Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

After more than 10 years at the @kent.ac.uk , my lab will move to the @quadraminstitute.bsky.social ! I’m sad to leave behind amazing friends, but excited to start a new chapter. The good news? My lab members will be making the move with me, and we’ll advertise several new positions.

I'm thrilled to share that I've joined the Universidad Miguel Hernández in Spain as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology! Excited for this new chapter and the opportunities ahead.

I am honoured and delighted to join the #CIFAR family as an Azrieli Global Scholar. Looking forward to working with this fantastic community to tackle complex global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration! cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...

We quantify the aggregation of >100,000 random protein sequences to train CANYA, a convolution-attention hybrid neural network to predict aggregation from sequence. With @bennibolo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When it comes to building a healthy community of helpful microbes in the gut, a new study in Nature from our EVP of Life Sciences Joy Bergelson and collaborators finds one factor matters most: diet. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/05/13/t... #science #lifesciences

It’s out! The evolutionary origins of yeast point centromeres uncovered! “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you interested in a postdoc in Germany on fungal pathogen biology, genomics, or antifungal resistance? My Uni (@uni-jena.de) is hosting a free two-day masterclass in June on preparing MSCA Postdoc Fellowships with it as host. If you are interested in writing a fellowship with me, get in touch!

1/n So, this is out in NAR, finally. The longest, the most expensive and the most challenging project in the lab. Sparked by controversy concerning mammalian antiviral RNAi and our identification of Dicer variant, which is sufficient to increase RNAi. doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Wonderful 🚀 work on Verticillium out by the Thomma team!

While writing papers and grants, we received many comments on the role of CNVs in antifungal resistance. We thought we should formally assess how important they are. Here is what we found. #AMR #fungi #evolution rdcu.be/d5rbN

It was a pleasure to write a commentary on the work by @jhuang90.bsky.social and the Heitman Lab, exploring how RNAi and transposons drive intraspecies diversity in Cryptococcus. 🧬 #DrugResistance #RNAi www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Proud of our new paper in which we force-feed plastic to marine fungi, and watch them evolve to eat it more efficiently. Plastic is the fastest growing new habitat on our planet, fungi can help recycle it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Hereʻs a link to the PDF: amendlab.com/wp-content/u...

Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Time for a 🧵 on our new paper from the Walkley lab in @scienceimmuno.bsky.social. If you're into RNA editing by ADARs, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) sensing, post-transcriptional gene regulation and CRISPR screening, then read on! 1/X www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #RNASky #ImmunoSky

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

We are advertising for a project looking at epigenetic inheritance in Drosophila at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford @oxfordbiology.bsky.social Please get in touch if you are interested! Only 1 month left to be considered for funding. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Go red: « The mScarlet family of fluorescent proteins keeps growing! Meet mScarlet3-H (aka mYongHong), an ultrastable RFP ideal for many advanced microscopy applications. Plasmids are now available via WeKwikGene! wekwikgene.wllsb.edu.cn/plasmids?sea... »

Looking forward to this! Ben’s reputation as brilliant neurobiologist who made strides in glial research, as well as being a compassionate mentor, is really inspiring. Highly recommend “The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist” for anyone who’d like to learn more.

Quite a comprehensive piece of work: "Gut physiology and environment explain variations in human gut microbiome composition and metabolism." www.nature.com/articles/s41... Definitely worth checking out if you work on animal microbiomes, especially in the gut

Super interesting new study from the Iliev group on a natural fungal commensal of mice - really important for folks studying #microbiome in mouse models www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating new paper about how commensal #fungi can promote #type2 responses in mice, a process involving fungal induction of #IL-33 🍄 🧪 #ImmunoSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2x professorships available in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology including in Microbial Engineering area (broadly defined to include microbiomes, environmental biotech etc) — join us! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Useful benchmarking study 'Evaluation of DNA extraction kits for long-read shotgun metagenomics using Oxford Nanopore sequencing for rapid taxonomic and antimicrobial resistance detection' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

Early Registration for ECFG17 satellite meetings on 2 March are still open till Dec 6. The Basal (zygos and chytrids) Fungal Symposium should be a a fun one to participate in! www.ecfg17.org

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We are still recruiting postdoctoral fellows! We are looking for individuals interested in human pathogens and their response to antifungals. An NIH R01 fully funds this project. This project involves genetic, cell biology, microscopy, and proteomics approaches! Please RT 🙏🏽

How to write an excellent Review article @natrevbioeng.bsky.social #scisky #Science #REVIEW Open Access www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

70% of scientists say they experience the imposter syndrome. I still experience it too sometimes, and what helps is talking with a science buddy with whom it’s ok to say stupid things, which may actually turn out to be good ideas.

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

RNA-mediated DNA damage repair: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #RNAbiology #RNAsky

I created a simple flow chart to help my lab trainees choose the most appropriate stats test in Prism (*for single-factor comparisons only). Feel free to share with your group if you think it could be helpful first start.