"proteasome-derived defence peptides could provide an untapped source of natural antibiotics..." 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Clams as biosensors of water quality 😄

Ensuring rigour of low-biomass microbiome research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

How to "program" living cells.🧫 In 2000, physicists (incl. Michael Elowitz) made bacteria blink on-and-off every 150 minutes. Their experiment, which blended mathematics and wet-lab methods, launched the field of synthetic biology. Learn how they did it in my first interactive story!

Out now! We consolidated >600 Dutch yeast and characterised their activity against spoilage yeasts and relevant human and plant pathogens, focusing on yeasts that secrete antifungal proteins. Great resource for biocontrol and beyond. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39875071/

Amazing work from Farren Isaacs team at Yale - reducing E.coli's genetic code down to only using a single stop codon. A 62 codon GRO with lots of potential for applications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Microbes Saving Lives & Reducing Suffering—led by KenTimmis, this is a call to action for understanding and exploiting microbes & their role in helping humans at the face of current challenges as a global society @microbiotech.bsky.social enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Two PhD positions available in my group: 1) Investigating ribosome biology in V.natriegens by single particle tracking with @ryanfseipke.bsky.social @aleksponjavic.bsky.social Deadline 28 February. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 1/2

We cannot join #SMPS4 but hot off the press our nanopore work to monitor CAS9 reactivity and its off-target effects. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

👋👋 Hi everyone! The Astbury Centre is now on Bluesky. Follow along for updates about exciting Astbury Centre science. For now, we have put together a starter pack of members of the Astbury Centre community.

Join us Jan. 23, 17:45 for the first 2025 LSN event! 🧬 Designing de novo tRNAs for Genetic Code Expansion Amir Guppy 🧪 Harnessing synbio tools for solving crucial biotech questions Dr. Anastasiya Kishkevich events.humanitix.com/copy-of-lond...

Happy New Year everyone. Just a reminder that there are 3 days left to apply for a BBSRC-funded PhD position with myself and Julie Aspden on ribosome synthetic biology!

Nominations for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop Award are now open!

Thoroughly enjoyed Next-Gen Synthetic Biology #NGSB24 in Ghent. A special blend of incredible speakers and laid back forum to chat science. Halfway home with a head buzzing with ideas and a lengthy reading list for next week.👩‍🔬📚 Thanks to the organisers! @vibtrainconf.bsky.social

I'm writing up a brief history of the tidyverse? What do you want to know about it? #rstats

Looking for a PhD in molecular/synthetic biology? Interested in RNA, protein synthesis or molecular machines? Currently advertising a BBSRC-funded PhD position on engineering novel methods for ribosome control. Details below. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you'd like to know more.

Delighted to find, as a recent cat parent, that our cats are promising scientists. Here is Woody demonstrating that cats are non-Newtonian liquids… kind of. He will write up his findings as soon as nap time is over. Maybe.

Join us Dec. 12, 17:45 for the final LSN event of 2024! 🧬 ⏭️ Directed evolution of molecular chaperones towards aggregation-prone proteins ComeStellio 🏥 Engaging cancer patients on their attitudes towards microbiome engineering @kimberleyaowen.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/london-synbi...

Late registration for Gogec is now open till 21 Dec. Looking forward to seeing many of you (and your projects) there! Register at the link ⬇️ tally.so/r/wzzAX1

📰 Hot off the press at @naturecomms.bsky.social: RNA language models predict mutations that improve RNA function www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to @kshulgina.bsky.social @jhdcate.bsky.social and coauthors on a great C-GEM + @innovativegenomics.bsky.social collaboration! #NSFfunded #RNAsky

Time for a proper intro: 👋 I am a group leader @ Leeds, focused on the study and engineering of translation control in bacteria. Our interests span 🦠 Synthetic biology 🧬 Protein synthesis 🎨 Fluorescence 🧮 Quantitative biology and 📈 Data analysis. Lots going on over the next few weeks, stay tuned!

Exciting post doc opportunity: we are seeking a post doc to work with us and @ProfTomEllis on large DNA engineering in mammalian cells funded by @ChanZuckerberg. Come and join us at @ImperialChemEng! Apply at the link below: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Started creating a synthetic biology starter pack. Still missing many so reply here if I forgot you or someone else. go.bsky.app/SjfpxTK #synbio

@calin.bsky.social Great start to the synthetic biology starter pack list .. Would you mind adding me?

🦋 New to BlueSky? 🧪 Interested in science? 👀 Wanna find posts by scientists in specific fields? 📃 Here’s a list of +220 science-related feeds and their associated hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Waves of new BlueSky arrivals in last few days! I’ve been tracking starter packs relevant to molecular/mechanistic/genetic/cellular…etc biology Hope it’s helpful but warning: now a v long thread! Probably the last time I can do this...

For #WorldJellyfishDay and the first prompt, dangerous, for Blobfest month of #InsertAnInvert2024 it’s a smack of jellyfish! 🧪🐡🪼 The collective noun for a group of jellyfish is a "smack". This amuses me, because I imagine them smacking their tentacles together in some sort of deepsea high five.🧵

An interesting new observation of the natural history of mitochondria tells us for the first time that there are two distinct types of mitochondria, one specialized for biochemical synthesis, the other for energy metabolism. This nontechnical video tells a fascinating story.

With special mention to the Headless Project one..

🌱Parsley News: Our plate reader data-tidying software has been updated! gbstan.shinyapps.io/parsleyapp/ 🗞️Parsley now works with data from both Tecan Spark (w/ SparkControl) and Molecular Devices SpectraMax readers, which collectively export the most esoteric data formats I've seen.🧵

We know eukaryotes and bacteria encode #ESCRT proteins, but what about viruses? Our new preprint suggests they do! doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵 on HCMV's pUL71 novel VPS4 recruitment motif, plus figures from the paper reimagined by Taylor Swift because, well, why not?

Addgene are here!