We are hiring !! Looking for a motivated and enthusiastic research technician to join our lab. We study the link between the gut microbiome and immune dysregulation. Check out the full details jobs.bcm.edu/job-invite/113…

Please RT: I have two immediate postdoc openings: 1. Engineering synthetic human chromosomes (funded by Wellcome to work with Jason Chin and Tom Ellis ); and 2. Engineering synthetic yeast genome and speciation (funded by VolkswagenStiftung to work with Lars Steinmetz )

Interested in new biosynthetic strategies to make toxic small molecules? Here you go, our work on cyanobacterin biosynthesis now out Nature Chemical Biology! Congrats to Paul D'Agostino 🔬🇦🇺, coauthors and collaborators TaGulder Group! Thanks TU Dresden @TUD_Science, our home! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Hey Internet! Ahmed H. Badran and I have released a review on natural products (and non-natural, if that's your thing) that function as precision antibiotics - something both our labs will be exploring in the next few years. Link! authors.elsevier.com/a/1fA8A_V672EJ…

Hey you! Yeah, you in the corner! are you interested in light perception? Then let me borrow your attention to talk about our new publication in Current Biology about light sensing in Fungi and how we show that the fungal ancestor could sense light! 👇 cell.com/current-biolog…

Are you interested in host-microbe interactions and women's health? We're hiring a full-time research technician to work with us in balmy Houston. We have fun people, cool science, and air conditioning! From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine #Houston #GraduateJobs jobs.bcm.edu/job/Houston-Re…

Work by Simon dOelsnitz, Alper Laboratory, Andy Ellington & colleagues evolves a general transcription factor into specific biosensors for various alkaloids, enabling streamlined production of tetrahydropapaverine. Free to read link at rdcu.be/cRb3T

Excited to share our most recent work in Nature Communications, a collaboration with Northwestern CSB labs @DTElab @jewettlab_NU Monica Olvera de la Cruz and the Mangan lab. We set out to investigate the role of bacterial organelle morphology on encapsulated pathway performance doi.org/10.1038/s41467… (1/9)

Rolf Müller remains the king of microbial natural products IMO. Another paper on a cool new antibacterial NP from Myxobacteria. Really looking forward to learning the target for this one!

There are two types of researchers. Dr Meming PhD Voice - Independently Run OpenAcademics #Memes #AcademicChatter

Taste the Streptomyces rainbow (but really you probably shouldn't even if it's BSL1... but maybe?)

Hey aspiring PIs! Looking for a Prof position that comes with a cool neighbour? My department is hiring ! Come see everything Baylor, Houston, and the Texas Med Centre have to offer! (spoiler: it's a lot) nature.com/naturecareers/…

Me - a new PI with a freezer already full of bacterial extracts

First Johnston lab outing! Great time with the team, plus I learned I can't take group selfies AND look normal. Maybe one day.

New LCMS just dropped.

A new paper from Kim Lewis identified a natural product Evybactin targeting DNA gyrase and killing Mycobacterium tuberculosis via a selective transport mechanism. Free to read link at rdcu.be/cUmNn

It's not necessarily science, but I'm exposed through my better half. Kyla Scanlon is the best finance follow out there.

Well, it took a little longer than expected, but we're happy to share our lab's first paper. Thanks to the reviewers and editors at JACS for sticking with us through a surprisingly weird story 😅. Science never changes. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…