🎓 PhD Position! 🧪 Role of non-canonical autophagy in the liver response to unhealthy Western diets with Dr Naiara Beraza 📅Apply by 2 December ➡️ buff.ly/9gAywp5

Happy birthday to our Enterprise Centre (fondly known as 'TEC') which turned 10 this year! Ahead of its time in achieving the net-zero carbon building standard, TEC remains one of the most sustainable buildings in the UK & Europe. To find out more: https://bit.ly/4nvoI9o #NetZero #UniCampus

Toad hibernation burrow building 🐸 Last week, enthusiastic volunteers from across the Norwich Research Park came together to create a cosy winter refuge for toads in our courtyard 🍃🪵

The absence of coral reefs in Earth system models introduces gigaton-scale low biases into future ocean carbon sink estimates. Speaker: Dr Lester Kwiatkowski. How does climate-driven change in reef calcification alter the ocean carbon sink and future carbon budgets? 📍All welcome: shorturl.at/4Lao4

1/ Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other: New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint: tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm

Come along to the BIO Open Lecture TODAY, 2-3pm, in EFRY 01.08 where we welcome Dr Caroline Beck from University of Otago with talk title "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" Hosted by Prof. Grant Wheeler. All welcome #UEAScience

Explore career options and meet with employers at Science Connect: Careers Fair and Panels at 1pm - 3pm in NEWSCI 0.07/0.08 on Wednesday 5 November. Alongside the Fair from 1.30pm - 4.15pm we have a programme of talks and presentations. Hope to see you there! #UEAScience

🆕Vacancy! We're looking for a Project Scientist to work on a project designing combinations of phages against Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) in swine. 💷 £29,890 🗓️ Apply by 16 November 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/Cq1dOf3

🎓 #PhDPosition ! 🍔 Evolutionary and Ecological Impact of the Western Lifestyle on the Gut Microbiome with Dr Falk Hildebrand @bioinf.bsky.social 📅Apply by 2 December ➡️ buff.ly/Pf6wmqO

🔔New paper alert🔔 a fun project, with some interesting findings- How short and longer of heatwave durations impact insect eggs and are results reproducible across labs? doi.org/10.1002/oik.... @biouea.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @bencole2504.bsky.social & co-authors

Ever wondered what it's like to be a PhD student at UEA? 🤔 Join Alex as he takes us through his day studying Plants, Food and Health. From groundbreaking research in our MoveX Lab to whipping up a nutritious lunch and staying fit at the gym- it's all in a day's work for our passionate postgrads! 🔬🥗

Congratulations to BIO graduate, Caleb Stradling, this year's winner of the Bishop of Norwich Ecology Prize. He's seen here collecting his prize from the Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, and our very own @simon-butler.bsky.social. #UEAScience

🎓 PhD Position ! 🔬 Unravelling how endothelial metabolism drives vascular inflammation with Dr Stephen Robinson @robinsonlab-qib.bsky.social 📅Apply by 2 December ➡️ buff.ly/wXgG9hN

Researchers from our Norwich Medical School have found that treating patients at home with IV antibiotics, rather than in a clinical setting, could halve costs to the NHS and relieve pressure on hospital beds. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4hzrtFg #Research #Study #Antibiotics

🎓 #PhDPosition ! 🍽️ The impact of innovative food ingredients on the human gut microbiome and health with Dr Fred Warren @starchlab.bsky.social 📅Apply by 2 December ➡️ buff.ly/zaFaqGk

Beyond excited to share our new Perspective just published in ISME Journal! This work is a joint effort with Shamik Roy, @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont exploring how warming and antibiotics influence carbon use efficiency. We hope you enjoy reading it! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Are you looking for your first step into a career in the STEM? Explore career options and meet with employers at Science Connect: Careers Fair and Panels at 1pm - 3pm in NEWSCI 0.07/0.08. Alongside the fair from 1.30pm – 4.15pm we have a programme of talks and presentations.

A daughter following on the work of her mother: a computer game exploring the wonders of a hidden world ensures a lasting legacy for our lovely late colleague Prof Harriet Jones. #UEAScience www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

In our next BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 5th November, 2-3pm, in EFRY 01.08 we welcome Dr Caroline Beck from University of Otago with talk title "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" Hosted by Prof. Grant Wheeler. All welcome #UEAScience

🎓 #PhDPosition ! 🦠 How does antibiotic resistance evolve in mixed communities? with Professor Mark Webber @webberma.bsky.social 📅Apply by 2 December ➡️ buff.ly/f6FEVRP

🚨 PhD studentship alert! 🚨 Joint PhD with Münsterberg and Mok labs (UEA) with collaborators Macaulay and Haerty labs (EI) Explore how enhancers control heart, blood & vessel development using single-cell multi-omics biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/one... #PhD #DevBio #Cardiovascular

Animals know things — important things! — and we must conserve their ability to pass these lessons down through generations, or their ways of living will fade away.

