Congratulations to Professor Nicole Zitzmann, Dr Bevin Gangadharan and Dr Yohan Arman on their work developing a low-cost rapid test to identify heat-damaged vaccines. Their work could protect vaccine effectiveness, particularly in low-resource settings. 🏅Read more ⬇️

Latest research published in Nature Structure and Molecular Biology from Associate Professor Paul Elliott’s group @elliottlab.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk forms a framework to dissect specific ubiquitination events within cells. bit.ly/202512_elliott

Fantastic work from colleagues @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social in @elliottlab.bsky.social! Congratulations Paul and team!

Congratulations Dmitry Ghilarov @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social ! So well deserved!

📢New paper alert! Rapid, low-cost tests repurposed by researchers can now detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups that could help prevent the tragic child deaths seen worldwide @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @kavlioxford.bsky.social @bevingan.bsky.social 👉

Our paper on polymyxin interacting with the E. coli outer membrane is out! Simulations by the very talented @dheerajprakaash.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42... To scale outer membrane protein island simulated at coarse-grained resolution with portions refined at all atom resolution.

Simple, rapid and inexpensive tests can detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups – contaminants that have tragically led to the deaths of hundreds of children worldwide. This important discovery is thanks to the work of researchers here @ox.ac.uk and collaborators. ➡️ bit.ly/202512_gangadharan

🙌Congratulations🙌 to group leader and Associate Professor Dmitry Ghilarov @ox.ac.uk who has been selected for the prestigious four-year EMBO Young Investigator Programme in recognition of outstanding achievements in the life sciences. Read more⬇️

Great seminar in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social today from Laura Landweber on the awesome world of ciliate DNA elimination- so many different gene regulation/repair pathways come together to achieve this remarkable feat

New podcast episode just dropped! @timcoulson.bsky.social I are joined by Simon Newstead and David Bennett who have identified a new genetic link to chronic pain - solved the structure of the protein that the gene encodes and linked its function to pain. youtu.be/ETGzmy_BfCg

We are back, soon! The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break. Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon. @microbiologysociety.org Please spread the word

Great talk by @philbiggin.bsky.social on proton coupling in membrane proteins - at the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social thematic meeting in Thessaloniki.

Alex Cook @alexandercook.bsky.social in the Matt Higgins @parasitematt.bsky.social lab here @ox.ac.uk has been awarded a Wellcome Career Development Award to start his own laboratory @york.ac.uk . Congratulations Alex! We are delighted for your success but will be sad to see you go. 🏆🎉👏👏👏

Fabulous talk by Haruhiko Koseki today @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social followed by a fun dinner with Neil Brockdorff and @aleksszczurek.bsky.social ! Thanks for visiting Haruhiko!

The Wellcome Trust has awarded a prestigious Discovery Award to Professor Matt Higgins to support his research on “Molecular mechanisms of erythrocyte invasion in malaria”. 👏👏👏 Read the full story: ⬇️

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social ! 2 Associate Professorships in the areas of - prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology - metabolism my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

We're hiring (again)! We are looking for an associate professor in cell and molecular biology, with a particular focus on immunology (defined broadly) If you have a great record and exciting plans, consider joining our thriving and welcoming department www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Double celebration on our floor @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social with @guifengwei.bsky.social from the Brockdorff lab and Dounia and Sherry from Fisher lab having their papers published today! And I hear there is more to come... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

Always fun to catch up with Lukas Stelzl. Lukas is a group leader at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and an alumnus of @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Delighted to hear of all his success.

Read the full story here: 📣Breakthrough discovery reveals new gene linked to chronic pain ➡️ bit.ly/202508_newst...

Great to be able to share the news about the potential of this new research to positively impact the lives of people living with chronic pain. Fantastic work from Simon Newstead, David Bennett and colleagues. 👏 👏 👏

Great work! 🙌

A wonderful project that opens up scientific discovery to children in a fun and innovate way! 👏👏👏

Ben Berks has been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant to fund cutting edge research in bacterial cell biology @ox.ac.uk . Congratulations Ben! 🙌 bit.ly/202507-berks...

