I'm very excited to announce that I've been awarded a BBSRC Discovery Fellowship! 🎉 As of last month, I'm a fellow at the John Innes Centre (hosted by Antony Dodd!), where I aim to expand my research on photoperiodism in bacteria into a full research program 🦠❄️

Incredible work by Xu Wang in reconstitution of the function of TAM in purified liposomes! Interesting conservation of inhibition action by the antibiotic darobactin. Another great piece from the Bernstein lab. Harris Bernstein nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our preprint of the BGC atlas is online. A map of secondary metabolite gene clusters in the environment. A community tool and collaboration of the ZiemertLab and Caner with Tilmann Weber Marnix Medema Dan Udwary Alexey Gurevich and others: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Soil is a miracle material providing us with food and medicine, and in one teaspoon of soil there are more micro-organisms than people on the Earth. Despite this, we treat it like dirt. Dig into the magical world of soil with our video with @BBCIdeas. #biodiversity

Group Leader candidates will be considered for a Career Track Group Leader position of 5 years or an indefinite contract, along with a support package that includes both setup funding & scientific support. 💷 Competitive 🗓️ Apply by 30 September 2024 ➡️ buff.ly/4fAlz5n

Conference in #Symbiosis coming up next month with a fantastic lineup of speakers in a beautiful location. Organised by Ingrid Richter plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social Leibniz-HKI Universität Jena Tobias Engl Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

We clustered >26,000 pneumococcal genomes three different ways to find the best method for defining lineages! And you can now read all about it Microbiology Society! 📚🔎 ➡️ doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0… (You can also read a summary in the thread below! ⬇️) #Genomics #microbiology

The Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture is awarded to Professor Hannah Fry for her prolific science communication activity as the foremost populariser of maths in the country who continues to inspire young people to pursue maths and physics in fun and exciting

Professor Gillian Bates FRS is awarded the Royal Society's Ferrier Medal for her work in understanding the molecular basis of Huntington’s disease and consistently producing highly impactful findings which have moulded the course of this field. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-pri…

Bacteria are cool! Come and do a PhD and understand how they survive in the lung! Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Dundee How do bacteria adapt survive in the lungs of patients with chronic lung infections like bronchiectasis? findaphd.com/phds/project/h…

Registration is open! On-line symposium on developments in in vitro infection models, hosted by Microbiology Society and #MicrobiolJ. Check out the superb line up of speakers and registration details at microbiologysociety.org/event/society-…

Finally, a common sense policy for managing bovine TB. The culls will end and vaccination will begin. Its been known for years that culling badgers increases transmission but the UK govt continued to do it to appease farmers. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

BORJAAAAAAAAAAA

Whole genome–based comparative analysis of the genus Streptomyces reveals many misclassifications link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A postdoctoral position is available in our lab, available immediately. Ideal candidate will have experience with membrane proteins and an interest in bacterial immunity. RTs appreciated! jobs.ac.uk/job/DJO275/res…

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!

From June 15-19, 2025, we will organise the 20th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes (ISBA XX in the Netherlands, at the beach of Egmond. See here for the website: universiteitleiden.nl/isba2025 Registration will open later this year.

Got a free Saturday? Then we highly suggest heading over to the Quadram Institute for their Norfolk Heritage Open Days open day! Find out about their research, past and present and get stuck in with some hands on activities. #guardiansofthegut