Two great seminars today. First up Aaron Scott a PhD student with @kshbeckham.bsky.social and @winterhalterlab.bsky.social 👏🏻

Thanks @hobbslabmicro.bsky.social for a great seminar. 👏🏻

Early bird registration for VTEC 2026 ends this Friday (February 27th). Please share with your networks and consider registering for this great One-health conference covering all topics VTEC related, taking place in Aberdeen on the 10-13th of May.

Last chance to apply for this exciting PhD with us. Deadline tomorrow the 27th of February!

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This project is joint with fab computational biologist @mattbashton.bsky.social - great opportunity to learn computational and molecular biology skills

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Lots of exciting opportunities to join us here in Newcatsle with the BBSRC Doctoral Landscape (NEEDL) phd programme 🤩 www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

Isn’t it amazing that you can culture a microbe and see what chemistry it produces? Metabolite extracts by @zmaw.bsky.social #naturalproducts

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

Second talk from BvdB covering cell surface biology in Bacteroides. Always great to see the pedal bin and TonB plug. J’adore the pedal bin. Massive thank you to the #dreamtheme speakers, attendees and organisers. And to @winterhalterlab.bsky.social for chairing!

Another packed room at the MHD seminar for @jlreyre.bsky.social and Bert van den Berg 👏🏻

Great to host Matthias Wilmanns for this week’s MHD seminar @embl.org @matthiaswilmanns.bsky.social

Fantastic to have Prof Matthias Wilmanns from EMBL Hamburg hosted by @kshbeckham.bsky.social to give a @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social seminar on mycobacterial infection #dreamtheme

Congratulations Maisie! 🥂

Welcome to Newcatsle Zach 😃

Big congratulations Neha!

Happy to see work I contributed to during my MSc at @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social with Jennifer Tomlinson’s lab out in @pnas.org! Everyone Bluesky-less except @antoncalabrese.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AMR #MRSA #NMR

Congratulations Marla 🌟

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

Second talk was from another of M3031's finest, Finn Brady from @jmarlesw.bsky.social lab working on the general stressosome 🫡 Lovely to see how this story is moving along!

Busy week last week kicked off with another billy belter of a seminar from @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social First talk from James Haycocks from @banzhaflab.bsky.social with some cool work with chemical genomics on Vibrio. It's great seeing the high throughput plates in action. #dreamtheme

Theres still time to apply for our PhD project on UPEC/immune cell interactions. Deadline December 4th

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....

Brilliant to have Prof Malcolm White from the University of St Andrews giving a Newcastle University Biosciences Institute seminar (hosted by @heathmurraylab.bsky.social) #microbiology #phage #bacteriology

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 👏🏻

I am excited to share our new preprint on our structural and biochemical analyses of human methionine synthase (MTR). This was the hard work of Douglas Ferreira who carried out this research as a significant part of his PhD. #CryoEM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

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

Looks like a great meeting :)

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...

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

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.

Looking for an AMR-themed PhD project? Join us to investigate antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus through a fully funded MRC DTP PhD studentship starting in September 2026. This project is close collaboration with @kateduncan.bsky.social and @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social.

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

Save the date: XVIII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products (MaNaPro), October 4th to 9th, 2026, Puerto Morelos, Riviera Maya, México. Organisers incl. Alejandra Prieto-Davó @alepdavo.bsky.social & Natalie Millán- #NaturalProducts #SecMet

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

Editorial @acs.org by EiC Brad Moore ‘A new era for the Journal of Natural Products’ -this includes expanding multiomics science and i’m delighted to be appointed on to the editorial advisory board, please check out the recent and up and coming special issues/collections pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Just registered for my favourite conference - the Marine Natural Products Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in March 2026. Chair @balunaslab.bsky.social and Vice-Chair Roger Linington have put together a really exciting program www.grc.org/marine-natur... - applications open - see you there?

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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...