Great talk by @philbiggin.bsky.social on proton coupling in membrane proteins - at the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social thematic meeting in Thessaloniki.

Alex Cook @alexandercook.bsky.social in the Matt Higgins @parasitematt.bsky.social lab here @ox.ac.uk has been awarded a Wellcome Career Development Award to start his own laboratory @york.ac.uk . Congratulations Alex! We are delighted for your success but will be sad to see you go. 🏆🎉👏👏👏

Fabulous talk by Haruhiko Koseki today @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social followed by a fun dinner with Neil Brockdorff and @aleksszczurek.bsky.social ! Thanks for visiting Haruhiko!

The Wellcome Trust has awarded a prestigious Discovery Award to Professor Matt Higgins to support his research on “Molecular mechanisms of erythrocyte invasion in malaria”. 👏👏👏 Read the full story: ⬇️

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social ! 2 Associate Professorships in the areas of - prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology - metabolism my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

We're hiring (again)! We are looking for an associate professor in cell and molecular biology, with a particular focus on immunology (defined broadly) If you have a great record and exciting plans, consider joining our thriving and welcoming department www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Double celebration on our floor @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social with @guifengwei.bsky.social from the Brockdorff lab and Dounia and Sherry from Fisher lab having their papers published today! And I hear there is more to come... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

Always fun to catch up with Lukas Stelzl. Lukas is a group leader at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and an alumnus of @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Delighted to hear of all his success.

Read the full story here: 📣Breakthrough discovery reveals new gene linked to chronic pain ➡️ bit.ly/202508_newst...

Great to be able to share the news about the potential of this new research to positively impact the lives of people living with chronic pain. Fantastic work from Simon Newstead, David Bennett and colleagues. 👏 👏 👏

Great work! 🙌

A wonderful project that opens up scientific discovery to children in a fun and innovate way! 👏👏👏

Ben Berks has been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant to fund cutting edge research in bacterial cell biology @ox.ac.uk . Congratulations Ben! 🙌 bit.ly/202507-berks...

Special congratulations and celebrations for Ayaka Hogg who is recognised with the Biochemical Society Undergraduate Recognition Award 2025! 🎉🎉🎉 bit.ly/202507-BSPhogg

Well done to all our undergraduate students and special congratulations for all our outstanding prize-winners for 2025. We salute you! bit.ly/202507-awards

Delighted to share this work. Well done to the teams involved and a particular shout out to our own Simon Newstead ⬇️

Congratulations to Linzy (Ye) Zhao on her superb achievement of attaining the highest percentage of her cohort in her Biochemistry degree @ox.ac.uk ! As a result, Linzy has been awarded the Royal Society of Biology Top Student Award. 👏 👏 👏 Well done, Linzy! Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/202507-RBS

We (with @bendavisgroup.bsky.social) were using NHS chemistry for some protein conjugation when we noticed some odd prominent side products. It turns out thio-nhs reagents (a major class of reagents) has some notable side reactions that happen all the time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great news for the Advanced Proteomics Facility based here in Biochemistry @ox.ac.uk ! The Wolfson Foundation is supporting the acquisition of a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer – the first of its kind in the UK – opening up possibilities for breakthroughs in human health ⬇️ bit.ly/202507-apf

#Malaria #Immunology #NKCells #HigginsLab #HostPathogenInteraction #KavliOxford @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @parasitematt.bsky.social

“A genuine tool for biological discovery.” Professor @lschermelleh.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk talks super-resolution microscopy and shares some beautiful imagery.

Happy almost-anniversary with us, @rberrens.bsky.social and co 🙌🎉

Work from the Barr lab @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social keeps on coming. Fantastic mechanistic work!

🎉 Excited to share my first paper as 2nd author! From the Barr & Gruneberg labs, this work explores the structure of the Chromosome Passenger Complex (CPC) and suggests a ‘pivot–tether’ model for how it binds H3pT3-phosphorylated nucleosomes @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @dunnschool.bsky.social

Happy to share our latest work from the Barr lab is now published in @embojournal.org 👉 WIP1 mutations suppress DNA damage triggered bypass of the mitotic timer | EMBO Journal #cellcycle @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Blown away by the quality of the talks by the DPhil students. Absolutely top notch. Well done all. @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Looking forward to a day of science from our Wellcome Phd programme coordinated by @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social and the Rosalind Franklin Institute

Fantastic news! 👏👏👏 How the #malaria #parasite evades the immune system… and how the human body fights back: @sam-chamberlain.bsky.social and @parasitematt.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk make ground-breaking discovery, just published in @nature.com. Read more ⬇️

Great work from @haroldgrosjean.bsky.social and Kate Fieseler on how to extract SAR from HT crystallographic evaluation of fragment elaborations in crude reaction mixtures! @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @oxfordstatistics.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

#TuesdayReads Collaboration from the Robinson, Benesch & Khalid groups: Native MS reveals MlaC's PG selectivity in E. coli lipid transfer, offering insight into how the Mla system preserves outer membrane asymmetry. Read the full paper 👇 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Bacterial cell envelope wonders. Always fascinating to learn about cell envelope biogenesis and see all the ingenious molecular tricks we can use to study it. Great work from the Colin Kleanthouse lab @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social Check at rb.gy/akaugi @pnas.org

A huge congratulations to @parasitematt.bsky.social and all the other newly elected fellows

Congratulations to #KavliOxford Professors Molly Stevens DBE, Simon Draper and Matt Higgins on being elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences 2025. Read the @acmedsci.bsky.social news article 👇 acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/ac...

An emotional day today @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social where leaders in the cell cycle field gathered to celebrate the life of Bela Novak and the huge impact he had on their work! www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...

🧵1/ 🚨Check out our significantly updated preprint, now out on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. Together with Sasi Conte lab, we characterize a novel role for intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) in promoting RNA-binding selectivity in RNA binding proteins (RBPs): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations! @jansenlab.bsky.social @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glox Therapeutics, a company co-founded by Prof Colin Kleanthous has raised £4.3M in early-stage funding to develop effective targeted therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria. bioch.web.ox.ac.uk/article/4.3m...

Heading into the Easter break & reflecting on the last few months at work. It’s been bittersweet for reasons outside of anyone’s control. But I’m hugely thankful for supportive colleagues at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @stannesoutreach.bsky.social @dunnschool.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk 🙏🏽💪🏾

Physical simulation still very much a key computational technique in elucidating biochemical mechanisms and drug discovery #DSIT

Hey, @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social , did you see @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social has dropped another episode? This @sykhalid.bsky.social and I talk to bespoke protein engineers. Venomous snakes just got a little less scary. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Fresh of the press! rdcu.be/egmY0 We discovered key chromatin modifications that are heritably maintained through mitotic cell divisions in the absence of continued transcription. These hold a memory of past exposure to interferon-gamma, priming cells for future activation of gene expression.

Great to see the term ‘computational microbiology’ being used increasingly! A phrase Colin Kleanthous and I came up with a few years ago for our ‘put as many details in as possible’ approach to computational systems. A departure from traditional reductionist computational approaches

Biochemistry annual recess day. A fantastic idea for learning about what research is happening across the department and chatting to colleagues! @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social

Great day of science at the annual @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social retreat at St Catz in Oxford! A showcase of research from across the range of scales and topics, mostly students and postdocs presenting. Inspiring to be part of such a great community!

A study from the Berks lab at Oxford's Department of Biochemistry — 'A new structural paradigm for outer membrane protein biogenesis in the Bacteroidota' — provides a major breakthrough in understanding outer membrane biogenesis in this important group of organisms. Read more⬇️ bit.ly/202502-biorxiv

Congratulations to Harold Grosjean, Anthony Aimon, Storm Hassell-Hart and Warren Thompson, on their latest work appearing in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social, where small-molecule binders can be extracted directly from crude-reaction mixtures - cool! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, let's take a moment to remember Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - at the time only the third woman to do so.

The Barr lab @ox.ac.uk has discovered the important role of cell division timing mechanisms in the formation of cancer. The research, funded by Cancer Research UK, provides valuable insight into how damaged cells are normally stopped from growing. ⬇️ bit.ly/202502-barr

I think we (well certainly I) don’t say the good stuff often enough, to reverse that trend - I’m hugely grateful for the excellent colleagues I have at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social - really supportive & super talented- the research seminar from @dnatopologylab.bsky.social today was brilliant! 🔥