Simon Bullock

📣🧠 We're looking for someone to join the Lancaster Lab family as a Research Support Officer (maternity cover).

You'll be studying the origins of human brain specialisations using brain organoids, as part of a great team at one of the world's great research environments.

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Join us in beautiful Portugal for the best & most comprehensive meeting on RNA localization and local translation! > 30 talks will be selected from abstracts. Held for over 30 years, this meeting is small enough to meet leaders in the field, yet big enough to cover a breadth of cutting-edge science.

Do you work on DNA or RNA protein complexes? 🧬

Come to Machines on Genes this June in Crete! ☀️

Super early discount is ending this Sunday so register now! 😃

Join us!

Come and join us. It's such a great place to work.

Cytoskeleton enthusiasts: join us for the Cytoskeletal Motors GRC, July 12-17, 2026, in Portland Maine. Abstracts submitted by April 5 will be considered for short talks. Please apply!
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🎉Proud to present our latest paper, out now in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RNA Binding Proteins (RBPs) are often full of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), but what these regions do during RNA recognition is often unclear. 1/10
#RNA #IDR #RBP

We are excited to be recruiting a new tenure track group leader in the Structural Studies Division at MRC LMB! It is an amazing place to start your own lab.
@mrclmb.bsky.social

Please get in touch if you have any questions.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

thanks @lucksmith.bsky.social
15 years after your key paper with Nelson Lau showing the abundance & widespread nature of piRNAs from 3' UTRs, we now start to get the logic.

dissecting how the Yb protein reads out U-content, and talks to the Upf1-related SF2 helicase Armitage, will be interesting.

Figure showing transport dynamics of LAMP1- and LAMP2A-positive organelles.

Reem Abouward, Giampietro Schiavo & team find that LAMP1 and LAMP2A localise to distinct axonal organelles with differential transport dynamics, but share overlapping total protein compositions.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Please spread the word: the Structural Studies Division @mrclmb.bsky.social is looking for a new tenure-track, independent group leader with an exciting plan in any area of Structural (Molecular & Cell) biology, in discovery biology and/or methods development. 🥳

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🚨 Postdoc opportunity to study memory or nutrition in #Drosophila 🪰

I am looking for a candidate to support for a 3 year Addison Wheeler Fellowship application lnkd.in/e2rvNf5x

Interested? Please send a CV & cover letter with brief research outline by 20th February to vincent.croset@durham.ac.uk

Live-cell single-vRNP imaging identifies viral gene expression signatures that shape influenza infection heterogeneity In this study, an imaging technology, “VISUN,” is developed that allows live-cell visualization of unmodified influenza virus during infection with single-vRNP resolution. Combining VISUN with multipl...

Out now in Cell Systems: We develop a technique to visualize influenza A virus in live cells with single viral RNA resolution. Combined with precise readouts of viral transcription, we map the whole influenza A viral life cycle and identify key bottlenecks in infection.

www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Thanks @michaelboutros.bsky.social and @crisprflydesign.bsky.social for sharing! 🧪🧬✂️🔬🪰
Multiplexed Cas12a editing plasmids here: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

One week left to apply for the postdoc position at MRC-LMB in Cambridge. Join our team for an exciting project on transcription-coupled splicing to understand human gene regulation 🧬 Feel free to get in touch directly
#postdoc #cryoEM #biochemistry

Searching for a human neural cell line with greater differentiation potential than SH-SY5Y cells? Check out the human #neural #stem_cell line HNSC.100. Differentiates into astrocytes, neurons & oligodendrocytes. On #BioRxiv, we provide protocols, markers, ABs, karyotyping & RNAseq: shorturl.at/y0aJG

Very happy to say that our work on how axonemes are generated is now available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - if you’ve ever wondered how the incredibly beautiful, complex structures within motile #cilia are constructed then this is for you!

Postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Are you interested in the actin cytoskeleton? I am looking for a postdoc to examine the cellular, developmental or physiological role of Arp2/3 iso-complex driven actin polymerisation. Multiple aspects available.
crick.ac.uk/WayPostdoc2026

2nd postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Project will examine the role of motors & the cytoskeleton (actin, septins and microtubules) during vaccinia virus egress using biochemical, structural & cellular approaches + live cell imaging. spread the word.
crick.ac.uk/WayPostdoc20...

The registration deadline for this wonderful meeting is approaching! Be sure to reserve your spot before March 10!

This is for you – and a great opportunity – if you are establishing a group in Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Türkiye...

Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk

Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹

Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻

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The IGNITION PhD Programme is now open! We’re offering 13 fully funded PhD positions across 10 institutions in 8 EU countries to study immune mediated neurodegeneration.

If you're passionate about research, innovation & international collaboration, this is for you.

ignition-consortium.eu/home/

This is another tour de force from @crisprflydesign.bsky.social and colleagues with consideration of utility for the community at its heart. Great work!

More efficient CRISPR targeting in Drosophila, via Cas12a and easier synthesis of multiplexed gRNAs

RNA-binding proteins and ribonucleoproteins as determinants of immunity - Nature Reviews Immunology RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) considerably expand the information content of the genome and can determine the lifespan, localization and function of RNA, thereby controlling when, where and how much pro...

Just out @natrevimmunol.nature.com
RNA-binding proteins and ribonucleoproteins as determinants of immunity
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
gives our perspective on this growing area of research. Special thanks to the editor Alexandra, for streamlining the manuscript.

Suyang Zhang smiles in front of a blurred laboratory background

Exciting opportunity for a #postdoc to join @suyangzhang.bsky.social’s group in the LMB Structural Studies Division to investigate co-transcriptional splicing using cryo-EM and biochemistry.
Read more: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Apply by 11 FEB
#PostdocJobs #ScienceJobs

I’m happy to share the main result of my PhD, which you can find on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... If you are interested in learning about a new way to perform DNA-PAINT multiplexing, which we call Combi-PAINT, or if you are interested in the study of mRNA conformation, keep reading! 1/10

Hitting the postdoc search? Consider applying to be part of the Winship postdoc recruitment cohort @winshipcancer.emory.edu

apps.winshipcancer.emory.edu/admin/Event/...

Eligibility requirements and participating faculty are listed in the link✅

Tom Cech on RNA research in Davos (video): www.weforum.org/meetings/wor...