Great opportunity alert! @dunnschool.bsky.social has opened its annual call for new PIs looking for sponsorship for early career fellowships. If you think we might provide the scientific environment you need to launch your independent career, we want to hear from you!

The Dunn School, Oxford@dunnschool.bsky.social · 3w ago

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 22nd of September...please share! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 22nd of September...please share! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Group Leader Career Development Fellowships - Dunn School

Are you an early career researcher interested in the cell or molecular mechanisms underlying disease? Do you have an outstanding record and an innovative research plan?

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The #ListerPrize2027 is a £300,000 flexible fellowship to support outstanding early-career biomedical researchers based in the UK and Ireland. Do you have bold ideas? Could a Prize transform your group? Now open for applications. All details 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/research-pri...

We are more than delighted to welcome our new #ListerPrize2026 Fellows! These eight inspiring researchers are set to pursue ambitious biomedical science, thanks to our flexible funding. Bravo! 👏 Meet the new #ListerFellows (read thread) and repost ⤵️ lister-institute.org.uk/news/our-lis...

Now Dr. Vanesa Getseva…

Molly Przeworski@mollyprz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy to highlight new findings by Vanesa Getseva and Lin Poyraz about the sources of variation in germline mutation rates among humans: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Joint work with Anastasia Stolyarova and @ipsitaagarwal.bsky.social. 1/n

This is a fantastic mentoring opportunity!

Tami Gjorgjieva@tamigj.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hi Genetics/Comp-Bio community 👋 Interested in mentoring a comp-bio research student in East Africa over the summer? Do you have any experience in bioinformatics, biostats, genome/RNA-seq analyses, ML, or metagenomics? We'd love to have you as a mentor in our new program! 🧵 (1/n)

Meiosis faces a fundamental problem: It must repair hundreds of DNA double-strand breaks while executing a transcriptional programme essential for gamete development. But many of these breaks occur in genes. So how are these two processes reconciled? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Yet another outstanding recruit to @dunnschool.bsky.social! Really looking forward to having Alex Borodavka as a new colleague

The Dunn School, Oxford@dunnschool.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are delighted to announce that Alex Borodavka will soon be joining us as Associate Professor! The Borodavka group investigates RNA viruses, particularly rotaviruses, and how their genomes are segmented to ensure successful replication. Find out more: www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

Congratulations to the Dunn School postdocs starting their independent research groups across the UK, Germany and China 🥳 - Iqbal Dulloo (@iqbaldulloo.bsky.social) - Marion Schuller (@schullerm.bsky.social) - Yongxu Lu - João Monteiro www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

Dunn School postdocs start new PI positions - Dunn School

Applications are now open to apply for our four year, fully-funded PhD programme in Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease.

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A short thread. For years, I have been surprised by how much confusion our discovery of clones carrying cancer-driver mutations in normal tissues has caused in the cancer community. Typical questions like: (1) if you see these mutations in normal cells, are they really cancer drivers?... [1/4]

Inigo Martincorena@imartincorena.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our latest work is out in Nature today. In this paper, we introduce an improved version of NanoSeq, a duplex sequencing protocol with <5 errors per billion bp in single DNA molecules, and use it to study the somatic mutation landscape of oral epithelium in >1000 people www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emily passed her transfer viva with flying colours! Thanks to her awesome examiners Simon Myers and Nicky Whiffin #ProudPI

🔁 Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open. We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting. 🗓️ Deadline: October 15th More information: smbe2026.org/symposia #SMBE2026

In these dark times, it comes as a rare pleasure to highlight @natanaels.bsky.social ‬ & @marcdemanuel.bsky.social's work on germline and somatic mutations in humans. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Collateral mutagenesis funnels multiple sources of DNA damage into a ubiquitous mutational signature

Mutations reflect the net effects of myriad types of damage, replication errors, and repair mechanisms, and thus are expected to differ across cell types with distinct exposures to mutagens, division ...

