Helena Cocheme

Also wonderful to catch up with Ivana, Jenny, Cathy & Teresa 🥘🦐 Formerly postdoc contemporaries, now successfully leading the Bjedov, Regan, Slack and Niccoli labs!

#WomenInScience #Drosophila #IHA

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@niccolilab.bsky.social
@cathyslack.bsky.social
@ihaucl.bsky.social

Great to participate at #EDRC2025, which gathered together an impressive 750 researchers from 40 countries! 🌍🪰🔬 With strong representation from the #LMS by Nsikan, Miriam & Isabel ⭐

#Drosophila #Redox #Ageing #Cancer #DiseaseModels

LMS receives gold award for sustainability Achieving Gold LEAF accreditation marks a significant milestone in our commitment to making research at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) more sustainable and signals the start of an ongoin...

The LMS has achieved Gold LEAF accreditation for sustainability! 🏅

From smart lab booking systems to energy-saving tech and zero-waste practices, we’re working hard to cut our environmental footprint while supporting world-class research! 🌍

#Sustainability #LEAF #GoldAward

Congrats on the prize and a beautiful presentation! 🪰⭐

Congrats Nils!

🚨 Call for Abstracts!
🎓 3rd PhD Symposium: Redox Relay Race
🧬 PhD students in redox biology – apply now!
🎤 5-min flashtalk + 2-min Q&A
📅 Online: 18 Nov 2025
📧 Send abstract (max 300 words) to ecr@sfrr-europe.org by 24 Oct

#RedoxBiology #PhDSymposium

BSRA Online Public Seminar Series - BSRA In our new Understanding Ageing: Meet the Scientists series, we’ve invited experts in their field to talk about their research and what it means for each of us as we get older. You don’t need any scie...

Please help spread the word about our inaugural public lecture on Wednesday. Sign up and if you are in the ageing field it’s a great opp for your family to finally understand what you do! 😀
Thanks for your support 🙏

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✨ #Postdoc Nsikan Nsek giving an excellent presentation of his research on #Drosophila #Ageing #Cancer at the #EDRC2025! ✨

#RoyalSocietyCDF #LMSonTour #ProudPI

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@royalsociety.org

Find us here:
•Nsikan Nsek: talk OC-18 'Disease Models' (Fri 26th @12:15)

•Isabel Liseth: P-145
•Miriam Rodriguez-Vazquez: P-281
•Helena Cochemé: P-283
(all Poster Session II, Sat 27th @15:45)

Plus I’m looking forward to chairing the 'Physiology & Metabolism' session! (Sat 27th @10:30)

#LMSonTour

Arrived in Alicante, and excited for this year’s #EDRC2025! 🪰🧪🔬🧫🥼🧬🪰 The #LMS is well represented at the meeting - catch us at our talk/poster presentations!

#Drosophila #Redox #Ageing #DiseaseModels #Cancer #Obesity

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Image credit to the talented Julie Schubert from the Cabreiro Lab! #SciArt

Microbial allies: bacteria help fight against cancer An international team of scientists led by researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Imperial College London and the University of Cologne have discovered that microbes associated w...

"Microbial allies: bacteria help fight against cancer"

✨ News story from #LMS @mrc-lms.bsky.social, covering the beautiful study led by #postdoc Daniel Martinez @dmartimarti.bsky.social - congrats! ✨

#PostdocAppreciationWeek #PAW2025
#Cancer #Microbiome #Chemotherapy

lms.mrc.ac.uk/microbial-al...

Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in biomedical research: A database about the tiny fruit fly This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Chemotherapy modulation by a cancer-associated microbiota metabolite Martinez-Martinez et al. combine a host-microbe-drug-nutrient screen with multi-omics to reveal how the cancer-associated microbiota modulates chemotherapy. They identify 2-methylisocitrate, a microbi...

Can microbes enhance chemotherapy?

A new paper from the LMS shows how the tumour-associated microbiome can impact the efficacy of chemotherapy drugs.

