See our new preprint by Larissa Kever and Aël Hardy:
Mechanisms conferring resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics via drug or target site modifications abolish the antibacterial properties, while the antiviral properties are retained. 🧵
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New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interaction

EVENT - Early Career Microbiologists Mini-Symposium

The Department of Molecular Microbiology is organising a one and a half day Early Career Microbiologists Mini-Symposium

⏰ Apply by 10 June: okt.to/h7sVqK

🗓️ 23 - 24 September 2024
📍The John Innes Centre, NR4 7UH

International meeting of the VAAM special section Microbial Cell Biology

Two days of inspiring talks, poster sessions and discussions on all aspects of bacterial and archaeal cell biology.

October 6-8, 2024, in Marburg (Germany)

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After 4 years of waiting it's going to happen in person!

CTP-binding and hydrolysis regarded as a fundamental feature of a ParB-like molecular switches. To challenge this view we provide the first example of a type-I ParABS system that does NOT require CTP to assemble a segrosome for DNA segregation.
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We are looking for a Bioimaging Facility Manager. If you have a passion for electron and/or light microscopy approaches and enjoy contributing to diverse research projects related to plant and microbial science, please apply! John Innes Centre.

Very proud of Kathy Stratton for 'flying the nest' to start her postdoc in the Heath Murray Lab next month. All the best in Newcastle. You will be missed!

We are looking for a Bioimaging Facility Manager. If you have a passion for electron and/or light microscopy approaches and enjoy contributing to diverse research projects related to plant and microbial science, please apply! John Innes Centre.

I might be biased, but Streptomyces are pretty cool: They not only make lots of antibiotics but also secrete umbrella toxins to interact with their microbial neighbours. Streptomyces umbrella toxin particles block hyphal growth of competing species nature.com/articles/s4158…

⬇️A great opportunity to start PhD in October 2024 in an excellent place. Contact me if you are interested in molecular mechanisms/ microbiology/ natural products / cryoEM of course! 😀

Check out our new preprint about new insights into translational rescue at proline stalled ribosomes and functional diversification of EF-P and EF-P like proteins biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Are you looking for a PhD position? Interested in unpicking the molecular mechanisms of protein machines involved in antibiotic biosynthesis using CryoEM? Check out the available PhD project in the lab of my colleague Dmitry Ghilarov - a super enthusiastic PI in a great department!

Read this #preprint on Research Square: A dispensable SepIVA orthologue in Streptomyces venezuelae is associated with polar growth and not cell division researchsquare.com/article/rs-419…

A palette of bright and photostable monomeric fluorescent proteins for bacterial time-lapse imaging
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Taking postdoc applications till the end of March.
One week left to submit.

Please RT!

How does a progenitor cell differentially express genes in daughter cells after asymmetric division?
@Sylvia_Char 's fancy microscopy in her paper PNASNews says the division machinery itself positions a transcription activator asymmetrically! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

#Bacteria have a #DNAdamage response to aberrant #DNAmethylation , but how do they sense this damage? Aditya Kamat Tung Le @dnarepairlab &co describe a TF that regulates a methylation-specific DNA damage response in #Caulobacter #PLOSBiology plos.io/3v7pdkD

Incredible structure of the plastid RNA-polymerase complex from my colleague Michael Webster and his team. Congratulations!!! By the way, he is looking for a new postdoc 👉okt.to/gxmsib

Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity | Nature Reviews Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4157…

£8 million for up to 10 years, mid-career fellowships