⏰ EXTENDED DEADLINE! The new application deadline is Wednesday 14 January 23:59. For more information about the programme and how to apply click here: 👉 southampton-qmul-mrcdtp.ac.uk/apply/how-to...

1 week left to apply for PhD studentships with @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social. Great projects are on offer- including from our lab @qmbci.bsky.social developing new strategies to target the cell cycle as a cancer therapy Project: www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-blic-ph... Apply: www.colcc.ac.uk/black-leader...

We are delighted to be part of this programme with @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social to build a more diverse and inclusive community of cancer researchers. www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-blic-ph... Applications close 5 November. Please share widely! 1/3

Proud to partner @cancerresearchuk.org and Windsor Fellowship to offer Black Leaders in Cancer #PhD scholarships. Check our projects and apply by Weds 5 Nov: https://www.colcc.ac.uk/black-leaders-phd-programme/ @qmbci.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social @uclmedsci.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk #CRUKFunded

Apply to join our lab for a very cool PhD project studying radiation therapy, chromosomal instability, DNA repair and cancer evolution!

We are looking for our next PhD student to join us 🤩 www.mcclellandlab.com to understand cancer radiation therapy's impact on DNA damage repair and chromosomal instability. Prestigious funding from CRUK RadNet. Please contact me informally - deadline 5th Nov! crukradnet.colcc.ac.uk/phd-students...

Are you a future black leader in cancer? Come join @mirazrahman.bsky.social and my labs @qmbci.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social to work on turning defective cell cycle checkpoints into innovative cancer therapies! Get in touch for more details www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-blic-ph...

A lovely lunch out to celebrate 5 years of the SoliLab, tinged with a little sadness as it coincides with one of the lab originals, Caroline, leaving us for bigger and better things! All the very best Dr Babisz and here’s to another 5 with this talented team!

WEE1 inhibitors synergise with mRNA translation defects via activation of the kinase GCN2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642825v1

Delighted to introduce Dr Caroline Babisz! Thank you @pseudoenzyme.bsky.social and Richard for being ace examiners 🔎. @qmbci.bsky.social

Lovely lunch with the lab today to celebrate Caroline submitting her thesis last week - the first of the SoliLab PhD students! Congratulations Caroline!!

🚨Thanks to generous support from @cancerresearchuk.org, we have multiple postdoctoral positions available in our lab (www.mardakhehlab.info) @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social to study ribosomes synthesis in cancer. Get in touch if you’re interested + RT and spread the word! 📣 #cancer #RNA 🚨

One of my super talented postdocs took a photo of one of my super talented PhD students and won a prize!

The expanding landscape of canonical and non-canonical protein phosphorylation. New review out in TiBS @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

The SoliLab celebrated Christmas a little early this year 🎄. A chilly, but lovely light trail, and a couple of 🍷 (for warmth, of course 😉).

Effective mentorship in the academy isn't just kind - it's strategic. We strengthen our academic community when we support and elevate our junior colleagues. We create a supportive community with a culture of collaboration and innovation. I benefited from having precisely this kind of mentors.

I made a starter pack for people interested in signal transduction! Please include yourself or others! Tagging a few people to spread the word: @drstarbird.bsky.social @fantauzzolab.bsky.social @alextoker.bsky.social go.bsky.app/MVvjypg

A list of people interested in cell cycle entry and exit. Reply to this post if you want to be added. #senescence #cellcycle go.bsky.app/7hEivbt

People working on the causes or consequences of #aneuploidy or #CIN. Reply if I missed you and you want adding to the list go.bsky.app/G8wHoXx

Tamsin Wilcock is our newest recruit. Tamsin is working on a hugely challenging project but made major inroads since starting in June. KinETICS (Kinase Exact Tagging of In Cell Substrates) is our method of delivering an ATP analogue to live cells to find direct kinase substrates in situ - so cool!

Continuing the SoliLab introductions…Laura Knight joined the lab in 2023 as a MRC-DTP PhD student. Laura is working on the DNA damage response kinase, CHK2. She has identified 2 recurrent, cancer associated mutations which we hypothesise might rewire the DDR signalling pathways.

Now for Dr Irina Titkova. Irina is unravelling a novel mitotic pathway, which our data suggests is used by cancer cells to untangle tangled DNA to safely transit mitosis. This tumour-specific vulnerability is a potentially therapeutic actionable target which is an active area of research in our lab.

Next up, Caitlin Leo @caitlinsolilab.bsky.social - who has had to master both chemistry and biology in the first 2 years of her PhD! Caitlin has made a conformation-specific allosteric kinase inhibitor. I wish I could tell you more 🤐 but for now… exciting things are coming!

Let me introduce you to my brilliant team! Caroline Babisz took a leap of faith on a new PI back in 2021 and has recently put down her pipettes to write up her thesis. Caroline has taken a multidisciplinary approach to understand the role of kinase activation loop modification on substrate selection

I’ve migrated here from the bird app so thought I’d (re)introduce myself and my group 👋🏻. I’m Tanya and I head the Kinase Signalling and Cancer group (aka The SoliLab) @ Barts Cancer Institute @qmbci.bsky.social Our research sits at the interface of fundamental kinase biology and cancer biology.