Proud to be involved in Lap Lotus, an inclusive & accessible SEND challenge event at Lotus’ headquarters on 28th July. Raising money for their disability programme. We made a video: youtube.com/watch?v=VhaQfA… and you can register to take part here: communitysportsfoundation.org.uk/fundraising-ev…

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

Exciting news!🚀 We have a new follow-up on the cytoplasmic Contractile Injection System from #Streptomyces!💉casu_b, in a wonderful collaboration with Joe Sallmen & Susan Schlimpert, unveils the critical role of CisA in Streptomyces CIS functionality. ☠️🧵 1/2

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

My main take away from a fantastic week at the IDP GRC is that being a negative noodle is a good thing! 🍝

New analysis from the The Royal Society shows just how high UK visa costs for researchers are compared to upfront costs for similar visa routes in 13 other countries. Here, we take a look at how the UK compares to countries in the G7 included in the analysis 🔍⤵️ 1/5

Human TFs face a molecular trade-off between activity and specificity encoded as submaximal dispersion of aromatic residues in their disordered regions. A collaborative effort of Denes Hnisz, VingronLab and Graf Lab published today in Nature Cell Biology nature.com/articles/s4155…

So pleased to see this finally out in Nature Communications !! Huge team effort led by Molly Patterson with help from Joe Cogan, Ethan Morgan, James Scarth and Twitter-less colleagues. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Medical Research Council Faculty of Biological Sciences Wellcome nature.com/articles/s4146…

BBSRC funded iCASE PhD studentship supervised by Barrie Wilkinson 💙 and me John Innes Centre. Developing a Streptomyces protein production platform to purify antibiotic biosynthetic enzymes and proteins that cannot be produced in E. coli. Pls RT findaphd.com/phds/project/s…

A new ‘twist’ on the ParB story out of cees dekker lab… 🪢 led by Alejandro Martin Gonzalez (Axel Foly) and me we questioned: How do ParB proteins interact with supercoiled DNA? biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… 1/11

UK expensive visas - latest evidence: - Cancer Research UK is expecting to spend £700k on visa costs each year - the equivalent cost of 17 new CRUK PhD students - Cambridge cancer institute being outcompeted for specialists by institutes in Germany, due to costs

Our COiM review on how c-di-GMP controls sporulation in Streptomyces is out now as a part of the Carol Gross Special Issue! With Natalia Tschowri, Richard Brennan, Maria Schumacher, and Mark Buttner. tinyurl.com/mvhapjcd

LazyAF, a pipeline for accessible medium-scale in silico prediction of protein-protein interactions. Published #OpenAccess and fee-free in #MicrobioJ using a #PublishAndRead agreement: doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.…

📢 Drop everything now! The countdown has begun ⏳ Only 25 days left until the coolest international plasmid symposium. Looking forward to seeing you all and discovering the wonders of Hamamatsu ...Ready For It? 😎 #Plasmid #ISPB2024 #Japan

Just one more train and then I’ll be in Hamamatsu for International Society for Plasmid Biology and MGEs #ISPB2024 - can’t wait to talk all things plasmid!

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!