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Proud to share the labs first preprint! Led by Yeon, whose hard work, dedication and drive have been instrumental in bringing the project to this point. Thank you to everyone involved, especially long-term collaborators Yvonne and Yuguang. #Wnt #WntUK #RASopathy #ERK www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Anne Ashford, Simon Cook @drsimoncook.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social and colleagues use phosphoproteomics to identify novel DYRK1B targets and establish DYRK1B as a regulator of processing body abundance. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish

‼️ Postdoc position open. We study how protein metabolism controls time. If you’re excited by this question, we’d love to hear from you! We’re looking for a motivated & collaborative researcher with a strong track record. 📅 30 September 2026 📢 Please share Apply here 👇👇

Congrats, Helena! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congratulations to Helena for getting her first 1st-author paper in this highly-reputable, long-established journal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Congratulations to @trayon.bsky.social and colleagues for this exciting new cover story in Dev Cell!

Our work on the role of the proteasome in developmental tempo is out!!!! 🐭⌛️👤⏳ Six years after identifying an association between protein stability and developmental tempo, we now demonstrate a causal link between protein turnover and developmental tempo through proteasomal degradation

Very happy to see this story finally out in @natbiotech.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Fantastic collaboration with @lancasterlab.bsky.social on how to identify and ‘fix’ differentiation-compromised human pluripotent stem cells. @babrahaminst.bsky.social @mrclmb.ac.uk 🧵 below

Is healthy ageing possible on a normal diet? Our new eLIFE paper describes metabolic re-engineering of yeast to avoid senescence The A2A mutant we created is super-fit late in life even on a rich high glucose diet… these cells stay healthy until they die! elifesciences.org/articles/111...

It's finally here! Registration for the 2026 joint international biohackathon is live! 📅 9-11 Sep #Cambridge or #Antwerp 2026.biohack.live #Hackathon #ComputationalBiology #Bioinformatics @uantwerpen.be @vibai.bsky.social @cmn-vib.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social @babraham-bioinf.bsky.social

Check out the latest pre-print from the Houseley lab 👇

Join our BioSCaPe PhD programme! You'll join an interdisciplinary, collaborative research environment and tackle fundamental biological questions with cutting-edge tools and expert supervision. Deadline 30th July. View the projects: buff.ly/Ex0o7rE

How RAB5C enzyme regulates the microbicidal phagosome in macrophages 📷 Edismauro Garcia Freitas-Filho et al, @uspoficial.bsky.social in @science.org Advances ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026/5/12

I am pleased to share a link to the latest paper from the Cook lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... The DYRK protein kinases, near neighbours to the MAPKs in the CMGC arm of the human kinome, control critical cell fate decisions and are deregulated in disease, much like the MAPKs and CDKs.

It's #TestimonialTuesday Find out what our hashtag#Bioinformatics course attendees think of our training 👇 biotrain.tv #ScientificTraining #ComputationalBiology #Stats #Statistics #BigData #DataAnalysis #TrainingTuesday #TestimonialTuesday @babraham-bioinf.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social

It's #TestimonialTuesday Find out what our hashtag#Bioinformatics course attendees think of our training 👇 biotrain.tv #ScientificTraining #ComputationalBiology #Stats #Statistics #BigData #DataAnalysis @babrahaminst.bsky.social #TrainingTuesday #TuesdayTestimonial

What a great conference! Thanks to the German, Dutch and Spanish dev bio societies for arranging such an inspiring and inclusive meeting. Happy to have met new colleagues and good old friends from my PhD times.

Exciting new project in our lab @babrahaminst.bsky.social! We are working with @alesdantas.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social to understand how extrachromosomal circular DNA mediates drug resistance in fungal pathogens Funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social #ecDNA #eccDNA #Candida #Zymoseptoria

Post-doc job alert! We have an exciting opportunity for a post doc to join our team at the Babraham Institute, exploring ageing metabolism and epigenetics. babrahaminstitute.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details...

We are pleased to welcome Prof Sir Jim Smith as the Institute's Interim Director. Read more 👇

3D lab-grown model of implantation reveals cell types & molecular interactions between embryo & endometrium 📹 Matteo A. Molè, Sarah Elderkin & Irene Zorzan et al @babrahaminst.bsky.social in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

There is just one day left to register for our upcoming Frontiers in Stem Cell Innovation Conference! Join leading academics and industry professionals exploring cutting-edge stem cell technologies and disease modelling for drug discovery. View the full agenda and register now: buff.ly/ZiURhGV

Happy holidays from all of us at the Babraham Institute!✨Our card includes an image of a mouse intestine that has been stained for DNA (blue), e-cadherin (green) and muc2 (red). 📸 Petrina Tan, Christophorou lab

Our team has successfully achieved human embryo implantation in the lab using a 3D endometrial scaffold. The Goal: Implantation is of the biggest hurdle in pregnancy. By understanding this process in the lab, we can develop new therapeutics to improve clinical outcomes and IVF success rates.

Christmas has come early. Fantastic to see this beautiful study from Peter Rugg-Gunn's lab at The Babraham Institute published today. Congratulations to Matteo Mole, Sarah Elderkin, Irene Zorzan and all other authors! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Christmas special: buy one ticket, bring a colleague for free! Join leading academics, industry experts, and biotech innovators and explore next-generation stem cell technology, disease modelling, and translational breakthroughs at the Frontiers in Stem Cell Innovation Conference! buff.ly/oMmTmYd

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Congratulations to Suzan Ber and @aesposito1975.bsky.social on their lovely study of KRAS alleles on glutamine and nitrogen metablism and signalling - just out in EMBO Reports. Such a pleasure to collaborate on this fascinating project! 👏

I’m really pleased to share the link to a new Cook Lab paper published today in Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨UK Ageing Research League Table update @babrahaminst.bsky.social claims 1st 🥇 @unibirmingham.bsky.social in 2nd 🥈 @ox.ac.uk in 3rd 🥉 @ucl.ac.uk & (bluesky shy?) Univeristy of Westmisnter narroly miss the podium & are tied for 4th. How did your institution rank? bsra.org.uk/uk-ageing-re...

The countdown is on! One week left for early birds to get their tickets to the Frontiers in Stem Cell Innovation conference 🎟️ 📅 5–6 February 2026 📍 Cambridge, UK Hosted by The Babraham Institute and Newcastle University. Register now www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frontiers-...

Check out the line up of amazing speakers at the 2026 GRC Autophagy meeting in Ventura, California, 15-20 March. Register now and share your latest findings. www.grc.org/autophagy-in...

Interested in #StemCell research and technologies? Then hopefully this pairing of events is already marked in your calendar for February 2026. If not, take a longer look! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frontiers-...

VACANCY - We have an opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group, working to develop computational models of epigenetic dynamics in the Polycomb system. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po... Closing date - 9 November 2025 Salary - £37,500 - £45,350 Contract - 36 months, full-time

ICYM our announcement from last week: Two incredible events unite to make one unmissable opportunity! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frontiers-...

NEW PUBLICATION | A research collaboration between the Rugg-Gunn lab and Lonza is moving researchers towards the ability to drive transgene expression (in CHO cells) at higher levels to improve biopharmaceuticals yields. analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

🚀 Applications are open for the Bio-spark Entrepreneurial Programme! Are you an early career researcher hoping to consider options outside the academic world? Are you looking for advice, experience or mentorship? 🗓️ Apply by 13 Oct 🔗 www.gravity.cam.ac.u...

3 days - 2 events - 1 amazing opportunity! Get set for two events showcasing bioscience innovation. 4-5 Feb - WORD+ 2026 event 5-6 Feb - our Frontiers in Stem Cell Innovation (FISCI) conference 📍Cambridge Registration for FISCI is open now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frontiers-...

NEWS | A new multi-omics method enabling the profiling of multiple histone modifications and gene expression in single cells, and the researchers behind it, have been recognised with two awards. Congrats to the Rugg-Gunn lab and everyone involved! www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/09... #epigenetics

Publishing Your Research? Resource for early career researchers from Alzheimer's Society Retreat Dr Johanna Jackson @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Dr Simon Andrews @babrahaminst.bsky.social Dr Christian Schnell @plosbiology.org Cherie Nyota @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social youtu.be/ACqKndCoM3Q?...

We've updated our first #preprint from the lab! A collaboration with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social 🔥 now including in vivo 🐭&👤 embryo data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

2nd Meeting on Early Embryogenesis and Epigenetics 16 - 18 Feb 2026 at MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin with support by the Weizmann Institute for Science. Early bird registration until 30 Sep - register now👇 www.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026

Great to have this out, and such a pleasure to work together. @smguillaume.bsky.social @cristianbeccaria.bsky.social @iannaconelab.bsky.social

🔬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.