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Lucas Pontel
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Group Leader Cancer Metabolism 🧪🩸🔬🧬#Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Barcelona. @carrerasijc.bsky.social
Our @carrerasleaders.bsky.social fellow #NatiAlquezar setting up everything to test #Recipher to understand long-term metabolic changes in AML in response to therapy 💊🧫🧬🩸 @carrerasijc.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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🚨 Check out our latest review in #MolecularCell!

We discuss how formaldehyde, a toxic metabolic by-product, threatens genome stability and disrupts cellular homeostasis.

👏 Outstanding work by our talented PhD Std #MartaValverde @carrerasijc.bsky.social

👉📰
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3vVUP...
June 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🚨 Check out our latest review in #MolecularCell!

We discuss how formaldehyde, a toxic metabolic by-product, threatens genome stability and disrupts cellular homeostasis.

👏 Outstanding work by our talented PhD Std #MartaValverde @carrerasijc.bsky.social

👉📰
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3vVUP...
June 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Reflecting on DNA Day:
Our DNA repair machinery tirelessly works to maintain genome integrity.
This image captures the repair at play.
📸 Credit: Valeria Fabijanić (Erasmus+), during her visit to our lab
#DNADay #GenomeIntegrity #DNARepair @carrerasijc.bsky.social @euerasmusplus.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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📢🚨Deadline to submit an abstract for the 2025 Showcase is this Friday, March 21st!📢🚨

Registration free!
Speakers chosen from abstracts and non-faculty only!
Amazing poster session and workshops!

Sign up today at: www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org
9:30 AM - 3 PM EST, May 5th and 6th, 2025
www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org
March 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Abstracts are due TOMORROW! Please share!
📢🚨Deadline to submit an abstract for the 2025 Showcase is this Friday, March 21st!📢🚨

Registration free!
Speakers chosen from abstracts and non-faculty only!
Amazing poster session and workshops!

Sign up today at: www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org
9:30 AM - 3 PM EST, May 5th and 6th, 2025
www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org
March 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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🧵 Discover the IJC Genomics Unit! 🔬🧬

Our unit offers high-performance technologies and expert guidance to generate top-quality genomic data with clinical applications, serving IJC researchers and external users to support next-generation biomedical research 🚀
March 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Very proud of Dr. #Agustín Morellato for today's extraordinary PhD thesis defense. A long and productive journey for the first Doctor from our lab 👏👏🥂🥂 @carrerasijc.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Very proud of Dr. #Agustín Morellato for today's extraordinary PhD thesis defense. A long and productive journey for the first Doctor from our lab 👏👏🥂🥂 @carrerasijc.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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📣 JOB OFFER!

We're seeking for a Lab Technician for @lucpontel.bsky.social's lab🧑‍🔬

🗓️ Apply by February, 28 at 👉 careers.carrerasresearch.org/jobs/5553660...

💙🔬 Passionate about science, cancer research and cellular nucleophilic metabolites? Don't miss this opportunity! 👇
VAC_13_2025 - LAB ASSISTANT TECHNICIAN (Cancer Metabolism group) - Institut de Recerca contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras
Join the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute and contribute to our mission of innovating and advancing the fight against leukaemia and other hematologic diseases.
careers.carrerasresearch.org
February 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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📣New project to increase the efficiency of immunotherapy has been funded by #EHA

REVEAL 🔬, led by Dr. Alquézar-Artieda (@lucpontel.bsky.social lab), will focus on the transport of metabolites in the tumour microenvironment and its effects on immune cells

👉 www.carrerasresearch.org/en/news/reve...
February 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Hello, Bluesky! ☀️

We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.

Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
February 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Aside from the Keynote, the presenters at the Showcase are exclusively non-faculty scientists.

Presenters have gone on to secure postdoc/faculty positions, forge new collaborations, and publish their research.

Abstract submissions are due on March 21st, 2025.

www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org
9:30 AM - 3 PM EST, May 5th and 6th, 2025
www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org
January 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) is recruiting group leaders in cell biology.

Don't miss the opportunity to start your team in the vibrant environment of Paris-Saclay University.

Application deadline: Feb 28, 2025

www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org
More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals
Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty job.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Replying an email from a predatory journal:
January 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Open call for a Junior Group Leader position in #ComputationalOncology at Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) @vhio.bsky.social.

See details below and consider applying jobs.vhio.net/en/jobs/5412... #CancerResearch
2024-081-01 Junior Group Leader - VHIO
Under the leadership of Josep Tabernero, VHIO is an internationally recognized cancer center. Its multidisciplinary, collaborative model drives scientific progress and innovative cancer treatments.
jobs.vhio.net
January 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The Institut Pasteur is recruiting group leaders!
Pasteur is an absolute incredible environment to start your lab. Surrounded by so many great scientists, in the beautiful city of Paris.
Come eat 🥐 and conduct awesome science.
Contact me if you want info !

research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...
Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur
research.pasteur.fr
December 16, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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Long time not posting about #redoxepigenetics - today the focus is on HMCES a protein that binds to abasic DNA sites caused for instance by guanine oxidation and removed by BER - by protecing those sites HMCES prevents irreparable DNA damage www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Temporary HMCES-DNA cross-link prevents permanent DNA damage
HMCES, a recently discovered but ancient protein, covalently attaches to damaged single-stranded DNA and shields it from nucleases. Rua-Fernandez and colleagues now show that HMCES catalyzes its own recycling, permitting normal growth and non-mutagenic DNA repair.
www.cell.com
December 15, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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"What is ageing? Even the field’s researchers can’t agree"

Imagine agreeing on a cure...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What is ageing? Even the field’s researchers can’t agree
Survey of scientists who study ageing finds no consensus on the fundamentals.
www.nature.com
December 8, 2024 at 6:52 AM
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Goood Sunday, all! A very exciting curated issue of papers in #cancermetabolism and #mitochondrialbiology is waiting for you here: biomed.news/bims-camemi/... @biomednews.bsky.social #readingtime

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."-Aldous Huxley
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December 1, 2024 at 5:51 AM
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Hi BlueSky! It's great to be here. Here's a handy Starter Pack of DNA repair & genome stability groups that I found so far go.bsky.app/NvFWKvL
November 13, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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Hi!

I just compiled some of the new Barcelona cancer labs! Many more missing, so let me know if anyone needs to be added!

go.bsky.app/AkCGugm
November 26, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Hi!

I just compiled some of the new Barcelona cancer labs! Many more missing, so let me know if anyone needs to be added!

go.bsky.app/AkCGugm
November 28, 2024 at 9:14 PM