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Nik Copeland

@nikcopeland.bsky.social
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Dad, scientist, DNA enthusiast and cancer research at Lancaster University.

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Nik Copeland @nikcopeland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Paper Alert! Here is a new paper from our group published in @narjournal.bsky.social from the excellent efforts of James Tollitt funded by NWCR. Please take a look: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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CIZ1 regulates G1 length and the CDK threshold for initiation of DNA replication to prevent DNA replication stress
Abstract. Eukaryotic cell division is regulated by CDK activity that must reach critical CDK threshold levels to progress through cell cycle stages. In low
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Nik Copeland @nikcopeland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Paper Alert! Here is a new paper from our group published in @narjournal.bsky.social from the excellent efforts of James Tollitt funded by NWCR. Please take a look: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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CIZ1 regulates G1 length and the CDK threshold for initiation of DNA replication to prevent DNA replication stress
Abstract. Eukaryotic cell division is regulated by CDK activity that must reach critical CDK threshold levels to progress through cell cycle stages. In low
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Lucy Jackson-Jones @lucyhjackson-j.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The first pre-print from our @blslancasteruni.bsky.social collaboration linking #parasitology, #metabolism #neuroscience #behaviour and #immunology is now online www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... PhD work from @chloebarnes.bsky.social & Dr Nadin Fathallah #Trypanosomes #Immunometabolism
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Lucy Jackson-Jones @lucyhjackson-j.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We’re excited to have a fully funded PhD available starting in October >> Please direct any excellent MSc/MRes students interested in innate immunity, molecular biology and initiation of cancer to our project: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... @unterholznerlab.bsky.social @blslancasteruni.bsky.social
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Investigating chronic inflammation caused by asbestos-like fibres as a driver of mesothelioma at Lancaster University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Investigating chronic inflammation caused by asbestos-like fibres as a driver of mesothelioma at Lancaster University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Biomedical and Life Sciences - Lancaster University @blslancasteruni.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We’re delighted to host Dr Natalie Kenny, multi-award-winning scientist and CEO/founder of BioGrad, for a special guest lecture. #Biotech #CellTherapy #RegenerativeMedicine #STEMEducation #ScienceInnovation
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Simon Cook @drsimoncook.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I’m really pleased to share the link to a new Cook Lab paper published today in Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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RAF inhibitors activate the integrated stress response by direct activation of GCN2 - Nature Communications
Three BRAF inhibitors are used to treat melanoma and colorectal cancer. Here, the authors demonstrate that these drugs bind and activate the protein kinase GCN2, a previously unappreciated off-target ...
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Béla Novák (1956–2025) – a legacy of scientific discovery and personal charm Alexis Barr, Francis Barr and John Tyson remember Béla Novák. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Professor Béla Novák. Photo credit: Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.
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Menzies Lab @menzieslab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🚨 Funded PhD Studentship 🚨 Antibody Engineering & Plant Molecular Farming for Aquaculture Health 📍 Lancaster & Glasgow | BBSRC NWBio DTP 🗓 Apply by 21 Nov 2025 👉 Engineer antibodies vs Vibrio 👉 Develop rapid diagnostics 👉 Explore plant-based biologics for fish health
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Alessandro Costa @costalaboratory.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study 1. initiation of DNA replication. 2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance. Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists. Deadline 3 August 2025. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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Simon Cook @drsimoncook.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Is this a reference to its Kcat? (If you ‘get’ this there may be a place for you in the Cook lab!😉)
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 22/05/2025
A 4% pay uplift, less than current inflation, is an insult to doctors in England. This Government has shown it simply doesn’t value doctors.   “The DDRB has failed doctors. If this is the best they can do, government needs to think again” says @drphilbanfield.bsky.social
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Gavin Thomas (he/him) @gavinhthomas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Got any great final year students who love the bench but don't (yet) want to do a PhD? I'm looking for a research technician to join our amazing AVERT team for the last 2 years of the project - a great chance to develop lab skills while supporting our team in York. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Final week for the early bird deadline for the Small G-protein meeting in Manchester. Talk slots available from submitted abstracts. #SGP25 @BiochemSoc @SmallGTPases Register here: bit.ly/SmallG25
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Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease 2025
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Nik Copeland @nikcopeland.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A friend is running the London marathon in memory of her sister. I let her in the lab earlier to make a TikTok…I was fun but a little out of my comfort zone
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding
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Biomedical and Life Sciences - Lancaster University @blslancasteruni.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Campus in the City is taking place NOW at More Music in #Morecambe! Come and learn about #DNA and discover how #biology helps solve crimes. #CITC2025 #SparkYourCuriosity #LoveLancaster #CultureLancaster #MBCultureResearch
Dr Lucy Jackson-Jones holding a cardboard 'campus in the city' frame and a pipette
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Unterholzner Lab @unterholznerlab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We have written a News&Views piece in @natsmb.nature.com on a recent paper by @buissonlab.bsky.social. Their work adds transcription stress to the landscape of danger signals detected by the innate immune system. Link for free access here: rdcu.be/ehkTV
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Transcription stress causes an inflammatory response via release of IL-1α
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - DNA damage can be sensed as a danger signal by the innate immune system. Bournique et al. show that the transcription stress caused by DNA lesions can...
