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postdockatie.bsky.social
@postdockatie.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Downs lab at the Institute of Cancer research 👩‍🔬
EACR Editorial Fellow at Molecular Oncology 📝
Pint of science co-ordinator 🍻
Sunday reading of the @nature.com briefing, these photos of scientists at work is a great reminder of the breadth of scientific discovery! So much world to see and understand 🌍

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Six striking images showcase scientific fieldwork
The winners of Nature’s 2025 photo competition braved crashing waves and misty mountains to capture their science.
www.nature.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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A little shout-out to the lab, who have been out in force lately presenting their work! Starting with @alison-harrod.bsky.social talking about her work with Pedro Zuazua Villar and @naghamg.bsky.social on SMARCA4 and G quadruplexes
July 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🚨🥳Great news!🥳🚨 We've been able to release a few more tickets for our #pint25 event tonight! Grab your spot quick to hear two amazing talks about drug discovery!

pintofscience.co.uk/event/marvel...

@icr.ac.uk @pintofscience.uk
Marvellous Medicines: Making Better, Kinder Anti-cancer Drugs
pintofscience.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Less than a week till #Pint25 🧠! If you like science, quizzes and chatting with super fun clever people this is where you'll want to be!

Monday☢️🔬 a few tickets left
Tuesday👾ONE ticket left, go go go!
Wednesday 💊 SOLD OUT
pintofscience.co.uk/organisation...
May 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Fascinating discussions on the interplay between inflammation + the brain celebrating #worldimmunologyday🧠Particular fave: microglia may develop/function differently between males and females🔬Thanks to the panel for the knowledge! @Crick.ac.uk @soyonhonglab.bsky.social @claudiahammond.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
When your lab friends give you cells but make it cute ✨❤️✨

@kezlane.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A third of our tickets for #Pint25 sold in the first 48hrs! Get your tickets quick for 19th – 21st May.

Join us to learn about invisible cancers🔍, marvellous medicines 💊 and the weird and wonderful things your body does when you're not looking 👾 : pintofscience.co.uk/organisation...
The Institute of Cancer Research
pintofscience.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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✨Tickets for #pint25 are now on sale!✨
🎟Book here 👉 pintofscience.co.uk 👈
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April 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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💐 Our March Issue is online💐

💡To mark Brain Cancer Awareness month, we present a collection of articles focused on neurological malignancies (📕 image by Mikyla Futz)

🔓 buff.ly/n56aEM7

#NeuroOnc #NeuroOncology #BrainCancer
March 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Happy to finally share this paper from our lab! First authors @kezlane.bsky.social @alison-harrod.bsky.social and the team worked so hard on it, I'm proud to be on it too!

PBAF as the protector of centromere and pericentromere integrity🧬🔬

@thedownslab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
PBRM1 directs PBAF to pericentromeres and protects centromere integrity - Nature Communications
Centromere fragility can drive tumourigenesis, so protective mechanisms are important. Here, the authors suggest that the PBAF chromatin remodelling complex, which is frequently misregulated in cancer...
www.nature.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I’ll never stop being fascinated by cells. These ones are looking pretty unhappy with their drug treatment! (Not good for the cells, good for my experiments!)
February 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Super excited as my first bluesky post to share my viewpoint article I wrote for the @helloeacr.bsky.social magazine. About one of my favourite subjects - mRNA vaccines in cancer!

#KeepResearchCurious #CancerResearch

magazine.eacr.org/nobel-prize-...
Nobel prize-winning technology in cancer care - The Cancer Researcher
Katalin Karikó's work into mRNA vaccines
magazine.eacr.org
February 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM