🧬Baking and Biology🍪 Congratulations to York students in the Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership who won the Great BioYorkshire Bake-off at the first year residential! A great way for the students from the @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social Universities to come together.

Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community! www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

#job for a Laboratory Technician within @biologyatyork.bsky.social undertaking a critical role providing daily technical support, organisation and housekeeping within the Biology Teaching Labs. Apply by 05/12/2025: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/labo...

New paper out documenting research in protected areas across the African Savannah. We identify the widespread hot, wet savannah sites as understudied with 38% of all parks having no papers associated with them & 5 parks accounting for ~50% of all papers 🧪 1/3 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Two 4-year PhD positions available for Oct 2026 🪴 We're part of CNAP with 12 plant/microbe research groups combining excellent fundamental science with innovation. 1st - MAGIC Crops: Genomics to breed high yielding, resilient and nutritious amaranth for smallholder farmers tinyurl.tools/fa83da49

(1/2) Congratulations to Dr Ines Hahn who is a finalist for two awards at the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social this autumn 🎉 Ines has been nominated and selected as a finalist for Leading Researcher Award: Cognition and Neurodevelopment Category AND Mentorship Award. @exdrososcientia.bsky.social

@biologyatyork.bsky.social is looking to appoint a Horticulture Technician Apprentice to support plant science research. Duties include propagating, hydroponics, experimenting, managing day-to-day care of plants + plant pest control etc. Apply by 05/12/2025: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/hort...

Some super cool imaging in this BBSRC Yorkshire Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (YBDTP) PhD www.findaphd.com/phds/project... @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social c @biologyatyork.bsky.social

3 PhD positions in the lab for British Students. Inflammasome, cell death and skin immunity, with fantastic colleagues. Check them out or share it with curious and motivated PhD students: www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor... @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @biologyatyork.bsky.social

To mark Lung Cancer Awareness Month, we speak with Professor Dawn Coverley this week about the Coverley lab's research! Today, we ask Dawn, 'what are you researching? #CIZ #CizzleBiotechnology #lungcancerawareness cizzlebiotechnology.com

Exciting news! 🎉 We'd like to welcome Professor Ian Hitchcock as our new Director. With a passion for innovation and collaboration, @ian-hitchcock.bsky.social will lead us into an inspiring new chapter of research excellence

Congrats to @joanarcf.bsky.social @biologyatyork.bsky.social who has been awarded a BBSRC responsive mode grant, with @mottramlab.bsky.social as a co-I & collaborators @ipmontevideo.bsky.social @warwickuni.bsky.social

🚨 We have 3 fully funded PhD studentships open! Join the Grey Lab & collaborators at @biologyatyork.bsky.social, @universityofleeds.bky.social & @ybri-uoy.bsky.social to explore stem cells, proteomics & leukaemia biology 📍Start Oct 2026 | 💡Apply via MRC & BBSRC 👇Details in thread 👇

Thrilled to have @ewanbirney.bsky.social as today's BMS seminar speaker & as a keynote in the @biologyatyork.bsky.social Postdoc Symposium Ewan presented his work on "Genomics, Imaging and AI: three technologies changing research and healthcare" Hosted by Prof Gavin Wright

Former @anthropocenebio.bsky.social @biologyatyork.bsky.social PhD student Dr Tiffany Ki has used records from museum collections and citizen science projects to show long-term patterns in the species richness of tropical butterflies 🦋 Read the full #openaccess paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🔓 📄

#job internal advert for a Technician in @biologyatyork.bsky.social in the Dasmahapatra Group www.york.ac.uk/biology/peop... to support ongoing projects on plant and butterfly evolution. Full time 4 month position. Apply by 04/11/2025. More details: jobs.york.ac.uk/internal/vac...

🎉 Congrats to Dr Ousmane Dao, awarded a prestigious Royal Society Career Development Fellowship! @royalsociety.org His research at @biologyatyork.bsky.social will uncover how photorespiration and CO₂-concentrating mechanisms interact in algae—key to Earth’s carbon cycle and future crop innovation.

International research led by the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products @biologyatyork.bsky.social describes how a potato and tomato crop-killing microorganism employs special enzymes to disable plants’ early warning systems 🥔 🍅 🦠 #openaccess paper in Nature Comms doi.org/10.1038/s414... 📄 🔓

Highlighting: Rebecca Stokes from @biologyatyork.bsky.social who was the runner up in the @rsb.org.uk Technical Apprentice of the Year 2025. Rebecca received her award from @dougbrown1.bsky.social at a celebration event at the Houses of Parliament www.rsb.org.uk/biology-week... #congratulations

A review led by @anthropocenebio.bsky.social @biologyatyork.bsky.social concludes that we have not reached the threshold of 'mass extinction', but could do so if biodiversity loss continues to increase #openaccess manuscript via White Rose Research Online eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23... 🔓 📄

New funding secured! 🥳 Our next project is a deep dive into Genetics-based methods for precise interventions against invasive species. Lead: Professor Luke Alphey, This ARIA research funding will be used to shape a cross-cutting Engineering Ecosystem Resilience programme. 🌿🔬

Thanks to Reckitt who recently hosted our students on an industry insight visit in Hull. Touring their facilities, hearing about their graduate scheme and taking part in a mock assessment centre. A fab opportunity for students to learn about career paths after graduation.

Enteroviruses cause over a billion infections each year, but the details of how their genomes capture host ribosomes have remained elusive. I'm pleased to share a new preprint from Miguel in our group, providing some new insights into this problem: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

(1/2) Congratulations to Professor @katherinedenby.bsky.social who will become the new Director of the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) from 1st October. Katherine will take over the lead of CNAP from Professor Neil Bruce, a big thanks to Neil for all his great work.

#job for a Research Technician working in CNAP within @biologyatyork.bsky.social targeting molecular breeding and metabolic engineering of crop plants. Apply by 06/10/2025. More details here: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

🚨Exciting #Postdoc opportunity in the Fogg & Antson labs: 3-year post based @biologyatyork.bsky.social to explore the #StructuralBiology & mechanism of viral DNA-packaging motors using cutting-edge #Cryo-EM, biophysical and molecular approaches. Apply by 9th Oct at bit.ly/3Iz3bOu #ScienceJobs

(1/2) Congratulations to Professor Will Brackenbury who has taken over as the Director of the York Against Cancer-funded Jack Birch Cancer Research Unit. Will takes over the lead of the JBU from Professor Jenny Southgate, a big thanks to Jenny for all her work. @yorkagainstcancer.bsky.social

Ines Hahn has been awarded a 0.73M BBSRC New Investigator Award. In collaboration with Klaus Hahn (UNC), Han-Jou Chen and Peter O’Toole (York), her group will pioneer novel cutting-edge biosensors to unravel how GSK3β regulates neuronal development in both time and space @yorkbioscience.bsky.social

Delighted with our new paper on a novel itaconate transporter in the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, led by Javeria and Reyme. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @javeriamehboob.bsky.social @bethkw.bsky.social A duplicated transporter on its way to itaconate selectivity portlandpress.com/biochemj/art...

Horticulture's Dave Grimshaw holds his marrow with pride after winning first place at the Fulford Show! 🤩 62 pounds, 42 inches long!

(1/3) GenRes student, Amy, reflects on her experience this summer 😄 "I have just completed a 6 week studentship at the University of Cambridge, which is a sentence I never thought I’d write. Massive thanks to GenerationResearch for making this a possibility. As a first gen student

How do parasites strategically organise their genomes to influence gene expression? If you’re curious, check our latest review in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social ! @biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @pasteur.fr www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We've thoroughly enjoyed hosting students from NorthWest University (NWU), China, over the last two weeks! TF & Horticulture tours, Power lab, Lego, Microbiology, Immunology and Lactobacillus sessions to name a few! Thank you to all the staff involved! #summerschool

Fieldwork for the Europe-wide project 'MonitAnt' @monitant.bsky.social has been underway, sampling and surveying wood ant nests from the north of Scotland to the south coast of England. This is the biggest ant nest the team encountered - scale provided by Professor Elva Robinson.

We are pleased to announce that the results of the 2025 National Student Survey have revealed the strengths of the Department of Biology in ‘Academic Support’, ‘Learning Opportunities’, ‘Teaching on my course’, ‘Assessment and Feedback’ and ‘Organising and Management’ www.york.ac.uk/biology/abou...

Over a week since Graduation already! Débora shares her experience: "Through all challenges I have had to overcome, very notably moving from the other side of the globe alone, I know I would not be here if it were not for my degree and the Department of Biology..." Read more here - bit.ly/4fznGXD

(1/2) Throwback to the Technology Missions Fund (TMF) Convening event last year! We got to see some seriously cool engineering biology projects. Curious about what the community's been building?

Celebrating another #technician obtaining professional registration for Jennifer Rippingale @biologyatyork.bsky.social now RSciTech #IST #sciencecouncil @tech-commit.bsky.social #techniciancommitment #recognition #visibility #careerdevelopment #sustainability

Huge congratulations to our wonderful @BiologyatYork students graduating today! We are so proud of you all - good luck for the future and don't forget to stay in touch 🎓🥳 #classof2025 #UoYGraduation #Longboi

(1/3) We've been catching up with our GenerationResearch students so far this summer..! "Hi, I am Naomi, a Biomedical Sciences student going into the final year of my Integrated Masters at York. I am currently doing my Generation Research studentship in Dave Boucher's Lab.

Kamilla Laidlaw, Hatwan Nadir, Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social and team @biologyatyork.bsky.social discover that killer toxin K28 resistance in yeast relies on COG complex-mediated trafficking of Ktd1. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

New preprint alert! 🚨👇 I'm delighted to share the latest research from @jemmabetts.bsky.social in our group: ‘A new protein-dependent riboswitch activates ribosomal frameshifting’. Huge congratulations to Jemma for the first manuscript of her PhD! ✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

(1/2) PGR student Jack went on a 3 month teaching placement as part of his BBSRC DTP in Mechanistic Biology. Jack says "My experience was one of the best professional experiences of my career. It has helped me to see that all of the hard work and effort I am putting into ...

We bought a shaking incubator for new pathogenic yeast work, but the tray came with holes lacking threads 😒 Luckily, Mark Bentley from our @biologyatyork.bsky.social workshop is a legend - he trimmed down the rack and secured it to the tray. 🔩🪛🙏🏼

#internal vacancy for a Plant Science Core Technician in @biologyatyork.bsky.social maintaining / applying advanced expertise in both standard molecular biology techniques & specialised plant-specific methods. Apply by 23/7/2025 jobs.york.ac.uk/internal/vac... #job #career

#internal vacancy for a Technical Specialist in @biologyatyork.bsky.social to manage the CL3 labs and act as lab manager in H&Q blocks 1 day/week. Apply by 22/02/2025 jobs.york.ac.uk/internal/vac... #job #career #vacancy #development

A study conducted at Grow It York @sparkyorkcic.bsky.social with researchers at @biologyatyork.bsky.social has developed a model that could inform urban farmers of how light varies in different areas of a confined space 🌱 #openaccess paper in Quantitative Plant Biology: doi.org/10.1017/qpb.... 🔓 📄

(1/2) Recently researchers from the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) gave a behind the scenes insight to our plant growing facilities and the research that they support as part "Celebrating Spaces: Connecting Researchers"...

(1/4) Three new pieces of research have been published from the ProteoStem ( www.proteostem.co.uk ) research group @billgrey.bsky.social working in @biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @cbr-uoy.bsky.social

👩‍🔬🎶 If you are like us we are still singing the lyrics to the adapted songs for Bioscience: The Musical! Read more about our collaboration with @biologyatyork.bsky.social : www.linkedin.com/pulse/biosci...