Sara Cuevas Ocaña
@saraocana1.bsky.social
Scientist, passionate about lungs, stem cells & genome-editing. Research associate @Cambridge_Uni. Secretary of group 3.3 of @Assembly3. 👶’s Mum https://x.com/saraocana1?s=21&t=G67oD3y535Elim0YzuazIw
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Great time at the Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025 in Leicester! Inspiring talks from @kottond.bsky.social, @jennydickens41.bsky.social @francypolverino.bsky.social
Exciting to join as part of #Dickensteam with Jenny & @saraocana1.bsky.social -learning, connecting & sharing science! #RespGen25
Exciting to join as part of #Dickensteam with Jenny & @saraocana1.bsky.social -learning, connecting & sharing science! #RespGen25
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Great time at the Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025 in Leicester! Inspiring talks from @kottond.bsky.social, @jennydickens41.bsky.social @francypolverino.bsky.social
Exciting to join as part of #Dickensteam with Jenny & @saraocana1.bsky.social -learning, connecting & sharing science! #RespGen25
Exciting to join as part of #Dickensteam with Jenny & @saraocana1.bsky.social -learning, connecting & sharing science! #RespGen25
What a nice conference with such inspiring speakers @kottond.bsky.social @francypolverino.bsky.social @jennydickens41.bsky.social
Really enjoyed meeting old and new people in the genomics space!
Looking forward to the foreseeable progress in the field
#RespGen25
Really enjoyed meeting old and new people in the genomics space!
Looking forward to the foreseeable progress in the field
#RespGen25
And that's a wrap on the Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025. Thank you so much to all our attendees for their time, thoughts and inspiration. We'll see you all again in 2027! #RespGen25
November 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What a nice conference with such inspiring speakers @kottond.bsky.social @francypolverino.bsky.social @jennydickens41.bsky.social
Really enjoyed meeting old and new people in the genomics space!
Looking forward to the foreseeable progress in the field
#RespGen25
Really enjoyed meeting old and new people in the genomics space!
Looking forward to the foreseeable progress in the field
#RespGen25
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"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."
This account is harrowing
The Israeli government must face consequences for the last 2 years of violence
This account is harrowing
The Israeli government must face consequences for the last 2 years of violence
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
October 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."
This account is harrowing
The Israeli government must face consequences for the last 2 years of violence
This account is harrowing
The Israeli government must face consequences for the last 2 years of violence
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La Dra. Goodall vive en el corazón de todas aquellas personas que, a lo largo y ancho del planeta, lloramos su pérdida. Vive en cada animal que es respetado y en cada avance conseguido gracias a su sabiduría, su empatía, su firmeza y su trabajo incansable. Gracias, Jane.
#ThankYouJane ❤️🩹
#ThankYouJane ❤️🩹
October 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
La Dra. Goodall vive en el corazón de todas aquellas personas que, a lo largo y ancho del planeta, lloramos su pérdida. Vive en cada animal que es respetado y en cada avance conseguido gracias a su sabiduría, su empatía, su firmeza y su trabajo incansable. Gracias, Jane.
#ThankYouJane ❤️🩹
#ThankYouJane ❤️🩹
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"Jane Goodall showed us what a life in science could look like: rigorous discovery paired with fierce advocacy for what you study. She gave the world six decades of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and their habitats, then turned that knowledge into a global movement for conservation." (1/2)
October 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Jane Goodall showed us what a life in science could look like: rigorous discovery paired with fierce advocacy for what you study. She gave the world six decades of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and their habitats, then turned that knowledge into a global movement for conservation." (1/2)
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Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
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I had the pleasure and the privilege to moderate another successful ECM session at the #ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025 with Dorina Rama Esendağlı, where @nubags.bsky.social received a well-deserved ECM Award 🥳
September 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I had the pleasure and the privilege to moderate another successful ECM session at the #ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025 with Dorina Rama Esendağlı, where @nubags.bsky.social received a well-deserved ECM Award 🥳
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Always a great pleasure to assist to (and to chair) the ERS Congress #ScienceSlam, the most entertaining session by far 🤗
We had a great time with Heleen Demeyer and last year winner Jannik Ruwisch.
Congratulation to the 2025 winner : Thais Tofoli!
#ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025
We had a great time with Heleen Demeyer and last year winner Jannik Ruwisch.
