We are recruiting a JIC Bioimaging Platform Lead - ideally someone with a passion for microscopes and diverse research interests! Contact me or the retiring post holder Kim Findlay if you are interested and want further information. jic.ac.uk/vacancies/bioi…

Wouldn't it be nice to do complex #NatualProducts #GenomeMining analyses on large datasets with hundreds or thousands of genomes? With #BGCFlow, we may have a solution for you: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar… [1/4]

Very niche tweet, but is there any explanation for why Mac Preview can no longer perform LZW compression for TIFF files? Was such an easy way to generate relatively small but high-quality figure files. 10 year old Mac produces a 298 kb file, new Mac produces a 13.2 Mb file 🤷‍♂️

Booking travel for two work trips - guess which is more expensive? 🤨 1. Return train journey to London (~2h10). 2. Return train journey to Stansted Airport (~1h50) PLUS a return flight to Denmark.

Great work by my lab-mate Kirill Sukhoverkov combining my two loves: Streptomyces and plasmids!

Great to spend a couple of chemical biology-focused days Royal Society of Chemistry (also included an unexpected meeting with Burlington House’s bird of prey 🦅)

Hmmm, receive an email from our home insurance company AXA Insurance UK that begins with "Sit back and relax" and ends with an *increase* of £735 to renew our insurance 😂 Definitely can't be bothered to play the silly little game of ringing them up and negotiating

We've updated the streptomyces.org.uk domain hosted John Innes Centre. It links to the Streptomyces genome database StrepDB , ActinoBase, and other useful resources. 1/2

Random question, but is anyone finding Google Maps erratic at the moment with public transport - I usually rely on it for planning routes but it’s missed loads of obvious bus/train options in both the UK and Denmark 🤷‍♂️

Very happy with a charity shop find of a set of postcards commemorating the Nobel prizes of Haworth, Martin/Synge, Barton and the Braggs for the 100 year anniversary of the (then) Royal Institute of Chemistry Royal Society of Chemistry That Barton steroid graphic 😍

Jake Conner Eventually, we will have Teams, Teams (new), Teams (final), and Teams (final v2).

Had a great time visiting Yanyan Li in Paris for Sophie Jünger’s viva (excellent thesis!) and give a presentation in a very cool room in the labs of the Natural History Museum

Tired of isolating the same natural products from the same old bacteria?? Well we have the solution for you, SMIRC is here!!! But seriously a monumental effort led by AlexB out of the Jensen Lab Scripps Institution of Oceanography 💊🦠🌊 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Educational makeup of the new cabinet: 90%+ state school educated. This is big (and very different)

🌿🧬A postdoctoral position available in my lab at the John Innes Centre aiming to characterize the molecular machinery that expresses photosynthetic genes using cryo-EM, biochemistry and plant genetics. Apply here: jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

Apply TODAY for this BBSRC funded iCASE #PhD available at the John Innes Centre, supervised by Matt Hutchings 💚💛 and Barrie Wilkinson 💙 🗓️ Deadline - 22 July 2024 #Chemistry “Sustainable protein production for therapeutic and biotechnological applications”: okt.to/dfrIsC

🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸 Extremely thrilled to *finally* share our work on saponin biosynthesis in soapwort🧼⚕️🌱 Nature Chemical Biology John Innes Centre Anne Osbourn 🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸🫧🌸 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Lovely to spend some time back home near the lakes. Eldest son trying to give his auntie a heart attack with his climbing efforts 😂

I’ve been wondering the same. Ratio of clickbait junk to anyone I actually follow is honestly about 6:1 at the moment on my “For You” feed. But should I migrate to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky or LinkedIn (!!)?

Very happy that our work on understanding tropolone biosynthesis is now out in mBio Great work from the PhD of Alaster Moffat and some excellent biochemistry from TeufelLab #biosynthesis #Pseudomonas journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…