It was a pleasure to be an examiner of the latest @henrikstrahl.bsky.social PhD graduate Laura Dobby. Great work and a very nice discussion in her viva. Congratulations Dr Dobby! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social

Super proud of you! 🦠

Let’s stare into the far red 🏮. A stunning tour-de-force of high-resolution #CryoEM by Gio, Bill, & company reveals how the machinery of photosynthesis redshifts itself so cyanobacteria can live on far red light, deep in the cracks of rocks or under microbial mats. #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 🔬 🌍

New preprint out from the team! Master‘s student extraordinaire Julia Bauer stumbled across a Ca transporter needed for endospore maturation in Solibacillus 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Possibly outing myself as the biggest nerd ever here but what a massive day for Ryan Sharpe, Oakville, Ontario, Canada appearing on both US Jeopardy and UK University Challenge!!

Postdoc position available! This is a 2-year post funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. You'll be based in the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology here in Newcastle, using super-resolution microscopy to look at the bacterial cell wall. 🔬🦠 Please re-post 🙏 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY885/r...

We are happy to join the science community at BlueSky! #MicroSky

First post of the year to mark my return from maternity leave :) Excited to share the first open PhD position in my group. Deadline end of February. Please spread the word. www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=181239

Single molecule imaging of RecB in vivo reveals dynamics of DNA Double Strand Break repair in Escherichia coli https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629153v1

So happy our pre-print on daptomycin mechanism of action is now out! Here, we present three main findings: i) daptomycin does not form large membrane pores in either B. subtilis or S. aureus, (1/3)