Adam Byron
@iamabyron.bsky.social
Cell adhesion networks group leader #cancer #ECMatrix #proteomics #nucleus
#NewPI @thebyronlab.bsky.social University of Manchester
A personal account 🧬🧫 🎶🎹 📷🎨 🦅 🏏
#NewPI @thebyronlab.bsky.social University of Manchester
A personal account 🧬🧫 🎶🎹 📷🎨 🦅 🏏
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Two days left to apply for a Medical Research Council-funded PhD opportunity in the lab. This is a student-led project, so you can work with us to develop an exciting project in a research area of mutual interest! www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear...
@mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
@mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
MRC Doctoral Training Partnership
Find out more about the Medical Research Council (MRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) studentships for postgraduate researchers undertaking PhDs in biomedical, clinical and health services areas.
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Two days left to apply for a Medical Research Council-funded PhD opportunity in the lab. This is a student-led project, so you can work with us to develop an exciting project in a research area of mutual interest! www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear...
@mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
@mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
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UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.
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Let's go! Super excited to partner with @richardsever.bsky.social and the fantastic @openrxiv.bsky.social team - Preprints have been the best thing that happened to science publishing during my lifetime, and we're happy @qedscience.bsky.social can make preprints do more 👊
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Let's go! Super excited to partner with @richardsever.bsky.social and the fantastic @openrxiv.bsky.social team - Preprints have been the best thing that happened to science publishing during my lifetime, and we're happy @qedscience.bsky.social can make preprints do more 👊
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Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n
openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv
Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...
openrxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n
openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
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We have a new academic post opening for a Lecture/Senior-Lecturer in Structural Biology @mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk The University of Manchester is ranked among the top Universities worldwide. QS world rankings: 34th (2025)
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Structural Biology:Oxford Road
The purpose of this post is to undertake high quality research and also excellent teaching. Hence, the ability to enhance teaching activities within our UG/PG programmes will also be expected.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We have a new academic post opening for a Lecture/Senior-Lecturer in Structural Biology @mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk The University of Manchester is ranked among the top Universities worldwide. QS world rankings: 34th (2025)
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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We are excited to announce that Professor Graham Pavitt, Chair in Molecular Biology, has been appointed as our new Head of Division!
Join us in welcoming Graham to his new role—we look forward to the exciting times ahead!
research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/g...
Join us in welcoming Graham to his new role—we look forward to the exciting times ahead!
research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/g...
Graham Pavitt
research.manchester.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
We are excited to announce that Professor Graham Pavitt, Chair in Molecular Biology, has been appointed as our new Head of Division!
Join us in welcoming Graham to his new role—we look forward to the exciting times ahead!
research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/g...
Join us in welcoming Graham to his new role—we look forward to the exciting times ahead!
research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/g...
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
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Chemists call for ban on generative AI for chemical structures: "serious errors could damag[e] the next generation of scientists"
As ever, the problem seems to be not AI but lazy application of it and lack of checks. Whether _that_ problem is solvable...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-che...
As ever, the problem seems to be not AI but lazy application of it and lack of checks. Whether _that_ problem is solvable...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-che...
The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn
AIs like Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT still make serious errors rendering structural formulae
www.chemistryworld.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Chemists call for ban on generative AI for chemical structures: "serious errors could damag[e] the next generation of scientists"
As ever, the problem seems to be not AI but lazy application of it and lack of checks. Whether _that_ problem is solvable...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-che...
As ever, the problem seems to be not AI but lazy application of it and lack of checks. Whether _that_ problem is solvable...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-che...
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Fantastic time at the Adhere2 conference on cell adhesion - on the lovely Dalmatian coast.
#CellBiology #research #conference
#CellBiology #research #conference
September 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Fantastic time at the Adhere2 conference on cell adhesion - on the lovely Dalmatian coast.
#CellBiology #research #conference
#CellBiology #research #conference
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Another paper bluetorial! Today: how does the spatial location of genes influence their function? (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The nuclear periphery confers repression on H3K9me2-marked genes and transposons to shape cell fate - Nature Cell Biology
Marin et al. report the role of lamin proteins and the lamin B receptor (LBR) in chromatin positioning at the nuclear periphery. Knockout of all lamins and LBR in mouse embryonic stem cells leads to h...
