Cambridge Biochemistry

Wonderful news that our colleague @jeannesalje.bsky.social and her team have been awarded a Precision Mitochondria @aria-research.bsky.social grant to explore using Rickettsiales bacteria to deliver DNA to mitochondria. Read more about this cutting-edge project: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/jeanne-...

Black History Month Talk - Nina Chhita, Monday 26 October, 13:00 In celebration of this year’s Black History Month, we have invited Nina Chhita as our speaker for a talk on The Healers of Harlem: The Black Women Who Changed Medicine Forever More info: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

We're proud to announce that Emma Farquhar, a master's student at Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger's lab, won the SPARK 2.0 incubator programme for her start-up “Lactosense”. Read more here: www.phar.cam.ac.uk/news/spark20...

Congratulations to @jeannesalje.bsky.social Group on receiving funding from @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social and @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social to investigate the cell biology of Borrelia, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. Read more about this exciting new research: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/salje-g...

Don't miss the first session of the RNA Club course!! 21 Oct, 4:30 PM, Sanger Building @cambiochem.bsky.social Talks by Haopeng Yu ( @thesainsburylab.bsky.social ) and Ainan Geng ( @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social ) on RNA-binding protein recognition and thermodynamic prediction of RNA activity.

Excellent candidates for 2027 Fellowship schemes are now invited to apply to attend our Research Fellowships Open Day. Deadline to apply is 07 December 2026. Find out more: tinyurl.com/2p9swnb9 @slcuplants.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #PlantSciences

Job opportunity! Assistant Teaching Professor in Plant Biology An opportunity to engage with undergraduates on inter-departmental courses across the School of Biological Sciences that form part of the Natural Sciences Tripos (NST). Apply by 14 October 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Today, Professor Ewan St. John Smith begins his new role as the Head of Department! He succeeds Professor Laura Itzhaki, who departs from the position after six years in the post. Read more: www.phar.cam.ac.uk/news/pharmac...

Time is running out to apply to join the #EngBio Early Career Research Committee! ⌛ This is your chance to contribute to the University of Cambridge engineering biology community. Find out more and apply: www.engbio.cam.ac.uk/join-engbio-...

🧬 Looking for a PhD in the biosciences? Applications are open for the Cambridge Biosciences DTP, offering fully funded PhD opportunities across a range of research areas. 📅 Deadline: 8 December 2026 🔗 bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/how-apply #PhD #Biosciences

There is still time to apply for an Independent Research Fellowship in our Department. Details of how to apply by 25 September are here: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind...

Congratulations to Pedro Rebelo-Guiomar, Ben Luisi, @mito-oncogene.bsky.social and colleagues @miskalab.bsky.social on their Precision Mitochondria @aria-research.bsky.social award: Protein-linked nucleic acid design for mitochondrial delivery and expression. More: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/pedro-r...

Applications are invited to our programme supporting early career researchers to establish their own independent research groups. Please circulate and further details of how to apply by 25 September are here: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind... #Biochemistry #EarlyCareer #Postdocs #Science

Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41... We're quietly defunding the infrastructure modern biology runs on. PomBase, FlyBase, HGNC. have faced, or facing, existential funding crises since 2024. Curation expertise, once lost, is difficult to rebuild.

Delighted and very proud to see our study (and Anna-Maria's first first-author paper) recently out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @cambiochem.bsky.social @cruk-ci.bsky.social 1/5

There's still time to join us for the 2026 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium on 22-24 September (#SLS26)! This year's Symposium theme is Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis and is coordinated by Sarah Robinson and Neha Bhatia. www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...

Join the Early Career Researcher Committee and help shape the future of engineering biology research in Cambridge. Open to Postdoc, PhD student and support staff from the University of Cambridge only. Find out more and apply: www.engbio.cam.ac.uk/join-engbio-...

