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Focused on research and education, as part of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
Our next Seminar Series talk is this Friday, at 13:00!

Our speaker is Prof Nikita Gamper, whose talk is on Peripheral Gate in Somatosensory System💊

More info here: bit.ly/3S4p4Ww
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Congrats to the Merkle Group, who recently received funding to help launch an anti-obesity drug spin-out company 🎊

More information here: www.phar.cam.ac.uk/news/congrat...
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (5th December, 1 pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (all are welcome to come and listen). @rcollepardo.bsky.social and Yvonne Nyathi will be our speakers. @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Announcing our flagship David James Seminar speaker for 2026: Professor Lotte Bjerre Knudsen 👏

Date and Time: Friday 16 January, 13:00. Reception to follow at 14:00.

Registration is required to attend. To register, please send us a direct message.
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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At 13:00 our @phar.cam.ac.uk lab will be live @sfn.org!

Poster N3 sees @mayadannawi.bsky.social presenting on overexpression of Prdm12 in the adult sensory nervous system

Poster O6 sees @interlukein.bsky.social presenting on loss of Piezo2 in colonic sensory neurons with age

Please drop on by 😃
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!

How are you celebrating it?

#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Our next Seminar Series talk is this Friday, at 13:00!

Our speaker is Prof Helen Walden, whose talk is on Understanding Parkin’s E3 Ligase Activity💊

More info here: bit.ly/3S4p4Ww
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Had a great time at our @sfn.org #PainResearch symposium yesterday, talks covering a whole range of pain states & roles of non-neuronal cells, review article for more reading: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4... Thanks to @cherylstucky.bsky.social, @mdburton.bsky.social & Anne-Marie Heegaard!
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We are advertising for a Research Associate in Anti-Obesity Target Discovery & Validation with the Merkle Group, to support the development of a spin-out company focused on anti-obesity target discovery and drug development 💊

Apply here: phar.cam.ac.uk/jobs
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The funded studentship "Experimental and computational framework for optimising dosing strategies to mitigate T-cell exhaustion in T-cell engager therapies" will close this Friday, 14th November.

Please ensure that you submit your application before the deadline.
The Department has posted a range of new funded studentships on the Departmental website: www.phar.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Please note that each studentship has an individual deadline, with the deadlines within 31 October - 2 December

#Studentship #Research #Phd
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Great to see connections being kept 😀
Great to meet up with former visiting student Guangbing,give a talk, & discuss research at Tongji University - another day of great hospitality!
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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So proud of Chris Ng who successfully defended his PhD thesis recently!! Thank you to his examiners Alex Borodavka & Paolo Arosio. It’s been such a fun journey and we wish Chris great success with his new job ❤️ @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk #biomolecular #condensates
October 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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How can we use information on changes that occur before cancer actually forms in order to develop early diagnostic and preventative therapies?🔬

This is one of the questions Hughes Research Fellow, @drsarapensa.bsky.social, considers in her research.💡

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October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our next Seminar Series talk is this Friday, at 13:00!

Our speaker is Dr Natalie Krahmer, whose talk is on Elucidating the Cell Architecture of Metabolic Liver Disease via Spatial Proteomics 💊

More info here: bit.ly/3S4p4Ww
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Our next Seminar Series talk is this Friday, at 13:00!

Our speaker will be Prof David Hodson, whose talk is on Interrogating GPCRs from the Single Molecule to the Whole Animal🫏

More info here: bit.ly/3S4p4Ww
October 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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New pre-print from @phar.cam.ac.uk & Bellefroid lab at ULB! Led by @mayadannawi.bsky.social w support from @interlukein.bsky.social & more! We investigate impact of overexpressing the zinc finger transcriptional regulator Prdm12 on sensory neuron function / joint pain. #neuroskyence #PainResearch
AAV-mediated overexpression of Prdm12 in knee-innervating afferents reduces inflammatory joint pain and neuronal hyperexcitability in mice
Inflammatory joint pain features in numerous musculoskeletal disorders that affect millions globally. The Prdm12 gene encodes a conserved zinc finger transcriptional regulator expressed selectively in...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
We are advertising for a Research Associate with the Howarth Group, to engineer a range of protein superglues 🔬

Apply here: phar.cam.ac.uk/jobs
October 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Our next Seminar Series talk is this Friday, at 13:00!

Our speaker will be Prof Sarah Teichmann, whose talk is on Translating the Human Cell Atlas 🧬

More info here: bit.ly/3S4p4Ww
October 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Our Seminar Series returns this Friday, at 13:00!

Our first speaker will be Prof Tuomas Knowles, whose talk is on Protein Phase Transitions 🧪

More info here: bit.ly/3S4p4Ww
October 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#New in #OAC ! The sphingolipid sphingomyelin 34:1 is upregulated in the synovial fluid of those with OA. Work from @phar.cam.ac.uk shows that SM34:1 causes inflammatory pain in mice, inducing neuronal hyperexcitability.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Department has posted a range of new funded studentships on the Departmental website: www.phar.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Please note that each studentship has an individual deadline, with the deadlines within 31 October - 2 December

#Studentship #Research #Phd
October 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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We're seeking a motivated postdoc to help us and NovoNordisk generate cutting-edge human cellular models of metabolic disease. For details & to apply (by 6th Oct), see: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc.... If you think someone in your network might be interested, please share. Thank you!
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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September 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM