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It’s always good to have colleagues who have a strong cup game

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Help grow the microbiology community. (Note the tight deadline!) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49700/

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Always a charismatic speaker. Loved the talk

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The Barr lab @ox.ac.uk has discovered the important role of cell division timing mechanisms in the formation of cancer. The research, funded by Cancer Research UK, provides valuable insight into how damaged cells are normally stopped from growing. ⬇️ bit.ly/202502-barr

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Why do antibiotics sometimes fail even against non-resistant bacteria? Prof. Dirk Bumann’s team challenges the widespread belief that particularly resilient bacteria are responsible for antibiotic failure. @unibas.ch @nature.com @nccr-antiresist.bsky.social www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

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A postdoc position for someone interested in joining the fantastic team working on outer membrane protein organisation in bacteria. Based at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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So much fun, what a great and interesting group of people at St Anne’s!

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Gram-neg bacteria can resist #phages by modifying their LPS, also affecting #antibiotic susceptibility. @lavishaparab.bsky.social &co show that antibiotic concentrations influence evolution of E. coli phage resistance, leading to enhanced phage-antibiotic synergy 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4hPmO0X

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Glox Therapeutics received up to £500,000 from LifeArc's £3 million fund to develop precision antibiotics for AMR lung infections in cystic fibrosis. Their platform targets drug-resistant bacteria without harming the microbiome. We wish them success. pulse2.com/glox-therape...

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Can’t wait to hear this. It can only be good.

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Some exciting news, folks. @timcoulson.bsky.social and I have a new science podcast launching soon. Please do follow the account for updates. More details coming very soon!

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Super excited to go join the fantastic team at the School of Life Sciences, but it is with a heavy heart leaving friends and colleagues at Oxford, who have made my last 7years in the UK amazing. Without them I wouldn’t be here. warwick.ac.uk/newsandevent...

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@s-lab.bsky.social always gives such exciting presentations. Was fantastic seeing how these bacteria grow and catching up over a meal!

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Proteins being pretty

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In a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:

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This is super cool. Ian have a presentation on this today and it really seemed liked a massively useful tool even from someone not in this field! Cool stuff

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We just can't stop recruiting! Associate professor in cell and molecular biology @dunnschool, with a preference for immunology, inflammation and/or infection - all defined broadly Come and be our colleague Deadline 28 Feb, please spread the word www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

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What do bacterial cells do when they run out of nutrients? Although most bacterial studies focus on cells in exponentially growing states, in the wild bacteria likely spend most of their time slowly starving to death. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation #Vibriocholerae @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social from @knutdrescher.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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You or someone you know interested in cell envelopes and getting a PhD? Come join me warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... or have a look at some of the other fantastic projects on offer @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

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A long read from 2017 but well worth the time for any scientist who both loves their job and and often finds themselves questioning their life decisions. www.danielnettle.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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A really lovely perspective on our paper led by @grantkinsler.bsky.social and Yuping Li in Plos Biology! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Home 🥰

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Another fantastic year done with this lot, now time for some sunshine 🇳🇿

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Had the pleasure of attending the @bsacandjac.bsky.social ARM workshop this week. It was a fantastic local conference with thought provoking talks and a good size for getting to know colleagues. Keep an eye out for the next one! bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-r...

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Hey Bluesky! For my first post thought I'd share this awesome movie made by Phopho Biomedical Animation for our recent paper on the folding of bacterial outer membrane proteins in Nature Comms: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #cryoEM #AstburyCentre

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Christmas is already starting to come to Oxford 🎄

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JOB CLAXON! I am recruiting a post-doctoral researcher on a BBSRC-funded project (36 months) on the genetics and functional genomics of vancomycin resistance in enterococci. Further details here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please DM or email me if you want to discuss this post.

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A day when you actually see bands from your PCR 🙌 shame that sometimes more isn’t actually better in these cases. But we take the wins

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