Calling #ListerFellows old and new! Become a champion for the Institute 🏰 🐎 ⚔️ Take a moment to share a personal story about your research journey. What differences have #ListerPrize funding and/or your connection with others in this community made? Share and tag 🙌

1/4 📢New research led by former #ListerFellow Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir finds localised myelin damage triggered response in a connected, remote grey matter region. Congrats to the team at @scicambridge.bsky.social 👏

Did you miss this last week? She's definitely one to watch! Discover @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social's pioneering research on peripheral glia today lister-institute.org.uk/news/in-conv...

The @biochemsoc.bsky.social Translation UK 2026 meeting will be at @universityofleeds.bsky.social from 30th June - 2nd July. Fantastic keynote speakers including @jbquerido.bsky.social, @nickywhiffin.bsky.social, Nicolas Locker Register and submit your abstract here: tinyurl.com/muy5kvax

Info on the Immunology of Fungal Infections Gordon Research Conference. Fabulous array of top presenters! And our congrats to #ListerFellow @therad-lab.bsky.social who co-chairs this major international event 👏

Congrats to first author @emmajbanks.bsky.social, #ListerFellow @tunglejic.bsky.social and collaborators 👏 Discovered 3-gene control hub and strict regulator genes for gene transfer agent activation and bacterial cell lysis. Paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enjoy this great feature in @science.org on infant amnesia, brain development and memory recall. Featuring research insights from #ListerFellow @tjryan.bsky.social and his lab @tcddublin.bsky.social. 👉 www.science.org/content/arti...

Peripheral glia act as sentinel cells. They sense tissue stress and orchestrate immune responses. Meet #ListerFellow @franzeprogatzky.bsky.social who's using 3D imaging and computation to learn about their role in tissue repair too. 💬 Comment & repost! 🔗 lister-institute.org.uk/news/in-conv...

We reckon this super long-form piece will appeal to our Lister community - so many of you involved in imaging and/or cancer research. Art meets science - you could gaze at this pic for hours (but do click and read the article too). www.science.org/content/arti...

Another historical snapshot. Today, we celebrate Muriel Robertson (1883-1973). 🧪 Pioneering trypanosome studies 🧪 Chlostridia bacteria isolation for gas gangrene antiserum 🧪 Co-founded @microbiologysociety.org 🏅 FRS in 1947, 2 years after first women elected 👉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_...

1/5 Fantastic companion papers published in @nature.com and @natgenet.nature.com. They uncover the full functional landscape of RNU4-2 and identify a previously unknown recessive condition. Brilliant sleuthing! Congrats to #ListerFellow @nickywhiffin.bsky.social et al. 👏 Summary in thread ⏬

Co-founded by Aviv Regev and former #ListerFellow Sarah Teichmann. The @humancellatlas.org is celebrating its 10th anniversary 👏 @teichlab.bsky.social #HumanCellAtlas

Rescuing specific memories by rejuvenating engram cells. Commentary by Louisa Zielke at @tcddublin.bsky.social on a recent important paper from @graeffjohannes.bsky.social & Graff Lab at @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social in @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

A wonderful, extended holiday weekend to all our current #ListerFellows, our wider community and all our lovely followers! ☀️ 🌷

This is incredible. Amazing video of the first ever structure of telomerase in yeast - in glorious 3D technicolour. Kudos to #ListerFellow @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social and lab at @mrclmb.ac.uk and @hongmiaohu.bsky.social who led the study. Stunning results 👏 Cryo-EM just keeps on giving 🤩

Brilliant to hear @uniofexeternews.bsky.social awarded £4.5M from @wellcometrust.bsky.social to develop specialist bioimaging tools for WHO-priority fungal pathogens. Led by #ListerFellow Liz Ballou @balloulab.bsky.social at @mrccmm.bsky.social. Huge congrats, a fastastic achievement 👏

New work with contribution from former #ListerFellow @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social that reveals a new target mechanism to overcome therapeutic resistance in kidney cancer.

📣 Still time to apply to this bioinformatics postdoc position with us! If you have any questions, please DM me here or send me an email. Deadline 3 April.

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with the @acmedsci.bsky.social to widen opportunities for early-career clinical academics through the Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers scheme, helping safeguard the UK's clinical research pipeline. 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/news/partner...

Our warmest congratulations to former #ListerFellow Melina Schuh on this very prestigious award. Well earned recognition for extraordinary research into why meiosis is error-prone in humans. 🥇

It's World Tuberculosis Day 🦠 Over 1M die of TB each year, but @who.int says ending TB is achievable 🙌 Former #ListerFellow Gurdyal Besra (@unibirmingham.bsky.social) studies the TB bacterium cell wall and the potential role of iNKT/CD1d therapeutics. www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profil...

A belated repost, but do read this great backgrounder to the arthritis and uveitis (eye inflammation) in children 👇 #ListerFellow Lizzy Rosser @bcellsrosser.bsky.social and colleagues are doing tremendous work to address this damaging condition.

This is Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927). Head of the Guinness brewing business, philanthropist, FRS in 1906. He gave the Institute £250,000 in 1898. A story about a dog bite and Pasteur. Read it here: lister-institute.org.uk/about-us/125...

