Calum H. G. Johnston

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

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New paper from our lab up on Biorxiv, showing how a toxin targets replication to induce competence. 👇

Offre de thèse disponible dans notre équipe au @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social
Si vous êtes étudiant(e) en Master 2 et intéressé(e) par la génétique bactérienne, microscopie à épifluorescence et biochimie, contactez-nous et postulez à l'offre!
Dossier pour le 13/06
Concours école doctorale E2M2: 8 et 9/07.

For those who are interested in all things 'transformation', here is a link to registration for the 6th edition of the Zoom on Griffith's Legacy, the 4th and 5th June 2025.

griffiths2025.sciencesconf.org

It has been fun co-organising this with Luisa Hiller. We hope to see you there!

A tripartite protein complex promotes DNA transport during natural transformation in firmicutes. Natural genetic transformation is a conserved mechanism of bacterial horizontal gene transfer, which is directed entirely by the recipient cell and facilitates the acquisition of new genetic traits su...

Pleased to share a new preprint - a great collaboration with @jessicaandreani.bsky.social and the Guerois lab at I2BC, and the Radicella lab at the CEA. Using stuctural modelling, we reveal & validate a 3 protein complex involved in DNA import during transformation.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Let's start the Bsky adventure with a job post. Still about two weeks to apply to this postdoc position on "Molecular and Structural Biology of Membrane Biogenesis" in the labs @raffaeleieva.bsky.social ky.social and @fronzeslab.bsky.social slab.bsky.social in beautiful south-west of France!

Competence induction of homologous recombination genes protects pneumococcal cells from genotoxic stress | mBio Homologous recombination (HR) is a mechanism of DNA strand exchange important for both the maintenance and plasticity of bacterial genomes. Bacterial HR is driven by the recombinase RecA along with ma...

Really proud of our new paper, my first as last author. We explored the importance of homologous recombination genes in transformation and genotoxic stress tolerance during competence. Give it a read/like! 🙂

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