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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · 7d

Join us THIS Friday (3rd October 2025).

Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · 15d

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (3rd October, 1 pm BST) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen). @danbose.bsky.social @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · 15d

Super proud of Nora, our amazing PhD student, for being awarded a poster prize at the GBM Compact 2025 conference "Focus on Condensate Biology"!! Congrats to all the awardees! @phar.cam.ac.uk @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social

GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 16d

The GBM Compact - Focus on Condensate Biology poster session has 5 winners: Miriam Linsenmeier (FEBS Open Bio award), Patrick McCall and Michal Kacper Bialobrzewski (sponsored by De Gruyter Brill). Two book vouchers from Wiley were awarded to Saskia Hutten and Nora Haanaes! Congratulations!

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · 15d

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (3rd October, 1 pm BST) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen). @danbose.bsky.social @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · 19d

A fully funded Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD position with @delladavid-lab.bsky.social (and me!!) - if you are interested in #Proteostasis and #Aging, please check it out!!!

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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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Aug 25

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (5th September, 1 pm BST) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen). Dr. Tatyana Shelkovnikova and Dr. Stefano Bo will be presenting! @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

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Erik A. Rodriguez @erin-rod.bsky.social · Aug 22

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, who died on August 24, 2016. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday
www.nature.com/articles/nme...

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Aug 16

When my RA (Dr. Ellis Wilde) isn’t busy in the lab or chasing after a toddler, she is contributing new articles to @chemistryworld.com www.chemistryworld.com/news/molecul... Well done Ellis!! @phar.cam.ac.uk

Molecular motor stitches together catenane rings

The light-powered system produces interlocked rings, without the need for templating strategies

www.chemistryworld.com

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Aug 8

Congratulations!!! ❤️

Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Experience Postgrad Life Sciences programme 2025 is underway!! ❤️ So proud to be involved with this @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

School of Biological Sciences @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social · Aug 6

We are delighted to welcome summer students to the Experience Postgrad Life Sciences programme!

The group met the 2025 interns from various university summer programmes at an event hosted by Corpus Christi College.

Read more about the programme: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/expe...

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 30

Join us THIS Friday for the next talks in our UK Biomolecular Condensate seminar series!! @luke-mathphys.bsky.social @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 21

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (1st August, 1 pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen). @luke-mathphys.bsky.social @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 28

We (and many!) have been thinking a lot about how to quantifiably measure the material properties of biomolecular condensates inside cells. Chris (my final year PhD student) wrote this great review article about microscopy-based techniques link.springer.com/article/10.1... @phar.cam.ac.uk

Microscopy-based techniques for studying the material properties of biomolecular condensates in the cellular environment - Biophysical Reviews

The material properties of biomolecular condensates, such as interfacial tension, viscoelasticity, stiffness, and molecular dynamics, are crucial for their biological functions in processes like signa...

link.springer.com

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 24

An amazing trip to Poland spent meeting scientists at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań) and the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre (Kraków). Thank you to my host and collaborator, Prof. Maciej Kozak for the invitation!! @phar.cam.ac.uk

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 21

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (1st August, 1 pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen). @luke-mathphys.bsky.social @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 17

Back from a wonderful conference in Lisbon!! Thank you @claudiogomeslab.bsky.social
and Alice Melao for such a well organised event and the invitation to give a talk ❤️ #ISPIS2025 @TWIN2PIPSA

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 14

An amazing start to the conference in Lisbon!! Can’t wait to present tomorrow ❤️#ISPIS2025 @phar.cam.ac.uk

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 11

An amazing day of high quality talks and posters - well done everyone and a shout out to Mateo Hoare (our PhD student) for a Talk Prize ❤️ @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social

Department of Pharmacology | University of Cambridge @phar.cam.ac.uk · Jul 11

Today saw our final year PhD students and MPhil students give talks on their research, whilst 2nd years presented posters of their progress so far 😀

A great day showing the diversity of research in the Department - congratulations to poster and talk prize winners!

All student speakers / poster presents gathered together

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delladavid-lab.bsky.social @delladavid-lab.bsky.social · Jul 4

We are hiring a research assistant 👉 tinyurl.com/yxebtjbj to join our lab working on healthy #ageing and protein #aggregation in C. elegans 🪱. Deadline August 4th. 🙏 RT. #proteostasis @babrahaminst.bsky.social

hireful.

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 4

Join us today (4th July) at 1pm GMT!!! 👇

Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 1

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (4th July, 1pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen!) www.ukcondensates.co.uk/monthly-netw... @leebiophysics.bsky.social Alex Borodavka @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jul 1

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (4th July, 1pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen!) www.ukcondensates.co.uk/monthly-netw... @leebiophysics.bsky.social Alex Borodavka @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

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Pombo-GarciaLab @pombo-garcialab.bsky.social · Jun 27

How to spy on condensates: technology feature in
@natmethods.nature.com
Our views on the topic, by Hyman,Rosen,Brangwynne, Sabari, Kappel,Xu & myself, presented here
@hymanlab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social @bsabari.bsky.social @kallikappel.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How to spy on condensates - Nature Methods

Scientists track how these membraneless biomolecular foci self-organize for their cellular tasks.

www.nature.com

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jun 27

Sorry to have missed your talk - but see you in Lisbon in a few weeks!! 😊

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jun 25

In press!! NMR & MD simulations reveal how non-native contacts stabilise a key transient intermediate in the lysozyme amyloid cascade. Well done Minkoo and all!! @phar.cam.ac.uk For CMD ❤️ advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Amyloid Forming Human Lysozyme Intermediates are Stabilized by Non‐Native Amide‐π Interactions

Mutational variants of human lysozyme cause fatal systemic amyloidosis by depositing kilograms of protein in the viscera of patients. Central to this process is a partially unfolded protein intermedi....

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jun 23

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (4th July, 1pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen!) www.ukcondensates.co.uk/monthly-netw... @leebiophysics.bsky.social Alex Borodavka @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

UK Condensates - Monthly Network Seminar Series

Monthly network seminar series

www.ukcondensates.co.uk

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · Jun 14

A beautiful day to celebrate #CambridgePride with the Old Addenbrooke’s Neighbourhood @phar.cam.ac.uk @mrc-tu.bsky.social @cambiochem.bsky.social @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈

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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · May 27

Come join us for a new on-line seminar series (First seminar 6th June, 1pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen!) www.ukcondensates.co.uk/monthly-netw... @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

UK Condensates - Monthly Network Seminar Series

Monthly network seminar series

www.ukcondensates.co.uk

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