The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine@ListerInstitute

Nurturing the future leaders in biomedical research. Also on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/thelisterin… and LinkedIn.

 London, UK
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Joined January 2022
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Excellent read from Lister Fellow @nmoris at @TheCrick and co-authors on "What are the morally relevant features of stem-cell-based embryo models?" A good intro to the ethical dimensions behind the research of one of our latest Lister Prize winners. progress.org.uk/what-are-the…
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With co-authors @AMartinezArias, @icreacommunity. @MartinPera, @jacksonlab. @NRivron, IMBA Vienna. @SermonKaren, @ESHRE. Nienke De Graeff, @LUMC_Leiden.
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Full paper published April 2026 in @NatureCellBio ⤵️ nature.com/articles/s41556-0…

Morally relevant features warranting ethical oversight in human stem cell-based embryo models

Nature Cell Biology - This Perspective presents a set of attributes by which to evaluate human stem cell-based embryo models that not only include morally relevant embryo features but also take...

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The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine retweeted
Joe Marsh@jmarshlab
Oct 27
New preprint: clear signs that variant effect predictors are now shaping ClinVar labels. Good for clinical use, but it creates circularity: predictors are trained, benchmarked and calibrated on labels that predictors helped create. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Variant effect predictors are shaping the ClinVar classifications used to train and evaluate them

Variant effect predictors (VEPs) are playing an increasingly influential role in clinical variant classification. Following recent calibration efforts and the development of points-based classifica...

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There's lots of debate among researchers, funders, institutions and publishers around how science is shared. On the back of Open Access Week #OAWeek, discover the "secret second life" of Lister Fellow Mark Hanson alongside his amazing Drosophila work. lister-institute.org.uk/news…
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Mark's contentions around open access publishing are in his 2024 paper "The strain on scientific publishing" direct.mit.edu/qss/article/5…

The strain on scientific publishing

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years;...

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How does the scientific publishing model work for you? What should change? Repost, comment, join the debate 🔁
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Congrats to Lister Fellow Liz Ballou @BallouLab et al. on new paper in @PLOSBiology to characterise the titanide: an understudied cell type (just 2-4 micrometres across) of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.👏
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Very early days, but the work opens up many avenues of new research to fully understand how the titanide cell type may cause infection, drive pathology but also be a targeted for antifungal regimens. Full paper 👉 journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…

The Cryptococcus neoformans titanide is a pathogenic cell type that arises from typical yeast cells...

Cryptococcus neoformans cells can adopt many different phenotypes during infection. This study uses microfluidics to show that one such form, titanides, arise from typical yeast cells and form a...

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Our congrats to co-authors Abigail Potton, Iana Kalinina, Sandra Catania, @gordon_d_brown and Dora E. Corzo-Leon aka @forestcita at MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @MRCcmm at @UniofExeter and Maria Makarova aka @MashaUOB at @UoB_MSS @unibirmingham 🫶
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The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine retweeted
Tim Blower@BlowerLab
Oct 15
For all phage defence pholks - registration for the Symposium on the Immune Systems of Bacteria 2027 is now open! 20-22nd July, 2027, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. See you there! sisb2027.info/

Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria 2027

Visit the post for more.

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Lister Fellow @anjali_hinch is one of just 5 researchers awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Biological Sciences😍We are proud to support her excellent research in this field through her Lister Prize. Congratulations 👏 @LeverhulmeTrust @UniofOxford 👉path.ox.ac.uk/news-article/a…
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UKRI Enabling AI adoption across science and engineering. A funding call announcement that might pique the interest of Lister community members 👇 ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-en…

UKRI Enabling AI adoption across science and engineering

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Also check out UKAIRS, the UK AI Research Symposium. 🗓️24-25 November 2026 📌John McIntyre Conference Centre, University of Edinburgh ukairs.ac.uk/Home/Welcome
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Human Cell Atlas@humancellatlas
Oct 20
As we celebrate a decade of collaboration, HCA Co-Founder Sarah Teichmann shares why she and Aviv Regev joined forces to bring this international scientific consortium together. Hear Sarah tell the story. @teichlab #HumanCellAtlas
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Do something amazing today. Leaving a legacy to the Lister Institute makes a statement: "I believe the next discovery is worth backing, even if I never see it myself.” lister-institute.org.uk/news…
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Congrats to Lister Fellow @JohnathanCK1 and collaborators, selected by @TargetALS_fdn for an award through its Biomarker Consortia Program. 🧵1/3 targetals.org/news/announcin…

Announcing the 2026 Biomarker Consortia Awards - Target ALS

Target ALS is proud to announce that three consortia have been selected for awards through our Biomarker Consortia Program. As new therapeutics begin moving the needle for people with ALS, the field...

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The team will use proteomic data from Target ALS @UniofOxford @sheffielduni and @WeizmannScience to model signatures of disease progression. With partner @biogen the team will validate biomarkers of treatment effectiveness with data from former and ongoing clinical studies. 🧵2/3
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Congrats to Alexander Thompson @NDCNOxford , @eran_hornstein (Weizmann Institute) and Carrie Rubel (Biogen) 👏
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