Congratulation to the 2025 winner : Thais Tofoli!
#ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025
September 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Always a great pleasure to assist to (and to chair) the ERS Congress #ScienceSlam, the most entertaining session by far 🤗
We had a great time with Heleen Demeyer and last year winner Jannik Ruwisch.
Congratulation to the 2025 winner : Thais Tofoli!
#ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025
We had a great time with Heleen Demeyer and last year winner Jannik Ruwisch.
Congratulation to the 2025 winner : Thais Tofoli!
#ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025
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The 4th edition of NEXT (Networking EXcellence Training) has started in Amsterdam for 60 promising ERS early-career members 🤗 #ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025 @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The 4th edition of NEXT (Networking EXcellence Training) has started in Amsterdam for 60 promising ERS early-career members 🤗 #ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025 @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social
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👋 Welcome to Amsterdam!
The #ERSCongress 2025 is officially underway.
We are delighted to welcome delegates from all over the world for five days of the latest updates in respiratory medicine & science!
Join the conversation by using #ERSCongress 📱
The #ERSCongress 2025 is officially underway.
We are delighted to welcome delegates from all over the world for five days of the latest updates in respiratory medicine & science!
Join the conversation by using #ERSCongress 📱
September 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
👋 Welcome to Amsterdam!
The #ERSCongress 2025 is officially underway.
We are delighted to welcome delegates from all over the world for five days of the latest updates in respiratory medicine & science!
Join the conversation by using #ERSCongress 📱
The #ERSCongress 2025 is officially underway.
We are delighted to welcome delegates from all over the world for five days of the latest updates in respiratory medicine & science!
Join the conversation by using #ERSCongress 📱
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*job alert**
Wanted - 2 enthusiastic postdocs to join me @thecimr.bsky.social and Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social to build complex models and use -omic approaches to understand mechanisms in human lung disease in collaboration with GSK. Contact us for more info!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
Wanted - 2 enthusiastic postdocs to join me @thecimr.bsky.social and Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social to build complex models and use -omic approaches to understand mechanisms in human lung disease in collaboration with GSK. Contact us for more info!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
*job alert**
Wanted - 2 enthusiastic postdocs to join me @thecimr.bsky.social and Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social to build complex models and use -omic approaches to understand mechanisms in human lung disease in collaboration with GSK. Contact us for more info!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
Wanted - 2 enthusiastic postdocs to join me @thecimr.bsky.social and Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social to build complex models and use -omic approaches to understand mechanisms in human lung disease in collaboration with GSK. Contact us for more info!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/
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*PhD opportunity alert*
Interested in ILD? We are offering an exciting MRC iCASE studentship which will use spatial transcriptomics to identify + interrogate pathogenic mechanisms. Working with GSK and @labrawlins.bsky.social as part of a large collaboration:
www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/mrc-doctoral...
Interested in ILD? We are offering an exciting MRC iCASE studentship which will use spatial transcriptomics to identify + interrogate pathogenic mechanisms. Working with GSK and @labrawlins.bsky.social as part of a large collaboration:
www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/mrc-doctoral...
MRC Doctoral Training Programme iCASE PhD Studentships |
www.medschl.cam.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
*PhD opportunity alert*
Interested in ILD? We are offering an exciting MRC iCASE studentship which will use spatial transcriptomics to identify + interrogate pathogenic mechanisms. Working with GSK and @labrawlins.bsky.social as part of a large collaboration:
www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/mrc-doctoral...
Interested in ILD? We are offering an exciting MRC iCASE studentship which will use spatial transcriptomics to identify + interrogate pathogenic mechanisms. Working with GSK and @labrawlins.bsky.social as part of a large collaboration:
www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/mrc-doctoral...
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Next up will be a couple of days in the @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social department at @ox.ac.uk to visit the amazing Helen Byrne (and hopefully Philip Maini!).
Excited to share some of our work in a seminar talk the first day and see about possible collaborations!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Excited to share some of our work in a seminar talk the first day and see about possible collaborations!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Human interpretable grammar encodes multicellular systems biology models to democratize virtual cell laboratories
We developed a plain text modeling language—a cell behavior hypothesis grammar—to
easily build virtual cell models and connect them to data, helping scientists to unlock
the hidden dynamics of tissues...
www.cell.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Next up will be a couple of days in the @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social department at @ox.ac.uk to visit the amazing Helen Byrne (and hopefully Philip Maini!).
