Head of the Department of Biochemistry & Herchel Smith Chair of Molecular Genetics @Cambridge_Uni @cambiochem @GurdonInstitute @GeneticsCam @StJohnsCam
Joined February 2009
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3 May 2022
Very excited to start my new role as Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge @CamBiochem @Cambridge_Uni. More news to follow shortly. 😄
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10 Dec 2024
PhD alert! I have two ERC-funded PhD positions to uncover the chemical origins of life! Starting date: October 2025. *UK fees only*. Projects described here: lclu.cam.ac.uk/studentship-o…
Email me if interested - deadline (PhD in Biochemistry, Uni of Cambridge): January 7th!
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18 Nov 2024
PhD position(s) in #development #genomics: tinyurl.com/9dk9m29d
European (#MSCA) doctoral training network, #DanioreCODE (tinyurl.com/2rz4mdsa).
How does #transcription initiation regulation control #brain injury response and #regeneration in #zebrafish?
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Eric Miska retweeted
3 Apr 2024
🚨New preprint alert!!🚨 I am delighted to share my first postdoc research paper on the interaction between transposable elements (TEs) and piRNAs in African cichlid fishes 🐠🐠
Link here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Find the highlights in 🧵
ALT An Astatotilapia calliptera male. Credit: M. Emília Santos
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26 Feb 2024
Will we witness an AlphaFold moment for functional protein engineering and design? Will we solve the protein design problem — that is, the ability to create tailor-made functional proteins on demand — once and for all? go.nature.com/4bLthb0
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23 Feb 2024
Over 4 years in the making, I am excited to share our pre-print on the “In-cell structure and snapshots of copia retrotransposons in intact tissue by cryo-electron tomography”. We used cryo-ET to resolve the copia capsid structure to subnanometer resolution inside cells. A 🧵
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21 Feb 2024
🔬 Our lab at @Cambridge_Uni is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and skilled postdoc experienced in stem cell biology to investigate how cell size and cell cycle affect cell fate decisions in self-renewal/differentiation. Please email me if interested (zatulovskiylab.org).
ALT Effects of cell size on stem cell fate decisions. (A) During embryo development, stem cells make numerous decisions to divide, self-renew, or differentiate, and these decisions have to be accurately controlled. (B) Cell-size-dependent changes in key protein concentrations can bias stem cell fate decisions – e.g., by shifting the balance between pluripotency and differentiation transcription factors.
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1 Feb 2024
Fantastic news Julian @koenig_lab 👏 👏 👏!
Our Group Leader Julian König has been accepted to join the prestigious #Heisenberg Programme of the @dfg_public. The position includes funding for his research on posttranscriptional mechanisms of #RNAregulation and how they contribute to #ageing and disease. Congrats Julian!
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1 Feb 2024
Great fun to kick off our centenary @CamBiochem 🎉🎉🎉. Thank you to the great community @CamBiochem @Cambridge_SBS 👏 👏 👏
31 Jan 2024
To kick off our 2024 centenary celebrations @ericmiska and Departmental Administrator Katherine Wallington unveil a new identity for the Department outside the Sanger Building. 🎉🍾🥂
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30 Jan 2024
Welcome back @Hansong_Ma 🎉
30 Jan 2024
📢The Developmental Biology Seminar Series is back for a new year, and we are delighted🙂 to be hosting Prof @Hansong_Ma from the University of Birmingham.
🗓️ 2 February at 1 pm
📍Biffen Lecture Theatre, Downing site
🎙️The dynamic mitochondrial DNA and mitochondria in spermatogenesis
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26 Jan 2024
Learning in box jellyfish. Very cool!
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26 Jan 2024
👇great work from @RossWaller3 group @CamBiochem
26 Jan 2024
Out now here: elifesciences.org/articles/9…
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25 Jan 2024
We are thrilled to present a new #enzyme to the world, the first shown to break the man-made carbon-silicon bonds in #siloxanes, which are persistent in the environment.
caltech.edu/about/news/teach…
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25 Jan 2024
Well deserved Edith 🎉 🎉 🎉
Congratulations to EMBL Director General Edith Heard for receiving an honorary doctorate at Uppsala University.
She is presenting her honorary doctorate lecture on epigenetics and sex chromosomes today.
Read more: uu.se/en/disciplinary-domain…
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23 Jan 2024
Amazing image @GuiomarPedro 👏 👏 👏
23 Jan 2024
Congratulations to Pedro Rebelo-Guiomar (@GuiomarPedro, Luisi Lab)! His wonderful image representing the world as seen through the looking glass of molecular and structural biology has been selected for the @NatureSMB 30th anniversary cover competition: nature.com/articles/s41594-0…
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Eric Miska retweeted
18 Jan 2024
Save-The-Date: Our next RNA Medicine Symposium will be held on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Any questions email: glee8@bidmc.harvard.edu
#RNA #RNAMedicine #HiRM
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Eric Miska retweeted
18 Jan 2024
❗️New paper alert❗️
Our manuscript on the structure and mechanism of activation mechanism of the prokaryotic immune system SPARTA is out now!
academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
@BalwinaK @FinocchioGiada @MartinJinek @Potoc_A
25 Sep 2023
❗️preprint alert!❗️
Target DNA-dependent activation mechanism of the prokaryotic immune system SPARTA
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
We are excited to share our newest study where we uncover how the SPARTA immune system is activated!
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5 Jan 2024
Our new review is out in Molecular Cell!
"Transfer RNA modifications and cellular thermotolerance"
cell.com/molecular-cell/full…
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Eric Miska retweeted
22 Dec 2023
🫧Completed your PhD within the last 3 years?🫧
Why not apply for one of the @Cambridge_SBS Herchel Smith Postdoc Fellowships, and join @CamBiochem - includes stipend and research funding!
Deadline: 7th January 2024
DM if interested in joining our lab!
jobs.ac.uk/job/DED473/herche…
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Eric Miska retweeted
20 Dec 2023
Livestream of sunrise in Newgrange starting from 8:40am tomorrow morning.
Yes, 8:40am, you read that right. No wonder they built such massive monuments to celebrate the days getting longer.
20 Dec 2023
The wait is nearly over! Only 1 more day until the Winter Solstice at Newgrange. Be sure to bookmark this link: heritageireland.pulse.ly/b2m… and join us tomorrow for this exciting live stream event
@opwireland @brunaboinneopw @astronomymag @tourismireland @gotoirelandus #newgrange
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