#microsky #synbiosky Non-model bacteria as platforms for endogenous gene expression in synthetic biology www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Italy condemns 'drone attack' on Gaza aid flotilla and deploys frigate (The 52 boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) are mostly off the coast of Crete) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

To maintain genome integrity, extreme organisms like archaea rely heavily on repair pathways. This #FEMSmicroBlog explains how the halophile model organism Haloferax volcanii repairs DNA double strand breaks quickly and efficiently. #FascinatingMicrobes

🚨Exciting #Postdoc opportunity in the Fogg & Antson labs: 3-year post based @biologyatyork.bsky.social to explore the #StructuralBiology & mechanism of viral DNA-packaging motors using cutting-edge #Cryo-EM, biophysical and molecular approaches. Apply by 9th Oct at bit.ly/3Iz3bOu #ScienceJobs

@leverhulme.ac.uk is supporting this fantastic BA podcast for early career researchers. It's an exciting but stressful transition period for many and sharing experiences is definitely helpful. Enjoy!!

#NewResearch Structure of a functional archaellum in bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum #MicroSky @archaellum.bsky.social @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social ‬ @mariejoest.bsky.social @sgribaldo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#YorkMansionHouse house was built for the Lord Mayor of York between 1725 and 1732, making it a perfect setting for the #GeorgianDance dance lesson I attended there this evening! These pictures are of the State Room (where we danced), the staircase, the Dining Room, and a view of St. Helen’s Square.

GPU-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedup for homology retrieval, protein structure prediction with ColabFold, and protein structure search with Foldseek. @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @machine.learning.bio www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💿 mmseqs.com

A new #CryoET study shows that the protein ZapD helps organise FtsZ filaments into stable ring-like structures in building bacterial division machinery. buff.ly/saLPqJM

A new project is seeking volunteers to help record the heritage of South Yorkshire’s 250-year-old waterways. The Canal & River Trust is updating a survey last carried out in the early 1990s, charting changes to the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. Volunteers will use

GPU-accelerated homology search with MMseqs2 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Cammini basiliani Monastero Ortodosso di San Giovanni Theristis dell'XI sec., immerso nell'incontaminata vallata vicino Bivongi (RC). Commistione architettonica basiliana e latina. La grande bellezza❤️. #Calabria #arte #medioevo #landscape #beauty #Heritage #art #style #south #Italy

The @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social's Hospitium was such a lovely location for the @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025 conference dinner. Gorgeous gardens, fabulous food & captivating conversations Thank you to the organisers for creating a great program & friendly interdisciplinary environment

Do you have a favourite part of day 1 @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025. A particular talk? The poster session? Flashbacks of being a fresher? For myself, it was a friendly environment that facilitated open & lively discussions between experts from different disciplines👨‍🔬🧬👩‍🔬🦠 Let day 2 begin!

Excellent day 2 at #BioPhyChrom2025 some great talks and discussions! So glad to present some of the work we’ve just started and get some excellent feedback 🧬And… I SAW LONGBOI @biochemsoc.bsky.social

It has been a blast 💥!Awesome atmosphere, networking & knowledge exchange at @biophychrom.bsky.social Huge thanks 🙏 to all the Participants, Rachel & Kinga from @biochemsoc.bsky.social & the Sponsors @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social @lumicks.bsky.social @emanuellissek.bsky.social @ei-science.bsky.social

#Archaeasky #Microsky

#Biophychrom2025 is over, but we spent four exciting days discussing the biology and physics of prokaryotic chromosomes. Congratulations to all the attendees for making this conference a success. @biochemsoc.bsky.social @danielabarilla.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social

Well that's a wrap @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025 thank you to the organisers & everyone here for contributing to a wonderful week. Looking forward to hopefully seeing you all again in Paris 🇫🇷 @danielabarilla.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social

That’s a wrap for The Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes VII 2025. A big thank you to all those who attended 🧪 #BioPhyChrom2025 #BiochemEvents

#BioPhyChrom25 gala dinner at the 14th century #Hospitium venue in York, and @agnesnoy.bsky.social talk. Lots of discussion and ideas for BioPhyChrom2027… Great vibes and atmosphere! @biophychrom.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social 🧬

Royal Society to reconsider expelling Elon Musk “Language of violence” in address to anti-immigration rally pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

With evidence attached 😊 #BioPhyChrom2025 @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social @tamarabasta.bsky.social

The Chromosome Biology #BioPhyChrom fête is in full swing: excellent talks and fantastic snapshot poster presentations by our ECRs 🧬👏! Great scientific socialising at the pub after the York tour.

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

Finally in York! Tomorrow is D-Day #BioPhyChrom2025 kicks off with a great program and posters! @danielabarilla.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social

arte cistercense: Sala capitolare del 1221 nell'antica abbazia benedettina di Santa Maria della Matina a San Marco Argentano (CS). L'abbazia fu fondata dai benedettini intorno al 1060 per poi passare all'ordine cistercense. #Calabria #arte #gotico #heritage #beauty #abbey #art #medieval

Tomorrow is the start of Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes VII. Great speakers and participants. Excellent support by the Biochem. Society. @biochemsoc.bsky.social @danielabarilla.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025

At Bolling Hall Museum, #Bradford, @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social today we celebrated its 110 year anniversary of being a museum with new displays, story-telling sessions, astronomy themed talks and play, a speech reenactment and historical music. 🏰🎉

Bolling Hall, Bradford What a nice piece of #Yorkshire history. Music and a talk on the astronomer and mathematician Abraham Sharp. Thanks @handhyorkshire.bsky.social for highlighting this spot 😊.

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

The countdown for #BioPhyChrom2025 is nearly over: -2 days to go… What a fête of chromosome biology & physics!🧬 Safe journey everyone! ✈️🚂 @vslioy.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

There's a great feature on our new Micklegate book in today's Yorkshire Post. The book is due out on 15 October.

La-Proteina from NVidia to do co-design of fully atomistic protein structures (sequence + side-chains + backbone) for up to 800 residues is now open source with permissive licensing 🖥️ github.com/NVIDIA-Digit... 🗎 arxiv.org/abs/2507.09466

I wrote a Preview in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social ! A new study suggests that #curli may protect prey from bacterial predators like #Bdellovibrio. Really looking forward to seeing this model confirmed with live-cell imaging and specific reporters! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

A flawless reflection 🌧️ 📷 Instagram | Spiralling_Oxford

#microsky #synbiosky

✍️ Why can’t Yorkshire scrap peak fares, like Scotland’s doing? Yorkshire rail users face fewer trains, higher fares and less investment – our region is stuck on the slow track By John Hall @johnfromyorkshire.bsky.social

A plasmid golden ratio? 🧬 Plasmid copy number ≈ 2.5% of chromosome size—consistent across bacterial species! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @jerorb.bsky.social 🧪 #microbesky

We’re back! Read our latest on how the recently discovered archaea Sukunaarchaeum mirible is making us question just what exactly it means to be alive. 🧪

Huang, @tweethinking.bsky.social, Sepang et al. use phylogenetic analyses to reveal that the Njordarchaeales and Panguiarchaeales constitute the new class Njordarchaeia within Asgard archaea. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf201 #evobio #molbio #archaea

Please re-post: Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo... Abstract deadline: 30 September

One week to go for The Biology & Physics of Chromosomes VII, but there is still time to register! Join us! 🧬🧬🧬 @biophychrom.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social

Dear scientific community, I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Nature research paper: Multiple overlapping binding sites determine transcription factor occupancy go.nature.com/4250s5W

Thermophiles 2025 kicked off on a high note at the University of Münster’s Schloss. Prof. Jenny Littlechild opened the congress, with excellent keynotes by Prof. Sonja-Verena Albers and Prof. William Martin. Great to reconnect with colleagues! #Thermophiles2025 #ANRFIndia

𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪 replicationists take note 👇 glad to see the resurrection of flemming hansen's decades-old 'initiator titration model' www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky