We are offering an exciting opportunity to join the Austin Smith Group at the Living Systems Institute (LSI), University of Exeter as a Postdoctoral Research Associate or Fellow in stem cell biology. tinyurl.com/yjw86vjj

It was a fantastic afternoon at the LSI Open Doors Event, featuring talks, posters, and activities. It was lovely to see so many visitors from Professional Services, Research and across the University. Thanks to all who made the day a success. @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Looking for a Postdoc? A PDRA position is available in the LSI Exeter with Prof Brian Hendrich from September 2025. Do you have experience in mammalian stem cell culture and a solid understanding of molecular & biochemical lab techniques? Apply! Job Ref: Q05546 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Last chance today! ‪Do not miss the opportunity to apply for the LSI PhD Studentships starting in September 2025 or January 2026 in the LSI. @jordisolana.bsky.social‬ @yhcarolyang.bsky.social ‪@morphomechanics.bsky.social Apply here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

The Living Systems Institute is delighted to host the Inaugural GW4 Imaging Network Day 2025 today. This marks a milestone in the GW4 Alliance collaboration. ‪@exeter.ac.uk ‬ @gw4alliance.bsky.social @uoebioimaging.bsky.social @exetertechs.bsky.social

Do not miss the opportunity to be part of the amazing PhD Community at the ‪LSI ‪@exeter.ac.uk‬ Only 10 days to the deadline for the LSI-funded PhD studentships starting September 2025 or January 2026. Apply now! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

Congratulations to Associate Professor Vicki Gold, who has been appointed Chair of the Review Panel at the Electron Bio-Imaging Centre at Diamond Light Source, which serves as the UK’s national facility for cryo-electron microscopy. @the-gold-lab.bsky.social‬

Are you a Biophysicist who would like to work in an interdisciplinary institute? Then do not miss this opportunity. More information on the LSI website: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

Fantastic talk from Prof Robin Franklin, Altos Labs – Cambridge Institute of Science yesterday about “Myelin regeneration in the CNS: molecules, mechanisms and medicines”. After his talk, some LSI PhDs and Postdocs had the opportunity to discuss with Robin at our “Meet the Speaker Lunch”.

Be part of the great PhD community at the Living Systems Institute, University Exeter @exeter.ac.uk. Applications for LSI-funded PhD studentships are open until Monday, 9th June 2025. Apply now! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

Proud to present the peer-reviewed version of our Cell Type Allometry paper, out today in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Are animals of different sizes made of the same cell types? Here’s an update of the main points and revision items (with memes!) Thread 👇🧵

Don't miss the First UK Zebrafish Meeting @lsiexeter.bsky.social in Exeter, sponsored by @brukercorporation.bsky.social @brukerspatial.bsky.social al.bsky.social! 🐠 Join us Sept 10 - 12. Early bird registration closes soon! Secure your spot. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

Dr Yu Hsuan Carol Yang, Senior Lecturer at CBS, joined the Living Systems Institute at the University of Exeter as a new LSI group leader on 1st May 2025. Welcome, Carol! @exeter.ac.uk @yhcarolyang.bsky.social

Looking forward to an interesting and exciting LSI Career Day 2025 with lots of talks, Q&A sessions and networking. @exeter.ac.uk

The Living Systems Institute (LSI) Careers Day will be held on Thurs, 24 April 2025, focusing on transitioning from the academic world to industry for PhD & Postdocs - with talks, Q&A sessions, a tailored workshop, including keynote speaker, Dr Jason Potticary, Materials Scientist from Meta.

We are recruiting new PhD students! Are you interested in tissue mechanics and how size in animals is controlled? Then join us for an exciting PhD at the interface of developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling. Check our webpage for more detail: lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/harma...

The LSI Exeter invites you to join the first UK Zebrafish Meeting, 10/ - 12/9/ @lsiexeter.bsky.social. We are looking for motivated PhD students/ECRs to present their work - as talks and posters. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... . The deadline for the early bird registration is 15/5/. So, be quick!

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...

More information on the PhD with Nikolas Nikolaou in the LSI. lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/nikol... Title: A synthetic peptide approach for investigating protein localisation and protein-RNA interactions in neurons.

Do not miss a fantastic PhD opportunity in the Nikolaou group @lsiexeter.bsky.social to determine whether the function of RNA splicing regulators in neurites is dependent on their mRNA binding ability & whether the mRNA binding is essential for the formation and maintenance of neuronal connections.

Applications for LSI-funded PhD studentships starting Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 are open now! For more information, check our website: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

We had a fantastic talk this morning in our LSI Pre-Viva Talks series by Samuel Kraus on "Investigating the therapeutic potential of bacteriophages in treating the infectious disease melioidosis." Thanks, Samuel! @exeter.ac.uk @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Prof Stefano Pagliara, LSI/Biosciences, will give his inaugural lecture with the title "How do things get in and out of cells?" today, Friday, 14th March 2025, at 18:00 in the Forum Alumni Auditorium Lecture Theatre at the University of Exeter. @exeter.ac.uk @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Great to have Prof Álvaro San Millán Cruz @sanmillan.bsky.social in the LSI today for the LSI Distinguished Speaker Seminar. Thanks for the fantastic talk! @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Happy to present the peer-reviewed version of our Hydractinia Cell Atlas paper out today in Nature Communications! As I presented this back when we were in “that other” social network, let me recap the basic findings and revision items in this thread: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking forward to welcoming Prof Álvaro San Millán Cruz for a joint LSI/ESI Distinguished Speaker Seminar on Wed, 05.03.2025, at 12:00 in the LSI and hearing his talk about "Evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance" @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

New insights into primate pluripotency from collaboration between LSI teams and researchers in Japan. doi.org/10.1016/j.st... @ausmith.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

We published a new preprint on the biophysics of ciliary metachronal waves in the Platynereis larva. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.10.637311v2 In collaboration with @micromotility.bsky.social and Rebecca Poon #cilia #biology #biophysics #platynereis 1/6

New preprint from Rebecca's PhD! did you know that the ciliary band metachronal wave in #Platynereis is a series of tiny waves within each multiciliated cell! What happens if you ablate some cilia?? 🌊😱 Cool #cilia collab w/ @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy! Revealed here doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge congratulations to Heather Bottomley for passing her PhD viva yesterday! 🎉 Many thanks to examiners Vicki Gold & Glenn Masson whose expertise spanned #HDX and #CryoEM

Congratulations from all of LSI to Heather Bottomley for successfully passing her PhD viva! Also, thanks for presenting your data in an excellent Pre-Viva talk. @lsiexeter.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @proteinmotion.bsky.social

Thanks to Andy Robertson & Jai Mandair from Avantor and John Mitchell from Brand for coming to the LSI today and giving an excellent talk on "Sustainability in Laboratories". It was great to have you here to learn more about sustainability. @exetertechs.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ka Kiu Lee for successfully defending his PhD and presenting a fantastic Pre-Viva talk at the LSI.

Looking forward to hosting Dr Carol Yang at the LSI today at 11:30 to give a Seminar about "Investigating neural fine-tuning of pancreatic islet physiology"

'Teamwork makes the dream work'- This took on a whole new meaning with Ehsan Pishva @maastrichtu.bsky.social al and Tom Piers @CBS @exeter.ac.uk. This collaboration was so in sync that I'm starting to think we share a 🧠. 😉. Thanks for the good times and great results! @lsiexeter.bsky.social

We are looking forward to welcoming Prof Sheena Radford at the joint LSI/Biosciences Distinguished Speaker Seminar on Wednesday, 15th January 2025, at 12:00 in the LSI and hearing her talk about Sticky Misfolds: How Amyloid Formation Fuels Disease @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

PhD positions available in the LSI www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... via the Wellcome Trust funded GW4 CAT PhD Programme for Health Professionals. Applications open now until 17.January 2025. @uniofexeter.bsky.social

Join our dynamic research team! Fully funded #PhD to engineer genome editing enzymes from #HDX mass spec data-driven movies + mathematical models + AI protein design @lsiexeter.bsky.social Deadline 10th Jan www.exeter.ac.uk/research/liv...

Interested in working in the LSI? Apply now for a 3-year Postdoc position open in the Nikolaou group at LSI Exeter. tinyurl.com/5dck2yme

Tomorrow we will be hosting Yi-Jyun Luo at the LSI @lsiexeter.bsky.social seminar series. Since we are in a very interdisciplinary institute, we thought of introducing our guests in a general and open way, explaining the background to their research ( #Betamode ). So I will start:

4/4 If WNT7A is just floating around, it can't do this. It needs to be carried by dendritic cytonemes to the right spot. This precise delivery is crucial for building the complex network of synaptic connections in our brains. #openaccess #synapse @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Are you looking for a PhD position starting 2025/26? Then check out our website www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... and apply for a PhD position at the Living Systems Institute in Exeter. It could be you in the photo next year. @uniofexeter.bsky.social

Well done Gemma! Looking forward to welcoming you back as a Postdoc in the LSI in January 2025.

Kevin, Congrats from the LSI!

This week is World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week. AMR is a pressing global health and socioeconomic crisis that poses a significant threat to human and animal health, food production and the environment. Discover how our research is tackling this global crisis: tinyurl.com/bdbmnunf

Join our group for your PhD to study the mechanics of early eye development! This is a great chance to work in the interdisciplinary @lsiexeter.bsky.social at the interface of developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling. More info here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Open PhD project in the group to study mechanical feedback in organ growth control. This is a great opportunity for students form China to join our group at the interdisciplinary @lsiexeter.bsky.social funded by a China Scholarship Council fellowship. morphomech.wordpress.com/recruitment/

Let's welcome LSI Exeter @lsiexeter.bsky.social to Bsky! A great time to announce that we have many exciting cross-disciplinary PhD positions available www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... page will be updated with more projects!

The LSI is home to research groups from different backgrounds with expertise in biosciences, biomedical sciences, mathematics, and physics. Our community collaborates in pursuit of discovery across scales, from atom to organism, from microbe to human.

We are delighted to join the BlueSky community. The Living Systems Institute at University of Exeter is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre focused on understanding the fundamental principles of living systems and applying this knowledge to address challenges in health and life sciences.