Rachael and Lisa stand side by side in front of scientific research posters, each holding a cup and saucer. They are smiling in a lab or academic setting. Below the image, a quote reads: “This placement gave me a boost in confidence. Opportunities like this matter because they allow meaningful connections that otherwise would not have happened.” The Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre logo appears in the corner.

When Rachael was diagnosed with cancer at 22, her interest in cancer research became something far more personal. Through our @crukcamctya.bsky.social PPI network, she undertook a two-week lab placement in the @cambiochem.bsky.social with Dr Lisa Dobson.

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#FocusOnCamCancer #TYACAM

We are recruiting a postdoc interested in using machine learning and AI to understand and control post-transcriptional gene regulation. Please apply and join us at @cambiochem.bsky.social

⏳ Closing date: 16 May 2026
🔗 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55254

Learn more about us: www.sblab.uk

Researchers in the Patil lab found that co-culturing bacteria profoundly alters each species' behavior. Because the gut microbiome directly affects our health, understanding these interactions helps show how it responds to challenges (e.g. drugs)

Read the full story: buff.ly/dZ42Vnx

CLOSING SOON: Interested in using machine learning to predict the toxicity of novel therapies?

The Patil lab are recruiting a Bioinformatician to work on this in collaboration with @cambiochem.bsky.social & AstraZeneca

💵 £42,254-£56,535
📆 Apply by 20th April
Apply here: buff.ly/C8UtZ2n

Select tickets – Plant Engineering for Sustainable Futures – David Attenborough Building Plant Engineering for Sustainable Futures – David Attenborough Building, Fri 17 Apr 2026 - Join us for a full‑day event focused on Plant Engineering for Sustainable Futures, including: Sustainable Foo...

🗣️ On 17 April 2026, Cambridge Zero is bringing together researchers across disciplines to explore sustainable foods, medicines, and carbon management.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4sC8ezn

🌏 A brilliant space for collaboration, innovation, and future funding conversations.

Are you interested in using machine learning to predict the toxicity of novel therapies?

The Patil lab are recruiting a Bioinformatician to work on this in collaboration with @cambiochem.bsky.social & @astra-zeneca.bsky.social

💵 £42,254-£56,535
📆 Apply by 20th April

Apply here: buff.ly/C8UtZ2n

We are seeking an IT Apprentice to assist us in delivering a robust digital infrastructure that our diverse scientific initiatives depend upon. Apply here by 20 April: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/it-appr...

Engineering Biology Symposium & Forum - Register and submit your abstract for a chance to win up to £500 to support conference registration and expenses.

More information: www.engbio.cam.ac.uk/events/engbi...

Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium poster with timelapse images. of a developing Arabidopsis thaliana leaf imaged at 9-12 days old under a confocal microscope, with cells segmented and coloured using MorphographX software. Images by Sarah Attrill.. Text reads: Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 22–24 September 2026 | Cambridge, UK #SLS26. About the Symposium #SLS26 will explore the cellular, genetic and mechanical forces shaping plant form, bringing together researchers across scales of morphogenesis. Under the theme Shaping Life, topics span molecular regulation, biomechanics, live imaging, computational modelling and evolution. Abstracts close: 30 March 2026. Keynote Speakers: Ari Pekka Mähönen (University of Helsinki) and Lucia Strader (Duke University). Invited Speakers: Bénédicte Sanson, Kalika Prasad, Marie-Cécile Caillaud, Sabrina Sabatini, Thomas Greb, Weibing Yang, Joop EM Vermeer, Keiko Torii, Paz Merelo Cremades, Stéphanie Robert, and Utpal Nath.

Just 4 days left to submit your abstract for the Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 🌱
Join us in Cambridge (22–24 Sept) to share your work on plant morphogenesis — talks & posters all welcome.

🗓 Deadline: 30 March
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...
Don’t miss out! #SLS26
#PlantScience #plantsci

Don't miss the next RNA Club session on the 26th March! @cambiochem.bsky.social

EngBio ECRs Meetup returns Mon 20 April! 🎉 12-1pm.
Two great talks:

🔬 Holly Bachas Brook – 3D eccrine sweat gland-on-chip
🧪 Fatma Mihoubi – Nucleotide & peptide diversity in coacervate protocells

Hear new research and connect with fellow ECRs. All wellcome.

👉 Sign up buytickets.at/engineeringb...

This was such an inspirational visit to the @cambiochem.bsky.social (thanks to @ericmiska.bsky.social & Ulrika Yuan for inviting & hosting), and then informally catching up with @trayon.bsky.social + lab @babrahaminst.bsky.social and Juliette Fedry @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social! Science is fun!

Biochemistry and AI Join us for three talks on how AI can be applied to big questions in Biochemistry. The talks will be followed by a Q and A panel discussion.

Calling all colleagues with teenagers. Join us on Saturday 28 March, 2pm-3.30pm in the Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building for our #CamFest event on how AI can be applied to big questions in Biochemistry for ages 12+. All welcome, book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biochemist...

Don't miss today's RNA Club! At Sanger Building @cambiochem.bsky.social , 26th Feb 16:30h!

📢 Don’t miss the next Cancer Biology and Medicine talk tomorrow!

Machine learning applications to cancer
Dr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar

📅 Thurs 26 February, 9:30-10:30
📍Theo Chalmers lecture theatre, School of Clinical Medicine
All welcome! @cambridge-scm.bsky.social

🎤🍕Cafe Synthetique is back! Mon 2 Mar,6pm

Join Gabriela Guedes, Joel Roca & Gorjan Stojanovski for talks on #proteins #nanomedicine #plastic-eatingenzymes 🧫

🎟️Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...

@hollfelderlab.bsky.social @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social @cambiochem.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

At the #GlWoBr my department @cambiochem.bsky.social hosted, I was one of the panelist’s and had the chance to reflect on my career path.

Thanks to @claudiabonfio.bsky.social lab organising it and to a live illustrator (paraphrase.studio) capturing our conversation, this lovely sketch came out 🥰

What if RNA–DNA hybrids don’t just form in the nucleus… but trigger immune responses from the cytoplasm?
Join us on 26th Feb 4 pm at @cambiochem.bsky.social for Magdalena Crossley's talk and dive into the fascinating world of R-loops, genome regulation & innate immunity

Special guest lecture by Professor Bill DeGrado on '𝘋𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘰 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘨-𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘝𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴'.

📅 5 March 2026 | ⏲️ 12:00
📍 Department of Pharmacology

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/special-ph...

@ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk

Congratulations to our new group leader @jenny-molloy.bsky.social on her Special Recognition for Advocacy and Awareness at the European Open Source Awards in Brussels last week. 👏 👏 👏

Wonderful news that the @kiranrpatil.bsky.social Lab's research on removing PFAS 'forever chemicals' from the human body has been developed into a probiotic and can be clinically tested through this investment. 👏 👏 👏

Grateful to @cambiochem.bsky.social for spotlighting my PhD work, recently published in @embomolmed.org.

We're really proud of this international collaboration between a wide range of researchers and clinicians. Thanks to everyone involved!

www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/embo-mo...

@ecwalsh.bsky.social , @jonlp-bioinf.bsky.social , @paula-milan-rois.bsky.social , and @bianca-pierattini.bsky.social presented their work at #RNAUK26. We enjoyed the perfect combo of great science, inspiring discussions, and scenic hikes. Thank you to the organiser for such a fantastic conference!

Huge congratulations to @juancruedas.bsky.social for successfully passing his PhD viva with minor corrections yesterday! 🧬We’re incredibly proud of you! And even more exciting, the manuscript is on the way. Stay tuned! 👏🥳
@cambiochem.bsky.social

We are recruiting for a postdoc with a background in cell biology and an interest in infection research to join the @camillagodlee.bsky.social Lab to study how Salmonella remodels host membrane dynamics. Apply here by 24 Feb: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

🧬🧫 EngBio ECRs Meetup is back!
📅 Mon 16 Feb | ⏰ 12pm
📍 Postdoc Centre Mill Lane

Two great talks on capsid proteins & RNA organelles in bacteria from Daniela Gjorgjevikj and Brian Ng

🎟️ Sign Up at www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...

#EngBio #ECRs #RNA #bacteria #CapsidProteins

How is RNA regulation shaped across tissues and species?
Join us for two exciting talks by Roberto Campalastri (tRNA gene regulation) @mrc-tu.bsky.social and Meenu Bhati @meenubhati.bsky.social (lncRNA discovery in the bovine genome)
Don’t miss it! Thursday 22nd 16:30h Zoom
@cambiochem.bsky.social

Oogenesis and germinal bed morphology of the brown anole (A. sagrei) Background The brown anole is a model species of the genus Anolis, a squamate (encompassing lizards and snakes) group widely studied in evolutionary, behavioral, and developmental biology. Full geno...

Excited that our study on oogenesis and germinal bed morphology in the brown anole is published! Find it here:
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@stowersinstitute.bsky.social @mdandersn.bsk.social @oxfordwomenshealth.bsky.social @cambiochem.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @cam.ac.uk

We had a great time at the @cambiochem.bsky.social Away Days, learning about the exciting research across the Department! It was a pleasure to share some of our group’s projects thanks to @migueldvalmeida.bsky.social and @ecwalsh.bsky.social . All set for a year full of science! Stay tuned!

We are looking for a Postdoc to join the Lilley Group and work on an ancient universal membrane effector system, and tackle the question of how members of the microbial IM30 protein family function to protect biological membranes. Apply here by 13 Feb: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...