Fantastic opportunity at my postdoc institute 👇If you have any questions about a TT, life in Cambridge, the LMB or the PNAC division feel free to reach out !

Last day of a wonderful week visiting Prof Dan Mulvihill in Kent, writing a new grant. Now we only need to get it funded. 🤞

Just watch this. #DoctorsUnderAttack. www.channel4.com/programmes/g...

If you are in to "Biological and bioinspired solar fuels approaches" and Biohybrids, this conference looks very exciting: rsc.li/isf2025

TOUGH LESSON: Today I learned how the Dutch Scientific Funding agency keeps their grant success rate at an acceptable level. After a number of submissions, without advanced warning, they close up shop for the rest of the year. A lot of work went into this proposal I cannot submit.

In collaboration with @lennartschada.bsky.social we tried, unsuccesfully, to express MtrCAB and CymA in Paracoccus denitrificans. This nice work by Gescher suggests why we might not have been successful. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

ISABC 🇸🇪 time table dropped... Pretty happy with "my" session 😙👌🏻 @kasanmaschefflab.bsky.social @larsjeuken.bsky.social www.isabc2025.com/scientific-p...

My colleague @amoloney.bsky.social is hiring an intern for the summer in Bristol! Alex is a great person to collaborate with and I'm sure whoever works with him will have a blast this summer. biotechne.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Biotec...

What is the best way (and QUICKEST) to write a review report for a submission that reads like a data-dump with many statements that are neither supported by data overload nor by literature. Typically, these papers lack a research strategy and I wonder if the senior author actual read the submission.

Looking forward to seeing some excellent talks and posters today: "A Dutch Perspective on Mycobacterial Infections". #Mycobacteria #TB Amazed to learn so much interesting research to understand TB and non-TB mycobacterial infections is going on in NL: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

In vivo kinetics of respiratory enzyme networks studied with whole-cell bioelectrochemistry; my favourite enzymes and organism. What is not to like! Looking forward to reading this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

HMMM. I found two papers with exactly the same data (exactly the same figures, not even replotted), the same authors, only 9 years apart. doi.org/10.1007/BF02... and doi.org/10.1007/s007.... We are all guilty of repeating some of our work, but this is stretching things a bit, maybe?

Hydrogenase-driven ATP synthesis from air https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643271v1

AlphaFold can be used to predict the oligomeric states of proteins www.biorxiv.org/cont... --- #proteomics #prot-preprint

Another fave

Excellent work by the Elliott group @profsje.bsky.social on a monomeric cytochrome nitrite reductase. Somewhat unexpected (for me at least) is the lack of distinguishing features compared to the dimeric nitrite reductases. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Maybe with all that is going on in the states no one noticed, but in the Netherlands the university of Twente has fired 46 people from the chem department. One of them is Jeroen Cornelissen. A giant in the field #chemsky www.utoday.nl/news/75215/p...

Yesterday, after 34+ years of excellence in teaching & research, Dr Julian Knight gave his last organic lecture at Newcastle. Then this happened...😍 Thanks so much to Julian, and all the staff and students that turned out to wish him well in his retirement! #WeAreNCL

We are happy to announce several open positions: - PhD on Novel Peptide-Based Amphiphiles - PhD in the Origin of Homochirality - PhD on Expanding Prebiotic Chemistry Through Reactivity in Oil Droplets - Postdoc in Asymmetric Catalysis Details and how to apply: www.benferinga.com/vacancies/

Interesting preprint from Plumere and Winkler et al. on [FeFe]-hydrogenase maturation (PDF) chemrxiv.org/engage/api-g...

In Nature Chemical Biology today, we reveal how microbes clean our atmospheres by consuming carbon monoxide (CO) gas. A methodological tour de force from Ashleigh Kropp, Rhys Grinter, and David Gillett with broad implications for the atmosphere and bioenergetics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lots of biochemistry, electrochemistry, EPR spectroscopy, and (you guessed it) FTIR spectroscopy in this one, fearlessly led by Princess and Gustav. Check it out 🙏 pubs.acs.org/action/showC...

Come and join us in Sweden. We are still recruiting for a 2-year postdoc position exploring green (H2) hydrogen conversion in proteins through serial crystallography via artificial light activation is available in the Senger lab at Uppsala University. 👇👇👇 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Very happy to present our latest work by Tijn van der Velden and co-workers. Cytochrome bd from Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been studied for a while, but nobody was able to show catalytic activity of the purified enzyme: Find out why here in our JBC paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very happy to join bsky. Looking foward to discussion on bacterial respiration, metalloproteins, membrane transport, bottom-up synthetic biology, nanoreactors and polymer-lipid hybrid vesicles.