Hugely looking forward to this!!! Oh come all yea glyco-fans…. Etc. etc.

Ready to go! Hangzhou for the Chinese Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences Congress. I’m here talking about all things Replacement and we’ve got a whole UK team including researchers and leaders from Oxford and Cambridge (Ewan Smith talking later on Mole Rats)

In Nanjing,China - learning about Chinese regulation of animals in research and sharing best practice from the UK, including many resources from @nc3rs.bsky.social

Different beverage, different mode of transport! Off to China then Australia (so… no choice really but to fly). Talking all things animal replacement in China then off to the International Proteoglycans meeting with @brookefarrugia.bsky.social ! Whoop!!!!

Totally fallen in love with Tromsø! Great discussions and enthusiasm for the future!

Good morning Tromsø!

@nottsglycohub.bsky.social and GlycoWeb off to Tromsø to talk collaboration and glycoanalysis!

So…where are we off to today, little coffee and bonus chocolate (present from my daughter)? Off too @c19qmul.bsky.social for their organ-on-chip extravaganza!!! With @peptimatrix.bsky.social buddies

Go Jenny (Dr Jennifer Ashworth)! Fantastic presentation of her group’s work - multi-component characterisation of patient tissue and how to recapitulate this in in vitro models. Excellent work!

And we are off!!! @nc3rs.bsky.social making a meaningful difference. Rapid networking already over coffee. @peptimatrix.bsky.social

Makes me think about our @ukbiofilms.bsky.social group TBH (love you guys, but a bit terrified too)

So… where are me and my coffee off to today? Looking forward to a busy day with @nc3rs.bsky.social and BBSRC talking about business innovation vouchers and how to support engagement between academia and industry to help the transition to animal-free in vitro models.

Data drop! We just released an updated list of anti-ECM antibodies curated from the #HumanBioMolecularAtlasProgram Organ Mapping Antibody Panels #OMAP and the 9th release of the Human Reference Atlas #HRA. Check it out: sites.google.com/uic.edu/matr...

Thank you to the organisers and attendees, this was a great meeting!!!

On my way to London again to work on our interview technique… anyone would think we really, really wanted to do this project!!!!

@corbenmarrs.bsky.social Hello! And thanks for setting up the @nottsglycohub.bsky.social have fun at @aberuni.bsky.social

In 2024 we awarded almost £21k to 13 public engagement projects, reaching 3,000+ people across 17 events. Genevieve Barr explores the projects, from inspiring the next generation of scientists to creating resources for the community to use in their own 3Rs activities: nc3rs.org.uk/news/public-...

Hugely excited to meet the @mac4me.bsky.social team in Rotterdam for our kick-off meeting. Here with @peptimatrix.bsky.social and a whole interdisciplinary team ’opening new doors in cancer immunotherapy’ www.mac4me.eu

Heading off for the www.mac4me.eu kick off meeting (serious stuff…)

Another one bites the dust…. Nice to get the grant rejection mid week though, not saved for Friday night.

Today, off to Cardiff for a viva, looking forward to discussing all things CS!

Donald Trump’s ‘war on woke’ is fast becoming a war on science. That’s incredibly dangerous. This this and more this! A topic of active conversation at the #GlycoGRC.

@glyco.me looking mighty fine in the Italian Sunshine after an awesome talk. #GlycoGRC

After a morning of culture with @lornamilne.bsky.social at the amazing Emin exhibition we are on our way!!!! #GlycoGRS #GlycoGRC

@lornamilne.bsky.social on the way to meet the Glyco crowd @elisafadda.bsky.social

@aberuni.bsky.social Ok, you win. What a love trip over for the eldest’s offer holder day tomorrow. They were talking about the course all the way here and just arrived in time for this. Bloody well done Aber x

Grand location today for the @ukri.org BBSRC 30 year anniversary meeting. I must have been one of their first case PhD students and I’m still very grateful to hold funding from them now. Excellent discussions for the future.