#medsky #cancer #biomed

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@claudialennicke.bsky.social
@elianods.bsky.social

Happy to have contributed to this study, together with many excellent collaborators! #TeamScience

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@kaletalab.bsky.social
@alexisbarr.bsky.social
@frezzalab.bsky.social
@mrc-lms.bsky.social
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
@cecad.bsky.social
@cp-cellsystems.bsky.social

🚨New paper published today on cancer bugs and drugs!🚨

“Chemotherapy modulation by a cancer-associated microbiota metabolite”

Congrats to the Cabreiro lab on this exciting study!
#Cancer #Microbiome #Metabolism #Chemotherapy
#MRC_LMS #ImperialCollege #CECAD_Cologne

www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Head of Bioinformatics - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences We are recruiting for a Head of Bioinformatics to lead our Bioinformatics facility

We’re seeking a highly skilled and motivated candidate to lead the LMS Bioinformatics Facility.

Find out more and apply now by following the link below!

#Bioinformatics #Hiring #NowHiring #CareerOpportunities #Jobs

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...

Come be my colleague! We have three open positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level for candidates in all areas of the biological sciences.

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

David Ish-Horowicz memorial symposium, Francis Crick Institute, London, 23 June 2025. - YouTube A public symposium organised by friends, scientific colleages and David's wife Ros Diamond to cellebrate David Ish-Horowiccz's, FRS, scientific achievements,...

Dear friends and scientific colleagues,
(especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz).

Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared).

Many thanks
Best regards
Ilan

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Photo of Helena, Andrea, Claudia and Eliano from the Cochemé lab at MRC LMS

Also thanks to Andrea, Claudia and Eliano from the lab who volunteered at the #LMSGeneHome stand, showcasing why #Drosophila is such a great model to study #ageing! 🪰⏳

Thanks for posting these photos - really enjoyed participating at the #GERF2025 festival this summer! Our #FutureFoodLive demo featured PhD student alumnus Eliano and his research on #pH in #ageing, as well as delicious pretzels baked live on stage!
🥨👨‍🍳🥼🧪👩‍🔬

📢 Technician vacancy @LMS in London! Join us and support the research of 2x clinician scientists.

🗓️ Applications close 21st August

Application deadline for up to 5 @mrc-lms.bsky.social postdoc positions in developmental epigenetics closes soon - don’t miss out! Positions across both experimental and computational projects. Come and join our fantastic team science community!

Join the #LMS! Our institute is advertising for junior #GroupLeader positions in #Physiology and #Metabolism. Closing date for applications: August 31st!

Neuroendocrine control of intestinal regeneration through the vascular niche in Drosophila Robust and controlled intestinal regeneration involves reciprocal interactions between the intestinal epithelium and its microenvironment. Here, we id…

Very happy and proud to share the latest work from our lab.
Neuroendocrine control of intestinal regeneration through the vascular niche.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Discover how fruit flies are unlocking the secrets of human disease! 🧬 Join 2025 GSA Early Career Medal recipient Shinya Yamamoto of ‪@bcmhouston.bsky.social on July 24, 2–3 p.m. EDT, for a seminar on gene discovery & collaboration.

🔗Register now: buff.ly/nJnvoMt

Different ways to die: harnessing variation in Drosophila reveals loss of tolerance and resistance over age and sex-specific association between infection susceptibility and lifespan It is widely accepted that susceptibility to infection increases with age. The reason often invoked is the dysregulation of the immune system, which is both cause and consequence of ageing. However, w...

New preprint - varied routes to ⬆️ infection susceptibility over age - via bona fide immunosenescence, but also often via reduced tolerance 🪰🕰️🦠☠️

⬆️ risk to die from infection predicts lifespan in males. Great group effort from the lab!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Study reveals the hidden benefits of weight loss on fat tissue Scientists from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have produced the first detailed characterisation of the changes that weight loss causes in human fat tissue by...

A new study, published today in Nature, reveals the hidden benefits of weight loss on fat tissue.

A better understanding of how weight loss leads to health improvements at a molecular level could help inform the development of therapies for diseases such as type 2 diabetes in the future.

We are hiring a research assistant 👉 tinyurl.com/yxebtjbj to join our lab working on healthy #ageing and protein #aggregation in C. elegans 🪱. Deadline August 4th. 🙏 RT. #proteostasis @babrahaminst.bsky.social