Fantastic Nature paper from our very own Pasquina-Lemonche Lab and colleagues, looking at Gram positive cell wall architecture using #AFM. A lot of hard work has paid off! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Beautiful imaging showing nanotube interaction between two different bacteria species by Baidya et al. 2020 nature.com/articles/s4146…

New work from the Professor Gurdyal Singh Besra FMedSci FRS lab on the activation of anti-tubercular rhein derivatives. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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New publication from MFIG This is one of the last projects in which Nick Read was involved. It's quality speaks for him. We honour his memory. We miss him very much mbio.asm.org/content/11/3/e…

The special issue on the fungal cell wall edited by Dr. Meritxell Riquelme from CICESE and Prof. Carol Munro (Carol Munro) from AberdeenFungalGroup journals.elsevier.com/the-cell-surfa… is now online & freely available! #sharingscience #Fungi #AcademicTwitter

Check out this paper investigating the impact of deletion of all members of the chitin transglycosylases gene family (crhA-G) in Aspergillus niger cell wall composition, rigidity and genome-wide gene expression. #openaccess #fungi Full work: doi.org/10.1016/j.tcsw…

Hot off the press, our latest paper with University of Hertfordshire Madhu Goyal & Uni of Birmingham Professor Gurdyal Singh Besra FMedSci FRS showing that a powerful new set of chalcone anti-tubercular compounds directly target InhA. 💊🧫 Published in The Cell Surface today #TB #drugdiscovery @AstonLHS sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📰| Great to see this impactful research being published The Cell Surface by a team from Aston Biosciences with Dr Jonathan Cox and UniBirmingham News University of Hertfordshire 🔬on their discovery of a powerful new set of drugs that can kill #tuberculosis 💊🧫 ➡ bit.ly/36LkfK1 Elsevier | ScienceDirect

New work from Professor Gurdyal Singh Besra FMedSci FRS and @drjonathoncox labs on InhA inhibitors. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are you creative and enjoy presenting topics of interest using illustrations? The Cell Surface now publishes a new article type: graphical reviews! Check the link for more info: journals.elsevier.com/the-cell-surfa…

Excellent story by @Childers_Lab et al. on how the pathogenic fungus C. albicans evades immune system detection via β-glucan shaving on the cell surface. doi.org/10.1128/MBIO.0… #OpenAccess

Roles of ATP Hydrolysis by FtsEX and Interaction with FtsA in Regulation of Septal Peptidoglycan Synthesis and Hydrolysis. dlvr.it/RbGXxD

Activity-Based Protein Profiling Reveals That Cephalosporins Selectively Active on Non-replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bind Multiple Protein Families and Spare Peptidoglycan Transpeptidases. dlvr.it/Rbb5Vc

Mystery solved. How can fungal cell wall Mannan act both as an immune stimulus as well as a immune shield? Find out in our latest publication in The Cell Surface. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S24… @BSMM_Junior ISHAM Marcos vargas The Cell Surface Exeter Biosciences

Asymmetric localization of the cell division machinery during Bacillus subtilis sporulation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

This was a long but exciting project to make a fungal wall model that is right size and shape. We give you the e-building bricks to make your own model wall as well! MRC Centre for Medical Mycology ECMM ISHAM BMS Fungal Biology Research @BSMM_Junior doi.org/10.1016/j.tcsw…

We are running a survey to find out more about the impact of #COVID19 on early career #researchers. Take part in the survey and share your thoughts with us. microb.io/3lP7eGA #ECR

Fantastic news - three world stars in mycology; Regine Kahmann, Joe Heitman & Louise Glass have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. ⁦BMS Fungal Biology Research⁩ ⁦MRC Centre for Medical Mycology⁩ ⁦Microbiology Society⁩ ⁦ISHAM⁩ ⁦ECMM⁩ ⁦British Society for Plant Pathology⁩