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Johanna Joyce
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Professor, University of Lausanne 🇨🇭 and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
President-Elect, European Association for Cancer Research
Mentor, Teacher, Advocate, Mum
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Wonderful kick-off meeting this week in Barcelona for our new @adaptmet.bsky.social PhD ITN!

So inspiring to meet our 16 new PhD students, welcome new PIs and reconnect with friends from Evomet ITN - a true celebration of diversity and excellence in #metastasis research across Europe 🙌

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Group photo of the PhD students and PIs of the ADAPTMET international training network https://adaptmet.eu
November 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Yet another great reason to live in Europe!!

Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging 😀

An analysis of aging in >86,000 participants across 27 European countries

Amoruso et al, Nature Aging 🧪⏳

www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Magical #evening colors over the lake

#blueskyartshow #nature #photography
Lake Geneva / Lac Léman painted in pastel colors just after sunset.
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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New issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬

An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain!

🧠 Immersive feature:
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

🧠 Perspective:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover of this week's Nature showing a brain rendering Cover caption from the journal: Brain development: Our ability to process information into complex emotions, behaviours and decisions relies on the rich diversity of cell types that make up the human brain. Uncovering the molecular and cellular events that take place during brain development could reveal not only the mechanisms that give rise to this diversity but also shed light on how this process might go awry in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. In this week’s issue, the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) builds on its previous work creating atlases of cell types in the adult mouse, non-human primate (NHP) and human brains to present cell-type atlases of the developing human, mouse and NHP brains. Across a suite of papers, nine of which are published in Nature, the researchers uncover the complex programs through which cell types emerge during brain development in humans and animals, revealing both the shared and unique features of the human brain. The latest work, along with future research directions, is summed up in a Perspective article by Tomasz Nowakowski and colleagues
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A place to pause and enjoy the #autumn colors 🍂🍁

#blueskyartshow #nature #photography
A simple wooden bench in front of of a lake, reflecting the oranges and yellows of trees as they change their colors
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Love our university campus in autumn 🍂🧡♥️
October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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An intense sunset over the lake, with the clouds glowing as if on fire

#blueskyartshow #photography #glow
Clouds over the lake are painted in vivid colours of pink, orange and blue as the sun sets
October 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Congratulations to the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 - Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance" including the identification of regulatory T cells

#NobelPrize #Tregs

@nobelprize.bsky.social 🧪🔬🏆
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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A perfect place to relax

Have a wonderful weekend 🩷

#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #photography
Photo of a sunset, with different shades of pink and orange painting the clouds in the sky. A couple in silhouette sit on a boat dock above the calm waters of the lake. Trees in silhouette frame the right of the image.
October 4, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Meandering roads in the Lavaux vineyards, with the autumn colours just starting to appear... 🍂🍇

#BlueskyArtShow #TheRoad #photography #switzerland
Photo of vineyards in the foreground, with winding roads passing through. Woods on the left with the trees starting to show their autumn colours. Sun reflecting on the lake in the background. Taken in Lavaux, Switzerland.
September 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Celebrating our annual international lab dinner 🎉 👨🏽‍🍳 🧑🏻‍🍳

We are so fortunate to have this amazing team of motivated scientists, and very talented cooks 🤩 sharing delicious food & culture from around the world 🌍🌎🌏

Grateful for our #international #team 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇨🇦🇪🇸🇨🇭🇬🇧🇪🇬🇩🇪🇵🇹🇲🇽🇮🇪 - this truly enriches our science 🙏 🙌
Photo of all our team members at our international lab dinner, with some of the dishes at the front of the picture
September 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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A beautiful end to a stormy day

#blueskymonday #sunset #photography
Sun setting over Lac Léman/ Lake Geneva, clouds painted in different shades of pink
September 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Sometimes the most hopeful things appear in such random places

On a mountain path, a wall rebuilt by young people from Switzerland, Ireland, N. Ireland, Israel and Palestine

“Building Walls Breaking Walls” - preserving heritage & biodiversity - the world needs more of this right now 💚

