The Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms Workshop for Researchers is back this November 21-22, offering members of the UK community researching mechanisms of #AMR the opportunity to meet consolidate & extend the expertise held within individual labs. bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-res…

Come join us! PhD position in Molecular Microbiology now open in the Microbial Interactions Group at the University of Copenhagen! Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences Københavns Uni Novo Nordisk Foundation
The deadline for applications is 3 May 2024, 23:59 GMT +2. jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=1616…

Single-molecule optical tweezers reveal salt dependence of the interdomain interactions in a membrane transporter OpuA in nanodiscs

Congratulations to Lyan van der Sleen and all the authors!
Jan Stevens Siewert-Jan Marrink Kasia Tych 👏Membrane Enzymology

Cell Reports:
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'Your card payment failed, the bond markets have crashed and the pound is plummeting'

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's The Telegraph

Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints

Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com

We're recruiting for 3 funded PhD studentships! Join the GlycoCell UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Hub & use Engineering Biology, glycobiology and Synthetic Genomics for microbial production of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics! Apply by 5th May via email #engbio #synbio

CsLinker: an algal pyrenoid assembly protein that binds the RbcL, complements across 800 My of evolution and phase separates plant Rubisco. Very excited to share this work by James Barrett, Jamie Blaza, Michael Plevin, Mark Leake, McCormick Lab. Martin Jonikas doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

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Super excited to be presenting a poster at Microbiology Society Edinburgh! Please drop by B339 today if you fancy a chat about Staphylococcus aureus toxins, Type VII Secretion and interbacterial competition! #Microbio24

Wonderful hearing Imran Khan talk about the role of DtpT in peptide transport in S. aureus.
Well done on such a brilliant talk 💫
#Microbio24

Don't miss me at #microbio24 this week! I will be:
- Chairing the Skin Microbiome forum & part of the Teaching symposium
- Encouraging pedagogy submissions to #AccessMicro (No APCs)
- Presenting poster B300 (Wed PM): 5 years of Coccus Pocus +QRs to all 24 stories Microbiology Society

Congratulations to Evgenia Maslova (Evgenia Maslova), Ramon Garcia-Maset (@MasetRamon) and Tom Arrowsmith (@BlowerLab) for winning the #MicrobioJ Poster Prize at #Microbio24 !

Japan’s scientists struggle to share research despite policy push: with general public’s trust in science reaching new highs, researchers want more help to communicate their findings, Springer Nature survey finds.
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Well done Reyme Herman for smashing your talk in the Skin microbiome session today at #Microbio24 Biology at York Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research

Now out in Nature Microbiology: conjugation of a CBASS cyclase to Phage Shock Protein A. Awesome work by Larissa Krüger, Laura Gaskell-Mew and the team. Thanks #ERC for funding! nature.com/articles/s4156…

Congratulations to Maggie Smith from Biology at York (retired) on winning the Marjory Stephenson Prize - some familiar names in her talk Tessa Keenan 👍 Paul Hoskisson 😷🔬🧫🧬🐸🐍🦎

Publishing negative results is good for science

My latest Editorial for Microbiology Society Access Microbiology, as part of their Negative Results collection.

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Scrolling through Facebook and Omagh Half pops up. I know that scientist! Stephen Cochrane #fastchemistry

Excited to be heading to Edinburgh for #MicroSoc24 ! Im giving a talk on using low cost long-read sequencing to study the diversity of skin commensal corynebacteria. Come catch my talk on Tuesday 9 April 3.45pm, skin microbiome session.
Here's a snippet..
Gavin H Thomas lab on tour