www.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Another paper bluetorial! Today: how does the spatial location of genes influence their function? (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🎉 Happy International #EpithelialMechanics Day! 🎉
July 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
🎉 Happy International #EpithelialMechanics Day! 🎉
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Just back from a fantastic research visit to the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, working with Dr Paola Nisticò and the Tumor Immunology & Immunotherapy team 🔬
Amazing cancer biology research, inspiring discussions and such warm hospitality from the team ☀️
#CancerResearch #Collaboration
Amazing cancer biology research, inspiring discussions and such warm hospitality from the team ☀️
#CancerResearch #Collaboration
July 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Just back from a fantastic research visit to the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, working with Dr Paola Nisticò and the Tumor Immunology & Immunotherapy team 🔬
Amazing cancer biology research, inspiring discussions and such warm hospitality from the team ☀️
#CancerResearch #Collaboration
Amazing cancer biology research, inspiring discussions and such warm hospitality from the team ☀️
#CancerResearch #Collaboration
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Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu
July 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu
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So excited to FINALLY be able to share exciting news from @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social on our newly awarded MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) in Exposome Immunology #ImmunoSky 🧪 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
So excited to FINALLY be able to share exciting news from @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social on our newly awarded MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) in Exposome Immunology #ImmunoSky 🧪 🧵
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Excited to share our most recent study on #integrintraffic #cancer #migration #focaladhesion by @ivaskalab.bsky.social @drpaulinamoreno.bsky.social Niklas Jäntti et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
EPLINα controls integrin recycling from Rab21 endosomes to drive breast cancer cell migration
Epithelial protein lost in neoplasm (EPLIN), an actin-binding protein, has been described as both a tumor promoter and tumor suppressor in different c…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Excited to share our most recent study on #integrintraffic #cancer #migration #focaladhesion by @ivaskalab.bsky.social @drpaulinamoreno.bsky.social Niklas Jäntti et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The first, first-author story www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from @felkohdigital.bsky.social & www.cancersystemsmicroscopylab.com exploring how the epithelial-mesenchymal (E/M) state landscape pre-determines EGF signalling responses. An analytical tour-de-force, with more to come on this theme!
July 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The first, first-author story www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from @felkohdigital.bsky.social & www.cancersystemsmicroscopylab.com exploring how the epithelial-mesenchymal (E/M) state landscape pre-determines EGF signalling responses. An analytical tour-de-force, with more to come on this theme!
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Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
July 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
Ooh, very interesting 🔬 (And great pseudo-acronym coined!)
Check out our lab's latest paper. Laura Downie found that the Lamin B Receptor (LBR) can be used to inducibly label all kinds of membrane contact sites in live cells
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Nondisruptive inducible labeling of ER-membrane contact sites using the Lamin B receptor
ER-membrane contact sites are often distorted by existing labeling methods. This study develops an inducible labeling system called LaBeRing that uses the Lamin B receptor to fluorescently tag a varie...
doi.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Ooh, very interesting 🔬 (And great pseudo-acronym coined!)
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It was, indeed, quite warm ☀️🌡️
A really rewarding exchange that sparked lots of new ideas for collaborative research projects 🔬 💡
Thanks so much to the inspiring team in Rome! 🇮🇹 🌍
A really rewarding exchange that sparked lots of new ideas for collaborative research projects 🔬 💡
Thanks so much to the inspiring team in Rome! 🇮🇹 🌍
July 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It was, indeed, quite warm ☀️🌡️
A really rewarding exchange that sparked lots of new ideas for collaborative research projects 🔬 💡
Thanks so much to the inspiring team in Rome! 🇮🇹 🌍
A really rewarding exchange that sparked lots of new ideas for collaborative research projects 🔬 💡
Thanks so much to the inspiring team in Rome! 🇮🇹 🌍
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We continue working on the plans for the "Woodstock of Bioloy 2 & Night science in Prague" meeting and if you don't sign up you're totally crazy. A once in a life time opportunity and it'll be sold out soon. Go to the website and sign up now before it's too late!
March 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
We continue working on the plans for the "Woodstock of Bioloy 2 & Night science in Prague" meeting and if you don't sign up you're totally crazy. A once in a life time opportunity and it'll be sold out soon. Go to the website and sign up now before it's too late!
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Thrilled to share the structure of dimerised human PINK1 docked to an endogenous translocase array on the mitochondrial surface, composed of two TOM complexes, bridged by a VDAC2 dimer! Published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@wehi-research.bsky.social @komanderlab.bsky.social
@wehi-research.bsky.social @komanderlab.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Thrilled to share the structure of dimerised human PINK1 docked to an endogenous translocase array on the mitochondrial surface, composed of two TOM complexes, bridged by a VDAC2 dimer! Published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@wehi-research.bsky.social @komanderlab.bsky.social
@wehi-research.bsky.social @komanderlab.bsky.social
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Happy Pi day, the one day of the year when pi = 14.3.
March 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Happy Pi day, the one day of the year when pi = 14.3.
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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...
journals.biologists.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
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