Leaving @unistrathclyde.bsky.social after a fun and useful visit hosted by @carstenschulte4.bsky.social . Thank you again and let’s combine forces (!) to get to grips with the glycocalyx

No need for second guesses on where I am….

Lovely views in Derbyshire as I head up and off to see @carstenschulte4.bsky.social and friends in Strathclyde

A different view of Liverpool today on the 2nd day of the ECMage joint workshop. Very useful and enjoyable day yesterday and I learnt a lot! More today including more discussion about our spin out journey with @peptimatrix.bsky.social

We are recruiting for a doctoral candidate for the Mac4Me network mac4me.eu formal advert soon but please forward to your networks. The project will focus on structural and functional analysis of GAGs in ageing and cancer. EU mobility rules apply

In Liverpool for an ECMage networking event. Talking about our work with @peptimatrix.bsky.social and how that works with my academic group. Exciting times for this field and can’t wait to hear what fantastic projects people are working on!

Hi friends, we are hiring for a non-lab-based undergraduate summer intern! Paid position, for students who can be based in UK. Please share with those who may find it relevant! #AZProud #chemjobs #ukchemjobs #chemsky 🧪 www.linkedin.com/posts/nessac...

An absolute honour to catch up with these people. Claire Hughes, Bruce Caterson, Lena Kjellén and Staffan Johansson. Just the most lovely people and great minds in the GAG and PG community.

The GlycoWeb team! Celebrating after a fabulous meeting and getting great feedback from our Strategic Advisory Board. Thank you BBSRC @ukri.org for enabling us to bring this team together. Watch this space as we study GAGs in gastruloids!

And we are off #UKPG meeting at @manchesterup.bsky.social all things GAG and PG with a huge turn out this year.

You know those days when you have a group meeting and just end up going ‘Wow, this is so fricking cool, I want to do ALL these projects’? Then remember that you are a PI and get the fab job of working with and ace team to actually do it? Well, I had one of those yesterday. Happy Cathy.

Fab to see Dr Chris Merrett at graduation and even better to meet their family! So proud of Chris for getting through a tricky PhD and sitting through a lot of biology focused group meetings as a chemist. Thanks again @professor-dave.bsky.social for making sure Chris’ viva was such a success.

Huge congratulations to Arya, in the 2nd year of her PhD with Andrew Hook, Simon Jones in Manchester and lucky old me. She’s working up a new method for highly sensitive,rapid and selective detection of mucopolysaccharidoses for diagnosis and tracking therapeutics. @biochemsoc.bsky.social thank you!

Welcome Biochem Soc!

We’re excited to join the Bluesky community! If you’re part of the molecular biosciences, follow us for updates on all our activities from across the Society and Portland Press. We will be posting about upcoming events, webinars, grants, published articles, and more.

Brilliant as always @seismatters.bsky.social ! This is how to promote and support a team. I also understand how that help and support is reciprocated when really needed.

Here in Porto with Ana Magalhaes for Catarina’s viva. Lovely to see Romain Vivès again too. Great work Catarina - lovely presentation and a fantastic discussion.

In an undisclosed location (can you guess?) for a viva tomorrow +talk. Can’t wait… thesis is as obsessed with the basis of GAG structure function relationships as I am!

Also… what the flip was I doing during my talk? Casting spells???

New 🚨 #glycotime in @science.org H5N1 "a Gln226Leu substitution switched Texas HA binding specificity to human-type receptors, which was enhanced when combined with an Asn224Lys mutation" ⬇️⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Biochem Soc not yet on here (get a move on!!!) but the recent #BiochemEvent was fabulous!!!! Advances and New Horizons in Glycobiology. We celebrated 3 Award Winners, the latest glycoscience research and bringing together new and existing collaborators!

Congratulations to Prof. Gideon Davies from Uni of York. Fantastic talk and the 2024 Centenary award #BiochemEvent

After Arya’s fabulous flash talk yesterday, today it was Cathy (me!) and Lorna Milne. Awesome as always, Lorna presented her PhD and early PDRA work… great stuff!