Colin M. Hammond
@needfuzz.bsky.social
Biochemist of histone and chromatin biology. Group Leader. University of Liverpool.
The caterpillar, an epigenetic wonder! Recent birthday celebrations in the lab.
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The caterpillar, an epigenetic wonder! Recent birthday celebrations in the lab.
12 and a bit 5km runs in October, challenge complete! Thanks for all the sponsorship. £585 raised for Cancer Research, and almost £1M nationally - which is amazing! @cancerresearchuk.org
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
12 and a bit 5km runs in October, challenge complete! Thanks for all the sponsorship. £585 raised for Cancer Research, and almost £1M nationally - which is amazing! @cancerresearchuk.org
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
Very excited to receive this Spatial Biology in Neuro-Oncology Grant to pump-prime our studies into histone supply biology in high grade glioma patient samples!
Thanks to @standardbiotools.bsky.social and @eanoassociation.bsky.social for your generous support!🙂
🥳🧬🙌Exciting times ahead!! 🤸🧬🥳
Thanks to @standardbiotools.bsky.social and @eanoassociation.bsky.social for your generous support!🙂
🥳🧬🙌Exciting times ahead!! 🤸🧬🥳
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Very excited to receive this Spatial Biology in Neuro-Oncology Grant to pump-prime our studies into histone supply biology in high grade glioma patient samples!
Thanks to @standardbiotools.bsky.social and @eanoassociation.bsky.social for your generous support!🙂
🥳🧬🙌Exciting times ahead!! 🤸🧬🥳
Thanks to @standardbiotools.bsky.social and @eanoassociation.bsky.social for your generous support!🙂
🥳🧬🙌Exciting times ahead!! 🤸🧬🥳
That's £10 per km. Thanks a lot for all the donations!
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
That's £10 per km. Thanks a lot for all the donations!
Thats me finished my 10th 5k in October! My best time yet, 26 min 40s. Sponsorship goes to @cancerresearchuk.org
£355 raised so far, please sponsor it all goes to a good cause.
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
£355 raised so far, please sponsor it all goes to a good cause.
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
October 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Thats me finished my 10th 5k in October! My best time yet, 26 min 40s. Sponsorship goes to @cancerresearchuk.org
£355 raised so far, please sponsor it all goes to a good cause.
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
£355 raised so far, please sponsor it all goes to a good cause.
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
Latest run is in....28m15s....6/10 5ks in October! £290 raised so far for @cancerresearchuk.org. Thanks for the support 🥳 fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
October 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Latest run is in....28m15s....6/10 5ks in October! £290 raised so far for @cancerresearchuk.org. Thanks for the support 🥳 fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
27m20s. 5/10 5k runs for Cancer Research UK. Please sponsor me: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
October 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
27m20s. 5/10 5k runs for Cancer Research UK. Please sponsor me: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
As of this lunch time, 3/10 5k runs in October are now complete and £200 raised for Cancer Research UK. Thanks for all of the donations, please sponsor my efforts! @livunicancer.bsky.social
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
October 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As of this lunch time, 3/10 5k runs in October are now complete and £200 raised for Cancer Research UK. Thanks for all of the donations, please sponsor my efforts! @livunicancer.bsky.social
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
That was quick. I have reached the £50 mark - sufficient to buy enough glass slides for a scientist to examine 1,470 tumour samples through a microscope. A little goes a long way!!
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
September 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
That was quick. I have reached the £50 mark - sufficient to buy enough glass slides for a scientist to examine 1,470 tumour samples through a microscope. A little goes a long way!!
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/colins-...
Debatably, the first red brick university. Thanks to the organisers for a great conference!
September 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Debatably, the first red brick university. Thanks to the organisers for a great conference!
Landmark! Last week we had the inaugural new group leaders and lab members day out @ New Brighton's Championship Adventure Golf Course 😎. New annual tradition? I will try not to win every year 🫣😅
July 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Landmark! Last week we had the inaugural new group leaders and lab members day out @ New Brighton's Championship Adventure Golf Course 😎. New annual tradition? I will try not to win every year 🫣😅
Interested in the interplay between histone supply, epigenetics and cancer biology? This research intensive Masters (MRes) course at the University of Liverpool could be for you! Apply by 29th August 2025. www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/biol...
