Our first session of today's #OrganoidsAreUs2025 is dedicated to organoid models in cancer research. We go with ✨ Vincenzo Corbo ✨ Ben Dwyer ✨ Maximilian Reichert ✨ Chiara Braconi Another packed session for a critical and fast-developing field!

Second session on #StemCells #regeneration and #cancer. We start with 🧪 Phil Jones from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social 🧪 Followed by Suet Yu Leung from Hong Kong Uni and 🧪 Eleanor Earp from @edinburghuni.bsky.social , ✨ First keynote lecture by Helmuth Gehart from @ethz.ch #OrganoidsAreUs2025

Opening session sponsored by @stemcell.com and OLS with a welcome from Director Owen Sansom @cruk-si.bsky.social and Elizabeth Vincan @unimelb.bsky.social . Our plenary speaker Prof Hans Clevers from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social talks about human epithelial organoids. #OrganoidsAreUs2025

We are ready to go at the CRUK Scotland Institute, @cruk-si.bsky.social, for this exciting meeting, bringing together a huge wealth of new technologies and scientific advances. First session this afternoon. Watch this space! #OrganoidsAreUs2025

It's World Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week 💚 Since we couldn't #LightUpForMito this year the team's looking lit in green to raise awareness instead! Read more here: www.thelilyfoundation.org.uk/charity/get-... #mitoaware #mitochondrialdisease #worldmitoweek2025 @lilyfoundation.bsky.social

On 14th November, we are once again holding our Network Science Day in York, which is an exciting opportunity for Network members and non-members to engage and develop new collaborations! The meeting is free to attend. Find out more and register by emailing us at [email protected].

Looking for a Clinical Research Fellow to join our team! Please share and apply below by 7th August 👇

Join us for Organoids Are Us 2025, a symposium featuring organoids, stem cells, cancer, inflammatory disorders and infectious disease. 📆23 - 26 September 2025 📍Glasgow, Scotland Early bird registration extended to 18th July. Register below! 👇 www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/events/organ...

Delighted to share our latest work looking at the role of the RNA-binding proteins Clu1 (yeast)/Clu (flies) in regulating the translation of #mitochondria proteins. Really interesting regulator of mito biology. Huge, long-running effort by PDRA Leonor Miller-Fleming 👏 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

📢 Exciting 3-year funded PhD opportunity 🧠 Prof Bobby McFarland and Dr Laura Smith are advertising for a PhD student to join their lab at the Newcastle Mitochondrial Research Group. 📅 Closing date: 16th July 2025 ⏰ Start date: 15th September 2025 To apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

10 years ago, The Lily Foundation stood at the heart of the campaign to legalise #mitochondrialdonation. Today, research confirms it’s working, giving families the chance to have healthy, genetically related children 💗 Read more and please share! www.thelilyfoundation.org.uk/news/breakth...

We're proud to announce our work developing a ground-breaking mitochondrial donation IVF treatment has now seen eight healthy babies born 👶 Find out more 👇 www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... #WeAreNCL #Health #News #Mitochondria

We spent a great afternoon at the House of Lords for the launch of the @lifearc.bsky.social Centre for #Rare #Mitochondrial Diseases, supported by @mdukcharity.bsky.social The event centre hosted staff, dignitaries, patients, MPs & those involved in rare disease policy & research. We even unveiled…

Last chance to join us for the Meeting on Mechanisms of Mitochondrial DNA Mutation and Repair, June 1 - 5, 2025 | Nashville, Tennessee @faseborg.bsky.social

#Training: Our Mouse Genetics and Colony Management for Animal Technologists course introduces animal technicians and ECRs to the background of mouse genetics, genetic crosses, and calculations of breeding numbers. Book a place on our July course now www.har.mrc.ac.uk/training/cou...

Fantastic symposium at #BNA2025 @britishneuro.bsky.social highlighting the work the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network and friends! @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social

Very full schedule at our #IMGCglasgow workshop last week, delivered by MitoCluster team @robpitceathly.bsky.social, Carlo Viscomi, @mitogene.bsky.social, and @jim-ca.bsky.social. A pleasure to attend, thanks for the invite @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social & IMGS! 🧬 #mitochondria #MouseModels #ECR

Kicking off the main sessions today with a welcome from IMGS president Yan Herault and Network Director Owen Sansom #IMGCGlasgow

Ageing Cluster member Nicholas Schaum presenting the cluster and the work he’s doing to advance our understanding of the ageing process and the possible intervention points for a healthier life using #mouse cohorts at different age points #IMGCGlasgow #AgeingResearch @mrcharwell.bsky.social

Workshops in full swing with two of them led by us. Robert Pitceathly and Carlo Viscomi of the MitoCluster with Andrew Wood of the Degron Cluster running the Mouse models of mitochondrial DNA disease workshop. Sara Wells and Sonia Bains running the Home cage monitoring one. #IMGCGlasgow #ECRS

Waiting for the delegates to come and start the science rolling. Trainee workshops and symposium today! #IMGCGlasgow

Looking forward to #IMGC2025 Glasgow next month! MitoCluster will be delivering an #ECR Workshop on Mouse Models of #Mitochondrial DNA Disease, featuring cluster lead @robpitceathly.bsky.social and investigators Carlo Viscomi, @jim-ca.bsky.social, and @mitogene.bsky.social🐁

We're fundraising for the @lilyfoundation.bsky.social as part of their Mito Communi-TEA Party campaign this April! Join us at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery next Friday 4th for a sweet treat 🦋 Donate & more info: www.justgiving.com/page/qsmito

Check out this exciting @faseborg.bsky.social conference with some top quality speakers, talking about #mito DNA mutation & repair! @mrc-mbu.bsky.social @mrcmitocluster.bsky.social @mbu-postdocs.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social @ritahorvath.bsky.social @mito-news.bsky.social

#Training: Our DNA to Disease course will be running on 28th April and provides a comprehensive introduction into genetics, covering the genetic code and how this leads to protein formation, as well as how errors in DNA can lead to disease. Book now: www.har.mrc.ac.uk/training/cou...

📢 We have not 1 but 3 clinical/patient-facing jobs working with #mitoCAMB on the #LifeArc #raredisease centre for #mito diseases. 1x pre/post-doctoral CRA; 1x post-doctoral CRA (with potential to become a 4 year ACL); 1x research coordinator Join us! Links below.

Great opportunity to discuss cross-cluster collaborations involving mitochondrial dysfunction with a talk by @robpitceathly.bsky.social

We are #hiring for a number of positions in a new Data Science Team at the @cruk-si.bsky.social that will be delivering the National Mouse Genetics Network data platform, including this Data Science Team Leader role: Deadline: 28th February www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/comp...

Our MURIDAE cluster, led by @profantisles.bsky.social is part of an international team that has been awarded £3.5 million to investigate how cognitive decline and premature brain ageing contribute to psychotic disorders like schizophrenia.

Collaborative paper with MitoCluster's Jim Stewart 📰 @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social @mrcharwell.bsky.social #mitochondria #mousemodels

Another fantastic piece of work from Carlos Moraes' group. Using mitochondrial DdCBE base editors to correct a pathogenic mutation in our heteroplasmic m.5024C>T mice. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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