Congratulations to Oliver Pearce and Elly Tyler for winning Barts Cancer Institute (Queen Mary) Paper of the Year 2023 for their publication in Nature Communications: "Extracellular matrix educates an immunoregulatory tumor macrophage phenotype found in ovarian cancer metastasis” nature.com/articles/s4146…

☕️ 🥐Our monthly BCI postdoc coffee morning is coming up this Friday, 9:30am-10:30am in the lunch room. Come get hot drinks and biscuits/pastries and natter with your fellow post-docs 🥐☕️

Another lovely morning getting to know our fellow post-docs 🥰 Please feel free to come along to the next one for free pastries and biscuits 🥐☕️☺️ the last Friday of every month! Barts Cancer Institute (Queen Mary)

2/2 Here’s our team at this years CRH awards ceremony! From left to right Elly Tyler co-founder & Post-Doc, Katie Thornton technician, and our newest recruit! Marcos Burger Ramos co-founder & PhD student, Oliver Pearce co-founder & team leader, Ludovica Tarantola PhD student

📢An exciting opportunity for ECRs interested in ageing research to hear about career advice and funding opportunities!📢 Take a look at the link below 👇🥳 WHAT’S NEXT? CAREERS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN AGEING RESEARCH WORKSHOP - BLAST (ukanet.org.uk/blast/2024/03/…)

Our focus next shifted to Cancer Biomarkers & Biotherapeutics, and the Tumour Microenvironment. One highlight was hearing how we're studying London's incredibly diverse patient population to better treat people with cancer who are currently underserved. #BCIshowcase24

There are just 13 spots left for this free ECR event in May - lucky for some? Applications will close as soon as all tickets are allocated, so please follow the link to apply now!

Can't get that western blot to work? 😵🤯 qPCR making you rethink your life choices? 😢😱 Come ask for help at our 'Troubleshooting' social: JVSC lunchroom, 4pm Thurs 9th May, hosted by the BCI Postdoc Forum & WHRI Postdoc Committee. Free food & drinks at 5:30pm on the Green.

🚨Our next career event is this Friday 17th May at 3:30pm (Lister & Young)!🥳 Healthcare consultancy company Cambridge Healthcare Research will tell us about what it is to work in this sector, including real-life case studies and CV advice! Drinks and snacks will be provided🥰

Huge congratulations to Professor Frances Balkwill who has been elected as a Fellow of the The Royal Society for her invaluable contribution to cancer research and public engagement. 👏 📰 bartscancer.london/general-news/2… Queen Mary University of London  | Barts and The London, Queen Mary | Centre of the Cell | CRUKCOLcentre

An absolutely brilliant day of talks about careers and opportunities in ageing research for ECRs. Thanks for getting me involved, it's been a pleasure to help organise! BLAST ageing network UKAN (UK Ageing Network)

☕️ 🥐Our monthly BCI postdoc coffee morning is coming up this Friday, 9:30am-10:30am in the lunch room. Come get hot drinks and biscuits/pastries and natter with your fellow post-docs🥐☕️

We are very happy to organize a webinar to get insights from LPN alumni about transitioning from academia to industry or public sector positions. Register here: forms.gle/QhSmkP5XQ5eSvu… You will be able to ask questions- It's going to be informal and fun!🤓

Had a fantastic time meeting fellow matrix biologists over the last few days in Copenhagen! Another brilliant meeting. The Extracellular Matrix Pharmacology Congress #ECM2024

Today at 6pm!

Tock tick! Check out CellPopAge Clock - expedited #screening for discovering #antiageing compounds! Thanks to all who made this possible Stephan Beck Elly Tyler Robert Lowe Ivana Bjedov & Genome Medicine ://genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-024-01349-w

Tumor's Digest: Macrophage metabolism creates a barrier to T cells—this In the Spotlight commentary by Elly Tyler and Oliver Pearce highlights a recent Nature Cancer paper by Valerie Weaver et al. bit.ly/3X5fDc6 Barts Cancer Institute (Queen Mary) Pearce Lab

Datathon 2025! What a week. Thanks CRUKCOLcentre for putting together a fantastic event 👩‍💻🥰 linkedin.com/posts/elly-tyl…

A brilliant course! Went from being a Linux n00b to grepping genomics data in 2 days! Thanks Edinburgh Genomics 🙏

🏆 The winner of our 2025 Image Competition is Elly Tyler of Barts Cancer Institute (Queen Mary), for her image 'Where Collagen Burns and Immunity Falters'! In this breast tumour tissue, collagen fibres in the extracellular matrix blaze like wildfire.