Here's a short article about our recent Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine away day. It was great to present some of the things we are working on and gain positive feedback from colleagues. Thanks to Jacqueline, Michael and Mark for organising! www.liverpool.ac.uk/systems-mole...

Excited to share our latest paper! We found that large pieces of the human genome can transfer between cells upon direct contact, endowing recipient cells with heritable phenotypic changes. @cp-cell.bsky.social (1/7) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A friend of mine got a major starting grant today, I am so happy for them in achieving this success. Needed and deserved! I really hope for similar successes for my fellow early career group leaders. Good luck!🤞

Happy to share! My first official PhD position is open for applicants 😃(self-funded!) This is an interdisciplinary, multi-supervised project, bringing together experts from UoL's Cancer Department, Population Health (Ffion Curtis) & the Centre for Innovation in Education (Ben McGrae)

Paper alert from @codyz.bsky.social y.social and Yang Liu. New mechanism for chromatin remodeling by ATRX. Super cool story. Congrats to #lugerlab alumni. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dr Christopher Switzer from the University of Leicester gave a great chemical biology perspective on Reactive Sulphur Species involvement in the hypoxia response today in Liverpool. Very impressed.

DNA replication globally disrupts the epigenome. But does this create a chromatin-access opportunity for TF binding to facilitate cell identity change? Now 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢-𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐂-𝐬𝐞𝐪 shows 𝘥𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘰 chromatin opening & TF binding occurs specifically post-replication, in cellular differentiation & reprogramming!

📢 Next Proteostasis Consortium Seminar – Tomorrow, Wednesday 4 February 2026 at 4:00 pm GMT (10:00 am CT) Speaker: David Glass (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals) Title: Proteostatic Mechanisms Involved in Age‑Associated Disease 👉Link & Updates here: www.proteostasisconsortium.com/seminars/

Less Survivable Cancers receive just 19% of research funding despite causing 40% of all cancer deaths. This glaring inequality is why we're calling for government to #CloseTheResearchGap. @lesssurvivable.bsky.social#CloseTheResearchGap 👉 https://bit.ly/3Ngg6qF

Check out our recent update from the J domain protein community! Thanks to Janine Kirstein, Rina Rosenzweig, Paolo De Los Rios, Pierre Genevaux, Jaroslaw Marszalek and Harm H. Kampinga for leading this effort www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

J-domain proteins: from molecular mechanisms to diseases We wrote a paper on the conference about JDPs in Gdansk and I have several of my latest research explained and presented in it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A few days left to apply for exciting PhD and Postdoc opportunities in wonderful Copenhagen and join our efforts in understanding Epigenetic Cell Memory.

Great opportunity!

Funded 4-year BBSRC NWD PhD to advance neuroscience through vCLEM techniques. 🧠 Are you passionate about EM, neurons, ageing, neurodegeneration? Come and join us! 🙏repost this project with @ianprior.bsky.social @natsansor.bsky.social @aliemliv.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The caterpillar, an epigenetic wonder! Recent birthday celebrations in the lab.

Our latest paper has just been published in Cell! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.

This is very cool!

12 and a bit 5km runs in October, challenge complete! Thanks for all the sponsorship. £585 raised for Cancer Research, and almost £1M nationally - which is amazing! @cancerresearchuk.org fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

Another great opportunity for a PhD linking hypoxia to cell matrix mechanobiology!

Very excited to receive this Spatial Biology in Neuro-Oncology Grant to pump-prime our studies into histone supply biology in high grade glioma patient samples! Thanks to @standardbiotools.bsky.social and @eanoassociation.bsky.social for your generous support!🙂 🥳🧬🙌Exciting times ahead!! 🤸🧬🥳

Great opportunities for chromatin transcription related PhDs or a postdoc, with a cool boss in Birmingham!

That's £10 per km. Thanks a lot for all the donations!

Thats me finished my 10th 5k in October! My best time yet, 26 min 40s. Sponsorship goes to @cancerresearchuk.org £355 raised so far, please sponsor it all goes to a good cause. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

Run 9/10 5ks in October and my first night run for a long time. I am surprised it wasnt faster. I tried to pick a flatter route, but I couldn't always see my feet! One to go!! 💸💸💸 fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

Run 7. Heart rate suggests my fitness is improving. Valiant sprint finish attempt to break 28 mins but denied by a whisker: 28m08s! 7/10 5ks during october! Am I becoming a runner again? Please send @cancerresearchuk.org some money on my behalf 💸💸💸 fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

Latest run is in....28m15s....6/10 5ks in October! £290 raised so far for @cancerresearchuk.org. Thanks for the support 🥳 fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

27m20s. 5/10 5k runs for Cancer Research UK. Please sponsor me: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

Steadily improving my time. Run four complete as of yesterday morning! 10x 5k in October for Cancer Research UK fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

As of this lunch time, 3/10 5k runs in October are now complete and £200 raised for Cancer Research UK. Thanks for all of the donations, please sponsor my efforts! @livunicancer.bsky.social fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

1st run complete, please donate to the cause. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

That was quick. I have reached the £50 mark - sufficient to buy enough glass slides for a scientist to examine 1,470 tumour samples through a microscope. A little goes a long way!! fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

I’m going to be taking on the 10 Days of 5k Challenge this October to help raise money for Cancer Research UK. Please show your support and help fund life-saving research by donating to my page. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...

Honoured to be in Birmingham to mark Bryan Turner’s retirement- a gentleman and giant of epigenetics.

Debatably, the first red brick university. Thanks to the organisers for a great conference!

Landmark! Last week we had the inaugural new group leaders and lab members day out @ New Brighton's Championship Adventure Golf Course 😎. New annual tradition? I will try not to win every year 🫣😅

RIP Diogo Jota and André Silva. Very sad. YWNWA ♥️

if you’re tired of Word/excel/PPT asking to save files to OneDrive and would rather default to your local computer, it’s in Preferences > Save - uncheck the top box (whose wording sounds nothing like having this functionality)

Interested in the interplay between histone supply, epigenetics and cancer biology? This research intensive Masters (MRes) course at the University of Liverpool could be for you! Apply by 29th August 2025. www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/biol...

"Why do they call it a standard 'curve'?"

If anyone would like to apply for an Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship to join my laboratory, please send me an email with your CV and cover letter detailing you experience and type of project you would have in mind. Please get in contact by the 6th June. Thanks!

Congrats to Daisy and Jenny on completing their final year projects in my lab - it was a pleasure to have worked with you and good luck for the future! 🙌🍀

Fantastic work! Congrats to all the authors

Just back from Sopot, Gdansk - the Polish Riviera. Fantastic conference and location. ⛱️ Thanks to all the organisers and sponsors for the invite. 50 years of J domain protein research highlighted with a keynote from Betty Craig, amazing! 🤩 @stresscell.bsky.social

R script needs a bit of optimisation 😂

Congratulations to our 2025 Raff PhD medal winner @impeiyee.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social bscb.org/bscb-phd-awa...

Please repost! Post-doc studying novel mechanisms of post-replicative gap-filling available in my lab here in beautiful Snowdonia, between July 2025 to end Nov 2026. Generous travel budget. Lab is full of friendly and supportive colleagues. Link below, or DM me/email [email protected] for info

How nice is this? Stratech planted a tree for my placing an order with them for antibodies! 🌳