📣 Announcement 📣 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Supramolecular Chemistry Award 🏆 goes to Prof Dr Job Boekhoven from TU Munich. Congratulations, Job! @boekhovenlab.bsky.social Thanks @cellpress.bsky.social for generously sponsoring the award! (1/3)

It was a pleasure @mcgalanlab.bsky.social and congratulations again to Nina for the lovely viva. Next time hopefully catch up in person!

As promised, we run the town and gown 10k! In the photos are group members @rogerrubiosanchez.bsky.social Juliette Bucci, Brian Ng, Cathrine Fan, Sebastian Krauss and Lorenzo (the old one). Thanks to all who supported us with donations to @mdukcharity.bsky.social

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

With motor neurone disease (MND, aka ALS) hitting the headlines, here's a story about how two #ListerFellows @patanilab.bsky.social and @diantoniogroup.bsky.social teamed up to investigate how RNA might start aggregations and trigger disease. lister-institute.org.uk/two-lister-f...

Hey! Some group members and I are running a 10k race in Cambridge this Sunday, and raining some funds for @mdukcharity.bsky.social Please donate and share! @ceb.cam.ac.uk @pembroke1347.bsky.social sportsgiving.co.uk/sponsorship/...

We are hiring! We are looking for a PDRA to study the epigenetics of breast cancer dormancy using chemical biology and genomics approaches. This is a 3-year position and is aimed at chemical biologists or biologists. Please share and apply using the link below 👇👇👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

John Iredale kicking off our annual meeting. Auditorium is packed 😀 Record attendance!

Thank you @beckyneuro.bsky.social @therad-lab.bsky.social and @thav-lab.bsky.social for kicking off our annual meeting with such inspiring insights from your research. Impressive examples of career-long commitment to a cause, opportunistic curiosity and always aspiration for clinical application 👏

Marco Di Antonio - his fantastic science is always challenging dogma, but first a bit about Italy ❤️ 🤌🤌🤌 @diantoniogroup.bsky.social

Proud to share our latest research in #NatureCommunication on #Gquadruplexes in #M_Tuberculosis as a new defense mechanism against oxidation 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62485-4 🧬🦠All-female collaboration from #DMM_Unipd #SaraNRichter_ @irenezanin.bsky.social #Tuberculosis

Please share - this year's #ListerPrize is open for applications for another month! 🔎 Read about what winning it mean to some of our former Fellows like Dr Stineke Van Houte here: lister-institute.org.uk/what-it-mean... 🙋 Find out more about how to apply: lister-institute.org.uk/how-to-apply/

⭐NAR Breakthrough!⭐ 🧬 Sun et al. just dropped a high-throughput method to track all #tRNA #modifications across cells & tissues using #massspec. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... #NARBreakthrough #RNA #tRNA #epitranscriptomics #systemsbiology #therapeuticdiscovery.

🧪Move over CUT&Tag, there’s a new #TranscriptionFactor mapping method in town. Our newly developed DynaTag is faster, cleaner, more sensitive than #ChIPseq, #CUT&RUN and #CUT&Tag. 🔗 Our @natcomms.nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵Let’s break down what makes DynaTag so powerful (1/7)

Happy to share our latest preprint describing the first genome-wide mapping of G4s in T.Brucei, led by the amazing Ludovica Monti. We found that G4s accumulate in coding regions of the parasite, causing transcriptional perturbation upon treatment with G4-ligands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

BBC News - Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of hereditary disease www.bbc.com/news/article...

Congratulations to all the prize winners from the Nucleic Acids Forum 2025! An amazing selection of talks and posters to choose from! Thank you to our prize sponsors Chemgenes and RSC Chemical Biology! @rscchembio.rsc.org @mikeboothlab.bsky.social

📣NAR Breakthrough Article!📣 ✂️ Removal of a single tRNA^Gly gene copy in Staphylococcus aureus via CRISPR weakens the cell wall, biofilm formation and increases antibiotic susceptibility💊 📖 doi.org/10.1093/nar/... #Microbiology #CRISPR #tRNA #AntibioticResearch #BacterialGenetics

Outstanding work, well done Mike it was an amazing day!

Thank you for your constant support! @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social

Very pleased to see that The Observer has written a piece to cover our recent work in Genome Biology applied to ovarian cancer chemoresistance. Link below 👇👇👇 @theobserveruk.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialchemistry.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Ready for super-G4s? We have identified clusters of G4s in intergenic regions that act as super-enhancers in ovarian cancer cells, hence the name super-G4! These are de novo super-enhancers that are not underpinned by canonical epigenetic marks, supporting the epigenetic role of G4s rdcu.be/evXtf

Starting off our NAF 2025 meeting with an introduction of the RSC Nucleic Acids Group's new chair, Marco Di Antonio! An exciting new era for our group begins! 🧬 @diantoniogroup.bsky.social

A big thank you to Mike Booth for organising this meeting! We have a great line-up for a very exciting day! Once again we would like to thank our sponsors for their support! @drmikebooth.bsky.social

