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We are inviting applications for postdoctoral fellows in immunology of TB at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town. For more information see the attached ad: idm.uct.ac.za/media/739223

Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!

Important piece from Sarah Stanley at Berkeley on new NIH definitions that can be construed to arbitrarily halt research that is both safe and important to public health and future cures www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g... via @statnews.com

🧪 Excited to share our new work on reactive metallo-scaffolds (r-mS)! We combine metal complexes with chemoproteomics to discover new liganding sites across the proteome! Shout out to a great collaboration with GSK! Fantastic team effort 🫶🏻 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

📢 PhD Opportunity @crick.ac.uk Want to help fight against antimicrobial resistance? Join us in London! Open to international applicants. We have non-clinical & clinical PhD positions to accelerate antibiotic discovery across bacterial species. November deadlines. More details ⬇️🧵

Our article on human multidomain protein biogenesis is now published in @natsmb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social More info below ⬇️

Now online! Mining the CD4 antigen repertoire for next-generation tuberculosis vaccines

Be my colleague! Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is hiring two tenure-track positions for Fall 2026, chemical education and coatings technology. Chen Ed: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Coatings: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...

The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026): www.embl.org/about/info/e... We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them

Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely! chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

My institution is looking to hire a new microbiologist: apply.interfolio.com/173702. Please share, and let me know if you have any questions about the position or UTA.

So...what would happen to the global TB epidemic if we hypothetically "eliminated" undernutrition? In this preprint, we combined estimates from our new review (doi.org/10.1093/ije/...) with population-specific BMI distributions to find out...(doi.org/10.1101/2025...)

How to make training data from tacit knowledge in medicinal chemistry is one of the big challenges.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

A new methods paper from us, this time with a focus on reliable monitoring membrane potential and cell lysis at different growth stages and cell densities. Also, note the surprisingly high level of background lysis in seemingly healthy B. subtilis cultures. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now available in a polished format! An important step toward accelerated functional genomics for the Cryptosporidium parasite. Brought to you by the incomparable @lucy-watson.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My Friday night hot take is that replication studies are largely a waste of time & $ If a result is worth following up on, it's better to address from a different angle & see if it holds water. Strong ideas withstand this Conversely, there R infinite ways a replication can fail that teach you zip

Are you excited about using cyclic #peptides in #DrugDiscovery? Here is a great opportunity to perform a #postdoc with a great mentor in the group of @ljwalport.bsky.social at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social! www.linkedin.com/posts/louise... #ChemBio #Chemistry #ChemSky

Interesting work on characterizing steroid-modifying enzymes in commensal gut bacteria: "Identification of gut bacteria reductases that biotransform steroid hormones" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Working link here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper has finally graduated from pre-print to peer-reviewed, pretty much unscathed, and is out now! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Cool to see this elegant approach finally pre-printed!

📣Preprint 📣 You want to degrade a protein in Gram-negatives? We have tackled this challenge! Detailed study of our Light-Activated Metal-Dependent Protein Degradation LAMP-D system in targeting and rescuing NDM-1 activity. What an amazing team effort 🫶🏻 doi.org/10.26434/che...

Imagine a small molecule that degrades a target protein like PROTACs, but does so independently of any of the host cell's degradation machinery, so you can go and do targeted protein degradation in gram-negative bacteria: doi.org/10.26434/che...

New post: The age of the undruggable is over. The age of the unassayable is here. medchemash.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

We are hiring a Flatiron Research Fellow in the Structural Molecular Biophysics team! Experience with cryoEM and/or membrane protein simulations are a plus! Happy to chat in person with anyone at #bps2025 ! apply.interfolio.com/160227

Kansas #tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history. There were 51 #TB cases in the state in 2023, 109 in 2024 and 1 so far this year, by Jason Alatidd www.cjonline.com/story/news/p... via @cjonline.bsky.social @infectiousdz.bsky.social

⚠️ Bit of an alarm bell to MDR-TB regimen BPaL/M - resistance to constituent antibiotics developing and transmission of such strains already occurring #TBSky #IDSky @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Interested in Mtb pathogenesis and developing new strategies to treat these deadly infections? Please apply to join us for the GRC for Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Development!! www.grc.org/tuberculosis... Deadline to submit an abstract to be considered for a talk is March 1st! Please repost!

Cool new preprint from @stanford-chemh.bsky.social fellow @mbogyo.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

Featured preprints include our #majetilab collaboration with the Feinberg lab using gene correction of primary samples to reveal that the pre-leukemic mutations in DNMT3A is dispensable for AML disease maintenance. Read here ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social

Evolution of antibiotic resistance #AMR can lead to collateral resistance/sensitivity to other drugs; @jeffmaltas.bsky.social &co show that these effects can fluctuate over time, needing precise timing & stochastic control models to optimize treatment strategies 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3C2Ao1y

What is the diversity of antiphage systems out there ? We used protein and genomic language models (and defense score!) to start bringing some answers: >45 000 protein families. Leb by E. Mordret. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Interactive UMAP to have fun mdmparis.github.io/antiphage-la...

Childhood cancer death rates in the United States have declined six-fold over the last seventy years. 🧵

It's that time of year! Registration and abstract submission for the 6th Klebsiella Seminar Series is now open. Participation is free and abstracts are due by February 16th. See the link below for details, and reach out to the organizers with any questions: forms.gle/gxbvaC6FjzuS... #KlebClub

In our latest preprint, led by Master's student Gechlang Tang, we put forth a modest proposal: why not just use host-derived reads as a normalization factor for estimating absolute bacterial biomass in stool metagenomes? 🦠💩📈 @isbscience.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey people, Still time to apply and attend the EMBO meeting on mechanisms of drug resistance and tolerance. Terrific speakers and attendees and top science. Hope to see you in alluring Heidelberg in March!! #resistance #tolerance #antibiotics #antifungals #cancer www.embl.org/about/info/c...

I think it's sometimes hard for people in pure academia to understand the sheer amount of work it takes to make a clinical candidate drug. Yes, you have an inhibitor, can we get it to a suitable level of specificity and activity and have a decent ADMET profile? Often, the answer is nope :(

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

@dmmjournal.bsky.social will host a one-day programme on #AMR. Organised by @kateduncan.bsky.social & @sergemostowylab.bsky.social. Accelerated antibiotic discovery, combined with a greater understanding of resistance mechanisms and spread is vital to mobilise against #AMR. bit.ly/4ddBF2t 🧪

Have you ever wondered how knocking out every single gene in the human genome, one by one, might affect your intracellular pathogen of interest? We did, & boy was it a wild ride! Happy to share our preprint discovering the essential host genome for Cryptosporidium - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm thrilled to announce a new preprint describing collaborative work with Ajay Jain and Ann Cleves Jain, "Deep-Learning Based Docking Methods: Fair Comparisons to Conventional Docking Workflows". arxiv.org/abs/2412.02889

I just made a first release of TNA - new tool to compare 2 bacterial genomes. Is shamelessly inspired by ACT, but should be simpler to use. Drag-n-drop two genomes: it runs BLAST for you and then you can visualize. For Mac, Windows 11, Linux tna.readthedocs.io

Peds ID docs warn parents that periobital cellulitis swelling will get momentarily worse on starting antibiotics before resolving This new Nat Comm paper provides likely explanation: Bactericidal antibiotics liberate bug’s DNA to activate TLR9-dependent inflammation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Important stuff Immune checkpoint inhibitors that block PD-1 pathway effective vs. many cancers New @IMMUNITY: impaired memory B cell development and IgG/A responses in humans and mice deficient in PD-1 signaling This dysregulation may explain ⬆️ risk of infection or autoimmunity in these patients

The RSC Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group is now on Bluesky and delighted to be here! We're really looking forward to keeping you all updated with the latest events and news from our community, across the UK and internationally. Spread the word to those you know, and give us a follow! #chembio