Associate Professor of @U of Oxford and EMBO YIP Fellow. Also a friendly RNA biochemist passionate about viruses, plants, and coffee 🇺🇦
Joined August 2018
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12 Jan 2025
Interested in joining our growing interdisciplinary team studying viruses, RNA, and condensates? Looking for a postdoctoral position? Please consider joining us in Cambridge, UK, or drop us a line to discuss these opportunities: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49901/
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29 Aug 2025
Congratulations to @AlexBoRNA who presented the 2025 Colworth Medal Lecture today! Alex discussed how his work positions viral replication organelles as tractable systems for dissecting the biophysical principles underpinning RNA selection and turnover #BiochemAwards
ALT Dr Hannah Burgess, Imperial College London and Dr Alex Borodavka, University of Cambridge.Â
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20 May 2025
What an amazing feeling having a cohort of Biotechnology students @cebcambridge applaud after my last lecture of the Term! Moments like this remind me why I love teaching every bit as much as doing research.
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1 Feb 2025
Please consider joining our interdisciplinary team studying viruses, RNA, and condensates, also if you’d like to move to Cambridge, UK, while this position remains open: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49901/
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Alex Borodavka retweeted
12 Jan 2025
Interested in joining our growing interdisciplinary team studying viruses, RNA, and condensates? Looking for a postdoctoral position? Please consider joining us in Cambridge, UK, or drop us a line to discuss these opportunities: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49901/
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13 Jan 2025
And another position for those interested in joining us to gain research experience, and help us grow, please consider applying here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49792/
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21 Dec 2024
Apply now, spread the word: three (3) fully funded Helmholtz research groups (assistant prof level) with attractive packages. Topics: RNA-based medicine, microbial RNA, and RNA-based infection research incl. RNA technologies. Great environment for young people. Come and join us.
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27 Sep 2024
BA has just demonstrated yet another level of incompetence @British_Airways - 6 hours kept on a plane bound for Montreal, kicked out all passengers at midnight at the airport without accommodation and any support offered.
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13 Sep 2024
Thank you @ListerInstitute for the two fantastic days of excellent science. Excited to join this wondeful and friendly community!
2024 #ListerFellow @AlexBoRNA will use Lister Prize funding to investigate how certain disease-causing RNA viruses organise their unusual segmented chromosomes. #ListerAM
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We're thrilled to announce 2024's brand new #ListerFellows!
@DavidsnDeathLab
@bcells_rosser
@nickywhiffin
@AlexBoRNA
@theRAD_lab
@SarahDimeloeLab
welcome to the fold 🥳📷 🎈 lister-institute.org.uk/welc…
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Alex Borodavka retweeted
4 Apr 2024
Congratulations to Dr Alex Borodavka who receives The Colworth Medal in 2025! @AlexBoRNA's outstanding research incorporates an imaginative combination of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary approaches to understand the molecular virology of multi-segmented RNA viruses.
ALT The Biochemical Society 2025 Awards The Colworth Medal Dr Alexander Borodavka University of Cambridge
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16 Dec 2023
One of the busiest week of the year: our group Xmas dinner, saying goodbye to Daniel who’s leaving us after 3 years, and saying goodbye to the Department of Biochemistry @CamBiochem for a new chapter at the Department of Chem Eng and Biotechnology @cebcambridge
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16 Dec 2023
All followed by a warm Christmas welcome from the new Department! Despite one of the trucks breaking down, all frozen samples and office plants survived the move🎉
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14 Aug 2023
Looking forward to seeing many old and new faces, come along and shoot your questions about viruses and our research over a pint in a pub!
14 Aug 2023
Come and join us at our popular Cafe Synthetique on Mon 4 Sept, 6pm. Dr Alex Borodavka 'Viruses:Elegance in their Simplicity or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein. @AlexBoRNA sign up here meetup.com/cambridge-synthet…
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19 Apr 2023
Four days of excellent science and a reminder that we’re all part of a much bigger community sharing similar goals and passion for research @MicrobioSoc Looking forward to seeing our friends and colleagues at the 2024 Annual Meeting!
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14 Apr 2023
Thank you @LeeSherry4 for your infectious enthusiasm, for being a wonderful companion and a colleague, for all your hard work and great empathy - you’ll be greatly missed in our group! Hope the next leg of your scientific journey will be a blast!
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29 Mar 2023
It’s been a privilege and a great pleasure to examine Etibor’s @EtiborTemitope PhD thesis @IGCiencia Thank you Etibor, Amy @GladfelterLab and Maria @mjamorim1 for the exciting experience, and a big thank you to Maria and your wonderful group for making it such a memorable event!
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Alex Borodavka retweeted
24 Mar 2023
A fantastic initiative organised by our Early PI Network that we were delighted to support!
23 Mar 2023
So wonderful to meet early career PIs at the EMBO Laboratory Leadership for Group Leaders Course with the support of @Cambridge_SBS @LifeSciLearn @plantsci @CropSciCentre @westcamhub
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