Congratulations to Prof Roger Pickup on the publication of a new paper led by Associate Prof Pei Boon Ooi “Effects of Psychotherapy on Quality of Life among Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis”. #InflammatoryBowelDisease #Psychotherapy #IBD

Proud PIs, with @lucyhjackson-j.bsky.social. Well done Otto for completing your PhD viva! Another PhD flying the nest from @blslancasteruni.bsky.social. Thanks to the examiners @fieldinglab.bsky.social and Pierre Maillard!

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

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 Professor Roger Pickup and colleagues have published ‘Influence of landscape on the distribution of inflammatory bowel disease in England and Wales’ in BMC Public Health. @rogerpickup.bsky.social

We’re pleased to share that Dr Panagiotis Kotsantis and Dr Stefanie Menzies @menzieslab.bsky.social have each been awarded £125,000 through the Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard programme. 🧪 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/academy...

We’re pleased to see BLS Lecturer Dr Stefanie Menzies @menzieslab.bsky.social selected as a 2026 NC3Rs–OGA Antibody Champion. The initiative supports researchers working to improve #antibody validation and selection, helping to strengthen research quality and #reproducibility

🚨 New paper alert Congratulations Dr Caroline Weight @weightcaroline.bsky.social and co-authors on their new paper in The Journal of Infectious Diseases: @jidjournal.bsky.social “Disease-Attenuated Pneumococcal Biosynthesis Gene Mutants Invade the Mucosal Epithelium and Induce Innate Immunity.”

We're excited to share the fabulous #bioart produced by our second year students on the Microbiological Techniques module, run by Prof. Jackie Parry. This year we have 4 winners as voted for by the students. 1st place🏆is Luke Pek's submission "Zooonosis - Don't kiss your dog!!!"

Sssssslither into science with us at Campus in the City 2026! 🐍 We’re delighted to be bringing The Sssscience of Sssnakes to More Music, Morecambe on Friday 10 April, 10.30am–4pm as part of Lancaster University’s Campus in the City 2026. www.lancaster.ac.uk/events/campu...

Today was my first outreach session of #BSW26, visiting Broughton C of E Primary school with two new ‘Lovely Lungs’ activities. This year the theme for science week is CURIOSITY. KS1 made bubble art lungs KS2 made inflating lungs “I LOVE science week” - favourite quote of the day.

Day two of outreach for #BSW26 and our @blslancasteruni.bsky.social outreach ambassadors were at Furness STEM show 2026 - Wibbly Wobbly World of DNA 🧬 🍓 - Parasites in a box 🪱🪰🩸 - Spectacular Skin 🔬 Lots of excitement, lots curiosity and many, many strawberries squished @fieldinglab.bsky.social

📢 Happening tomorrow Dr Aro Nugawela will present “A New Very High-Content Imaging Approach for 3D Cell Models” in a ZEISS Microscopy webinar. 🗓 12 March 2026 ⏱ 12:00–13:00 GMT Register using the link below. zeiss.ly/hci

Our LUMICKS C-Trap Dynamo 300 is now installed and running, funded by BBSRC ALERT 2024. Huge thanks to Tomas Soolsma at LUMICKS for three great days of training. 🧪🔬

Explore #postgraduate study at Lancaster University by joining us for an online taster session, including #MSc #Biomedicine and MSc Health Data Science. Taking place on Wednesday 22nd April, you can find out more about the subjects we offer plus information on scholarships/funding (1/2)

Delighted to be co-chairing this symposium on late-onset epilepsy with Dr Francesca Chaloner, in partnership with @epilepsyinst.bsky.social! 🗓️ 30 April 2026 📍Liverpool, UK We have a great day planned with a fantastic line-up of speakers. Register here: epilepsy-institute.org.uk/eri/news/nav...

