Latest chat with Lister Prize Fellows now live🤩 Johnathan Cooper-Knock deploys genetics, stem-cell models, deep learning and clinical insight to understand what moves people from being genetically at risk to actually developing the motor neurone disease. 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/news/in-conv...

👀How to be a successful Lister Prize applicant. Watch this video from our recent Lister Ireland Research Synergy Event. Top tips include: ✅ a clear, transformative research question. ✅ strong preliminary data. ✅ mentorship and iterative feedback.

Lister Ireland Research Synergy Event- How to be a successful applicant

This video, 'Lister Ireland Research Synergy Event- How to be a successful applicant,' provides an informative guide for researchers interested in applying for the Lister Institute Research Prize…

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📢 Opportunity to join the team as a computational postdoc to lead research into RNUopathies, including ReNU syndrome: understanding mutational and disease mechanisms and developing biomarkers for therapy development. Apply: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Deadline this Friday!! Please share! 💻🧬🩺

👣 Kickstart your clinical research and apply for a Starter Grant for Clinicial Lecturers from @acmedsci.bsky.social . A first step towards a later Lister Prize?💡 👀Hannah Crane from @sheffielduni.bsky.social on the impact of the grant on her head and neck cancer research ⤵️

Supporting patient involvement in health research | Dr Hannah Crane

Dr Hannah Crane is a clinical lecturer whose work involves diagnosing diseases of the head and neck. With support from our patient and public involvement (PPI) funding, she has been able to drive…

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Summer is for relaxing - and reading 📚️ Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton ➿️ A sharp thriller about environmental science, technology, ambition and unintended consequences. What happens when good intentions encounter power, wealth and competing futures? Review 👉️

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton review – hippies v billionaires

In her third novel, the Booker winner captures our collective despair about an unequal world in a finely spun web of misunderstandings

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Fabulous work in @natmed.nature.com from a team including Lister Fellow Johnathan Cooper-Knock in the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Work led by Michael Benatar, Miller School of Medicine @univmiami.bsky.social

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A 19-protein blood panel may predict when ALS symptoms will begin months to several years in advance. In this dataset, estimated onset was within about two years, with average error near 18 months. doi.org/hccvpt

Lovely to celebrate with @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social earlier this month on her Lister Prize 2025. Prize lecture, award presentation, great vibes. Our congratulations - and our thanks to such welcoming and supportive colleagues 🫶 Images with permission, @mrclmb.ac.uk

🤩 Applications for the Lister Prize 2027 now open! ⚡️ Our top tip: Scour our news section. It's full of inspiring stories and insights that will help you decide whether to apply, and how to develop an application that makes your stellar science really stand out lister-institute.org.uk/news/

Check out our recent Q&A with Lister Fellow James Thaventhiran. He talks about reading frame shifts and how to make personalised mRNA vaccines safer by design. lister-institute.org.uk/news/in-conv...

A ground-breaking epigenetics study in Science @science.org with Lister Fellow Johnathan Cooper-Knock among co-authors. "Human body single-cell atlas of three-dimensional genome organization and DNA methylation" 👏 www.salk.edu/news-release... 🚶‍♀️Follow us! A new Q&A with Johnathan CK coming soon!

Applying to the Lister Prize 2027? Take advice from former winners like Hayley Sharpe @sharpe-lab.bsky.social: "Think hard about how it's going to help progress your career... that's one of the things the Committee wants to understand." Plenty of tips at lister-institute.org.uk/research-pri...

Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.

Let Lister Fellow @stewartlab.bsky.social inspire you to apply for the Lister Prize 2027. "In Newcastle we say, 'Shy bairns get nowt.' This sums up my experience with the Lister Prize. It took three tries but I eventually succeeded." Full story 👀 lister-institute.org.uk/research-pri...

Are mRNA vaccines safe? Lister Fellow @thav-lab.bsky.social unequivocally says yes, thanks to evidence from billions of doses 💉 His Lister Prize research looks at optimisation and safety for next gen personalised RNA therapies 🧬 Comment & repost 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/news/in-conv...

Girish Mali @dyneinassembly.bsky.social is a new #ListerPrize2026 Fellow. At @dunnschool.bsky.social he studies the mechanisms of dynein synthesis and self assembly, hoping to bolster respiratory resilience in diseases like Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia. Girish's lab👉 path.ox.ac.uk/research-gro...

