the BSCB science writing prize 2026 You can read Sayantika winning essay 'From stones to cells – tracing the invisible' on our website: bscb.org/science-writ...

Third Prize in the BSCB Image competition 2026 is awarded to Eddie Mayo @eddie-mayo.bsky.social from the University of Bristol for 'Distended Tubule'

Second Prize in the BSCB Image competition 2026 is awarded to Hoang Anh Le @anhhle2702.bsky.social from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social for 'Cellular Blossom'.

The WINNER of our 2026 Image Competition is: Louisa Snape from @uclqsneuromuscular.bsky.social for her beautiful image of mouse neuromuscular junctions. Congratulations Louisa 👏

We are proud to support the 2nd Scottish Cell Biology Meeting on 4th September in Glasgow Register now! www.gla.ac.uk/events/confe...

Our #BSCBNextGen online ECR seminar is on 12th May 14.00 BST with a careers talk by @lizmillercu.bsky.social - Scan the QR code to register - all welcome!

Closing #DynamicCellVI with a fantastic keynote talk by Anna Huttenlocher from @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social showcasing beautiful microscopy of immune cell migration in vivo

@rashmi-priya.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk is awarded the 2026 BSCB Women in Cell Biology Medal at #DynamicCellVI by @viji-draviam.bsky.social Rashmi delivered a fascinating medal talk about her research on cell and tissue mechanics during heart development.

Fantastic talk from our 2026 Postdoc ECR Medal Winner @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at #DynamicCellVI explaining her research on the role of 3D epithelial topology in developmental patterning Congratulations Giulia 👏👏

Eva Simpson (University of Nottingham) is awarded the 2026 Raff Medal PhD Award at #DynamicCellVI by our PhD Rep @harrietasmith.bsky.social, before her fantastic medal talk about her research using 3D-CLEM to study meiotic chromosome organisation Congratulations Eva 👏👏

Rob Cross @mechanochemistry.org shares his insights on kinesin and microtubule nanomechanics at #DynamicCellVI Rob is the recipient of the @biochemsoc.bsky.social Award for Sustained Excellence 2025. Congratulations!

Hooke Medal winner Stephen Tait @mitosrus.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social is presented with his medal by BSCB president Laura Machesky before his fantastic medal talk on 'mitochondria, death and something in between' #DynamicCellVI

Next up at #DynamicCellVI is Xing Liu from the University of Science and Technology China, one of our guest speakers from the Chinese Society of Cell Biology, talking about microtubule dynamics and phase separation in the mitotic spindle.

Calling all ECRs at #DynamicCellVI come along to our scientific speed-dating event tonight!

Fantastic keynote talk by David Barford @mrclmb.ac.uk on kinetochore structure at #DynamicCellVI

Our president Laura Machesky has officially opened #DynamicCellVI - our annual spring meeting co-organised with @biochemsoc.bsky.social

The next edition of our ECR forum #BSCBNextGen will be on Tues 14th April

Great speaker line up for #BSCBNextGen next week

Have you produced beautiful images as part of your cell biology research? Then enter our image competition! bscb.org/competitions... Deadline 31st March Check out last year's winner 'Brainbow' by Alvaro Castano

The BSCB is sponsoring the Scottish Fly Meeting 2026 🗓️ 1st April 📍Glasgow Register now!

We are delighted to announce that @mitosrus.bsky.social from @cruk-si.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk has been awarded the 2026 Hooke Medal You can read about Stephen's work on mitochondria, cell death and cancer here: bscb.org/hooke-medal-...

We are delighted to announce that @rashmi-priya.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk has been awarded the 2026 Women in Cell Biology Early Career medal You can read about Rashmi's prize-winning work on heart morphogenesis here: bscb.org/wicb-early-c...

We are delighted to announce that @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social has been awarded the 2026 BSCB Postdoctoral researcher medal You can read about Giulia's work on how tissues withstand mechanical stress here: bscb.org/postdoctoral...

We are delighted to announce that Eva Simpson from the University of Nottingham has been awarded the 2026 BSCB Raff PhD Medal You can read about Eva's prize-winning PhD work using 3D-CLEM to investigate chromosome ultrastructure here: bscb.org/bscb-phd-awa...

We are looking for early career cell biology researchers to present their work at the BSCB NextGen online seminar series. Scan the QR code to register your interest:

Happy New Year from the BSCB! We're very excited to announce 'BSCB NextGen', a new monthly online seminar series aimed at ECRs in Cell Biology. The series kicks off on 13th January For full details and how to register see: bscb.org/announcing-b...