Dr Katherine Duncan

Great talk from @hobbslabmicro.bsky.social - thank you for visiting @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social and telling us why antibiotic tolerance is so important

Can‘t mistake Ventura!

And so we begin… the 2026 Gordon Conference on Marine Natural Products

Sunset over the Santa Ana mountains, lovely to be back in California for the Marine Natural Products GRC (starting Sunday)

Boarding complete - how about this for winning the economy jackpot?! Upstairs on the Airbus A380, next stop Los Angeles

💙🌊 Saccharomonospora cyanea isolated from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) by @zmaw.bsky.social #actinomycete #deepsea #secmet

Please share!

PhD position at the University of Copenhagen. Start date: 1st of June!
 
The project integrates field work, RNAseq, MALDI-MSI & FISH to explore composition, regulation, and resilience of termite host-gut symbiont metabolism.
 
👉 employment.ku.dk/phd?show=156...
 
⏳ Deadline 23/2/26

Fermentation conditions outweigh phylogeny in shaping the metabolome of novel Micromonospora strains: an integrated genomics-metabolomics analysis | Applied and Environmental Microbiology Our study provides a comprehensive genomic and metabolomic elucidation of the significant biosynthetic potential within the genus Micromonospora. It reveals a core biosynthetic capacity for terpenes a...

Fermentation conditions outweigh phylogeny in shaping the metabolome of novel Micromonospora strains: an integrated genomics-metabolomics analysis | Applied and Environmental Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A high-throughput biocatalytic platform for screening isomeric kainoid natural products Shepherd and Ramachandra et al. present a fast, chromatography-free method for resolving isomeric products from engineered enzymes. This platform enables large-scale screening and identifies improved ...

Hey all, excited to share this collab w/
@shaunmckinnie.bsky.social
TL;DR we combined our expertise to develop and validate a MALDI-tims platform for screening the production of isomeric small molecules (~212 Da) directly from E coli colonies in high throughput
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Metabolites 🔥 (by Streptomyces + Angela Chong)

📢Our annual Marine Natural Reports review is in our latest issue and #OpenAccess! #chemsky #natprod #secmet

A big thank you to the authors:
Tony Carroll, Brent Copp, Tanja Grkovic, Robert Keyzers & Michèle Prinsep

Read their coverage of the 2024 MNP literature here🔽
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD position available in our team to study how UPEC exploits metals to successfully colonise the host gut. Cool collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @banzhaflab.bsky.social Please share and get in touch for more details

Very excited to join the editorial board of @natprodreports.rsc.org

🎉We are delighted to welcome @kelloggnpgroup.bsky.social, @kateduncan.bsky.social & Yihua Chen to the @natprodreports.rsc.org Editorial Board! #natprod #secmet

Learn more about our new Editorial Board members here🔽
blogs.rsc.org/np/2026/01/3...

Still time to apply (9th Feb) for this exciting postdoc position in a fantastic lab @henrikstrahl.bsky.social

Duncan lab field trip day 🌊
We're back from a mini collection trip along the Northumbria coastline, sampling coastal sediments for actinomycetes isolation projects. Always great to find a way to take work to the beach!
@kateduncan.bsky.social

Loved it, even the -12C windchill!

Congrats to Peter Bing Svendsen (supervised by @lonegram.bsky.social and Shengda Zhang) for a very successful PhD defense last Friday. Very much enjoyed being on your examination committee along with Paul Jensen and Ling Ding, chaired by Lars Jelsbak. @cemist.bsky.social is such a vibrant community

Danish level = pro. When you take food bags to contain your salmon sandwich and pastries from Lagkagehuset 🥐

A really fantastic 5 days in Copenhagen (and surrounding areas) and even some snow - a huge thank you to @lonegram.bsky.social for inviting me, @cemist.bsky.social for inspiring research discussions (as always) and good friends for sharing the days with.

Starting Friday learning about engineering antivenom at Professor Andreas Hougaard Laureen-Kiel’s Doctor Technices (dr. techn.) at DTU. This is the highest technical doctorate, awarded for significant original research in engineering/technology 🐍

1hr in Paris (CDG)

Isn’t it amazing that you can culture a microbe and see what chemistry it produces? Metabolite extracts by @zmaw.bsky.social #naturalproducts

Fabian was quicker :) But yes, we have an open postdoc position in bacterial bioenergetics and membrane biology, using on B. subtilis as the model. Come join us! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social is a great place to work, and we are a friendly, international lab. Visa+IHS fees covered. #microsky

A collection of images from the ‘Interdisciplinary approaches to combatting antimicrobial resistance’ symposium, part of the 100-year anniversary conference organized by The Company of Biologists.

Our latest editorial from sergemostowylab.bsky.social & @kateduncan.bsky.social discusses the global problem of antimicrobial resistance & emerging solutions. This is in our collection of articles celebrating the 100-year anniversary of @biologists.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/dmm....

The Staphylococcus aureus LXG-domain toxins EsxX and SAR0287 do not promote virulence in a zebrafish larval infection model The Staphylococcus aureus type VIIb secretion system (T7SSb) is a multiprotein secretion system that secretes toxins with antibacterial activity, but which is also required for full virulence in anima...

New paper alert! Insight into the type 7 secretion system of Staph aureus, including locus type similarities and role in virulence. @microbiologysociety.org @proftracypalmer.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

this article features research by Roger Linington, @nadineziemert.bsky.social, @jessicamablair.bsky.social, @maxgg.bsky.social, @iruka-okeke.bsky.social, @susannadunachie.bsky.social

Why solutions to antimicrobial resistance are urgently needed Summary: This Editorial discusses the growing global problem of antimicrobial resistance, and new and emerging opportunities for developing real-world solutions, involving both basic science and clini...

‘Why solutions to antimicrobial resistance are urgently needed‘ sergemostowylab.bsky.social & I had the opportunity to write an editorial for @dmmjournal.bsky.social ‘s collection celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social you can read it here: journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Multiple Spectrum Alignment for Molecular Networking Exploration and Discovery Molecular networking is a computational mass spectrometry technique used to visualize and connect tandem mass spectra from putatively related molecules to reveal structural relationships. Despite thei...

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Not sure what I’m more impressed with - the amazingly accurate and correct Pictionary guesses (based on like 3 lines 😂) or the super tasty food creations 🤩