🌱 We’re excited to launch the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural workshop (free!): “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 📍 Uni of Dundee (hybrid) We look forward to welcoming you! Feel free to repost to help us reach the community

How much protein diversity can Life on Earth actually generate? With DIAMOND DeepClust, we show how billions of proteins across the tree of life can be clustered at low-identity for downstream analytics tasks. 📚Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻Code: github.com/bbuchfink/di...

Two post-doctoral positions open in our lab. We're looking for people with expertise in molecular microbiology and/or genome-scale tools. Initially 3 yrs, posts could be extended for upto 8 yrs. If you'd like to know more about us take a look at www.graingerlab.com www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY475/r...

Now out in its final form, our investigation of how Pseudomonas aeruginosa manages resources to permit ongoing adaptations to environment during starvation: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Congrats to first author @findunmun1.bsky.social, and co-authors Claudia Hemsley and Elize Ambulte.

Here’s the latest preprint from my work on evolved resistance to Type VI Secretion system (T6SS) weaponry, funded by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship. So happy to see this out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tvp complexes support formation of the VgrG-PAAR spike during Type VI secretion system assembly https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.23.707444v1

Congratulations to MD-PhD student, Amanda Velez and all co-authors on our new PNAS paper describing how the innate immune protein calprotectin incapacitates autolysins, inducing tolerance to B-lactam antibiotics. A fun collaboration with Thomas Kehl-Fie. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations to Sean Yu-Hao Wang, Will DePas, @catarmbruster.bsky.social and colleagues on their use of experimental evolution to identify regulators of Mycobacterium abscessus biofilm production! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Regulatory Rewiring Drives Intraspecies Competition in Bacillus subtilis bioRxiv from @bacteriacities.bsky.social #competition #rapP #comP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Identification of Previously Unknown DNA-Binding Proteins Using DNA Affinity/Pull-Down Methods Followed by Mass Spectrometry Jutras, Babb, Jusufovic, Krusenstjerna, Saylor, Verma, and Stevenson Current Protocols 2025, 5:e70264 doi: 10.1002/cpz1.70264 #MicroSky

🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages. Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms. A thread 1/8

An Rhs effector uses distinct target cell functions to intoxicate bacterial and fungal competitors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685041v1

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

New preprint from the lab! @findunmun1.bsky.social @chemsley.bsky.social We looked at new protein synthesis and genetic fitness during starvation in P. aeruginosa. Resources are dynamically redistributed to support ongoing activity, even over days of total starvation: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

yes, the MMBs studied by george schaible and roland hatzenpichler are fascinating 𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 bacteria 🤩 STC had mentioned them first in 2007 > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... and recently in > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

In @molecularmicro.bsky.social: two special issues on Prokaryotic Chromosome Organization. Many excellent contributions, including a vision article: 'Future directions of the Prokaryotic Chromosome Field', outcome of BioPhyChrom 2023 @biophychrom.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Polyphosphate: The “Dark Matter” of Bacterial Chromatin Structure onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

Congrats to Findlay and many thanks to examiners Dan Neill and Martin Welch for their work on a successful viva today! Findlay has worked so hard and accomplished so much while blazing the trail as the first PhD student in the lab :)

Together with @frimanscience.bsky.social and our Chinese colleagues, we have worked out how to predict (i) siderophore molecular structures www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and (ii) siderophore interaction networks in communities www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from sequence data!