Faraz Mardakheh

Prestigious CRUK funded PhD studentship available in my lab for students with Black heritage backgrounds. See 👇Please apply and repost. UK home tuition fee status students only.

We are looking for our next PhD student to join us 🤩 www.mcclellandlab.com to understand cancer radiation therapy's impact on DNA damage repair and chromosomal instability. Prestigious funding from CRUK RadNet. Please contact me informally - deadline 5th Nov! crukradnet.colcc.ac.uk/phd-students...

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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

AWESOME CONFERENCE ALERT!!

I had an absolute blast at the Fusion “Genome Regulation Through RNA” meeting back in 2024, and psyched to see its upcoming return! Let’s geek out about all things Chromatin and RNA together, in Cancun!

Talk abstract deadline: 10/17

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Allogeneic cetuximab-armed gamma delta T cells using antibody-cell conjugation technology for the treatment of EGFR-expressing solid tumors Background Targeting epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has become a strategic approach in cancer therapy, using various modalities including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-αβT cell therapies. D...

Check it out! The team at Acepodia reports efficacy of cetuximab-conjugated allogenic gamma/delta-T cells against EGFR+ tumors in mice, off-the-shelf, safer alternative to CAR-T. Currently in phase 1 clinical study (NCT06415487). Cell-surface chemistry for the win 👏

jitc.bmj.com/content/13/7...

David Baltimore passed away this weekend. A pioneer of molecular virology who won the Nobel prize in medicine & physiology for his discovery of viral reverse transcriptase. This essay he wrote in 2018 reflecting of his 60yr career in science is a great read.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Protein synthesis and translational control

Looking forward to a few days of exciting discussions at the #EMBLProtein synthesis and translational control meeting www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

I'm thrilled to share our work from @weissmanlab.bsky.social (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). We developed LOCL-TL, an optogenetic approach for monitoring localized translation in mammalian cells. LOCL-TL revealed two distinct strategies for mitochondrially localized translation.

Super happy to announce that our science magazine initiative is now on #BlueSky.
Follow @stemdoradoscimag.bsky.social for magazine life updates, release dates, kids contests, events we will attend to and more. All about making learning science and technology fun, inspiring and memorable for kids!

Dynamics of Ribosomal RNA Transcription and Abundance in Normal and Leukemic Hematopoiesis Transcription of ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) from rDNA repeats is the first step of ribosome biogenesis, accounting for a major portion of all cellular transcription. Often regarded as a housekeeping proce...

📣 New preprint 📣

We present a detailed map of nascent and mature ribosomal RNAs in mouse hematopoiesis and AML (including absolute rRNA molecule numbers), and outline principles of rDNA regulation.

Work by Eleanor Sams (@eleanor44.bsky.social) & Victoria Feist (@victoriafeist.bsky.social). (1/x)

PAL-AI reveals genetic determinants that control poly(A)-tail length during oocyte maturation, with relevance to human fertility - Nature Communications Gene regulation in oocytes relies heavily on poly(A) tail-length changes. Here, the authors develop PAL-AI, a neural network model that predicts tail-length changes, identifies regulatory motifs, and ...

Check out the latest study from our lab, led by Coffee Xiang (@coffeebond007.bsky.social) www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/2)

This is a genuinely huge opportunity for the right person.

We @dunnschool.bsky.social are proud not only of our discovery science to transform human health, but also of the support we offer early career fellows.

Join us, and launch your independent career!

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Exciting times!!🎉🍾

SPIDR enables multiplexed mapping of RNA-protein interactions and uncovers a mechanism for selective translational suppression upon cell stress SPIDR, a massively multiplexed method that simultaneously maps dozens of RNA-binding proteins to their RNA targets at single-nucleotide resolution, uncovers new RNA-protein interactions and provides c...

Woohoo! So psyched to see this awesome work from the Jovanovic lab out in the world! Congrats to all the authors on this tour-de-force!

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

An outstanding opportunity - a great Institute in a beautiful city

Optogenetic storage and release of protein and mRNA in live cells and animals - Nature Communications Spatiotemporal control of biomolecules is a key challenge in cell biology. Here, authors introduce RELISR, an optogenetic condensate system enabling reversible, light-dependent sequestration and relea...

Optogenetic storage and release of protein and mRNA in live cells and animals | Nature Communications share.google/gz8nYXZ3hUVh...

#spatialbiology #imagingtools #fluorescencemicroscopy

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Thinking about who's hanging out with you RNA in cells? Here's a super overview of the (many!) things you can do to find out. Many thanks @mardakheh.bsky.social @shechnerlab.bsky.social #RNA #RNAinteractome

It was a lot of fun writing this review with the amazing @shechnerlab.bsky.social! If you are looking for a review of the new RNA-centric methods to study RNA interactions, then look no more!

2 weeks left to apply for our new fully funded postdoc position studying plasticity regulators in metastatic CRC!

👋 Are you looking for a postdoc position? Do you think microtubules are fascinating? Then we might have the job for you! 2-year funded postdoc to join our lab!
👉 deadline 20/06
👇 check it out

www.godinholab.com

Check out this amazing work from @genophoria.bsky.social’s lab, revealing a novel post-transcriptional tumour suppressive programme in breast cancer 👇👇

Are you interested in doing a masters in RNA biology? We are accepting students for 2-years masters by research degree (1 year research, 1 year write up). Only 1 year tuition fees (£25k international, £5k home) fees include bench fees normally worth £4k. @biouea.bsky.social www.theakaylab.com

MI/25/33 - Postdoctoral Scientist Systems Oncology Group | Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute Add brief description here

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to come work with us: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/mi-25... Please reach out

🚨🚨 News from the @castello-lab.bsky.social and @shabazlab.bsky.social. Our work, led by Louisa Iselin, reveals pervasive changes in the RNA-bound proteome induced by interferon. #RNA, #immunity, #interferon, #host-virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ribonuclease activity undermines immune sensing of naked extracellular RNA Castellano et al. show that when extracellular RNases are inhibited or absent, naked extracellular RNA is internalized spontaneously by cells, inducing inflammation mediated by endosomal TLRs or cytos...

Check out our paper about naked extracellular RNAs uptake, TLR signaling, endosomal escape, and the role of RNases in regulating this process.

www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

New method drop:
HCR-Proxy, a modular proximity labelling approach to profile local proteome composition around RNA at nanoscale, subcompartmental resolution. Thereby we resolved nested nucleolar layers and uncovered the grammar of spatial protein partitioning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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