James Murphy

📢 Lorne Proteins 2026 features Ruchi Anand, IIT Bombay—applying advanced structural biology to AMR mechanisms 🦠and biosensor development 💡. And synthetic biology titan Hagan Bayley, Oxford, fabricating 3D tissues 🧫 to founding Oxford Nanopore 🍩.

🤓 Register now at: www.lorneproteins.org

@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social & #NARF are collecting impact statements from Australian researchers

‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

They back. Membrane microdomains, I believe. It’s nice to be reunited with an old friend

It was

Sorry, magnum of gravy

Happy thanksgiving to those in the US! Also time to celebrate for those in other jurisdictions who get a much earned break from review requests for 2-3 days. Time to unleash that magnum of champagne and sacrifice that turkey

Open Positions - SCHOOL OF SCIENCE THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO This is the open recruitment information for School of Science, the University of Tokyo.

🧪 The Campbell lab at UTokyo is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher for a project focused on protein engineering for optogenetic tool development. Details here: www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/recruit/?...

Sam from my lab is on the drums. You’ll enjoy them

I won’t be. But you’ll be in great hands. The band, for example, has one of my team members on drums. They’re amazing

Welcome to you both! Hope you enjoy. Watch out for drop bears

⏳Four days to go until #AusUb2025! Check out the video below to hear some conference tips and tricks from our committee chair David Komander (and some potentially controversial interest rankings!?!?).

More interviews to come in the next few days so watch this space 😉

Register today for our December 9 webinar on Mass Photometry, organized by Justin Benesch, University of Oxford.
www.proteinsociety.org/webinars

Innate Immunity: Diversity in Host Defense and Disease | Keystone Symposia Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Innate Immunity: Diversity in Host Defense and Disease, March 2026, in Banff, with field leaders!

Who wants to discuss innate immunity and host defense?
Join us in Banff to share your exciting research.
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Australia’s MRFF is sitting on billions of taxpayers’ dollars which was meant to be invested in world-leading, lifesaving health innovations.

Wilkinson Lab We discover and study reverse transcriptases

The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! @mskcancercenter.bsky.social

🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬

annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)

The formation of the ‘footprint of death’ as a mechanism for generating large substrate-bound extracellular vesicles that mark the site of cell death - Nature Communications Apoptotic cells often release extracellular vesicles that aid in their clearance and provide molecular information to cellular neighbours. Here, the authors show that some adherent apoptotic cells als...

A really interesting new study from Ivan Poon and @someblondesci.bsky.social on the "footprint of death" - apoptotic cell remnants generated following apoptotic cell retraction.

#InflammaZoom free Webinar is back on Monday October 20th! With James Murphy (WEHI, Melbourne, Australia) @pseudokinase.bsky.social and Jonathan Maelfait (VIB-UGent, Ghent, Belgium)

Register now: bit.ly/4iXGqjw

Want to see your artwork featured on the cover of a scientific journal?! Share your ideas at @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social!

🎉 Help us celebrate #TIBS50 and share your #CoverArt now! 📅 Deadline is October 31!

More information at: lnkd.in/e6db3_nr

#TIBSCelebrates50 #SciArt

9 days to go:
* 2 x open positions!
* Exceptional environment, competitive start-up package
* University of Toronto appointments
* Toronto has great (and peaceful) quality of life!

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

Thank you for “Open”. So beautiful and also so appropriate. Viva the death protein!

Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics Location: Pittsburgh, PA Open Date: Sep 19, 2025 Description The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area. More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪

Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360

PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!

Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:

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👇 We want you! Don’t miss out on our inaugural "Indigenous Researcher Award" from the Lorne Proteins conference. Full support to attend the 2026 conference. Deadline October 24.
www.lorneproteins.org/researcher

They don’t make them like they used to…

🎓 Applications are now open for WEHI’s International PhD Scholar Initiative.

📅 Apply by Sunday 26 October 2025

🔗 Learn more about eligibility, scholarships and how to apply: wehi.edu.au/education/ph...

Help us spread the word by sharing with your networks!

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

Congrats! Looking forward to celebrating in Leeds!

Hard to believe that just over a week ago we wrapped the #iubmbKinases meeting. What an epic. Such a spectacular location with such spectacular people and science (and sheepdogs). Hat tip to @petermace.bsky.social for the hard yards. This one will be hard to top

Onward into metabolism. Kicking off the pm session with Grace Gong (LMB) and John Burke (UVic) #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social We thank @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BiochemJ for their support of this session. The weather couldn’t even lure us away!