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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 18h

#WIMMinFocus 🧪 New for Wednesdays: we are unpacking some of the terms you often hear in biomedical research. First up: patient samples. Studying donated samples helps researchers understand disease and develop new therapies. #SciComm #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 06/10/2026

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Bora Özcan, a DPhil student jointly supervised by the Chakraverty and Davies Groups at #MRCWIMM. His research uses CRISPR based platforms to explore how DNA and gene activity are regulated. @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 24/09/2026

On #WorldCancerResearchDay, #MRCWIMM celebrates the researchers working to advance our understanding of #cancer and improve outcomes for patients. We are proud to be part of a global research community driving progress in cancer research. 🧬🧪 #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 16/09/2026

#WIMMinFocus Not science fiction. A 3D printed flow cell designed to recreate fluid flow around bone marrow organoids 🧪 The Matrix by Avery Buchanan Artwork and Illustration runner up, 2026 WIMM Image Competition. #SciComm #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 07/09/2026

🩸 September is #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth. Over 40,000 people are diagnosed with blood cancer each year in the UK. Throughout September, we’ll highlight #BloodCancerResearch taking place at the #MRCWIMM & the people behind it. @rdm.ox.ac.uk @bloodcanceruk.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 02/09/2026

#WIMMinFocus Not all flowers grow in a garden. 🧪 This bouquet is made from fluorescent Salmonella strains used to study infection. Salmonella in Bloom by Anna Aulicino Laboratory Photography runner up, 2026 WIMM Image Competition. #SciComm #AcademicSky @ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 26/08/2026

Happy #InternationalDogDay! 🐶💙 Meet some of the dogs that brighten our #WIMMCommunity. Do you have a canine companion? Feel free to share a picture with us in the comments. 🐾 #DogsOfWIMM #LifeAtWIMM #AcademicSky🧪 @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 19/08/2026

#WIMMinFocus A butterfly-shaped map traces the complex journey of gut development🧪 Metamorphosis by @vywien-lai.bsky.social was runner-up in the Data Visualisation category of the 2026 WIMM Image Competition. #SciComm #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 07/08/2026

That’s a wrap on Work Experience 2026! After two weeks exploring haematology, genome engineering and life in our labs, our students finished today with group presentations and certificates of completion. Congratulations to them all, and a huge thank you to everyone at WIMM who made it possible! 👏

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 05/08/2026

#WIMMinFocus A 3D printed skull model casts a shadow with an unexpected message. 🧪 Of Mice and Men: Casting Light on Development by Lisa Leinhos, winner of the Laboratory Photography category in the 2026 #WIMMImageCompetition. #SciComm #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 04/08/2026

#ScientistSpotlight This week we’re featuring Ye Wei, a Postdoctoral Scientist at the #MRCWIMM. Ye Wei works at the interface of #AI and genomics, building deep learning models that learn from the lab’s high resolution Micro Capture C data to reveal how the genome folds in three dimensions.

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 31/07/2026

Week one ✔️ Our 2026 #WorkExperience students from state schools across Oxfordshire have explored genetics and haematology, spent time in their host labs, and even learnt about blood cells through an interactive card game! 🩸🧬🧪 Bring on week two! 👏 @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 28/07/2026

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Noushin Zibandeh , a Senior Postdoctoral Scientist in the Fugger Lab at the #MRCWIMM. @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 27/07/2026

We’re delighted to welcome sixth form students from state schools across Oxfordshire for our 2026 Work Experience Programme! 👋 Today kicked off with Karen’s induction session. Over the next two weeks, students will explore our labs, meet our researchers and discover what life at WIMM is all about. 🧬

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 22/07/2026

#WIMMinFocus Not every scientific image comes from a microscope. 🧪 Painted in #MRCWIMM ’s signature pink and blue, this artwork was inspired by the fluorescent droplets produced during cell sorting. A Drop of Fluorescence by Natalie Ng 2026 WIMM Image Competition #ScienceArt #AcademicSky

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 17/07/2026

Happy #WorldEmojiDay! Every organisation has its favourites… and these are ours: 🧪🧬☕ What’s your most used emoji? Let us know in the comments. 👇 @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky #MRCWIMM

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 07/07/2026

#ScientistSpotlight🧪 This week we’re featuring Wei-Che Chang, a #DPhil student at the #MRCWIMM. @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 05/07/2026

Happy Birthday, NHS! 💙 And a heartfelt thank you to everyone across the #NHS for your dedication, compassion and commitment to improving lives every day. 🧪 @medsci.ox.ac.uk @rdm.ox.ac.uk @england.nhs.uk #NHSBirthday #ThankYouNHS #Healthcare

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 05/07/2026

Happy #LGBTQ+STEMDay! Today we celebrate the diversity that drives discovery and the inclusive spaces that help innovation flourish. #DiversityInSTEM #EquityInSTEM #InclusionInSTEM 🌈

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 01/07/2026

#WIMMinFocus This is not abstract art. It is the closest view ever captured of human #DNA 🧪 Aurora Alpha by Hangpeng Li, winner of the Data Visualisation category in the 2026 #WIMMImageCompetition. #Genomics #SciComm #AcademicSky

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 30/06/2026

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Balraj Sandhar, a translational immunologist and postdoctoral researcher in the Dong Group at the #MRCWIMM. #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk 🧬

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 29/06/2026

#MethodMonday 🧪 Behind the scenes of single cell OMICS at the #MRCWIMM The Advanced Single Cell OMICS Facility provides end to end support for single cell, bulk RNAseq, and spatial transcriptomics and proteomics projects, from sample preparation to sequencing and analysis. #AcademicSky

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 22/06/2026

#MethodMonday 🧬 What do we use single cell OMICS for? The facility supports a wide range of technologies and applications, including: 👉 Continued in the comments. #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 16/06/2026

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Verena Lentsch, an SNSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Simmons Group at the #MRCWIMM. 🧬 @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 15/06/2026

#MethodMonday 🧪 How does single cell OMICS work? 1. Cells or nuclei are isolated from tissues and QC. 2. Individual cells are captured and barcoded. 3. RNA, DNA, or proteins are analysed separately for each cell. @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky #SingleCell #scRNAseq #Multiomics

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 11/06/2026

#WIMMinFocus 🧪 Can AI help us understand how T cells recognise their targets? Hashem Koohy and David Gfeller explore interpretable AI, T cell recognition, and the future of computational immunology. 👉 bit.ly/4uxKkFj #Immunology #AI #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @hkoohy.bsky.social

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 09/06/2026

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re delighted to feature Pramila Rijal. Pramila is a Principal Investigator at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford #AkademicSky #Immunology #InfluenzaResearch #Vaccines #AntibodyResearch #InfectiousDisease #EarlyCareerResearch #MRCWIMM

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 04/06/2026

We’re hiring a Biomarker Specialist to join the Therapy Acceleration Laboratory (TAL) at the #MRCWIMM. Join a friendly and supportive team working across Molecular Biology, Flow Cytometry and Biobanking. Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4at8hq9 #AcademicSky 🧪

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 03/06/2026

Day 2 at the Cheltenham Science Festival! Lots of great conversations, plenty of visitors, and only one brief evacuation yesterday, courtesy of the British summer weather... ⚡☔ #CheltenhamScienceFestival #TargetedTherapies #BritishSummer

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 02/06/2026

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Emily Neil, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the #MRCWIMM Emily is working on a particularly aggressive and treatment resistant subtype of childhood B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B ALL), defined by the TCF3::HLF gene fusion.

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 02/06/2026

#CheltenhamScienceFestival starts today! 🎉 You can find us in the Discover Zone at our Targeted Therapies stand throughout the week. Come and say hello if you’re visiting the festival. We look forward to meeting you! 🧪 #TargetedTherapies @cheltenhamfestival.bsky.social @rdm.ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 01/06/2026

#MethodMonday Behind the scenes of High Performance Computing at #MRCWIMM The technology is powerful, but it’s the people behind it that make it work. @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 28/05/2026

Today is #WorldBloodCancerDay 🩸 Every 35 seconds, someone in the world is diagnosed with a blood #cancer such as #lymphoma or #leukaemia. At #MRCWIMM, many of our researchers are working to better understand blood cancers and develop new approaches to treatment and care. #AcademicSky🧪

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 26/05/2026

Vy is also the winner of the 2025 WIMM Image Competition with her striking work Jurassic Gut. #WIMMSpotlight #WIMMCommunity #SpatialTranscriptomics #GutBiology #NECResearch

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 19/05/2026

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Svea Wupper. Svea first joined the WIMM from January to March 2023 as a Master’ student, completing a lab rotation. In October 2024, she returned as a #PhD student to work in the laboratory of Jan Rehwinkel. #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 18/05/2026

#MethodMonday 🧪 How does HPC work for us? 1️⃣ Data is securely uploaded to our petabyte-scale storage system 2️⃣ Jobs are queued and dispatched to multiple compute servers 3️⃣ Each job is processed with the requested resources (CPU, GPU, RAM, etc) 4️⃣ Results and trail records are made available

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 12/05/2026

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week, we’d like to give a special shout-out to Dr Kevin Rue-Albrecht who was recently awarded a 12-month BioFAIR Pathfinder project! @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @kevinrue.bsky.social #AcademicSky

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 11/05/2026

At the #MRCWIMM, HPC enables researchers to: • Reconstruct genomes from terabytes of fragments • Process thousands of cells in transcriptomics and imaging workflows • Train and apply AI models to complex genomic data • Collaborate on large shared datasets and reproducible pipelines

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 11/05/2026

#MethodMonday 🧪 New month, new method: High Performance Computing What does High Performance Computing enable in biomedical research? @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 11/05/2026

#Research can be exciting and rewarding, but it can also be demanding. As #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek begins, this is a good moment to check in with ourselves and with the people around us. Mental health matters. YOU matter. @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky #MentalHealth 🧪

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 08/05/2026

Each year, around 324,000 women worldwide are diagnosed with #OvarianCancer, highlighting the need for continued progress in detection and treatment. At #MRCWIMM, we are proud to support research advancing our understanding of #cancer and improving outcomes for patients. #WorldOvarianCancerDay 🧪

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 04/05/2026

#MethodMonday What happens after DNA is edited? The Genome Engineering Facility generates engineered immortalised cell lines, primary cells, and stem cells of different origins. They also support the generation of transgenic models, including complex models.

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 29/04/2026

Every day, our immune system is making countless decisions, recognising threats, and keeping a careful balance. That understanding comes from years of careful work, collaboration, and persistence. Happy #InternationalDayofImmunology 🧪 #AcademicSky #Immunology #Research #Oxford #MRCWIMM

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 29/04/2026

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 We’d like to highlight Dr Dagmara Korona this week, whose work in the Clinical Genetics Group is helping to advance our understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying human craniofacial disorders. #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

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