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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology @natsmb.nature.com · 11/04/2025
New online: Transcription stress causes an inflammatory response via release of IL-1α
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Transcription stress causes an inflammatory response via release of IL-1α
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41594-025-01525-5DNA damage can be sensed as a danger signal by the innate immune system. Bournique et al. show that the transcription stress caused by DNA lesions can also initiate inflammation by causing the direct release of cytokine IL-1α, which then drives NF-κB activation in neighboring cells.
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Biomedical and Life Sciences - Lancaster University @blslancasteruni.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Huge congratulations to two of our lecturers Dr Sana Hannan @sanahannan.bsky.social and Dr Katerina Gatsiou who have been awarded funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard programme @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 (1/4) 🧪
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Unterholzner Lab @unterholznerlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Pre-print alert! Together with @stapleslab.bsky.social and @cejkalab.bsky.social we find that IFI16 binds to stalled replication forks where it acts as innate immune sensor for replication stress, and protects the nascent DNA from degradation. 👇👇
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Alexis Barr @alexisbarr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Excited to announce the Emerging Innovators Fellowship for outstanding scientists of black heritage @mrc-lms.bsky.social If you’re interested in applying & have a passion for cell cycle control or quiescence, do get in touch Please circulate!
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stapleslab.bsky.social @stapleslab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Pls repost. Postdoc role on post-replicative ssDNA gap processing. Interesting models that should float replication aficionados boats. DM or c.staples@bangor.ac.uk for info. Until Dec26 but will strive for funding to provide continuity. Fantastic place to live+work www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMG682/r...
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Biomedical and Life Sciences - Lancaster University @blslancasteruni.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Exciting #PhD opportunity to synthesise & test novel PROTACs/Targeted Protein Degraders for #Alzheimer's disease. Collaboration between María Paz Muñoz, Neil Dawson, Ed Parkin and @fieldinglab.bsky.social 🧪https://www.findaphd.com/phds/programme/natural-sciences-phd-opportunities/?p6417
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Natural Sciences PhD opportunities at Lancaster University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Programme - Natural Sciences PhD opportunities at Lancaster University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Biomedical and Life Sciences - Lancaster University @blslancasteruni.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
@wormegeddon.bsky.social
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Nik Copeland @nikcopeland.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
But, what about the banana bread!
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Hasan Yardimci @hyardimci.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A new PhD position is available in my lab to explore DNA replication mechanisms using single-molecule approaches. Apply by 19th of March: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Yardimci Lab | Single-molecule visualisation of the eukaryotic replication machinery
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Andrew Maclean @macleanlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Excited to start my lab at the University of Edinburgh studying sulfur metabolism in apicomplexan parasites. Kindly supported by an MRC Career Development Award. Watch this space for job opportunities!
