Lily K-Evans
@lilyke.bsky.social
PhD candidate (Blaskovich Lab, IMB @ UQ)
Synthetic chemistry & microbiology (let's tackle biofilms!)
Can be found dancing, surfing, & cycling 💃🏼🍊🌻🧪🌊🧬⌬
Working and living on unceded lands
Synthetic chemistry & microbiology (let's tackle biofilms!)
Can be found dancing, surfing, & cycling 💃🏼🍊🌻🧪🌊🧬⌬
Working and living on unceded lands
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Microbial enzymes hold the key to greener plastics! Rhodospirillum rubrum can produce ethylene without releasing CO₂. A team @rebeleinlab.bsky.social purified the enzyme and solved its structure, an important step towards #SustainableChemistry.
Microbial Strategy for Renewable Plastic
A bacterial enzyme could make it possible to produce the plastic building block ethylene without the emission of CO₂. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, led by Dr Johannes Rebelein, have now investigated the enzyme's structure and function in vitro.These findings lay the groundwork for more sustainable biotechnological ethylene production and improve our understanding of early biochemical processes.
s.gwdg.de
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Microbial enzymes hold the key to greener plastics! Rhodospirillum rubrum can produce ethylene without releasing CO₂. A team @rebeleinlab.bsky.social purified the enzyme and solved its structure, an important step towards #SustainableChemistry.
Back in Australia (and the lab!) after an incredible time in Austria and the UK, including attending #CamMedChem25 at Churchill College, Cambridge. 😄
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Back in Australia (and the lab!) after an incredible time in Austria and the UK, including attending #CamMedChem25 at Churchill College, Cambridge. 😄
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Current economic and regulatory challenges in developing antibiotics for Gram-negative bacteria
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Current economic and regulatory challenges in developing antibiotics for Gram-negative bacteria - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Current economic and regulatory challenges in developing antibiotics for Gram-negative bacteria
www.nature.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Current economic and regulatory challenges in developing antibiotics for Gram-negative bacteria
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Thrilled to have received a travel bursary for #CamMedChem25 in September! I'm looking forward to presenting at an overseas meeting for the first time 🧪
August 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Thrilled to have received a travel bursary for #CamMedChem25 in September! I'm looking forward to presenting at an overseas meeting for the first time 🧪
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What's the oldest piece of kit in your lab? I remember in grad school, a hand-cranked centrifuge that seemed to have entirely been converted to iron oxide and nobody would touch. Article by @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/ures...
Ure’s steam bath
A heating device from a fan of heated disputes
www.chemistryworld.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
What's the oldest piece of kit in your lab? I remember in grad school, a hand-cranked centrifuge that seemed to have entirely been converted to iron oxide and nobody would touch. Article by @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/ures...
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The ceramic cosmetic container housing the substance used for analysis was found inside a tomb in an Iron Age cemetery. Items in the near vicinity offered important clues as to the nature of the burial.
Unique Iron Age kohl from Iran differs from that of ancient Egypt
Eye makeup found to contain graphite and manganese but not organic ingredients
www.chemistryworld.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The ceramic cosmetic container housing the substance used for analysis was found inside a tomb in an Iron Age cemetery. Items in the near vicinity offered important clues as to the nature of the burial.
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My latest feature for @cenmag.bsky.social is about organic chemists' continuing quest for ultimate control over molecular structures! 🛠️⚗️🔄💊
That's right...it's... the rise of the atom-swappers!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Sk...
That's right...it's... the rise of the atom-swappers!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Sk...
Skeletal editing: How close are we to true cut-and-paste chemistry?
Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll fundamentally change how molecules are made
cen.acs.org
July 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
My latest feature for @cenmag.bsky.social is about organic chemists' continuing quest for ultimate control over molecular structures! 🛠️⚗️🔄💊
That's right...it's... the rise of the atom-swappers!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Sk...
That's right...it's... the rise of the atom-swappers!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Sk...
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Why not display this addition polymerisation infographic in your classroom? Use the accompanying resource to test post-16 learners’ understanding of polymers’ structures and names
edu.rsc.org/infographics...
#scied #teachingresources
(4/5)
edu.rsc.org/infographics...
#scied #teachingresources
(4/5)
Everything you need to teach addition polymerisation
Use this poster, fact sheet and classroom activity to ensure your 14-16 learners get to grips with addition polymers
edu.rsc.org
June 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Why not display this addition polymerisation infographic in your classroom? Use the accompanying resource to test post-16 learners’ understanding of polymers’ structures and names
edu.rsc.org/infographics...
#scied #teachingresources
(4/5)
edu.rsc.org/infographics...
#scied #teachingresources
(4/5)
May 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
May 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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From microplastics in our oceans and our bodies, to toxic substances accumulating in our ecosystems, the challenges are vast and complex. Scientific expertise must be at the heart of finding solutions.
Multi-disciplinary scientists are ready to solve global chemical pollution
Are governments ready to act?
www.chemistryworld.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
From microplastics in our oceans and our bodies, to toxic substances accumulating in our ecosystems, the challenges are vast and complex. Scientific expertise must be at the heart of finding solutions.