June 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Interested in the interplay between histone supply, epigenetics and cancer biology? This research intensive Masters (MRes) course at the University of Liverpool could be for you! Apply by 29th August 2025. www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/biol...
"Why do they call it a standard 'curve'?"
May 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Why do they call it a standard 'curve'?"
Congrats to Daisy and Jenny on completing their final year projects in my lab - it was a pleasure to have worked with you and good luck for the future! 🙌🍀
May 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Congrats to Daisy and Jenny on completing their final year projects in my lab - it was a pleasure to have worked with you and good luck for the future! 🙌🍀
Just back from Sopot, Gdansk - the Polish Riviera. Fantastic conference and location. ⛱️ Thanks to all the organisers and sponsors for the invite. 50 years of J domain protein research highlighted with a keynote from Betty Craig, amazing! 🤩 @stresscell.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just back from Sopot, Gdansk - the Polish Riviera. Fantastic conference and location. ⛱️ Thanks to all the organisers and sponsors for the invite. 50 years of J domain protein research highlighted with a keynote from Betty Craig, amazing! 🤩 @stresscell.bsky.social
R script needs a bit of optimisation 😂
March 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
R script needs a bit of optimisation 😂
How nice is this? Stratech planted a tree for my placing an order with them for antibodies! 🌳
January 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
How nice is this? Stratech planted a tree for my placing an order with them for antibodies! 🌳
Me and a couple of legends at the Merseyside against blood cancers (Bloom appeal) winter ball. Bloom supports families DURING their treatments, and research for future cures🩸🤞
Cancer costs lives, and so does blood cancer. 💪
Never forget.
thebloomappeal.org.uk
Cancer costs lives, and so does blood cancer. 💪
Never forget.
thebloomappeal.org.uk
November 23, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Me and a couple of legends at the Merseyside against blood cancers (Bloom appeal) winter ball. Bloom supports families DURING their treatments, and research for future cures🩸🤞
Cancer costs lives, and so does blood cancer. 💪
Never forget.
thebloomappeal.org.uk
Cancer costs lives, and so does blood cancer. 💪
Never forget.
thebloomappeal.org.uk
Best feedback ever received after another big grant rejection...from my PhD student 🚑
November 21, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Best feedback ever received after another big grant rejection...from my PhD student 🚑
Fantastic talk today by Claire Wilson - who is on the look out for PI positions. High level bioinformatician *AND* wet lab genomics *AND* physiologist. Sign her up. Her paper "Investigating the role of CpG island DNA methylation at 3’UTRs in cancer" is on BioRXIV: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 14, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Fantastic talk today by Claire Wilson - who is on the look out for PI positions. High level bioinformatician *AND* wet lab genomics *AND* physiologist. Sign her up. Her paper "Investigating the role of CpG island DNA methylation at 3’UTRs in cancer" is on BioRXIV: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
5/Once refolded these histones can be delivered by DNAJC9 to other histone chaperones like MCM2, CAF1, TONSL, SPT2 and SPT6 for 🪀 assembly. Thus, histones that would otherwise be wasted 🗑️ get recycled ♻️, which is good for the cellular environment ✅.
November 13, 2024 at 10:52 AM
5/Once refolded these histones can be delivered by DNAJC9 to other histone chaperones like MCM2, CAF1, TONSL, SPT2 and SPT6 for 🪀 assembly. Thus, histones that would otherwise be wasted 🗑️ get recycled ♻️, which is good for the cellular environment ✅.
1/First a bit of intro. Histones are extraordinarily long-lived proteins that wrap our DNA🧬 into super cool 😎 structures called nucleosomes 🪀. There are around 30 million 🪀 in each cell in our bodies. P.s. don’t call the #nucleosomepolice 🪀.
November 13, 2024 at 10:52 AM
1/First a bit of intro. Histones are extraordinarily long-lived proteins that wrap our DNA🧬 into super cool 😎 structures called nucleosomes 🪀. There are around 30 million 🪀 in each cell in our bodies. P.s. don’t call the #nucleosomepolice 🪀.