A @kiranrpatil.bsky.social Lab study published in Molecular Systems Biology charts the negative effects of sweeteners on healthy gut bacteria growth. Read more in a #CambridgeUniversity feature: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

A paper in @natmethods.nature.com by @jenny-molloy.bsky.social and @fernanfederici.bsky.social documents the reclone.org model for democratising access to essential biological tools and reagents, and the evidence behind it. Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The @rosswaller.bsky.social lab, with @kathrynlilley.bsky.social lab and Rayner lab @thecimr.bsky.social have produced the most comprehensive map yet of where proteins are located inside the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in @natcomms.nature.com Read more: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/waller-...

New @cam.ac.uk feature on the wonderful work in the Howe Lab to develop biocells that harness the chemistry of algae to power small devices: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/camb...

Congratulations to Iva Tchasovnikarova who has been awarded the Lister Prize from @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social to expand her work on fundamental epigenetic pathways. Read more about Iva's research group and the Lister Prize: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/iva-tch... #ListerPrize2026 #GurdonInstitute

Congratulations to @claudiabonfio.bsky.social on her Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize from @rsc.org for developing biophysical and supramolecular approaches to understand the origins and evolution of primitive cells. Read more about the prize and her lab: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/claudia...

Congratulations to @hollfelderlab.bsky.social on their opportunity seed funding from @aria-research.bsky.social for a project to make iPSC technology into a broadly applicable tool for ecosystem science and species conservation. More about this crucial research: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/hollfel...

Congratulations to our former colleague John McCafferty, on being elected Fellow of The Royal Society and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

We are also hosting Pedro Madrigal (EMBL-EBI) @pmadrigal.bsky.social He leads critical RNA resources (RNAcentral & Rfam) and brings extensive expertise in large-scale omics data from his time at Sanger and Cambridge Don't miss this incredible double-session! @cambiochem.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org

From Bolivia to Oxford, Nanopore, and York! Don't miss our next RNA Club this Thursday 28th at 16:30! We are thrilled to host Miguel Aracena. He will break down his PhD work on the mechanistic basis for translation initiation on enterovirus IRES. @cambiochem.bsky.social @york.ac.uk

Congratulations to the @markohyvonen.bsky.social Group on its celebration of 25 years this week by 40 alumni! Since 2001, it has welcomed 21 Postdocs, 8 RAs, 15 PhDs, 6 Visiting PhDs, 9 MScs and 46 Undergrads and contributed over 90 publications. 🎂🎉👏 Read more: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/hyvonen...

Join us for the next Cambridge Lactation Network Summer Symposium on Friday, 12th of June 2026. Please register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-... @cam-repro.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk @cambiochem.bsky.social @aj-twigger.bsky.social @koulman.bsky.social

The Patil group is part of a new collaboration that aims to understand how changes to our gut microbiome in early life impact neurodevelopment. The project is part of Wellcome LEAP's Foundation Of a Resilient Microbiome (FORM) initiative Read more:

RNA enthusiasts, clear your schedules! Our next RNA Club is happening TOMORROW ,29th April, at 16:30. Join us on Zoom. We’re diving deep into the latest research with two incredible speakers: Zhipeng Lu ( @usc.edu )& Róża Przanowska( @rprzanowska.bsky.social ) @cambiochem.bsky.social

When Rachael was diagnosed with cancer at 22, her interest in cancer research became something far more personal. Through our @crukcamctya.bsky.social PPI network, she undertook a two-week lab placement in the @cambiochem.bsky.social with Dr Lisa Dobson. 🔗 zurl.co/7w2yg #FocusOnCamCancer #TYACAM

We are recruiting a postdoc interested in using machine learning and AI to understand and control post-transcriptional gene regulation. Please apply and join us at @cambiochem.bsky.social ⏳ Closing date: 16 May 2026 🔗 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55254 Learn more about us: www.sblab.uk

Researchers in the Patil lab found that co-culturing bacteria profoundly alters each species' behavior. Because the gut microbiome directly affects our health, understanding these interactions helps show how it responds to challenges (e.g. drugs) Read the full story: buff.ly/dZ42Vnx

CLOSING SOON: Interested in using machine learning to predict the toxicity of novel therapies? The Patil lab are recruiting a Bioinformatician to work on this in collaboration with @cambiochem.bsky.social & AstraZeneca 💵 £42,254-£56,535 📆 Apply by 20th April Apply here: buff.ly/C8UtZ2n

🗣️ On 17 April 2026, Cambridge Zero is bringing together researchers across disciplines to explore sustainable foods, medicines, and carbon management. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4sC8ezn 🌏 A brilliant space for collaboration, innovation, and future funding conversations.

