Rob White
@drrewhite.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. Virologist, science geek and occasional Anglo-Saxon spearman and woodworker.
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🧪 Training includes:
• Cryo-EM + SPA
• Protein purification + interaction assays
• Computational structural biology (AlphaFold, modelling pipelines)
Open to UK applicants and international candidates.
💰 Fully funded (UKRI rate stipend + fees).
📅 Deadline: 7 January 2026
• Cryo-EM + SPA
• Protein purification + interaction assays
• Computational structural biology (AlphaFold, modelling pipelines)
Open to UK applicants and international candidates.
💰 Fully funded (UKRI rate stipend + fees).
📅 Deadline: 7 January 2026
YBDTP – BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership
yorkshirebiosciencedtp.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🧪 Training includes:
• Cryo-EM + SPA
• Protein purification + interaction assays
• Computational structural biology (AlphaFold, modelling pipelines)
Open to UK applicants and international candidates.
💰 Fully funded (UKRI rate stipend + fees).
📅 Deadline: 7 January 2026
• Cryo-EM + SPA
• Protein purification + interaction assays
• Computational structural biology (AlphaFold, modelling pipelines)
Open to UK applicants and international candidates.
💰 Fully funded (UKRI rate stipend + fees).
📅 Deadline: 7 January 2026
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📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📅 January 7, 2026
Please RP🙏thx!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📅 January 7, 2026
Please RP🙏thx!
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📅 January 7, 2026
Please RP🙏thx!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📅 January 7, 2026
Please RP🙏thx!
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I very much enjoyed my time in St Andrews, Scotland as a PhD student. If I was still considered an Early-Career Researcher just starting my own laboratory (in my head, I am!), I would certainly be interested in this fellowship opportunity...
Are you an ECR considering a #fellowship as the next step? We are holding a competitive fellowship day in January 2026. Our priority areas: host-pathogen interactions, synthetic biology, enzymology, systems biology, chemical biology. #ScienceCareers biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
Exciting Opportunity: Biomolecular Science Fellowship Day
The School of Biology at the University of St Andrews is inviting applications from outstanding visionary Research Fellow and Future Leader candidates to attend the Biomolecular Science (BMS) Fello…
biology.st-andrews.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I very much enjoyed my time in St Andrews, Scotland as a PhD student. If I was still considered an Early-Career Researcher just starting my own laboratory (in my head, I am!), I would certainly be interested in this fellowship opportunity...
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Delighted to announce that we have a PhD project, subject to competition, on targeting and understanding the envelope protein ion channel from SARS2, and extending our understanding to pan-CoV therapeutics...
Funded by MRC DiMeN with sophion as partners.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded by MRC DiMeN with sophion as partners.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Plugging the holes in pandemic coronavirus therapy at University of Leeds on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Plugging the holes in pandemic coronavirus therapy at University of Leeds, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Delighted to announce that we have a PhD project, subject to competition, on targeting and understanding the envelope protein ion channel from SARS2, and extending our understanding to pan-CoV therapeutics...
Funded by MRC DiMeN with sophion as partners.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded by MRC DiMeN with sophion as partners.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Happy #NoKings day to all our friends in the US!
Here's a parody of "Bui-Doi" (Miss Saigon) about the protests, sung initially from the perspective of ICE 'veterans'. Sorry about the ropey accents. 😜🎶
youtu.be/FWCalxycuf4
If you enjoy, you know what to do: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
Here's a parody of "Bui-Doi" (Miss Saigon) about the protests, sung initially from the perspective of ICE 'veterans'. Sorry about the ropey accents. 😜🎶
youtu.be/FWCalxycuf4
If you enjoy, you know what to do: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
"Weird Toys" - parody by the Marsh Family of "Bui-Doi" from Miss Saigon about ICE and US protests
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Happy #NoKings day to all our friends in the US!
Here's a parody of "Bui-Doi" (Miss Saigon) about the protests, sung initially from the perspective of ICE 'veterans'. Sorry about the ropey accents. 😜🎶
youtu.be/FWCalxycuf4
If you enjoy, you know what to do: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
Here's a parody of "Bui-Doi" (Miss Saigon) about the protests, sung initially from the perspective of ICE 'veterans'. Sorry about the ropey accents. 😜🎶
youtu.be/FWCalxycuf4
If you enjoy, you know what to do: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
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We have an exciting PhD opportunity to study ribosome hibernation in archaea using cryo-electron microscopy, tomography, microfluidics, omics, and confocal imaging. @daumlab.bsky.social,
@lsiexeter.bsky.social
Apply via:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Any questions, IM me.
