Also a big thank you to my amazing supervisors and mentors @thejoanasilva.bsky.social and @liamfaller.bsky.social for all you taught me during these years. Finally thanks to my paranymphs @ferhatalkan.bsky.social, @ipaniaguacabana.bsky.social, @nunopadrao.bsky.social, Domenica for being by my side

Last Thursday I defended my PhD at @erasmusmc.bsky.social Thank you so much to all that joined the defence and to @maxkoppers.bsky.social, @madelonmaurice.bsky.social, Celia Berkers and Vered Raz for the great scientific discussion.

What do the naked mole rat and bowhead whale (lives to ~200 years) have in common to explain their remarkable longevity?
Enhanced DNA repair
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
erictopol.substack.com/p/a-long-awa...

First ad for a position in my new lab at the University of Bristol! If you are looking for a fully funded PhD in cutting edge science that will be based in a supportive environment, and in a great city, check out the link below!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A warm welcome to our new lab members!

Matteo Poncina 🇮🇹 starting his PhD in the Adaptmet ITN

Inés Panigua Cabana 🇪🇸 joining us for her postdoc

Alessandro Gigliotti 🇨🇭 & Juan Daniel Martin del Campo Flores 🇲🇽 doing their master thesis research with us

Looking forward to exciting science together 🙌 🧪

How can we reawaken the body’s own anti-viral defenses to fight brain cancer?

Delighted to share our new study where we now answer this question, led by the brilliant @alvarezprado.bsky.social who is now an independent PI at LIH Luxembourg 👏👏

#BrainTIME 🧠🦠🧪
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Celebrating 2️⃣0️⃣ years of the Joyce Lab 🎉

We had an amazing reunion, bringing together past & present lab members from Lausanne & NYC 🏔️🗽

Huge thanks to everyone who came from around the world, shared science & happy memories and together made this milestone really special 😍

#JoyceLab20 #ProudMentor

Happy to share our review on the cellular responses to RNA damage 🥂

Congrats to joined first authors Jacqueline Cordes & @shubozhao.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

"I've spent over five decades as a scientist in academia and the federal government," Harold Varmus, the former director of the N.I.H., writes in a guest essay. "Never before have I seen my profession so politicized as it is now under the Trump administration."

How can we build an Al virtual cell that simulates all functions and interactions of a cell? How will it transform research and drive breakthroughs in programmable biology, drug discovery and personalized medicine?

Take a look at our paper in @cellpress.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

📢 Applications for the NKI PhD program open from Jan 1 - Feb 28. Join our international research community in Amsterdam, working in cancer biology, AI research & life sciences with leading scientists and top facilities #PhD #CancerResearch More info: bit.ly/3O4bOjq

Such an incredible find @nightsciencepod.bsky.social! Inspiring and thought-provoking — would love to see it in every PhD/postdoc starting package!