Rob White

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Plugging the holes in pandemic coronavirus therapy at University of Leeds on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Plugging the holes in pandemic coronavirus therapy at University of Leeds, listed on FindAPhD.com

Delighted to announce that we have a PhD project, subject to competition, on targeting and understanding the envelope protein ion channel from SARS2, and extending our understanding to pan-CoV therapeutics...

Funded by MRC DiMeN with sophion as partners.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Weird Toys" - parody by the Marsh Family of "Bui-Doi" from Miss Saigon about ICE and US protests

Happy #NoKings day to all our friends in the US!

Here's a parody of "Bui-Doi" (Miss Saigon) about the protests, sung initially from the perspective of ICE 'veterans'. Sorry about the ropey accents. 😜🎶

youtu.be/FWCalxycuf4

If you enjoy, you know what to do: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

We have an exciting PhD opportunity to study ribosome hibernation in archaea using cryo-electron microscopy, tomography, microfluidics, omics, and confocal imaging. @daumlab.bsky.social,
@lsiexeter.bsky.social
Apply via:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Any questions, IM me.

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

Applications for the Crick PhD programme now open. One studentship available in our lab, starting Autumn 2026. Apply!

I don’t think he specified unvaccinated children. Or advocated endemicity, but regarded it as inevitably the only realistic end to the pandemic. Which was not wrong (given the number of govts unwilling to take the steps required to suppress it and the prevalence in animals).

‘Microbial piracy’ uncovers new way to fight drug-resistant infections | Imperial News | Imperial College London Researchers have discovered how ‘pirate phages’ hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for dangerous traits.

New research in Cell from @tcostalab.bsky.social shows how ‘pirate phages’ hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for dangerous traits.

Many congrats Tiago and your team!

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268213/...

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial : AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

A lovely start to the month! Island of Whispers (my first collaboration with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) has won the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Awards!
www.mythsoc.org/awards/award...

No, but I might if Trump continues floccinaucinihilipilifying the US economy.

Furthest I’ve been:

N: Orkney Isles
E: Brisbane
S: Brisbane
W: Seattle

@mrclmb.bsky.social MRC LMB is looking for a new group leader in Chemical/Synthetic Biology. Come and join us in this fantastic institute! Core funding, amazing science all around you and great collaborative colleagues are just some of the highlights. Please share the news!

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

“Today, people find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit.”
I am so here for this book. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Statistically, fewer applications for the same pot of money means higher paylines. Whether that matches reality is a different matter.

EBNA leader protein orchestrates chromatin architecture remodeling during Epstein-Barr virus-induced B cell transformation Abstract. Epstein-Barr virus Nuclear Antigen Leader Protein (EBNA-LP) plays a pivotal role in the transformation of B cells by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), fu

We are excited to share our recent work:
EBNA leader protein orchestrates chromatin architecture remodeling during Epstein-Barr virus-induced B cell transformation url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

IFITM3-deficient mice as a model for testing influenza virus vaccines via the intramuscular route Influenza virus infections remain a significant global health concern. Development of a universal influenza vaccine has been met with challenges, in p…

Our new paper in collab with @hemannlab.bsky.social.
Shows IFITM3 KO mice that are more easily infected with most, if not all, influenza strains can be used for preclinical challenge studies to test vaccine candidates. 🫁🦠🥼💉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X25007558

#academicsky
#psychscisky

Are you an excellent researcher in the field of genomics of infectious diseases of intracellular pathogens (viruses, intracellular parasites or bacteria)? The apply for this chair of excellence at the University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine:
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

📢 We're getting closer to the deadline!
Don't miss your chance to apply for a fully funded PhD co-sponsored by the EPSRC CDT in Chemical Biology and BASF, focusing on vitamin production heterogeneity in Yarrowia lipolytica
📅Apply by: 2 July 2025 🚀Start: Oct 2025
📌Open to Home fee status only

Breakthrough Scholarship for Fantasy Writers with Low Income This scholarship will award one talented speculative writer with limited financial means a place on our new nine-week online Writing Fantasy course.

just applied for this - it might be of interest to other people who are poor www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study

1. initiation of DNA replication.

2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.

Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.

Deadline 3 August 2025.

crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Super cool NChem paper featured in the Guardian!!! Plastic waste is a headache, so use it to get rid of your headaches!

Hello! Our Neuroinformatics lab at UCI is recruiting for our study on migraine and cognition! If you wouldn’t mind bumping this so we can reach our goal of 200 participants, we’d greatly appreciate it! Our screening survey can be found here.
uci.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey...
#EpiSky #MedSky

Once upon a time Qiagen kits (tip100) worked well, but their manufacturing process changed in 2000-2001 and they stopped working.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from Burkina Faso can transmit the chikungunya virus and Zika virus of the African lineage, but not the Zika virus of the Asian lineage Aedes aegypti is the primary vector for the transmission of dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), and chikungunya virus (CHIKV). While Burkina Faso has been facing an increase in DENV epidemics, no ...

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from Burkina Faso can transmit the chikungunya virus and Zika virus of the African lineage, but not the Zika virus of the Asian lineage

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

And no mention of EBV positivity of the lymphomas as part of the analysis…

It’s about the DNA prep as well as tfxn reagent. Machery Nagel BAC kit is OK for constitutively replicating genomes, but 2xCsCl is best (screen for supercoiled band in undigested DNA on pulsed field gel to assess DNA quality).