Naomi Pollock
Membrane protein biochemist, apprentice biophysicist and SMALP enthusiast; Lecturer in Biosciences at Aston University, UK.
- Reposted by Naomi PollockWe are online! Apply, repost, inform all your amazing colleagues and lets have a great #lipidlove time in Dresden meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...
- Ups we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove
- Reposted by Naomi PollockResearchers of @hellmichgroup.bsky.social at #UniJena Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social have deciphered a key mechanism of antibiotic resistance. They showed how the bacterium applies the energy required to transport the drug out of its cell. ➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/381040/sp...
- Reposted by Naomi Pollock🚨My lab is hiring a postdoc!🚨 If you’re interested in working out the mechanism and physiological impact of bacterial lipid transport processes then please apply! Job advert is here: tinyurl.com/4swddfda Get in touch by email (c.mulligan@kent.ac.uk) for informal enquiries Please repost! Thanks!
- Spent the afternoon introducing some 16/17 year old to the magic of automatic pipettes @astonuniversity.bsky.social @astonaime.bsky.social. They were genuinely excited about it, and made some fun images. Wholesome.
- Reposted by Naomi PollockThe CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th. nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
- Reposted by Naomi Pollock🚨🚨🚨 We are launching the 2nd application round for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Program MemBioMed, offering cutting-edge training on exploring the complex behavior of cellular membranes & unlocking their therapeutic potential. Students can apply here: life.univ-cotedazur.eu/internationa...
- PhD project alert: the excellent MIBTP programme is open for applications. I am offering an exciting project on endogenous membrane protein complexes, jointly supervised with @alangoddard.bsky.social. Please spread the word! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
- This captures the reason I went on strike in 2023. The lack of solidarity from bioscientists for the wider university community was shocking. I imagine it's because we remain *relatively* well funded.
- ECRs have full-time research posts (still fixed-term and shorter than they used to be IMO). I was scandalised when I learned how many excellent ECRs in arts and humanities lead whole modules on fixed term/zero hours contracts, and do research unpaid to try to stay in the game. It's exploitative.
- Reposted by Naomi PollockThanks to @snsf.ch, we are hiring two PhD students to investigate frontier topics in lipid biology using a combination of MD simulations and experiments. Preferred starting date: ASAP. Fribourg - and Switzerland - are quite nice, for both work and private life! Please spread the word!
- Job alert! We are advertising for a network manager for our new BBSRC network IMPALA. Want to organise meetings, promote discussion and help to spread the word about SMALPs to membrane protein researchers in academia and industry? Apply here: jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
- Led by Alice Rothnie (@astonaime.bsky.social), @stemuench.bsky.social, @byrnelabicl.bsky.social, plus Paula Booth at KCL/Crick, Tim Dafforn at UoB, and Andrew Quigley (@diamondlightsource.bsky.social), it's going to be a great 3 years of community building and problem solving. Join us!
- Another inspiring story to remind me that the painstaking, frustrating and often slow work of science is worthwhile.
- Huntington’s is one of the cruellest and most complicated diseases. But look what human ingenuity and hard work in the service of love can do! Truly inspiring and a rebuke to all those everywhere who are currently taking aim at science and medicine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Absolutely inspiring to read this story of an adult with cystic fibrosis, and her life since starting to take the new drugs. This is what science is for (in my very biased opinion). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
- On Friday, my 2 year old had her third trip (5th if you count in utero) to @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to drop off samples. Start 'em young...
- I just love going there so much. The local scientists are brilliant and generous. The sense of community and shared endeavour is palpable (and probably measurable on one of the beamlines).
- Reposted by Naomi PollockThe costs of #antimicrobial resistance 🦠 continue to rise 📈. The Center for Global Development reports that by 2050 #AMR could shrink the global economy by US$1.7T. Improving treatments and funding development of new antimicrobials 💊 could save millions of lives and billions in healthcare costs.
- Reposted by Naomi PollockBig news indeed 👏 make sure you check out the post&link below 🤩 #cryoEM #cryoET #membraneproteins #GPCRs #scivis #scicomm
- Big news! 📢CCeMMP is holding the 2nd 'Bench to Art' Exhibition to showcase the artistic flair of structural biology. Share your creations to be displayed in a virtual gallery during National Science Week & for a chance to win cash prizes 💰! More info: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c... #CryoEM #Membranes
- What does it mean when your workplace has transformed into a combination of a wedding venue and a wizarding school? Graduation season.
- A beautiful time of year to visit Denmark, and always a pleasure to be at @au.dk looking very closely at proteins in the Physics Dept basement, and meeting @bjornppedersen.bsky.social and his group.
- Reposted by Naomi PollockJoin our group in the Centre for Medicines Discovery at Oxford Univ. @cmd.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk !!!! Happy to chat about any questions about the role and science. Oxford will assist with a skilled worker visa. Please RT! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- Another AIME project @astonaime.bsky.social. Pretty sure we'll outgrow the new labs before we've settled in, but even that feels like a privilege!
- 🚨PhD opportunity! Join us at @astonaime.bsky.social and be part of the digital revolution 🤖 Discover polymer nanoparticles using data-driven methods. Ideal for chemists & digital explorers. RTs appreciated! 🙏 🗓️ Apply by 1 June 2025 🔗 tinyurl.com/3xa2hkfu #PhD #AI #PolymerChemistry
- Reposted by Naomi PollockGot any great final year students who love the bench but don't (yet) want to do a PhD? I'm looking for a research technician to join our amazing AVERT team for the last 2 years of the project - a great chance to develop lab skills while supporting our team in York. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
- Reposted by Naomi Pollock📢 We have an open PhD position in our group! Come to Geneva🇨🇭 to develop new methodological approaches in LC-MS metabolomics for human toxicology, while enjoying the great Swiss outdoors & chocolate 🏔️🍫 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta... 🧬🧫🧪🖥️ #metabolomics #lipidomics #teammassspec #MassSpecRSS #chemsky
- Excellent end to my week: no special event, just a bit of writing, lab work and, after 10 months, the realisation that it feels like home @astonaime.bsky.social
- Reposted by Naomi PollockAn amazing new enabling technology. Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip. Couldn't be prouder of our friend Madhavi Krishnan of @ox.ac.uk this was and is one among the must fun collaborations I ever had. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Excellent start to the (four day) week: seminar from @davidbsauer.bsky.social. Much as I love SMALPs, I greatly enjoyed a detergent-only structural biology story.
- Plus great to meet in person someone I first connected with here. The fun, wholesome and productive side of social media!
- Reposted by Naomi PollockI got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚
