Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
To celebrate its 100-year anniversary, The Company of Biologists hosted an interdisciplinary conference, together with the BSCB, BSDB and SEB, from 24-27 March 2025 in Liverpool. During the conference, our FocalPlane reporter Margarida Araújo caught up with some researchers that presented short talks and posters at the conference. Check out our interviews to discover more about their research!
In this interview, we hear from Martina Boiardi, a PhD student at KU Leuven. Martina’s research focusses on the role the cytoskeleton plays in cell cycle oscillations. Martina also shares her most exciting result and tells us what she has enjoyed about Biologists @ 100.
You can read Margarida’s conference report here: xxxx
To celebrate its 100-year anniversary, The Company of Biologists hosted an interdisciplinary conference, together with the BSCB, BSDB and SEB, from 24-27 March 2025 in Liverpool. During the conference, our FocalPlane reporter Margarida Araújo caught up with some researchers that presented short talks and posters at the conference. Check out our interviews to discover more about their research!
In this interview, we hear from Martina Boiardi, a PhD student at KU Leuven. Martina’s research focusses on the role the cytoskeleton plays in cell cycle oscillations. Martina also shares her most exciting result and tells us what she has enjoyed about Biologists @ 100.
You can read Margarida’s conference report here: xxxx

![spotLights Ep 10: preLights in conversation with Helena Crellin
Welcome to spotLights, the interview series that shines a spotlight on cutting-edge biological research and the brilliant minds behind it. spotLights is brought to you by preLights, the preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists.
In this tenth episode, recorded at the Biologists @ 100 conference in Liverpool, UK, we talk to Helena Crellin, PhD student in the lab of Clare Buckley at the University of Cambridge, UK, and discuss the preprint she presented at the conference introducing a novel optogenetic technique in zebrafish.
Helena: “We were really excited by… [this] technical advance because it let us look at how forces are propagated through complex tissues during development.”
Link to preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.19.613826
spotLight hosted by: Jonathan Townson, Postdoc at University of Oslo, Norway
spotLight recorded and edited by: Reinier Prosee, preLights Community Manager, The Company of Biologists spotLights Ep 10: preLights in conversation with Helena Crellin](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6uce4whDt2M/mqdefault.jpg)








