Alex Papachristodoulou

From MSc Cancer student to Principal Investigator – how do you build a research career? - Barts Cancer Institute - Queen Mary University of London When Dr Alex Papachristodoulou joined our MSc Cancer programme at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, he discovered his passion for cancer research and set out on a career path th...

🧪 From Postgrad to PI – how do you build a research career?

Dr @alexpapac.bsky.social shares how his studies at BCI @qmul.ac.uk @qmulfmd.bsky.social set him on the path to launching his own group, and what advice he has for cancer students with similar ambitions ⤵

Was a pleasure to visit and see all the progress the MSc program has been making! Brought back a lot of great memories. Amazing place to study and build your career.

🧪 Ready, set, degrade!

So proud to share our work in the @jclinical-invest.bsky.social, establishing a versatile approach for creating transgenic dTAG mice to degrade oncoproteins. We showcase that KRAS G12V degradation triggers antitumor immunity in lung cancer.

Link: www.jci.org/articles/vie...

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For those starting on BSKY and loving #metabolism and #mitochondria, the 2 starter packs have now been completed. 300 scientists working in this field are here to be followed! Happy Boxing Day

Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/VavECSX

Starter pack 2: go.bsky.app/CH1MctZ

We are go! Follow the new #NatureReviews journals and #NatureProtocols starter pack

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🧪 @natureportfolio.bsky.social

For new folks on Bluesky - I made some starter packs!
These first two feature model organism reachers using their systems to study disease mechanisms.
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Postdoc Opportunity!

History Department at Rutgers University-New Brunswick

This 2-year postdoc is open to early career scholars (no more than five years from the PhD) and independent scholars who work on any region of the globe between c.1250 and c.1750.

www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

With the 2024-25 MSc class of the BCI

Was an absolute pleasure to visit @qmbci.bsky.social, present my work and meet with this year’s MSc class. Only great memories from my time at the Center, where I began my graduate studies as a masters student myself. Lifelong relationships with mentors like these are hard to find!

📣 ASCO is now here 🦋!
@ascocancer.bsky.social
@ascopost.bsky.social

#OncSky #AcademicSky #MedSky #Oncology #CancerResearch

@oncoalert.bsky.social
@oncodaily.bsky.social
@onclive.bsky.social

Super excited to announce my new lab at the University of Michigan opening Jan 2025! 🎉We’ll study how cells work together to shape the GI tract, with ties to regeneration & disease.

Hiring at all levels—esp. a research tech to help launch the lab! Info: huyckelab.org

#DevBio #CellBio #Hiring

Oncological Safety of MRI-Informed Biopsy Decision-Making in Men With Suspected Prostate Cancer This cohort study assesses the feasibility and safety of a community-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diagnostic strategy in men with suspected prostate cancer using 3-year active monitoring.

Oncological Safety of MRI-Informed Biopsy Decision-Making in Men With Suspected #ProstateCancer

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Findings suggest that prebiopsy MRI has a high negative predictive value, allowing men with negative MRI results to safely avoid PB when they are closely monitored

Association of polygenic scores for neuropsychiatric traits with self-reported professions based on analysis of 420k individuals from UK Biobank and Million Veteran Program. Look at the 'arts & design' category. Artistic talent comes at a cost--a piece of your mind :)

The Mendoza lab will be a fantastic place to train your research chops. I highly recommend applying!

Thank you so much Priya. Will be in touch for some potential collaborations!

Prostate Cancer Join the conversation

Great little starter pack from @ravimadan.bsky.social go.bsky.app/ANw3D3j

Schematic representation of Papachristodoulou lab focus on prostate cancer and mitochondrial biology.

The Papachristodoulou lab at the Center for Cell Signaling will combine pre-clinical cancer modeling, targeted genome editing, and high-res metabolomics to study prostate cancer and mitochondrial biology. Will be recruiting at all levels with more info coming soon. Stay tuned!

Weathered, and now empty, postdoc bay

Last day of postdoc at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social today. Lots of great memories, friendships and failed experiments on this bench 😂. Off to a new start in January as I open my own lab at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social focused on translational prostate cancer research and mitochondrial biology.

Have you checked out our starter pack? We've added more editors since we last posted about it!

As the community grows fast, here is an updated Metabolism Starter Pack 2 with loads of exciting scientists

go.bsky.app/CH1MctZ

The December issue of Cancer Discovery is now online! The cover features work by Christopher Vakoc and colleagues (@cshlnews.bsky.social) showing that MARK2/MARK3 kinases are catalytic codependencies of YAP/TAZ in human cancer. Find it here: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

Congratulations, Gautam Dey! 👏

The EMBL Group Leader (@gautamdey.bsky.social) has been selected to be part of EMBO's Young Investigators Programme and will receive networking, training, and mentorship opportunities over the next four years. 🧪

www.embl.org/news/awards-...

Here is a brief summary of academic journals and news account.

Please help me add more accounts to this list!

go.bsky.app/hCfhqn

Promoting a positive research culture is so important to support each other - and to ultimately enable great science!

@colemanlab.bsky.social has put together an array of scientists who are striving for this in many different ways ⤵️

#research #culture 🧪

Thank you!

Another great pack! Thank you

I have curated a second "metabolism" starter pack, as the first quickly got full. Please have a look, and I am happy to add others (sorry for those who may appear in both): go.bsky.app/CH1MctZ

Welcome to @bsky.app my friend @ddshapiro.bsky.social

Time to get him added to the GU onc and kidney cancer starter packs!!

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Starter a Spatial Tissue Profling/Omics/Biology Startup package. Will be updating often.
Please stop by again soon!
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Updated Aging Starter Pack!! People and labs interested in aging 😀 Let me know if you'd like to be added!

go.bsky.app/5UXXaDA

Would love to be part of this pack. Getting into aging research and its relationship to cancer! Thank you.