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Sign on a stone wall in the Swiss Alps describing the “Building Walls Breaking Walls” project, where young people from Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel, and Palestine come together to rebuild dry stone walls to preserve heritage and biodiversity. www.natkultur.ch www.bwbw.ch English translation: Young people from Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel, and Palestine are preserving the cultural heritage of the Gryon region from 2021 to 2025. The "Building Walls Breaking Walls" project was founded by the NatureCulture association and gives young, engaged individuals the opportunity to contribute to the preservation of the environment and cultural heritage of the Vaudois Alps. Through collaborative work in nature, the project also creates a space for meeting, exchange, and new experiences. Living Boundaries and Biodiversity Building dry stone walls preserves an age-old and traditional construction technique, while also making an important contribution to the protection of natural diversity and the landscape. A dry stone wall represents a mosaic of different habitats within a small area. These walls are built without mortar or concrete. They thus offer valuable shelter for animals and plants: lizards, snakes, and amphibians, as well as insects, spiders, and shrews, find ideal refuge, hunting grounds, and wintering sites in the crevices. Ideally, there is a strip of grass along the side of the wall, which serves as a protected transition zone between the wall and the meadow for small animals and provides welcome food for insects and birds. Acknowledgements The NatureCulture association thanks everyone for their kind support and for the broad and varied contributions. In particular, we thank the young volunteers from Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel, and Palestine, who contributed to the rehabilitation of this wall with their motivation, enthusiasm, and energy.
September 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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We just finished four fantastic days of our biannual ISREC-SCCL conference in Lausanne with the latest advances in cancer research and translation to the clinic 🧪🔬🩺

Many thanks to all the amazing speakers, poster presenters, session chairs & participants for making this such an incredible meeting!
September 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Congratulations to all the ERC Starting Grant awardees 🧪 including @alvarezprado.bsky.social & @lbejarano.bsky.social, two brilliant former postdocs from my lab who have started their own labs this year in 🇱🇺 and 🇪🇸

Could not be more proud of Leire and Ángel 🤩 🎉 🎉 🎉

#proudmentor 😊
#ERCStartingGrant
September 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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...
September 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Art immersed in nature 💚

A #shiny sculpture in Switzerland

#blueskyartshow #photography
Silver sculpture framed by green leaves in the outdoor sculpture garden of Chateau des Vuillerens, Switzerland
August 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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When the sky is like a painting.. ⛅️🌈

#clouds #photography
A cloud filled sky with a white cloud at the center, a rainbow shooting through it, dark grey clouds behind, and blue sky emerging in the top right
August 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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It’s always incredible to see what nature can do when just left alone..

This is the diversity of plant life that returned to a former peat bog in Ireland - now teeming with insects, birds and wildlife..

#nature #rewilding #loughboora #stunday #photography
Rewilded diverse flowers in the foreground, pinks, purples, yellows, with water lilies floating on water behind, and trees in the background Dense ferns covering the foreground, with pink wildflowers and trees behind
August 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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As conference organisers, we just love to receive feedback like this anonymous comment from a trainee at our recent #EACR2025 Congress in Lisbon 😊

#WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience 🧪🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩🏼‍💻👩🏾‍⚕️👩‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬

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White text on a black background: For me, the most inspiring part was seeing how many women are now leading the field of cancer research. I’ve attended conferences before, but this time, it felt different; there was a strong presence of women not just as attendees, but as keynote speakers, session chairs, and award recipients. It made me pause and realize how much the landscape is changing. As a young woman in science, it felt both empowering and motivating. It reminded me that we’re not just contributing, we’re also shaping the future of this field in a real and visible way.
July 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Love to see these pollinator beds along the lakefront in #Lausanne

Just buzzing with diverse insects 🦋🐝🐞🌸🌺🌼🪻

#stunday #photography
Photo of the lake in the background with willow trees, the foreground is full of diverse flowers.
July 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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There is so much beauty in this world 💚💙

#blueskyartshow #GetOutside #photography
Photo of Lac des Chaux, Switzerland. The reflected lake is in the foreground, with rolling green hills and snow covered mountains behind.
June 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Huge congratulations to Dr Leire Bejarano, an amazing postdoc from our lab, who received the "Young Researcher in Basic Sciences Award" from the Faculty of Biology & Medicine UNIL

Super proud of you @lbejarano.bsky.social !! 🎉🥳🤩

@fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

www.unil.ch/news/1749042...
Photo of Dr Leire Bejarano (left) receiving her award from Prof Margot Thome-Miazza (right)
June 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Are you looking to start your #lab in a fantastic scientific 🧪environment, with great colleagues, and in a spectacular place to live?

Then check out our open #junior #faculty position at the Department of Oncology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland:
www.unil.ch/dof/en/home/...

⏰ Deadline 27 June
June 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Leaving our #EACR congress in Lisbon appreciating both the incredible science and the amazing community we have - with many wonderful friends!

#EACR2025 🤩

@helloeacr.bsky.social
@adaptmet.bsky.social
@msmelanoma.bsky.social
@arkaitzcarracedo.bsky.social
@svanharanta.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM