🚨 FINAL CALL - just 4 days left to apply for an in-person place on the Wellcome–MRC in situ Cryo-ET Workshop 2026. 📅 28 Sept – 02 Oct 2026 📍 @diamondlightsource.bsky.social & @astburycentre.bsky.social 💻 Hybrid stream available ⏰ In-person application deadline 19 July 🔗 shorturl.at/LRihg

Community Announcements: Upcoming event from our partners at @instruct-eric.bsky.social Instruct-ERIC hands-on workshop on: Advanced cryo-FIB-SEM methods Nov 9-13, 2026 | Heidelberg, Germany Organized by the EMBL Imaging Centre Register here: buff.ly/hOv2tl5 #SBGrid #StayConnected

Instruct-ERIC hands-on workshop on: Advanced cryo-FIB-SEM methods (09.-13.11.2026)

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There are lots of exciting opportunities to join the in situ structural biology community at Leeds this Autumn - 2 studentships in the Cheney PhD program (astbury.leeds.ac.uk/cheney-phd/) and I am recruiting a PhD student and research assistant. Please share and send any future tomographers our way!

Cheney Scholarship PhD Programme : The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology - "Understanding Life in Molecular Detail"

Applications are open for 2 PhD student places.  Closing date for applications is Thursday 26 June, 5pm. Interviews will be held on 9th July 2026. The Cheney Scholarship is a prestigious 4-year PhD pr...

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I am delighted to be among this years winners awards from the Biochemical Society! The Early Career Award recognises the work I did during my PhD and postdoc, and hopefully signals a bright start for my new lab within the @astbury-bsl.bsky.social at the University of Leeds 💫

Biochemical Society@biochemsoc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are so proud of all our Biochemical Society 2027 Award winners. Visit our website to find out more about all of the deserving recipients #BiochemAwards 🧪 https://ow.ly/mZ6O50YIGo8

Congrats to the @biochemsoc.bsky.social 2027 Award winners, including @helenfoster.bsky.social who has won an Early Career Research Award. Helen was a PhD student in Andrew Carter’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, and is now a Group Leader at the University of Leeds. #LMBalumni

Biochemical Society@biochemsoc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Utilising in situ structural biology to uncover fundamental mechanisms of cytoskeletal regulation, we're excited to present Helen Foster with an Early Career Research Award in 2027! Helen's research on immune cell cytoskeletal remodeling could open new frontiers in molecular immunology.

Very happy to say that our work on how axonemes are generated is now available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - if you’ve ever wondered how the incredibly beautiful, complex structures within motile #cilia are constructed then this is for you!

Many congratulations to Girish R Mali (@dyneinassembly.bsky.social) and team, awarded the 2025 Ian & Barbara Gibbons Award for their work on the regulation of axonemal dynein motors that power ciliary beating! The award recognises groundbreaking advances in the Dynein field every four years.

Time to get signed up for the Symposium on Structural Proteomics! This time at @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan 6th-8th October Full speaker lineup announced. Thanks to @thermofishersci.bsky.social @brukercorporation.bsky.social, Affipro and MSVision for support Info ssp2025.squarespace.com

New preprint out 🔥🔥 on my postdoc work with @manuelthery.bsky.social and @lblanchoin.bsky.social about how we can create sustained dynamic steady states of actin network inside microscopic wells that contract "forever" without collapsing! A thread 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in learning to process cryo-ET data in the latest version of Warp? I'll be running a workshop on April 22nd in central London, UK details+registration: forms.gle/FLDr3ZWtVGXs... Hope to see you there!

JOB ALERT!!! The National Facility for Structural Biology at @humantechnopole.bsky.social is HIRING!! BlueSky-less Andrea Graziadei is looking for a technician to join his Unit and push #structuralproteomics to new, uncharted territories!! 1/3

If you’re interested in how molecular motors coordinate to power intracellular trafficking events (e.g. endocytosis), I’ve got a PhD position available to study this at vibrant Bristol uni. In this project, we will capture highly dynamic events by #cryoEM, single molecule imaging & cell biology. 🔬❄️🧪

Our review of Intraflagellar transport is out now! We cover lots of the recent advances in our understanding of IFT, and where we think there are still some gaps. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The intraflagellar transport cycle - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Intraflagellar transport (IFT) ensures delivery of selected proteins into cilia. The IFT protein complexes IFT-A and IFT-B polymerize at the base of the cilium to form an anterograde train that facili...

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✨New online ✨ The intraflagellar transport cycle - written by Samuel Lacey & Gaia Pigino. The article beautifully summarises recent insights on transport trains - don’t miss the gorgeous structural detail! www.nature.com/articles/s41...