UCL School of Pharmacy Festive Window Competition All entries can be viewed in this video: vm.tiktok.com/ZNR2uARKY/ @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Really great to attend the Faculty staff awards, organised by Steve Bunting. Loved the attention to detail in the hosting, kind jokes and the awards themselves, which Steve made himself! School of Pharmacy did well in the awards, many congratulations to my colleagues @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Cell organelles have different pHs- shown clearly in this preprint. Check out the very clear thread here for a summary ❤️

Mind blowing new preprint and Bluetorial by @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social! Shows how much we have yet to learn about cellular chemistry, the curtains get pulled back more and more with each new technology her lab invents! 👏 👏

Super, super cool research design and findings! 👏👏👏 Another amazing paper with awesome tech. Kudos to Yamuna and team. Such an easy read too. ⚡️⭐️

A continuing regress of complexity. I love it.

Amazing work by @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social and team. Great thread with pics. 🤯 a paper that will change how you think about cells - there are long-lived chemical microdomains within organelles!

Having a 4 hour delay on the train today has expedited writing a paper

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

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We are recruiting! PDRA to work on a BBSRC funded position with Prof. Yiliang Ding and Dr. Tim Craggs. We are looking for someone with experience with cell culture and gene expression analysis - Please do share. Happy to answer any questions. Details below: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Pretty but worrying... Daffodils in December

Papers papers papers papers papers papers papers papers papers papers papers SI SI

The inevitable outcome of playing "What do you Meme?" with your research group

It was a pleasure to examine Bella! Really interesting work. Congratulations 🎊

White coat ceremony for UCL School of Pharmacy underway @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

So wonderful to finally meet Prof Angela Russell today - and see her final stop on her RSC Jeremy Knowles Prize tour. Absolutely inspirational talk about her experiences in the drug development process. Grateful for her insights and advice.

Congratulations to all the prize winners 🏆 👏

#Gquadruplexes can form within fungal pathogens and represent new #antifungal targets ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s443... By G. Middleton, F. Mahamud, I. Storer, Z. Waller, S. Bidula & colleagues at @ucl.ac.uk & @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

New paper! Evidence that G-quadruplexes form in pathogenic fungi and represent promising antifungal targets @ucllifesciences.bsky.social | EMBO Molecular Medicine www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Dr Chris Morris and I have a new paper in Nucleic Acids Research. This paper has been a long time in the making & was affected by COVID so we are proud to have it published! @shozebhaider.bsky.social @effrosynialexandr.bsky.social @chriswaudby.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Congratulations to Yaxuan for passing your upgrade viva - many thanks to @cjserpell.bsky.social and Chris Morris for examining

In my sadness that Irregular Choice is going out of business I'm making more effort to wear my collection - today are black flats with Queen and Corgi #irregularchoice

DNA docs and Halloween vibes today ✨️

Green tomato or mitochondrion?

DNA dress on today!

In memoriam...

Primatologist Jane Goodall's recent passing left an incredible legacy that transformed our understanding of chimpanzee behavior and intelligence. New insights show that great apes use medicinal plants to treat wounds like humans. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

A study found that at cellular concentrations of magnesium, the Cas9 enzyme often nicks only one strand—and this small cut is enough to defend against phages. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

From finding a "universal language" in science, to comedy, conferences and following her passion, Prof Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu @ucllifesciences.bsky.social tells BBC World Service about her fascinating path to becoming a pioneer of pharmaceutical nanoscience and champion for race equality

Gain insights into regulatory affairs by learning from professionals who work in this field. Hear about their career journeys, their roles, & the skills needed to work in this sector – plus you’ll have the chance to ask questions. Attendance is free for RSC members: https://rsc.li/3IAEnWv #ChemSky

Thanks to @jesspanch.bsky.social at Trends in Chemistry for handling this review article on DNA-peptide self-assembly which is just out. This outlook is going to frame some more papers you'll see coming out my lab over the next year or so. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Meeting Tutees from Drug Discovery and Development today!

It's #ChemNobel season again! Surely this year should go to the most important chemical breakthrough of our lifetimes: DNA synthesis/Marvin Caruthers 🧬 Phosphoramidite DNA synthesis is the bedrock of modern biology and enabled the development of therapies for untreatable diseases #chemsky 🧪

Twenty years today I started my PhD - tempus fugit

Congratulations to Dilek to getting a position as a Lecturer! It's not goodbye - just a pivot from Postdoc to collaborator ❤️

The fabulous Naked Scientists have just produced a podcast episode about colour in art, a topic about which I was of course delighted to speak to them. www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...

It gets earlier every year... Next Wednesday, join me and an expert panel to discuss who might win the 2025 #ChemNobel. Free to attend. Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Time: 2–3 PM ET Register here: lnkd.in/eD8cdWRS

Early career researchers or PhD students, could £500 develop your career? Our Researcher Development and Travel Grant can help you organise a scientific meeting and more. Apply by 20 October: https://rsc.li/4gB2D7s #ChemSky

Reading comments on a post and someone spelled Acetone *Assitone* and now I only want to spell it this way #chemsky

Matching in a different way today #Docs #leopardprint

More matching the platform yesterday #Docs #snag

Congratulations to all the recent promotions in the school of Pharmacy

Happy World Pharmacist Day folks

Excellent example of the great nucleic acids research at UCL. 75% slowing of clinical progression of Huntington's disease using gene-silencing technology. Great science with massive impact on patients from Prof Sarah Tabrizi and team 👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone wondering what academics do on their day off - this one is baking birthday cakes and singing Disney songs at full volume vm.tiktok.com/ZNdprkH1p/

RSC Professional Standards Board today, got the go-ahead for an exciting project 😀 Obligatory photo outside Burlington House with Toby Underwood before raiding Fortnums @rsc.org

Matching the train platform today 🤣

You cannot knock-out metals, you cannot knock-in metals, you cannot sequence metals - that is why they are difficult to study - Raphaël Rodriguez explains the challenges of understanding the role of metals in biology