🔬We have a fully funded Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD postion to study #Proteostasis and #Aging in colloboration with @jrkumita.bsky.social @Pharmacology. Details on the project ▶️https://tinyurl.com/2zhkjjhs + bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/how-apply . Please RT.

This #TrainingTuesday why not check out our recently scheduled dates for the autumn term #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #ECRchat www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/publ... @babrahaminst.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE: Reflections from last weeks International Research Culture Conference #IRCC25 at University of Warwick organised by the National Centre for Research Culture featuring guests Chandrika Nair, Alys Kay, and Dolly Coates. Find it in your podcast app or here buff.ly/tBStCUO

Delighted to share that our paper solving the age-old mystery of whether and how VH-replacement shapes the antibody repertoire is in @embojournal.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Fantastic work from Harry White, @peterch405.bsky.social @babraham-bioinf.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social

NEWS | Work just published by the Corcoran lab has described a mechanism estimated to be responsible for shaping the generation of up to half of all antibodies. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/09/institute-immunologists-new-process-antibody-diversity @annecorcoran.bsky.social

Exciting news📣: #ProteostasisUK is hiring a network manager to help drive an ambitious, #BBSRC funded initiative connecting and expanding #Proteostasis research across the UK. Position initially for 3 years. Deadline September 28th. More info: tinyurl.com/f83rp673 & proteostasisuk.co.uk Please RT

Will you be at the @bsrageing.bsky.social ‪#BSRA2025 this week? Look out for Institute contributions: - @martint-babraham.bsky.social: RNA binding proteins in Tregs (Friday) - Rahul Samant: proteostasis strategies, stress resilience & senescence (Friday) - Institute facilities showcase

Delighted to welcome Dinis Calado to Babraham. A fantastic appointment and a lovely guy! Welcome DC!

NEWS | We're delighted to welcome @diniscalado.bsky.social to the Institute as a senior group leader in our #immunology programme! The Calado lab works at the interface of immunity, #cancer, and #ageing. Learn more: www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

How discovery research and collaboration between the @mrclmb.bsky.social, University of Cambridge, Babraham Institute, and clinicians from Addenbrooke’s identified the mutation that causes a rare immune disorder (APDS) and led to a pioneering treatment giving patients "a new lease of life".

📣 Milner Seminars: Focus on spatial biology Please join us on 25 September for the next instalment of our seminar series, with talks from Esther Baena (Owkin) and Mats Nilsson (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social and @sangerinstitute.bsky.social). Find out more and register: ow.ly/myoT50Wu1AX

Are you an early-career researcher using Drosophila in your research? Sign up to be matched with a mentor as part of FlyCROSS 2025-26. Apply by 1 September 2025. thenode.biologists.com/mentees-flyc... #Drosophila #DevelopmentalBiology #Mentor #Career #Biology #FlyCross

Good morning from @babrahaminst.bsky.social

ICYMI Here are the links to all of our #BitesizeBioinformatics mini series webinars on #MachineLearning in #Biology 👇 🖥️ Machine Learning Examples in Biological Sciences 1: Linear Regression youtu.be/tIfpbDWnb0c?... More topics and useful info our website and YouTube channel too 1/5

It's #TrainingTuesday As well as delivering live training courses, we also have a playlist of #BitesizeBioinformatics webinars on YouTube? Check out the latest in our miniseries on Machine Learning in Biology, from our @babrahaminst.bsky.social biostatistician youtu.be/2MYWxp0YRpY #Bioinformatics

Last chance to register for this brilliant international #BioHackathon 8-10 Sep £35 for 3 days, inc. team or individual coding and problem solving, refreshments, dinner and quiz! 2025.biohack.live Join us at venues in #Cambridge #Newcastle #Antwerp

Drshika Mehtani from the lab of Hayley Sharpe ‪ @sharpe-lab.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social won our poster prize at the EMBO Workshop "Phosphatases: from basic research to translation" for her work on redox mediated substrate interactions with PTPRK. Congratulations!

I am delighted by the award of £600,000 network grant to support the UK Proteostasis Network that @babrahaminst.bsky.social launched in 2024 with support from @phar.cam.ac.uk @mrc-tu.bsky.social Proteostasis is critical for lifelong health and to stave off disease - in humans, animals and plants

Our upcoming #DevPres webinar focusses on stem cells and organoids, with talks from Toshi Yamada (UCSF), Chrysanthi-Maria (Anthie) Moysidou (Max Delbrück Center @mdc-berlin.bsky.social) and Daniel Medina-Cano (MSKCC). 13 August 16:00 BST Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The UK’s proteostasis capability has been bolstered by the award of a BBSRC Network Grant, which will support the development of the UK Proteostasis Network. Prof Ari Sadanandom from our Department of Biosciences is leading the plant-focused arm of the project. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4mFT359

Exciting news for @ukproteostasis.bsky.social and for #proteostasis researchers across the UK! Funding from BBSRC will support the development of the UK Proteostasis network, including: - connecting & building the community to accelerate research - supporting ECRs www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07...

✋Hands up who loves #FlowCytometry? Then enjoy learning about how our annual Spectral Flow Cytometry Symposium is becoming an unmissable event (and note the dates for 2026). www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07...

BLOG | We had the pleasure of hosting Tomasz, a PhD student from the University of Leeds as a PIPS placement. In our latest blog article he describes how his exposure to the world of tech transfer has made him look at his research in a different way. www.babraham.ac.uk/blog/Tomasz-...

