The first pre-print from our @blslancasteruni.bsky.social collaboration linking #parasitology, #metabolism #neuroscience #behaviour and #immunology is now online www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... PhD work from @chloebarnes.bsky.social & Dr Nadin Fathallah #Trypanosomes #Immunometabolism

We’re excited to have a fully funded PhD available starting in October >> Please direct any excellent MSc/MRes students interested in innate immunity, molecular biology and initiation of cancer to our project: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... @unterholznerlab.bsky.social @blslancasteruni.bsky.social

We’re delighted to host Dr Natalie Kenny, multi-award-winning scientist and CEO/founder of BioGrad, for a special guest lecture. #Biotech #CellTherapy #RegenerativeMedicine #STEMEducation #ScienceInnovation

I’m really pleased to share the link to a new Cook Lab paper published today in Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Béla Novák (1956–2025) – a legacy of scientific discovery and personal charm Alexis Barr, Francis Barr and John Tyson remember Béla Novák. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

🚨 Funded PhD Studentship 🚨 Antibody Engineering & Plant Molecular Farming for Aquaculture Health 📍 Lancaster & Glasgow | BBSRC NWBio DTP 🗓 Apply by 21 Nov 2025 👉 Engineer antibodies vs Vibrio 👉 Develop rapid diagnostics 👉 Explore plant-based biologics for fish health

Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study 1. initiation of DNA replication. 2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance. Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists. Deadline 3 August 2025. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Is this a reference to its Kcat? (If you ‘get’ this there may be a place for you in the Cook lab!😉)

A 4% pay uplift, less than current inflation, is an insult to doctors in England. This Government has shown it simply doesn’t value doctors.   “The DDRB has failed doctors. If this is the best they can do, government needs to think again” says @drphilbanfield.bsky.social

Got any great final year students who love the bench but don't (yet) want to do a PhD? I'm looking for a research technician to join our amazing AVERT team for the last 2 years of the project - a great chance to develop lab skills while supporting our team in York. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Final week for the early bird deadline for the Small G-protein meeting in Manchester. Talk slots available from submitted abstracts. #SGP25 @BiochemSoc @SmallGTPases Register here: bit.ly/SmallG25

A friend is running the London marathon in memory of her sister. I let her in the lab earlier to make a TikTok…I was fun but a little out of my comfort zone

British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding

Campus in the City is taking place NOW at More Music in #Morecambe! Come and learn about #DNA and discover how #biology helps solve crimes. #CITC2025 #SparkYourCuriosity #LoveLancaster #CultureLancaster #MBCultureResearch

We have written a News&Views piece in @natsmb.nature.com on a recent paper by @buissonlab.bsky.social. Their work adds transcription stress to the landscape of danger signals detected by the innate immune system. Link for free access here: rdcu.be/ehkTV

New online: Transcription stress causes an inflammatory response via release of IL-1α

Huge congratulations to two of our lecturers Dr Sana Hannan @sanahannan.bsky.social and Dr Katerina Gatsiou who have been awarded funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard programme @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 (1/4) 🧪

Pre-print alert! Together with @stapleslab.bsky.social and @cejkalab.bsky.social we find that IFI16 binds to stalled replication forks where it acts as innate immune sensor for replication stress, and protects the nascent DNA from degradation. 👇👇

Excited to announce the Emerging Innovators Fellowship for outstanding scientists of black heritage @mrc-lms.bsky.social If you’re interested in applying & have a passion for cell cycle control or quiescence, do get in touch Please circulate!

Pls repost. Postdoc role on post-replicative ssDNA gap processing. Interesting models that should float replication aficionados boats. DM or [email protected] for info. Until Dec26 but will strive for funding to provide continuity. Fantastic place to live+work www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMG682/r...

Exciting #PhD opportunity to synthesise & test novel PROTACs/Targeted Protein Degraders for #Alzheimer's disease. Collaboration between María Paz Muñoz, Neil Dawson, Ed Parkin and @fieldinglab.bsky.social 🧪https://www.findaphd.com/phds/programme/natural-sciences-phd-opportunities/?p6417

But, what about the banana bread!

A new PhD position is available in my lab to explore DNA replication mechanisms using single-molecule approaches. Apply by 19th of March: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Excited to start my lab at the University of Edinburgh studying sulfur metabolism in apicomplexan parasites. Kindly supported by an MRC Career Development Award. Watch this space for job opportunities!

🧬Fully funded PhD opportunity🔬Interested in the weird and wonderful #mitochondria in #parasites? This could be for you! 🌍 @blslancasteruni.bsky.social a UK Top 3 Biomedical Sciences Department 📌UK-based students only ⏱️Deadline 28th March 📮More info and to apply👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Great to see our paper in @emboreports.org ! Collaboration between Prof Judy Coulson at Liverpool and ourselves @blslancasteruni.bsky.social. Many thanks to North West Cancer Research for funding! And congratulations to the team! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

🔊one week left👇

Our BLS postgraduate students and I attended Scotforth St Paul’s primary school today to make ‘snot’ (bacteria-defensive mucus), learn about digestion and the importance of taking care of our microbiota. @blslancasteruni.bsky.social

Our department now hosts two labs with interests in #snakebite – Steve Hall Lab and @menzieslab.bsky.social. Snakebite is a global health crisis that affects millions annually. Conventional antivenom, the only currently available treatment, has severe limitations. #WorldNTDDay #BeatNTDs (1/3)

Can anyone recommend free or reasonably priced (but functional) laboratory management software? For bookings, collating usage information and calculating charges? Would be ideal if it can also support colony management… Thanks! #immunosky #researchmanagement

First post on BlueSky - sharing our latest paper! So thrilled to have been part of this exciting collaboration - using AI to design new protein-based therapeutics for #snakebite 🐍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Important to support the societies that manage publications at the face of the onslaught from the commercial rivals.

It's @biologists.bsky.social Centenary and I am really looking forward to their Biologists@100 meeting in Liverpool. For cell biology folk, the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting is incorporated and there are lots of great speakers. See you there?

Our division of biomedical and life sciences at Lancaster University is now on bsky- give the profile a follow to keep up to date with what we are up to: bsky.app/profile/blsl...

What do you think about access to medical cannabis in the UK? Here’s your chance to help us understand your view anonymously. It also helps my student learn how to analyse and interpret the opinions from across all the regions, so please share widely with friends and family.

Not sure if there are PhG applicants on here, but if there are there is an information event for UKRI funded PhD projects at northwest Bio here. Please sign up if interested. t.co/yIgIyelZFP

Really happy to share our latest work in its final form in @jgenphysiol.bsky.social on the characterisation of a TAXI TRAP binding protein from V. cholerae. shorturl.at/88tdH This work was led by SoCoBio DTP student Joe Davies (not on Bluesky yet) and was really fun to work on.

I used to use Twitter as a news aggregation tool and to see expert opinion. This place is closer to that ideal than the other place. Hopefully it continues to grow.

Update: I have a UKRI fully funded PhD studentship in my lab working with Prof. Helen Walden and Dr Panos Kotsantis. If you are interested in ubiquitin signalling and cell cycle regulation/DNA replication stress, please take a look! www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

I have a 4 year fully funded PhD position in collaboration with Prof Helen Walden (Glasgow) and Dr Panos Kotsantis. If you are interested in cell cycle regulation and ubiquitin signalling, this could be for you. www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,219,934!