For all phage defence pholks - registration for the Symposium on the Immune Systems of Bacteria 2027 is now open! 20-22nd July, 2027, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. See you there! sisb2027.info
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New preprint from the MultiDefence consortium - continuing to expand the restriction-modification landscape with MANTIS. Full info here: biorxiv.org/content/10.648… . Well done team!
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Tim Blower retweeted
You can now apply for a #ListerPrize2027 Research Fellowship.
£300,000 flexible funding to support outstanding early-career researchers within the biomedical sciences field based in the UK and Ireland.
All details 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/research-prize…
£300,000 flexible funding to support outstanding early-career researchers within the biomedical sciences field based in the UK and Ireland.
All details 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/research-prize…
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Tim Blower retweeted
Phages invented sgRNAs before humans!!
Obviously, for mischief… 😈
Loved seeing this story unfold!
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
Obviously, for mischief… 😈
Loved seeing this story unfold!
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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Tim Blower retweeted
NEB researchers systematically screened 186 MazF homologs, identifying >130 active endoribonuclease with diverse sequence preferences. Read more about how Tth-MazF1 can be a powerful tool for RNA analysis in Nucleic Acids Research: doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…
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Tim Blower retweeted
Rejection is part of science. So is resilience. 🔬
@BlowerLab and @CJStewart7 share how setbacks helped shape their careers. We don't talk about this enough.
🔁Please repost and share your own stories of defeat or bouceback. Break the stigma!
lister-institute.org.uk/news/resilienc…
@BlowerLab and @CJStewart7 share how setbacks helped shape their careers. We don't talk about this enough.
🔁Please repost and share your own stories of defeat or bouceback. Break the stigma!
lister-institute.org.uk/news/resilienc…
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Postdoc position now open in my lab at New England Biolabs. Focus is on exploring phage defence systems through biochem and structural biology. @NEBiolabs provides an academic research environment with the freedom of industry. Please take a look! 🤓🧫🧬 tinyurl.com/49phcyh6
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Rel/Par superfamily toxins have yet another activity - trimming off the 16S rRNA to kill tuberculosis. Thanks again to wonderful collab with @GenevauxPierre and team, out today shorturl.at/Rm8N4 @DurBiol @NEBiolabs @izaakbeck 🤓🎊🎉
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Looking for great PhD candidates! Excited to collab with Prof Mark Szczelkun at Bristol UK, studying MADS phage defence. This will be a CASE studentship including research visits to New England Biolabs HQ in MA, USA 🤓 @NEBiolabs shorturl.at/KZGup deadline 3rd Dec
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RptR is a new addition to the growing collection of phage defence-associated transcriptional regulators. Congrats to @YugengZ @TangLabOxford @_MarionSchuller @IvanAhelLab and thank you, it was a pleasure to help out the study! @NEBiolabs. academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…
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Latest BREX story from the lab - turns out there is a nuclease after all! Congrats to Jenny Readshaw and the whole team, including wonderful collabs Barry Stoddard, Brett Kaiser and @DarrenSmithdx. @NAR_Open @NEBiolabs @DurBiol academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…
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We are delighted to host Professor Tim Blower @BlowerLab as keynote speaker to our MID symposium
@WarwickLifeSci
Date: 20th of June Venue: GLT1 We invite MBio, PhD students and Postdocs to submit abstracts for posters and talks by 11th of June to
@CRodriguesLab
@WarwickLifeSci
Date: 20th of June Venue: GLT1 We invite MBio, PhD students and Postdocs to submit abstracts for posters and talks by 11th of June to
@CRodriguesLab
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For those of you who approached me at @MicrobioSoc #Microbio25 (and anyone else interested!!), this is your last chance to apply for our PDRA position. Come join us in Glasgow!
🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44
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The lab is now up and running at New England Biolabs @NEBiolabs! I'm looking for a postdoc to study phage defence systems. If you'd like the academic freedom to publish but the resources of industry, then take a look 🤓😃 neb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NEB_Care…
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The post will be based in Ipswich, MA, north of Boston. Non-US citizens welcome (if eligible for a J-1 visa). The focus will be on basic research leading to publications. We provide an academic research and training environment, with >20 research labs.
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Super opportunity to join Giusy in Glasgow!
🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44
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Tim Blower retweeted
The final version of our Serratia paper is now out! Congrats to @TomCX99 and (X-less) Suraj, and a big thank you to @BlowerLab and @StephenRG97. tinyurl.com/3vnyvufa
New pre-print from the lab, led from (for now Twitter-less) star-RA Tom Cummins. If you did receive his PhD application, you do not want to miss this chance, Tom is a star!
As always, fun collaboration with the amazing @BlowerLab and @StephenRG97
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RT @GiusyM1990: Over the moon to share some amazing news—I’ve been awarded an MRC Career Development Award to pursue my research at the Uni…
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Using cryoEM we understood the structural basis of chiral DNA wrap by bacterial gyrase (and also produced the most complete/highest resolution E coli gyrase model to date).
@JohnInnesCentre @DurhamU34989 @MCB_UJ
@JohnInnesCentre @DurhamU34989 @MCB_UJ
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Thrilled to share my latest postdoc paper published in
@NatureComms
NTase toxin targeting serine tRNA 3'-ends by CMP addition in M. tuberculosis H37Rv. Thanks to all the co-authors,
@GenevauxPierre
@BlowerLab
@ONeyrolles
rdcu.be/dZle4
@NatureComms
NTase toxin targeting serine tRNA 3'-ends by CMP addition in M. tuberculosis H37Rv. Thanks to all the co-authors,
@GenevauxPierre
@BlowerLab
@ONeyrolles
rdcu.be/dZle4
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