Super proud of Nora, our amazing PhD student, for being awarded a poster prize at the GBM Compact 2025 conference "Focus on Condensate Biology"!! Congrats to all the awardees! @phar.cam.ac.uk @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (3rd October, 1 pm BST) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen). @danbose.bsky.social @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

A fully funded Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD position with @delladavid-lab.bsky.social (and me!!) - if you are interested in #Proteostasis and #Aging, please check it out!!!

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (5th September, 1 pm BST) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen). Dr. Tatyana Shelkovnikova and Dr. Stefano Bo will be presenting! @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, who died on August 24, 2016. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

When my RA (Dr. Ellis Wilde) isn’t busy in the lab or chasing after a toddler, she is contributing new articles to @chemistryworld.com www.chemistryworld.com/news/molecul... Well done Ellis!! @phar.cam.ac.uk

The Experience Postgrad Life Sciences programme 2025 is underway!! ❤️ So proud to be involved with this @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

Join us THIS Friday for the next talks in our UK Biomolecular Condensate seminar series!! @luke-mathphys.bsky.social @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

We (and many!) have been thinking a lot about how to quantifiably measure the material properties of biomolecular condensates inside cells. Chris (my final year PhD student) wrote this great review article about microscopy-based techniques link.springer.com/article/10.1... @phar.cam.ac.uk

An amazing trip to Poland spent meeting scientists at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań) and the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre (Kraków). Thank you to my host and collaborator, Prof. Maciej Kozak for the invitation!! @phar.cam.ac.uk

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (1st August, 1 pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen). @luke-mathphys.bsky.social @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

Back from a wonderful conference in Lisbon!! Thank you @claudiogomeslab.bsky.social and Alice Melao for such a well organised event and the invitation to give a talk ❤️ #ISPIS2025 @TWIN2PIPSA

An amazing start to the conference in Lisbon!! Can’t wait to present tomorrow ❤️#ISPIS2025 @phar.cam.ac.uk

An amazing day of high quality talks and posters - well done everyone and a shout out to Mateo Hoare (our PhD student) for a Talk Prize ❤️ @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social

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

Join us today (4th July) at 1pm GMT!!! 👇

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (4th July, 1pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen!) www.ukcondensates.co.uk/monthly-netw... @leebiophysics.bsky.social Alex Borodavka @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

How to spy on condensates: technology feature in @natmethods.nature.com Our views on the topic, by Hyman,Rosen,Brangwynne, Sabari, Kappel,Xu & myself, presented here @hymanlab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social @bsabari.bsky.social @kallikappel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In press!! NMR & MD simulations reveal how non-native contacts stabilise a key transient intermediate in the lysozyme amyloid cascade. Well done Minkoo and all!! @phar.cam.ac.uk For CMD ❤️ advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (4th July, 1pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen!) www.ukcondensates.co.uk/monthly-netw... @leebiophysics.bsky.social Alex Borodavka @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

A beautiful day to celebrate #CambridgePride with the Old Addenbrooke’s Neighbourhood @phar.cam.ac.uk @mrc-tu.bsky.social @cambiochem.bsky.social @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈

Come join us for a new on-line seminar series (First seminar 6th June, 1pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen!) www.ukcondensates.co.uk/monthly-netw... @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

Come join us for a new on-line seminar series (First seminar 6th June, 1pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen!) www.ukcondensates.co.uk/monthly-netw... @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

This is an amazing initiative that my lab has personally benefitted from - please start the conversation of Roving Researchers at your institutes!!

🚨We have an opening for a postdoc to use protein design techniques to developing and characterizing binders against intrinsically disordered proteins involved in neuroscience. Experience in protein biochemistry and/or molecular neuroscience preferred. Share: 🙏 mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

A good month - second lab paper in press!! This one using the CTPR scaffold to create a synuclein fibril binding chimera. Well done Sam, Matthias and all! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @phar.cam.ac.uk @mng-ceb.bsky.social @knowleslab.bsky.social

An exciting first day at this Condensate conference in Copenhagen!! Chris presented his poster today 😊 @phar.cam.ac.uk

So excited to finally see our CTPR-condensate work published! Well done Chris, Mateo, Julia et al. ❤️ @chemicalscience.rsc.org @phar.cam.ac.uk @rcollepardo.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Deadline for this funded PhD project is 31st May 2025 (PI: Prof. Vicky MacRae (Anglian Ruskin University) in collaboration with my group!! @phar.cam.ac.uk

Check out this - funded PhD project with Vicky MacRae (at Anglian Ruskin University) in collaboration with us!!! Pass the word to students interested in protein degradation and cardiovascular disease www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Looking forward to speaking at the Physics of Life 2025 conference in Harrogate UK. Hope to catch up with old and new friends - my talk is Tuesday morning!! www.physicsoflife.org.uk/physics-of-l... @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

🌟 Calling all aspiring scientists! 🌟 Are you an A-level biology student at a UK state school? Apply for the Aspiring Scientists Training Programme (ASTP). 📅 Date: 13-18th July 🔗 Apply now: bit.ly/ASTP_Apply #ASTP2025 #FutureScientists #STEMopportunities #BiologyCareers

Super excited!! #BPS2025

Very excited to be able to catch up with old (and new!) friends in LA at #BPS2025 I will be giving a talk on Saturday - Room 408A at 9:52 am (Biopolymers In Vivo sub-group).

👩‍🔬To celebrate International Women and Girls in Science Day yesterday, our team interviewed Dr Catherine Wilson! We chatted to her about a range of topics surrounding being a Woman in Pharmacology - read her interview here: bit.ly/3COpzjZ #Interview #Pharmacology #Women #Cambridge

Everyday should be a Women and Girls in Science Day!! ❤️ www.un.org/en/observanc... #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Latest pre-print! Sam, Matthias & the team have made CTPR-based binders of alpha-synuclein fibrils with micromolar affinity! Special project as it involved many project students and support from great collaborators. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @phar.cam.ac.uk @lasergroup.bsky.social

PhD opportunities (yes, plural!) We will launch a center of excellence “Plat-PATH” with @bjornppedersen.bsky.social this summer. We have an opening for some PhD students to work on plant hormone transporter mechanism. - Details and application link: tinyurl.com/44hf9zkd Please repost 💚

We are looking for candidates for two technical positions to join us at University of São Paulo on a collaborative project with Andrea Balan'n group to study AMR mechanisms in ESKAPE pathogens, at TT-4 and TT-5 levels. More details from hyvonen.bioc.cam.ac.uk/tt_positions... Re-posts appreciated!

We started the year with a great founding meeting of the Biomolecular Condensates UK Network! More opportunities to interact will be shared soon.

‼️Deadline 16th January 2025‼️Applications are open for the 2025 Experience Postgrad Life Sciences programme. Paid 8-week summer internships aimed to enhance diversity among life scientists of the future!! @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social www.exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk

Check out our collaborative study - NMR & MD simulations reveal how non-native contacts stabilise a key transient intermediate in the lysozyme amyloid cascade. For CMD ❤️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...