📢 We’re recruiting in Pharmacology The Division of Biomedical & Life Sciences at Lancaster University is appointing a #Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in #Pharmacology (full-time, open-ended). 👉 Further details here: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

🧬Fully Funded PhD Mitochondria|Protein Homeostasis|Antibody Technologies 🤝In collaboration with @menzieslab.bsky.social and Nick Robinson @blslancasteruni.bsky.social 🎓UK students only ⏰6th March 2026 📩Enquiries: [email protected] www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #phdopportunity #mitochondria

📢 Applications are now open for a fully funded PhD studentship in the NEON Lab @lancasteruni.bsky.social on mapping brain network dysfunction in dementia using advanced EEG analyses! 🧠📈 📝Apply here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🗓️ Deadline: 06/03/2026

Research led by Dr John Worthington from @blslancasteruni.bsky.social has discovered a potential immune boosting side effect of a class of antibiotics www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/scienti...

📢 New publication! Professor Roger Pickup @PickupRoger is lead author on a new paper: “Crohn’s Disease in Malaysia: Could Application of the Precautionary Principle Reduce Future Incidence?” 👉 doi.org/10.3390/micr...

📢 We’re recruiting in Pharmacology The Division of Biomedical & Life Sciences at Lancaster University is appointing a #Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in #Pharmacology (full-time, open-ended). 👉 Further details here: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

BBC Science Focus magazine quotes Dr Karen Wright from @blslancasteruni.bsky.social advising on “How to tell the difference between bloating and belly fat” www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...

Celebrating our PGR graduates in the Division of Biomedical & Life Sciences On Wednesday we were delighted to celebrate our master’s and PhD graduates at the winter graduation ceremony. It was a great opportunity to recognise their commitment, resilience & contributions to our research community.

We thoroughly enjoyed Professor Kathryn Else's fascinating seminar on whipworm biology & immunology. A big thank-you to Professor Else for an excellent seminar and to our Gold Sponsor BGI Genomics for supporting this session. @kathelse.bsky.social #Parasitology #Immunology #Helminths #LifeSciences

A paper co-authored by Professor Roger Pickup has just been published in Environmental Research! The study “Diarrhoea in Children Under 5 Years in Two Informal Settlements in Accra, Ghana” investigated the relationship between environmental factors & diarrhoea cases in children.

We’re pleased to welcome Professor Kathryn Else @kathelse.bsky.social from the University of Manchester for the next seminar in our BLS Seminar Series: “The biology and immunology of whipworm infection.” #Immunology #Parasitology #InfectionBiology #Helminths #LifeSciences

BLS Professor Roger Pickup @rogerpickup.bsky.social is co-author of a poster, ‘Development and preliminary application of an in-situ test for Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in Crohn’s Disease’ presented at the @britsocimm.bsky.social Congress in Liverpool.

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

We’re pleased to host Associate Professor Hyon-Seung Yi (Chungnam National University School of Medicine) for a special seminar: “Mammalian mitoribosomes, metabolic adaptation, and liver disease progression.” #LiverDisease #Mitochondria #Metabolism #Immunoregulation #CancerResearch

Thinking about taking your studies to the next level? 🎓 Our on-campus #Postgraduate Open Day is now open for bookings! 📅 Saturday 7 February 2026 📍 Lancaster University Campus 👉 Register here: lu.my.salesforce-sites.com/events/targe... #MSc #biomedical #biomedicine #lifesciences 🧪🧬🔬🥼

Yesterday we hosted Dr Helen Matthews (Uni. of Sheffield) for a great seminar on cell shape and the cytoskeleton in cancer. She showed how healthy cells tightly control their shape, how this regulation breaks down in tumours, and highlighted the role of actin dynamics. 🧪🧬🔬

We’re pleased to welcome Dr Helen Matthews (Uni. of Sheffield) for this week’s BLS seminar: “Cell shape and the cytoskeleton in cancer.” 🧪 She’ll outline how changes in cell shape, driven by the cytoskeleton, contribute to cancer progression and affect treatment response.

Celebrating a second journal cover from the department this month! Congratulations to BLS Lecturer Dr Stefanie Menzies @menzieslab.bsky.social who has co-authored research featured on the front cover of Nature Magazine!

