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A microscopy image of vascular system with the text "Funded PhD, Unravelling how endothelial metabolism drives vascular inflammation, with Dr Stephen Robinson, Apply by 2 December 2025"
🎓 PhD Position !
🔬 Unravelling how endothelial metabolism drives vascular inflammation with Dr Stephen Robinson @robinsonlab-qib.bsky.social
📅Apply by 2 December
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A healthcare professional adjusting an IV bag in a clinic setting.
Researchers from our Norwich Medical School have found that treating patients at home with IV antibiotics, rather than in a clinical setting, could halve costs to the NHS and relieve pressure on hospital beds.
Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4hzrtFg
#Research #Study #Antibiotics
A digital illustration of the gut microbiome with the text "Funded PhD, the impact of innovative food ingredients on the human gut microbiome and health, with Dr Fred Warren, Apply by 2 December 2025"
🎓 #PhDPosition !
🍽️ The impact of innovative food ingredients on the human gut microbiome and health with Dr Fred Warren @starchlab.bsky.social
📅Apply by 2 December
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Beyond excited to share our new Perspective just published in ISME Journal! This work is a joint effort with Shamik Roy, @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont exploring how warming and antibiotics influence carbon use efficiency. We hope you enjoy reading it!
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Science Connect: Careers Fair and Panels on Wednesday 5 November 2025
Are you looking for your first step into a career in the STEM? Explore career options and meet with employers at Science Connect: Careers Fair and Panels at 1pm - 3pm in NEWSCI 0.07/0.08. Alongside the fair from 1.30pm – 4.15pm we have a programme of talks and presentations.
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Professor Harriet Jones, sitting with the UEA Lasdun Wall, grass and trees behind her.
A daughter following on the work of her mother:
a computer game exploring the wonders of a hidden world ensures a lasting legacy for our lovely late colleague Prof Harriet Jones.
#UEAScience
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BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 5th November, 2-3pm, in EFRY 01.08. Speaker Caroline Beck from University of Otago, with talk title "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" All Welcome
In our next BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 5th November, 2-3pm, in EFRY 01.08 we welcome Dr Caroline Beck from University of Otago with talk title "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" Hosted by Prof. Grant Wheeler. All welcome #UEAScience
27.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A digital illustration of different bacteria with the text, "Funded PhD, How does antibiotic resistance evolve in mixed communities?" With Professor Mark Webber, Apply by 2 December 2025
🎓 #PhDPosition !
🦠 How does antibiotic resistance evolve in mixed communities? with Professor Mark Webber @webberma.bsky.social
📅Apply by 2 December
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🚨 PhD studentship alert! 🚨
Joint PhD with Münsterberg and Mok labs (UEA) with collaborators Macaulay and Haerty labs (EI)
Explore how enhancers control heart, blood & vessel development using single-cell multi-omics
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/one...
#PhD #DevBio #Cardiovascular
Animals know things — important things! — and we must conserve their ability to pass these lessons down through generations, or their ways of living will fade away.
22.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
NEWS - International award for group leader recognises excellence in wheat genetics and genomics
Dr Philippa Borrill @philippaborrill.bsky.social recently visited Italy to accept the Carlotta Award at the International Conference ‘From Seed to Pasta V’.
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Professor Harriet Jones, sitting with the UEA Lasdun Wall, grass and trees behind her.
A daughter following on the work of her mother:
a computer game exploring the wonders of a hidden world ensures a lasting legacy for our lovely late colleague Prof Harriet Jones.
#UEAScience
www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...
New Wadertales blog on an important IBIS paper from Jesse Conklin et al: the winter distribution of bar-tailed godwit subspecies is not what we thought:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/r...
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#ornithology @wadertales.bsky.social @globalflyway.bsky.social
Dr Rafeeq Mir - Post doc in Wheeler and Munsterberg labs “AGMO - A modulator of ether lipids and it’s role in embryonic development" Thurs 23 October, 1pm EFRY 01.02
Next up in our CDMB Seminar Series is Dr Rafeeq Mir, a Post Doc in the Wheeler and Münsterberg labs, speaking on Thursday 23 October. All welcome!
17.10.2025 10:39 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New BBSRC funded PhD opportunity in my group with Inspiralis Ltd and @conradn.bsky.social. If you are interested in RNA - protein interactions and RNA modifications check the details below for how to apply. @nrpdtp.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzvn4dr
12.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 13 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler.
A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us
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Congratulations to Aykut Shen, one of my first PhD students, who has successfully passed his viva yesterday. Many thanks to examiners @conradn.bsky.social and @adamcribbs.bsky.social and co-supervisor/collaborator. @whaerty.bsky.social. @nrpdtp.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
15.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Please RT!
🚨 4-year PhD position in my lab (Oct 2026 start) 🚨
Molecular and genomic insights to sexually antagonistic genes
Application deadline: Dec 2, 2025
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mol...
A collage featuring some laboratory analyses, a schematic of the structure of DNA, a pocket watch in an elderly person's hand, and a family of wild meerkats.
🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾
Find out by studying meerkats!
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
Get in touch or APPLY NOW
Please share!
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CDMB (Cell Development and Molecular Biology) Seminar Series in association with the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research Network Talk title: The role of snoRNA SNORD116 in Cardiomyocyte Development and Metabolism Dr Terri-Lea Holmes (MED) - post doc in James Smiths lab Thursday16 October 13:00 - 14:00 For more information contact Geoff Mok (g.mok@uea.ac.uk) or bio.fps@uea.ac.uk
The BIO CDMB seminar series restarts for 2025/26 next week with a talk by Dr Terri-Lea Holmes, post doc in Dr James Smith's lab. All welcome! #UEAScience
10.10.2025 09:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The latest wadertales blog (no. 151) describes how scoring moult from photographs can reveal moult season duration and how it varies between populations: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
#ornithology
BLOG - A look back at our 2024 Annual Science Meeting awards
This week is our JIC/TSL Annual Science Meeting, a yearly conference for staff and students. Each year, awards are given to those who go above and beyond - we've taken a look back at last year’s winners 🏆
www.jic.ac.uk/blog/a-look-...
#Rice growing in the Cambridgeshire fens or on the ocean? 🍚🌊
Catch up on @itvanglia.bsky.social‘s fascinating feature on this #agricultural innovation, featuring our own Professor Steve Penfield 📺: www.itv.com/watch/news/u...
Today is the day! 🌟🥼🧪
We’re thrilled to be kicking off the NBI Accessible Science Talks, in collaboration with @earlhaminst.bsky.social , @quadraminstitute.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
Thank you in advance to everyone for joining us - whether in-person or online!
#NBIAST2025
PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils”
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“I’m very pleased to welcome Maggie and Gary to the Quadram. They each bring a unique wealth of experience to the Quadram Institute as a leader in the field of research into food and nutrition, gut microbiology, and human health.”
💬 Chair of Trustees Dr Celia Caulcott
“This study is particularly important to me as it took place during my post doc years at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and it has been a source of inspiration for my current research line, as a newly appointed Early Career Fellow at the Quadram Institute."
💬 Dr Serena Monaco
Happy birthday, Rex!! 🥳🎂
Yesterday, Rex the JIC #Science Cat celebrated his 10th birthday. Rex has been an iconic figure at the JIC for the last five years, greeting visitors at reception and proudly prowling around the NRP 🐾
🧬 Our latest paper out in Scientific Reports!
We explored how Gum Arabic (a dietary fibre) affects the microbiota–gut–brain axis and whole-organism fitness in zebrafish.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@immler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
What we found ⬇️
Jane Goodall stands at a plinth, mid-speech, with a UEA logo behind her, when she opened the New Science Building in 2019.
"Everything is connected. Everyone can make a difference."
Rest in peace, Jane Goodall.
We are proud to have known you.
#UEAScience
