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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 2d

VACANCY - We have an opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group, working to develop computational models of epigenetic dynamics in the Polycomb system.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Closing date - 9 November 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 36 months, full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher (Howard Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Computational and Systems Biology.

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Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 2d

ICYM our announcement from last week: Two incredible events unite to make one unmissable opportunity!
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Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 2d

NEW PUBLICATION | A research collaboration between the Rugg-Gunn lab and Lonza is moving researchers towards the ability to drive transgene expression (in CHO cells) at higher levels to improve biopharmaceuticals yields.

analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Comprehensive Mapping of Functional Enhancers in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 9d

🚀 Applications are open for the Bio-spark Entrepreneurial Programme!

Are you an early career researcher hoping to consider options outside the academic world? Are you looking for advice, experience or mentorship?

🗓️ Apply by 13 Oct
🔗 www.gravity.cam.ac.u...

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Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 8d

3 days - 2 events - 1 amazing opportunity!
Get set for two events showcasing bioscience innovation.
4-5 Feb - WORD+ 2026 event
5-6 Feb - our Frontiers in Stem Cell Innovation (FISCI) conference
📍Cambridge
Registration for FISCI is open now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frontiers-...

Frontiers in Stem Cell Innovation 2026

Join leading academics and industry professionals exploring cutting-edge stem cell technologies and disease modelling for drug discovery

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Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 8d

NEWS | A new multi-omics method enabling the profiling of multiple histone modifications and gene expression in single cells, and the researchers behind it, have been recognised with two awards. Congrats to the Rugg-Gunn lab and everyone involved!

www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

#epigenetics

Text reads: News - Prizes for team behind game-changing multi-omics method to decode gene regulation. Image shows Dr Yang Wang (left) and Dr Peter Rugg-Gunn (right) shown over a data analysis plot from the scMTR-seq technique.

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Community Rehabilitation Research Network @communityrrn.bsky.social · 9d

Publishing Your Research? Resource for early career researchers from Alzheimer's Society Retreat

Dr Johanna Jackson @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
Dr Simon Andrews @babrahaminst.bsky.social
Dr Christian Schnell @plosbiology.org
Cherie Nyota @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social

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Advise on Publishing Your Research

YouTube video by Dementia Researcher

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Teresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 10d

We've updated our first #preprint from the lab! A collaboration with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social

🔥 now including in vivo 🐭&👤 embryo data

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics @molgen.mpg.de · 12d

2nd Meeting on Early Embryogenesis and Epigenetics
16 - 18 Feb 2026 at MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
with support by the Weizmann Institute for Science.
Early bird registration until 30 Sep - register now👇
www.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026

Save-the-date information:
New approaches to Early embryogenesis & epigenetics
February 16 - 18 2026
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

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Michelle Linterman @linterman.bsky.social · 13d

Great to have this out, and such a pleasure to work together. @smguillaume.bsky.social @cristianbeccaria.bsky.social @iannaconelab.bsky.social

Cristian G Beccaria @cristianbeccaria.bsky.social · 13d

So happy to share that our review in #ImmunolRev is finally out! 😃 We discuss how the immune system builds specialized TLSs across organs and conditions. Huge thanks to @StephanGuillaume, @iannaconelab.bsky.social & @linterman.bsky.social for this collaboration!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/imr.70063

Tertiary Lymphoid Structures Across Organs: Context, Composition, and Clinical Levers

Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) arise in non-lymphoid tissues in response to persistent antigen stimulation and chronic inflammation. Spanning organs from lung and liver to meninges, skin, and be...

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delladavid-lab.bsky.social @delladavid-lab.bsky.social · 19d

🔬We have a fully funded Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD postion to study #Proteostasis and #Aging in colloboration with @jrkumita.bsky.social @Pharmacology. Details on the project ▶️https://tinyurl.com/2zhkjjhs + bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/how-apply . Please RT.

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Babraham Bioinformatics @babraham-bioinf.bsky.social · 15d

This #TrainingTuesday why not check out our recently scheduled dates for the autumn term
#Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #ECRchat
www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/publ...
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Research Adjacent / Sarah McLusky @researchadjacent.bsky.social · 15d

NEW EPISODE: Reflections from last weeks International Research Culture Conference #IRCC25 at University of Warwick organised by the National Centre for Research Culture featuring guests Chandrika Nair, Alys Kay, and Dolly Coates. Find it in your podcast app or here buff.ly/tBStCUO

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Anne Corcoran @annecorcoran.bsky.social · 28d

Delighted to share that our paper solving the age-old mystery of whether and how VH-replacement shapes the antibody repertoire is in @embojournal.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Fantastic work from Harry White, @peterch405.bsky.social @babraham-bioinf.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social

This shows an antibody heavy chain successfully pairing with a surrogate light chain and signalling B cell progression. In contrast a non-pairing heavy chain fails to signal, the B cell stalls, and the suboptimal V gene is replaced by an upstream V to make a pairing heavy chain and rescue the B cell.

