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nadeemshaikh.bsky.social @nadeemshaikh.bsky.social · 6d

Apply to join our lab for a very cool PhD project studying radiation therapy, chromosomal instability, DNA repair and cancer evolution!

Mcclelland lab @mcclellandlab.bsky.social · 6d

We are looking for our next PhD student to join us 🤩 www.mcclellandlab.com to understand cancer radiation therapy's impact on DNA damage repair and chromosomal instability. Prestigious funding from CRUK RadNet. Please contact me informally - deadline 5th Nov! crukradnet.colcc.ac.uk/phd-students...

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Mcclelland lab @mcclellandlab.bsky.social · 6d

We are looking for our next PhD student to join us 🤩 www.mcclellandlab.com to understand cancer radiation therapy's impact on DNA damage repair and chromosomal instability. Prestigious funding from CRUK RadNet. Please contact me informally - deadline 5th Nov! crukradnet.colcc.ac.uk/phd-students...

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · 6d

Are you a future black leader in cancer? Come join @mirazrahman.bsky.social and my labs @qmbci.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social to work on turning defective cell cycle checkpoints into innovative cancer therapies! Get in touch for more details www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-blic-ph...

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Jul 21

A lovely lunch out to celebrate 5 years of the SoliLab, tinged with a little sadness as it coincides with one of the lab originals, Caroline, leaving us for bigger and better things! All the very best Dr Babisz and here’s to another 5 with this talented team!

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Apr 30

I heard it was a great meeting!

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bioRxiv Cancer Bio @biorxiv-cancer.bsky.social · Mar 13

WEE1 inhibitors synergise with mRNA translation defects via activation of the kinase GCN2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642825v1

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Mar 11

Delighted to introduce Dr Caroline Babisz! Thank you @pseudoenzyme.bsky.social and Richard for being ace examiners 🔎. @qmbci.bsky.social

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Feb 5

Lovely lunch with the lab today to celebrate Caroline submitting her thesis last week - the first of the SoliLab PhD students! Congratulations Caroline!!

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Faraz Mardakheh @mardakheh.bsky.social · Feb 5

🚨Thanks to generous support from @cancerresearchuk.org, we have multiple postdoctoral positions available in our lab (www.mardakhehlab.info) @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social to study ribosomes synthesis in cancer. Get in touch if you’re interested + RT and spread the word! 📣 #cancer #RNA 🚨

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Jan 28

One of my super talented postdocs took a photo of one of my super talented PhD students and won a prize!

Cancer Research UK City of London Centre @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social · Jan 28

We provide and maintain the technologies that our scientists use every day to carry out potentially life-changing cancer research. Image competition winner Dr Irina Titkova told us about the role the Centre has played in her career development.

#CRUKCoL2025

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Thomas Arnesen @natmachinery.bsky.social · Dec 4

The expanding landscape of canonical and non-canonical protein phosphorylation. New review out in TiBS @cellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Nov 22

The SoliLab celebrated Christmas a little early this year 🎄. A chilly, but lovely light trail, and a couple of 🍷 (for warmth, of course 😉).

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · Nov 21

Effective mentorship in the academy isn't just kind - it's strategic. We strengthen our academic community when we support and elevate our junior colleagues. We create a supportive community with a culture of collaboration and innovation. I benefited from having precisely this kind of mentors.

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Krishna Mudumbi @krishnamudumbi.bsky.social · Nov 16

I made a starter pack for people interested in signal transduction! Please include yourself or others!

Tagging a few people to spread the word: @drstarbird.bsky.social @fantauzzolab.bsky.social @alextoker.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/MVvjypg

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Adrian Saurin @adesaurin.bsky.social · Nov 17

A list of people interested in cell cycle entry and exit. Reply to this post if you want to be added. #senescence #cellcycle

go.bsky.app/7hEivbt

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Adrian Saurin @adesaurin.bsky.social · Nov 19

People working on the causes or consequences of #aneuploidy or #CIN.
Reply if I missed you and you want adding to the list

go.bsky.app/G8wHoXx

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Nov 19

Tamsin Wilcock is our newest recruit. Tamsin is working on a hugely challenging project but made major inroads since starting in June. KinETICS (Kinase Exact Tagging of In Cell Substrates) is our method of delivering an ATP analogue to live cells to find direct kinase substrates in situ - so cool!

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Nov 18

Continuing the SoliLab introductions…Laura Knight joined the lab in 2023 as a MRC-DTP PhD student. Laura is working on the DNA damage response kinase, CHK2. She has identified 2 recurrent, cancer associated mutations which we hypothesise might rewire the DDR signalling pathways.

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Yes please Adrian!

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Nov 16

This is great - thanks! Would love to be added

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Nov 14

In addition to being a wonder in the lab, Irina is a hugely talented scientific animator and communicator who freelances . You can check out her work here: show-cell.com

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Show your science with our storytelling Get in touch About Us Getting the visual story right Coming from a scientific background with more than 10 years of experience, we have the unique ability to cu...

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Nov 14

Now for Dr Irina Titkova. Irina is unravelling a novel mitotic pathway, which our data suggests is used by cancer cells to untangle tangled DNA to safely transit mitosis. This tumour-specific vulnerability is a potentially therapeutic actionable target which is an active area of research in our lab.

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Nov 13

Next up, Caitlin Leo @caitlinsolilab.bsky.social - who has had to master both chemistry and biology in the first 2 years of her PhD! Caitlin has made a conformation-specific allosteric kinase inhibitor. I wish I could tell you more 🤐 but for now… exciting things are coming!

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Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Nov 12

Watch this space for a preprint on substrate selection driven by combinatorial activation loop phosphorylation for Aurora A in the new year!

Dr Tanya Soliman @drtanyasoliman.bsky.social · Nov 12

Let me introduce you to my brilliant team!
Caroline Babisz took a leap of faith on a new PI back in 2021 and has recently put down her pipettes to write up her thesis. Caroline has taken a multidisciplinary approach to understand the role of kinase activation loop modification on substrate selection

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