Chris MacDonald
@yorkyeast.bsky.social
Cell biologist working on membrane trafficking at the University of York.
https://yorkyeast.wixsite.com/yorkyeast
https://yorkyeast.wixsite.com/yorkyeast
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🚨Attention prospective PhD students🚨
Are you interested in molecular mechanisms, RNA viruses, structural biology or biophysics? 🧬🦠🧪
We have THREE fully-funded PhD projects available for October 2026 entry:
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Are you interested in molecular mechanisms, RNA viruses, structural biology or biophysics? 🧬🦠🧪
We have THREE fully-funded PhD projects available for October 2026 entry:
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
Please share/repost, and get in touch if you're interested
chris hill PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships - 3 PhDs Listed
FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in chris hill. Search for PhD funding, scholarships & studentships in the UK, Europe and around the world.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🚨Attention prospective PhD students🚨
Are you interested in molecular mechanisms, RNA viruses, structural biology or biophysics? 🧬🦠🧪
We have THREE fully-funded PhD projects available for October 2026 entry:
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
Please share/repost, and get in touch if you're interested
Are you interested in molecular mechanisms, RNA viruses, structural biology or biophysics? 🧬🦠🧪
We have THREE fully-funded PhD projects available for October 2026 entry:
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
Please share/repost, and get in touch if you're interested
@mark-morgan.bsky.social kicking off NECB forum 2025 in Liverpool, funded by @bscb-official.bsky.social and external sponsors.
Great schedule lined up in a really
cool location - talks and posters presented in the Victoria Gallery & Museum 👌
Great schedule lined up in a really
cool location - talks and posters presented in the Victoria Gallery & Museum 👌
September 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
@mark-morgan.bsky.social kicking off NECB forum 2025 in Liverpool, funded by @bscb-official.bsky.social and external sponsors.
Great schedule lined up in a really
cool location - talks and posters presented in the Victoria Gallery & Museum 👌
Great schedule lined up in a really
cool location - talks and posters presented in the Victoria Gallery & Museum 👌
Reposted by Chris MacDonald
We are sponsoring the North of England Cell Biology Forum in Liverpool on 18th Sept
Register and submit your abstracts here:
markmorgan60.wixsite.com/necb2025
Register and submit your abstracts here:
markmorgan60.wixsite.com/necb2025
August 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We are sponsoring the North of England Cell Biology Forum in Liverpool on 18th Sept
Register and submit your abstracts here:
markmorgan60.wixsite.com/necb2025
Register and submit your abstracts here:
markmorgan60.wixsite.com/necb2025
Per Ljungdahl kicking off the 40th SMYTE meeting in beautiful Stockholm yesterday 😃
Programme looks brilliant, ready for a few days immersed in yeast transport 🤓
Programme looks brilliant, ready for a few days immersed in yeast transport 🤓
September 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Per Ljungdahl kicking off the 40th SMYTE meeting in beautiful Stockholm yesterday 😃
Programme looks brilliant, ready for a few days immersed in yeast transport 🤓
Programme looks brilliant, ready for a few days immersed in yeast transport 🤓
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How do parasites strategically organise their genomes to influence gene expression? If you’re curious, check our latest review in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social !
@biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @pasteur.fr
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @pasteur.fr
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
August 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
How do parasites strategically organise their genomes to influence gene expression? If you’re curious, check our latest review in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social !
@biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @pasteur.fr
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @pasteur.fr
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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bioRxiv bat signal going up. We have a big backlog of submissions. If any affiliates have time to do some screening, we (and all the authors) would be immensely grateful! 🙏
July 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
bioRxiv bat signal going up. We have a big backlog of submissions. If any affiliates have time to do some screening, we (and all the authors) would be immensely grateful! 🙏
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In today's issue of Cell-->if you are looking for a good distraction from the news (who isn't), check it out!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Phenotypic landscape of an invasive fungal pathogen reveals its unique biology
The construction and high-precision fitness profiling of a C. neoformans knockout
library reveals a high-resolution functional map of its genome and allowed for the
identification of fungal analogs of...