Thrillled (!!!) to anounce I've been accepted into TWO international conferences !! 🥳
I'll be presenting some synthesis and med chem efforts at
@esoc2025.bsky.social, and discussing antibacterial of my novel compounds at @femsmicro.bsky.social ⚗️🧪
I'll be presenting some synthesis and med chem efforts at
@esoc2025.bsky.social, and discussing antibacterial of my novel compounds at @femsmicro.bsky.social ⚗️🧪
April 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Thrillled (!!!) to anounce I've been accepted into TWO international conferences !! 🥳
I'll be presenting some synthesis and med chem efforts at
@esoc2025.bsky.social, and discussing antibacterial of my novel compounds at @femsmicro.bsky.social ⚗️🧪
I'll be presenting some synthesis and med chem efforts at
@esoc2025.bsky.social, and discussing antibacterial of my novel compounds at @femsmicro.bsky.social ⚗️🧪
Reposted by Lily K-Evans
csiro entomology (1997) #oldinternet #entomology
April 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
csiro entomology (1997) #oldinternet #entomology
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A special issue of Science explores the complex and close associations rats share with humans—from their ubiquity in the human environment to their crucial role as biomedical models.
🐀 Learn more on #WorldRatDay: scim.ag/3E7Xo04
🐀 Learn more on #WorldRatDay: scim.ag/3E7Xo04
April 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A special issue of Science explores the complex and close associations rats share with humans—from their ubiquity in the human environment to their crucial role as biomedical models.
🐀 Learn more on #WorldRatDay: scim.ag/3E7Xo04
🐀 Learn more on #WorldRatDay: scim.ag/3E7Xo04
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The eighth student presentation of my #Antibiotics course presented the paper "A new antibiotic selectively kills Gram-negative pathogens" by the group of Kim Lewis. www.nature.com/artic...
A new antibiotic selectively kills Gram-negative pathogens
Nature - Bacterial symbionts of animals may contain antibiotics that are particularly suitable for development into therapeutics; one such compound, darobactin, is active against important...
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The eighth student presentation of my #Antibiotics course presented the paper "A new antibiotic selectively kills Gram-negative pathogens" by the group of Kim Lewis. www.nature.com/artic...
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Rupo Mapanga on her experience interning at @chemistryworld.com: sounds like a great opportunity and they're looking for another intern now! #chemjobs #ukchemjobs www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/my-s...
My summer writing for Chemistry World
Rupo Mapanga on being a science writer intern at the Royal Society of Chemistry
www.chemistryworld.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Rupo Mapanga on her experience interning at @chemistryworld.com: sounds like a great opportunity and they're looking for another intern now! #chemjobs #ukchemjobs www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/my-s...
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We're hiring!🚨Our lab is looking for two new postdocs for our drug discovery program:
1) Synthetic/Med Chem (small molecule hit-to-lead)🧪
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
2) Chemical Biology (peptide inhibitors)🦠
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Pls spread the word!🙏
1) Synthetic/Med Chem (small molecule hit-to-lead)🧪
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
2) Chemical Biology (peptide inhibitors)🦠
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Pls spread the word!🙏
March 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
We're hiring!🚨Our lab is looking for two new postdocs for our drug discovery program:
1) Synthetic/Med Chem (small molecule hit-to-lead)🧪
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
2) Chemical Biology (peptide inhibitors)🦠
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Pls spread the word!🙏
1) Synthetic/Med Chem (small molecule hit-to-lead)🧪
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
2) Chemical Biology (peptide inhibitors)🦠
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Pls spread the word!🙏
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It’s time for Nature’s #ScientistAtWork photo competition, a celebration of the striking and colourful work that scientists do around the world! Readers are invited to share some of their favourite snaps from their working lives. Learn more below! #Academicsky 🧪
#ScientistAtWork photo competition
A celebration of the striking and colourful work that scientists do around the world.
go.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s time for Nature’s #ScientistAtWork photo competition, a celebration of the striking and colourful work that scientists do around the world! Readers are invited to share some of their favourite snaps from their working lives. Learn more below! #Academicsky 🧪
Abstract submitted for ESOC 2025 ⚗️ in Copenhagen !
March 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Abstract submitted for ESOC 2025 ⚗️ in Copenhagen !
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November 24, 2023 at 9:58 PM
comical order of some screenshots 😅
February 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
comical order of some screenshots 😅
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Hey folks, @ausjchem.bsky.social has joined #Chemsky.
February 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Hey folks, @ausjchem.bsky.social has joined #Chemsky.
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Join us in Copenhagenfor the European Symposium on organic chemistry this summer: www.esoc2025.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Join us in Copenhagenfor the European Symposium on organic chemistry this summer: www.esoc2025.com
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For #FluorescenceFriday, microtubules are shown in this massive oligodendrocyte from a primary hippocampal culture 🔬 #Microscopy #Neuroscience
February 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
For #FluorescenceFriday, microtubules are shown in this massive oligodendrocyte from a primary hippocampal culture 🔬 #Microscopy #Neuroscience