We have just published a tribute to John Gurdon, reflecting on his scientific legacy and the profound influence he had on generations of developmental biologists. The piece is available open access in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬We have a fully funded Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD postion to study #Proteostasis and #Aging in colloboration with @jrkumita.bsky.social @Pharmacology. Details on the project ▶️https://tinyurl.com/2zhkjjhs + bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/how-apply . Please RT.

🥳Well deserved recognition of achievements and impacts across the Institute and internationally for Simon Andrews @babraham-bioinf.bsky.social who wins a #PapinPrizes for Contributions to Research!

The Chromatin And Development lab are hiring a postdoc! Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

#JobAlert! We have an opening for a postdoctoral scientist in #CancerMetabolism in my lab @mrc-lms.bsky.social. If you're interested in the role of metabolism in drug response and resistance in cancer, and would like to work in a fun and friendly team, check it out: lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

👋 Are you looking for a postdoc position? Do you think microtubules are fascinating? Then we might have the job for you! 2-year funded postdoc to join our lab! 👉 deadline 20/06 👇 check it out www.godinholab.com

Congratulations Stefan and all, great to see this beautiful work out!

A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @camplantsci.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/

🫀Job alert 🧬 come and be our colleague! Join a BBSRC-funded consortium aiming to understand how the human heart develops - you will be contributing multimodal single cell & spatial transcriptomics data using zebrafish and human cardiac organoids as models. Learn more: www.heartdevelopment.org (1/4)

Ahead of our celebratory symposium on 1-2 May to mark Len Stephen's and Phill Hawkins’s pioneering contributions to the PI3K signalling field, you might enjoy this feature with Len and Phill reflecting on their decades-long friendship, partnership – and fishing. www.babraham.ac.uk/blog/2021/11...

Funded PhD Studentship available in my lab at @lsiexeter.bsky.social. Want to study how chromatin remodellers act on enhancers to facilitate cell fate decisions in human pluripotent cells? Want to work and live in a lively city by the sea? Get in touch/Apply! lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/hendr...

Join our lab to study transcriptional regulation in mouse germ cells and embryonic stem cells at @haskoliislands.bsky.social in beautiful Reykjavík! Apply here: tinyurl.com/34y6jcrd #epigenetics #TranscriptionFactors #transcriptomics #stemCells #pluripotency

🔥 Open postdoc position in human inflammation-driven control of infection! 🔥 Join me at the University of Geneva, Switzerland this summer as I’m moving my Wellcome-funded research activity to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine! (1/5) Please share!

Do you have transposon-related research cooking, with some cool results you are exciting to share? Start thinking about registering to #EMBOMobileGenome workshop! Nov 4-7 2025 in Heidelberg. One of the historical TE meetings, with a diverse and welcoming community. www.embl.org/about/info/c... 1/3

Fully funded (at UK home rate) #PhD studentships to start 2025/2026 at University of Exeter, UK. #Chromatin #StemCells #Signalling #ProteinStructure #LineageCommitment #Transcription Please spread the word, and anyone interested please contact me. lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/hendr...

Deadline for abstract submission & registration approaching (April 1st) The time is now!!!! #EvoDevoTempo ⌛️⏳

We are grateful to the BBSRC and Babraham Research Campus for a Campus Innovation Award, allowing us to explore the translational potential of our research. Very excited to be working with Axol Bioscience Ltd. @axolbio.bsky.social on this!

Join us to celebrate the careers and scientific contributions of our amazing colleagues and lipid signalling legends, Len Stephens and Phill Hawkins on May 1-2 at The Bahraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social

Postdoc position #1 is live! Please apply / spread the word! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Submitted a paper review for a journal (can you guess which?) on Tuesday evening. Well within my expertise, was happy to do it. On Wednesday morning there were 3 (THREE) review requests from the same journal. This comes to mind (Fig.1 slays me every time) www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/pap...

Please help spread the word about funding for undergraduate summer research in the UK in the field of gene and cell therapy, made possible by the generous support of BSGCT. Potential supervisors can apply for this funding by 4th April. Details at: www.bsgct.org/undergraduates

My group at Cambridge is seeking an experienced and motivated new member to help ensure the smooth operation of our work on obesity and neurodegenerative disease. Please circulate if you think folks in your network might be interested. Details at: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50479/

Enthusiastic post-doc sought to investigate how experience shapes the brain. Wellcome Trust funded. Ideal for fly-person with expertise in behaviour. Internatiinal lab, at beautiful University of Birmingham capmus, EDI, lively city, UK. Application deadline 19 March. #post-doc #Drosophila

I am a super #ProudPI for our brilliant student Daniel Moore, who knocked his PhD viva out of the park! Thank you to his examiners, Rob Illingworth and @florianmerkle.bsky.social for the great discussions. You can check out some of Daniel's thesis work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you for the invitation to present some of our work and for the stimulating questions!

Calling all students. The registration for the European Summer School on Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine is now open.

Our new #preprint has: ✅ A KRAB Zinc Finger (the SCAN domain-containing kind) ✅ #transposon sequences (the SINE kind) ✅ #epigenetic regulation (the #enhancer kind) ✅ lineage specification (the neural kind) ❌ and NO heterochromatin! All by PhD student Daniel Moore 🚀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Many congratulations Chien-Yun and team! Great to see this out. Prosit-Cit is an important addition to the the community’s toolkit for studying #citrullination

Here is a growing list of conferences and schools in gene regulation for 2025 generegulation.org/conferences-.... You can order/filter this list by the date, deadline, location. Please reply here to suggest new events* *should be specific to gene regulation

QMUL Epigenetics Centre (www.qmul.ac.uk/epigenetics/) is looking to recruit a senior lecturer with expertise in Genomics/Epigenomics and/or cell-free DNA. This is an excellent opportunity to join a strong Epigenetics and genomics community. Pl share/apply here qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Please RS/RT. #GordonConference "Histone and DNA Modifications" Program is now online 🍾 #epigenetics #chromatin #histones 20.-25. July. Il Ciocco 🇮🇹 Register now: ➡️ shorturl.at/AtAjz Exciting speaker lineup, many slots for talks selected from abstracts

Dear #Epigenetics Friends & Colleagues, don't let #BlueMonday get you down! Here, to lift your spirits, we're happy to share our recent review on extranuclear and exracellular #chromatin 😊

For my 1st post I'm pleased to share results of a fab collaboration with the Christophorou Lab (Babraham Insitute) - now in print! We develop a set of cyclic peptide tools to explore the cellular function of PAD4/PADI4 - let us know if you'd like to try them out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our first #MicroscopyMonday of 2025 comes with a bonus blog! All thanks to @mariachristophorou.bsky.social 's lab 📝by PhD student Noah - Secrets no one has told you about histones www.babraham.ac.uk/blog/histone... 📸 of extracellular histones marked by citrullination by Marie Curie fellow Johanna

A selection of papers in 2024 associated with developmental timing & mammalian pausing. 🐭⌛️👤⏳ #EvoDevoTempo 1/n