We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear friend and UK Cilia Network founder David Stephens on October 16, 2024. David was a tireless champion for ECRs in the cell biology field, mentor to many and source of great insight and wisdom across many scientific fields, from membrane trafficking to ...
Deeply saddened by the news that my friend David Stephens died last night.
David was an outstanding cell biologist based at Bristol whose work spanned #MembraneTraffic #cytoskeleton #ciliogenesis and more. He was “one of the good guys”. Kind, supportive, generous with his time, and rigorous about his science. I’ll miss him.
'These findings suggest that an ancestral cRFXa homolog coordinated #ciliogenesis in the progenitors of animals and #choanoflagellates and that the selective deployment of the RFX regulatory module may have been necessary to differentiate ciliated from non-ciliated cell types during early animal evolution.'
#Evolution #CellBiology
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00929-6
PLOS Biology
Stephen Royle
Thiago Carvalho
The EMBO Journal
DudinLab