Rob White
Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. Virologist, science geek and occasional Anglo-Saxon spearman and woodworker.
- Reposted by Rob WhiteFeel like doing a SynBio PhD in Spain? Check this offer, many fellowships available 👉🏻 lifehub.csic.es/synbio-cofund/
- Reposted by Rob WhiteInterested in high containment work on viruses? We have an opening at the Pirbright Institute, working on high consequence viruses of livestock and humans in the core CL3 team. isw.changeworknow.co.uk/pirbright/vm...
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- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... It's finally out! Meriam Guellil expertly led this project from the first HHV6 detection to the final paper. We found both human herpesviruses 6A and 6B in ancient remains going back 2500 years.
- Reposted by Rob WhiteAs it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
- Reposted by Rob WhiteHuge congrats to first author, brilliant PhD student Martina Demurtas, who is now on the hunt for postdoc positions in London, she is super talented! Also, this was another great experience with @reviewcommons.org and @biologists.bsky.social @Development!
- Reposted by Rob WhitePlease RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing soon 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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- Reposted by Rob White🧪 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
- Reposted by Rob White📢 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!
- Reposted by Rob WhiteI 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...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteDelighted 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...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteHappy #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...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteWe 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.
- Reposted by Rob WhiteThis headline 🤣🤣🤣
- Reposted by Rob WhiteApplications 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-...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteNew 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/...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteTwo trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
- Reposted by Rob WhiteA 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...
- Furthest I’ve been: N: Orkney Isles E: Brisbane S: Brisbane W: Seattle
- Reposted by Rob White@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).
- Reposted by Rob White“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/...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteDo 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 🦠🌊
- Reposted by Rob WhiteWe 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/...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteOur 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
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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...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteAre 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...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteMy 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!
- Reposted by Rob WhiteWe'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-...
- Reposted by Rob White📢 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
- Reposted by Rob Whitejust applied for this - it might be of interest to other people who are poor www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...
- Reposted by Rob WhitePostdoc 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...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteSuper cool NChem paper featured in the Guardian!!! Plastic waste is a headache, so use it to get rid of your headaches!
- Reposted by Rob WhiteHello! Our Neuroinformatics lab at UCI is recruiting for our study on migraine and cognition! If you wouldn’t mind bumping this so we can reach our goal of 200 participants, we’d greatly appreciate it! Our screening survey can be found here. uci.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey... #EpiSky #MedSky
- Reposted by Rob WhiteAedes aegypti mosquitoes from Burkina Faso can transmit the chikungunya virus and Zika virus of the African lineage, but not the Zika virus of the Asian lineage www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteCome and join us! Start your group at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se!
- Save the date! On 25 June, Karolinska Institutet will be starting a major recruitment drive for 20 junior researchers with a focus on excellence and mobility news.ki.se/ki-to-recruit-junior-researchers-with-a-focus-on-excellence
- Reposted by Rob WhiteIn case you needed another reason to hate Epstein-Barr virus- it looks like it might cause primary sclerosing cholangitis: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteNew tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteAre you a public school #STEM teacher in NC? Are you seeking support in the purchase of STEM related equipment, supplies, & materials? Applications now open: www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo... Deadline: 09/30/25 #bwfprism #stem
- Reposted by Rob WhiteWe've hit 7K followers, so how about a book bundle giveaway to celebrate?! Open to US, CAN, UK & IE. Follow, like & repost to enter! Closes 9th June. Feat: @natania.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com & more! Inc. an early ARC of THE DOOR ON THE SEA!
- Reposted by Rob WhiteWe have officially moved in. Our Pop-Up Science Shop will be open to the public from 7th July until 3rd August 3025. Find us in the St David's shopping centre in Cardiff near John Lewis, Zara and Apple. Learn about the microbial world in, on and around us. Including the black death.
- Reposted by Rob WhitePlease could you help me to spread the word about my swashbuckling adventure story with a pirate protagonist, sapphic romance, with a dash of werewolves and vampires? My latest novel THE VENGEANCE is available in all formats geni.us/thevengeance Perfect for escaping the horrors of our time.
- Reposted by Rob WhiteCheck out our latest study, led by grad student Ryan McCool @rmccool.bsky.social, in collaboration with Vaccine Company. We were able to stabilize EBV gB in the prefusion conformation, determine its cryo-EM structure to 3.1 A, and assess its immunogenicity in mice. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteGreat opportunity to work on influenza virus-host factor interactions in a brand new lab at Imperial (led by a friend and collaborator, Carol Sheppard) www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteThe next Manchester IO Network #MION event is on 10 June! "Immuno-oncology Research in Manchester: Collaboration, Synergy, Impact". 🔬 Featuring @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social John Grainger & Nick Scott + @fionabritton.bsky.social 👩⚕️. #TeamManchester 🐝 Sign up👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteThat time when we took over a former 'Clarks' shoe shop in one of the UK's busiest shopping centres and converted it into an interactive microbiology lab. In six weeks we are going to open our doors again - bigger, better and more colourful. Find out more at www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025! /1
- Reposted by Rob WhiteExciting job opportunities! Two postdoc positions are available in the Fodor Lab at @dunnschool.bsky.social to study influenza virus transcription, genome replication, nuclear export and assembly. More info: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteFelt incandescently angry, might delete later. enewman.co.uk/rage-rage-ag...
- Reposted by Rob WhiteOscillations of core clock genes, including Clk, are essential for generating #circadian rhythms. This study reveals that upstream ORFs are enriched in fly circadian genes; they repress Clk translation and so influence circadian gene expression & behavior @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3GRbxjr
- Reposted by Rob WhiteLab Technician wanted! For my immunology lab in South Kensington, Imperial College London, apply here or pass it on: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMZ386/r...
- Reposted by Rob White👋 Hello Bluesky — we’re RootPath. We build next-gen gene synthesis tools to unlock biology at scale. Today, we’re launching something big: 🎉 Megabase Spark — our commitment to support bold, underfunded research with 3 million base pairs of free synthetic DNA. Learn more at bit.ly/450ip7Z #SynBio
