Throwback to Biologists @ 100: Interviews from Liverpool
Posted by the Node, on 18 December 2025
Earlier this year, The Company of Biologists celebrated its 100-year anniversary with the Biologists @ 100 conference in Liverpool – bringing together researchers across a wide range of disciplines. To capture the spirit of the meeting, our three community sites recruited dedicated conference reporters. For the Node, this was Jen Annoh, who set the stage with an excellent beginner’s guide to scientific conferences.
Jen’s interviews
During the Biologists @ 100 conference, Jen spoke with researchers working on a range of different topics. Here we highlight three such conversations, where each researcher tells us more about the work they presented at the conference:
Clare Benson (King’s College London, UK) – exploring how lipids behave in skin cells under mechanical stress, revealing how fat molecules adapt to changes in their environment.
Luke Simpson (University of Nottingham, UK) – investigating early embryogenesis and gastrulation, shedding light on the fundamental processes that shape the embryo.
Matthew Stower (University of Oxford, UK) – studying how the embryo is organised, focusing on how cells find themselves in the right place at the right time.
Clare Benson
Luke Simpson
Matthew Stower
These snapshots offer a glimpse into the research (and the people!) celebrated at the meeting.
More Biologists @ 100 content
For further perspectives, check out the excellent coverage from our sister sites and contributors:
- Margarida’s reflections on FocalPlane: Interviews and researchers’ testimonies from Biologists @100
- Jonathan’s interview series on preLights: Spotlights: conversations from Biologists @100
- Meeting reports on the Node:
– Biologists @ 100: A blueprint for interdisciplinary meetings
– Cell-ebrating 100 years of The Company of Biologists: perspectives from two PhD students
