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Excited to share with you the story that enabled me to start my own lab: what happens when the bacterial DNA replication machinery encounters single-strand discontinuities on template DNA? What is required for DNA break repair and replication restart? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚀 Applications are open! Join COMENZE, an EU-funded HORIZON MSCA network, and help advance enzyme engineering for bio-based polymers. We’re recruiting 10 Doctoral Candidates—apply now & be part of sustainable innovation! 🌍🔬 👉msca-comenze.eu/application/

We're hiring!🚨Our lab Sydney Chemistry is looking for two new #chempostdoc for our drug discovery program: 1) Synthetic/Med Chem (small molecule hit-to-lead)🧪 usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXT… 2) Chemical Biology (peptide inhibitors)🦠 usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXT… Pls spread the word!🙏

1/2 Here we unexpectedly find that protein S20/L26—identified at the dawn of ribosome research but then deemed a ribosome isolation artifact—is indeed a genuine component of the large ribosomal subunit. More on this ribosome content variation: nature.com/articles/s4146…

I'm recruiting a PhD student! Details on the project and how to apply at this link: stockholmcazyme.com/2025/03/21/phd…

High-fidelity in vitro packaging of diverse synthetic cargo into encapsulin protein cages "Fluorescent dyes, proteins and cytotoxic drug molecules can all be selectively packaged via a peptide-mediated targeting process." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

New paper alert 🚨 We've solved the complete structure of a C. difficile-infecting phage using cryo-EM, in both extended and contracted conformations - published today in Life Science Alliance

Seven Critical Challenges in Synthetic One-Carbon Assimilation and Their Potential Solutions—led by Giusi Favoino & Òscar Puiggené González Nikel SEM Group FEMS #Microbiology #Reviews #SynBio #Metabolic #Engineering academic.oup.com/femsre/advance…

Registration and abstract submission open for Designer Biology 2025 in Newcastle 29-31 July. Looking forward to a great meeting in the best city in the world: efbiotechnology.org/designerbiology

New preprint out today: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… In it we tackle making our favourite plant-growth promoting bacterium engineerable, with lots of useful genetic tools #synbio #syntheticbiology #engineeringbiology

My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great department with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics, including synthetic biology. 🇬🇧imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

Happy to share Christoph Elfmann‘s new paper! Discover easy tools to make the most out of AlphaFold and its iterations! Trends in Microbiology Uni Göttingen #subtiwiki Cutting-edge tools for structural biology: bringing AlphaFold to the p... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our #RNA multimer paper out now in @nature! #cryoEM of 2 distinct nanocages GOLLD and ROOL and membrane-associated OLE. Multimers at ultra-low concentrations, special covariance for cross-molecule kissing loops, and speculation on function nature.com/articles/s4158…. 1/2

Finally, we're recruiting! If you'd like to do a PhD using NMR structures to study the dynamics of a metalloenzyme, then you're in luck! Come to Warsaw for this project, in collaboration with Simone Ciofi-Baffoni's group at CERM, Florence: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/20…

Opportunities for microbiome-based therapeutics in preterm infants Led by Emily Wroot, alongside Greg Young Jon Chapman and GN Neonatal Biobank. Hopefully this provides a timely insight for clinicians and researchers interested in preterm infants and beyond nature.com/articles/s4156…

We love generating data! But what should we do with it? We collaborated with the Jennifer Listgarten on ProteinGuide - a new method for using experimental data to guide protein generative models. Congrats to Junhao (Bear) Xiong, Hunter, Maria Lukarska, Ishan Gaur and Luke Oltrogge! ⬇️⬇️

Very pleased to present the next pre-print from our lab #glycotime We showcase PNGaseL from Flavobacterium akiainvivens that we hope will be a useful tool for the glyco community 🍬🧪👩‍🔬 Special shout out to Cassie Bakshani and Paulina (Ludger) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We're delighted to announce that our conference "Protein Evolution, Design and Informatics Edinburgh 2026" will be running from the 13th-15th of May. Register interest here and please retweet! biochemistry.org/events-and-tra…

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department DMF UNIL Université de Lausanne! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/applica…