BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series

Still going strong for our members of our cilia and centrosome community, we will run the online mini-symposia series four times a year for 2026 where our PIs, students and postdocs can continue to share their exciting stories!

Join us for a fabulous kick-off to 2026! We're thrilled to bring our cilia and centrosome community together again this year –under the ethos of the UK Cilia and Centrosome Network, sharing unpublished data from emerging talent favouring talks from students, post-docs and early career researchers. Talks will only be recorded with permission of the speaker and will be available on-demand for a week after the event to registrants only. We realize there are many competing pressures for attention- we hope this change helps staying connected be easier for all.

Our goal with this online event was to provide an opportunity to support our young researchers during social distancing, to stimulate the discussion and feedback among our community they need and to foster collaboration and sharing of expertise across all things cilia.

We are thrilled to this event continues grow in popularity! As long as you all keep volunteering to speak, we will keep running the series! We will run another 4 sessions through 2026! Submit your talk abstract and title here or by emailing the organizer.

54th BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium

Date: Tuesday January 13th 2026 Time: 15:00 - 17:45 GMT

15:00 -15:05 Pleasantine Mill Opening remarks

15:05 -15:25 Rob Hynds, (University College London, UK). WS6 enables scalable ex vivo expansion and gene editing of human basal epithelial cells.

15:25- 15:45 Fatma Başak Turan, (Firat-Karalar lab, Koç University, TR). The ciliopathy protein CCDC66 regulates cell migration by mediating cytoskeletal crosstalk through KANK1.

15:45 -16:05 Clarissa Nassar, (Dwyer lab, University of Virginia, US). Joubert Syndrome gene Togaram1 is required for proper cilium formation and morphogenesis of mouse forebrain.

16:05 -16:25 Amreen Mughal (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, US) and Søren Grubb (University of Copenhagen, DK). Pericyte and Endothelial Primary Cilia and Centrioles have Disparate Organization Across the Brain Microvasculature.

16:25 -16:45 Chia-Hsiang Chang (Nachury lab, UCSF, US). In situ Proteomics Unveils Specialized Domains for Extrasynaptic Signaling on Neuronal Cilia.

16:45 -17:05 Ruhee Dere (Baylor College of Medicine, US) Epigenetic demethylase regulates cilia formation and stability.

17:05 – 17:45 Panel discussion