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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 1d

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Early career group leaders

We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 23h

Our very own Kira from @ninamolinhk.bsky.social group is injecting some microbiology into the PLEN Research Day

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 1d

Next is the closure of the Taxol (effective but expensive cancer drug: $30,000/kg!!! ) biosynthesis pathway from the group of @skampranis.bsky.social
Check out the details which were recently published 👇

Nature Synthesis @natsynth.nature.com · May 1

Now online:

Article by Feiyan Liang, @skampranis.bsky.social & co-workers @novo-nordisk.bsky.social

Elucidation of the final steps in Taxol biosynthesis and its biotechnological production

www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#ChemSky

Elucidation of the final steps in Taxol biosynthesis and its biotechnological production - Nature Synthesis

In Taxol biosynthesis, the steps leading up to the intermediate baccatin III are understood, however, the final steps remain elusive. Here elucidation of the final steps of Taxol biosynthesis enables ...

www.nature.com

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 1d

First up is AI-based weed detection for precision agriculture: OpenWeedLocator presented by @geezacoleman.bsky.social
Check out all the details 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 1d

Today is @ucph.bsky.social PLEN Research Day! The focus is on innovation in the University, and we get to hear about successful cases of research transformed to innovative solutions - stay tuned to hear more!

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 2d

Another iconic recommendation from my Google Scholar alert

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 3d

Heeeeeck yes

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Merissa Huei-Hsuan Tsai @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social · 8d

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Science Magazine @science.org · 8d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 8d

It was a pleasure to host @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social at PLEN, where she shared updates from @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social as well as endeavors into imaging plant roots in the dark

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 9d

Come join the best research group in Copenhagen! (might be a biased opinion)

Frederik Bak @fredebak.bsky.social · 9d

A 2-y postdoc position in my former group at University of Copenhagen is available in microbial ecology and bioinformatics.

See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment.

Please share the ad.

Postdoc in Microbial bioinformatics

employment.ku.dk

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · 10d

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Terrestrial Microbial Ecology at SLU, Uppsala

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor* in Terrestrial Microbial Ecology | slu.se

SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

www.slu.se

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 10d

I'm just a girl.... I need pink Falcon tubes!!!

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 10d

Great work Adele!

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Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social · 12d

asm.org/programs/asm...

ASM Ambassador Program

ASM is a nonprofit professional society that publishes scientific journals and advances microbiology through advocacy, global health and diversity in STEM programs.

asm.org

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 16d

Plan U, for universal, is the necessary standard. Post everything as a preprint at or before point of submission. Then publish in any journal you want but never pay exorbitant APCs.

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 16d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 17d

70 pages of supplementary data to provide this mechanism for wheat immunity and unlock areas for diversity
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 17d

Onto the sex: Wild relatives of wheat are not so robust to mutagenesis, so the team had to use a different approach to finding resistance genes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 17d

Speed breeding was a critical tool to develop before we can clone and manipulate wheat resistance genes:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 17d

Politics, religion, and sex…. And wheat breeding? @brandewulff.bsky.social is at @ucph.bsky.social sharing his research into biotechnology for pathogen resistance in wheat

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 22d

Congrats Adele + coauthors!

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 23d

Opportunity for Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Biochemistry/Microbiology at RMIT University (Melbourne Australia) ref: JR41993 | closing: 12-Oct-2025 #biochem #chemsky 🧪
rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_C...

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Biochemistry and/or Microbiology

Overview: Full-time, Continuing position Salary Academic Level C ($141,247 -$ 162,872 p.a.) or Level D ($170,080 -$ 187,373 p.a.) + 17% Superannuation Based at the Bundoora campus but may be required ...

rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 23d

This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

career5.successfactors.eu

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 24d

I am happy to present a, what I learned from our in-field to lab approach @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social -which #roottraits #rootphenotyping were informative in an approach across 3 countries (5 fields, Austria, Lebanon, Morocco) - and b, my long year interest of experimental design influences #root

Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 25d

Interested in root phenotyping in soil and in the dark? and in Copenhagen on Oct 2? @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social will give a seminar at @ucph.bsky.social PLEN at 11.00 in room M117 - stop by and see high-resolution imaging and multi-omics at work!

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 24d

Further, drought enriched Pseudomonas NRPS genes encoding viscosin, a biosurfactant. Do motility compounds provide a competitive advantage in the rhizosphere under drought? Yes: a viscosin-deficient mutant was less able to colonize the wheat rhizosphere under drought!

Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 24d

Using amplicon sequencing of NRPS, they found that drought selected for distinct groups of siderophores from different taxonomical groups, enriching for Streptomyces and depleting Pseudomonas siderophores

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