Lars Jeuken

Fantastic opportunity at my postdoc institute 👇If you have any questions about a TT, life in Cambridge, the LMB or the PNAC division feel free to reach out !

Last day of a wonderful week visiting Prof Dan Mulvihill in Kent, writing a new grant. Now we only need to get it funded. 🤞

Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack BBC last week announced it had dropped the film over concerns it may create a ‘perception of partiality’

Some more background in case you do not follow the BBC and, rightly so, want to know both sides of the story.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza

Just watch this. #DoctorsUnderAttack.

www.channel4.com/programmes/g...

If you are in to "Biological and bioinspired solar fuels approaches" and Biohybrids, this conference looks very exciting: rsc.li/isf2025

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TOUGH LESSON: Today I learned how the Dutch Scientific Funding agency keeps their grant success rate at an acceptable level. After a number of submissions, without advanced warning, they close up shop for the rest of the year. A lot of work went into this proposal I cannot submit.

Identification of factors limiting the efficiency of transplanting extracellular electron transfer chains in Escherichia coli | Applied and Environmental Microbiology Research on transplanting extracellular electron transfer (EET) chains into non-native exoelectrogens is vital for advancing bioenergy and bioremediation technologies. Enabling these organisms to tran...

In collaboration with @lennartschada.bsky.social we tried, unsuccesfully, to express MtrCAB and CymA in Paracoccus denitrificans. This nice work by Gescher suggests why we might not have been successful.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

ISABC 🇸🇪 time table dropped... Pretty happy with "my" session 😙👌🏻 @kasanmaschefflab.bsky.social @larsjeuken.bsky.social
www.isabc2025.com/scientific-p...

My colleague @amoloney.bsky.social is hiring an intern for the summer in Bristol! Alex is a great person to collaborate with and I'm sure whoever works with him will have a blast this summer. biotechne.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Biotec...

I like to write a report that is both useful to the editor, while not sounding spiteful to the authors. However, I also hate to put too much work in, as the senior authors on the manuscript should given this work due diligence themselves. HELP PLEASE (especially if there is an editor out there).

What is the best way (and QUICKEST) to write a review report for a submission that reads like a data-dump with many statements that are neither supported by data overload nor by literature. Typically, these papers lack a research strategy and I wonder if the senior author actual read the submission.

Symposium: A Dutch Perspective on Mycobacterial Infections On the 24th of March 2025, World TB day, we organize a symposium to connect the Dutch scientific community working on mycobacterial infections. We will cover all aspects of tuberculous or non-tubercul...

Looking forward to seeing some excellent talks and posters today: "A Dutch Perspective on Mycobacterial Infections". #Mycobacteria #TB Amazed to learn so much interesting research to understand TB and non-TB mycobacterial infections is going on in NL: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

In vivo kinetics of respiratory enzyme networks studied with whole-cell bioelectrochemistry; my favourite enzymes and organism. What is not to like! Looking forward to reading this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Muslims experience severe discrimination and racism in the Netherlands; research shows Muslim discrimination is persistent, disruptive and increasingly normalized in all levels of Dutch society, research agency Regioplan and the University of Utrecht have reported. The researchers were ...

Just be aware: out of the firepan ..... Although some countries have it worse, a very large portion of the Dutch population happily votes for extreme right and fascist politicians. We are also struggling with severe discrimination at all levels of society. nltimes.nl/2025/03/21/m...

HMMM. I found two papers with exactly the same data (exactly the same figures, not even replotted), the same authors, only 9 years apart. doi.org/10.1007/BF02... and doi.org/10.1007/s007.... We are all guilty of repeating some of our work, but this is stretching things a bit, maybe?

I used a paper from the same Nature issue (if i remember correctly) on the structure of the LPS transporter, bound to zosurabalpin, as main source for my MSc exam on cell membranes.

Link works for me now. Look forward to rwading this.

Hydrogenase-driven ATP synthesis from air https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643271v1

AlphaFold can be used to predict the oligomeric states of proteins www.biorxiv.org/cont...

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#proteomics #prot-preprint

Another fave

Electrocatalytic Nitrite Reduction by a Monomeric NrfA: Commonality in Ammonification Mechanisms Cytochrome c nitrite reductase (NrfA) is a pentaheme enzyme capable of the six-electron reduction of nitrite to ammonia, which is a key step in the nitrogen cycle. All NrfA enzymes appear to have a br...

Excellent work by the Elliott group @profsje.bsky.social
on a monomeric cytochrome nitrite reductase. Somewhat unexpected (for me at least) is the lack of distinguishing features compared to the dimeric nitrite reductases. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Professor Jeroen Cornelissen: 'It could have been more humane' Professor Jeroen Cornelissen was employed by the UT for no less than 16 years. Until last Monday. His entire department will disappear as of 1 June. His particular concern: what about the students and...

Maybe with all that is going on in the states no one noticed, but in the Netherlands the university of Twente has fired 46 people from the chem department. One of them is Jeroen Cornelissen. A giant in the field #chemsky www.utoday.nl/news/75215/p...

Exploding GUVs. Cool. Looking forward to reading this.

Yesterday, after 34+ years of excellence in teaching & research, Dr Julian Knight gave his last organic lecture at Newcastle. Then this happened...😍 Thanks so much to Julian, and all the staff and students that turned out to wish him well in his retirement! #WeAreNCL

Vacancies - Ben Feringa Research Group Discover our open positions! Join us as a Postdoc in Photopharmacology or a PhD researcher in Energy Storage for Redox Flow Batteries.

We are happy to announce several open positions:

- PhD on Novel Peptide-Based Amphiphiles

- PhD in the Origin of Homochirality

- PhD on Expanding Prebiotic Chemistry Through Reactivity in Oil Droplets

- Postdoc in Asymmetric Catalysis

Details and how to apply:
www.benferinga.com/vacancies/

Interesting preprint from Plumere and Winkler et al. on [FeFe]-hydrogenase maturation (PDF) chemrxiv.org/engage/api-g...

Cool stuff. Would have liked to see this. Used a Zosurapalpin paper as exam material for my MSc course.

Quinone extraction drives atmospheric carbon monoxide oxidation in bacteria - Nature Chemical Biology Here, Kropp et al. use cryo-electron microscopy and structural modeling to show that the enzyme [MoCu]-CO dehydrogenase interacts with its partner, the membrane-bound quinone-binding protein CoxG, to ...

In Nature Chemical Biology today, we reveal how microbes clean our atmospheres by consuming carbon monoxide (CO) gas. A methodological tour de force from Ashleigh Kropp, Rhys Grinter, and David Gillett with broad implications for the atmosphere and bioenergetics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Even I got an email from DOE. Cannot remember ever putting in a grant as PI to DOE.