All about biofilms - with #ListerFellow @tbharat-lab.bsky.social's team producing some beautiful cryo-EM structures. Congrats to everyone 👏

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Structural basis of biofilm formation mediated by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa fibrillar adhesin CdrA led by @olivia--smith.bsky.social Collaboration with @alexbateman1.bsky.social , Andres Floto and @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social labs

The @acmedsci.bsky.social Starter Grant for Clinical Lecturers is now open (closes 1 Sept) 🥳 ✨ Up to £40,000 of research funding and mentoring. ✨ 1-2 years duration. ✨ To support secure longer-term fellowships and funding. 👉 acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-p...

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Many clinical lecturers have the ambition but not the funds to pursue research. Through our starter grants, we bridge this gap and enable clinical researchers to kickstart their research and establish...

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We welcome @nmoris.bsky.social among our incredible #ListerPrize2026 Research Fellows. At @crick.ac.uk Naomi studies how pluripotent cells are regulated to determine their fates - offering insights into mechanisms behind some congenital abnormalities. Naomi's lab👉 moris-lab.com

📢 Calling early career biomedical researchers across the UK and Ireland. Wanted 🫵 Wow-factor proposals from stellar ECRs based in Ireland for #ListerPrize2027. Fellows, HoDs, research professionals, managers. Support the initiative. And repost 🙏 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/news/backing...

🎉 We’ve passed the @amrc-uk.bsky.social Expert Review Audit! Meeting AMRC's 6 principles of expert review confirms that we use robust and rigorous research funding processes, helping us to fund the best research and driving better health outcomes for our community. 🔗 www.amrc.org.uk/News/audit-r...

Congratulations to Prof Catherine Godson on receiving the John Vane Medal. A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding contributions to biomedical research. Proud moment for UCD. Read more: bit.ly/4wsKVK4 #UCD #Research @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdmedicine.bsky.social

Our new Ireland Initiative is making researchers based in Ireland aware of the Prize - it's open to outstanding early-career biomedical researchers in the UK and Ireland. lister-institute.org.uk/news/backing... #ListerPrize2027 applications are now open. Who in Ireland could you tell today?

Say hello to @hansonmark.bsky.social, one of our new #ListerPrize2026 Fellows 👋 Mark's research helps explain the evolution of key host defence genes – antimicrobial peptides – and how animals can activate their production. Learn more 👉 mahansonresearch.weebly.com

Did you see the news last week on reported synthetic cells breakthrough by @kateadamala.bsky.social? SpudCell feeding, replicating DNA, and reproducing. #ListerFellow and synthetic cell expert Yuval Elani quoted in commentaries @CNN.com @Nautil.us edition.cnn.com/2026/07/01/s...

Scientists say they have built a basic component of life from scratch | CNN

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a breakthrough in synthetic biology.

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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...

Next up in our #ListerPrize2026 showcase: @lautenschlagerlab.bsky.social at @ucllifesciences.bsky.social. Her group studies how phase separation of alpha-synuclein and associated proteins influences precise 3D layouts and dynamics at nerve terminals. Janin's lab 👉 www.lautenschlager-lab.com

@chrisgreene.bsky.social is one of our new #ListerPrize2026 Fellows, based at @rcsi.bsky.social Dublin. He investigates differences in patterning of cerebral vasculature between brain hemispheres. Does this shape cognitive functions and is this disrupted in schizophrenia? people.rcsi.com/chrisgreene

We welcome Anjali Hinch @anjalihinch.bsky.social as one of our #ListerPrize2026 winners👏 Her team at @dunnschool.bsky.social studies complex protein-DNA interactions and how ageing damages the genomes of human oocytes (egg cells). More about Anjali's lab 👉 germlinegenomics.site.ox.ac.uk/homepage

New paper from former #Listerfellow @markdodding.bsky.social and collaborators 👇 Includes a "comprehensive compendium of de novo variants identified from our cohort as a resource for additional gene discovery."

We were pleased to contribute to this important study led by Michael Zech (Munich), in collaboration with Roberto Steiner (Padova/KCL), linking de novo mutations that disrupt kinesin-1 cargo recognition to the neurological movement disorder dystonia. www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

This is Iva Tchasovnikarova, one of our #ListerPrize2026 winners. She studies the interplay between chromatin regulation, epigenetics and disease - and how pathways could be exploited therapeutically. @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social Check out her team and papers 👉️ www.tchasovnikarova-lab.org