Fabulous supervisors include @pdchristine.bsky.social @yiliangding.bsky.social @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social caill.bsky.social @morganlab.bsky.social and many more....
Webinar on Dec 10th - details in ads. Deadline Jan 19th.
(UK students only unfortunately)
27.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The cold water tintinnid ciliate Parafavella elegans & some diatoms from the Chukchi Sea last summer- almost the end of the Arctic samples....
26.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
New carboxylases (and new pathway reactions) expand the possibilities for alternative carbon fixation cycles. Amazing work from the Claassens lab!! (Vittorio in particular, this is a huge body of work).
This changes my assumptions around what can be expected from future new cycles. ♻️
26.11.2025 07:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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23.11.2025 23:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are delighted that our Alkis Seraphim Memorial Lecturer for 2025 is Prof Ben Lehner speaking on 'Mapping the energetic and allosteric structures of proteins at scale' on 4 December at 4.30pm in the Babbage Lecture Theatre. Further details and book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/alkis-sera...
10.11.2025 12:57 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
excited to see this one with @leahtaylorkearney.bsky.social @prywes.bsky.social et al. out, bringing a truly interdisciplinary (comparative genomics/phylogeny + biochemistry) lens to our favorite enzyme rubisco
07.11.2025 20:05 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Arts and Sciences?
01.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Redirecting
🔥🔥🔥 Friday Evening, Paper Out, Feierabend 🔥🔥🔥
When evolution and enzyme engineering team up, they can convince microbes to assimilate sustainable carbon substrates preparing them for a life in a circular bioeconomy.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...
24.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
So any of these homologs maintain linear chromosomes in bacteria?
18.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The image shows several elongated rhomboid-shaped cells, filled with ovoid chrooroplasts in magenta, as well as a network of bubble-like vacuoles.
Here are some “leaf” or phyllid cells from moss Physcomitrium patens gametophore. Cells are expressing a green fluorescence marker that labels the vacuolar membrane. Chloroplasts' autofluorescence is in magenta.
Can you spot dividing chloroplasts?
#microscopymonday #moss #plantcells
13.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 94 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 0
Applications are open for a fully funded PhD studentship: "Matchmaker: Prioritising the best cell line for expressing target proteins using CRISPR and machine learning" at @cambiochem.bsky.social and AZ.
⏳ Closing date: 31 October 2025
📆 Start date: 1 October 2026
🔗 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/astraze...
11.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Improving Rubisco for sustainable crop production at Gatsby Charitable Foundation on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Improving Rubisco for sustainable crop production at Gatsby Charitable Foundation, listed on FindAPhD.com
Another #PhD project available for applications in #photosynthesis with @ecarmosilva.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social looking at ways to improve Rubisco. Details below including how the successful nominee will play a direct role in shaping the project proposal tinyurl.com/2a8szv3y
02.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 3
A miniature CRISPR–Cas10 enzyme confers immunity by inhibitory signalling - Nature
Panoptes, an anti-phage defence system against virus-mediated immune suppression, is revealed.
Today in @nature.com , we highlight how a cousin of CRISPR-Cas10, mCpol, establishes an evolutionary trap in anti-phage immune systems.
Check out @erinedoherty.bsky.social and my work from @doudna-lab.bsky.social lab here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
01.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 109 🔁 54 💬 3 📌 2
New Paper Alert! “The diversity of PET-degrading enzymes: A review”. We present a database of PET-plastic hydrolases, including sequence, structure, and function. From this, we discuss the distribution, efficiency, stability, and potential for biodegradation of PETases.
14.09.2025 06:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Sort of a recapitulation
05.09.2025 02:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We move in two weeks 😱
04.09.2025 22:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats!! 🪰
04.09.2025 20:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I am thrilled to announce that I just opened my lab at New York University in @nyucns.bsky.social and Biology! Our work will explore the richness of animal behavior, dissecting the genetic and circuit mechanisms that shape its evolution.
04.09.2025 17:13 — 👍 53 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 1
Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology
Duties & Responsibilities
We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
04.09.2025 13:48 — 👍 10 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 2
Applications are invited for our Independent Research Fellowship scheme to support early career scientists in establishing their own research groups. The deadline is 24 October 2025 and further details of how to apply are here: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind...
03.09.2025 09:41 — 👍 2 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Polyphyodont - Wikipedia
I think we should also consider the degree of our deciduous teething, the polyphyodonts have some advantages but so do the monophyodonts...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphy...
31.08.2025 17:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Professor Susanne von Caemmerer FRS and Professor Graham Douglas Farquhar FRS are jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) 2025 for refining the ways we monitor and model photosynthesis in leaves from molecular to global scales. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/royal-medals/
28.08.2025 10:30 — 👍 49 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 3
Divergent viral phosphodiesterases for immune signaling evasion
Cyclic dinucleotides (CDNs) and other short oligonucleotides play fundamental roles in immune system activation in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. In response, viruses use phosphodiesterase...
Excited to share our new preprint co-led by @jnoms.bsky.social!
Here we reveal an exceptional diversity of viral 2H phosphodiesterases (PDEs) that enable immune evasion by selectively degrading oligonucleotide-based messengers. This 2H PDE fold has evolved striking substrate breath & specificity.
22.08.2025 19:02 — 👍 43 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 3
!!! Yes!
20.08.2025 05:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Plant scientist; disease resistance; gene regulatory networks; crop improvement; leafy vegetables; vertical farming; amaranth; Editor in Chief of @theplantjournal.bsky.social
Group Leader @ The John Innes Centre.
Photosynthetic Gene Expression 🌿🧬 |
Cryo-EM
Associate Professor Microbial Synthetic Metabolism
Wageningen University | Synthetic Biology | Sustainability | working at @mib-wur.bsky.social
http://wur.eu/micsynme
Recoding, genetic code flexibility, archaea, bacteria, microbial metabolism, and the microbiome
In search of a platform that widens and deepens our understanding of the world. Less re-posting, more reading. Listening more, talking less. My opinions are my own. Some of them aren’t even mine.
Scientific Illustrator | Protein Biochemistry | Structural Biology
Gates Cambridge Alum
(they/them)
Dad of two, Professor, Lister Research Fellow and Wellcome Investigator at the John Innes Centre. Interested in bacterial chromosome organization & segregation, plasmids, and phages.
www.tunglelab.org
Plant biologist at the University of Cambridge. Mashing up low-cost DIY tools for bioinstrumentation (biomaker.org) and engineering plant biology (openplant.org)
Assistant Professor Sustainable and Synthetic Metabolism at the University of Groningen.
#C1_Metabolism
#Synthetic_Biology
#E.coli_and_other_microbes
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Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Cohost of Maintenance Phase. Author of two books. In a documentary called Your Fat Friend. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen.
deep-time evolution, phylogenetics, anaerobic protists, the tree of Life. Science depends on vigorous respectful debate and evidence-based reasoning. This is my personal page and what I post here has nothing to do with my employer.
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
The official BlueSky account for the University of Cambridge, School of Biological Sciences, home to animal, human, plant, and microbial science.
🔗 https://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/
Group leader and Wellcome Career Development Award fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Interested in data-driven methods to understand gene regulation and genome organisation.
Protein jockey at University of Cambridge, CSO at Qkine, Professor Visitante at USP.
Cyclist.
https://hyvonen.bioc.cam.ac.uk
Group leader at the University of Cambridge working on membrane trafficking and host-pathogen interactions
