Good news! Erasmus is a great scheme. www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s so nice to work with such brilliant people, thanks to @kshbeckham.bsky.social and team for organising our microbes in health and disease theme festive gathering!🎄

Fab afternoon at the MHD festive gathering 🎉 congratulations to the winning quiz team and @johncorrigall.bsky.social for most festive outfit.

Truly heroic effort by Robin Lissner in @wilbertbitter.bsky.social's group to knock out every single lipoprotein in Mycobacterium marinum. He found a lot of cool stuff, and we were fortunate to help out with some of it. Check out the paper here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an outlier in many ways. One of them is keeping a high degree of functional redundancy despite its obligate pathogen lifestyle. In this review, we reflect on the biological meaning of M. tuberculosis functional redundancies. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Thrilled to see our Kiwa story out today! A membrane-associated supercomplex that senses infection and blocks replication and transcription. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Huge congratulations to Yi and Zhiying for bringing it home, to Thomas for starting us off, and to all the collaborators.

If you or someone you know is looking for a post-doctoral position working on mycobacterial envelope biology, please get in touch. I am recruiting here at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

Great to have you in Newcastle @matthiaswilmanns.bsky.social

Today, we are lucky to have Imane El Meouche from IAME, France to give a MCM seminar @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social (chaired by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social) on antibiotics tolerance in E. Coli

👀 nice was to illustrate :)

Nice work, congratulations all :)

Type VII ABC transporters underpin many core activities in the bacterial cell envelope - including efflux, cell division and lipoprotein trafficking. A new paper in PLOS Biology reveals YbbAP-TesA as a novel Type VII system in E. coli. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Now properly published at @natcomms.nature.com with few additional experiments incl. demonstration of Daptomycin's ability to depolarise non-growing cells. See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

Take a look through the Instruct-ERIC Facility starter pack! Find the technology and expertise in structural biology that you need, and receive funded access to any of these facilities through Instruct - bsky.app/starter-pack...

We are delighted to share a stunning short/long chain acyl-CoA carboxylase complex with a total of 16 subunits (8 x AccA3, 2 x AccD4, 4 x AccD5, 2 x AccE5). It hosts two related carboxylate transferase subunits (AccD4, AccD5). Our story is now on www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.15.688623v1

Looking for a PhD opportunity in Microbiology? Consider joining one of the UK's leading microbiology research clusters at Newcastle University. See the thread for MRC DTP studentships currently advertised. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social #microsky

🚨 PhD opportunity! 🚨 Join us at St Andrews to study how multiple prophages shape bacterial behaviour & AMR. Co-supervised with @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social This is a competition-based EASTBIO PhD. Full details and the application link are in the advert 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Happy to share our latest NAR paper on Rel toxins targeting M. tuberculosis anti-SD region, with Tim Blower’s team (@durham.ac.uk @nebiolabs.bsky.social) and Laurent Falquet Thanks to FRM @frm-officiel.bsky.social and CNRS @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article-...

Architecture of an asymmetric mycobacterial short chain/long chain acyl-CoA carboxylase https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.15.688623v1

PhD opportunity in the lab of a young PI who’s simply going stratospheric, on using #phage for water treatment. What’s not to like? You can’t miss this chance. #microsky #phagesky

‘The latest surveillance data found that the number of antibiotic-resistant infections in 2024 equated to an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases a week.’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🚨Attention prospective PhD students🚨 Are you interested in molecular mechanisms, RNA viruses, structural biology or biophysics? 🧬🦠🧪 We have THREE fully-funded PhD projects available for October 2026 entry: www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor... Please share/repost, and get in touch if you're interested

Pleased to see this collaboration with a great PhD student Pei Cing Ng, from Prof. Luning Liu's lab at Liverpool University published. Structure of the H. neapolitanus carbonic anhydrase and localisation in a mini-carboxysome: www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Second talk was from Prof. Frank Sargent with an interesting talk on TXSS. Another set of brilliant talks from the #dreamtheme, with plenty of further reading, thanks to speakers, @dave-bolam.bsky.social chairing and the other organisers from the theme!

Two great seminars this week 👏🏻

Very nice work :)

Thinking about your first steps to independent research? We'd love to hear from you. More details below, or contact me directly for details - reposts appreciated! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

SWBio PhD studentships available- join my lab to investigate phage structure with @btemperton.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ytdft9bj

Thanks to all of the organisers. It was a great meeting, again. Happy to hear it will be back in Newcastle again next year.

So much exciting structural biology on show 😃

Beautiful work from @augustsilale.bsky.social 🤩 @nusbf.bsky.social

Another exciting day in Newcastle for structural biology! The CCP4 Structural Biology Meeting 2025 is here!

Wow, really impressive work 🤩

Back in the toon to celebrate the launch of the Tundra! Congratulations to everyone involved in making this possible 👏 #NorthernEye #cryoEM @nusbf.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social

Lots of exciting developments to understand the structure of membrane protein in its native environment

Structural and functional analysis of drug resistance in tuberculosis via a novel MmpL3 binding site. Supervised by @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social and @kshbeckham.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Welcome to #bluesky 👏🏻

Want to work within a multidisciplinary group to combat antifungal resistance in Candida spp? Fully-funded MRC PhD studentship in collaboration with @nclfungalgroup.bsky.social and Francesco Del Carratore on the mode of action of a new class of antifungal drugs. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Interested in a PhD at the intersection of biophysics and microbiology? Apply for this MRC-funded opportunity at Newcastle University to do cutting-edge microscopy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis! 🔬🦠 Closing 4 Dec! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

If you are interested in researching how drug resistant bacteria evade killing by our immune system, them this PhD project is for you. Come join the our team at Newcastle, in collaboration with University of Liverpool, and lead research at the interface of microbiology, immunology and metabolomics.

Want to find ways to combat TB? Check out this PhD position 👇

Prospective PhD Students! The MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership PhD Projects are now online.. lots of exciting opportunities to join us here in Newcastle. Take a look 👀 www.findaphd.com/phds/mrc-dim...

If you’re interested in metals, microbes and maths 🤘 - please check out this PhD on the impact of metals on microbial communities with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social @blindmath.bsky.social Denis Patterson and myself, you’d be based in Durham & be part of a vibrant interdisciplinary research group

📣 Open call for life science #interns Our International Summer #Internship 2026 is now open for applications. Three-months fully funded internships at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. 👉 Information on the internship projects and how to apply: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/mpiib-isi

🚀 Introducing fully automated data processing for repeat-target #cryoEM. Using new tools in #CryoSPARC, it is now possible to obtain resolutions & map quality equal to or better than manual processing, with zero user intervention. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please join us in the North East on the 5th of November as we celebrate with a one day symposium for the launch of our BBSRC funded 100 keV Tundra TEM aka the Northern Eye: nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccpem-tfs-ne... The symposium has been kindly sponsored by @thermofishersci.bsky.social & @ccpem.bsky.social

We’ve kept registrations open till the end of this week so get your last minute applications in for posters and talks!

The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th. nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...

Still time to sign up and submit and abstract for this year’s CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting. This is a really nice meeting and great opportunity for ECRs to present their work ✨ nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...