Petros Andrikopoulos

A photo of a Nobel medal

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

YouTube video by Remote Chess Academy Only Mikhail Tal Could Solve This Crazy Puzzle! [Even Kasparov Failed]

If you like chess check out Igor Smirnov's brilliant channel, for example this crazy puzzle (and the historic story around it): youtu.be/IyyRCwKtChM?...

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

a cartoon of two girls with the words " it 's all about which way you look " ALT: a cartoon of two girls with the words " it 's all about which way you look "

If you are leading a team, you have a responsibility to be a “pragmatic optimist”. Otherwise, you risk being disloyal to the amazing young people you work with. #FridayThoughts

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Spread the news! We are excited to expand our research team, working on cellular senescence, at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge.

jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52026/
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52027/

Postdoctoral position in human gut microbiome and bioinformatics - VIB About the Lab Thelab of JeroenRaes(VIB, KU Leuven) is home to a vibrant, dynamic and international group of researchers in the field of gut microbial ecology and its

We're hiring a postdoc!🚨

Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease.

🔬Requirements:
- PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field
- Expertise in omics data analysis
- Micro & molecular bio techniques are a plus!

Apply now!🌟
jobs.vib.be/j/119682/pos...

Great to see this work from Shiv Radhakrishnan and colleagues out in #GutMicrobes - using network analysis to explore #microbiome #metabolome interactions in an #IBD inception cohort: doi.org/10.1080/1949... @imperialmdr.bsky.social @imperialhepatology.bsky.social #IBDSky #GISky

Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

We’re looking for an exceptional academic leader to Head our Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction @imperialmdr.bsky.social

Apply by 4 August 2025

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Programme Leader Track - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences We are recruiting Programme Leader Track positions focusing on 1) Metabolic Physiology using murine and/or human in vivo models and 2) Immunometabolism.

We're recruiting junior team leaders @mrc-lms.bsky.social This time we're looking for those working in human metabolic disease.

It's a great place to start your lab. Fantastic colleagues, exciting science, world class facilities. Join us!

lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Event carbon calculator - the Node I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your

Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios.

thenode.biologists.com/event-carbon...

Eureka! The brain science behind lightbulb moments Nature - Experiences of insight come with a burst of brain activity — and a memory boost.

Neuroscientists have revealed which regions of the brain are active and how they interact when discovery strikes

https://go.nature.com/4k7wpkd

New drug offers potential cure for ultra rare inherited condition A teenage patient who helped discover a rare condition is the first to benefit from a new treatment.

Great to see this story as Mary becomes the first patient in the UK and Europe to receive a targeted treatment for a rare, inherited immunodeficiency (APDS) identified by Cambridge researchers, including those from the Institute, in 2013.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Image of Matt Hurles, Director of the Sanger Institute on the right-hand side. Quote reads: ““The 25 years since the announcement of the completion of the human genome transformed our understanding of biology in both predicted and unpredicted ways. Now, we are looking to the future, applying the same collaborative approach to new, ambitious projects that aim to continue to build on the legacy of the Human Genome Project.”

25 years ago today, the first draft of the human genome was announced, a breakthrough that changed science forever 🧬

Read more about this achievement and the future of genomics over the next 25 years, here ⤵️

www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/25...

Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of synbiotic efficacy in a human intervention trial. Synbiotic interventions show variable effects across individuals, likely driven by ecological interactions with the endogenous microbiota and the host diet. Rationally predicting individual-specific s...

