🚨Attention prospective PhD students🚨 Are you interested in molecular mechanisms, RNA viruses, structural biology or biophysics? 🧬🦠🧪 We have THREE fully-funded PhD projects available for October 2026 entry: www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor... Please share/repost, and get in touch if you're interested

This work is now officially published @natsmb.nature.com with some fun new analyses included in the revised version. Congratulations to all the authors! @connyyu.bsky.social @rappsilber.bsky.social @lrsinn.bsky.social @fjoreilly.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us on Monday 13th October at 11am for an #LMBSeminar from Bonnie Bassler on ‘Quorum sensing across domains: From viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes’ Visit our website for more info: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.

Start independent research at the JIC with us 👇. Really interested in finding those with an interest in structural biology and biochemistry of plants and microbes. Please do get in touch by email if you'd like to know more 👍

We have an open post-doc position in my group to study mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation using biochemical reconstitution and cryoEM. Please get in touch if you are interested in joining this amazing team! 🔬🧬🤩 #RNA #cryoEM

Just a reminder that August is peak school holidays in the UK, but also more broadly in Europe and in Canada. If you schedule conferences during August you exclude a large proportion of people from these regions who have family obligations.

The Garnett Lab is excited to launch DepMap Miner, a new tool to explore cancer dependency data! Built on the Sanger DepMap, the DepMap Miner brings together multi-omic and functional datasets for over 1300 cancer cell models. Start mining data now: dataminer.depmap.sanger.ac.uk

We are hiring-join us!

Just one more week left to get an application in! Starting my lab at the Perutz and the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social has been a fantastic opportunity that shaped me as a scientist!

Great start to the EMBL translation control meeting with a keynote from @lapassmore.bsky.social. Excited for all the science to come. #EMBLProtein

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 30th September...pass it on! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Unprompted, the 14yo told me she has a deep hatred for Comic Sans. I love that kid so much.

Fantastic talk by Ethan showcasing our work with @lapassmore.bsky.social lab at @cshlmeetings.bsky.social #RNAPR25! Hurray Ethan!

⏰Early Bird and Talk Submission Deadline closing soon - Tuesday 26th August 2025 📣Don’t miss your chance to be part of the amazing #DRRSC26 meeting. 👉 Click here for further details & registration: bit.ly/46YQZjW

Congratulations to @bcarrick.bsky.social on his Shurl and Kay Curci Fellowship through the Life Sciences Research Foundation! Looking forward to the work to come!

Excited to share our latest work! We found transcription factor SPT6 and phosphorylated Pol II CTD help recruit U1 snRNP to elongating Pol II, allowing efficient co-transcriptional splicing. Glad to be featured in the Editors’ Highlights! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #splicing #cryoEM

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/...

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease. More information ➡️ tinyurl.com/3yn883b8

Congratulations to LMB Group Leaders Leo James, Greg Jefferis & Marta Zlatic who have been elected Fellows of the @royalsociety.org! Congratulations also to the #LMBAlumni joining them: John Briggs, Graham Hatfull & Baljit Khakh. Read more: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/leo-james-gr... #LMBNews

Congratulations to the nine outstanding Cambridge scientists who have been elected as Fellows of the @royalsociety.org, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence. Explore their research 👉 www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... #CambridgeUniversity

Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Building AI models or the data to train them? Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30. www.nature.com/naturecareer... acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... pls RT!

New work from Matti Turtola showing that mRNA poly(A) tail length is controlled by a kinetic ruler. A real pleasure to work with him! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New abstract deadline May 8, 2025. Should be a great meeting!!

Canadians 🇨🇦 abroad - you can register to vote in the election! You need to do it soon. www.elections.ca/content2.asp...

New Gordon Research Conference Alert: Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology. www.grc.org/synthetic-le.... Join us 20-25th July 2025 for an intimate meeting with thought leaders in the field. Great for networking and opportunities for early career scientists to present their research.

Just a reminder that our tenure track group leader position in the Structural Studies Division of @mrclmb.bsky.social will close in four days! mrc.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

SAVE THE DATE! The next EMBO | EMBL Symposium on 'DNA replication and genome maintenance: from basic biology to disease' will be held October 20-23, 2026.   Organized by Helle Ulrich (IMB), Johannes Walter (Harvard) and Anja Groth (Danish Cancer Institute). www.embl.org/about/info/c...

RNA xkcd.com/3056

For all of you who cannot access pubmed, here is a good alternative: europepmc.org

We are looking for a senior administrator to take care of the Structural Studies Division at @mrclmb.bsky.social. Come and work for the benefit of human health in a fantastic environment. Happy to chat! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLY086/s...

BIG news: Jason Chin is leaving the Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry of @mrclmb.bsky.social to spend yet another billionaire's ££ in Oxford. This will create a gap that will need filling! So, if you're thinking of making a move, now is the time to reach out! www.eit.org/news/profess...

Reminder - still one month to apply to be a tenure track group leader at MRC LMB. Please do reach out for any information.

Here’s a gift link. This is a good one to share with your non-scientist friends and family www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Come and joint us at @mrclmb.bsky.social ! We have an opening for a new group leader in the Structural Studies Division. We are very interactive and collaborative with amazing facilities and generous core funding. Get in touch with myself or @sjorsscheres.bsky.social if you have any questions.

The LMB Rising Talent Fellowship for Black heritage scientists is open for applicants! With this 3 year postdoc position we want to enable scientists of Black heritage to learn & grow their experience. To apply and for full details check here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/recruitment/...  Please share!

Abstract deadline approaching for the Fusion Nucleic Acids meeting. Join us for a fun meeting! #RNA www.fusion-conferences.com/conference/1...

Do you love all kinds of imaging? Are you a traveler across scales? Do you dream of bringing structure and cell biology together? (Also, ⛷️🏔️anyone?) Join us for this incredible meeting full of state-of-the-art methods, killer bio applications and engaging speakers! (1/2)

Reminder that @arianebriegel.bsky.social compiled a nice list of women in #cryoEM . I often get asked to recommend people and this is a great place to start 😀 briegel-lab.org/women-in-cry...

Mark your calendar: the next Egmond DNA repair meeting will take place in 2026 from April 19 - 24! You can pre-register to receive announcement here: forms.lumc.nl/lumc2/Egmond Registration will open by June 2025.

The Neurobiology Division at the MRC LMB is looking for a new group leader: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🎉 We’re delighted to announce that the ICR's Dr Basil Greber (@bjgreber.bsky.social) has been selected for the EMBO Young Investigators Programme. Dr Greber, Group Leader in Structural Biology, is one of 27 life scientists in this year's cohort. 👏

Wonderful to see that our colleague @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social is now an EMBO YIP. www.embo.org/press-releas...

Very cool study!!👇👇

Considering a PhD in molecular biology? There’s still time to apply to join the LMB in October 2024. Applications close on 3rd DEC. Visit our website for more info: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...

Exciting highlights of the recent complex life of #RNA symposium @embl.org featuring Matt Disney, Juan Valcarcel, @lapassmore.bsky.social, Herve Le Hir, Andreas Meyer, Yiliang Ding, Seitz Herve, Maria Hondele, @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social, Bahareh Torkzaban www.embl.org/news/science...

i might be biased, but this place is amazing: great colleagues, vibrant campus, brilliant students/postdocs - and Vienna! perfect for starting an ambitious project. apply now for a GL position at the IMP … www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

⚠️THREAD OF ALL SCIENCE-RELATED STARTER PACKS! ⚠️ 🔄Share to help people finding its topic/field - STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY Structural Biology 1: bsky.app/starter-pack... Structural Biology 2: bsky.app/starter-pack... Crystallography: bsky.app/starter-pack... Synchrotron&CryoEM: bsky.app/starter-pack...

I kind of forgot how to announce Feeds, but here goes For an all-in-one CryoEM Feed: #CryoEM, #CryoET, #TeamTomo all-in-one feed that curates posts from the last 7 days containing the various cryoEM and cryoET related hashtags and keywords. bsky.app/profile/did:...

These starter packs should help new joiners find people to follow 🤩 #cryoEM #cryoET