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Ian Prior

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Ras biologist at the University of Liverpool when I’m not trying to lead Faculty provision of core facilities and infrastructure improvements.

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Nov 16

Ras isoforms and mutants are differentially associated with cancer and developmental disorders. This intro summarises some of the key points.

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Jul 1

My lab and I were at the Small G-Protein conference in Manchester last week. Really lucky to work with such a great team. #BiochemEvent #SGP25 @biochemsoc.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social

Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Jun 28

Great to meet old friends and new! Thanks @biochemsoc.bsky.social for supporting this.

Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · Jun 27

A huge thank you to all the amazing delegates who joined us for Small G Proteins in Cellular Signalling and Disease 2025 this week! We hope you enjoyed the conference and look forward to seeing you at the next one. #BiochemEvent #SGP25 🧪

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Jun 25

Great to have Terri from @kraskickers.bsky.social as our opening speaker at the Biochem Soc Small G-protein conference! #BiochemEvent

Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · May 21

Fantastic to be at the @royalsociety.org today celebrating progress and initiatives to support the technician community. @uk-itss.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · May 12

Our new LIV-SRF Bioscience Techniques & Research Facility Management MSc programme provides extensive hands-on vocational training to become a technical specialist and core facility manager. Applications open for Sept 2025. More info here: tinyurl.com/jpbyvkkf
@livuni-livsrf.bsky.social

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · May 2

Fabulous first volume EM image stack from our new @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Volutome system and @aliemliv.bsky.social and her talented team. External users and projects welcome! @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social

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Our 1st ZEISS Volutome SBF-SEM dataset It's BIG! 1674 sections, 55nm in… | Alison Beckett | 22 comments

Our 1st ZEISS Volutome SBF-SEM dataset It's BIG! 1674 sections, 55nm in z, 5nm in x and y It's BEAUTIFUL! A small snapshot of the Arabidopsis thaliana root tip 🤩 Liverpool Shared Research Fa...

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Apr 25

Early bird deadline closes on April 30th. We will be selecting talks from abstracts immediately afterwards so please register now!

Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Apr 22

Final week for the early bird deadline for the Small G-protein meeting in Manchester. Talk slots available from submitted abstracts. #SGP25 @BiochemSoc @SmallGTPases Register here: bit.ly/SmallG25

Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease 2025

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Apr 24

A privilege to work with such a talented interdisciplinary team on this. @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @aliemliv.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation

We used Hi-C, imaging, proteomics, and polymer modeling to define rules of engagement for SMC (structural maintenance of chromosomes) complexes as cells refold interphase chromatin into rod-shaped mit...

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Apr 22

Final week for the early bird deadline for the Small G-protein meeting in Manchester. Talk slots available from submitted abstracts. #SGP25 @BiochemSoc @SmallGTPases Register here: bit.ly/SmallG25

Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease 2025

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Mar 20

4 weeks left for the early bird deadline for the Small G-protein meeting in Manchester. Talk slots available from submitted abstracts. #SGP25 @biochemsoc.bsky.social @smallgtpases.bsky.social Register here: bit.ly/SmallG25

Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease 2025

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Jan 12

More spacey sketching. Clearly work hasn’t fully ramped up yet.

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Jan 4

Great to have a few weeks off and have the chance to draw again.

Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Dec 23

Happy to see this pre-print online where we supported volume EM needs of this collaborative effort led by the Booth lab to investigate the role of the chromosome periphery in meiosis vs mitosis. #liv-srf

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

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The Chromosome Periphery is an Essential Compartment of Oocyte Chromosomes

Chromosomes and their constituent compartments are core elements of the cell division machinery. In mammalian oocytes, defects in the structure or composition of chromosomes are a leading cause of abe...

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Victoria Harman @vharman.bsky.social · Dec 13

Fantastic to be visiting the SRFs in University of Glasgow today! Lots of brilliant ideas and inspirational spaces. @ianprior.bsky.social

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Victoria Harman @vharman.bsky.social · Dec 11

Fantastic to see so many @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social staff at our LIV-SRF Staff Forum today! Brilliant way to round off a great year, with talks from Peter O’Toole, Sarah Barnett and Nikki George covering ITSS, TSN, the CTLS Exchange Programme and Prof Elizabeth Slater Archeological Research Labs!

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Victoria Harman @vharman.bsky.social · Dec 8

We’re launching the LIV-SRF Bioscience Techniques & Research Facility Management MSc! 12-month full time PG programme with extensive hands-on training in our SRFs, as well as the operation & management of core research facilities. Applications open for Sept 2025. More info here tinyurl.com/jpbyvkkf

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Dec 7

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In 2023 we launched a career pathway for all technical specialists at the University of Liverpool. This guide describes what to consider if your institution wants to do this too. #RTPs #technicians

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Dec 6

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Dec 6

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Thanks Heather, great to see who else is here

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Nov 24

Check out our database of 47 POSTDOCTORAL fellowships in cancer/oncology.

For each fellowship, we provide a brief description, link to opportunity, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).

Download this database here (Excel file): research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Good luck!

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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · Nov 24

The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact ofprotein tags on biomolecular condensation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624970v1

Biomolecular condensation has emerged as an important mechanism to control various cellular processe

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Ben Neely @benneely.com · Nov 24

I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible!

#proteomics #bioinformatics

Dr. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

biology.arizona.edu

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Evangelia Petsalaki @epetsalaki.bsky.social · Nov 21

PhosX is out! doi.org/10.1093/bioi... Leveraging the latest kinase specificity maps by the Cantley, Yaffe, and Turk labs and a rank sum statistic we created PhosX so now we can predict activities for nearly all kinases in your phosphodata, including the understudied ones. Check it out!

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Nov 18

Also:
@mdcr02.bsky.social @profbuchan.bsky.social @natsansor.bsky.social

Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Nov 18

Some more here:
@scottishwormboy.bsky.social @pseudoenzyme.bsky.social @claireeeyers.bsky.social @drlornayoung.bsky.social @mcschmid.bsky.social @ainhoamielgo.bsky.social

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