@livuni-ismib.bsky.social

The next ISMIB seminar is tomorrow, 23rd April 1-2pm (staff and students welcome)

Guest Speaker: Dr Natalia Jimenez Moreno

Title: Liquid condensates link autophagy to pancreatic cancer cell invasion via RhoA sequestration

Host: @mcschmid.bsky.social

Take a break from the sunshine & join us 🌞

Today's ISMIB seminar 16th April

1-2pm Guest Speaker: Dr Paolo Annibale
Title: GPCR signalling behaviour in unconventional settings: from swollen cells to altered gravity.

Host: Peter McCormick

Location: Physiology Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Nuffield Building

Join us this week for our ISMIB Seminar, Wednesday 15th April 2026 12:00-13:00.

Guest Speaker: Aditi Borkar
Title: GPCR signalling behaviour in unconventional settings: from swollen cells to altered gravity.
Host: Chris Goldring
Location: Physiology Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Nuffield Building

📅 Deadline: 15 April 2026
To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to:
📩 marisa.merino@liverpool.ac.uk

🌍 Train across two leading research environments
🔬 Study neuronal cell competition and genome architecture
🎓 4-year programme (UK + India)

MCCM department members - join us for a little 🚶, ☕️ and ☀️ today 8th April, 2pm! Check your inbox for details 📧

A navy blue social card that reads 'University joins World Health Organization global clinical trials forum' in white text. Pictured in the top right is a group photo of Dr Vasee Moorthy (bottom, centre) at the University of Liverpool with members of the COMET Initiative team.

NEWS | @liverpooluni.bsky.social has joined the WHO Global Clinical Trials Forum, a global network launched by WHO in 2025 to strengthen clinical trial systems worldwide.

🔗 bit.ly/4bZndMN

#ClinicalTrials | #TeamLivUni

Want to learn #Python for #ImageAnalysis? 🐍 Supported by the #EVOLVEproject, four #EuroBioImaging Nodes are offering a distributed training course for beginners on Python - it's free! Join the course in 4 in person locations - 🇬🇧 🇵🇹 🇨🇿 🇸🇪
Apply before April 15⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/evolv...

Enter our photography competition in partnership with Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University “Stories of Sustainability”. Open to staff, students & alumni across both institutions, winners will be featured in exhibitions in Liverpool and China on Earth Day 22 April: www.liverpool.ac.uk/about/sustai...

📅 Deadline: 15 April 2026
To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to:
📩 marisa.merino@liverpool.ac.uk

🌍 Train across two leading research environments
🔬 Study neuronal cell competition and genome architecture
🎓 4-year programme (UK + India)

🎓 Fully funded dual PhD opportunity (UK + India)
within our department (Marisa Merino & Harish Poptani)

How does chromatin shape neuronal fitness? 🧬🧠

Recruiting a PhD student for a fully funded dual PhD between the University of Liverpool and NIMHANS (India) (UK students only)

MCCM's @pkpaul.bsky.social hosts these online seminars, Drosophila Seminar from the North of England (DSNE)

Next 25th March 2026, 12:00 PM (BST)

Interested in Drosophila biology? Contact Pranab!

Tomorrow, 19th March 1-2pm, join us for a seminar with MCCM's Manolis Papamichos

Title: Chromatin Regulation of RNA Quality Control: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Health and Disease
Location: Physiology Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Nuffield Building

You can join us tomorrow in person for another exciting seminar:

Thursday 5th March 2026 13:00-14:00

Guest Speaker: Dr Amaya Viros
Title: Metabolic cues that constrain cancer behaviour.
Host: Tim Budden
Location: Physiology Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Nuffield Building

🪰 Fly people, this one’s for you...!

The Drosophila Seminar from the North of England (DSNE) is an online seminar series created to share exciting fly science in a format that’s short, accessible, and genuinely enjoyable.

• Explore ways you or your team might get involved
• Learn more about initiatives spanning low-carbon innovation, digital sustainability, biodiversity, social justice and community partnerships

Sustainability Week Fair As part of Sustainability Week and Feel Good February 2026, staff and students are invited to attend our Sustainability Fair 2026.

Did you know there is a sustainability fair on campus tomorrow?

26th Feb 11AM-3PM
It’s an opportunity to:

• See the breadth of sustainability activity across the University
• Connect with colleagues and external partners

www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainabi...

Tomorrow @livuni-ismib.bsky.social 26th Feb, slightly later time 2-3pm

Guest Speaker: Professor Henrike Niederholtmeyer
Title: Engineering life-like systems from the bottom up
Host: Luning Liu
Location: Physiology Seminar Room

Read about our latest public engagement event here. To mark World Cancer Day

UoL 3rd year undergraduate students presented outreach activities to widening participation school pupils, helping to raise awareness & education around cancer & STEM education

www.liverpool.ac.uk/systems-mole...

Tomorrow's ISMIB seminar, 12th Feb!

Guest Speaker: Professor Alessio Ciulli
Title: Protein degraders: New insights and twists of molecular mechanism and drug design
Host: Samar Hasnain
Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Life Sciences Building

We’re excited to share our latest preprint! We identify SKT, a mechanosensitive adhesion protein that recruits mTORC2 to cell–matrix adhesions, linking metabolic demand to matrix stiffness. Disrupting this axis strongly inhibits PDAC tumor growth. shorturl.at/V0tpK

‼️🚨Hi all! The next Bioc Soc Membrane Contact Site Meeting will be in Chepstow, UK 28-30th Sept 2026. Fantastic speakers with talk slots still available. Sign up & abstract submission now open - limited spaces so register early! Hope to see you all there. Please share + RT 🙏

FACULTY OF HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2025 YouTube video by Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

🎉Celebrating our Faculty public engagement highlights 2025!

Thank you to everyone who got involved and supported our
@livunihls.bsky.social public engagement events and activities.

We’re looking forward to doing even more in 2026!

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9gZ...

@livuninews.bsky.social

Registration for our Imaging Cell Dynamics meeting is still open! Organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @drmichaelway.bsky.social and @giuliazanetti.bsky.social.

Find out more: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

Early-bird deadline: 16 January

#imaging #microscopy

Don't forget to register for our Spring Meeting: Dynamic Cell VI
A joint meeting with the @biochemsoc.bsky.social

Super early bird registration ends 21st Jan

Don't forget we have our Institute's Postdoc Symposium today, 502 Teaching Hub!

Discover technical insights, explore integrated workflows in action, and learn how these resources can support your research.

📢 Seminar Reminder – Tomorrow! 📢

🗓 Thursday, 11th December
🕒 14:00 – 15:00
📍 Life Sciences LT2

Join Gemma Charlesworth and Sarah Barnett as they showcase the technologies & expertise available through our Liverpool Shared Research Facilities - Histology SRF and Egg Facility LIV-SRF