Another fabulous day of talks at @embo.org Ribosome Synthesis meeting. Very exciting to see technology developments impacting ribosome and translation fields. As well as lots of awesome talks on ribosome specialisation! @ribocode.bsky.social

Delighted to be at @embo.org Ribosome Synthesis meeting at beautiful Churchill College, Cambridge. Delighted to see @royalsociety.org specialised ribosome special issue on registration desk and Bulat Fatkhullin’s fabulous cover image @ribocode.bsky.social

🤹‍♀️ 👥 Team building day🙌 🎲

We are committed to building a positive research culture across our multi-institutional, collaborative team.

Read all about our recent team building day, supported by @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social and Research England here👇
ribocode.org/blog/

@ribochique.bsky.social @veronicathuburn.bsky.social

Several of our RiboCode ECRs recently presented at Translation UK 2025 🧬🤝💬

This was a fantastic opportunity for them to share their research and discuss all things #translation

Read more here 👉 ribocode.org/blog/

Thanks to @biochemsoc.bsky.social for organising such a stimulating meeting.

In York this Saturday?

Tessa Chan (@ribochique.bsky.social) will be waxing lyrical about #ribosomes - the molecular restaurant in our cells - at #SoapboxScience as part of @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬🔬🗣️💡

Hear from Tessa & other brilliant female and non-binary scientists 👉 tinyurl.com/rut4mkfh

Introducing our new senior research technician, Alex Goncalves!

Alex studied at UCL before moving into technical roles at King's College London and Vivian Therapeutics. With a background in human and fly genetics, we are excited for Alex to join the team and get cracking with the RiboCode project!

🎒An inspiring day at Be Curious 2025 🧪

2,200+ people attended this year's festival and we enjoyed taking lots of them on a journey from DNA to proteins. We were amazed by the thoughtful questions posed by visitors of all ages.

Let us know if you would like to try this activity at home!

#outreach

🔔 NEW PAPER: Translational activity of 80S monosomes varies dramatically across different tissues 🔔

The RiboCode team has recently shed light on the translational activity of ribosomes from various Drosophila melanogaster tissues.

Read more on our news page ribocode.org/blog/

🔔 NEW PAPER: EMG1 methyltransferase activity affects ribosome occupancy at KSHV uORFs 🔔

Members of the RiboCode team have contributed to a recent paper that advances our understanding of how viruses can manipulate host cell translational machinery.

Read more on our news page ribocode.org/blog/

👋 Hello to our new followers! 👋

To learn more about the RiboCode project, check out our website ribocode.org

Here you can find out who we are and what we do, as well as exploring our publications and latest activities.

If you have any questions, just get in touch!

#ribosomes #rna #science

To celebrate #BritishScienceWeek, we have created a free resource pack for schools!

The pack contains teaching resources and instructions for a fun hands-on activity.

For more information and to request a free pack, see ribocode.org/resources/

#science #scienceforkids #STEMeducation

Congratulations @ribocode.bsky.social team on our review published today @royalsociety.org Awesome team work to write this as such a large group. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Our paper is part of a special issue from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B ⬇️

royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Read about different aspects of ribosome heterogeneity and specialisation across species & the latest advances and future direction of the field. (2/2)

❗NEW PAPER❗

Check out our review on #ribosome heterogeneity and specialisation published today!

We discuss the mechanisms of specialisation, review the latest research and explore how technological advancements will drive the next set of research questions.

doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0377 (1/2)

Tuesday was #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 👩‍🔬🔬🧫🧬🕷️

Listen to RiboCode's lead PI Julie Aspden (@rna-julie.bsky.social) speaking to @amy-turner96.bsky.social on Proteintech's new pod!

They cover Julie's career so far, leadership, diversity, and how she balances academia w/ family life 🤹‍♀️

Super exciting new paper from three of our brilliant RiboCoders and Nikki Weckman exploring the use of solid-state nanopore in monitoring enzyme digestion pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Congrats @nano-chalmers.bsky.social @paoloactis.bsky.social and Emma Thomson!

Artwork inspired by Joy Division 👌

We cannot join #SMPS4 but hot off the press our nanopore work to monitor CAS9 reactivity and its off-target effects. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Thanks for the shout out, Ian!

🍃🎐The Ribosome Wind Garden 🎐🍃

Read about our collab with artist Christopher Jarratt at Sheffield's Festival of the Mind this year

ribocode.org/blog/

Happy to share the website of RiboMod2025, the "Conference on Ribosomal RNA modifications and snoRNAs" in Bologna June 12-13, 2025 is up at events.unibo.it/ribomod2025
Stay tune for more infos!
#RNA #Ribosome #snoRNA #Eiptranscriptomics

Come and join RiboCode!

Are you interested in understanding the mechanisms of mRNA translation? Do you have experience using D. melanogaster? Would you like to join an interdisciplinary team?

If so, apply for our Senior Research Technician role @universityofleeds.bsky.social

shorturl.at/ytnrA