@lsiexeter.bsky.social
Apply via:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Any questions, IM me.
October 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We have an exciting PhD opportunity to study ribosome hibernation in archaea using cryo-electron microscopy, tomography, microfluidics, omics, and confocal imaging. @daumlab.bsky.social,
@lsiexeter.bsky.social
Apply via:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Any questions, IM me.
@lsiexeter.bsky.social
Apply via:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Any questions, IM me.
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This headline 🤣🤣🤣
October 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This headline 🤣🤣🤣
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Applications for the Crick PhD programme now open. One studentship available in our lab, starting Autumn 2026. Apply!
Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.
Apply by 05 November 2025
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
Apply by 05 November 2025
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
PhD students
Our PhD programme attracts the brightest scientific minds and is an opportunity for talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Applications for the Crick PhD programme now open. One studentship available in our lab, starting Autumn 2026. Apply!
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New research in Cell from @tcostalab.bsky.social shows how ‘pirate phages’ hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for dangerous traits.
Many congrats Tiago and your team!
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268213/...
Many congrats Tiago and your team!
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268213/...
‘Microbial piracy’ uncovers new way to fight drug-resistant infections | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Researchers have discovered how ‘pirate phages’ hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for dangerous traits.
www.imperial.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New research in Cell from @tcostalab.bsky.social shows how ‘pirate phages’ hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for dangerous traits.
Many congrats Tiago and your team!
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268213/...
Many congrats Tiago and your team!
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268213/...
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Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
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A lovely start to the month! Island of Whispers (my first collaboration with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) has won the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Awards!
www.mythsoc.org/awards/award...
www.mythsoc.org/awards/award...
The Mythopoeic Society - Mythopoeic Awards 2025
www.mythsoc.org
August 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A lovely start to the month! Island of Whispers (my first collaboration with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) has won the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Awards!
www.mythsoc.org/awards/award...
www.mythsoc.org/awards/award...
Furthest I’ve been:
N: Orkney Isles
E: Brisbane
S: Brisbane
W: Seattle
N: Orkney Isles
E: Brisbane
S: Brisbane
W: Seattle
Furthest I’ve been:
N: Svalbard
E: Tokyo
S: Recife
W: Orlando
Need to venture to Africa for the S.
N: Svalbard
E: Tokyo
S: Recife
W: Orlando
Need to venture to Africa for the S.
Oh sure, why not this bandwagon.
Furthest I've been:
N: Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴
E: Manisa, Turkey 🇹🇷 (I don't count Istanbul airport)
S: Maspalomas, Gaytopia 🏳️🌈
W: Chicago, Illinois 🇺🇸
Still a lot to see in the 🌍🌎🌏🗺️
Furthest I've been:
N: Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴
E: Manisa, Turkey 🇹🇷 (I don't count Istanbul airport)
S: Maspalomas, Gaytopia 🏳️🌈
W: Chicago, Illinois 🇺🇸
Still a lot to see in the 🌍🌎🌏🗺️
August 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Furthest I’ve been:
N: Orkney Isles
E: Brisbane
S: Brisbane
W: Seattle
N: Orkney Isles
E: Brisbane
S: Brisbane
W: Seattle
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@mrclmb.bsky.social MRC LMB is looking for a new group leader in Chemical/Synthetic Biology. Come and join us in this fantastic institute! Core funding, amazing science all around you and great collaborative colleagues are just some of the highlights. Please share the news!
We are looking to recruit a tenure track group leader in the field of Chemical/Synthetic Biology (in the broadest sense) to lead a research program within the Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry ( www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW809/r... ) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).
Research Group Leader in Chemical/Synthetic Biology at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
www.jobs.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
@mrclmb.bsky.social MRC LMB is looking for a new group leader in Chemical/Synthetic Biology. Come and join us in this fantastic institute! Core funding, amazing science all around you and great collaborative colleagues are just some of the highlights. Please share the news!
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“Today, people find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit.”
I am so here for this book. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am so here for this book. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“Today, people find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit.”
