Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology. Explores cell division and microtubule regulation that maintain human chromosomes. Lead, Center for Cell Dynamics. Other contributions: BBSRC LIDo-DTP, British Society for Cell Biology & Royal Microscopy Society.https://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3mjza7cdqac2faPKC substrate targeting mechanisms - Shona Ellison from @crick.ac.uk presented their role in cell polarity at the #DynamicCellVI meeting of @bscb-official.bsky.social and @biochemsoc.bsky.social21 Apr 2026 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjza7cdqac2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3mjz4j4an2c2f@bscb-official.bsky.social Beautiful Cryo-ET talk by Kashish Singh on cytoplasmic lattices in mammalian embryos from @mrclmb.ac.uk at the #DynamicCellVI conference21 Apr 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjz4j4an2c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3mg35gqabnc2rThe abstract deadline has been extended to 16 March 2026 for Dynamic Cell VI, the annual meeting of the British Society for Cell Biology, with the Biochemical Society. biochemistry.org/events-and-training/events-calendar/dynamic-cell-vi/ Travel grants are available for BSCB members. https://biochemistry.org/events-and-training/events-calendar/dynamic-cell-vi/02 Mar 2026 11:25 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg35gqabnc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3m7e7gk63b22jIf you are at #CellBio25 @ascbiology.bsky.social and would like to hear our work on kinetochore and centromeric truncating variants, join the session on organelle dynamics (Room108 Monday 4pm).06 Dec 2025 23:59 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7e7gk63b22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3lyqpqv24i22gIt was an awesome day of Aurora and MPS1 discussion! Good luck with the fabulous discoveries! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Sep 2025 21:26 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyqpqv24i22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3lvqewsag622rFRAP-SR (60 nm) reveals subcompartments within DNA damage repair foci in live cells. FRAP in the Super-resolution regime is likely to transform many other fields of cell biology: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-methods/fulltext/S2667-2375(25)00154-7. Thanks to @rappopto.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social and @ukri.org for support.06 Aug 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvqewsag622rhttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3lt3ax7iwpk2khttps://x.com/draviam_lab/status/1940809296176206131?s=1203 Jul 2025 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt3ax7iwpk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3lst25hd7mk27Join us at hashtag#mmc2025 on the 3rd of July at our community meeting with the Royal Microscopical Society on 'Optogenetics in the SR regime'. Details here: https://www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-features/community-meetings.html https://lnkd.in/ezPzkeKa30 Jun 2025 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lst25hd7mk27https://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3lsez26n5h222With the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social, we are hosting a community meeting: "Optogenetics in the Super-resolution regime" at the Microscience Microscopy Congress (mmc2025) on the 3rd of July (Manchester, UK). More here: https://www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-features/community-meetings.html24 Jun 2025 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsez26n5h222https://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3lpap72ztus2kA noncanonical role for dynein in controlling microtubule growth in mitosis, as shown previously in interphase. More here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.12.653564v1 Dynein synergises with EB1 to facilitate cortex-microtubule encounter and proper spindle positioning in metaphase. Thanks to the funder @ukri.org15 May 2025 23:47 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpap72ztus2khttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3loo35bme6c2jFRAP-in-SR for dynamic studies at 60nm resolution!! If you explore cell cycle, DNA damage or 53BP1, here are new tools for live-cell microscopy: a fruitful collaboration with @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social for SIM2/diSIM and @rappopto.bsky.social for localised FRAP https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.07.652606v208 May 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3loo35bme6c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3llepnv2nuc26Maria Leptin @erc.europa.eu discussing the importance of large infrastructures for biology @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings with Jim Murray and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Nick Hopwood.27 Mar 2025 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3llepnv2nuc26https://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3ll7nb7uzx22sHelen Skaer wins the Waddington medal 2025 at the @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings.25 Mar 2025 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll7nb7uzx22shttps://bsky.app/profile/viji-draviam.bsky.social/post/3ll75cj4onc2pBeautiful talk on Centriole and Centrosome assembly principles by Jordan Raff at the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting25 Mar 2025 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:yj4wq7u4vpq2i4g6o7extfhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll75cj4onc2p