Ian Prior
@ianprior.bsky.social
Ras biologist at the University of Liverpool when I’m not trying to lead Faculty provision of core facilities and infrastructure improvements.
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Ian Prior
@ianprior.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Ras isoforms and mutants are differentially associated with cancer and developmental disorders. This intro summarises some of the key points.
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My lab and I were at the Small G-Protein conference in Manchester last week. Really lucky to work with such a great team. #BiochemEvent #SGP25 @biochemsoc.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My lab and I were at the Small G-Protein conference in Manchester last week. Really lucky to work with such a great team. #BiochemEvent #SGP25 @biochemsoc.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social
Great to meet old friends and new! Thanks @biochemsoc.bsky.social for supporting this.
A huge thank you to all the amazing delegates who joined us for Small G Proteins in Cellular Signalling and Disease 2025 this week! We hope you enjoyed the conference and look forward to seeing you at the next one. #BiochemEvent #SGP25 🧪
June 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Great to meet old friends and new! Thanks @biochemsoc.bsky.social for supporting this.
Great to have Terri from @kraskickers.bsky.social as our opening speaker at the Biochem Soc Small G-protein conference! #BiochemEvent
June 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Great to have Terri from @kraskickers.bsky.social as our opening speaker at the Biochem Soc Small G-protein conference! #BiochemEvent
Fantastic to be at the @royalsociety.org today celebrating progress and initiatives to support the technician community. @uk-itss.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Fantastic to be at the @royalsociety.org today celebrating progress and initiatives to support the technician community. @uk-itss.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social
Our new LIV-SRF Bioscience Techniques & Research Facility Management MSc programme provides extensive hands-on vocational training to become a technical specialist and core facility manager. Applications open for Sept 2025. More info here: tinyurl.com/jpbyvkkf
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May 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Our new LIV-SRF Bioscience Techniques & Research Facility Management MSc programme provides extensive hands-on vocational training to become a technical specialist and core facility manager. Applications open for Sept 2025. More info here: tinyurl.com/jpbyvkkf
@livuni-livsrf.bsky.social
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Fabulous first volume EM image stack from our new @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Volutome system and @aliemliv.bsky.social and her talented team. External users and projects welcome! @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social
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Our 1st ZEISS Volutome SBF-SEM dataset
It's BIG!
1674 sections, 55nm in… | Alison Beckett | 22 comments
Our 1st ZEISS Volutome SBF-SEM dataset
It's BIG!
1674 sections, 55nm in z, 5nm in x and y
It's BEAUTIFUL!
A small snapshot of the Arabidopsis thaliana root tip 🤩
Liverpool Shared Research Fa...
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May 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fabulous first volume EM image stack from our new @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Volutome system and @aliemliv.bsky.social and her talented team. External users and projects welcome! @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social
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Early bird deadline closes on April 30th. We will be selecting talks from abstracts immediately afterwards so please register now!
Final week for the early bird deadline for the Small G-protein meeting in Manchester. Talk slots available from submitted abstracts. #SGP25 @BiochemSoc @SmallGTPases Register here: bit.ly/SmallG25
Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease 2025
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April 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Early bird deadline closes on April 30th. We will be selecting talks from abstracts immediately afterwards so please register now!
A privilege to work with such a talented interdisciplinary team on this. @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @aliemliv.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation
We used Hi-C, imaging, proteomics, and polymer modeling to define rules of engagement for SMC (structural maintenance of chromosomes) complexes as cells refold interphase chromatin into rod-shaped mit...
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April 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A privilege to work with such a talented interdisciplinary team on this. @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @aliemliv.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Final week for the early bird deadline for the Small G-protein meeting in Manchester. Talk slots available from submitted abstracts. #SGP25 @BiochemSoc @SmallGTPases Register here: bit.ly/SmallG25
Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease 2025
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April 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Final week for the early bird deadline for the Small G-protein meeting in Manchester. Talk slots available from submitted abstracts. #SGP25 @BiochemSoc @SmallGTPases Register here: bit.ly/SmallG25
4 weeks left for the early bird deadline for the Small G-protein meeting in Manchester. Talk slots available from submitted abstracts. #SGP25 @biochemsoc.bsky.social @smallgtpases.bsky.social Register here: bit.ly/SmallG25
Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease 2025
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March 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
4 weeks left for the early bird deadline for the Small G-protein meeting in Manchester. Talk slots available from submitted abstracts. #SGP25 @biochemsoc.bsky.social @smallgtpases.bsky.social Register here: bit.ly/SmallG25
More spacey sketching. Clearly work hasn’t fully ramped up yet.
January 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
More spacey sketching. Clearly work hasn’t fully ramped up yet.
Great to have a few weeks off and have the chance to draw again.
January 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Great to have a few weeks off and have the chance to draw again.
Happy to see this pre-print online where we supported volume EM needs of this collaborative effort led by the Booth lab to investigate the role of the chromosome periphery in meiosis vs mitosis. #liv-srf
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The Chromosome Periphery is an Essential Compartment of Oocyte Chromosomes
Chromosomes and their constituent compartments are core elements of the cell division machinery. In mammalian oocytes, defects in the structure or composition of chromosomes are a leading cause of abe...
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December 23, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Happy to see this pre-print online where we supported volume EM needs of this collaborative effort led by the Booth lab to investigate the role of the chromosome periphery in meiosis vs mitosis. #liv-srf
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Fantastic to be visiting the SRFs in University of Glasgow today! Lots of brilliant ideas and inspirational spaces. @ianprior.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Fantastic to be visiting the SRFs in University of Glasgow today! Lots of brilliant ideas and inspirational spaces. @ianprior.bsky.social
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Fantastic to see so many @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social staff at our LIV-SRF Staff Forum today! Brilliant way to round off a great year, with talks from Peter O’Toole, Sarah Barnett and Nikki George covering ITSS, TSN, the CTLS Exchange Programme and Prof Elizabeth Slater Archeological Research Labs!
December 11, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Fantastic to see so many @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social staff at our LIV-SRF Staff Forum today! Brilliant way to round off a great year, with talks from Peter O’Toole, Sarah Barnett and Nikki George covering ITSS, TSN, the CTLS Exchange Programme and Prof Elizabeth Slater Archeological Research Labs!
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We’re launching the LIV-SRF Bioscience Techniques & Research Facility Management MSc! 12-month full time PG programme with extensive hands-on training in our SRFs, as well as the operation & management of core research facilities. Applications open for Sept 2025. More info here tinyurl.com/jpbyvkkf
December 8, 2024 at 7:49 AM
We’re launching the LIV-SRF Bioscience Techniques & Research Facility Management MSc! 12-month full time PG programme with extensive hands-on training in our SRFs, as well as the operation & management of core research facilities. Applications open for Sept 2025. More info here tinyurl.com/jpbyvkkf
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In 2023 we launched a career pathway for all technical specialists at the University of Liverpool. This guide describes what to consider if your institution wants to do this too. #RTPs #technicians
In 2023 we launched a career pathway for all technical specialists at the University of Liverpool. This guide describes what to consider if your institution wants to do this too. #RTPs #technicians
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December 7, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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In 2023 we launched a career pathway for all technical specialists at the University of Liverpool. This guide describes what to consider if your institution wants to do this too. #RTPs #technicians
In 2023 we launched a career pathway for all technical specialists at the University of Liverpool. This guide describes what to consider if your institution wants to do this too. #RTPs #technicians
Reposted by Ian Prior
Check out our database of 47 POSTDOCTORAL fellowships in cancer/oncology.
For each fellowship, we provide a brief description, link to opportunity, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).
Download this database here (Excel file): research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Good luck!
For each fellowship, we provide a brief description, link to opportunity, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).
Download this database here (Excel file): research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Good luck!
November 24, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Check out our database of 47 POSTDOCTORAL fellowships in cancer/oncology.
For each fellowship, we provide a brief description, link to opportunity, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).
Download this database here (Excel file): research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Good luck!
For each fellowship, we provide a brief description, link to opportunity, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).
Download this database here (Excel file): research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Good luck!
Reposted by Ian Prior
The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact ofprotein tags on biomolecular condensation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624970v1
The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact ofprotein tags on biomolecular condensation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624970v1
Biomolecular condensation has emerged as an important mechanism to control various cellular processe
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November 24, 2024 at 12:30 PM
The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact ofprotein tags on biomolecular condensation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624970v1
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I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible!
#proteomics #bioinformatics
#proteomics #bioinformatics
Dr. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
biology.arizona.edu
November 24, 2024 at 12:39 PM
I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible!
#proteomics #bioinformatics
#proteomics #bioinformatics
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PhosX is out! doi.org/10.1093/bioi... Leveraging the latest kinase specificity maps by the Cantley, Yaffe, and Turk labs and a rank sum statistic we created PhosX so now we can predict activities for nearly all kinases in your phosphodata, including the understudied ones. Check it out!
November 21, 2024 at 6:33 AM
PhosX is out! doi.org/10.1093/bioi... Leveraging the latest kinase specificity maps by the Cantley, Yaffe, and Turk labs and a rank sum statistic we created PhosX so now we can predict activities for nearly all kinases in your phosphodata, including the understudied ones. Check it out!
Ras isoforms and mutants are differentially associated with cancer and developmental disorders. This intro summarises some of the key points.
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
November 16, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Ras isoforms and mutants are differentially associated with cancer and developmental disorders. This intro summarises some of the key points.
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
link.springer.com/protocol/10....