I am so here for this book. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am so here for this book. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
August 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
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We are excited to share our recent work:
EBNA leader protein orchestrates chromatin architecture remodeling during Epstein-Barr virus-induced B cell transformation url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
EBNA leader protein orchestrates chromatin architecture remodeling during Epstein-Barr virus-induced B cell transformation url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
EBNA leader protein orchestrates chromatin architecture remodeling during Epstein-Barr virus-induced B cell transformation
Abstract. Epstein-Barr virus Nuclear Antigen Leader Protein (EBNA-LP) plays a pivotal role in the transformation of B cells by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), fu
academic.oup.com
July 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
We are excited to share our recent work:
EBNA leader protein orchestrates chromatin architecture remodeling during Epstein-Barr virus-induced B cell transformation url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
EBNA leader protein orchestrates chromatin architecture remodeling during Epstein-Barr virus-induced B cell transformation url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Our new paper in collab with @hemannlab.bsky.social.
Shows IFITM3 KO mice that are more easily infected with most, if not all, influenza strains can be used for preclinical challenge studies to test vaccine candidates. 🫁🦠🥼💉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X25007558
Shows IFITM3 KO mice that are more easily infected with most, if not all, influenza strains can be used for preclinical challenge studies to test vaccine candidates. 🫁🦠🥼💉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X25007558
IFITM3-deficient mice as a model for testing influenza virus vaccines via the intramuscular route
Influenza virus infections remain a significant global health concern. Development of a universal influenza vaccine has been met with challenges, in p…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Our new paper in collab with @hemannlab.bsky.social.
Shows IFITM3 KO mice that are more easily infected with most, if not all, influenza strains can be used for preclinical challenge studies to test vaccine candidates. 🫁🦠🥼💉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X25007558
Shows IFITM3 KO mice that are more easily infected with most, if not all, influenza strains can be used for preclinical challenge studies to test vaccine candidates. 🫁🦠🥼💉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X25007558
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Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
grad.uwo.ca
July 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Are you an excellent researcher in the field of genomics of infectious diseases of intracellular pathogens (viruses, intracellular parasites or bacteria)? The apply for this chair of excellence at the University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine:
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
Professeur-e ordinaire, professeur-e associé-e (6460)
en génomique des maladies infectieuses intracellulaires Chaire dexcellence / Full Professor or Associate Professor in Genomics of Intracellular Infectious Diseases Chair of Excellence
jobs.unige.ch
July 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Are you an excellent researcher in the field of genomics of infectious diseases of intracellular pathogens (viruses, intracellular parasites or bacteria)? The apply for this chair of excellence at the University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine:
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
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We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
June 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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📢 We're getting closer to the deadline!
Don't miss your chance to apply for a fully funded PhD co-sponsored by the EPSRC CDT in Chemical Biology and BASF, focusing on vitamin production heterogeneity in Yarrowia lipolytica
📅Apply by: 2 July 2025 🚀Start: Oct 2025
📌Open to Home fee status only
Don't miss your chance to apply for a fully funded PhD co-sponsored by the EPSRC CDT in Chemical Biology and BASF, focusing on vitamin production heterogeneity in Yarrowia lipolytica
📅Apply by: 2 July 2025 🚀Start: Oct 2025
📌Open to Home fee status only
🎓Fully funded PhD co-sponsored by the EPSRC CDT in Chemical Biology and BASF-Analysis of vitamin production heterogeneity in Yarrowia lipolytica
👩🏫Supervisors:Dr Ledesma-Amaro (Imperial), Prof Hellgardt (Imperial), Dr Nave (BASF)
📅Apply by: 2 July 2025 🚀Start: Oct 2025
📌Open to Home fee status only
👩🏫Supervisors:Dr Ledesma-Amaro (Imperial), Prof Hellgardt (Imperial), Dr Nave (BASF)
📅Apply by: 2 July 2025 🚀Start: Oct 2025
📌Open to Home fee status only
June 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
📢 We're getting closer to the deadline!
Don't miss your chance to apply for a fully funded PhD co-sponsored by the EPSRC CDT in Chemical Biology and BASF, focusing on vitamin production heterogeneity in Yarrowia lipolytica
📅Apply by: 2 July 2025 🚀Start: Oct 2025
📌Open to Home fee status only
Don't miss your chance to apply for a fully funded PhD co-sponsored by the EPSRC CDT in Chemical Biology and BASF, focusing on vitamin production heterogeneity in Yarrowia lipolytica
📅Apply by: 2 July 2025 🚀Start: Oct 2025
📌Open to Home fee status only
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just applied for this - it might be of interest to other people who are poor www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...
Breakthrough Scholarship for Fantasy Writers with Low Income
This scholarship will award one talented speculative writer with limited financial means a place on our new nine-week online Writing Fantasy course.
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
just applied for this - it might be of interest to other people who are poor www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...
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Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
June 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...