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Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · Sep 8

NEWS | Work just published by the Corcoran lab has described a mechanism estimated to be responsible for shaping the generation of up to half of all antibodies.

www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/09/institute-immunologists-new-process-antibody-diversity

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Text reads: News - Institute immunologists uncover new process important for antibody diversity. Image shows a computer illustration of antibodies, showing the heavy chain (red) and the light chain (blue).

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delladavid-lab.bsky.social @delladavid-lab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Exciting news📣: #ProteostasisUK is hiring a network manager to help drive an ambitious, #BBSRC funded initiative connecting and expanding #Proteostasis research across the UK. Position initially for 3 years. Deadline September 28th. More info: tinyurl.com/f83rp673 & proteostasisuk.co.uk Please RT

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Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · Sep 2

Will you be at the @bsrageing.bsky.social ‪#BSRA2025 this week? Look out for Institute contributions:
- @martint-babraham.bsky.social: RNA binding proteins in Tregs (Friday)
- Rahul Samant: proteostasis strategies, stress resilience & senescence (Friday)
- Institute facilities showcase

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Simon Cook @drsimoncook.bsky.social · Sep 1

Delighted to welcome Dinis Calado to Babraham. A fantastic appointment and a lovely guy! Welcome DC!

Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEWS | We're delighted to welcome @diniscalado.bsky.social to the Institute as a senior group leader in our #immunology programme!

The Calado lab works at the interface of immunity, #cancer, and #ageing. Learn more: www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

Text reads: News: Institute welcomes Dr Dinis Calado as a senior group leader in the Immunology programme. Main image (left) shows Dinis Calado. Two images on the right are 3D confocal images of mouse bone marrow showing plasma cells (antibody producing cells; in red), endomucin⁺ vasculature (green), immunoglobulin (white), and cell nuclei stained with DAPI (blue). Credit: Abdouramane Camara, Immunity & Cancer Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute.

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Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEWS | We're delighted to welcome @diniscalado.bsky.social to the Institute as a senior group leader in our #immunology programme!

The Calado lab works at the interface of immunity, #cancer, and #ageing. Learn more: www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

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Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · Aug 29

How discovery research and collaboration between the @mrclmb.bsky.social, University of Cambridge, Babraham Institute, and clinicians from Addenbrooke’s identified the mutation that causes a rare immune disorder (APDS) and led to a pioneering treatment giving patients "a new lease of life".

UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · Aug 29

Recently, leniolisib, a lifechanging new treatment for a rare immune disorder became available on the NHS.

We think its story is a great example of what curiosity-driven biomedical research can achieve when it's nurtured long term.

Rare immune disorder treatment reaches NHS patients

A pioneering treatment for a rare immune disorder, developed through MRC-funded research, is now available on the NHS, transforming lives across UK and beyond.

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣 Milner Seminars: Focus on spatial biology

Please join us on 25 September for the next instalment of our seminar series, with talks from Esther Baena (Owkin) and Mats Nilsson (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social and @sangerinstitute.bsky.social).

Find out more and register: ow.ly/myoT50Wu1AX

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · Aug 26

Are you an early-career researcher using Drosophila in your research?

Sign up to be matched with a mentor as part of FlyCROSS 2025-26.

Apply by 1 September 2025.

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#Drosophila #DevelopmentalBiology #Mentor #Career #Biology #FlyCross

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Call for Drosophila early career scientists - the Node

Do not miss this call for mentees from the Drosophila community. Scan the QR Code & fill the mentee survey ! The Fly Board is excited to announce the

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Simon Cook @drsimoncook.bsky.social · Aug 26

Good morning from @babrahaminst.bsky.social

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Babraham Bioinformatics @babraham-bioinf.bsky.social · Aug 26

ICYMI Here are the links to all of our #BitesizeBioinformatics mini series webinars on #MachineLearning in #Biology 👇

🖥️ Machine Learning Examples in Biological Sciences 1: Linear Regression youtu.be/tIfpbDWnb0c?...

More topics and useful info our website and YouTube channel too
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Machine Learning Examples in Biological Sciences 1: Linear Regression

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Babraham Bioinformatics @babraham-bioinf.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's #TrainingTuesday
As well as delivering live training courses, we also have a playlist of #BitesizeBioinformatics webinars on YouTube?
Check out the latest in our miniseries on Machine Learning in Biology, from our @babrahaminst.bsky.social biostatistician youtu.be/2MYWxp0YRpY
#Bioinformatics

Machine Learning Examples in Biological Sciences 4: Random Forests

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