Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Join 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 000
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 26/01/2026We are pleased to welcome Prof Sir Jim Smith as the Institute's Interim Director. Read more 👇 0101
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 15/01/2026There 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 010
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Happy 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 050
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 23/12/2025NEWS | Researchers ‘listen in’ to embryo-mother interactions during implantation using a culture system replicating the womb lining www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/12... 151
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Christmas 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 100
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Or watch one of our videos covering daily visual checks, cage cleaning, health checks, and enrichment provision: www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research... 000
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 23/10/2025If you’re interested in seeing how we care for the mice, you can take a virtual tour of our animal facility: www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research... 100
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 23/10/2025It’s #AnimalStats day in the UK today. You can see our animal stats at any time on our website, as well as finding out how and why we use mice in our research. www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research... 130
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Interested 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-... 010
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 30/09/2025NEWS | 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 020
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 08/09/2025NEWS | Work just published by the Corcoran lab has described a mechanism estimated to be responsible for shaping the generation of up to half of all antibodies. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/09/institute-immunologists-new-process-antibody-diversity @annecorcoran.bsky.social 041
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 01/09/2025NEWS | We're delighted to welcome @diniscalado.bsky.social to the Institute as a senior group leader in our #immunology programme! The Calado lab works at the interface of immunity, #cancer, and #ageing. Learn more: www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/09... 170
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Exciting news for @ukproteostasis.bsky.social and for #proteostasis researchers across the UK! Funding from BBSRC will support the development of the UK Proteostasis network, including: - connecting & building the community to accelerate research - supporting ECRs www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07... 0135
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 30/07/2025✋Hands up who loves #FlowCytometry? Then enjoy learning about how our annual Spectral Flow Cytometry Symposium is becoming an unmissable event (and note the dates for 2026). www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07... 000
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 30/07/2025BLOG | We had the pleasure of hosting Tomasz, a PhD student from the University of Leeds as a PIPS placement. In our latest blog article he describes how his exposure to the world of tech transfer has made him look at his research in a different way. www.babraham.ac.uk/blog/Tomasz-... 010
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 22/07/2025We were honoured to host and hear from Tama Braithwaite-Westoby, Māori Engagement Advisor)/Tautotoro @malaghan.bsky.social for his seminar today: Innovating for Impact: Translating Immunology into Equitable Therapies for all in Aotearoa New Zealand. 020
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Learn more about #AnimalResearch: step inside and explore what a mouse facility looks like and how it operates with our 360 virtual tour. More information about how and why we use mice in research on our website too. www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research... 021
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This video, captured by Berta in the @trayon.bsky.social lab in collaboration with our Imaging facility, shows a mouse embryo dividing. This video allows researchers to visualise the events that happen before implantation at an early stage of development. 0153
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 11/07/2025AWARD NEWS | Following Simon's award for Contribution to Research in the #PapinPrizes, our article covers just a slice of Simon's impact on the Institute's research, on #bioinformatics and on empowering researchers across the world by demystifying data analysis. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07... 174
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 09/07/2025NEWS | Thanks to BBSRC investment #MassSpectrometry capabilities at the Institute have been boosted by new high-throughput instrument, the Thermo Orbitrap Astral mass spectrometer. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07... 150
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 09/07/2025This bowl of skittles means only one thing - our annual Spectral #FlowCytometry Symposium starts today! Missed out? Our facility offers training all year round: www.babraham.ac.uk/science-faci... 010
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 09/07/2025@drsimoncook.bsky.social is speaking at the #proteostasis session at #SEBconference this morning. In our feature, he describes how he's an "evangelist for discovery research" and the pipeline it feeds, and the Institute's growing strength in proteostasis. www.babraham.ac.uk/blog/2025/05... 030
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 08/07/2025At #SEBconference today, @delladavid-lab.bsky.social presented the group's research on understanding #ageing and protein aggregration. Della also played a key role in establishing the @ukproteostasis.bsky.social. She speaks about both themes in this feature. www.babraham.ac.uk/blog/2025/05... 030
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 07/07/2025This #MicroscopyMonday shows an image from research published last week. The images are of uveal melanoma cells showing the accumulation of lipid droplets in the absence of CDS2 (right), compared with cells with functional CDS2 (left). Lipid droplets are stained green with BODIPY™ 493/503. 011
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 04/07/2025NEWS: Research just published by scientists from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and collaborators, including cell signalling experts at the Institute, has identified a new drug target to treat an aggressive eye cancer, and possibly other cancers too. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/07... 010
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Institute researchers, spanning research groups and facilities, contributed foundational knowledge about APDS, PI3-Kinase signalling and methodology central to the characterisation of APDS and the development of treatments. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/06... 030
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 23/06/2025We were honoured to receive the Research Culture in Research Management award at #ARMA2025 last week for the Institute’s Culture Consultation project to embed team science in our work. Congratulations to all teams recognised by the awards: #ResearchCulture #Advocacy #Innovation #Management 040
