Tash
@ncaturner.bsky.social
Post-doc in molecular microbiology working on bacterial gene expression 👩🏻🔬 Microbiology Society Champion 🧫 iGEMer since 2023 🧬
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💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥
Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠
Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition
Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC
Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠
Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition
Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥
Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠
Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition
Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC
Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠
Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition
Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC
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Registration for the Education and Outreach Network Winter Conference is open until 4 November 2025 at 23:59 GMT. The event is free to attend and will take place online on 7 November 2025. Secure your place here: Link in bio.
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Registration for the Education and Outreach Network Winter Conference is open until 4 November 2025 at 23:59 GMT. The event is free to attend and will take place online on 7 November 2025. Secure your place here: Link in bio.
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The @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social's Hospitium was such a lovely location for the @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025 conference dinner. Gorgeous gardens, fabulous food & captivating conversations
Thank you to the organisers for creating a great program & friendly interdisciplinary environment
Thank you to the organisers for creating a great program & friendly interdisciplinary environment
September 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social's Hospitium was such a lovely location for the @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025 conference dinner. Gorgeous gardens, fabulous food & captivating conversations
Thank you to the organisers for creating a great program & friendly interdisciplinary environment
Thank you to the organisers for creating a great program & friendly interdisciplinary environment
Excellent day 2 at #BioPhyChrom2025 some great talks and discussions! So glad to present some of the work we’ve just started and get some excellent feedback 🧬And… I SAW LONGBOI @biochemsoc.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Excellent day 2 at #BioPhyChrom2025 some great talks and discussions! So glad to present some of the work we’ve just started and get some excellent feedback 🧬And… I SAW LONGBOI @biochemsoc.bsky.social
Already getting excited for this one! Abstract deadline submission is 11th November 2025 so be sure to submit before then #microsky #microbiosocchampion
Join us for Annual Conference 2026!
Abstract submission and registration are open for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists.
Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s Conference also features two-day attendance tickets.
Abstract submission and registration are open for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists.
Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s Conference also features two-day attendance tickets.
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Already getting excited for this one! Abstract deadline submission is 11th November 2025 so be sure to submit before then #microsky #microbiosocchampion
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🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!!
Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species,
stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species,
stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Universal rules govern plasmid copy number - Nature Communications
Plasmids exhibit a broad range of sizes and copies per cell, and these two parameters appear to be negatively correlated. Here, Ramiro-Martínez et al. analyse the copy number of thousands of diverse b...
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!!
Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species,
stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species,
stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exciting papers - always fascinating to read research on pathogenic history 🧪🧬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Attenuation of virulence in Yersinia pestis across three plague pandemics
Yersinia pestis has spilled over from wild rodent reservoirs to commensal rodents and humans, causing three historically recorded pandemics. Depletion in the copy number of the plasmid-encoded virulen...
www.science.org
May 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Exciting papers - always fascinating to read research on pathogenic history 🧪🧬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Join the Careers session now in Hall 4 to discuss career prospects outside of academia for microbiologists. It begins at 10:00 BST. For the full programme visit:
Annual Conference 2025
31 March - 03 April 2025
microb.io
April 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Join the Careers session now in Hall 4 to discuss career prospects outside of academia for microbiologists. It begins at 10:00 BST. For the full programme visit:
Excited to be co-chairing my first ever session at #MicroBio25 with @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social tomorrow. Come and listen to the amazing panel of speakers who’ll be talking about their careers and transitioning out of academia - Hall 4, Thurs AM @microbiologysociety.org
April 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Excited to be co-chairing my first ever session at #MicroBio25 with @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social tomorrow. Come and listen to the amazing panel of speakers who’ll be talking about their careers and transitioning out of academia - Hall 4, Thurs AM @microbiologysociety.org