NEWS - International award for group leader recognises excellence in wheat genetics and genomics Dr Philippa Borrill @philippaborrill.bsky.social recently visited Italy to accept the Carlotta Award at the International Conference ‘From Seed to Pasta V’. okt.to/pUTHXA

A daughter following on the work of her mother: a computer game exploring the wonders of a hidden world ensures a lasting legacy for our lovely late colleague Prof Harriet Jones. #UEAScience www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

New Wadertales blog on an important IBIS paper from Jesse Conklin et al: the winter distribution of bar-tailed godwit subspecies is not what we thought: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/r... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ornithology @wadertales.bsky.social @globalflyway.bsky.social

Next up in our CDMB Seminar Series is Dr Rafeeq Mir, a Post Doc in the Wheeler and Münsterberg labs, speaking on Thursday 23 October. All welcome!

New BBSRC funded PhD opportunity in my group with Inspiralis Ltd and @conradn.bsky.social. If you are interested in RNA - protein interactions and RNA modifications check the details below for how to apply. @nrpdtp.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzvn4dr

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2

Congratulations to Aykut Shen, one of my first PhD students, who has successfully passed his viva yesterday. Many thanks to examiners @conradn.bsky.social and @adamcribbs.bsky.social and co-supervisor/collaborator. @whaerty.bsky.social. @nrpdtp.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social

Please RT! 🚨 4-year PhD position in my lab (Oct 2026 start) 🚨 Molecular and genomic insights to sexually antagonistic genes Application deadline: Dec 2, 2025 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mol...

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

The BIO CDMB seminar series restarts for 2025/26 next week with a talk by Dr Terri-Lea Holmes, post doc in Dr James Smith's lab. All welcome! #UEAScience

The latest wadertales blog (no. 151) describes how scoring moult from photographs can reveal moult season duration and how it varies between populations: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m... #ornithology

BLOG - A look back at our 2024 Annual Science Meeting awards This week is our JIC/TSL Annual Science Meeting, a yearly conference for staff and students. Each year, awards are given to those who go above and beyond - we've taken a look back at last year’s winners 🏆 www.jic.ac.uk/blog/a-look-...

#Rice growing in the Cambridgeshire fens or on the ocean? 🍚🌊 Catch up on @itvanglia.bsky.social‘s fascinating feature on this #agricultural innovation, featuring our own Professor Steve Penfield 📺: www.itv.com/watch/news/u...

Today is the day! 🌟🥼🧪 We’re thrilled to be kicking off the NBI Accessible Science Talks, in collaboration with @earlhaminst.bsky.social , @quadraminstitute.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Thank you in advance to everyone for joining us - whether in-person or online! #NBIAST2025

PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils” www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

“I’m very pleased to welcome Maggie and Gary to the Quadram. They each bring a unique wealth of experience to the Quadram Institute as a leader in the field of research into food and nutrition, gut microbiology, and human health.” 💬 Chair of Trustees Dr Celia Caulcott

“This study is particularly important to me as it took place during my post doc years at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and it has been a source of inspiration for my current research line, as a newly appointed Early Career Fellow at the Quadram Institute." 💬 Dr Serena Monaco

Happy birthday, Rex!! 🥳🎂 Yesterday, Rex the JIC #Science Cat celebrated his 10th birthday. Rex has been an iconic figure at the JIC for the last five years, greeting visitors at reception and proudly prowling around the NRP 🐾

🧬 Our latest paper out in Scientific Reports! We explored how Gum Arabic (a dietary fibre) affects the microbiota–gut–brain axis and whole-organism fitness in zebrafish. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @immler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social What we found ⬇️

"Everything is connected. Everyone can make a difference." Rest in peace, Jane Goodall. We are proud to have known you. #UEAScience

📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

It's #NationalVegetarianWeek! 🌿 If you’re a vegan or vegetarian, with regular periods, living within 70 miles of Norwich you can take part in our HARVEST study growing biofortified greens in kitchen garden🥬 Find out more➡️https://buff.ly/3XFLuQS

Our annual event at Norwich RNA Club: AI in RNA Biology. Great speakers! Please join us this Thursday at 2pm @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social

⏰ Closing soon! We're looking for a Research Scientist (Xenobiotics) to investigate xenobiotic–microbiome interactions and understand the variation in responses across different individual microbiomes. 💷 £37,500 to £45,350 🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/9sP91TV

📣 Speakers announced for the Oral Tissue Collaborative (OTC) Symposium Register now to join either in person or online for the event on the future of oral tissue biorepositories 🗓️ 10 October Register by 3 October ⤵️

Our researchers are looking into the past to protect UK wheat from a new fungal rust threat — searching for resistance genes in historic wheat lines to safeguard harvests and reduce the need for fungicide applications.

📺 We're on TV! Watch BBC Look East's report on the launch of our ViTaL-D study. The ViTaL-D Study is investigating the impact of eating @johninnescentre.bsky.social Vitamin D biofortified tomatoes on levels of vitamin D in the blood 🍅 Watch from 03:30 ➡️ buff.ly/osZhuCZ