Cambridge Biochemistry

Don't miss today's RNA Club! At Sanger Building @cambiochem.bsky.social , 26th Feb 16:30h!

📢 Don’t miss the next Cancer Biology and Medicine talk tomorrow!

Machine learning applications to cancer
Dr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar

📅 Thurs 26 February, 9:30-10:30
📍Theo Chalmers lecture theatre, School of Clinical Medicine
All welcome! @cambridge-scm.bsky.social

🎤🍕Cafe Synthetique is back! Mon 2 Mar,6pm

Join Gabriela Guedes, Joel Roca & Gorjan Stojanovski for talks on #proteins #nanomedicine #plastic-eatingenzymes 🧫

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@hollfelderlab.bsky.social @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social @cambiochem.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

At the #GlWoBr my department @cambiochem.bsky.social hosted, I was one of the panelist’s and had the chance to reflect on my career path.

Thanks to @claudiabonfio.bsky.social lab organising it and to a live illustrator (paraphrase.studio) capturing our conversation, this lovely sketch came out 🥰

What if RNA–DNA hybrids don’t just form in the nucleus… but trigger immune responses from the cytoplasm?
Join us on 26th Feb 4 pm at @cambiochem.bsky.social for Magdalena Crossley's talk and dive into the fascinating world of R-loops, genome regulation & innate immunity

Special guest lecture by Professor Bill DeGrado on '𝘋𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘰 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘨-𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘝𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴'.

📅 5 March 2026 | ⏲️ 12:00
📍 Department of Pharmacology

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/special-ph...

@ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

Congratulations to our new group leader @jenny-molloy.bsky.social on her Special Recognition for Advocacy and Awareness at the European Open Source Awards in Brussels last week. 👏 👏 👏

Wonderful news that the @kiranrpatil.bsky.social Lab's research on removing PFAS 'forever chemicals' from the human body has been developed into a probiotic and can be clinically tested through this investment. 👏 👏 👏

Grateful to @cambiochem.bsky.social for spotlighting my PhD work, recently published in @embomolmed.org.

We're really proud of this international collaboration between a wide range of researchers and clinicians. Thanks to everyone involved!

www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/embo-mo...

@ecwalsh.bsky.social , @jonlp-bioinf.bsky.social , @paula-milan-rois.bsky.social , and @bianca-pierattini.bsky.social presented their work at #RNAUK26. We enjoyed the perfect combo of great science, inspiring discussions, and scenic hikes. Thank you to the organiser for such a fantastic conference!

Huge congratulations to @juancruedas.bsky.social for successfully passing his PhD viva with minor corrections yesterday! 🧬We’re incredibly proud of you! And even more exciting, the manuscript is on the way. Stay tuned! 👏🥳
@cambiochem.bsky.social

We are recruiting for a postdoc with a background in cell biology and an interest in infection research to join the @camillagodlee.bsky.social Lab to study how Salmonella remodels host membrane dynamics. Apply here by 24 Feb: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

🧬🧫 EngBio ECRs Meetup is back!
📅 Mon 16 Feb | ⏰ 12pm
📍 Postdoc Centre Mill Lane

Two great talks on capsid proteins & RNA organelles in bacteria from Daniela Gjorgjevikj and Brian Ng

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#EngBio #ECRs #RNA #bacteria #CapsidProteins

How is RNA regulation shaped across tissues and species?
Join us for two exciting talks by Roberto Campalastri (tRNA gene regulation) @mrc-tu.bsky.social and Meenu Bhati @meenubhati.bsky.social (lncRNA discovery in the bovine genome)
Don’t miss it! Thursday 22nd 16:30h Zoom
@cambiochem.bsky.social

Oogenesis and germinal bed morphology of the brown anole (A. sagrei) Background The brown anole is a model species of the genus Anolis, a squamate (encompassing lizards and snakes) group widely studied in evolutionary, behavioral, and developmental biology. Full geno...

Excited that our study on oogenesis and germinal bed morphology in the brown anole is published! Find it here:
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@stowersinstitute.bsky.social @mdandersn.bsk.social @oxfordwomenshealth.bsky.social @cambiochem.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @cam.ac.uk

We had a great time at the @cambiochem.bsky.social Away Days, learning about the exciting research across the Department! It was a pleasure to share some of our group’s projects thanks to @migueldvalmeida.bsky.social and @ecwalsh.bsky.social . All set for a year full of science! Stay tuned!

We are looking for a Postdoc to join the Lilley Group and work on an ancient universal membrane effector system, and tackle the question of how members of the microbial IM30 protein family function to protect biological membranes. Apply here by 13 Feb: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

The @claudiabonfio.bsky.social Group is seeking a Research Associate with a PhD in Organic, Supramolecular or Medicinal Chemistry to work on an exciting project that combines prebiotic and supramolecular chemistry and biophysics. Apply here by 14 January: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Our Pharmacology Seminar Series returns on the Friday 9 January

The talk will be a Research Culture lecture, featuring Corinna Alberg, Sara Pensa (Cambridge Africa) and Lucy Woolhouse (University Library) 📖

Talks are in person only. More info here: www.phar.cam.ac.uk/department-p...

Café Synthetique returns in 2026!

Join us on Mon 19 Jan for talks on Cellular Decision Making in Plant Environmental Response & miRNA Crop Assessment with
@xanderjones.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social and the Cambridge iGEM Team 🪴🌱

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The Smith Group is recruiting a new postdoc for an exciting interdisciplinary BBSRC funded project: "Molecular grammar of a cell-type specific alternative splicing regulator" Apply here by 23 Jan: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

This Wed 10th, 16:30h (Zoom)! Discover how ribosome structures are reshaping the battle against AMR.
Don’t miss this deep dive into cutting-edge Cryo-EM by Dr Martino Morici ( @uni-hamburg.de )!
@cambiochem.bsky.social #RNAclub #CryoEM

The @mrc-tu.bsky.social, Department of Biochemistry, @astra-zeneca.bsky.social, @cruk-si.bsky.social, & @mrcharwell.bsky.social have been awarded a £3.4 million MRC Prosperity Partnership grant to fund research on the toxicity of advanced therapeutics. Read more: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/mrc-fun...

Hear Prof Ben Lehner next Thurs 4 December at 4.30pm talk about using massively parallel sequencing experiments and AI to understand the properties of proteins and reveal biological function; followed by a drinks reception in the Whale Café. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alkis-sera...

The @kiranrpatil.bsky.social Group have published a paper in Nature Microbiology that identifies over 150 common industrial chemicals, from pesticides to flame retardants, that have a toxic effect on bacteria found in the healthy human gut microbiome. Read more: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/patil-g...

📢 RNA fans! Join us tomorrow at 16:30h in @cambiochem.bsky.social for a new Cambridge RNA Club session. Come for the science, stay for the community! 🧬

Happy Birthday to the Lilley Group and the Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, who are celebrating 25 years! 🎂🥂👏 Since they started in 2000, they have acquired 12 mass spectrometers and contributed to over 300 publications and 1000s of projects. Read more: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/lilley-...

Congratulations to our faculty members Paul Dupree (@dupreelab.bsky.social) and Kiran Patil (@kiranrpatil.bsky.social) who have both received the
@clarivate.com Web of Science #HighlyCitedResearcher Award for 2025; a testament to the quality of their research: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/paul-du...

Huge congratulations to our postdoc @paula-milan-rois.bsky.social for winning the Best Talk Award at the #PdOC Research Showcase 2025! 👏
Her work on RNA and nanomedicine highlights the innovative and diverse science happening in our lab. Don't miss our science! @cambiochem.bsky.social

How do high-affinity B cells shape immune responses, and how can we use their signatures in the clinic? Find out on 20 Nov, 16:30 at @cambiochem.bsky.social with Michele Chirichela, whose work spans antibody engineering, post-transcriptional regulation & biomarker discovery. Don’t miss it!