Excited to share some of our work in a seminar talk the first day and see about possible collaborations!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Excited to share some of our work in a seminar talk the first day and see about possible collaborations!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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The full story on "stem-cell-based, tissue engineered trachea replacements" by @pmurray65.bsky.social and Peter Wilmshurst. Whistelblowers met with a wall of silence from the establishment drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/s...
Stem cell scandal: prison for one surgeon, pay bonus for another
This is a joint blog by Professor Patricia Murray and Peter Wilmshurst. Summary We question the contrasting responses of legal and regulatory bodies in Sweden and the UK to deaths of patients that …
drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com
August 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The full story on "stem-cell-based, tissue engineered trachea replacements" by @pmurray65.bsky.social and Peter Wilmshurst. Whistelblowers met with a wall of silence from the establishment drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/s...
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We're excited to announce that @jennydickens41.bsky.social will be speaking at our Respiratory Genomics Conference (4th & 5th November). You can read more about Jenny's work here: le.ac.uk/genetic-epid...
Speaker biographies | Genetic Epidemiology | University of Leicester
Speakers
le.ac.uk
August 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
We're excited to announce that @jennydickens41.bsky.social will be speaking at our Respiratory Genomics Conference (4th & 5th November). You can read more about Jenny's work here: le.ac.uk/genetic-epid...
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‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones
‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones
Parents watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer, as experts confirm famine is currently playing out
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones
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New preprint alert! Endogenous gene editing of alveolar organoids to investigate mechanisms of epithelial dysfunction in familial ILD. Kudos first author @eimearrutherford.bsky.social and thanks @thecimr.bsky.social @labrawlins.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Endogenous gene editing of alveolar organoids reveals that expression of pathogenic variant SFTPC-I73T disrupts endosomal function, epithelial polarity and wound healing
Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a fatal lung disease of progressive lung parenchymal scarring caused by the aberrant response of an alveolar epithelium repeatedly exposed to injury. Under...
www.biorxiv.org
July 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New preprint alert! Endogenous gene editing of alveolar organoids to investigate mechanisms of epithelial dysfunction in familial ILD. Kudos first author @eimearrutherford.bsky.social and thanks @thecimr.bsky.social @labrawlins.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Such a rewarding experience to host these ASTP students and guide them through an exciting weak of science discovery @thecimr.bsky.social
I’m glad I could convey the importance of sterile conditions in cell culture 😂😂
I’m glad I could convey the importance of sterile conditions in cell culture 😂😂
We're loving hosting students for the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social ASTP programme, along with @mrc-mbu.bsky.social . As ever, so impressed with the next generation of scientists!
July 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Such a rewarding experience to host these ASTP students and guide them through an exciting weak of science discovery @thecimr.bsky.social
I’m glad I could convey the importance of sterile conditions in cell culture 😂😂
I’m glad I could convey the importance of sterile conditions in cell culture 😂😂
Such a nice picnic time yesterday with my new labs @profmarciniak.bsky.social & @jennydickens41.bsky.social @thecimr.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
July 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Such a nice picnic time yesterday with my new labs @profmarciniak.bsky.social & @jennydickens41.bsky.social @thecimr.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
I feel so lucky to be able to live & raise my baby in this place. #learningflowers #spring #ClayFarmcommunitygarden #Trumpington #Cambridge #workingmum
June 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I feel so lucky to be able to live & raise my baby in this place. #learningflowers #spring #ClayFarmcommunitygarden #Trumpington #Cambridge #workingmum
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Interested in lung epithelial ageing in IPF? Check out our new review - just landed in Thorax @drrjhewitt.bsky.social @lpearmain.bsky.social thorax.bmj.com/content/thor...
thorax.bmj.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Interested in lung epithelial ageing in IPF? Check out our new review - just landed in Thorax @drrjhewitt.bsky.social @lpearmain.bsky.social thorax.bmj.com/content/thor...
Our just published review summarises interesting Insights into interstitial lung disease pathogenesis from a translational science point of view publications.ersnet.org/content/brea...
May 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Our just published review summarises interesting Insights into interstitial lung disease pathogenesis from a translational science point of view publications.ersnet.org/content/brea...