Are you interested in using machine learning to predict the toxicity of novel therapies? The Patil lab are recruiting a Bioinformatician to work on this in collaboration with @cambiochem.bsky.social & @astra-zeneca.bsky.social 💵 £42,254-£56,535 📆 Apply by 20th April Apply here: buff.ly/C8UtZ2n

We are seeking an IT Apprentice to assist us in delivering a robust digital infrastructure that our diverse scientific initiatives depend upon. Apply here by 20 April: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/it-appr...

Engineering Biology Symposium & Forum - Register and submit your abstract for a chance to win up to £500 to support conference registration and expenses. More information: www.engbio.cam.ac.uk/events/engbi...

Just 4 days left to submit your abstract for the Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 🌱 Join us in Cambridge (22–24 Sept) to share your work on plant morphogenesis — talks & posters all welcome. 🗓 Deadline: 30 March 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la... Don’t miss out! #SLS26 #PlantScience #plantsci

Don't miss the next RNA Club session on the 26th March! @cambiochem.bsky.social

EngBio ECRs Meetup returns Mon 20 April! 🎉 12-1pm. Two great talks: 🔬 Holly Bachas Brook – 3D eccrine sweat gland-on-chip 🧪 Fatma Mihoubi – Nucleotide & peptide diversity in coacervate protocells Hear new research and connect with fellow ECRs. All wellcome. 👉 Sign up buytickets.at/engineeringb...

This was such an inspirational visit to the @cambiochem.bsky.social (thanks to @ericmiska.bsky.social & Ulrika Yuan for inviting & hosting), and then informally catching up with @trayon.bsky.social + lab @babrahaminst.bsky.social and Juliette Fedry @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social! Science is fun!

Calling all colleagues with teenagers. Join us on Saturday 28 March, 2pm-3.30pm in the Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building for our #CamFest event on how AI can be applied to big questions in Biochemistry for ages 12+. All welcome, book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biochemist...

Don't miss today's RNA Club! At Sanger Building @cambiochem.bsky.social , 26th Feb 16:30h!

📢 Don’t miss the next Cancer Biology and Medicine talk tomorrow! Machine learning applications to cancer Dr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar 📅 Thurs 26 February, 9:30-10:30 📍Theo Chalmers lecture theatre, School of Clinical Medicine All welcome! @cambridge-scm.bsky.social

🎤🍕Cafe Synthetique is back! Mon 2 Mar,6pm Join Gabriela Guedes, Joel Roca & Gorjan Stojanovski for talks on #proteins #nanomedicine #plastic-eatingenzymes 🧫 🎟️Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/engin... @hollfelderlab.bsky.social @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social @cambiochem.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

At the #GlWoBr my department @cambiochem.bsky.social hosted, I was one of the panelist’s and had the chance to reflect on my career path. Thanks to @claudiabonfio.bsky.social lab organising it and to a live illustrator (paraphrase.studio) capturing our conversation, this lovely sketch came out 🥰

What if RNA–DNA hybrids don’t just form in the nucleus… but trigger immune responses from the cytoplasm? Join us on 26th Feb 4 pm at @cambiochem.bsky.social for Magdalena Crossley's talk and dive into the fascinating world of R-loops, genome regulation & innate immunity

Special guest lecture by Professor Bill DeGrado on '𝘋𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘰 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘨-𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘝𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴'. 📅 5 March 2026 | ⏲️ 12:00 📍 Department of Pharmacology Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/special-ph... @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk