Just in time for Becca’s thesis submission, their paper on MreB membrane interactions is published in @biophysj.bsky.social: www.cell.com/biophysj/ful... 🎉

I joined School of Life Sciences 3 months ago and these guys have been so welcoming. Gibbet Hill Rovers making it feel like being apart of a community instantly. Thanks to @davidroper2.bsky.social for helping me get involved. Looking forward to season 3!

People get special things engraved…. We got cryo-EM pucks engraved.
Now time to make some samples @jeremykeown.bsky.social

Great opportunity to do a PhD with Giusy and co in Glasgow!

Anyone else had a circuit board blow on a Sorval ultracentrifuge in the recent past?

Two PhD theses submitted to day from @warwicklifesci.bsky.social Kate Willett from my lab and Becca Bailey from @pstansfeld.bsky.social. Supervisor of one, internal examiner for another!

Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria Gene redundancy complicates systematic characterization of gene function as single-gene deletions may not produce discernible phenotypes. We report dual transposon sequencing (dual Tn-seq), a platform...

New from Chris Sham at NUS www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lovely trip back to @UniOfYork to the carbohydrate group meeting of the @RoySocChem. Old friends and familiar places

It’s been my honour and privilege to co-organise the Great Wall Symposium with @ivo-boneca.bsky.social for the past 14 years, roll on 2027 more news soon.

And that’s a wrap on the Great Wall Symposium 2025!
Roll on 2027, venue to be confirmed shortly …

Natural product-derived compounds in clinical trials and drug approvals Covering: January 2014–June 2025. Previous review: Natural Product Reports, 2014, 31, 1612Natural products (NPs) have long been foundational in medicine, from ancient herbal remedies to the discovery ...

Want to know what natural products are in clinical trials? Read this review! Great job from Mark Butler, Rob Capon, Mark Blaskovich! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

#naturalproducts #antibiotic #amr #drugdiscovery #drug

Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding We’re introducing a new flexible research grant and removing closing dates from our board funding opportunities.

ICYMI: Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding #MRC #AcademicSky

And we are off! Professor Tame of Yokohama City University starts his first experiment as part of his sabbatical thanks to an IAS fellowship here

Uridine as a potentiator of aminoglycosides through activation of carbohydrate transporters Uridine boosts aminoglycoside treatment efficiency against antibiotic-susceptible as well as antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains.

So excited our antibiotic potentiation story is out 🤩 Led by the extraordinary @manonlang.bsky.social with @fox-science.bsky.social & @amazeld.bsky.social +amazing collaborators @immunobladder.bsky.social @imaneelmeouche.bsky.social 🦠 We believe it can make a difference in #AMR infections!

How it’s started, how it’s going …

Have fun in Paris!

That or you are not sharing that chimkin sandwich in your hand…

Yep, totally agree.

I have no issue with constructive criticism or different viewpoints and opinions, which is a very instructive part of the writting process, but don’t reject a paper on a single myopic issue because you have fundamentally no understanding of what you are being critical of

I recently submitted a paper to a journal and got some of the most ridiculous negative feedback I’ve ever seen citing lack of rigour in experiments and writing. Without going into details, I responded pointing out a lack of rigour in the referees comments to begin with.

Get well soon, you have horses to ride!!!

Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

Parallel study for Uk/Europe required?

Sounds like an interesting programme!

Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria Archaea regularly interact with bacteria but reports of archaea killing bacteria are very rare. This study shows that many archaea encode peptidoglycan hydrolases, which specifically target bacterial ...

Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it?

Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

60 is the new 40, I have it on good authority from a friend…

The clinical impact and dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter: a genome-based study in China | Microbiology Spectrum Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter (CPEn) causes difficult-to-treat infections and has emerged globally as a significant antimicrobial resistance threat. Here, we generated genome sequences of 128 CPEn clinical isolates with accompanying clinical data. ...

Latest study with the super-human friend that is Zong. Gen epi of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter in China. Lots of within and between hospital spread and increasing in incidence

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Appen it was..

Professors Roper and Tame visited Hadrians wall today and contemplated the eternal philosophical question of “what did the romans….”🤣

UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit

'UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme'

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