Naomi Pollock
@naomilpollock.bsky.social
Membrane protein biochemist, apprentice biophysicist and SMALP enthusiast; Lecturer in Biosciences at Aston University, UK.
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The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th.
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th.
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
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🚨🚨🚨 We are launching the 2nd application round for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Program MemBioMed, offering cutting-edge training on exploring the complex behavior of cellular membranes & unlocking their therapeutic potential. Students can apply here: life.univ-cotedazur.eu/internationa...
October 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🚨🚨🚨 We are launching the 2nd application round for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Program MemBioMed, offering cutting-edge training on exploring the complex behavior of cellular membranes & unlocking their therapeutic potential. Students can apply here: life.univ-cotedazur.eu/internationa...
PhD project alert: the excellent MIBTP programme is open for applications. I am offering an exciting project on endogenous membrane protein complexes, jointly supervised with @alangoddard.bsky.social. Please spread the word!
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
Dr Naomi Pollock
Dr Naomi Pollock
warwick.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
PhD project alert: the excellent MIBTP programme is open for applications. I am offering an exciting project on endogenous membrane protein complexes, jointly supervised with @alangoddard.bsky.social. Please spread the word!
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
This captures the reason I went on strike in 2023. The lack of solidarity from bioscientists for the wider university community was shocking. I imagine it's because we remain *relatively* well funded.
struggling to budget both myself & a decent post-doc under the ukri grant caps (given the massive overheads unis charge) & wondering how others are managing. Then I see all the 0.4 fte for 15 months precarious post-docs being advertised & realise that’s the only way to do it. I hate it, thanks.
October 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This captures the reason I went on strike in 2023. The lack of solidarity from bioscientists for the wider university community was shocking. I imagine it's because we remain *relatively* well funded.
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Thanks to @snsf.ch, we are hiring two PhD students to investigate frontier topics in lipid biology using a combination of MD simulations and experiments. Preferred starting date: ASAP. Fribourg - and Switzerland - are quite nice, for both work and private life! Please spread the word!
October 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thanks to @snsf.ch, we are hiring two PhD students to investigate frontier topics in lipid biology using a combination of MD simulations and experiments. Preferred starting date: ASAP. Fribourg - and Switzerland - are quite nice, for both work and private life! Please spread the word!
Job alert! We are advertising for a network manager for our new BBSRC network IMPALA. Want to organise meetings, promote discussion and help to spread the word about SMALPs to membrane protein researchers in academia and industry? Apply here: jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at Aston University: IMPALA Network manager
We are looking for a network manager for a new research network called "Integral Membrane Proteins And Lipid Assemblies NETwork UK (IMPALPA-NET)." This project is funded by the BBSRC and aims to bring...
jobs.aston.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Job alert! We are advertising for a network manager for our new BBSRC network IMPALA. Want to organise meetings, promote discussion and help to spread the word about SMALPs to membrane protein researchers in academia and industry? Apply here: jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Another inspiring story to remind me that the painstaking, frustrating and often slow work of science is worthwhile.
Huntington’s is one of the cruellest and most complicated diseases. But look what human ingenuity and hard work in the service of love can do! Truly inspiring and a rebuke to all those everywhere who are currently taking aim at science and medicine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Another inspiring story to remind me that the painstaking, frustrating and often slow work of science is worthwhile.
Absolutely inspiring to read this story of an adult with cystic fibrosis, and her life since starting to take the new drugs. This is what science is for (in my very biased opinion).
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I spent my childhood in and out of hospital. At 19, I finally realised I had a terminal disease
Born with cystic fibrosis, Yvonne Hughes was lucky to survive her teens. She definitely didn’t expect to make it into her 50s. The comedian talks about the years she spent struggling to breathe – and ...
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Absolutely inspiring to read this story of an adult with cystic fibrosis, and her life since starting to take the new drugs. This is what science is for (in my very biased opinion).
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
On Friday, my 2 year old had her third trip (5th if you count in utero) to @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to drop off samples. Start 'em young...
July 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
On Friday, my 2 year old had her third trip (5th if you count in utero) to @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to drop off samples. Start 'em young...
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The costs of #antimicrobial resistance 🦠 continue to rise 📈. The Center for Global Development reports that by 2050 #AMR could shrink the global economy by US$1.7T.
Improving treatments and funding development of new antimicrobials 💊 could save millions of lives and billions in healthcare costs.
Improving treatments and funding development of new antimicrobials 💊 could save millions of lives and billions in healthcare costs.
Forecasting the Fallout from AMR: Economic Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance in Humans
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health crisis that threatens to undo decades of progress in medicine. This tool allows you to explore the potential impact of different interventions...
www.cgdev.org
July 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The costs of #antimicrobial resistance 🦠 continue to rise 📈. The Center for Global Development reports that by 2050 #AMR could shrink the global economy by US$1.7T.
Improving treatments and funding development of new antimicrobials 💊 could save millions of lives and billions in healthcare costs.
Improving treatments and funding development of new antimicrobials 💊 could save millions of lives and billions in healthcare costs.
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Big news indeed 👏 make sure you check out the post&link below 🤩
#cryoEM #cryoET
#membraneproteins #GPCRs #scivis #scicomm
#cryoEM #cryoET
#membraneproteins #GPCRs #scivis #scicomm
Big news! 📢CCeMMP is holding the 2nd 'Bench to Art' Exhibition to showcase the artistic flair of structural biology. Share your creations to be displayed in a virtual gallery during National Science Week & for a chance to win cash prizes 💰! More info: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...
#CryoEM
#Membranes
#CryoEM
#Membranes
July 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
What does it mean when your workplace has transformed into a combination of a wedding venue and a wizarding school? Graduation season.
July 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
What does it mean when your workplace has transformed into a combination of a wedding venue and a wizarding school? Graduation season.
A beautiful time of year to visit Denmark, and always a pleasure to be at @au.dk looking very closely at proteins in the Physics Dept basement, and meeting @bjornppedersen.bsky.social and his group.
June 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
A beautiful time of year to visit Denmark, and always a pleasure to be at @au.dk looking very closely at proteins in the Physics Dept basement, and meeting @bjornppedersen.bsky.social and his group.
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Join our group in the Centre for Medicines Discovery at Oxford Univ. @cmd.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk !!!!
Happy to chat about any questions about the role and science. Oxford will assist with a skilled worker visa.
Please RT!
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Happy to chat about any questions about the role and science. Oxford will assist with a skilled worker visa.
Please RT!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
June 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Join our group in the Centre for Medicines Discovery at Oxford Univ. @cmd.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk !!!!
Happy to chat about any questions about the role and science. Oxford will assist with a skilled worker visa.
Please RT!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Happy to chat about any questions about the role and science. Oxford will assist with a skilled worker visa.
Please RT!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Another AIME project @astonaime.bsky.social. Pretty sure we'll outgrow the new labs before we've settled in, but even that feels like a privilege!
🚨PhD opportunity! Join us at @astonaime.bsky.social and be part of the digital revolution 🤖 Discover polymer nanoparticles using data-driven methods. Ideal for chemists & digital explorers.
RTs appreciated! 🙏
🗓️ Apply by 1 June 2025
🔗 tinyurl.com/3xa2hkfu
#PhD #AI #PolymerChemistry
RTs appreciated! 🙏
🗓️ Apply by 1 June 2025
🔗 tinyurl.com/3xa2hkfu
#PhD #AI #PolymerChemistry
Digital Discovery of Polymer Nanoparticles at Aston University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Digital Discovery of Polymer Nanoparticles at Aston University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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May 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Another AIME project @astonaime.bsky.social. Pretty sure we'll outgrow the new labs before we've settled in, but even that feels like a privilege!
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Got any great final year students who love the bench but don't (yet) want to do a PhD? I'm looking for a research technician to join our amazing AVERT team for the last 2 years of the project - a great chance to develop lab skills while supporting our team in York.
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
May 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Got any great final year students who love the bench but don't (yet) want to do a PhD? I'm looking for a research technician to join our amazing AVERT team for the last 2 years of the project - a great chance to develop lab skills while supporting our team in York.
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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📢 We have an open PhD position in our group! Come to Geneva🇨🇭 to develop new methodological approaches in LC-MS metabolomics for human toxicology, while enjoying the great Swiss outdoors & chocolate 🏔️🍫 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
🧬🧫🧪🖥️
#metabolomics #lipidomics #teammassspec #MassSpecRSS #chemsky
🧬🧫🧪🖥️
#metabolomics #lipidomics #teammassspec #MassSpecRSS #chemsky
Assistant-e (A2) (6371)
jobs.unige.ch
May 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📢 We have an open PhD position in our group! Come to Geneva🇨🇭 to develop new methodological approaches in LC-MS metabolomics for human toxicology, while enjoying the great Swiss outdoors & chocolate 🏔️🍫 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
🧬🧫🧪🖥️
#metabolomics #lipidomics #teammassspec #MassSpecRSS #chemsky
🧬🧫🧪🖥️
#metabolomics #lipidomics #teammassspec #MassSpecRSS #chemsky
Excellent end to my week: no special event, just a bit of writing, lab work and, after 10 months, the realisation that it feels like home @astonaime.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Excellent end to my week: no special event, just a bit of writing, lab work and, after 10 months, the realisation that it feels like home @astonaime.bsky.social
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An amazing new enabling technology. Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip. Couldn't be prouder of our friend Madhavi Krishnan of @ox.ac.uk this was and is one among the must fun collaborations I ever had. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip
Size and shape are critical discriminators between molecular species and states. We describe a microchip-based high-throughput imaging approach offering rapid and precise determination of molecular pr...
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
An amazing new enabling technology. Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip. Couldn't be prouder of our friend Madhavi Krishnan of @ox.ac.uk this was and is one among the must fun collaborations I ever had. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Excellent start to the (four day) week: seminar from @davidbsauer.bsky.social. Much as I love SMALPs, I greatly enjoyed a detergent-only structural biology story.
May 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Excellent start to the (four day) week: seminar from @davidbsauer.bsky.social. Much as I love SMALPs, I greatly enjoyed a detergent-only structural biology story.
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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
May 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
Next week is the @biochemsoc.bsky.social 6th Membrane Protein workshop @astonaime.bsky.social
I am very excited to meet this year's cohort aka future membrane protein friends.
I am very excited to meet this year's cohort aka future membrane protein friends.
April 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Next week is the @biochemsoc.bsky.social 6th Membrane Protein workshop @astonaime.bsky.social
I am very excited to meet this year's cohort aka future membrane protein friends.
I am very excited to meet this year's cohort aka future membrane protein friends.
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We are looking for a PhD student/Postdoc to develop methods of cryo-ET and/or study the structure and function of membrane proteins. Great team at the MDC in Berlin.
It's a broad call, please apply and share!
jobrxiv.org/job/max-delb...
It's a broad call, please apply and share!
jobrxiv.org/job/max-delb...
PhD /Postdoc in In Situ Structural Biology by Cryo-ET
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
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March 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
We are looking for a PhD student/Postdoc to develop methods of cryo-ET and/or study the structure and function of membrane proteins. Great team at the MDC in Berlin.
It's a broad call, please apply and share!
jobrxiv.org/job/max-delb...
It's a broad call, please apply and share!
jobrxiv.org/job/max-delb...
Having a most excellent day at @isisneutronmuon.bsky.social defying sleep deprivation to scratch our heads over lipids, polymers, proteins and their complex choreography.
March 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Having a most excellent day at @isisneutronmuon.bsky.social defying sleep deprivation to scratch our heads over lipids, polymers, proteins and their complex choreography.
I love that this advert asks for an enthusiastic post-doc. Genuinely delightful.
🚨 PostDoc opportunity at the MRC-LMB 🚨Join our team to explore transcription-coupled splicing using cryoEM and biochemistry! 🔬🧬
Please spread the news 🙏🏼
Apply here: mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
#Postdoc #CryoEM #MolecularBiology
Please spread the news 🙏🏼
Apply here: mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
#Postdoc #CryoEM #MolecularBiology
March 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I love that this advert asks for an enthusiastic post-doc. Genuinely delightful.