Delighted to have Prof Jenna Gregory as today's Biomedical Science seminar speaker from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Jenna presented her work on improving translation in neurodegenerative diseases Hosted by Prof Stephen Smith

Excited to have Dr Adrian Najer as today's Biomedical Science seminar speaker from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Adrian presented his work on nanomedicines and nanodiagnostics for parasites, viruses, and bacteria Hosted by Dr Stuart Higgins

Exciting news! 🎉 We'd like to welcome Professor Ian Hitchcock as our new Director. With a passion for innovation and collaboration, @ian-hitchcock.bsky.social will lead us into an inspiring new chapter of research excellence

Congrats to @joanarcf.bsky.social @biologyatyork.bsky.social who has been awarded a BBSRC responsive mode grant, with @mottramlab.bsky.social as a co-I & collaborators @ipmontevideo.bsky.social @warwickuni.bsky.social

🚨 We have 3 fully funded PhD studentships open! Join the Grey Lab & collaborators at @biologyatyork.bsky.social, @universityofleeds.bky.social & @ybri-uoy.bsky.social to explore stem cells, proteomics & leukaemia biology 📍Start Oct 2026 | 💡Apply via MRC & BBSRC 👇Details in thread 👇

Thrilled to have @ewanbirney.bsky.social as today's BMS seminar speaker & as a keynote in the @biologyatyork.bsky.social Postdoc Symposium Ewan presented his work on "Genomics, Imaging and AI: three technologies changing research and healthcare" Hosted by Prof Gavin Wright

Discovery Medicine North (DiMeN) PhD projects are now open for applications! Are you looking for exceptional research training and support, access to outstanding facilities and expertise, and enhanced funding and training to support career development and research excellence?

Excited to have @sankarinagarajan.bsky.social @mcf-uom.bsky.social as our Biomedical Science seminar speaker today, hosted by @andrewholding.bsky.social Sankari presented her work on the role of transcription factors in mediating the progression to drug resistance and metastasis in breast cancer

Excited to have @alainkohlvirology.bsky.social as this weeks Biomedical Science seminar speaker, talking about his work on antiviral RNAi in mosquitoes. Hosted by Dr Natalie Prow.

We are delighted that our latest @york.ac.uk & @ybri-uoy.bsky.social work showcasing our photonic biosensor for Alzheimer's disease blood biomarkers has been published in @optica.org! 👇 opg.optica.org/optica/fullt... Thanks to @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social & @alzheimersresearchuk.org for support!

New preprint! 🚨 I'm delighted to share our latest @york.ac.uk & @ybri-uoy.bsky.social pre-print: "Detergent-Triggered Membrane Remodelling Monitored via Intramembrane Fluorescence De-Quenching." Congratulations to Claudia from the team on her first manuscript! 👇👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pleased to have @elkslab.bsky.social kicking off the 2025-26 series of our Biomedical Seminars, hosted by @noemiehamilton.bsky.social Phil presented his work on using zebrafish models to study the roles of HIF in host response to infection

Research conducted by our Director @ian-hitchcock.bsky.social's collaborators in Oxford has found that platelets could help make cancer-detecting blood tests much more effective Read more about the study on ‪@cancerresearchuk.org‬ website news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/08/14/p...

We're kicking off the third #NeuroBioUK - an exciting day full of neuronal cell biology ahead! Massive thank for @bscb-official.bsky.social support and a shout out to our industry sponsors!

What’s the difference between female and male Th cells? We have a new paper on this! The mighty Malat1 controls Th2 differentiation in female but not male cells. Work by Mags Gwynne and Katie West ‪@jimmunol.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1093/jimm... @york.ac.uk‬, @ybri-uoy.bsky.social‬, ‪@hyms.ac.uk‬

Delighted with our new paper on a novel itaconate transporter in the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, led by Javeria and Reyme. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @javeriamehboob.bsky.social @bethkw.bsky.social A duplicated transporter on its way to itaconate selectivity portlandpress.com/biochemj/art...

First paper from Orlagh Anderson PhD project is out. She found a chromid is a distinct & unique feature of Clostridium butyricum. More to come on the virulence related genes.. @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

How do parasites strategically organise their genomes to influence gene expression? If you’re curious, check our latest review in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social ! @biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @pasteur.fr www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New preprint!🚨We introduce a DNA-scaffold strategy for efficient dye labelling of structured RNAs, enabling #smFRET studies of freely-diffusing SARS-CoV-2 pseudoknots🧬 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #smFRET #RNA #biophysics #SARSCoV2 #singlemolecule #Covid

🚨New Preprint! Latest research led by @jemmabetts.bsky.social & @chillzaa.bsky.social reveals the structure of a protein-dependent riboswitch, revealing new mechanistic principles that could inspire novel antivirals! Thanks @ukri.org, @ei-science.bsky.social, @ybri-uoy.bsky.social for support! 🔬

Yorkshire Cancer Research hosted the White Rose Cancer Report launch event in Sheffield on 3rd July Yorkshire is one of the regions hardest hit by cancer Karen, David and Geoff shared their positive experiences, and how patient-centric care has literally saved their lives

We have a new 3-year PDRA post in Cancer Immunology. Ideal if you have a background in T cells, ideally human, and are interested in cancer immunology and RNA medicine. It’ll be fun! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV085/r... Funded by ‪@yorkagainstcancer.bsky.social‬ @hyms.ac.uk @ybri-uoy.bsky.social

(1/4) Three new pieces of research have been published from the ProteoStem ( www.proteostem.co.uk ) research group @billgrey.bsky.social working in @biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @cbr-uoy.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Nice to have been involved in this great study from the Horn Lab, driven by @marketanovotna.bsky.social ! Elegant application of CRISPR precision editing and saturation mutagenesis!