www.cell.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In today's issue of Cell-->if you are looking for a good distraction from the news (who isn't), check it out!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
I’ll be presenting this work (and a bunch of unpublished data) at 2.45pm at the #yeast2025 conference 🤓
This collaboration with @merusadhu.bsky.social has also benefitted from the meeting, as we planned more experiments on the river last night 👌
This collaboration with @merusadhu.bsky.social has also benefitted from the meeting, as we planned more experiments on the river last night 👌
July 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I’ll be presenting this work (and a bunch of unpublished data) at 2.45pm at the #yeast2025 conference 🤓
This collaboration with @merusadhu.bsky.social has also benefitted from the meeting, as we planned more experiments on the river last night 👌
This collaboration with @merusadhu.bsky.social has also benefitted from the meeting, as we planned more experiments on the river last night 👌
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1 month to abstract deadline for the first cell biology of the nucleus meeting at @embl.org in many years - organised by the stellar @luskinglab.bsky.social @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Tom Quail & Simone Koehler
Tons of open slots, invited and selected speakers all get 20 mins ❤️
#EESNucleus
Tons of open slots, invited and selected speakers all get 20 mins ❤️
#EESNucleus
July 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
1 month to abstract deadline for the first cell biology of the nucleus meeting at @embl.org in many years - organised by the stellar @luskinglab.bsky.social @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Tom Quail & Simone Koehler
Tons of open slots, invited and selected speakers all get 20 mins ❤️
#EESNucleus
Tons of open slots, invited and selected speakers all get 20 mins ❤️
#EESNucleus
So lovely to connect with the inimitable Terry Cooper again at #yeast2025 - who’s just gearing up to present after a gruelling journey to the meeting!
🙌🙌🙌
🙌🙌🙌
July 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
So lovely to connect with the inimitable Terry Cooper again at #yeast2025 - who’s just gearing up to present after a gruelling journey to the meeting!
🙌🙌🙌
🙌🙌🙌
As one might expect, standing room only for Sir Paul Nurse keynote seminar at #yeast2025 in Paris this evening.
👏 👏 👏
👏 👏 👏
July 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As one might expect, standing room only for Sir Paul Nurse keynote seminar at #yeast2025 in Paris this evening.
👏 👏 👏
👏 👏 👏
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Kamilla Laidlaw, Hatwan Nadir, Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social and team @biologyatyork.bsky.social discover that killer toxin K28 resistance in yeast relies on COG complex-mediated trafficking of Ktd1.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
July 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Kamilla Laidlaw, Hatwan Nadir, Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social and team @biologyatyork.bsky.social discover that killer toxin K28 resistance in yeast relies on COG complex-mediated trafficking of Ktd1.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Essay mills shamelessly advertising on the academia feed. CC @keithwilson.eu
July 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Essay mills shamelessly advertising on the academia feed. CC @keithwilson.eu
Travelling to my first ICYGMB meeting #yeast2025 in Paris - the programme looks amazing.
premc.org/yeast2025/
premc.org/yeast2025/
Yeast 2025 - PremC
premc.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Travelling to my first ICYGMB meeting #yeast2025 in Paris - the programme looks amazing.
premc.org/yeast2025/
premc.org/yeast2025/
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go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV
Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪
Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪
July 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV
Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪
Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪
We bought a shaking incubator for new pathogenic yeast work, but the tray came with holes lacking threads 😒
Luckily, Mark Bentley from our @biologyatyork.bsky.social workshop is a legend - he trimmed down the rack and secured it to the tray.
🔩🪛🙏🏼
Luckily, Mark Bentley from our @biologyatyork.bsky.social workshop is a legend - he trimmed down the rack and secured it to the tray.
🔩🪛🙏🏼
July 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We bought a shaking incubator for new pathogenic yeast work, but the tray came with holes lacking threads 😒
Luckily, Mark Bentley from our @biologyatyork.bsky.social workshop is a legend - he trimmed down the rack and secured it to the tray.
🔩🪛🙏🏼
Luckily, Mark Bentley from our @biologyatyork.bsky.social workshop is a legend - he trimmed down the rack and secured it to the tray.
🔩🪛🙏🏼
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Happy to have this work on the effectiveness of sulfamate based inhibitors on carbohydrate sulfatases out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas. #glycotime
The summary is: Current sulfatase inhibitor technology is not effective on S1 carbohydrate sulfatases of the human colonic microbiota.
The summary is: Current sulfatase inhibitor technology is not effective on S1 carbohydrate sulfatases of the human colonic microbiota.