Our latest preprint is online @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social:

"‪Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of synbiotic efficacy in a human intervention trial." www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing work here by postdoc Nick Quinn-Bohmann @isbscience.org

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Enjoying #metabolomics2025 in Prague! Just presented some of our work on #massspec imaging of #liver fibrosis! @gruevska.bsky.social

I could not keep posting during the conference due to a work situation but we also heard from @pandrikopouloslab.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social talk about #blood metabolomics and their use in #kidney and #cardiorenal predictions in diverse populations #MetabolicMultiomics25

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (born #OnThisDay in 1836) was a pioneering physician and suffragette. She was the first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor, co-founding the London School of Medicine for Women and paving the way for other women in the profession. #WomenInSTEM

🚨 PhD POSITION ALERT! 🚨
Are you passionate about gut microbiota, immune modulation & functional foods?
Join a cutting-edge 3-year funded PhD project in Poland at a top research institute near Warsaw!

🔗 inpst.net/phd-student-...

🌐 #PhDposition #PhDOpportunity #INPST

EESMicrobiome

Join us at #EESMicrobiome!

Organisers Mani Arumugam (#uni_copenhagen), Ami Bhatt (@stanfordpress.bsky.social), Peer Bork (@borklab.bsky.social) and Nicola Segata (#CIBIO_UniTrento) look forward to welcoming #microbiome scientists in September at @embl.org!

@events.embl.org

90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.

In mice, the additive effect of 2 drugs for extending lifespan and healthspan: rapamycin and trametinib, a MEK blocker used for cancer treatment @nataging.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Two scientists, a woman and a man, wearing safety goggles and lab coats, examine a robotic device. Overlaid text reads "Choose Europe – Freedom to explore, research and innovate. Discover how" with the European Union flag.

The EU flag is shown with a headline "Europe offers:" followed by a list: Stable funding and careers, Academic freedom and scientific excellence, High quality of life (healthcare, education, pensions), and Collaboration beyond borders.

Two young women smile while looking at a tablet, surrounded by EU stars. Text reads: "Choose Europe – €500 million for 2025–2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers."

Here is one big reason to choose Europe to advance with your research career:

We 💙 science.

Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism"
—the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing
—from decades of NIH funded research
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Economists warn Trump's research cuts could have dire consequences for GDP President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.

Love this example. In 1981 John Hopfield received this small $283K NSF grant to study an obscure topic -- artificial neural networks:
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

The results of this NSF grant are the basis of a multibillion-dollar AI revolution, for which Dr. Hopfield won a Nobel prize last year

Excited to present our work at #EASLCongress 2025 (THU-036-YI). See you tomorrow at 1pm on the Track Hub 2 - Basic science to check how we use #massspecimaging and IMC for metabolic profiling of #liver fibrosis. Special thanks to our collaborators and funders @zoehall-icl.bsky.social

Two women, Kathleen Folbigg and Tracy Chapman, sit in chairs on a well-lit stage holding microphones.

A group of around 20 people posing for a group photo on a wide stage.

Two women, Kathleen Folbigg and Tracy Chapman, sit in chairs on a well-lit stage holding microphones.

“Science uncovered the truth of why my children died, and set me free.”

Kathleen Folbigg spoke at the Crick this week, joined by the team of scientists and lawyers who used advances in genomic science to help exonerate her after serving twenty years in jail, falsely accused of killing her children.

Spatial lipidomics reveals sphingolipid metabolism as anti-fibrotic target in the liver Steatotic liver disease (SLD), which encompasses various causes of fat accumulation in the liver, is a major cause of liver fibrosis. Understanding the specific mechanisms of lipotoxicity, dysregulate...

Very happy and proud to see our work published in Metabolism!

www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S002...

We thank all our collaborators and especially all the patients who contributed to the study.

Thank you @zoehall-icl.bsky.social for all the support since day one!

Spatial lipidomics reveals sphingolipid metabolism as anti-fibrotic target in the liver Steatotic liver disease (SLD), which encompasses various causes of fat accumulation in the liver, is a major cause of liver fibrosis. Understanding th…

Excited to share our latest study in Metabolism, exploring how dysregulated #sphingolipid #metabolism contributes to #liver #fibrosis using #spatial #lipidomics! A huge thank you to @gruevska.bsky.social and all the collaborators who made this possible!

www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S002...