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Copper (and other metal ions) in microbiology. Not a New PI anymore. Like chocolates. Need dogs. Forever dreaming of warm, sunny vacations.
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IS IT CHRISTMAS YET

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report: Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

submitted 81 days ago • 41 comments

Bluetorial: What’s the worst that can happen? Meeting a scientific hero (Lots of chemical history today)

submitted 83 days ago • 4 comments

If I have to sit through another meeting where students are referred to as "our target market", I might actually scream out loud instead of internally.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

it’s people

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Ok, I figured out how to create a Metallobiologists starter pack. I'll keep adding to the list as I find more, but please add your name here if I've missed you. go.bsky.app/SgEyRLv

submitted 110 days ago • 14 comments

My guess is that this post is a joke to 50% of scientists and serious to the other 50%.

submitted 87 days ago • 13 comments

Only 1 week left to apply for this competition-funded position in my group!

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Good explanation of recent changes for efficiency: No more academic boards of studies, each module can only have one summative assessment, modules with <10 students cancelled, removal of all double-blind marking. www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/assessm...

submitted 90 days ago • 8 comments

#ChemSky This Preprint by @sophieguti.bsky.social has got it all: Natural Product synthesis, Chelators, Ln, Curium luminescence, mass spec methods, bacteria! doi.org/10.26434/che... Comparative Binding Studies of the Chelators Methylolanthanin and Rhodopetrobactin B to Lanthanides and Ferric Iron.🧪🧵

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

I have a PhD position available in my group, to start in March 2025. If you have a keen interest in biochemistry and would like to study an exciting and novel class of copper proteins (aka weird Cu tubes) from bacteria, I'd love to hear from you. You should apply here: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Another preprint, and this time the excellent work of @imrsankhan.bsky.social from his PhD & our first full experimental Staph aureus paper - on transporters of course! Imran found a cool link to glutathione and infection too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Reposting this for new arrivals. PS: this isn't an exclusive PI-only list! If you are student, postdoc, or tech working on metals in biology, and I have missed you, please let me know. ☺️

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Final call for early abstracts is tomorrow!

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I'm recruiting! I'm looking for a motivated postdoctoral scientist to join my new team at SCELSE in Singapore. The role will explore various aspects of how #eDNA is produced and utilised in #Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. #Microsky #phagesky #Science ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

A widespread family of ribosomal peptide metallophores involved in bacterial adaptation to metal stress | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

The Lake District in late autumn never disappoints.

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

In other news, I discovered last night that the big Tesco in Durham now sells Tim Tams. I may/may not have bought so many that may/may not have prompted the person at the register to comment, "Wow, you must really like Tim Tams."

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments