JIC/TSL Student ASM Session 2 speakers ready for an exciting series of talks!!! Leah McPhillips Ruth Kristianingsih Rose Sophie Carpenter

Deep in the heart of East Anglia, this group of researchers tries to answer the big questions: who are these bacteria, what exactly is their problem, and why do they smell that way?

Join us to study plasmid/DNA inheritance in antibiotics-producing Streptomyces. Lots of scientific + soft skills that you will acquire, and you get to go to Japan for a Plasmid Conference too. Apply here: shorturl.at/hpBFS. Pls retweet A movie to enthuse you on the project!

Some awesome new work from our lab from Ngat and Tung Le that I’ve had the privilege of following through lab meetings, go give it a read if you like GTAs or transcriptional mechanisms!

I am grateful, honoured and extremely excited to receive an #ERCCoG to study the functional diversity of bacterial NLR-like proteins in #Streptomyces. Many thanks to European Research Council (ERC), my amazing team, who made this possible and to my colleagues and mentors for their support.

NEWS - Prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Horizon Europe funding award to accelerate innovative research in antibiotic-producing #bacteria Dr Susan Schlimpert and her team have been awarded funding for their research into #antibiotics of the future okt.to/U0zexa

My first preprint! I designed a pipeline, named LazyAF (no reflection on my work ethic...), to help perform in silico pulldowns based on predicting protein-protein interactions on a medium-scale! 1/n

Long-range regulation is common in eukaryotes but rare in prokaryotes. However turns out plasmids seems to have found a novel way of repressing genes from kilobase distances! Delighted to share the work I have been doing since joining @tung_bk_le lab! 1/n

CTP-binding and hydrolysis regarded as a fundamental feature of a ParB-like molecular switches. To challenge this view we provide the first example of a type-I ParABS system that does NOT require CTP to assemble a segrosome for DNA segregation. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our work on elucidating transcriptional control of Gene Transfer Agents GTA in Caulobacter crescentus is finally published… nature.com/articles/s4146…

Firing of Streptomyces coelicolor contractile injection system requires the membrane protein CisA biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Excited to share our newest work on the contractile injection systems in Streptomyces where we took a stab at better understanding how they work with a membrane protein CisA! Amazing collaboration between Susan Schlimpert and Pilhofer Lab with the superstar casu_b

The final peer-reviewed manuscript is now available from Microbiology Society - give it a read! microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Had a great day today presenting some of my PhD work at the JIC/TSL student annual science meeting. Amazing to hear all the fantastic science happening here by PhD students! Thanks to the organisers JIC Student Voice and everyone who came to listen!

Where better to be presenting my work on KorAB than at the International Society for Plasmid Biology and MGEs #ISPB2024

Delighted to share my PhD work at the #ISPB2024 conference in Hamamatsu, Japan 🇯🇵 Thank you International Society for Plasmid Biology and MGEs for putting on such a great conference!

The MIMIC Lab is recruiting its first Postdoc! Come and kickstart key bioinformatics projects of the lab on protein based Molecular Mimicry. Please get in touch / circulate ! Mixed wet / dry lab candidates are encouraged to apply. Details: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48080/