Today we had the pleasure of hosting Emeritus Prof. David Wraith (Uni. of Birmingham) for an excellent seminar on 'Novel approaches for control of human inflammatory diseases'. #Immunology #Inflammation #Autoimmune #LifeSciences #BiomedicalSciences #Immunotherapy 🧪

We’re pleased to announce that Emeritus Professor David Wraith from the University of Birmingham will be delivering our next seminar: “Novel approaches for control of human inflammatory diseases.” #Immunology #Inflammation #BiomedicalSciences #LifeSciences🧪

Our Biomedical & Life Sciences staff & students will be at UlverSTEM 2025 tomorrow! 📅 Sat 15 Nov 2025, 09:30–16:00 📍 Ulverston Victoria High School 💷 Free entry, no booking required 🔗 fesp.org.uk/ulverstem-20... #STEM #LifeScience #DNA #Ulverston

A huge thank-you to Professor Grant Stewart from the University of Birmingham for an excellent seminar yesterday. Prof. Stewart delivered an insightful overview of the role of DONSON in the stability of replication forks.

Project 1: Monoclonal Antibodies for Global Health. Using in vitro & computational platforms to develop advanced biologics, with scope to focus on snakebite, viral haemorrhagic fevers or fungal pathogens. Supervisors: me & Prof. Nick Casewell (LSTM) More info: tinyurl.com/4dkybcmx

We’re delighted to welcome Prof. Grant Stewart (Uni. of Birmingham) for our next BLS Seminar Series talk: “The integrity of the DNA replication process is intimately linked with maintaining genome stability.” 🧬 #DNAReplication #GenomeStability #MolecularBiology #LifeSciences

Congratulations to BLS Lecturer Dr Amy Saunders who has co-authored research featured on the front cover of this week's issue of #ScienceSignaling! Dr Saunders' research has updated our understanding of how glycans help immune cells move into skin in psoriasis. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 New Research Highlight! BLS Lecturer Dr Stefanie Menzies @menzieslab.bsky.social was involved in developing a nanobody-based treatment that protects against nearly all medically significant African elapid snake venoms - a major step toward safer, scalable therapies for snakebite. 🐍

Tomorrow we are excited to host Dr Aditi Kanhere from the University of Liverpool, who will be delivering a research seminar on 'DNA methylation, ncRNAs and maintenance of genome integrity'. #DNA #genome #methylation

🎓 Thinking about a #Postgraduate degree in #Biomedical or #LifeSciences at #Lancaster? If you’re a BLS or Medical School student ready to take your studies further, join our UG–PG Info Event to learn about courses, funding & the application process!

Last week Dr Aro Nugawela was showcasing her work on a novel pipeline for antibody and small molecule staining of large 3D cell models at @elrig.org #DrugDiscovery 2025. #3D_microscopy #organoid #spheroid

It was a pleasure to welcome Prof. Megan McLeod (Uni. Glasgow) to our departmental seminar series yesterday (sponsored by BGI Genomics). Megan's seminar explored how cells remember previous infections - not just in the adaptive immune system, but even in non-immune cells after influenza infection.

We’re continuing our research seminar series sponsored by BGI Genomics, highlighting cutting-edge life sciences research. This week, Prof. Megan MacLeod (Univ. of Glasgow) presents “Re-imaging immune memory.”

BLS Lecturer in Biogerontoloy Dr David Clancy was quoted in the @financialtimes.com commenting on the purported anti-ageing effects of the supplement spermidine www.ft.com/content/7282...

We were delighted to welcome Professor Matthias Soller from the University of Manchester for this week’s departmental seminar “Keeping RNA regulation in shape for health,” generously sponsored by BGI Genomics. @matthiassoller.bsky.social

Yesterday, BLS lecturers Dr Amy Saunders and Dr Stefanie Menzies attended the Aspirations Evening at Penwortham Girls High School, chatting with enthusiastic Years 9-11 students about future pathways in biomedical sciences and life at Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social

🧬Tomorrow we’re hosting Prof. Matthias Soller (University of Manchester) for our departmental seminar (sponsored by BGI Tech)! 🧪 A leading voice in RNA biology, Prof. Soller will discuss “Decoding RNA Regulation: From ELAV/Hu Proteins to Epitranscriptomic Modifications”.