Check out this beautifully designed and insightful work from #ListerFellow @stewartlab.bsky.social. Long thread, totally worth it 😍

A study in bioRxiv last week hints that "model-organism research has been in continuous decline in the last three decades." #ListerFellow Vilaiwan Fernandes definitely bucks that trend. Find out why the fruit fly really matters for biomedical brain research 👇

Important info on #meningitis from #ListerFellow Rebecca Drummond @therad-lab.bsky.social 🔽

🌷Spring has sprung... and our website has had a refresh. The same #ListerPrize info. All those great stories about #ListerFellows. Just a new, clean look and feel. Go check it out! 👉 lister-institute.org.uk

So, who in the wider Lister community got involved in some fun or inspiring events for #BritishScienceWeek? 👀 We'd love to hear your stories and see your pics. Share your experiences in the comments ⏬

📣 The Whelan lab is hiring a bioinformatics postdoc 📣 Together with @fabricejpierre.bsky.social, we are offering a 1-year bioinformatic PDRA position in comparative genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. To find out more please visit whelanlab.co.uk/contact/. Applications close 3 April 2026!

Just a B&W snap from the archives today. Here's a view of the Lister Institute's former Chelsea Bridge Road building, built 1894-98, later extended. Now the private Lister Hospital. Image from the Wellcome Collection via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th...

Why the fly? Ahead of #BrainAwarenessWeek, #ListerFellow and developmental neurobiologist Vilaiwan Fernandes explains how Drosophila helps answer a huge question: how are brains built? 🧠🪰 Read, repost and share your reactions here 💬 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/in-conversat...

Another gem from our most recent annual report. Flick to the feature on how our annual meeting brings together three generations of scientists: 🧑‍🎓Summer Studentship participants 🔬Current and recent Lister Fellows 🔦 Senior leaders lister-institute.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Lovely interview with #ListerFellow @nevesjf.bsky.social. Check it out 👇

Proper nerdy humour from @nickywhiffin.bsky.social 🤣 Don't get it? Read about ReNU Syndrome www.genomicsengland.co.uk/patients-par... Meet #ListerFellow Nicky Whiffin who led the research to understand the mechanisms behind this rare disease lister-institute.org.uk/renu-ed-hope...

Fascinated by the history of the Lister Institute? Follow us now for Friday book recommendations. 🌟"War on Disease: History of the Lister Institute" by Harriette Chick et al. Covers our early years as a world-leading biomedical research institution. www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sear...

A paper at some point seemed that it would be left in a lab book and was worked on through a pandemic. Thanks to @dianaematei.bsky.social for persevering with this one. Please check it out 👇 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

🤔Back to the bench? If you have a bold idea for high-risk, high-reward biomedical research, the #ListerPrize2027 could be for you. With the flexible funding, you win intellectual freedom - and a 5-year window to build up your lab. Watch Pete's story. 👉 youtu.be/lOQGPciQAQc?...

Check out this beautiful new imaging workflow from former #ListerFellow @linterman.bsky.social 🔽 💭 Take a moment to reply. How you might adapt it for your own research?

In the wake of Rare Disease Day we celebrate this recent paper in @NatureComms co-authored by #ListerFellow @nickywhiffin.bsky.social. Big data analysis and clever use of rare disease cohort sequences help identify 22 candidate disease genes with de novo variants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Right BACH2 at you @roychoudhurilab.bsky.social 😆 Fantastic to see research on BACH2 from former #ListerFellow Rahul Roychoudhuri and colleagues included in Nature News and Views. Read the paper on fine-tuning BACH2 dosage to enhance antitumor T cell therapy⤵️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Strong research needs strong stewardship 💡 📢 In our new blog, new trustees Anne Rosser and Jane Hillston reflect on leadership, shared values and why flexible funding matters for early‑career researchers, especially now. Read more 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/lister-welco... Repost if this resonates ♻️

☕ Start your day with a good news brew. #ListerFellow Kelly Nguyen @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social just won the 2026 Blavatnik Award in Life Sciences, crowned one of Britain's Brightest Young Scientists 🤩 What an incredible acknowledgement of her bold and pioneering research. Congratulations 👏

☕️ Grab a brew and read this excellent piece in TIME 👇 Featuring #ListerFellow @tjryan.bsky.social and his lab at @tcddublin.bsky.social on his latest research into the mechanisms behind why you can't remember being a baby and toddler (aka infantile amnesia).

Congrats to former #ListerFellow Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social et al. on wonderful new insights into how the ancestral chordate eye gets rewired in early vertebrates - an extraordinary "mash-up" in response to sensory challenges👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

We are delighted to partner with @acmedsci.bsky.social and support Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers🤝 For research-active Clinical Lecturers to gather data to strengthen follow-on funding proposals. 🪙£40k to cover research costs 🛑Closes 4pm Thursday 26 Feb

Chance to work with TWO #ListerFellows on this funded PhD project @manchester.ac.uk 😍 @whelanfj.bsky.social investigates genetic elements of microbiomes in health and disease. Joanne Konkel studies the immunology and microbiology of mucosal barrier sites. Don't miss this 2-4-1 offer 😄

🗨️ "A supportive and friendly community makes all the difference in working productively, and the van Houte lab proved this. I looked forward to getting into work every day." Nia Feakes, Lister Summer Student Here's to a summer of research fun! Find out more: lister-institute.org.uk/summer-stude...

Paper from #ListerFellow Johnathan Cooper-Knock and team at @sheffielduni.bsky.social is in the headlines 👇️ AI uses measurements from time of diagnosis to estimate how quickly #MND will progress in individuals to optimise time for critical intervention. 👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's Friday 13th, but #ListerPrize selection has nothing to do with luck. Our Scientific Committee is diligently assessesing all #ListerPrize2026 applications. Long list, shortlist, final interviews... Here's a sneak peek on what goes on behind the scenes 👇 lister-institute.org.uk/behind-the-s...

🗨️ "Overall, the experience has strengthened my motivation to continue towards a PhD and potentially a future career in research." Jamie Terry, Lister Summer Student. No better way to spend the summer! Discover more 👉️ lister-institute.org.uk/summer-stude... #studentships