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Walko Lab

@walkolab.bsky.social
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We are a research lab of skin and oral biology enthusiasts led by Dr Gernot Walko. Fascinated about stem cells, squamous cell carcinoma, and Hippo/YAP/TAZ signalling. Based at @blizardinstitute.bsky.social @qmul-coirm.bsky.social. All opinions our own.

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Susi Bantele @sbantele.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲?Excited to share our new study “Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function”, revealing DNA repair’s hidden cost, out now @science.org tinyurl.com/5n6zw3ye. Led by @sbantele.bsky.social and Jiri Lukas.🧵👇1/n
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Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function
Upon DNA breakage, a genomic locus undergoes alterations in three-dimensional chromatin architecture to facilitate signaling and repair. Although cells possess mechanisms to repair damaged DNA, it is ...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/06/2025
The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt— a complex geological sequence in northeastern Canada—harbors surviving fragments of Earth’s oldest crust, dating back to ~4.16 billion years old, according to a new Science study. Learn more: scim.ag/3FXN8sq
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Evidence for Hadean mafic intrusions in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, Canada
Many questions remain regarding Earth’s earliest crust owing to the rarity of Hadean (>4.03 billion-year-old) rocks and minerals. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB) in Canada may be the only known...
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bioRxiv Molecular Biology @biorxiv-molbio.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Targeted p63 isoform switch corrects dominant mutations in AEC syndrome without disrupting epidermal homeostasis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Barts Centre for Squamous Cancer @bartssquamous.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Please join us for our 2025 mini-symposium on translational biomarkers and clinical prediction. www.qmul.ac.uk/bcsc/events/...
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Barts Centre for Squamous Cancer mini-symposium 2025 Translational biomarkers and clinical prediction.
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Cancer Research UK @cancerresearchuk.org · 15/04/2025
#InTheNews: Read in @reuters.com about how high UK visa fees for scientists are impacting our research institutes and our mission to beat cancer 👇 www.reuters.com/world/uk/hig...
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High UK visa costs deter international scientists and engineers
It took Ed Roberts over a year to find a senior scientist to work at his cancer research laboratory in Scotland, a delay he blames on high UK visa costs that made it harder to attract international workers.
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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#LocationLocationLocation! Wang Eisenstein Waizman @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social &co show @ Science Immunology that physical, chemical, & radiation skin damage induces IL33 activating ILC2 & transferring to distal barrier tissues the capacity to induce antibodies causing #allergic responses!
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Skin damage signals mediate allergic sensitization to spatially unlinked antigen
Skin injury releases damage-encoded systemic signals that can initiate immunity to novel antigens introduced at distal barrier sites.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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the JID Journal @thejidjournal.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Celebrating 20 Years of the International Pachyonychia Congenita Consortium. Read Coulombe et al's News & Perspective Commentary in the April issue. doi.org/10.1016/j.ji... #DermatologyJournal #dermatology #dermsky #dermatologists #dermresearch #dermscience #dermatologyresearch
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Nature @nature.com · 21/03/2025
Nature research paper: Matrix-producing neutrophils populate and shield the skin go.nature.com/4iJSgy5
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Matrix-producing neutrophils populate and shield the skin - Nature
A population of neutrophils in the skin produces extracellular matrix, providing a defence strategy by reinforcing the barrier properties of the skin and helping to block the entry of pathogens.
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 21/03/2025
📢 Calling all undergraduates looking for hands-on academic research experience! There’s still time to apply for the LMB’s Student Placement Scheme. Visit our website to learn more and get your applications in by 30th March. www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/stu...
Student Placement Scheme
Research internships available for undergraduate students
Apply by 30 March 2025
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A big thank you to Carsten Gram Hansen and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, Institute for Regeneration and Repair for hosting me. Really enjoyed my stay and learning all about the fantastic research in the Centre for Inflammation Research.
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JAMA @jama.com · 15/03/2025
A peptic ulcer is a break in the lining of the lower esophagus, stomach, or upper small intestine. This JAMA Patient Page describes peptic ulcers and their causes, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options. ja.ma/4bzikcU
Peptic Ulcer Disease
JAMA Patient Page
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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery @natrevdrugdiscov.nature.com · 14/03/2025
Wrestling with the RAS cancer drug pipeline tinyurl.com/54faf7kv Alice Shaw of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute discusses the newly launched Center for RAS Therapeutics and the key role of combination strategies in building on the initial breakthroughs with RAS inhibitors @danafarber.bsky.social
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Sarah Laskow @slaskow.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
NIH officials were told this morning that approximately 1,000 more grants would be targeted for termination www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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A Decade of Cuts in a Matter of Days
The Trump administration’s rapid terminations of NIH grants is its most aggressive attempt yet to control American science.