This #TrainingTuesday why not check out our third international #BioHackathon 2025.biohack.live Just £35/€35 for a 3 days @babrahaminst.bsky.social @uantwerpen.be @viblifesciences.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk #CamBioHack #Bioinformatics #Coding #ComputationalBiology

EVENT | Free workshops for technical professionals in #highered and #research 📅 AutumnFest 8 - 12 Sept 💻 Online ➡️ View full programme and secure you place today buff.ly/LbnGPsp

Read Hanane's blog for the @bsrageing.bsky.social describing her experience at #AGE2025 held in Alaska! * how her research @houseleylab.bsky.social has progressed since winning the 2024 Korenchevsky Award * conference highlights * sampling the Alaskan wilderness

Less than 4 weeks until registration closes for this brilliant international #BioHackathon 8-10 Sep £35 for 3 days, inc. team or individual coding and problem solving, refreshments, dinner and quiz! 2025.biohack.live Join us at venues in #Cambridge #Newcastle #Antwerp

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 I am excited to share our new work on epigenetic enhancer priming in early mammalian development genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Fantastic collaboration with Wolf Reik’s team, with key contributions from many others, led by the excellent Chris Todd. Short 🧵

EMBL scientists have developed DLVPM, a new machine-learning framework which can integrate diverse biological data types. By doing so, DLVPM can uncover hidden biological relationships relevant to human health & disease, particularly in cancer. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

We were honoured to host and hear from Tama Braithwaite-Westoby, Māori Engagement Advisor)/Tautotoro @malaghan.bsky.social for his seminar today: Innovating for Impact: Translating Immunology into Equitable Therapies for all in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Learn more about #AnimalResearch: step inside and explore what a mouse facility looks like and how it operates with our 360 virtual tour. More information about how and why we use mice in research on our website too. www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research...

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This video, captured by Berta in the @trayon.bsky.social lab in collaboration with our Imaging facility, shows a mouse embryo dividing. This video allows researchers to visualise the events that happen before implantation at an early stage of development.

We're looking forward to welcoming @dweinkove.bsky.social, Professor of the Biology of Ageing at Durham University and Chair @bsrageing.bsky.social, for a seminar tomorrow: Routes to Translation in the Biology of Ageing. It's not too late to attend! www.babraham.ac.uk/seminars/202...

🚨Our user survey is closing on 24 July. Only a few days left to share your views. Please take 10 minutes to help us demonstrate the value of the data resources we manage with our collaborators. Complete survey 👇 www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGFMBH8?ch... 🖥️🧬 #FAIRdata

Congratulations to Simon Andrews, Head of Bioinformatics at @babrahaminst.bsky.social for his Papin Prize. Simon is a great facility head and a lovely colleague as is Rachael Walker (Head of Flow Cytometry) who also won a Pain Prize in 2023. We stand on the shoulders of giants!

AWARD NEWS | Following Simon's award for Contribution to Research in the #PapinPrizes, our article covers just a slice of Simon's impact on the Institute's research, on #bioinformatics and on empowering researchers across the world by demystifying data analysis. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07...

Save the Date! Development has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative to co-organise a meeting on #HumanDevelopment. 📅7 - 9 Sep 2026 📍University of Warwick, UK Register your interest for #HumanDev26: www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...

Today our campus community will be connecting while they pick up cool refreshments! 🥵

🥳Well deserved recognition of achievements and impacts across the Institute and internationally for Simon Andrews @babraham-bioinf.bsky.social who wins a #PapinPrizes for Contributions to Research!

NEWS | Thanks to BBSRC investment #MassSpectrometry capabilities at the Institute have been boosted by new high-throughput instrument, the Thermo Orbitrap Astral mass spectrometer. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07...

This bowl of skittles means only one thing - our annual Spectral #FlowCytometry Symposium starts today! Missed out? Our facility offers training all year round: www.babraham.ac.uk/science-faci...

@drsimoncook.bsky.social is speaking at the #proteostasis session at #SEBconference this morning. In our feature, he describes how he's an "evangelist for discovery research" and the pipeline it feeds, and the Institute's growing strength in proteostasis. www.babraham.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...

Don't miss out on our #Bioinformatics #Hackathon 8-10 September Cambridge | Antwerp | Newcastle Register now at 2025.biohack.live @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social @uantwerpen.be @newcastleuni.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org

At #SEBconference today, @delladavid-lab.bsky.social presented the group's research on understanding #ageing and protein aggregration. Della also played a key role in establishing the @ukproteostasis.bsky.social. She speaks about both themes in this feature. www.babraham.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...

This #MicroscopyMonday shows an image from research published last week. The images are of uveal melanoma cells showing the accumulation of lipid droplets in the absence of CDS2 (right), compared with cells with functional CDS2 (left). Lipid droplets are stained green with BODIPY™ 493/503.

Look out for a Babraham double billing as you plan your schedule for #SEBconference. @delladavid-lab.bsky.social will join @ukproteostasis.bsky.social members in the proteostasis session on day 1, followed by @drsimoncook.bsky.social in the same slot on day 2.

NEWS: Research just published by scientists from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and collaborators, including cell signalling experts at the Institute, has identified a new drug target to treat an aggressive eye cancer, and possibly other cancers too. ‬ www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07...

Revealed - what fuels the @linterman.bsky.social lab's research! Perhaps we need a Babraham blend?

We are hiring a research assistant 👉 tinyurl.com/yxebtjbj to join our lab working on healthy #ageing and protein #aggregation in C. elegans 🪱. Deadline August 4th. 🙏 RT. #proteostasis @babrahaminst.bsky.social

Listen to Lou's career deep dive as she describes her journey from aspiring vet to wearing many hats in her current roles! #STEMCarees #Entrepreneurship