Bioengineered bone marrow model successful in leukaemia research #EPSRC #AcademicSky

Excited to share our latest work in collaboration with the @edreznik.bsky.social lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social, where we describe functionally dominant mitochondrial DNA mutations in patient tumors. So, what is functional dominance in mitochondrial genetics, I hear you ask? rdcu.be/eN1jm

📢 Applications for the Black Leaders in Cancer PhD programme in Scotland are now open! The programme offers a unique opportunity for students from Black heritage backgrounds to pursue a fully funded 4-year PhD. 👉Apply by 24 November 2025: www.crukscotlandcentre.ac.uk/training/phd-studentships

🩷Thanks to everyone from @cruk-si.bsky.social and @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social who took part in our #WearItPink day today raising money for @breastcancernow.bsky.social 🩷

We will be taking part in #WearItPink with @cruk-si.bsky.social with proceeds going to @breastcancernow.bsky.social you can donate here www.justgiving.com/page/wearitp...

Undergraduates, we are recruiting! Come and join us at the @cruk-si.bsky.social in Glasgow for your industrial placement year. Start date September 2026. Great lab, great people, great city. Take a look! cancerresearchuk.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Scientists @uofglasgow.bsky.social have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used to study the universe, to develop a new machine learning model which can help translate the language of proteins @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social @uofgcompsci.bsky.social ➡️ gla.ac/3WpA43G

PREDICT-Meso International Conference 2026 📢ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN Abstract categories CLINICAL STUDIES & PATIENT CARE TARGETS MODELS & THERAPIES RISK & RESPONSE Submit your abstracts online at www.eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025 #Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference

Are you interested in becoming a clinical academic leader in a cancer-focused discipline? @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, @uofglasgow.bsky.social, @cruk-si.bsky.social & Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre are seeking four ambitious people for the TRACC+ Programme August 2026 intake 👉 edin.ac/4nGK5oC

A colleague is organising a charity football match next week to raise money for @su2c.bsky.social. It will feature some high-impact hotshots from @cruk-si.bsky.social and @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social so please take a look and come along if you can! fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/kick-of...

🔬Join us for our upcoming Cancer Immunology Workshop: 'Lessons from the Microbes Within Us; Developing Next Generation Immunotherapeutics' 📅23-24 October 2025 📍CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow Abstract deadline: 26 September Register by: 10 October crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/immuno_works...

🧬 Glasgow researcher Dr Alexander Raven has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to advance understanding of how liver cancer develops, with the aim of improving detection and treatment 📍 University of Glasgow 👇 Learn more glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/glasgow-canc...

📢Are you a talented #ECR looking to start your independent lab in state-of-the-art cancer research facilities? Join the CRUK Scotland Institute & @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social as a Junior Group Leader! 👉Apply here: www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/grou... 📅Closing date: 10 October 2025

Greater speed, increased flexibility, and more: At the Digital Pathology and AI Congress in London, @johnlequesne.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social and @cruk-si.bsky.social outlined how self-learning #AI offers a number of advantages for #digitalpathology compared to established AI options.

The first September issue is live. www.embopress.org/toc/14693178... The cover features work by Cassie Clarke @cassiejclarke.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social and co-workers showing that UPP1 supports #metastasis by altering #immune and ECM landscapes. -> www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

We are delighted to be offering summer placements in 2026 with #In2research Learn more about the programme and application process at their information session next week - Monday 15 September 👉Register for the session here: ow.ly/VNg750WP8bf

We are highlighting Owen Sansom, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Monitoring Editor and co-organiser of the 2024 DMM Journal Meeting, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @osansom.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social

Come work with us! We're hiring for roles in spatial data analysis and mathematical modelling @ Oxford, studying drug response and metastasis in colorectal cancer as part of the CRC-STARS programme. Spatial Data Analysis: lnkd.in/eMWEdQJt Modelling: lnkd.in/e5KVb-FT Deadline: 11/09/25

Register now for two upcoming sessions on minimising animal suffering with early interventions and refined humane endpoints. 📅 11 and 16 September, 12.30 – 13.30 🙋🏻‍ For animal technicians, ethics committee members and researchers 📜 Certificates of attendance available 👉 nc3rs.org.uk/welfare-webi...

Webinar – Innovating better therapies for children and young people with cancer. We will discuss how my lab is finding new treatments for children and young people with leukaemia and the importance of international collaborations and clinical trials. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

📢 Standard registration for #ENABLE2025 has been extended until 15 August! 🛑 Abstract submissions are closed, but you can still attend the full conference in Glasgow! Register now: febs-iubmb-enableconference.org/registration... #FEBSIUBMB #STEMconference #LifeSciences #PhDLife #AcademicTwitter

🧬 Scientists at the University of Glasgow have uncovered a crucial breakthrough that could help stop breast cancer from spreading – a leading cause of death from the disease. 📍 @uofglasgow.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social 👇 Learn more glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/university-o...

Delighted to share that our work “Uridine Phosphorylase-1 supports metastasis by altering immune and extracellular matrix landscapes” was published today in @emboreports.org, describing how neutrophil metabolism influences niche priming to support metastasis (1/14) www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

We are recruiting a Senior Scientific Officer to work with @nadianasreddin.bsky.social in the Sansom lab on the project WNT-driven cell competition: a target for novel preventative strategies against colorectal adenoma formation 📅Apply by 15 August 2025 www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/

The School of Cancer Sciences was privileged to welcome Dr Natalie Kenny from BioGradGroup,donating 13 genesig q16 portable real-time PCR instruments. Thanks to Prof Daniel Murphy for facilitating the meeting, and Naomi & Laura for their time.

