The annual Dunn School DPhil studentship competition for 2026 is open for applications.

We have a project aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms of ciliary dynein transport. See details below and please pass on to anyone who might be interested.

www.path.ox.ac.uk/project/mech...

Excited to share our latest work with @simonbullock11.bsky.social! We looked at how diverse mRNAs get selected for subcellular localization and it turns out that a single protein can recognize different RNA elements using shared features that weren’t apparent before.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our latest work! We found transcription factor SPT6 and phosphorylated Pol II CTD help recruit U1 snRNP to elongating Pol II, allowing efficient co-transcriptional splicing.

Glad to be featured in the Editors’ Highlights!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#splicing #cryoEM

Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia.

Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease?

Find out more and apply:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Great to see our story on dynein & kinesin co-dependence published www.nature.com/articles/s41..., and absolutely chuffed that it's made the front cover (thanks NSMB!). A brilliant News & Views too by Steven Markus www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Collab between @carter-lab.bsky.social & Straube lab🔬

Huge congrats both - so good to see this out in final form @chrisvanhoorn after all the meticulous and clever ways you approached this beast of an organelle. Stunning 🤩

Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.

Please share this PhD opportunity in my new lab in Bristol, using protein design/ engineering to understand and build molecular motors to control intracellular transport. Working with @markdodding.bsky.social and Prof Dek Woolfson.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.swbio.ac.uk/biomolecular...

Can I ask you to share a PhD advert at Bristol Uni please? Rhomboid proteases play a role in neurons that is essential for life- but it is not characterised. Got a student interested in cell biology, electrophysiology and neurobiology? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/56f24f7c

A huge achievement - congrats to all! 🥳

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...

International Day of LGBQTIA+ People in STEM is TODAY! 🏳️‍🌈

And for those in Bristol (@bristoluni.bsky.social), check out the LGBTQ+ STEM mini-conference on Wednesday in C42 (BMS building), 1-5pm.
Register via: forms.office.com/e/LxuMpa6nQF

BSCB Women in #CellBiology prize 🧪
Deadline extended (15th Nov)
The deal: UK-based scientist, running lab for < 7 years with 1+ senior author publication.
Do you know someone who should be nominated? Maybe it's you?
Details (a bit out of date): bscb.org/competitions...

❗️Exciting science alert!! Come join us at the BCA Winter Meeting at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, 6th December. Short talks available - a great opportunity for early career researchers to present.. bit.ly/4fDEqfZ

This year’s UK Membrane Trafficking Meeting is on Dec 16th at King’s College London (Guy’s Campus, London Bridge).
Registration closes 9th December. Sign up is here.
estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...
Thanks go to @J_Cell_Sci for sponsoring student/postdoc prizes!