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Humberto Basilio @humbertobasilio.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨This week, many Columbia scientists lost grants that funded over half their annual income. Others will no longer be able to do research that helps treat thousands of sick patients across the US. "It hurts," they told me. My story for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts
The US government has begun slashing US$400 million in research grants at Columbia University over pro-Palestinian campus protests.
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It is shocking and saddening to see how the two former global science powerhouses, USA and UK are collapsing in front of our eyes. For different reasons, but ultimately it’s about politics in both cases.
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy #InternationalWomensDay2025 from a PI with an all-female team of fantastic scientists 🇫🇷🇸🇦🇮🇹🇬🇷
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 04/03/2025
The brain of a man who died nearly 2000 years ago was turned to glass by extreme conditions during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Researchers believe a super-heated ash cloud triggered the transformation. go.nature.com/3Dd0XBM Watch the video: go.nature.com/3Dt4pIt 🧪 🏺
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Vesuvius volcano turned this brain to glass
The brain of a man who died nearly 2000 years ago was turned to glass by extreme conditions during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Researchers studied the strange material found in the man’s skull and spine and deduced the presence of a super-heated ash cloud that would have caused the tissue to first liquify then rapidly cool into glass - a unique event that has even preserved some brain structures. Read the paper here: https://go.nature.com/4bnpr81 For more stories like these sign up for the Nature Briefing: An essential round-up of science news, opinion and analysis, free in your inbox every weekday: https://go.nature.com/371OcVF
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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
GIVE THEM TRUNKS YOU COWARDS www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice
Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I’ve been yearning to put in this out of office reply 😎
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Victoria Aranda @vicaranda.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We at Nature denounce this assault on science 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
QWENDY: Gene Regulatory Network Inference Enhanced by Large Language Model and Transformer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 04/02/2025
Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models - @nadavahituv.bsky.social go.nature.com/4gqhxvw
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Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models - Nature Biotechnology
Adipose manipulation transplantation can reduce tumor growth and proliferation in vitro and in mouse models.
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Postdocs and PhD students - the future of the US research - hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science 🧪 #academicSky #ECRs @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
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Jon Humphries @jdhl18.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Are PhDs losing their lustre? Why fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Are PhDs losing their lustre? Why fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees
High living costs paired with stagnant stipends are being blamed for a drop in PhD enrolments in several countries.
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Christoph Rademacher @chrrademacher.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Join the Molecular Drug Targeting Lab at the University of Vienna! I have a vacant postdoc position for a qualified candidate: either with a background in delivery technologies or immunology. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Science can be so much fun: trying to deposit a massive proteomics data set on PRIDE. Upload tool is JAVA-based (eye roll), and University does not allow JAVA install on IT managed device…
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Thanks a lot for having me @nucancer.bsky.social. I had a great time! Really enjoyed learning about all the exciting cancer research happening in this Northern powerhouse!
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M Smallman @melaniesmallman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sorry to hear this about @cardiffuni.bsky.social Losing 400 faculty means Cardiff Uni is now mostly employing administrators (they currently have 3660 admin to 3410) academics according to their website). At what point do you stop being an academic institution? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Cardiff University to cut 400 staff and drop subjects including nursing and music
Union describe reductions as ‘cruel’ as university says it will run out of money without changes
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Miguel Branco @brancolab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We are hiring! 3-year BBSRC-funded postdoc position available. TEs, epigenetics, pregnancy: if you love one or more of these keywords, apply through the link below. Please spread the word.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - QMUL Jobs
ID: 4897. Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate . Application Deadline:
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Nature Reviews Cancer @natrevcancer.nature.com · 17/01/2025
Conventional chemotherapy has successfully cured millions of cancers, yet its mechanism of action remains unclear. In this #Perspective, Letai & de The assess the proposed existing mechanisms, identify gaps in our understanding & suggest principles to improve chemotherapy utility. 📖👉 bit.ly/3C53w8g
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Conventional chemotherapy: millions of cures, unresolved therapeutic index - Nature Reviews Cancer
Conventional chemotherapy has successfully cured millions of patients with cancer, yet the mechanisms of action for this remain unclear. In this Perspective, Letai and de The assess the existing mecha...
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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Site-saturation mutagenesis of 500 human protein domains - Nature
Large-scale experimental analysis of Human Domainome 1, a library containing more than 500,000 missense mutation variants across more than 500 human protein domains, reveals that 60% of pathogenic mis...
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Shiv Grewal @grewalsh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🔬Decoding Silencing: How Heterochromatin Transcribes to Silence Itself! 🧬 Discover how a pioneer transcription factor-like complex infiltrates repressive heterochromatin, producing transcripts with hidden introns that kickstart RNAi-mediated heterochromatin formation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Elaine Fuchs Lab @thefuchslab.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Cancers may arise in tissues with a low mutational burden. It’s up to the microenvironment! We discussed this in @natrevcancer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Beyond genetics: driving cancer with the tumour microenvironment behind the wheel - Nature Reviews Cancer
In their Review article, Fuchs and colleagues discuss how a single or a few mutations in adult cells can lead to invasive cancers without a high mutational burden, demonstrating that non-genetic ...
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 01/01/2025
💫NEW by Lu, Bartek, Kanu & Swanton & co: analyses of data from the TRACERx cohort of #LungCancer patients delineate how FAT1 regulates homologous recombination repair, chromosomal instability & whole-genome doubling with distinct mechanisms. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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TRACERx analysis identifies a role for FAT1 in regulating chromosomal instability and whole-genome doubling via Hippo signalling - Nature Cell Biology
Lu et al. perform systematic functional analyses using data from the TRACERx cohort of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer and delineate how FAT1 regulates homologous recombination repair, chromo...
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Teif lab @teiflab.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Nucleosome spacing can fine-tune higher order chromatin assembly [labs of Rosana Collepardo-Guevara and Michael Rosen] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ▶️phase separation is decided by trade-off between inter- and intramolecular nucleosome stacking, favoured by 10N+5 and 10N bp linkers, respectively
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The Arp2/3 complex maintains genome integrity and survival of epidermal Langerhans cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Goal accomplished! First @walkolab.bsky.social PhD student project published as pre-print on (Austrian) Christmas Day 🥳
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Reschke lab @drrobinreschke.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
⚠️ Anti-PD1 therapy could serve as an effective systemic treatment for patients with basal cell nevus syndrome who are resistant to hedgehog inhibitors, leveraging the immune system to address new occurrences of basal cell carcinoma 💡🧠🔬. 🔗 Read the full study here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Use of Anti-PD1 Blockade After Hedgehog Inhibitors or as First-Line Therapy for Gorlin Syndrome
This case series examines treatment with anti–programmed cell death 1 (PD1) immunotherapy for patients with basal cell nevus syndrome.
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A single cell and spatial genomics atlas of human skin fibroblasts in health and disease www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
BMI1-mediated heterochromatinization represses G-quadruplex DNA formation to maintain genomic stability during replication www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Dynamic p21-dependency during quiescence arrest unveiled by a rapid p21 depletion system www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Nature @nature.com · 19/12/2024
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Do you want to come and do a PhD in beautiful Bath with @kevinpaine.bsky.social and me? Come and help us understand how to use bacteria to make bioconcrete. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Sara Zanivan @zanivanlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
If you are interested in joining our growing Lab of CAFs enthusiasts @mdanderson.bsky.social and to understand how CAF metabolism can be harnessed to modulate the immune-TME, we are looking for talented postdocs! 👇🏻 jobs.mdanderson.org/search/jobde...
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Experimental Therapeutics (Zanivan Lab) at MD Anderson
MD Anderson is Hiring! Search available jobs or submit your resume now by visiting this link. Please share with anyone you feel would be a great fit.
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
What a fun afternoon with this lovely bunch of scientists!
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bioRxiv Cancer Bio @biorxiv-cancer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Pan-cancer N-glycoproteomic atlas of patient derived xenografts uncovers FAT2 as a therapeutic target for head and neck cancers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Please tell this to UK universities 🙈
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Congratulations to Walko Lab research assistant Elodie Sins for being selected to join the “Project management for technicians” programmes from the Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy next year. So well deserved 😊
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Walko Lab @walkolab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Fantastic talk from @derm-scientist.bsky.social about CYLD cutaneous syndrome at the 2024 Skin@Bath symposium.
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