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Helen Foster @helenfoster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

There are lots of exciting opportunities to join the in situ structural biology community at Leeds this Autumn - 2 studentships in the Cheney PhD program (astbury.leeds.ac.uk/cheney-phd/) and I am recruiting a PhD student and research assistant. Please share and send any future tomographers our way!

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Cheney Scholarship PhD Programme : The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology - "Understanding Life in Molecular Detail"

Applications are open for 2 PhD student places. Closing date for applications is Thursday 26 June, 5pm. Interviews will be held on 9th July 2026. The Cheney Scholarship is a prestigious 4-year PhD pr...

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Ferdos Abid Ali @abidalilab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Great to see this out in its final form - congrats all on such a brilliant collaboration! 🎉

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Clinton Lau @ckylau.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Check out our first lab preprint: A real team effort to understand the Plasmodium GAPM proteins, which form part of a essential bridge between the parasite's cytoskeleton and motility apparatus. Below is a sneak peek of some beautiful microscopy - light and electron! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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(GIRISH)MALI LAB @dyneinassembly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Happy to share our latest work spearheaded by super talented PhD student Muyang Ren now out as a bioRxiv preprint. 'Motile ciliophagy promotes ciliary recycling under stress' www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Carter Lab @carter-lab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Excited to share our work on the structure and function of cytoplasmic lattices within mouse embryos. A collaborative effort with @niakanlab.bsky.social and work led by @kashishsingh.bsky.social and @inaharasimov.bsky.social . It is now out on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Carter Lab @carter-lab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New preprint from the lab, looking at how multiple different adaptors interact with dynein! Work led by @amicoennio.bsky.social. Available now on BioRxiv: doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Helen Foster @helenfoster.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Very happy to say that our work on how axonemes are generated is now available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - if you’ve ever wondered how the incredibly beautiful, complex structures within motile #cilia are constructed then this is for you!

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adam grieve @adamgrieve.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Add our first pre-print to your reading list? Using AF2 and MD, we've characterised structures and conformational ensembles of human rhomboid proteases - and revealed some surprises along the way. Feel v.lucky to work alongside Bryony & @robincorey.bsky.social! Please share: tinyurl.com/3h8r7f5y

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(GIRISH)MALI LAB @dyneinassembly.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The annual Dunn School DPhil studentship competition for 2026 is open for applications. We have a project aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms of ciliary dynein transport. See details below and please pass on to anyone who might be interested. www.path.ox.ac.uk/project/mech...

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Mechanistic studies on axonemal dynein transport to motile cilia - Dunn School

Over 30 groups work at the Dunn School to uncover the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying disease. Discover which research groups are accepting students for our next round of applications.

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Carter Lab @carter-lab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Excited to share our latest work with @simonbullock11.bsky.social! We looked at how diverse mRNAs get selected for subcellular localization and it turns out that a single protein can recognize different RNA elements using shared features that weren’t apparent before. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Suyang Zhang @suyangzhang.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Excited to share our latest work! We found transcription factor SPT6 and phosphorylated Pol II CTD help recruit U1 snRNP to elongating Pol II, allowing efficient co-transcriptional splicing. Glad to be featured in the Editors’ Highlights! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #splicing #cryoEM

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Kat Toropova @kattoropova.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia. Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease? Find out more and apply: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Ferdos Abid Ali @abidalilab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Great to see our story on dynein & kinesin co-dependence published www.nature.com/articles/s41..., and absolutely chuffed that it's made the front cover (thanks NSMB!). A brilliant News & Views too by Steven Markus www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Collab between @carter-lab.bsky.social & Straube lab🔬

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Ferdos Abid Ali @abidalilab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Huge congrats both - so good to see this out in final form @chrisvanhoorn after all the meticulous and clever ways you approached this beast of an organelle. Stunning 🤩

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.

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Closing the scissor-shaped curve: Strategies to promote gender equality in academia

Gender inequality in STEM fields remains pervasive and undermines the ability for talented individuals to excel. Despite advances, women still encounter obstacles in pursuing academic careers and reac...

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Jessica Cross @jessicacross.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Please share this PhD opportunity in my new lab in Bristol, using protein design/ engineering to understand and build molecular motors to control intracellular transport. Working with @markdodding.bsky.social and Prof Dek Woolfson. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.swbio.ac.uk/biomolecular...

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adam grieve @adamgrieve.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Can I ask you to share a PhD advert at Bristol Uni please? Rhomboid proteases play a role in neurons that is essential for life- but it is not characterised. Got a student interested in cell biology, electrophysiology and neurobiology? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/56f24f7c

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Ferdos Abid Ali @abidalilab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A huge achievement - congrats to all! 🥳

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Ferdos Abid Ali @abidalilab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If you’re interested in how molecular motors coordinate to power intracellular trafficking events (e.g. endocytosis), I’ve got a PhD position available to study this at vibrant Bristol uni. In this project, we will capture highly dynamic events by #cryoEM, single molecule imaging & cell biology. 🔬❄️🧪

This scheme shows the cargo adaptor FHF in the middle with arrows pointing to distinct microtubule and actin-based motors (dynein-dynactin, KIFC1, KIF1C and myosins V, IX and X as well as Tropomyosin 1). It also shows a link to Rab5 marked early endosomes. The hypothesis is that FHF coordinates multi motor binding at the early stages of endocytosis. The PhD project would address the hierarchy of motor binding and how these motors coordinate to allow the newly formed vesicle to transition from the actin to MT cytoskeletal network.

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Marc van der Kamp @marcvanderkamp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

International Day of LGBQTIA+ People in STEM is TODAY! 🏳️‍🌈 And for those in Bristol (@bristoluni.bsky.social), check out the LGBTQ+ STEM mini-conference on Wednesday in C42 (BMS building), 1-5pm. Register via: forms.office.com/e/LxuMpa6nQF

0th of November 2024, we will be celebrating LGBTQ+ in STEM day in style, with a mini-conference to showcase the research, roles and experience of our LGBTQ+ staff and students. The event will be taking place in C42 in the Biomedical Sciences Building from 1-5pm.

The event will feature a plenary talk from Sarah Cosgriff on Asexuality in STEM, before talks from staff and students in STEM departments in the university, sharing perspectives on their research, roles or study area alongside personal insights, stories or experience of being LGBTQ+ in the field of STEM.

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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

BSCB Women in #CellBiology prize 🧪 Deadline extended (15th Nov) The deal: UK-based scientist, running lab for < 7 years with 1+ senior author publication. Do you know someone who should be nominated? Maybe it's you? Details (a bit out of date): bscb.org/competitions...

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Women in Cell Biology Early Career Award Medal | British Society for Cell Biology

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Harry Low’s Lab @lowlab.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

❗️Exciting science alert!! Come join us at the BCA Winter Meeting at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, 6th December. Short talks available - a great opportunity for early career researchers to present.. bit.ly/4fDEqfZ

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MRC-LMB Cell Biology Division @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This year’s UK Membrane Trafficking Meeting is on Dec 16th at King’s College London (Guy’s Campus, London Bridge). Registration closes 9th December. Sign up is here. estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-... Thanks go to @J_Cell_Sci for sponsoring student/postdoc prizes!

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UK Membrane Trafficking Meeting 2024 | King's College London eStore

Registration for the 2024 UK Membrane Trafficking Meeting, held at KCL.  Registration per person, to include sandwich lunch and coffee breaks and even

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