I am offering two MSc by Research opportunities in my laboratory (self-funded!), one on the human-pathogenic yeast Candidazyma auris tinyurl.com/ys8zexbv

Just arrived in Newcastle for the @gensocuk.bsky.social summer studentship workshop, looking forward to interesting science from early-career researchers #genetics

Six more years—plus a lot of blood, sweat, and tears—later, we are thrilled to finally share it: a cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy to have our preprint published in Microbiological Research now doi.org/10.1016/j.mi..., we had additional help from Steven during the revision to get this over the line @chitinette.bsky.social @theafg.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

Ready to shout BINGO! and learn something mind-blowing in the process? Join @genotripe.bsky.social for Genetics Bingo at the @edfringe.bsky.social, play actual bingo and find out some wild genetic facts! 📅 12th August 📍 The Stand 2 www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

We’ve got some good news! The deadline to submit abstracts for our “Ancient #Genomes: Perspectives on Human Biology and Medicine” meeting has been extended to 31 July 2025. So if you were thinking about submitting, there’s still plenty of time! genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...

My MSc students are getting to work ☺️

Join us for our Anniversary Day and hear from: Prof Josephine Pemberton (Genetics Society Medal) Prof Kathy Niakan (Mary Lyon Medal) Prof Gregory Radick (Haldane Lecture) Prof Richard Durbin (Genomics keynote) Rosie Parkin & Eldrian Tho (Student talks) Registration: genetics.org.uk/events/genet...

Welcome to Belfast! We're thrilled to kick off our spring conference: "Epigenetics: from mechanisms to diseases". Get ready for groundbreaking science and inspiring talks! #Epigenetics2025

We have a complete program ! meiosis.cornell.edu/mayosis2025/... The #Mayosis25 seminar series will open with a tribute to Scott Hawley by @jeffsekelsky.bsky.social. Congrats to all the selected speakers and we look forward to hearing about your fantastic science ! #Meiosis4ever

Apparently my BSc project students enjoyed their time in my lab as much as I enjoyed supervising them

My lab @bokuvienna.bsky.social has an opening for a PhD on Synthetic Single Carbon Assimilation in Yeast. Find details here www.circularbioengineering.at/jobsprogram2 - PhD 2.1 if you consider joining us within the Cluster of Excellence Circular Bioengineering

The truth is that the scientific process is horribly inefficient and wasteful. But the solution is NOT cutting funds and it’s NOT top down guidance of what should be studied. Instead, we should revolutionize how we publish and improve peer review.

I posted this preprint to bioRxiv already before the holiday break and didn't have time to talk about it here yet www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🧫🔬 Work from two of my PhD students, Zoe and Sakinah, with help from Yixin & @chitinette.bsky.social

Only a few days left to apply!

Happy new year everyone! We are please to announce the return of MAYosis in 2025! Every Wednesday in May at 4pm CET, come hear the latest #meiosis4ever stories! Abstract sub deadline: March 8 (end of day wherever you are) meiosis.cornell.edu/mayosis2025/

PhD Opportunity! Apply multiomics approaches to uncover how plants maintain fertility under heat stress. We're looking for enthusiastic applicants passionate about plant science! 🌾🧬🔬 Apply: bit.ly/TempResilien... Deadline: 03.02.2025 #PhDPosition #PlantScience #CropImprovement

@mrc-lms.bsky.social is hiring! Are you looking to start your own research group? Come & join us! Fantastic research, wonderful facilities & super supportive colleagues. Deadline 13th Jan. Get on it! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

There is competitive #PhD funding for 4 years (eligibility criteria apply) to do a project on the human pathogen Candidozyma (Candida) auris dissecting the genetic basis of its antimicrobial resistance #AMR www.findaphd.com/phds/project... - pls repost

The Makrantoni lab inflammation-research.ed.ac.uk/research/inf... at the University of Edinburgh has a fully-funded 4-year PhD position to study genome plasticity in #Candida #PhD International/EU candidates who are not studying at Edinburgh only (see flyer for details)

Very happy to receive a Wellcome CDA! The award will fund my lab for a whopping 8 years, allowing us to dissect force-sensing at the kinetochore-microtubule interface in depth using structural methods. We are currently looking for a postdoc: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/candidate... Please apply or repost

I'm still buzzing after the @gensocuk.bsky.social meeting. Here are all 25 talks summaries together #SciArt #TEsky

Hi Bluesky. For my first post, I'd like to advertise the latest preprint from my lab, describing at long last our reconstitution of SPO11-dependent double-strand break formation from purified recombinant proteins. Outstanding work from PhD student Zhi (Zack) Zheng.

We are looking for a PhD student to investigate the roles of non-coding RNAs in cellular quiescence and ageing. Details below: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Here are my favourite facts from the @gensocuk.bsky.social Medal Talk and Balfour lecture. Of course much more fascinating information was also included! 1) siRNAs cause the triploid block which kills triploid maize progeny, which are bad 2) Alternative approached to getting ancient omics sequencing

Congratulations to Prof. Josephine Pemberton on being awarded the prestigious Genetics Society Medal! 🏅 Her groundbreaking contributions to genetics, from understanding natural populations to evolutionary biology, continue to inspire us all. genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

Brilliant talk at #GStransposons at the @gensocuk.bsky.social meeting, really enjoyed this

Last day of #GStransposons in Leicester, really enjoyed this @gensocuk.bsky.social meeting, thanks to all those involved in organising such an exciting conference! Also, @gensocuk.bsky.social AGM coming up, my penultimate one as a treasurer

I've been looking forward to this meeting - what a fabulous line up! genetics.org.uk/events/the-r...

Our president Anne Ferguson-Smith is giving the next talk on epigenetic control of variable expressivity via mammalian retrotransposons! #GSTransposons

Congratulations to our 2024 Genetics Society medal winner, Robert Martienssen. Rob is sharing his work on Germline small RNAs, the triploid block and the drive for maize domestication #GSTransposons

We’re back for the second day of our transposons meeting. @odedrechavi.bsky.social is talking about transgenerational memories #GSTransposons

Great to see that the Genetics Society @geneticssocietyuk.bsky.social also has a #bsky account now, please follow and repost if you are a member of #GenSoc or just interested in #Genetics to learn about activities of the society

Our paper on a centromere-enriched retroelement is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Congratulations to all the authors! Comments and reposts welcome and appreciated 🧬🔬

I put together a starter pack with researchers on related fields of chromosome biology. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/KqsM3kd

Official website for EMBO meiosis 2025 is live now! Looking forward to seeing you in Switzerland next June! #meiosis4eva meetings.embo.org/event/25-mei...

Is off to Oxford for some (non-) essential xmas-shopping and (more importantly?) to examine an MSc thesis

PhD position in cell biology to work at the CBGP in Madrid, Spain. Project: Dynamic Cell Wall remodeling during plant-microbe interaction. To apply: [email protected] (subject: CWPM-PhD). #PhDposition #sciencejobs. Share please!

I'm so excited to announce that my department is now hiring TWO ECOLOGISTS at the Assistant Professor Level. We will be really excited to substantially expand research in ecology in our EEOB Department at UCR. Please Repost and share widely! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01983

We are advertising two PhD positions in our lab on RNA splicing and modifications in development and cancer. NRPDTP project is open to international applicants. UEA project is for UK applicants only. With Yiliang Ding and Mark Williams www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

And now to something completely different .... No. 1 THE LARCH ... This one apparently is a compatriot of mine (spotted in the Cruickshank Building, University of Aberdeen)

We’re now on Bluesky! Follow us to follow the research and activities of The Aberdeen Fungal Group

Interested in difficult to access parts of genetics, cellular & structural biology? Join us in Edinburgh 2-4th April 2025 for "Hidden Cell, Dark Genome" Regulation in the dark genome Uncharted proteins, RNA complexity Atomic structures at cellular scale Cell diversity www.ed.ac.uk/c/hidden-cel...

The Aberdeen Fungal Group, AFG, of which I am a part of is also on #bsky now. Yay!

Very nice to see my recent book chapter on meiotic recombination assays in Schizosaccharomyces #pombe out today doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Great to see that I can sway some of my colleagues to join the good place, welcome @childerslab.bsky.social

#IDSky Starter Packs (Updated 11/11/24) IDSky 1 go.bsky.app/LnAQjdq IDSky 2 go.bsky.app/JNfSvQT IDSky 3 go.bsky.app/FeogT7o IDSky 4 go.bsky.app/D1zxj4E TxID go.bsky.app/95rzmLi MedMycology go.bsky.app/8XGywEx Let me know if I missed you! cc #MedSky

#Meiosis4eva starter pack. I am sure I missed many so please self nominate by commenting or just DMing me go.bsky.app/P3BJYze

Here, a job advert for junior group leader position in Molecular Biology of Plants, especially with focus on cell division, cell cycle, chromosomes and DNA repair. Please spread the word. stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/d...