I'm pleased to announce that I will guest edit a new #MarineDrugs Special Issue, titled 'Enzymes Derived From Marine Sources". Submission details can be found here: www.mdpi.com/journal/mari...

Incredibly proud of this work. International collaborations and a multi-disciplinary effort to discover and describe bioactive compounds from a marine Streptomyces sp. isolate inhibiting the growth of a fish pathogen. www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/23...

We have a fully funded PhD studentship to work on engineering bacteria to degrade food associated plastic waste #microsky Deadline: Feb 3rd www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fully funded PhD available to work with me and the fab @paulhoskisson.bsky.social and @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social on the aurodox story- www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... 💊🦠🧫

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**Deadline Extension** The application date for this PhD position is now February 14th. Still time for you to apply. #microsky

INVITATION We are starting a new round of online community annotathons to populate v4.0 of the MIBiG repository with high-quality data. If you have relevant expertise in natural product genomics or chemistry, please participate! Please register here: forms.gle/LJR9uRTCyLg7...

Our School Seminar Series resumes on Thursday 25th January when Dr Stephen Jackson from Alan Dobson's group will talk about the metabolic potential of a deep sea sponge microbiome with a view to novel drug discovery. Note the new venue! (C_ELECT_L2)

6 days left to apply.... please RT

Marine Drugs Special Issue: 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 ‘𝑶𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒔’ 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒔 Further information and submission link here: www.mdpi.com/journal/mari...

Today's the day: Clodagh Carr will talk at our School Seminar Series and will tell us about Marine bacteria as a source of polyester-degrading enzymes with biocatalytic potential

Published by Cork City Libraries as part of the excellent City Council Commemoration Programme, the launch of FIRST CITIZEN on 14 November is fast approaching. The book, co-written with John Ger O'Riordan, tells the fascinating story of Cork's longest-serving Lord Mayor, Seán French.

Pattern or anomaly?

Hi all, I have a postdoc position (3 years) in my group on a very challenging topic: co-cultivation of sponge cells and bacterial symbionts. Looking for someone with experience with marine invertebrate cells AND bacteria. Thanks for sharing! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Issue 797 of 'The GW38 Gazette' is out now. Rest in peace to a legend of the game 😢.

Great interview with our very own Professor Jens Walter , talking about the link between diet & disease & the central roles played by our gut microbiome! @ucc.bsky.social #UCC #SchoolOfMicrobiology #SEFS 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

I know I'm old, and out of touch, but there has been biblical rain here for the last 26 hours and it's continuing, yet university students are walking and cycling to campus in GAA shorts!! Can anyone explain????

A nice milestone, 2000 citations ☺️

Merck currently have a 4 month lead in time for anaerocult pouches. Can anyone recommend an alternative for me? #slowsupplychain

The next speaker in our School Seminar Series is Shona Uniacke-Lowe who will talk about biomining the deep-sea for new anti-microbials. Really looking forward to this!

Hello BlueSky, is this thing on? The antiSMASH https://antismash.secondarymetabolites.org/ service has just landed.

An amazing student I co-supervise with the equally brilliant Leighton Pritchard has recently posted this in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social 16S rRNA phylogeny and clustering is not a reliable proxy for genome-based taxonomy in #Streptomyces www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - would love comments

Our review - Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces - is now online Thanks to coauthors @jonathanparra.bsky.social @ainsleybeaton1 @ryanfseipke @barriewilksjic @matthutchings.bsky.social and editors Toni Gabaldón & Luiz Carvalho for the invitation

Does rewiring bacteria to form more biofilm increase the efficency of plastic degrading enzymes? Short Answer: Yes Longer Answer: Check out our latest www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you’re interested in Streptomyces and other filamentous actinomycete bacteria and their natural products please follow @actinobase.bsky.social, the social media account for our community led actinobase.org wiki.

Anyone know any good methods for finding out which transcription factors bind to a piece of DNA? Old fashioned way is to stick the DNA of interest to a bead and wash cell extracts over it. Not very effective. Looking for in vivo and in vitro methods. Thanks

Cool word cloud from my publications. Tool here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu... Thanks @paulhoskisson.bsky.social

I’ve only been on here for a matter of hours but already loving it and considering moving over full time (as the space baby continues to turn the other place to X-crement). If anybody feels like reskeeting (?) this to help me find old mutuals, I’d really appreciate it

Janey Mac

Hello Blue-sky. Behold, an artistic rendering of a Paenibacillus dendritiformis colony!