@tunglejic.bsky.social
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
Less than 24 hours until CauloCon starts! Last minute registration is still open if you want to attend.
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Oh no, he is great, I had such a great first lab experience in his group!!! He will be missed!!!
Come do a PhD with me and @trevor-lithgow.bsky.social at @monashuniversity.bsky.social ! We’re at the leading edge of pathogen biology using cutting edge Cryo-EM and AI-driven genetic screens to uncover the mysteries of outer membrane biology. Reach out to me for a chat!
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Exciting line up of talks for CauloCon 2026 - includes keynotes from @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social @lamasonlab.bsky.social and @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social! Hear work from Isaac Payne and Trung Nguyen, 2 students in my lab, on Weds and Thurs. 🤩
and money/philanthropic funding!
Great picture!!!
so cool and impressive!!!
striking graph!!!
Research into filamentous actinomycetes, the antibiotic producers, is in steep decline. Loads of natural products chemistry research worldwide but not much aimed at understanding their biology and ecology. The latter is key to unlocking their specialised metabolism
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Many congratulations, Kelly!!!
In our most recent work David Forrest has discovered a widespread mechanisms linking transcription initiation to DNA supercoiling...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hey alpha aficionados - it's almost time for CauloCon 2026! This free, virtual meeting will feature talks from @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social and @lamasonlab.bsky.social with opps for trainee talks. Register using the link below. 👇
CauloCon 2026 is coming! 🔬✨ March 3–5 (fully virtual + free). Keynotes by Yves Brun, Becky Lamason & Martin Thanbichler. Great chance for grad students & postdocs to present their work (work-in-progress welcome!). Submit an abstract by Sun Feb 8. Register + submit: www.caulocon.com
I am finally a proud owner of a Kamado “Green Egg”!!! An excellent parting gift from @leahmcphillips.bsky.social before leaving the lab!!!
Preprint out: We characterise PUA-Cal-HAD, a widespread bacterial antiphage defence family. An infection cue switches a preassembled complex into an immune filament that drains dNTPs via a coupled two-enzyme cascade, and phage DNA mimics can block filament assembly (anti-polymerisation).
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In two-week time, it will be 10 years of our group. I have not regretted once joining Mol Micro Dept and more widely the John Innes Centre.
Just got word that we are a go for the Bacterial Cell Biology and Development GRS and GRC at Southern New Hampshire University!
GRS will be on June 5-6, 2027
GRC will be from June 6-11, 2027
Block off your calendars Prokaryotic Cell Biologists!
More details to come! Please repost!
Save the date! This will be an exciting meeting (+ seminar) for all bacteria lovers!!
A legend!!! I look up to him every day since 2007- my former PhD supervisor!!!!
🧵 2/7 But what about their distribution across wider bacterial diversity? And how do these systems maintain plasmids in bacteria that do not divide by binary fission, such as Streptomyces, which have a complex filamentous life cycle?
📄 Delighted to share that the preprint of my main PhD work is out now!
👏 A huge thank you to everyone involved, @tommclean.bsky.social, Govind Chandra, Ngat Tran (both not on BlueSky) and especially my PhD supervisor @tunglejic.bsky.social 👏
🧵 below!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Many congratulations, Tamara!!!
I have now read this - impressive work!!!
Check out this work by the amazing @leahmcphillips.bsky.social from during her PhD!!
Stable inheritance of the Streptomyces linear plasmid SCP1 by dual ParABS partition systems https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693275v1
Our study of the evolution of the ParB NTP binding domain across the Tree of Life is now published! An awesome collaboration with @tunglejic.bsky.social led by @jovanakaljevic.bsky.social at the John Ines Center. Thanks to editors and reviewers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Now published. Thank you very much to our collaborative team, and very supportive editors and reviewers!!!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Our preprint is now published in PNAS! This came together thanks to a great collaboration with Antoine Hocher and a strong team effort from the Le Lab. Thank you to the reviewers and to everyone who helped improve it. I hope ParB aficionados will enjoy it.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