🎧 New podcast episode! Listen to 'Ask me anything about... the science of cancer-associated cachexia' ➡️️ zurl.co/lDcME  Experts from the Cancer Cachexia Action Network unpack the topic with @crukcampanccan.bsky.social. @cam.ac.uk @cruk-si.bsky.social @cshlnews.bsky.social

Join us for Organoids Are Us 2025, a symposium featuring organoids, stem cells, cancer, inflammatory disorders and infectious disease. 📆23 - 26 September 2025 📍Glasgow, Scotland Early bird registration extended to 18th July. Register below! 👇

How cancer resists treatment is the focus of a £1.5million @cancerresearchuk.org project led by Robb Hollis at #IGC and @cruk-si.bsky.social to find new ways to tackle aggressive ovarian cancer: edin.ac/3TDBENF @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social

Join us for Organoids Are Us 2025, a symposium featuring #organoids, #stemcells, #cancer, inflammatory disorders and infectious disease. 📆23-26 Sep 2025 📍Glasgow, UK Early bird registration ends 15 June. Register below! 👇 www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/events/organ...

1/ Beyond thrilled to see my #PhD work now published in @jcb.org A short thread (🧵) for #metastasis #metabolism #ExtracellularVesicles (EVs) aficionados

Brilliant news that the Tobacco & Vapes Bill has just been voted through its legislative consent motion in the @parliament.scot. This is a huge step towards a #SmokefreeUK after a similar @niassembly.gov.uk vote in February and we now hope to see @senedd.wales follow suit.

First up we have @trevorgraham.bsky.social who will tell us about his work on inferring cancer evolutionary dynamics at clinical scale @icr.ac.uk | #BICC2025

Next, we’re hearing from Rachael Natrajan about her work looking at epigenetic and transcriptional heterogeneity in therapy resistant TNBC @natrajanlabicr.bsky.social | @icr.ac.uk | #BICC2025

Sabine Tejpar talked us through emerging concepts on wnt driven, fetal like and inflamed cells in colorectal cancer #BICC2025

Session 2 of the day started with short talks from Mikaela Behm from @dkfz.bsky.social and Edward Esiri-Bloom from @uoe-igc.bsky.social #BICC2025

Our #ECRs were asked who they wanted to hear speak at #BICC2025 and they invited @mirjana-efremova.bsky.social from @qmbci.bsky.social, she presented her work on phenotypic heterogeneity in colorectal cancer metastasis

Our very own @mirjana-efremova.bsky.social (very small compared to the very huge screen) speaking about her beautiful data on cell plasticity in cancer mets at the #Beatson International Cancer Conference. @qmbci.bsky.social @cruk-mi.bsky.social

Kicking off the final session of the day, we have @leedham-simon.bsky.social talking about using spatial biology to map interactions in colorectal cancer Thanks to @worldwidecancer.bsky.social for sponsoring Simon’s talk! @ox.ac.uk | #BICC2025

Just been sent a photo of #MuSpAn on a VERY big screen indeed at the Beatson International Cancer Conference @cruk-si.bsky.social ... if you want more details, check out the website at www.muspan.co.uk, or read our preprint at doi.org/10.1101/2024... ! #BICC2025 #SpatialBiology

Next we’re hearing from Sara A. Wickström, Director of @mpi-muenster.bsky.social, who is discussing phenotype and cell state dynamics in cancer #BICC2025

Continuing with the theme of AI, Fayyaz Minhas talked us through the promise and limitations of computational pathology deep learning models #BICC2025

Now time for some maths… Helen Byrne from @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social talked us through her work using maths to analyse tumour-immune interactions #BICC2025

Francesca Ciccarelli @ciccarellilab.bsky.social is up next to tell us about spatial drivers of response to immunotherapy in colon cancer Thank you to TransnetYX for sponsoring Francesca’s talk! @qmbci.bsky.social | @crick.ac.uk | @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social | #BICC2025

A fantastic keynote talk from Laura D. Wood about her lab’s exciting work with 3D multi-omic analysis of human pancreatic neoplasia @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social | #BICC2025

For our final talk of the day, we’re hearing from Luciana Luque (CRUK-SI) about her work at @edinburghuni.bsky.social spatially profiling the tumour immune microenvironment in TNBC to reveal distinct tumour states associated with chemotherapy response #BICC2025

Next we have Edward Kaye from @dundee.ac.uk presenting on behalf of Tony Ly’s lab on their work investigating the mechanisms that underpin cell proliferation-dormancy switches #BICC2025

The final talk of this morning’s session was given by Jernej Ule from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Thanks to TransnetYX for sponsoring this talk! @ulelab.bsky.social | #BICC2025

Next up: Karuna Ganesh (@karunamdphd.bsky.social) discussing dissecting plasticity during metastasis @mskcancercenter.bsky.social | #BICC2025

Another set of fantastic short talks from CRUK_SI’s Lisa Duff and Luis Pardo-Fernandez and @uoe-igc.bsky.social’s Jana Trávníčková #BICC2025

Kathryn Lilley spoke about her work on cell wide protein localisation to understand therapy resistance mechanisms @cambiochem.bsky.social | #BICC2025