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

Sylvain Ladame was a postdoc at the same time I was doing my PhD - his work on nucleic-acids based diagnostics is exceptional and I'm looking forward to seeing development of these for clinical impact 👌

Given Dongsheng Liu's work is the basis of a lot of what I do, it was a great pleasure to be in the same session as him at the Balasubramanian Alumni Symposium - I often use his figures on i-motif nanomachines in my intro slides (though no need today!)

Fantastic talk about the shape of DNA from Zoë Waller at Shankarfest in Cambridge Chemistry - along with some embarrassing photos... 🫣 @drzoewaller.bsky.social

Marco Di Antonio - his fantastic science is always challenging dogma, but first a bit about Italy ❤️ 🤌🤌🤌 @diantoniogroup.bsky.social

Chun Kit Kwok - who was recently promoted to Professor (congrats Kit! ❤️) - gives a showcase of his independent work on RNA G-quadruplexes today at the Balasubramanian reunion

Shankarfest continues with Mike Booth talking about his work on magnetically actived nucleic acids. This work, recently published in Nature Chemistry, was actually highlighted in the Times this week (Fancy! - Well done Mike ❤️) @drmikebooth.bsky.social

Shankarfest kicks off with Yamuna Krishnan talking about exploring the insides of the insides of our insides ❤️ @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social

Shankarfest is on!

Been out of office for a bit...

We’ve developed the first-ever method to control nucleic acid activity and gene-expressing synthetic cells with a deeply tissue penetrating alternating magnetic field 🧬 🧪 🧲!!! Published in *Nature Chemistry* Led by Ellen Parkes @syncelleu.bsky.social #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Love this - at Birmingham

Starting off our NAF 2025 meeting with an introduction of the RSC Nucleic Acids Group's new chair, Marco Di Antonio! An exciting new era for our group begins! 🧬 @diantoniogroup.bsky.social

Happy Nucleic Acids Forum! Packed out at Burlington House today, as always. Great to see the new leadership team of the Nucleic Acids Group in action ❤️ @rscnucleicacids.bsky.social @rsc.org @diantoniogroup.bsky.social @yiliangding.bsky.social @drmikebooth.bsky.social

Proud to share our work where we resolved a longstanding question regarding the existence of a human telomerase dimer and provided insights into its function. Led by 3 amazing lab members in collaboration with @yiliangding.bsky.social and @rdaslab.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Whilst I hark on about how cool Guanine is for self-assembly I see this... Self-sorting molecular assembly by Smith and co-workers - super cool ability to generate "nanowoven fabrics" Love chemistry ❤️ #chemsky

Shozeb Haider explains his love for Guanine at the Biochemical Society AlterNAT meeting. What's your favourite nucleobase? @shozebhaider.bsky.social @rsc.org @biochemsoc.bsky.social #chemsky

Dilek Guneri explains how DNA G-quadruplex structures appear to act like an on/off switch, whereas i-motif DNA structures act as a control dial in insulin gene expression at the Biochemical Society AlterNAT meeting @biochemsoc.bsky.social @rsc.org @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Yiliang explains deep learning of nucleic acid structures - using an analogy of *babies* and *Shakespeare* at AlterNAT, hosted at RSC Burlington House @biochemsoc.bsky.social @rsc.org @yiliangding.bsky.social

It's a happy Monday when you realise a compound you discovered during your PhD is now commercially available! TAP1 (forever etched into my mind) can disrupt G-quadruplex DNA structures and is now available from MedChemExpress #chemsky

U.S. astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a spectacular view of a phenomenon known as a "sprite" blazing to life above an intense thunderstorm — and she did this while orbiting 400 km above Earth aboard the International Space Station (ISS)

Congratulations to Dr Clowes on passing your PhD viva. Lovely to examine with Tony James, to see Bath and catch up with former co-worker Dan Pantos #chemsky @chemosensors.bsky.social

Exciting new research in Chemical Science from @drmikebooth.bsky.social and co-workers at the University of Oxford and University College London! "Engineering antisense oligonucleotides for targeted mRNA degradation through lysosomal trafficking" Free to read: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Congratulations to Dr Gurudas Chakraborty’s for a great PhD defence in Groningen with Prof Carmen Galan - my first in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 😀

Congratulations on passing your PhD viva Dr Alexandrou! 🎊 Thank you to Mike Booth and Christine Cardin for examining ❤️ 💙 💜 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @drmikebooth.bsky.social @christinecardin.bsky.social

Absolutely delighted to be the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Jeremy Knowles award. This prize reflects both the work of our group and also the support of colleagues, collaborators, mentors and funders along the way. @rsc.org

Absolutely delighted to be the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Jeremy Knowles Award. This prize reflects both the work of our group and also the support of colleagues, collaborators, mentors and funders along the way. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

So lucky to have Sir Michael Marmot as our plenary speaker today. Someone who has had such an impact in healthcare, and is also a fantastic storyteller #PAWeek25 @michaelmarmot.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Patient and public involvement in research and education is really important and we have some lay people representing (and in some cases presenting) in our sessions at PharmAlliance Week #PAWeek25 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Behind the scenes at UCL School of Pharmacy hosting PharmAlliance Week 2025 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #PAWeek25 vm.tiktok.com/ZNdyectNa/

Top tip from Sachi Ozawa today - if a website limits the number of searches, use your VPN to expand that number 😀 #PAWeek25

By using virtual reality and AI we can achieve so much more in our online teaching - some nice examples from Steve Hilton about implementing these in undergraduate and outreach programmes #PAWeek2025 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @stevehilton.bsky.social

Teaching people how to use AI in their research. Masterclasses work well and building a community of researchers that can share ideas together #PAWeek25 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

PharmAlliance creates all kinds of opportunities for collaboration between UCL, UNC, and Monash

One of the things we do together at PharmAlliance is fund CDT students - where there are students at each partner site working on the same project together. It's a great way to facilitate long term collaborations #PAWeek25 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Using gamification - how useful can it be to help healthcare professionals in their learning? Is it worth all the effort? #PAWeek25 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Canada spends $1bn a year on medicines for older adults that are potentially inappropriate for the patient Justin explains how inappropriate medicines contribute to sustainability problems across the globe #PAWeek25 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Shining from our technical team - Alison Dolling explains the importance of sustainability in labs, lab classes and LEAF Importance of clear labelling for lab classes and training so people can know how best to implement sustainability practices #PAWeek25 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

I love the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre here at UCL - Used in the Film Inception and TV series Killing Eve and now hosting Prof Ibrahim Abubakar who is giving one of the plenary talks at PharmAlliance Week 2025 #PAWeek25 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

PharmAlliance vision board! (Great posing by Delesha) #PAWeek25

First of many photos of PharmAlliance week! #PAWeek25

🚨🚨Job Alert🚨🚨!! Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology are recruiting a new lecturer/associate professor! an amazing opportunity to join our fantastic dept! @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclnpp.bsky.social post here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Had a wonderful day playing with ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. Highly recommend cyanotype art.

In our latest work, we look at the different conformational states of DtpA in its transport cycle. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Proud supervisor moment with Jon Hewitt giving his first presentation at the RSC NMR discussion group which is at the UCL School of Pharmacy today @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @rsc-nmrdg.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

Panel at the Annual Spices & Medicines Event discussing herbal medicines & their use in our healthcare systems. People who use these medicines often do not inform Pharmacists (even when asked) & there may be drug-herb interactions - depending on the type and quality of the herb (& the drug)