It's that time of year! Join us in welcoming our new postgraduate students at University of Cambridge. We have a record-breaking 14 new Master's and 23 new PhD students, and we're thrilled to have them!

Applications are now open for the 2026-2027 MPhil - find more details on our website!

Thanks to the speakers for sharing their work at the Seminar yesterday! This week we heard from Greta Baltusyte, PhD student in the Han group, and Angel Shiqing Ma, PhD student in the Alcolea group.

Big thanks also to our sponsors ‪@scientificlabs.bsky.social‬ and Esco Life Sciences!

🦴 Our bones house a factory that never sleeps - bone marrow!
PhD student @juliaviladevall.bsky.social (Laurenti Lab) explores how it makes blood, what happens when the 'factory' breaks down, and the power of life-changing transplants!
Read online (translatable): www.cienciaoberta.cat/medulla-ossia/

This September, join the EMBO Workshop at Churchill College in Cambridge, hosted by an EMBO organising committee including our Affiliate PI Professor Alan Warren.

Abstracts to present are due 12 June, and registration closes 22 August.

Find more info here: tinyurl.com/ribosomesynt...

Thanks to the speakers for sharing their work at the PhD & Postdoc Seminar yesterday! Ruxia Xia, PhD student from CSCI PI @wtklab.bsky.social's group, and Nicholas Katritsis, postdoc in Affiliate PI‪‪ @namshik.bsky.social's group.

See you at our next event! www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/events

We have a very engaged @cambridgeuni.bsky.social postgrad community that plan their own Away Day. This year’s event took place at @stjohnscollege.bsky.social, where they heard from postdocs, did yoga, and designed science-themed totes! Great work postgrads, can't wait to see what you do next! 🧪🥼🔬🙌

Thanks to the speakers for sharing their work at the PhD & Postdoc Seminar yesterday - @lucaschwarz.bsky.social, PhD student from our Affiliate PI @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social group @mrclmb.bsky.social, and Yentel Mateo-Otero, postdoc in CSCI PI Richard Tyser's group. See you next week for more!

Today we welcomed Dr Sumru Bayin for our Group Leader Seminar! Dr Bayin is CSCI's Affiliate PI, and Group Leader at @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social. She was hosted by @bertiegottgens.bsky.social and presented on 'Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain.' Thanks to all who joined!

Thanks to the speakers for sharing their work at the PhD & Postdoc Seminar yesterday - James Russell, PhD student from Konstantinos Tzelepis's group at the Institute, and George Giotopoulos, postdoc in Brian Huntly's group.

See more events this term lined up here! www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/events

Congratulations to Prof Sarah Teichmann of the @teichlab.bsky.social at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social for becoming an elected member to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of only 23 international members elected this year!

Read more about her work: www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Thanks to Fiona Watt, Director of @embo.org and Group Leader @embl.org for speaking at our monthly International Seminar yesterday!

Prof Watt presented 'Exploring cellular heterogeneity in human skin' to our researchers at the Institute.

Thanks to everyone who joined for her talk!

Great turnout today for our PhD & Postdoc Seminar series! This week we had Giovanna Mantica from the Laurenti Lab and Ioannis Sarropoulos from the Teichmann Lab talking about their research.

See the rest of this term's speakers here: www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/events/phd-p...

Many thanks to our Affiliate PI Roser Vento-Tormo from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social for speaking as part of our CSCI series this week! We had a great turnout for her talk, 'Cellular roadmaps of female reproductive systems.’

See the list of events lined up here: www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/events

CSCI is now on Bluesky! We're happy to share our first post as a link to a poem from postdoc Kirsty Ferguson about working in the Institute, started at the Annual Retreat this year. See Kirsty's collaborative poem here: tinyurl.com/cscipoem