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@rna-julie.bsky.social

RNA biologist who enjoys travelling, art galleries, food, listening to Bruce Springsteen, hiking and spending time with family. My group at Leeds dissect mechanisms of translational regulation, ribosomes and novel sites of translation.

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Another fabulous day of talks at @embo.org Ribosome Synthesis meeting. Very exciting to see technology developments impacting ribosome and translation fields. As well as lots of awesome talks on ribosome specialisation! @ribocode.bsky.social

11.09.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Super interesting talk from @amunts.bsky.social on mito RPs. Lovely to see figures from our reviews in introduction 🀩

10.09.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Barbara hepworh sculpture in Churchill College gardens

Barbara hepworh sculpture in Churchill College gardens

Looking forward to another great day at Ribosome biogenesis meeting @embo.org Great conversations yesterday and lively to catch up with colleagues!

10.09.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover image of ribosome

Cover image of ribosome

Delighted to be at @embo.org Ribosome Synthesis meeting at beautiful Churchill College, Cambridge. Delighted to see @royalsociety.org specialised ribosome special issue on registration desk and Bulat Fatkhullin’s fabulous cover image @ribocode.bsky.social

08.09.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wish i was there but looking forward to EMBO Ribosome synthesis meeting next week in Cambridge!

04.09.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Translon: a single term for translated regions. #Translation @natmethods.nature.com

04.09.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just dont get too close! Surely we sure call it micro-giraffe!

21.08.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to learning lots this morning on what proteomics and immunopeptidomics can reveal about the dark proteome -day 4 of GRC β€˜Decoding Microproteins Across Evolution and Disease’ meeting @johnprensner.bsky.social

20.08.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Totally blown away by number and quality of questions and discussion in our microproteins

19.08.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Day 3 of GRC β€˜Decoding Microproteins Across Evolution and Disease’ @johnprensner.bsky.social Fabulous dive into big data approaches to detect and characterise translation of novel translons to generate microproteins #microproteins #translons

19.08.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited for day 2 of GRC Decoding Microproteins Across Evolution and Disease @johnprensner.bsky.social

18.08.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Another great day of translation science at @biochemsoc.bsky.social #TLUK2025 in Edinburgh. Fabulous talks and discussions-looking forward to poster session this afternoon

01.07.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Massive congratulations!

20.06.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great to have you join the team Alex!

03.06.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Translational activity of 80S monosomes varies dramatically across different tissues Abstract. Translational regulation at the stage of initiation can impact the number of ribosomes translating each mRNA molecule. However, the translational

Delighted to share paper on translational activity of 80S monosomes across different tissues in πŸͺ° in @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to fabulous team Albert Blandy Tayah Hopes Elton Vasconcelos @amy-turner96.bsky.social Bulat Fatkhullin Michaela Agapiou Juan Fontana academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

14.05.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Great day of fascinating science yesterday! Thanks for the invite

04.04.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great to be here at Hidden Cell Dark Genome meeting, here in Edinburgh. Wonderful talks!

03.04.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats! Beautiful

22.03.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Specialized #ribosome #rnasky

06.03.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Specialized ribosomes: integrating new insights and current challenges | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Variation in the composition of different ribosomes, termed ribosome heterogeneity, is a now well established phenomenon. However, the functional implications of this heterogeneity on the regulation of protein synthesis are only now beginning to be ...

Congratulations @ribocode.bsky.social team on our review published today @royalsociety.org Awesome team work to write this as such a large group. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

06.03.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1921

Excited to see issue on ribosome heterogeneity and specialisation out @royalsociety.org Philosophical Transactions B. Thanks to authors & co-editors @liamfaller.bsky.social @andershlund.bsky.social Maria Barna. Wonderful cover Bulat Fatkhullin! #ribosomes royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

06.03.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1921 Can't sign in? Forgot your password?

Our paper is part of a special issue from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B ⬇️

royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Read about different aspects of ribosome heterogeneity and specialisation across species & the latest advances and future direction of the field. (2/2)

06.03.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Specialized ribosomes: integrating new insights and current challenges | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Variation in the composition of different ribosomes, termed ribosome heterogeneity, is a now well established phenomenon. However, the functional implications of this heterogeneity on the regulation of protein synthesis are only now beginning to be ...

❗NEW PAPER❗

Check out our review on #ribosome heterogeneity and specialisation published today!

We discuss the mechanisms of specialisation, review the latest research and explore how technological advancements will drive the next set of research questions.

doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0377 (1/2)

06.03.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ProteintechPodcast

Find out more about Dr Julie Aspden @universityofleeds.bsky.social fascinating insights on development biology and her path to be an inspiring #womeninscience

Listen now linktr.ee/proteintechp...

#womeninstem #diversityinstem #scienceforeveryone #sciencepodcast #ribosomes

18.02.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dr. Julie Aspden: Ribosomes, tiny testes, and diversity in STEM
YouTube video by Proteintech Dr. Julie Aspden: Ribosomes, tiny testes, and diversity in STEM

To celebrate #IDWGS I joined my friend Amy Turner @proteintech.bsky.social to discuss my career in science (so far!), leadership, diversity and tiny testes youtu.be/LzlKPd39c1Q?... @leedsunimedia.bsky.social @ribocode.bsky.social

12.02.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interested to know how i got into science? My research interests and thoughts on diversity? And tiny testes?

11.02.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Building orthogonal ribosome control for engineering biology at University of Leeds on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Building orthogonal ribosome control for engineering biology at University of Leeds, listed on FindAPhD.com

2) Engineering novel methods for ribosome control
with @rna-julie.bsky.social
Deadline 14 March.
findaphd.com/phds/project...

Happy to chat to anyone interested ahead of the deadlines!

2/2

10.02.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome talks and posters yesterday at @keystonesymposia.bsky.social microprotein meeting. Excited to learn more in day2

08.02.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited for 2 days of microproteins @keystonesymposia.bsky.social delighted to be speaking!

07.02.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@ribocode.bsky.social

20.12.2024 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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