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Dewar Lab @dewarlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🧬Fully funded PhD opportunity🔬Interested in the weird and wonderful #mitochondria in #parasites? This could be for you! 🌍 @blslancasteruni.bsky.social a UK Top 3 Biomedical Sciences Department 📌UK-based students only ⏱️Deadline 28th March 📮More info and to apply👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Staying alive: how do trypanosome parasite mitochondria deal with stress? at Lancaster University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Staying alive: how do trypanosome parasite mitochondria deal with stress? at Lancaster University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Andrew Fielding @fieldinglab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Great to see our paper in @emboreports.org ! Collaboration between Prof Judy Coulson at Liverpool and ourselves @blslancasteruni.bsky.social. Many thanks to North West Cancer Research for funding! And congratulations to the team! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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SheinerLab @sheinerlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🔊one week left👇
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Dr-Rach @dr-rach.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Our BLS postgraduate students and I attended Scotforth St Paul’s primary school today to make ‘snot’ (bacteria-defensive mucus), learn about digestion and the importance of taking care of our microbiota. @blslancasteruni.bsky.social
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Biomedical and Life Sciences - Lancaster University @blslancasteruni.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Our department now hosts two labs with interests in #snakebite – Steve Hall Lab and @menzieslab.bsky.social. Snakebite is a global health crisis that affects millions annually. Conventional antivenom, the only currently available treatment, has severe limitations. #WorldNTDDay #BeatNTDs (1/3)
photo of a green mamba
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Lucy Jackson-Jones @lucyhjackson-j.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Can anyone recommend free or reasonably priced (but functional) laboratory management software? For bookings, collating usage information and calculating charges? Would be ideal if it can also support colony management… Thanks! #immunosky #researchmanagement
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Menzies Lab @menzieslab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
First post on BlueSky - sharing our latest paper! So thrilled to have been part of this exciting collaboration - using AI to design new protein-based therapeutics for #snakebite 🐍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins - Nature
Deep learning methods have been used to design proteins that can neutralize the effects of three-finger toxins found in snake venom, which could lead to the development of safer and more accessible an...
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Ilan davis @ilandavis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Important to support the societies that manage publications at the face of the onslaught from the commercial rivals.
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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
It's @biologists.bsky.social Centenary and I am really looking forward to their Biologists@100 meeting in Liverpool. For cell biology folk, the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting is incorporated and there are lots of great speakers. See you there?
Poster for the meeting showing photos of Liverpool's waterfront and a list of keynote speakers.
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Lucy Jackson-Jones @lucyhjackson-j.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Our division of biomedical and life sciences at Lancaster University is now on bsky- give the profile a follow to keep up to date with what we are up to: bsky.app/profile/blsl...
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Karen Wright @iamkarenwright.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
What do you think about access to medical cannabis in the UK? Here’s your chance to help us understand your view anonymously. It also helps my student learn how to analyse and interpret the opinions from across all the regions, so please share widely with friends and family.
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Nik Copeland @nikcopeland.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Not sure if there are PhG applicants on here, but if there are there is an information event for UKRI funded PhD projects at northwest Bio here. Please sign up if interested. t.co/yIgIyelZFP
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Chris Mulligan @chrismulligan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Really happy to share our latest work in its final form in @jgenphysiol.bsky.social on the characterisation of a TAXI TRAP binding protein from V. cholerae. shorturl.at/88tdH This work was led by SoCoBio DTP student Joe Davies (not on Bluesky yet) and was really fun to work on.
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Structure and selectivity of a glutamate-specific TAXI TRAP binding protein from Vibrio cholerae | Journal of General Physiology | Rockefeller University Press
Bacterial TAXI-TRAP transporters are widespread but poorly understood. Davies et al. characterize a TAXI from Vibrio cholerae, revealing its glutamate spec
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Nik Copeland @nikcopeland.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I used to use Twitter as a news aggregation tool and to see expert opinion. This place is closer to that ideal than the other place. Hopefully it continues to grow.
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Nik Copeland @nikcopeland.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Update: I have a UKRI fully funded PhD studentship in my lab working with Prof. Helen Walden and Dr Panos Kotsantis. If you are interested in ubiquitin signalling and cell cycle regulation/DNA replication stress, please take a look! www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Identification and characterisation of the ubiquitin lig...
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Nik Copeland @nikcopeland.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
I have a 4 year fully funded PhD position in collaboration with Prof Helen Walden (Glasgow) and Dr Panos Kotsantis. If you are interested in cell cycle regulation and ubiquitin signalling, this could be for you. www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Identification and characterisation of the ubiquitin lig...
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Nik Copeland @nikcopeland.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,219,934!
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