On 3rd September, Dr Jayde Whittingham-Dowd, Lisa Butler and Dr Elisabeth Shaw represented the BLS technical team at the Lancaster University #LEAF accreditation celebration.

BLS Professor Roger Pickup @rogerpickup.bsky.social and Dr Manoj Roy (Lancaster Environment Centre) have released a video showcasing their involvement in making Africa’s youth aware of the value of #waste #recycling www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/meet-th...

The first results of a UK wide inflammatory bowel disease survey 'Geographic distribution of inflammatory bowel disease in the UK: A spatially explicit survey’ have been published in PLOS ONE, led by Peter Atkinson and Roger Pickup @rogerpickup.bsky.social #IBD journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Excited to share that our lab website is now live! Take a look to find out more about what we're working on in the NEON Lab. 🧠📈💤💭 wp.lancs.ac.uk/neonlab/

BLS Lecturer Dr. Derek Gatherer has written a popular science book 'BioFutures and the Legacy of Our Past: Escaping Evolution' which is available now from Cambridge Scholars Publishing 🧪 www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...

Huge Congratulations to Dr @chloebarnes.bsky.social who sailed through her PhD viva today @blslancasteruni.bsky.social With thanks to examiners Michael Lewis and Paul McKean. Chloe is now a ⭐️ PDRA with @juanquintana.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social

What a wonderful experience performing stand-up comedy at The Royal Society this week! Huge thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social and @royalsociety.org for the invitation, and to my fellow comedians for all the laughter and camaraderie! 😊🎤 📸: @drstevex.bsky.social

Asmaa Nasr and Vidya Manju from Prof Munir’s Lab recently participated in the International Pandemic Sciences Conferece 2025 at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, Oxford. They presented their PhD research on viruses with pandemic potential. #PandemicSciences25

Professor Roger Pickup appeared on BBC Inside Science on BBCRadio4 talking about the current bathing season and water quality. You can listen here, ~9min20 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Another paper hot off the press! Dual proteomics strategies to characterise and compare the venom composition of nine African #snake #venoms . A wonderful collaboration with Louc Quinton's lab as part of the ADDovenom project. @blslancasteruni.bsky.social 🐍🧪 www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/17...

📣 Don’t miss our next RNA Club session on May 22nd 17h at @cambiochem.bsky.social with @agatsiou.bsky.social (@lancasteruni.bsky.social @blslancasteruni.bsky.social) She’ll reveal how RNA editing shapes immune regulation in health and disease. Don't miss this session full of science and pizza! 🍕🤓

Today starting at 6.30pm, Dr Steven Hall from our department is giving a public lecture that sheds light on a little-known, yet deadly, global health emergency: #snakebite envenoming. 🧪 Further details here www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/public-...

Amazing location for a day spent extracting DNA from Strawberries with #outreach #ambassadors from @blslancasteruni.bsky.social at Windermere Science Festival ☀️🧬🍓☀️ (non-stop extractions for 7h = >120 🍓s Squished) @iamkarenwright.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

New paper alert! 'Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis' co-authored by Dr. Richard Mort @mortlab.bsky.social was recently published in Science. Available at: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 @science.org

We're very excited to be bringing our Strawberry #DNA #Lab to #Windermere #Science Festival tomorrow, Saturday 10th May! We will be joined by lots of other exciting activites from the wider university. 🧪 For more information, please visit www.windermeresciencefestival.org

Professor Roger Pickup from our department is an invited guest at today's opening of the new Sunway University Medical School

This morning Prof Roger Pickup gave a presentation on #Crohn’s Disease and related issues for Malaysia to Sunway University

It was a pleasure to host Dr Anna Zampetaki from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social at our #Biomedical and Life Sciences seminar series. Anna gave a fascinating talk on "Human blood vessel #organoids as a model of the #microvasculature"

Dr @iamkarenwright.bsky.social from our department has written a piece for @theconversation.com on #IBS and #SIBO - "IBS and SIBO have overlapping symptoms – here's what you need to know about these different digestive conditions". Check out the article below! 🧪 theconversation.com/ibs-and-sibo...

Our review article on progress towards #recombinant #antivenoms for #snakebite is now published at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We cover snakebite, methods for #mAb discovery, do a deep dive on mAbs for neurotoxins, and discuss what is needed next to get this from concept to clinic.

We're #hiring a Research Technician! Join our interdisciplinary team to explore how brain activity in #sleep shapes #memory using #EEG methods. Exciting opportunity to gain valuable skills and contribute to innovative #neuroscience research! 🧠📈💤 🕜 Deadline: 26 May 2025 🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/yhtrf2pb

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

Today we are sparking curiosity at #CITC25 Come along to More Music Morecambe to learn all about DNA fingerprinting and solve our crummy crime #Outreach #Engagement @blslancasteruni.bsky.social

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) 🧪

Fully funded #PhD #studentship for UK/home students, here in BLS at Lancaster University. #Microfluidic technology, #fluorescence #microscopy and #liposomes to investigate biophysics of gas (CO2 and O2) transport across biological membranes. 🧪 More details at: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Next Friday 11th April join our researchers at MoreMusic in Morecambe to solve our very own Whodunnit as part of Campus in the City 2025! 'A Crumby Crime Scene Investigation' - use real forensic science to help us solve the case of the biscuit theft. More details www.lancaster.ac.uk/events/campu...

Prof Muhammad Munir, BLS Professor in Virology and Viral Zoonoses, spoke to Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News about the need to stay vigilant against viral contamination when handling cell cultures. 🧪 @lancasteruni.bsky.social www.genengnews.com/topics/biopr...

Thanks to Rochdale Sixth Form College, Settle College and Cardinal Newman College for taking part in our #Biosciences Masterclass. Research students Hannah Pyle and Ella Southern delivered a taster lecture on #trypanosomiasis (a #NeglectedTropicalDisease caused by #trypanosome parasites) (1/2)

I'm looking for an enthusiastic and innovative PhD student to join my Biomedical and Life Sciences lab at Lancaster University. We will discover how air particulate matter and microplastics affects our susceptibility to respiratory infection. Apply now: www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/graduate...

📢The winners of the annual BIOL274 #Bioart competition organised by Prof @jackieparry.bsky.social have been announced! 📢 Here are the top 5! Congratulations to the winners 🥳 🧪

Thanks to Rochdale Sixth Form College and @runshawcollege.bsky.social for taking part in our #Biomedicine & #Pharmacology Masterclass learning all about #snakebite envenoming. They had a taster lecture from Dr Marcus Preedy & Dr Josh Northcote-Smith, then a lab practical on snakebite #diagnosis,

That’s a wrap on Vaccine Engagement Day! 🥳 But we’re only just getting started… Our month-long #CelebrateVaccines campaign kicks off on Monday 31 March. Stay tuned for weekly blogs and content on HPV, Tetanus, RSV, and Polio vaccines. Let’s keep this conversation going! 💪

Measles vaccines have saved ~94 million lives worldwide🌍💫 This Vaccine Engagement Day, it is more important than ever to #CelebrateVaccines to tackle the rise in preventable infectious diseases 🚀 🔗 Read our response to rising measles cases: bit.ly/3FofSKf

Excited to share that I'll soon be recruiting a 3 year postdoc to join the lab @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social to work with me on Rubisco biochemistry and engineering. Official advertising details to be released very soon, watch this space! Please spread the word. 😀🌱🧪🥼

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

During #BrainAwarenessWeek last week, Dr Jack Martin presented his work from the Benedetto lab on worm brain activity at death, during the @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Janelia Farms meeting 'Second Brains: Enteric Nervous Systems Across Phylogeny'

My day today is all about the #SecretLifeOfSnot using resources adapted from the @britsocimm.bsky.social I’m visiting a local primary school talking about #germs, #vaccination, #mucus and #sneezes #immunosky #Outreach #Engagement #SnottyNoses #britishscienceweek2025 @blslancasteruni.bsky.social

Day two of #FurnessStemShow2025 - hundreds of strawberries have had their DNA extracted, lots of amazed mini-scientists! A busy day for our @blslancasteruni.bsky.social #Outreach and #StudentAmbassadors 🧬🥼🧪🧫

Our BLS outreach ambassadors are at the Furness STEM Show 2025 for British Science Week #BSW25; exciting local school children about DNA and our amazing brains!

Dr David Clancy from @blslancasteruni.bsky.social is quoted in the Financial Times about blood tests for ageing organs to detect the risk of disease: www.ft.com/content/9510...

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....

🧬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...

Last week I had the great pleasure in hosting the launch meeting of our NC3Rs project grant now known as G.E.M (Galleria Envenoming Model). Our work is focused on developing and validating an alternative model to assess venom lethality and therapeutic efficacy testing.

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)

Derek Gatherer is funded by the Friends of Lancaster University in America, in collaboration with Chulalongkorn University in Thailand to sequence and assemble genomes of the kinetoplastid parasite Crithidia, isolated from infected humans in Thailand. (1/3)

The Dewar lab use #trypanosomes to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in keeping vital mitochondria working. The extraordinary single tryp mito helps illuminate novel features of mitochondrial quality control pathways while informing drug discovery for #sleepingsickness #WorldNTDDay #BeatNTDs

Exciting to spot previous @blslancasteruni.bsky.social student Karolina as an author on this B cell project looking forward to reading it soon! #immunosky

African trypanosomes cause disease in humans and animals characterised by waves of high parasite burden accompanied by host fever. Research in the Urbaniak lab funded by the #BBSRC is revealing how African #trypanosomes survive host fever, which may lead to new treatments. #WorldNTDDay #BeatNTDs

In recognition of #WorldNTDDay, our posts today aim to highlight the amazing work done by staff and students here in our department @blslancasteruni.bsky.social to #BeatNTDs