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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Mar 31

DPhil Opportunity Alert! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚀 PhD Opportunity! 🚀

Join the GSK-Oxford GO-PREECISE Programme! We’re looking for a DPhil/PhD student to explore the pre-tumour microenvironment in colorectal polyps (Project 8). Work to help drive cancer prevention! 🔬✨

📍 Apply now: lnkd.in/e8PNTAth

#CancerResearch #PhDOpportunity #JoinUs

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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · Mar 31

Application deadline for our @wellcometrust.bsky.social #CancerEvolution summer school is tomorrow, 1 April 2025.

coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/evolut...

Our brilliant faculty will cover evo&eco theory, math models, genomics, digital path, clinical trial design & more

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Oxford Cancer @oxfordcancer.bsky.social · Mar 31

Congratulations to Professor Simon Leedham (@ndm.ox.ac.uk) and team! Cancer Research UK & partners have today committed £5.5m in funding to form a world-leading research team tasked with making personalised medicine a reality for people with bowel cancer.

Read more ➡️

£5.5m Research Funding to Transform Bowel Cancer Care

Cancer Research UK and partners have today committed £5.5m in funding to form a world-leading research team tasked with making personalised medicine a reality for people with bowel cancer. The team…

www.cancer.ox.ac.uk

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Mar 28

Lovely to be back at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social today seeing friends

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚀 PhD Opportunity! 🚀

Join the GSK-Oxford GO-PREECISE Programme! We’re looking for a DPhil/PhD student to explore the pre-tumour microenvironment in colorectal polyps (Project 8). Work to help drive cancer prevention! 🔬✨

📍 Apply now: lnkd.in/e8PNTAth

#CancerResearch #PhDOpportunity #JoinUs

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Mar 25

Fantastic day Michael and it was lovely to finally meet you in real life!

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Mar 25

Always an inspiration at these meetings!

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Mar 24

Honoured and humbled to win Best Talk at #WNTUK2025! This work reflects years of dedication and a fantastic team effort, led by the amazing Hayley Belnoue-Davis and myself, under the brilliant Simon Leedham. Grateful to all—soon to be in press! 🚀

WntUK @wntuk.bsky.social · Mar 24

Congratulations to @eoghanjm.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk on winning best talk, and Kieran Hodson from the Toby Phesse group at @cardiffuni.bsky.social @ecscri.bsky.social on winning best poster!

#WNTUK2025

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WntUK @wntuk.bsky.social · Mar 24

The final session before lunch is a selected abstract from Lee Placito Fellow of GI Cancer @eoghanjm.bsky.social from the @leedham-simon.bsky.social group at @ox.ac.uk speaking about GREMLIN1 role in stromal remodelling of Wnt-dependent ectopic stem niches in the intestine.

#WNTUK2025

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Mar 18

Honoured to receive 1st prize at the Oxford Cancer Symposium 2025! There are too many people to thank #OxSymp2025 @oxfordcancer.bsky.social

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Mar 17

Happy St Patrick's Day ☘️☘️ to all who celebrate - both in #Ireland and to the millions of Irish diaspora around the world!!

Photo credit: Ireland from space - on a rare cloudless day 💚
J.Schmaltz, NASA

#EmeraldIsle #StPatricksDay #ProudToBeIrish 🇮🇪☘️💚

Ireland, satellite image, showing vibrant green colors.
To the right is the Irish Sea, which separates the island from Great Britain, and to the left is the Atlantic Ocean.
Image obtained by the MODIS sensor on NASA's Terra satellite.

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Feb 27

An absolutely wonderful lab with fascinating research! 👇👇👇

Sarah Aitken @s-j-aitken.bsky.social · Feb 27

🧬WE ARE HIRING🧬

The Aitken Lab is hiring at Yale (US) and Cambridge (UK). We are seeking experimental and computational postdocs, and a lab manager/technician.

Official job ads below (more to follow when they're posted)

@yalecancer.bsky.social @yalepathology.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

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EACR - European Association for Cancer Research @helloeacr.bsky.social · Feb 25

EACR President-Elect @johannajoyce.bsky.social was recently interviewed by Nature Cancer about her impressive work on the tumour microenvironment and with the cancer research community:

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Feb 20

It was a fantastic evening!

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Jan 20

We have a wonderful program lined up for #EACR2025 in beautiful #Lisbon 🤩

All of us at #EACR are looking forward to see you in June!

#cancer #research 🧪⚕️

2025.eacr.org
@helloeacr.bsky.social

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Feb 15

Amanda from Amandaland is modern-day Hyacinth Bucket from keeping up appearances. Prove me wrong!

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Oxford Cancer @oxfordcancer.bsky.social · Feb 13

We're hiring!

We're looking for a System Administrator to help with the maintenance of Unix-based servers in a research-driven environment supporting the GSK-Oxford Pre-Cancer & Immuno-Prevention Alliance (GO-PRECISE) and related #OxfordCancer programmes.

Take a look ⬇️

https://buff.ly/4k82PMX

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Nuffield Department of Medicine @ndm.ox.ac.uk · Feb 12

Great news! Five members of the MSc Genomic Medicine teaching team at the Centre for Human Genetics have been awarded @advancehe.bsky.social fellowships across all levels for their roles in teaching and supporting higher education learning 🎉👩‍🏫

Find out more 👉 https://buff.ly/3EJD3xY

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Oxford Cancer @oxfordcancer.bsky.social · Feb 11

We're hiring!

We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to ensure the timely delivery of the newly launched PRECISE Alliance. You will hold a PhD/DPhil in a cancer, immunology or vaccinology-related field and have experience managing #CancerResearch projects. 👇

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Dec 20

Some Crypt-mus Trees 🎄 complete with CD8+ Baubles 🟡

Merry #Christmas All!

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Dec 12

I thought these where new Pokémon gym badges at first glance 😂

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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · Dec 11

🚨 BIG NEWS! MuSpAn is LIVE! 🚀 The ultimate tool for tackling all your spatial biology questions. Huge congrats to @joshuabull.bsky.social & @josh-moore.bsky.social ❤️👏 Poignant given Spatial proteomics is Technique of the Year 2024
@naturemethods.bsky.social
🎉
📜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Joshua Bull @joshuabull.bsky.social · Dec 9

Very pleased to announce that our package for Multiscale Spatial Analysis - MuSpAn - has landed!

The preprint is on biorxiv now, but you can find a lot more details at www.muspan.co.uk, including documentation, worked tutorials (an ever-expanding list), install guides, and how to get the code!

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Joshua Bull @joshuabull.bsky.social · Dec 10

If you're at @oxfordcancer.bsky.social's #OxCODE this morning, go and chat to @josh-moore.bsky.social during the poster session!

He's one of the key architects of MuSpAn and will be happy to answer any questions you may have about getting started with the software

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

A picture of a poster about MuSpAn, a toolbox for Multiscale Spatial Analysis, at the OxCODE conference 2024

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