Another manuscript, with Paola Massari's group at Tufts, is now on BioRXiv. We characterised the copper storage protein from Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which is important in its periplasmic copper homeostasis but is also a potential vaccine candidate: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Last week we had a manuscript accepted, a collaboration paper with Xingxiang Chen's group in Nanjing. We studied the mechanism by which the fungal toxin fumonisin B1 (FB1) damages vascular epithelia cells. You can read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cb...

Yes, that's the job of a PI, I suppose. I can't complain too much as I managed to avoid writing one for the last couple of years (bliss!), so it's about time I got back to the task.

I think a lot of people assume it's all just coloured bottles of liquid in clear glass bottles. The noise of the equipment comes as a surprise. Slightly embarrassing that they never made it into my lab in Newcastle, to be honest. I was only running it for, like, 10 years...