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 03/06/2025It's #BOARD25. Current research projects at the Institute are using mice to understand: 🧬 how what we eat affects the activity of our genes 💊 the increased susceptibility to disease with age ⌛how biological timing is encoded in the genome Learn more: www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research... 021
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 02/06/2025This #MicroscopyMonday comes to you from behind the scenes where Aurora, PhD student in the McGough lab, is imaging fly guts to look at proliferating cells! @ianmcgough.bsky.social 030
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Yesterday, our postdoc Francesca Rossi gave a seminar on the complex interplay of RNA-binding proteins, epigenetics & metabolism in immune cells at Sapienza’s School for Advanced Studies (SSAS) in Rome, where she was enrolled during her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD at Sapienza University #ImmunoSky 040
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Happy 8 year anniversary for tomorrow @tech-commit.bsky.social! A great oppportunity to celebrate: - progress made through successive action plans, - our community of Technical Specialists, who are central to our research and operations, - coordinated national efforts and networks. 041
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Did you see this research from the Turner lab? The team published the first description of the role of the ZFP36 family of RNA binding proteins in regulatory T cells. A step towards understanding age-related inflammation. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/05... @martint-babraham.bsky.social #ImmunoSky 053
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 19/05/2025We're excited to be welcoming Prof Paul Workman as the next speaker in our distinguished lecture series! Paul will cover the 15-year rollercoaster journey to discover the cancer drug NXP800 and its mechanisms 🧪 Register now to join us on 12th June: www.babraham.ac.uk/seminars/202... 022
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 16/05/2025We're celebrating our superwoman of #FlowCytometry today - Head of our Flow Cytometry facility Rachael Walker who was Highly Commended in the Researcher of the Year category at the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards last night! 083
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 14/05/2025We're delighted to be retaining our Leader in Openness status. Take a look at our news item to learn about the progress we've made since our last Leader in Openness status renewal and thank you to everyone at the Institute who contributes to this important work. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/05... 062
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 02/05/2025That's the end of the Signalling Symposium and the end of an era. To quote Phill's closing words: "It's been a hell of a journey." Thank you to everyone for attending and making it such a fitting tribute. 0124
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 02/05/2025📢 Leaders of scientific facilities - read this perspective on change management in core facilities. Great piece on how to ensure the effective evolution of research facilities to meet external and internal change. Case studies: CEITEC, VIB & our Genomics facility 021
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 01/05/2025What's the collective noun for @biochemsoc.bsky.social Morton Prize winners? We gathered together as many as we could get our hands on, including newest recipient Len. From left to right: Phill Hawkins, Peter Cullen, Robin Irvine, Peter Parker, Roger Williams, Len Stephens and Bob Mitchell. 2154
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Welcome everyone who is joining us for our two day Cellular signals for health & disease symposium! We're kicking off today with Len Stephens delivering the Biochemical Society Morton Lecture: buff.ly/NF0oSjk 021
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Ahead of our celebratory symposium on 1-2 May to mark Len Stephen's and Phill Hawkins’s pioneering contributions to the PI3K signalling field, you might enjoy this feature with Len and Phill reflecting on their decades-long friendship, partnership – and fishing. www.babraham.ac.uk/blog/2021/11... 052
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 24/04/2025News from the Linterman lab - their comparison of B cell responses in the lung and lymph node showed the lung can support efficient B cell generated antibody development to the same extent as in the lymph node, albeit at a delay. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/04... 011
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Babraham Distinguished Lecture 👨🏫Join us next week for Prof Jason Chin's lecture on reprogramming the genetic code. Registration required ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/babraham-d... 🧪#MolBio 001
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 08/04/2025NEWS | We are delighted to congratulate our colleague Len Stephens on being awarded the 2026 Morton Lecture award from @biochemsoc.bsky.social for his outstanding contribution to lipid biochemistry #BiochemAwards www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/04... 230
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 03/04/2025📢Last chance to apply for the European B Cell Network Summer School, bringing together PhD students and postdocs with leading experts in B-cell immunology (inc. Kai-Michael Toellner). Event: 7–10 July in Lohr am Main, Germany Apply by: 7th April More info: www.b-cells.eu/ebcnet-2024-1 #ImmunoSky 011
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Thanks to our presenter @baptiste-piguet.bsky.social, PhD student in the @houseleylab.bsky.social, for delivering a session on neurodiversity today. Great primer offering the opportunity to learn and to consider preconceptions and the narrative around neurodiversity. 051
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025AAALAC accreditation has been renewed for our animal facility, following rigorous external assessment. We're proud of the teamwork behind this achievement and the recognition that our facility, including our animal welfare practices, meets international standards. www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/03... 162
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 07/03/2025As Head of Research Operations, Danielle plays a key role in delivering scientific success. Co-founder of the UK Research Facility Coordinators Network, Chair of the @eu-life.bsky.social Core Facilities Working Group, and now a BIE Board member— her leadership is championing best practice!👏 #IWD2025 041
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 07/03/2025We highlight Hanane Hadj-Moussa @houseleylab.bsky.social, recipient of the Korenchevsky from the @bsrageing.bsky.social! Her work is shaping our understanding of biological #ageing, and we are excited about her attendance at the American Aging Association this May. 🌟 #IWD2025 041
Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Laura Durrant is a champion for technical specialists! As Chair of our Technician Commitment Steering Group, she’s working to enhance visibility, recognition, and career growth for those who keep research moving forward. 🎯 #IWD2025 @tech-commit.bsky.social @uk-itss.bsky.social 041