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Home to a thriving community of students, researchers and academics, who together research, teach and study the science and biology of life. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences-faculty/
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UCL Faculty of Life Sciences @ucllifesciences.bsky.social · Mar 4
Discover how our researchers are creating real-world impact, developing innovative solutions to tackle humanity's most pressing challenges.
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Join us for the UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences 2025. Hear from Nobel Prize laureate Professor Ardem Patapoutian, whose pioneering research has transformed our understanding of how the body senses touch and pressure.

Wednesday 3 December, 5-7:30pm
Book now: https://bit.ly/3MktaKW
UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences 2025
Join us for the 2025 UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences. This year’s lecture will be given by Nobel Prize laureate Professor Ardem Patapoutian, exploring how breakthrough discoveries have transformed our understanding of how the body senses ...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Join us on Monday 24 November at 10.30am for a Pharmaceutics MSc Q&A: https://bit.ly/3LSWGHA And/or at 11am for a Pharmaceutical Formulation and Entrepreneurship MSc Q&A: https://bit.ly/4plIN2W
Pharmacist retrieving medication from a drawer in a pharmacy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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PhD student Sophia taking us all through the principles of relaxation dispersion in our group meeting this morning 🧲 #nmrchat @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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White coat ceremony for UCL School of Pharmacy underway @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
Photo of UCL school of pharmacy white coat ceremony FIP oath
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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We're hiring!

Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow in the UCL School of Pharmacy's Centre for Behavioural Medicine.

Closing date: 24 November 2025

Apply now! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=39354&jobTitle=Research+Fellow+%2F+Senior+Research+Fellow
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November 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Join us at our Life and Medical Sciences Postgraduate Open Evening on Wednesday 19 November to hear a presentation on MSc Pathways and Careers in Human Disease Genetics, Drug Discovery and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...
Scientist working in lab. Text reads: A presentation by Geoffrey Wells, Maria Jose Martinez Bravo and Elvira Mambetisaeva; From Genes to Medicines: MSc Pathways and Careers in Human Disease Genetics, Drug Discovery and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Wednesday 19 November, 6.30-7.30pm; Room 822, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Join us at our Life and Medical Sciences Postgraduate Open Evening on Wednesday 19 November to hear a talk by Professor Tim Newbold on harnessing big data and new computational tools to understand biodiversity decline. Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...
Image of Tim Newbold with text: A talk by Tim Newbold; Harnessing big data and new computational tools to understand biodiversity decline; Wednesday 19 November, 6-7pm; Room 728, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Our Maricci Basa (Felice Lab) has published a first-author paper in J Anat: she describes using comparative #embryology and various #imaging techniques to investigate how #snakes are able to have such wide gapes. #anatomy #formandfunction #jaws @ucl.ac.uk #biology @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
2 rows of 3 images: the first is a diagram of snake jaws, then scans and close-ups of collagen fibres. Fast green stain in the image highlights the collagen fibres that connect the bottom jaws of a snake
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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You can now see more details in our longer news item on our website, here: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

#WAD2025 #WAD #WorldAnatomyDay @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social #anatomy #biology #palaeo #paleo #evodevo #crocodile #food #digestion #skeleton #fossil @GrantMuseum
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Was this the FLUFFIEST #dinosaur!? 🦖 🦕 #palaeontology youtube.com/shorts/DQsji....
This summer, our Laura Porro was interviewed by TV presenter Maddie Moate, resulting in fun, educational videos on #reptile teeth, dinosaur #diets & animal #brains!” @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl-cdb.bsky.social
Was this the FLUFFIEST dinosaur!? 🦖 🦕 #dinosaur #paleontology
YouTube video by Maddie Moate
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October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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How a microscopic, single-celled organism can help us to understand how animals first evolved: Prof @maxjtelford.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social writes about choanoflagellates, the closest living relative to animals, in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-the-firs...
How the first animals evolved – a new clue from a tiny relative
Meet the choanoflagellates - the microscopic cousins of animals.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The Faculty of Life Sciences' Professor Sandra Martelli is currently visiting schools and attending open days in India. Find out more about our UCL India Open Days and register for our next event in New Delhi on 8 November: https://bit.ly/4olbGw9
Students and a teacher standing in a school auditorium during an event, with colorful acoustic panels on the wall. Professor Sandra Martelli speaking at a podium with a microphone, standing in front of a screen displaying the logo of BCN International School.
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Our Ryan Felice wins a @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social Research Grant with Dr Alana Sharp @livuninews.bsky.social to study the evolution of hollow spaces in the skull of mammals: do huge land animals air-fill their skulls to lighten their big heads? #anatomy @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
4 rows of 2 x diagrams of 3D models of the skull of the extinct giant marsupial, Diprotodon optatum, showing the large space taken up by air sinuses (blue) and small space taken up by the brain (pink)
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Mary Yacoob, our #Artist-in-Residence, has made a series of #drawings inspired by her dialogues at the Centre. Speculative illustrations of sea creatures are rendered in fine white lines on deep blue backgrounds. Click for full details:
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Artist-in-Residence inspired by research illustrations to imagine new sea creatures
Mary Yacoob has made a series of drawings inspired by her dialogues with researchers at the Centre. Speculative illustrations of sea creatures are rendered in fine white lines on deep blue backgrounds
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October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Find out about UCL's Computational Cell Biophysics MRes by attending our online open event on 4 November. Meet the course leader, learn about the content of the programme, and ask any questions you might have about the course, application process, and life at UCL. Book now:
https://bit.ly/4o0Q9IZ
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October 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls by Dr Aida Gomez-Robles (UCL Anthropology and @ucllifesciences.bsky.social).
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Humans evolved fastest amongst the apes
The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early P...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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We are looking for partner institutions within the conservation sector for Nature Smart 2026. Could you be one of them? @izzybis.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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#Research by our Ryan Felice's & Abigail Tucker's (@KCL) #labs highlights adaptations needed to allow extreme lower #jaw mobility and independence of the two sides of the jaw found in large-mouthed #snakes. @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #anatomy
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The wide gape of snakes: A comparison of the developing mandibular symphysis in sauropsids
Our analysis explores the adaptations at the mandibular symphysis required to allow extreme lower jaw mobility in macrostomate snakes taking a comparative approach.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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🎙️ New BBC podcast: Digital Dolittles – Talking to the animals? 🐘🦉

Featuring UCL’s Prof. Kate Jones @profkatej.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social and UCL's PhD students, exploring how tech is changing the way we listen to nature 🌍✨

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
October 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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From finding a "universal language" in science, to comedy, conferences and following her passion, Prof Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu @ucllifesciences.bsky.social tells BBC World Service about her fascinating path to becoming a pioneer of pharmaceutical nanoscience and champion for race equality
Outlook - One suitcase, three kids: a broke scientist pursues a dream - BBC Sounds
Once a homeless single mum, Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu is now a nanomedicine pioneer
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October 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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A fossil found in Scotland has revealed a new species and family of Jurassic reptile linked to the origins of lizards and snakes, in a study co-led by Prof Susan Evans @ucllifesciences.bsky.social. It's named Breugnathair elgolensis, for ‘false snake of Elgol’ @amnh.org @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social
Fossil discovered in Scotland reveals new species of ‘false snake’ reptile
A fossil discovered in Scotland has revealed a new species and family of Jurassic reptile linked to the origins of lizards and snakes, reports a study co-led by a UCL researcher.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Applications open: Cultural Understanding Small Grants 2025/26
We're offering up to £5,000 for interdisciplinary projects that explore Cultural Understanding. Open to UCL staff.

🗓 Apply by 20 Oct 2025
🔗 More info: https://shorturl.at/kNx4q
Cultural Understanding Small Grants Call 2025/26
Funding of up to £5,000 is now available for impactful, interdisciplinary projects that address the theme of Cultural Understanding.
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September 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Susan Evans has just returned from the Institute of #Vertebrate #Paleontology and #Paleoanthropology, Beijing. She has been working on Mesozoic #fossil #reptiles with colleague, Dr Liping DONG, Professor (Associate). english.ivpp.cas.cn/about/Introd... @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
A woman (Susan Evans), dressed in blue sitting at a computer desk bearing a microscope, holding a Mesozoic fossil reptile specimen A woman (Susan Evans), dressed in blue sitting at a computer desk bearing a microscope, through which she is viewing a Mesozoic fossil reptile specimen
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Congratulations to UCL-supported startup, Camera Intelligence, on raising $2 million in seed funding to revolutionise content creation its AI camera.

The founder, Vishal Kumar, was supported to grow his business through the Hatchery incubator programme.

Read now: bit.ly/47I86XF

#10YearsBaseKX
Credit: Camera Intelligence
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Micronutrients may have influenced human evolution more than previously understood, finds a new study by @ucllifesciences.bsky.social and @uclchildhealth.bsky.social researchers showing how some groups developed genetic adaptations in response to shortages and surpluses of minerals in their diets
How micronutrient shortages changed human DNA
Tiny elements in the human diet, such as micronutrients, may have influenced human evolution in ways greater than previously recognised, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.
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September 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM