I am humbled to lead the £38 million National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (#NAPIC) funded by UKRI & 120+ partners, co-led by Sheffield, Imperial and James Hutton Institute alongside amazing colleagues from Food Science and Nutrition at Leeds Dr Alan Hernandez Alvarez, GlobalFood@Leeds The Bragg Centre and Royce at Leeds

Would you like to start your lab at College of Medicine and Health in Birmingham? Our Birmingham Springboard Fellowships are now open. Deadline 04/10/24. The fellowship provides up to 2 years of funding to give you bridging time to apply for external fellowships. Get in touch.

It’s been 9 months since I was referred to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals ENT (not urgent stuff but still) and just been told it can take 2 years to see a consultant 😳.And the PM says things will get worse first…

In May this year, Lord Peter Hendy pressured my now-former employer SYSTRA UK & Ireland to sack me by threatening them. Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign. politico.eu/article/uk-rai…

Interested in working on RNA processing and degradation? Come join us! My lab is recruiting at all levels!

Technical Report of HelixFold3 for Biomolecular Structure Prediction The PaddleHelix research team at Baidu have released their AlphaFold3 replication under an open-source noncommercial license. Performance approaches that of AlphaFold3. abs: arxiv.org/abs/2408.16975 website:

🚀Excited to announce: Open-source AlphaFold3 implementation! 🚀 I am thrilled to announce one of the models we have been building for the last 8-weeks at Ligo - an open-source implementation of DeepMind’s frontier model, AlphaFold3! Here’s what we have learned, a thread (1/11):

We are happy to share our first cryo-EM structure published in NAR. "Mechanism of activation of contact-dependent growth inhibition tRNase toxin by the amino acid biogenesis factor CysK in the bacterial competition system "academic.oup.com/nar/article/do…

We have developed Nanodynamo, a method based on Oxford Nanopore sequencing and mathematical modelling to study subcellular #RNA dynamics in triple-negative breast #cancer cells. The study is now out on Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467… rdcu.be/dSYRQ

Think Mass Spec can't do RNA-seq & RNA modification mapping? Think again! With the trick of generating RNA ladder (the very core of Sanger sequencing) our work with @ShenglongZhang_Lab enables De Novo RNA-seq & mapping of multiple RNA modifications in #tRNA J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

We’re thrilled to announce the publication of SpliceVarDB: A comprehensive database of experimentally validated human splicing variants in AJHG 🧬 📖 cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/… #splicing #GeneChat

Don’t forget to submit your manuscript to Heredity special issue on C. elegans genetics and biology. The Genetics Society

A position is available in my research group at UEA for a wet-lab research assistant, for 3 years, to work on data generation for exciting new genomics projects in urban and rural foxes and other mammals. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/1191…

I’m very happy to announce that it’s Friday afternoon.

Looking for a postdoc position? We are hiring! jobs.ac.uk/job/DJO928/res… Apply before the 4th Oct deadline!

There is little time left to apply for the @ERC-funded PhD and postdoc positions in my new lab in beautiful Regensburg! Check out and RT please :) Jr RNA Scientists euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/265735

“The country is one of the most nature-depleted nations in the world, in the bottom 10% of nations for biodiversity.” theguardian.com/environment/20…

Congratulations Sebastian Eves-van den Akker! Fantastic news!

“Britain must overhaul its funding for frontier science to focus on a handful of critical technologies” 😯😯 That’s exactly how you kill innovation. Perhaps UK should stop listening to the same people over and over again… ft.com/content/f04ae9…