Our final speaker of the day is Thomas Maher from Imperial College London, presenting his work on the “Interrogation of the nuclear G quadruplex interactome through SG4­directed proximity labelling“

@rscnucleicacids.bsky.social RSC nucleic acids new committee #2025NAF

Very honored to team up with @drmikebooth.bsky.social and @diantoniogroup.bsky.social to serve for the nucleic acids community @rscnucleicacids.bsky.social @rsc.org

Very happy to kick this off and I look forward to an amazing day of Nucleic Acids Science. @rscnucleicacids.bsky.social @drzoewaller.bsky.social

Proud to share our work where we resolved a longstanding question regarding the existence of a human telomerase dimer and provided insights into its function. Led by 3 amazing lab members in collaboration with @yiliangding.bsky.social and @rdaslab.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Many congratulations to all the new Lister Fellow elected in 2025. Special congratulations to my friends and colleagues Kelly and Yuval on their award. Welcome to the family guys!

Amazing latest development in NAR demonstrating a direct role of DNA methylation for anti-viral activity. This is also in line with what recently shown by @paeschkelab.bsky.social showing that DNA G-quadruplex structure can play a role in anti-viral activity! Exciting epigenetic times ahead!

And there you have it, phase separation can override binding affinity. This is a big dogma challenged, what if standard affinity is not a factor, or at least the only one, to determine protein and nucleic acid distribution in cells?

Always a pleasure to see Marco talk. This time telling us about ATENA at #G4thering

Calling all inorganic (bio)chemists - come be my colleague at the fantastic @uclchemistry.bsky.social !!! (Lecturer = Assistant Professor) London is such an incredible city to work in ❤️ Anyone in the US looking for a new job abroad... 👀 #chemsky 🧪

Registration is now open! Register here for our 21st RSC Nucleic Acids Forum: www.rsc.org/events/detai... Abstract submissions now open! See you there🧬🧪

Last, but surely not least, we congratulate Enrico Cadoni. With the support of a MSCA fellowship, Enrico will be moving from Belgium to @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social to develop new chemically modified nucleic acids for light-controlled modulation of transcription! Congratulations Enrico 👏

Next, we congratulate Ahlem Meziadi for securing a MSCA fellowship. Ahlem is a chemical biologist who will be moving from Canada to join us @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social to develop aptamers for the detection and disruption of RNA-driven aggregates in the context of neurodegenerative diseases.

First up is Michele Stasi @msta94.bsky.social, a chemist who is already working in our group @imperialcollege.bsky.social. Thanks to the support of a MSCA fellowship, Michele will be investigating the role of Nucleic Acids (especially RNAs) in the formation of biomolecular condensates.

We are thrilled to share that the amazing @msta94.bsky.social, Enrico Cadoni and Ahlem Meziadi have been awarded a Marie Curie fellowship to join our group @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Individual posts to introduce them will follow! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-aw...

🚨 Challenge mode: ON! 🚨 I'm running the Cambridge Half Marathon in a month to raise funds for @AlzResearchUK🏃‍♂️💨 To make donations count, I’ve set an ambitious 85-minute target! 🥵 Support my tough training & a great cause—every donation helps! 🙏💙 www.givengain.com/project/marc...

Alternative Nucleic Acid Topology (AlterNAT) Meeting supported by the Biochemical Society & the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Nucleic Acids Group. 10th July 2025. Register online: bit.ly/AlterNAT-2025 Early bird & Abstract deadline: 10th May @rscnucleicacids.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social

We are very excited for this event! Save the date, 11th of July 2025 at Burlington House!🧪🧬

Very happy to share this editorial presenting future perspectives in the development of innovative therapeutic agents to treat ALS based on RNA targeting. Many thanks to Federica, Nereida @dimichelelab1.bsky.social and Rickie for their invaluable support. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For anyone that was too busy at the end of last year to think about PhDs or are still looking for the right project/place, I have a project available in the second round of the Yorkshire Biosciences DTP scheme looking at the dynamics of human condensin: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Join our Structural Studies Division, leading a research group developing computational methods to address questions in molecular & cellular biology! You will be supported by core funding, excellent facilities & enthusiastic colleagues. Apply by 18 MAR www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Very much looking forward to the Nucleic Acids Forum. Is always a great meeting and an amazing opportunity to catch up with the local Nucleic Acids Community! Many thanks to @drmikebooth.bsky.social for taking the lead in organising it this year!

Job alert! 3-year PDRA position to work on synthesis of ruthenium complexes as probes for i-motif DNA - please share with anyone looking for positions! Happy to answer any questions 😃 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN413/s...

With a bit of a delay but super happy to share that our PhD student @sabrinapianuccio.bsky.social has successfully defended her thesis, becoming officially Dr Nuccio 🎉🥳🍾 Many thanks to @ljwalport.bsky.social and Raphaël Rodriguez for being her examiners. This is PhD number 5 from the lab 🤯

Was great to present our recent work at the #AICBBM organised by the @RSC_CBBG and @SCI Divisione di Chimica dei Sistemi Biologici in the beautiful Perugia and in the stunning Sala dei Notari. This has been a great meeting to connect with the Italian chem-bio community!