Molecular & Clinical Cancer Medicine (MCCM)

You can join us tomorrow in person for another exciting seminar:

Thursday 5th March 2026 13:00-14:00

Guest Speaker: Dr Amaya Viros
Title: Metabolic cues that constrain cancer behaviour.
Host: Tim Budden
Location: Physiology Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Nuffield Building

🪰 Fly people, this one’s for you...!

The Drosophila Seminar from the North of England (DSNE) is an online seminar series created to share exciting fly science in a format that’s short, accessible, and genuinely enjoyable.

Can anyone advise on the quality of plasmidsaurus RNAseq compared to other services in the UK please?

• Explore ways you or your team might get involved
• Learn more about initiatives spanning low-carbon innovation, digital sustainability, biodiversity, social justice and community partnerships

Sustainability Week Fair As part of Sustainability Week and Feel Good February 2026, staff and students are invited to attend our Sustainability Fair 2026.

Did you know there is a sustainability fair on campus tomorrow?

26th Feb 11AM-3PM
It’s an opportunity to:

• See the breadth of sustainability activity across the University
• Connect with colleagues and external partners

www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainabi...

Tomorrow @livuni-ismib.bsky.social 26th Feb, slightly later time 2-3pm

Guest Speaker: Professor Henrike Niederholtmeyer
Title: Engineering life-like systems from the bottom up
Host: Luning Liu
Location: Physiology Seminar Room

Read about our latest public engagement event here. To mark World Cancer Day

UoL 3rd year undergraduate students presented outreach activities to widening participation school pupils, helping to raise awareness & education around cancer & STEM education

www.liverpool.ac.uk/systems-mole...

Tomorrow's ISMIB seminar, 12th Feb!

Guest Speaker: Professor Alessio Ciulli
Title: Protein degraders: New insights and twists of molecular mechanism and drug design
Host: Samar Hasnain
Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Life Sciences Building

We’re excited to share our latest preprint! We identify SKT, a mechanosensitive adhesion protein that recruits mTORC2 to cell–matrix adhesions, linking metabolic demand to matrix stiffness. Disrupting this axis strongly inhibits PDAC tumor growth. shorturl.at/V0tpK

‼️🚨Hi all! The next Bioc Soc Membrane Contact Site Meeting will be in Chepstow, UK 28-30th Sept 2026. Fantastic speakers with talk slots still available. Sign up & abstract submission now open - limited spaces so register early! Hope to see you all there. Please share + RT 🙏

YouTube video by Faculty of Health and Life Sciences FACULTY OF HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2025

🎉Celebrating our Faculty public engagement highlights 2025!

Thank you to everyone who got involved and supported our
@livunihls.bsky.social public engagement events and activities.

We’re looking forward to doing even more in 2026!

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9gZ...

@livuninews.bsky.social

Registration for our Imaging Cell Dynamics meeting is still open! Organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @drmichaelway.bsky.social and @giuliazanetti.bsky.social.

Find out more: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

Early-bird deadline: 16 January

#imaging #microscopy

Don't forget to register for our Spring Meeting: Dynamic Cell VI
A joint meeting with the @biochemsoc.bsky.social

Super early bird registration ends 21st Jan

Don't forget we have our Institute's Postdoc Symposium today, 502 Teaching Hub!

Discover technical insights, explore integrated workflows in action, and learn how these resources can support your research.

📢 Seminar Reminder – Tomorrow! 📢

🗓 Thursday, 11th December
🕒 14:00 – 15:00
📍 Life Sciences LT2

Join Gemma Charlesworth and Sarah Barnett as they showcase the technologies & expertise available through our Liverpool Shared Research Facilities - Histology SRF and Egg Facility LIV-SRF

Winter 2025 honorary graduates announced - University of Liverpool News Winter 2025 honorary graduates announced

Today marks the start of our Winter Graduations! 🎓 As we celebrate the achievements of more than 2,500 graduates, we are also delighted to welcome three remarkable individuals into the #TeamLivUni community as our Honorary Graduates!

Read all about them here: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/12/08/w...

This will be of interest to all interested in drug discovery & development, as well as trainees in a variety of fields of biological sciences, chemistry, and/or data science who would like to learn more about careers in the pharmaceutical industry.

MSD scientists, will discuss their career paths and share an example of how optimising drug safety in the discovery phase helped in the successful development of a marketed oncology drug.

Join scientists involved in Nonclinical Drug Safety at MSD for a session where you will learn how a variety of disciplines are involved in bringing pharmaceuticals from discovery, through development, and to the clinic. The session will include a Q&A session.

We have an online seminar, tomorrow, Tuesday 9th December 2025 13:00 – 14:00.

Guest Speaker: Mark Anderton (MSD) & Kara Pearson (Merck)
"Careers in Nonclinical Drug Safety: Roles and Contributions to the Discovery of Safer Therapies"
Host: Chris Goldring
Location: Online via Zoom (check emails!)

Join us today 1-2pm, 4th Dec

Guest Speaker – Professor Jason King
Title - “A universal model for macropinocytosis and organizing large actin structures”
Host – Marisa Merino
Location – Physiology Seminar Room, Nuffield Building

Join the Kanhere Lab to explore how RNA signatures reveal early signs of organ injury caused by cancer therapies. Highly interdisciplinary project combining computational biology, transcriptomics, & experimental approaches, collab with @TAmiRNA GmbH (industry partner) #industryphd #cellbio

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Decoding RNA Signatures: Novel Biomarkers and Mechanisms of Cancer Therapy-Associated Organ Injury at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Decoding RNA Signatures: Novel Biomarkers and Mechanisms of Cancer Therapy-Associated Organ Injury at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD...

One more PhD to share:

🎓 Exciting fully funded PhD opportunity with the @MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

⭐️ Fantastic talk from Evangelos Giampazolias today at our Liverpool Cancer Seminar Series on nutrient-host-microbiome interactions in cancer immunity 👏🏻👏🏻
@livuni-ismib.bsky.social
@livunicancer.bsky.social
@cruk-mi.bsky.social
@giampazolias.bsky.social

Join us today 18th Nov 1-2pm, for a fantastic Seminar, Evangelos Giampazolias presents:

“Decoding host-microbiome interactions in cancer immunity. Killing cancer with a gut instinct"

Host @ainhoamielgo.bsky.social North West Cancer Research Sponsored

Physiology seminar room

PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees

2 - will use innovative interdisciplinary approaches with soft matter engineers to improve organoid modelling of gastric tissues.

How do microenvironmental signals affect gastric epithelial integrity&organisation?

Open to International Students – apply 7th Dec

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees

1 -will develop novel and exciting organoid xenograft approaches to detect and treat gastric cancer: In ovo organoid xenografts to accelerate gastric cancer drug and biomarker development - UK students only, apply 4th Dec

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Join a dynamic research team led by Dr Carrie Duckworth -
2 PhD fully funded studentships are available aligned with the recently established North West Cancer Research gastric cancer organoid hub!

#Biotechnology #BioEngineering #PhDpositions
#CellBiology #CancerBiology

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Goldilocks and Chemotherapy Resistance: Resolving Mixed Outcomes in Pyrimidine-Based Treatment of Cancer at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Goldilocks and Chemotherapy Resistance: Resolving Mixed Outcomes in Pyrimidine-Based Treatment of Cancer at University of Liverpool, listed on Fi...

Great fit for candidates interested in cancer biology, DNA-damage signalling, pharmacology, or precision medicine.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#PhDPosition #CancerResearch #Oncology #DrugResistance #PrecisionMedicine #Chemotherapy