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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · 21d

@mark-morgan.bsky.social kicking off NECB forum 2025 in Liverpool, funded by @bscb-official.bsky.social and external sponsors.

Great schedule lined up in a really
cool location - talks and posters presented in the Victoria Gallery & Museum 👌

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · Aug 22

We are sponsoring the North of England Cell Biology Forum in Liverpool on 18th Sept

Register and submit your abstracts here:

markmorgan60.wixsite.com/necb2025

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Sep 4

Per Ljungdahl kicking off the 40th SMYTE meeting in beautiful Stockholm yesterday 😃

Programme looks brilliant, ready for a few days immersed in yeast transport 🤓

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Faria Tryps Lab @fariatrypslab.bsky.social · Aug 11

How do parasites strategically organise their genomes to influence gene expression? If you’re curious, check our latest review in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social !

@biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @pasteur.fr

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Jul 31

bioRxiv bat signal going up. We have a big backlog of submissions. If any affiliates have time to do some screening, we (and all the authors) would be immensely grateful! 🙏

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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · Jul 24

In today's issue of Cell-->if you are looking for a good distraction from the news (who isn't), check it out!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Phenotypic landscape of an invasive fungal pathogen reveals its unique biology

The construction and high-precision fitness profiling of a C. neoformans knockout library reveals a high-resolution functional map of its genome and allowed for the identification of fungal analogs of...

www.cell.com

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Jul 24

I’ll be presenting this work (and a bunch of unpublished data) at 2.45pm at the #yeast2025 conference 🤓

This collaboration with @merusadhu.bsky.social has also benefitted from the meeting, as we planned more experiments on the river last night 👌

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · Jul 23

1 month to abstract deadline for the first cell biology of the nucleus meeting at @embl.org in many years - organised by the stellar @luskinglab.bsky.social @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Tom Quail & Simone Koehler

Tons of open slots, invited and selected speakers all get 20 mins ❤️

#EESNucleus

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Jul 23

I have no answer - too many cool s since things happening!?

We need to remedy, I have a meeting over lunch but will be about for posters

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Jul 22

So lovely to connect with the inimitable Terry Cooper again at #yeast2025 - who’s just gearing up to present after a gruelling journey to the meeting!

🙌🙌🙌

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Jul 21

As one might expect, standing room only for Sir Paul Nurse keynote seminar at #yeast2025 in Paris this evening.

👏 👏 👏

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Jul 21

Kamilla Laidlaw, Hatwan Nadir, Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social and team @biologyatyork.bsky.social discover that killer toxin K28 resistance in yeast relies on COG complex-mediated trafficking of Ktd1.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Microscopy images showing that correct localisation of either Ktd1 or Snc1 requires the COG complex.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · Jul 21

Essay mills shamelessly advertising on the academia feed. CC @keithwilson.eu

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Jul 21

Travelling to my first ICYGMB meeting #yeast2025 in Paris - the programme looks amazing.

premc.org/yeast2025/

Yeast 2025 - PremC

premc.org

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Keith Trujillo @neurochicano.bsky.social · Jul 17

go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Jul 16

We bought a shaking incubator for new pathogenic yeast work, but the tray came with holes lacking threads 😒

Luckily, Mark Bentley from our @biologyatyork.bsky.social workshop is a legend - he trimmed down the rack and secured it to the tray.

🔩🪛🙏🏼

Shaking incubator with lid open to display rack and mat for adding culture tubes

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Alan Cartmell @acartmell47.bsky.social · Jul 10

Happy to have this work on the effectiveness of sulfamate based inhibitors on carbohydrate sulfatases out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas. #glycotime

The summary is: Current sulfatase inhibitor technology is not effective on S1 carbohydrate sulfatases of the human colonic microbiota.

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Jul 16

I spoke with authors/reviewers that had been part of the pilot during the biologists@100 meeting - they were extremely positive about the process.

We also had great first experience with @biologyopen.bsky.social last year.

Only issue with the model is mechanisms to cover APCs are vanishing.

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Jul 14

Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...

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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · Jul 1

- A postdoc to work on cancer extravasation (4-year project).
- A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year).
- Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall.
- We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).

Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · Jun 23

Are you looking for a postdoc?
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Jun 28

lol, not sure - or maybe trying to make sure I didn’t come back and try an experiment.

I think the was a collaboration between Zoe Ingold and James Fox 🤣

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Jun 28

Returned from the UK-Japan Frontiers of Science conference to be confronted with this terrifying effigy on my lab bench!

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Stephen Graham's Lab @atomicvirology.bsky.social · Jun 19

Q for the hive-mind 🧠: What transfection reagents do people like for big constructs these days? (I am thinking #HSV encoding BACs, ~170 kb). We've recently had poor performance with Trans-IT LT1 and Lipofectamine 2000, our two go-tos. Target cells are U2OS. Suggestions or RTs greatly appreciated 🙏

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Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social · Jun 18

The UK-Japan frontiers of science meeting @royalsociety.org is this week - amazing line up of speakers covering very broad research themes 😀

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Graham Lab @grahamlab-vandy.bsky.social · Apr 30

As April comes to a close, we wanted to share updates for the first quarter of 2025!!

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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · Mar 26

Tired of waiting months for peer review? So were we.
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It works—and here’s the data: bit.ly/4iZ30st
#biologists100 @biologyopen.bsky.social

Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal

Traditional peer review is slow, often delayed by the time-consuming process of identifying reviewers and lengthy review turnaround times. This study tests the feasibility of the Fast & Fair peer revi...

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