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Group Leader & Head of Molecular Microbiology @JohnInnesCentre.bsky.social. Natural product antibiotics. Drummer & dad. Visit http://streptomyces.org.uk for protocols & resources. We work with www.sawtrust.org to engage the public
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My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

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It's #SkinCancerAwarenessMonth 2025 and as someone currently undergoing treatment for Stage 2C melanoma, this month means a great deal to me. We need to be more open about cancer and its through raising awareness and talking about our journeys that we can come together and support one another.

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One last plug for our bash at The Lion & Castle bar this evening at Carrow Rd. Special #ncfc guests, Onel Hernández & Jack Stacey, will be chatting to the Pink Un guys. Then we've got live music from Sons of Mark. £5 entry. Every penny goes to the Community Sports Foundation. Everyone's welcome 🔰

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Now online! Root microbiota regulates tiller number in rice

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New song out May 7th! UK tickets going like hotcakes, Manchester moved to a bigger venue. Thanks for all your support!

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Thoughts from Johannes Hoff Thorup on his time (and sacking) at Norwich City www.pinkun.com/sport/interv...

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SAY IT AGAIN

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A late 1st century AD relief depicting a blacksmith’s shop. The relief was part of a tomb from the Necropolis of Portus in Ostia Antica. Now part of the site museum at Ostia Antica. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanArchaeology #OstiaAntica

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We're excited to finally be able to let you know Sekunderna have joined the Fika Recordings family. We're big fans of their 2022 debut Här Har Du Dutt Liv, as should you if you're fans of Swedish powerpop punk. We've got a brand new digital single from them out today: li.sten.to/sekunderna-s...

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Inject this into my veins today #NCFC www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KPl...

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🔓Don't miss this #OpenAccess Viewpoint by @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social @marnixmedema.bsky.social Adam Skiredj & co at @w-u-r.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @mit.edu on empowering natural product science with AI #natprod #chemsky Check it out here🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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The UEA is “disappointed” with our strike action. We’re disappointed that compulsory redundancies are still on the table & our colleagues are sick with anxiety

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🔊 Just one month left to nominate your work - or work you love - for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the annual prize that celebrates the best of digital history internationally ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

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In Streptomyces spp. the principle sigma factor (aka SigA or HrdB) is required to transcribe housekeeping genes but they show using cryoEM and bioIT that the hrdB gene is transcribed by RNA polymerase containing an ECF sigma factor. Weird bacteria just got weirder academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

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#Microsky

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In Streptomyces spp. the principle sigma factor (aka SigA or HrdB) is required to transcribe housekeeping genes but they show using cryoEM and bioIT that the hrdB gene is transcribed by RNA polymerase containing an ECF sigma factor. Weird bacteria just got weirder academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

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Abstract submission deadline is approaching for @microbiologysociety.org Early career summer conference. Set to be another cracking event, this year it’s going to Newcastle! More information on the link!

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antiSMASH8: The Ocho Manuscript is out! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

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www.canaries.co.uk/content/gunn... Lets hope we buy another keeper this summer

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Mosaic of a reclining skeleton pointing to the motto ‘know yourself’ - a reminder of mortality and the need to enjoy life from 3rd century AD Rome.The mosaic is part of the collections at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #Rome

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Not laughing now are you Edward Sheeran..

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Only one day left until the #JMedMicro talk with Dr. Mathew Diggle! Don't miss out on his talk ‘Beyond the Cough: Understanding Today's Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Threats. Register here: microb.io/3jr2ciT

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Save the date: the 5th anniversary of the Glasgow Computational Biology Conference. 15th and 16th of September at University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre. Details to follow soon! glasgow-compbio.github.io/conference/2...

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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

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We're proud to have collaborated with our partners on this study. Co-corresponding author Dr Noam Chayut, who manages our Germplasm Resource Unit, summed it up when he said: “We can achieve so much more when we work together.” 🫛 Read the full story on our website: www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

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CHECK IT OUT 🦠👀 Very cool article by science journalist Carrie Arnold reviewing recent research from leading laboratories on how the unique shape of a microbial #biofilm emerges from interactions of its component microbes with each other and their environment www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-biofil...

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As a focus points of my #Antibiotics course is the work with primary literature, the students also work with a paper in the exam. This year, I selected the paper "Optimized arylomycins are a new class of Gram-negative antibiotics" by a team around Christopher Heise. www.nature.com/artic...

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Wow - project 2025 starts again.. www.edp24.co.uk/sport/251061...

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www.canaries.co.uk/content/joha...

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A huge, new resource for plasmid research - PlasmidScope is a database of 852,000 #plasmid sequences with a rich set of annotations, automated online analysis and interactive visualisation academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

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Exploring and expanding the natural chemical space of bacterial diterpenes www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

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