Special congratulations and celebrations for Ayaka Hogg who is recognised with the Biochemical Society Undergraduate Recognition Award 2025! 🎉🎉🎉 bit.ly/202507-BSPhogg

Well done to all our undergraduate students and special congratulations for all our outstanding prize-winners for 2025. We salute you! bit.ly/202507-awards

Delighted to share this work. Well done to the teams involved and a particular shout out to our own Simon Newstead ⬇️

Congratulations to Linzy (Ye) Zhao on her superb achievement of attaining the highest percentage of her cohort in her Biochemistry degree @ox.ac.uk ! As a result, Linzy has been awarded the Royal Society of Biology Top Student Award. 👏 👏 👏 Well done, Linzy! Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/202507-RBS

We (with @bendavisgroup.bsky.social) were using NHS chemistry for some protein conjugation when we noticed some odd prominent side products. It turns out thio-nhs reagents (a major class of reagents) has some notable side reactions that happen all the time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great news for the Advanced Proteomics Facility based here in Biochemistry @ox.ac.uk ! The Wolfson Foundation is supporting the acquisition of a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer – the first of its kind in the UK – opening up possibilities for breakthroughs in human health ⬇️ bit.ly/202507-apf

#Malaria #Immunology #NKCells #HigginsLab #HostPathogenInteraction #KavliOxford @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @parasitematt.bsky.social

“A genuine tool for biological discovery.” Professor @lschermelleh.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk talks super-resolution microscopy and shares some beautiful imagery.

Happy almost-anniversary with us, @rberrens.bsky.social and co 🙌🎉

Work from the Barr lab @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social keeps on coming. Fantastic mechanistic work!

🎉 Excited to share my first paper as 2nd author! From the Barr & Gruneberg labs, this work explores the structure of the Chromosome Passenger Complex (CPC) and suggests a ‘pivot–tether’ model for how it binds H3pT3-phosphorylated nucleosomes @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @dunnschool.bsky.social

Happy to share our latest work from the Barr lab is now published in @embojournal.org 👉 WIP1 mutations suppress DNA damage triggered bypass of the mitotic timer | EMBO Journal #cellcycle @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Blown away by the quality of the talks by the DPhil students. Absolutely top notch. Well done all. @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Looking forward to a day of science from our Wellcome Phd programme coordinated by @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social and the Rosalind Franklin Institute

Fantastic news! 👏👏👏 How the #malaria #parasite evades the immune system… and how the human body fights back: @sam-chamberlain.bsky.social and @parasitematt.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk make ground-breaking discovery, just published in @nature.com. Read more ⬇️

Great work from @haroldgrosjean.bsky.social and Kate Fieseler on how to extract SAR from HT crystallographic evaluation of fragment elaborations in crude reaction mixtures! @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @oxfordstatistics.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

#TuesdayReads Collaboration from the Robinson, Benesch & Khalid groups: Native MS reveals MlaC's PG selectivity in E. coli lipid transfer, offering insight into how the Mla system preserves outer membrane asymmetry. Read the full paper 👇 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Bacterial cell envelope wonders. Always fascinating to learn about cell envelope biogenesis and see all the ingenious molecular tricks we can use to study it. Great work from the Colin Kleanthouse lab @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social Check at rb.gy/akaugi @pnas.org

A huge congratulations to @parasitematt.bsky.social and all the other newly elected fellows

Congratulations to #KavliOxford Professors Molly Stevens DBE, Simon Draper and Matt Higgins on being elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences 2025. Read the @acmedsci.bsky.social news article 👇 acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/ac...

An emotional day today @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social where leaders in the cell cycle field gathered to celebrate the life of Bela Novak and the huge impact he had on their work! www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...

🧵1/ 🚨Check out our significantly updated preprint, now out on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. Together with Sasi Conte lab, we characterize a novel role for intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) in promoting RNA-binding selectivity in RNA binding proteins (RBPs): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations! @jansenlab.bsky.social @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glox Therapeutics, a company co-founded by Prof Colin Kleanthous has raised £4.3M in early-stage funding to develop effective targeted therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria. bioch.web.ox.ac.uk/article/4.3m...

Heading into the Easter break & reflecting on the last few months at work. It’s been bittersweet for reasons outside of anyone’s control. But I’m hugely thankful for supportive colleagues at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @stannesoutreach.bsky.social @dunnschool.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk 🙏🏽💪🏾