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
July 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Happy to have this work on the effectiveness of sulfamate based inhibitors on carbohydrate sulfatases out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas. #glycotime
The summary is: Current sulfatase inhibitor technology is not effective on S1 carbohydrate sulfatases of the human colonic microbiota.
The summary is: Current sulfatase inhibitor technology is not effective on S1 carbohydrate sulfatases of the human colonic microbiota.
I spoke with authors/reviewers that had been part of the pilot during the biologists@100 meeting - they were extremely positive about the process.
We also had great first experience with @biologyopen.bsky.social last year.
Only issue with the model is mechanisms to cover APCs are vanishing.
We also had great first experience with @biologyopen.bsky.social last year.
Only issue with the model is mechanisms to cover APCs are vanishing.
Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
July 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I spoke with authors/reviewers that had been part of the pilot during the biologists@100 meeting - they were extremely positive about the process.
We also had great first experience with @biologyopen.bsky.social last year.
Only issue with the model is mechanisms to cover APCs are vanishing.
We also had great first experience with @biologyopen.bsky.social last year.
Only issue with the model is mechanisms to cover APCs are vanishing.
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- A postdoc to work on cancer extravasation (4-year project).
- A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year).
- Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall.
- We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).
- A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year).
- Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall.
- We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).
Are you looking for a postdoc?
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!
July 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
- A postdoc to work on cancer extravasation (4-year project).
- A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year).
- Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall.
- We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).
- A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year).
- Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall.
- We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).
Returned from the UK-Japan Frontiers of Science conference to be confronted with this terrifying effigy on my lab bench!
June 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Returned from the UK-Japan Frontiers of Science conference to be confronted with this terrifying effigy on my lab bench!
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Q for the hive-mind 🧠: What transfection reagents do people like for big constructs these days? (I am thinking #HSV encoding BACs, ~170 kb). We've recently had poor performance with Trans-IT LT1 and Lipofectamine 2000, our two go-tos. Target cells are U2OS. Suggestions or RTs greatly appreciated 🙏
June 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Q for the hive-mind 🧠: What transfection reagents do people like for big constructs these days? (I am thinking #HSV encoding BACs, ~170 kb). We've recently had poor performance with Trans-IT LT1 and Lipofectamine 2000, our two go-tos. Target cells are U2OS. Suggestions or RTs greatly appreciated 🙏
The UK-Japan frontiers of science meeting @royalsociety.org is this week - amazing line up of speakers covering very broad research themes 😀
June 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The UK-Japan frontiers of science meeting @royalsociety.org is this week - amazing line up of speakers covering very broad research themes 😀
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As April comes to a close, we wanted to share updates for the first quarter of 2025!!
April 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
As April comes to a close, we wanted to share updates for the first quarter of 2025!!
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Tired of waiting months for peer review? So were we.
Fast & Fair delivers reviews + decisions in 7 business days.
It works—and here’s the data: bit.ly/4iZ30st
#biologists100 @biologyopen.bsky.social
Fast & Fair delivers reviews + decisions in 7 business days.
It works—and here’s the data: bit.ly/4iZ30st
#biologists100 @biologyopen.bsky.social
Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal
Traditional peer review is slow, often delayed by the time-consuming process of identifying reviewers and lengthy review turnaround times. This study tests the feasibility of the Fast & Fair peer revi...
bit.ly
March 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Tired of waiting months for peer review? So were we.
Fast & Fair delivers reviews + decisions in 7 business days.
It works—and here’s the data: bit.ly/4iZ30st
#biologists100 @biologyopen.bsky.social
Fast & Fair delivers reviews + decisions in 7 business days.
It works—and here’s the data: bit.ly/4iZ30st
#biologists100 @biologyopen.bsky.social
Another cracking day in Liverpool for #biologists100 conference.
So many good talks and interactions already 😎
Enjoyed an after dinner tour of the city last night, from local legends: Sylvie Urbé snd Mike Clague 😃
So many good talks and interactions already 😎
Enjoyed an after dinner tour of the city last night, from local legends: Sylvie Urbé snd Mike Clague 😃
March 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Another cracking day in Liverpool for #biologists100 conference.
So many good talks and interactions already 😎
Enjoyed an after dinner tour of the city last night, from local legends: Sylvie Urbé snd Mike Clague 😃
So many good talks and interactions already 😎
Enjoyed an after dinner tour of the city last night, from local legends: Sylvie Urbé snd Mike Clague 😃