This is the sound...of soil..
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I might be biased, but Streptomyces are pretty cool: They not only make lots of antibiotics but also secrete umbrella toxins to interact with their microbial neighbours. Streptomyces umbrella toxin particles block hyphal growth of competing species nature.com/articles/s4158…

🆕 Blog! How a Norwich Research Park Park career put Dave Baker at the centre of Covid-19 sequencing 🧬
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Excited to have been invited to talk Pint of Science UK in Colchester this year. I’ll be there on the 13th of May talking about the world of fungus-farming ants and their parasites 🐜🧫🍺 #pint24

Professor Mike Goodfellow (1941–2024): A Tribute - one of the kindest, most generous and brilliant people I have known, he is already missed by so many
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RIP Lubert Stryer - his Biochemistry was my first college textbook, a gift from the lab where I had a summer job

KdpD is a tandem serine histidine kinase that controls K+ pump KdpFABC transcriptionally and post-translationally | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

The most impressive thing #NCFC will achieve this season is the 'You Are Not Alone' campaign.

Over 7,000 people cited it as the reason for contacting Samaritans. It's been viewed across the globe.

Fantastic work and worthy of the Innovation Award👏
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Funded PhD project available: Functional analysis of a rhizospheric streptomycete in the composition and the functioning of plant root microbiota.
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New PhD position available in our lab developing enzymatic routes to peptide therapeutic agents to combat infectious diseases, cancer & diabetes in collaboration with AstraZeneca, GSK and Merck.
Deadline is soon (April 19, 2024). To apply follow this link:
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Elucidation of genes enhancing natural product biosynthesis through co-evolution analysis.
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Very happy to share our latest research on the genetic variation underlying why some #brassicas cannot ‘see’ botrytis to activate a response. Fantastic to work with Asli and the Chris Ridout Lab group on this project.

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How to pick a problem. Today in Cell. 1/53
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Mechanisms of DNA crossover by bacterial gyrase👇. One from my former lab neighbour Valerie Lamour (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and one from my current lab neighbour Dmitry Ghilarov (biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…). Congratulations to all; two fascinating studies.

Second preprint posted within the same day from our neighbour Dmitry Ghilarov on the mysterious BREX anti-phage defence. Some cool insightful cryo-EM structures of BrxX with DNA bound here. Does he Dmitry Ghilarov even sleep?!

YOU ALL SAID WE WOULDN'T WIN IN PURPLE 😭

City get in behind. Sara twists and turns, and his effort finds the corner via the palm of Woodman.

⚪️ #PNE 0-1 #NCFC 🟣 (86)

Are you looking for a PhD position? Interested in unpicking the molecular mechanisms of protein machines involved in antibiotic biosynthesis using CryoEM? Check out the available PhD project in the lab of my colleague Dmitry Ghilarov - a super enthusiastic PI in a great department!

2 fully funded PhD scholarships available in my group UoB Biosciences IMIBirmingham Uni of Birmingham . UK home fees + UKRI stipends (£19,237 per annum). Deadline 26th May. Projects to start from October 2024. Positions will remain open until filled.

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MtrA directly represses avermectin biosynthesis and development (via bldD) in Streptomyces avermitilis. …robialcellfactories.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…