Best of luck to Newcastle graduate Yasmin Proctor-Kent (PhD, 2021) who is competing in this year's The Great British Sewing Bee 📺 The second episode of the series airs tonight at 9pm on BBC One. Join us in cheering on Yasmin! 🙌 #GreatBritishSewingBee #WeAreNCL

A journey, with challenges but ultimately complete triumph, has gracefully reached its conclusion, opening new windows to the world. Congrats again to our PhD graduates and their supervisors.

We are delighted to share the news about eight babies born after Mitochondrial donation. Congratulations to Prof McFarland and everyone involved for all the great work through the years! Here the article from @newcastleuni.bsky.social press office ➡️ www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

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

Congratulations to Prof Bobby McFarland & teams @mitonewcastle.bsky.social and #NewcastleFertilityCentre And most of all very best wishes to all the families benefitting at last from #mitochondrialdonation

📢 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...

Dr Laura Smith had a great time presenting at the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) North East Meeting yesterday and was delighted to be awarded a prize for her talk on characterising neuroinflammatory pathology in POLG-related epilepsy. @britishneuro.bsky.social

New blood test developed to rapidly diagnose rare genetic disorders 🧬🩸 Prof Rob Taylor talks about this exciting approach here ➡️ www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... @taylorlabncl.bsky.social

We are excited to share with you some details behind our new project to transform the mitochondrial research landscape ➡️ LifeArc Centre for Rare Mitochondrial Diseases 💚

Good evening read www.the-scientist.com/mitochondria...

What an amazing day for the launch of the LifeArc Centre for Rare Mitochondrial Disease!

We are excited to join friends and colleagues from @lilyfoundation.bsky.social , @mdukcharity.bsky.social , @uniofcam.bsky.social and @ucl.ac.uk at the House of Lords to launch the new LifeArc Centre for Rare Mitochondrial Disease #mitodisease

What to find the Bluesky acount for one of our researchers? Here' a handy-dandy starter pack for you. go.bsky.app/98NSnmp

Mitochondrial Patient Information Day ⬇️🔝💚

Last week, members of the Mitochondrial Research Group attended the #18thNeuromuscularTranslationalResearchConference in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was an amazing time 💚✨ Thanks to everyone who presented their research! @newcastleuni.bsky.social

This is an amazing opportunity to translate mitochondrial research into clinical practice. We are delighted to be involved and look forward to continuing to work together.

This #InternationalWomensDay, @newcastleuni.bsky.social is celebrating all the incredible women in our community and their achievements #AccelerateAction #IWD2025 eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Congratulations to Dr Lu who successfully defended her PhD thesis last week! 🥳 Thanks to Dr joannaelson.bsky.social and Dr Ilse Pienaar (supervisors).

Congratulations to Dr Tiago Gomes who has defended his thesis and passed with no corrections, becoming now Dr PhD 😉 The MRG is very proud to have you ✨💚 @vdileo.bsky.social & #Charlotte Warren, the MRG

🍾Bursting with pride and joy! Watching you grow as a scientist and individual has been incredible. Congrats, Jon, on truly earning your 🎓PhD! Thanks to all the amazing support @taylorlabncl.bsky.social @cgm-newcastle.bsky.social @mitonewcastle.bsky.social and examiners Ray O’Keefe and Tom Nicholls!

🌏RARE DISEASE DAY! Here at the Newcastle Mitochondrial Research Group, we are proud to be working with many rare disease communities 💜 @lilyfoundation.bsky.social

A belated congratulations to @imogenf.bsky.social for passing her PhD viva last month. Imogen’s work aims to understand the negative selection of mtDNA variants in blood. Many thanks to @jim-ca.bsky.social and @ryanlab.bsky.social for being great examiners!

It was a pleasure to host Jelle van den Ameele from @mitocamb.bsky.social for our first Mitochondrial Research Seminar of 2025. Thanks for some great scientific discussions, especially with our young scientists!

We're excited to have joined the BlueSky community! Follow us for the latest updates on our research, publications, and events. We’d love to connect with fellow scientists, clinicians, and anyone interested in mitochondrial biology! #Mitochondria #MitoResearch