Samara Ranie

• PhD Student, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Currently studying at the University of Queensland with the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, I am working on uncovering the mysteries of spinal cord formation during my PhD.

I use an unusual model system, a fluorescently labelled quail. My work predominantly uses advanced imaging techniques to look closely into the complex signalling, cell migration and cascades of movement that ultimately produce the round neural tube from just a flat sheet of cells.

My passion for my own research is met only by my passion for sharing that research with the world. When we know more of the workings around us, from the solar systems above us to the microscopic proteins in our cells, we can truly begin to grow.

• 2024–2028 PhD Student, The University of Queensland

• 2026 Nature Communications, Quantitative live imaging reveals PRICKLE1 controls junctional neural tube morphogenesis independent of Planar Cell Polarity
• 2025 Current Oppinion in Cell Biology, Apical constriction in morphogenesis: From actomyosin architecture to regulatory networks
• 2023 Stem Cell Research, Generation of a human induced pluripotent stem cell line (UQi001-A-1) edited with the CRISPR-Cas9 system to carry the heterozygous TARDBP c.1144G > A (p) missense mutation

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