Thrilled to share that my paper is officially published at PNAS! So grateful to my collaborators, the ability to mentor students who became my co-authors, and to my mentor Nicole M Koropatkin for her unending support! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🚨 The Whelan lab is hiring! 🚨 We are looking for a PDRA to join our lab at U of Manchester. We & collab The Mata Lab are seeking someone interested in interdisciplinary techniques to est a hydrogel biofilm model to study microbe-pathogen interactions jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

a paper about the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) hypothesis reconstructed the genome of our LUCA, dating it to about 4.2 billion years ago… …just a few hundred million years after Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago.

Really excited to be sharing our newest work on the bacterial Tol-Pal complex! The amazing Yeow Jiang solved cryo-EM structures of the TolQRA complex in 2 rotary states, aiding us to come up with a model for force transduction across the cell envelope! #SGBUG SCELSE NUS Chemistry

OmpA controls order in the outer membrane and shares the mechanical load pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39630873/

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, along w Mike Brockhurst, are looking for a PhD student w bioinformatic experience/interest to investigate the evolution of transmissibility in bacterial pathogens, with a focus on P. aeruginosa. findaphd.com/phds/project/b…

Congratulations to Dr Kuang-Ting! Expert on the gametocyte surface and structural characteriser of transmission-blocking vaccine immunogens. I’m a proud supervisor!

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Myself, @JoJofoth , & Mike Brockhurst are looking for a PhD student to study how commensal bacteria modulate the virulence of P. aeruginosa using a fly infection model. More info & link to apply below. Please spread the word! findaphd.com/phds/project/b…

My superpower is turning a draft that needs to be cut down into a longer draft

Adding one piece of information for the intriguing bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans. Our recent work with Dr. Qian's lab. Structural insights into Deinococcus radiodurans BamA: extracellular loop diversity and its evolutionary implications just.ustc.edu.cn/en/article/doi…

i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

Cryogenic Electron Microscopy: MagIC beads for scarce macromolecules. #CryoEm elifesciences.org/articles/10533…

New preprint 🚨: with Mariusz Madej we found that the Bacteroidetes beta-barrel assembly machinery is quite different to E. coli. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #cryoEM

Tomorrow, I'm giving away a free copy of my latest 'little book of sunshine', which collects >100 new recipes and reflections on how we survive in difficult times. To be in the draw, just repost this! amazon.co.uk/dp/1739967038 #BookGiveaway #Cookbook #HomeCooking #FreeBook

My postdoc mentor Kevin Foster is hiring postdocs! Apply to join an exciting research group looking at ecology and evolution of the gut microbiome. Kevin is a fantastic mentor and I can completely recommend: fosterlab.uk/vacancies

Pleased to share that my main Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship project is now published! This study provides mechanistic insights into Zorya II function. Grateful to all who contributed! Read it here:tinyurl.com/ZoryaII

Now published! Congrats to Wee Boon again! Read the final version at nature.com/articles/s4146…!

TWO postdoc positions in Computational Microbiology and/or biochemistry. Join our interdisciplinary group in the new Life and Mind Building Oxford Biology, University of Oxford, Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research Please apply and share this post: jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP641/pos…

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