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Another exciting opportunity @dunnschool.bsky.social ! Come and be a colleague to a great group of scientists working on the fundamental mechanisms underlying disease, and how to transform health Please help us find great applicants

The Dunn School, Oxford@dunnschool.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We're hiring (again)! We are looking for an associate professor in cell and molecular biology, with a particular focus on immunology (defined broadly) If you have a great record and exciting plans, consider joining our thriving and welcoming department www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Our PhD studentship programme is officially open; pass it on If you are looking for a fully-funded PhD in the mechanisms underlying human disease, here are the details... Great science and a great environment! www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

Applications now open for our PhD studentship programme - Dunn School

Applications are now open to apply for our four year, fully-funded PhD programme in Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease.

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Delighted to see this paper with @anaignatieva.bsky.social now published in Genetics! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... We tackle a thorny issue arising in statistical tests for genetic interactions (epistasis) using ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs)... 🧵

Phantom epistasis through the lens of genealogies

Abstract. Phantom epistasis arises when, in the course of testing for gene-by-gene interactions, the omission of a causal variant with a purely additive ef

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SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online: doi.org/10.1038/s415... It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

Robust and accurate Bayesian inference of genome-wide genealogies for hundreds of genomes - Nature Genetics

SINGER is a method for creating ancestral recombination graphs to understand the genealogical history of genomes. The method has increased speed, and thus scalability, without sacrificing accuracy.

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New review about DNA double-strand break resection during meiosis, with @alhajijoker.bsky.social and Soonjoung Kim. Please check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Insight into Meiotic DNA End Resection: Mechanisms and Regulation

Meiosis generates reproductive cells with a reduced genome complement, with most species using homologous recombination to promote accurate meiotic ch…

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📣 Applications now open 📣 We are seeking outstanding ECRs looking for a stimulating and supportive environment in which to establish their research group as externally-funded fellows, in any area or cell or molecular biology underlying disease! Please share! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

The 2026 Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) meeting will be held at UC Berkeley, March 25-28, 2026. We have an amazing list of keynote speakers and session chairs: probgen2026.github.io Please help spread the news.

We’re #hiring, please share! A fully funded #postdoc position is available in my lab to work on DNA damage response mechanisms. Please get in touch with your CV if you are interested; closing date: 27th June 2025. More details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Blackford Group

A position as Postdoctoral Research Associate is available at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, in the group headed by Dr. Andrew Blackford. Th

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A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @camplantsci.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/

Wonderful talk by Yun today on the present and future of protein and DNA large language models. Spectacular!

Yun S. Song@yun-s-song.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to see my digital art on the cover of Trends Genet. The two binary strings represent reverse-complementary DNA sequences (00=A, 01=C, 10=G, 11=T) and the connecting rectangles represent “embeddings” learned by DNA language models. Pls check out our article as well: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Both translational and fundamental curiosity-driven research are needed to fuel the incredible progress we're seeing in genomic medicine; an important message in this article and and some lovely quotes from @sarahlwynn.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/25dd...

Curiosity underlies a breakthrough in rare disease

We must recognise and protect the pipelines that lead from research to real-world benefit

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Delighted to announce that Prof. Kevin Foster has been elected Fellow of @royalsociety.org! This honour recognises the unique way he combines maths, ecology, evolution and microbiology to study microbial communities Many congratulations Kevin! Find out more: www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

Kevin Foster elected Fellow of the Royal Society - Dunn School

Many congratulations to Kevin for this prestigious honour, recognising his contribution to integrate ecological and evolutionary principles into microbiology to understand the human microbiome and oth...

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Amidst all the terrible and terrifying news, so lovely to hear of @jkpritch.bsky.social's election to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations!

Nature research paper: Towards multimodal foundation models in molecular cell biology https://go.nature.com/3YvGcbJ

Towards multimodal foundation models in molecular cell biology - Nature

The development of multimodal foundation models, pretrained on diverse omics datasets, to unravel the intricate complexities of molecular cell biology is envisioned.

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Tonight at 5.30pm on the BBC! 📺 The Foster group here at the the Dunn School will bring the science of the microbiome to ‘Operation Ouch!’, a popular children programme presented by Doctors Chris and Xand Van Tulleken. One to watch with your little ones! 👣🦠 www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

Come work with me! Great opportunity for an enthusiastic Comms or events professional!

The Dunn School, Oxford@dunnschool.bsky.social · last yr.

We are recruiting a centenary communications and events officer! We have a spectacular history and our research has saved millions of lives. But we think the best is still to come. Help us mark this special occasion! Deadline is the 17th of March. Please share! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...