82 years ago today, Rockefeller's René J. Dubos described the first antibiotic to be tested clinically. His discovery, gramicidin, treated battlefield wounds in #WW2 and kicked off the antibiotic era. bit.ly/3y97HZ7

Think speed dating without the cringe. Our next networking event is Speed Science! Meet other ECRs and practice describing your work in bite-size chunks. 29th July 4-5pm Grasslands Café Science is in the air and we see many beautiful collaborations on the horizon. #ecgpn

Check out an opportunity to teach within the vibrant Microbiology environment at Massey University, Palmerston North: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer position (fixed term 2 years) masseyunicareers.nga.net.nz/cp/index.cfm?e…

A Famous Honesty Researcher Is Retracting A Study Over Fake Data buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha… via Stephanie M. Lee

Check out our new paper in mSphere, deciphering the mechanism of furazolidone, vancomycin and DOC synergy in Escherichia coli. We show that suppression of SOS response by VAN increases lethality and decreases mutagenic effect of furazolidone. doi.org/10.1128/mSpher… Massey University

#Transcriptomics study shows that #furazolidone, #vancomycin, & sodium deoxycholate achieve synergy vs. E. coli by amplifying each other's damaging effects while suppressing antibiotic resistance mechanisms. Jasna Rakonjac Massey University journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mS… ASM #mSphere

In situ Efflux pumps !

Another spectacular view of an aurora australis or “southern lights” that our crew was able to enjoy last weekend.

📸 Watch the Aurora Australis dance around on our time lapse camera in Lauder, Central Otago! 😲 This is the result of electrons colliding with the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere 🌌

Amazing ! Nanopore technology to read proteins ! Multiple rereads of single proteins at single–amino acid resolution using nanopores. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

In case you couldn’t see the Aurora Australis, here is your chance to view it from space.

Congrats to Vuong Le who found that bacterial tolerance to antimicrobials can be increased without mutations in the coding sequences, via a large chromosomal inversion microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Excited about the structure of the Ff (f1, fd, M13) phage ends solved by Vicki Gold lab - using short nanorods produced and purified by Rayen Leon Quezada at Nanophage Technologies Natural Sciences at Massey x.com/the_gold_lab/s…

🚨 Our institute CEITEC is looking for a #newPI in #virology and/or #bacteriology 🦠🔬🧪🧫🧬💊 Please, retweet and help us spread the word! #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #PostDocLife

Scientists from @the_gold_lab report the #CryoEM structure of f1 filamentous #phage & provide insights into the domains important in bacterial attack & release of new viral progeny. Becky Conners Rayen Leon Quezada Jasna Rakonjac @LSIExeter Natural Sciences at Massey nature.com/articles/s4146…

Thank you @MacDiarmidInsti for giving opportunity to Nanophage Technologies to tell its story and exhibit at the TechweekNZ event in Palmerston North. Great to hear about exciting developments in cleantech and network with our deeptech colleagues. x.com/MacDiarmidInst…

Check out our new preprint on nitrofuran-vancomycin synergy in E. coli biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #antibiotics #antimicrobial

We are thrilled to share our latest work published in Microbial Genomics Microbiology Society . The manuscript was led by Hannah Wykes and supervised by Jasna Rakonjac at Natural Sciences at Massey and Vuong Le (while moving around from Massey to University of Exeter Faculty of Health & Life Sci ). microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Scientists investigating the potential of combined and more powerful drug treatments have found that antimicrobial resistance to these is arising via the vitamin B2 synthesis pathway. the-microbiologist.com/news/scientist… Vuong Le Hannah Wykes Jasna Rakonjac Massey University LSI Exeter

Our paper describing the simplest and most efficient way to make Short Ff (f1, M13 or fd)‐#phage‐derived #nanorods is published in Microbial Biotechnology. Chiefly based on PhD thesis by Rayen Leon Quezada, images by @the_gold_lab …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…