💃It's #EditorsChoice time! Pellegrini Lab used #CryoEM to study how the human primosome synthesises RNA primers to initiate DNA replication. Learn more about this complex dance in their #OpenAccess paper:

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A massive thank you to Frances Arnold for visiting us last week and for delivering a wonderful Alkis Seraphim Lecture and taking part in special events for postgrads, postdocs and early PIs. Thanks to all from School of Biological Sciences who joined in a fantastic day of centenary celebration.

Thomas Blake, Jennifer Gallop Jenny Gallop's Lab Cambridge Biochemistry Gurdon Institute and colleagues find that filopodial protrusion is driven by density-dependent Ena-TOCA-1 interactions.
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now out, dynamics of E.coli's RNA binding proteome in different phases of growth - very fruitful collaboration CambridgeCProteomics Cambridge Biochemistry MRC Toxicology Unit Gavin H Thomas and Ule lab at KCL
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congratulations to all

Registration Open! We are hosting our next EngBio Forum 'High Throughput Research' on Mon 20 May, 5-8.30pm, St Catharine’s College with great talks from Dr. Nicola Patron Nicola J Patron 👩🏾‍🔬🌱⚙️ Department of Plant Sciences & Dr. Pau Creixell CRUK Cambridge Institute Sign up HERE eventbrite.co.uk/e/engineering-…

Delighted to host Kathryn Lilley CambridgeCProteomics Cambridge Biochemistry as this weeks biomedical seminar speaker

Kathryn is presenting her work on the subcellular transcriptome and proteome #transcriptomics #proteomics #omics #biochemistry

Thank you all for coming to our Cambridge Festival Animal Encounters event on Sat, and for your wonderful questions to Jenny Gallop's Lab, Eric Miska, Eyal Maori 🐝 and Lily Hunter Green on what we can learn from #frogs , #worms and #bees about human health.

Nobel laureate Frances Arnold will be giving the Alkis Seraphim Lecture on 'Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life' at 4.30pm on Thursday 11 April 2024 in the Babbage Lecture Theatre as part of our centenary events programme. Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/centenary-ev…

To all colleagues with teenagers! We still have a few places left for our Cambridge Festival Event 'Animal Encounters' this Saturday 23 March, 2-3.30pm in the Sanger about what we can learn from frogs, worms and bees to benefit human health. Book here: festival.cam.ac.uk/events/animal-…

I am so excited to be awarded an @acmedsciSpringboard Award. This will really help me get my lab Cambridge Biochemistry Cambridge Pathology up and running! Research Assistant job advert to follow...

In New Phytologist, Theodora Tryfona (@DupreeLab) and coauthors provide a better understanding of the molecular architecture of grass cell walls, opening new avenues to improve #cereals for food and the production of #bioenergy and #biomaterials . Read more: bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/opening-t…

🔬 Our lab at Cambridge University is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and skilled postdoc experienced in stem cell biology to investigate how cell size and cell cycle affect cell fate decisions in self-renewal/differentiation. Please email me if interested (zatulovskiylab.org).

How does Pombase use resources effectively? With a little help from our friends...Protein Data Bank Gene Ontology @[email protected] Rhea database Monarch Initiative Alliance of Genome Resources JBrowse SGD Project @[email protected] (bsky too) UniProt InterPro microPublication Thread/ academic.oup.com/genetics/artic…

To kick off our 2024 centenary celebrations Eric Miska and Departmental Administrator Katherine Wallington unveil a new identity for the Department outside the Sanger Building. 🎉🍾🥂

Congratulations to Pedro Rebelo-Guiomar (Pedro Rebelo-Guiomar, Luisi Lab)! His wonderful image representing the world as seen through the looking glass of molecular and structural biology has been selected for the NatureStructMolBiol 30th anniversary cover competition: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Last few days left to apply to these exciting positions in the School of Biological Sciences!

➡️ Professor of Evolutionary Networks
➡️ Professor of Biotic Interactions
➡️ Professor of Integrative & Systems Neuroscience

Deadline: 25 Jan

Find out more: bit.ly/3Re4DX5

Looking for a PhD position? Curious about the chemistry of primitive lipids and membranes? We are looking for a motivated PhD student interested in prebiotic, systems and/or supramolecular chemistry! Deadline: Jan 4th, 2024!

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Are you applying to the MPhil in Biological Sciences? Here are some useful tips to help you prepare! 💡

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Applications for funding close on 4 January 2024!

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Great news, S. pombe model organism knowledgebase has been added to ELIXIR Europe Core Data Resources! #ELIXIRCDRs are European #lifescience data resources important to biological and biomedical research and long-term preservation of biological data. Congrats to the team! More at: bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/pombase-j…