New review on synthetic HEG drives in Ae. aegypti from Joshua Ang and Luke Alphey (@ybri-uoy.bsky.social‬) They examine challenges, propose the CHIROS framework to guide future development, and discuss paths forward for this vector control strategy. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Congratulations to @bridgekatherine.bsky.social who has been awarded an @The_MRC New Investigator Research Grant! This £0.83M award will enable her laboratory to research hijacked hypoxia signalling in blood cancer @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @biologyatyork.bsky.social

Blood Cancer Survivor and founder of the York Haematology Support Group Carol Miller told That's TV why she thinks being part of a community can help people manage the anxiety of receiving a diagnosis. www.york.ac.uk/biomedical-r...

I'm thrilled and honoured to receive the 2025 Lister Prize, along with seven other fantastic biomedical scientists 🔬🦠🧬 This award will enable us to determine high-resolution structures of viral protein synthesis inside infected cells

A pleasure to host Prof James B. Rowe as our final speaker for the 2024-25 BMS seminar series James presented his work on the effect of dementia on causal circuits. Incredible to hear his expertise as an active consultant neurologist and Director of Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia

Today the York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is celebrating its 20th Birthday with a series of talks from amazing present and past researchers! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social

Also happy to do this with Masters (and PhDs) outside of the Psychology department @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social @familywellbeinguoy.bsky.social @uoylangling.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social @uoyeducation.bsky.social ⬇️

So happy to share the first preprint from our lab on post-transcriptional regulation at the VSG expression-site body in trypanosomes. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk

Pleased to host Prof Federico Brandalise as our Biomedical Science seminar speaker today, hosted by Prof Will Brackenbury, funded by @physoc.bsky.social Federico presented his work on the voltage-gated sodium channel's impact on glioblastoma progression

It was a pleasure to host the @britsocimm.bsky.social Yorkshire Group Symposium 2025 this week, chaired by Dr Ioannis Kourtzelis The event provided a platform for ECRs from across the region to present their work on host-pathogen interactions, immune regulation in haematology, and skin immunology

Delighted to host our Dementia Day today, where we'll be hearing from researchers from across the faculty of sciences at York, and our two external invited speakers

Delighted to host @alanawelm.bsky.social @utah.edu as our International Biomedical Seminar today! Hosted by @andrewholding.bsky.social Alana shared her work on modeling metastatic breast cancer to advance therapeutic strategies Great to collaborate globally with experts in their field 👨‍🔬🌍👩‍🔬

Still time to sign up for this talk tomorrow. Professor Alana Welm will be talking her work developing patient derived models for cancer therapy.

Reminder that our online seminar is taking place next Friday 9th May, 2.00-3.30pm, hosted by @andrewholding.bsky.social! Make sure to sign up on the Eventbrite so you can receive the details for the live stream 😀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-onlin...

A real honor to host Sir Professor Paul Nurse @crick.ac.uk as a special guest for our Friday Biomedical Science seminars Paul shared his insights into eukaryotic cell cycle control, and a multitude of stories from his decorated career

We're delighted to be hosted Prof Welm for our online seminar this year! Make sure you register so you can access details to the live stream. We look forward to seeing you there 👩‍🔬🌍👨‍🔬

We have a 3-year PDRA post in Cancer Immunogenomics. Ideal to use and strengthen your bioinformatics skills to discover how cancer transcriptome quirks shape immunotherapy outcomes. Funded by @cancerresearchuk.org. It’ll be fun! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... @hyms.ac.uk @ybri-uoy.bsky.social

Delighted to host Dr Christelle Langley @uniofcam.bsky.social as a speaker for our #biomedicalscience seminar series Hosted by Prof Beth Jefferies Christelle presented her research on the long-term effects of serotonin modulation on the brain and behaviour #psychiatry #mentalhealth #SSRI

New preprint: results from a collaborative project funded by the GCRF Global Network for NTDs investigating Leishmania deubiquitinase 16 as a potential drug target. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @mottramlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#job 🚨for a laboratory technician in the Wright group within dept. Biology/HYMS and @ybri-uoy.bsky.social to work on creating genome-scale arrays of human cell surface receptors to discover new host-pathogen interactions. Apply by 20/3/2025: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/labo...

I have a PhD on how human gut bacteria feed off host glycans and produce metabolites that alter host cell behaviour #glycotime findaphd.com

Are you interested in #trypanosomes #biomolecularcondensates and/or #geneexpression? We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work with with us in the beautiful city of York! Please share! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Super that York could host old Oxford chum Mark Howarth, expounding brilliant SpyCatcher applications; really innovative ways of seeing whole field of Engineering Biology through the lens of the interface between the physical and life sciences - UK has strength in depth @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

Delighted to host @howarthsci.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk as our first speaker of 2025 for our #biomedicalscience seminar series Prof Mark Howarth presented his research on Protein Superglues to control cells and protect from outbreak threats #clickchemistry #celltherapy #vaccines

What new insights will emerging technologies uncover about #prostatecancer? Using advanced #Ramanspectroscopy and #machinelearning, @ellieelectron.bsky.social and team identify targetable disease states in metastatic prostate cancer. Grab a ☕ and read: nature.com/articles/s41...

Please share our new PhD position: We are looking for a data scientists to work on leukaemia models of #AML and cancer stem cells or #LSCs. This mixes wet and dry lab and aims to replace animals in research by developing new in vitro tools. tinyurl.com/6rfan796 tinyurl.com/fmys7cay