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Our #microbio25 session ‘Beyond the Lab’ has started in Hall 3b, come join us Prof Nic Holden, Dr Monica Gostic and me to hear what other opportunities there are for microbiologist🧫🦠🍄🧪🧬💊💻
First up Dr Izzy Webb with an update from DSIT
First up Dr Izzy Webb with an update from DSIT
April 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our #microbio25 session ‘Beyond the Lab’ has started in Hall 3b, come join us Prof Nic Holden, Dr Monica Gostic and me to hear what other opportunities there are for microbiologist🧫🦠🍄🧪🧬💊💻
First up Dr Izzy Webb with an update from DSIT
First up Dr Izzy Webb with an update from DSIT
Interested in plague? Interested in gene expression and essentiality? 🧬
Come see my poster at #MicroBio25 (A201) where we’re using CRISPRi to discover new viable therapeutic targets against Yersinia pestis @microbiologysociety.org
Come see my poster at #MicroBio25 (A201) where we’re using CRISPRi to discover new viable therapeutic targets against Yersinia pestis @microbiologysociety.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Interested in plague? Interested in gene expression and essentiality? 🧬
Come see my poster at #MicroBio25 (A201) where we’re using CRISPRi to discover new viable therapeutic targets against Yersinia pestis @microbiologysociety.org
Come see my poster at #MicroBio25 (A201) where we’re using CRISPRi to discover new viable therapeutic targets against Yersinia pestis @microbiologysociety.org
March 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What an incredible month at @newcastleuni.bsky.social! I've loved working in the Howard Lab, getting to grips with cell-free protein synthesis and DOE. A huge thank you to everyone in the Devonshire Building for being so welcoming and friendly. Next stop: MicroSoc! #MicroBio25
March 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
What an incredible month at @newcastleuni.bsky.social! I've loved working in the Howard Lab, getting to grips with cell-free protein synthesis and DOE. A huge thank you to everyone in the Devonshire Building for being so welcoming and friendly. Next stop: MicroSoc! #MicroBio25
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UKHSA’s interesting new list of 20 priority pathogens that could pose greatest risk to public health in UK published today
Most are viruses...
Includes 5 bacterial families:
Anthrax, Gonorrhoea, Staphylococcus, Group A&B Streptococcus & Enterobacteriaceae…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Most are viruses...
Includes 5 bacterial families:
Anthrax, Gonorrhoea, Staphylococcus, Group A&B Streptococcus & Enterobacteriaceae…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Priority pathogens: UK draws up new disease-threat watch list
Some are viruses with global pandemic potential - like Covid - others infectious illnesses with no treatments.
www.bbc.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
UKHSA’s interesting new list of 20 priority pathogens that could pose greatest risk to public health in UK published today
Most are viruses...
Includes 5 bacterial families:
Anthrax, Gonorrhoea, Staphylococcus, Group A&B Streptococcus & Enterobacteriaceae…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Most are viruses...
Includes 5 bacterial families:
Anthrax, Gonorrhoea, Staphylococcus, Group A&B Streptococcus & Enterobacteriaceae…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Excited to be doing this training 🤓
Don't miss Practical Python for Beginners: a Biochemist’s guide, commencing next Monday 17 March! Learn at your own pace and learn how to use #Python packages such as NumPy, Pandas data, Scikit-learn and Matplotlib 🧪
Register now:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...
Register now:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...
March 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Excited to be doing this training 🤓
Had a fantastic evening last month discussing careers in Science & Tech with female students. It was interesting to hear about the wide range of opportunities in the field 🧬 Big thanks to Godolphin for having me! 🤗 #STEM #WomenInSTEM
March 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Had a fantastic evening last month discussing careers in Science & Tech with female students. It was interesting to hear about the wide range of opportunities in the field 🧬 Big thanks to Godolphin for having me! 🤗 #STEM #WomenInSTEM
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Are you registered for the Publishing Fundamentals webinar on 4 March? This session is dedicated to the publishing process, detailing the various stages along the way to help you get your research published. Members can register for free here:
Publishing Fundamentals Webinar: Publishing Process
4 March 2025, Virtual
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February 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Are you registered for the Publishing Fundamentals webinar on 4 March? This session is dedicated to the publishing process, detailing the various stages along the way to help you get your research published. Members can register for free here:
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🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨
Interested in the environmental persistence of bacterial pathogens 🦠 & quantifying the role of climate change in virulence and #AMR? Come and join us! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=182832
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Interested in the environmental persistence of bacterial pathogens 🦠 & quantifying the role of climate change in virulence and #AMR? Come and join us! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=182832
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Funded PhD: Evaluating the health risks of zoonotic diseases in agricultural run-off: implications for human and animal well-being in the context of climate change at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD...
PhD Project - Funded PhD: Evaluating the health risks of zoonotic diseases in agricultural run-off: implications for human and animal well-being in the context of climate change at University of Glasg...
www.findaphd.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨
Interested in the environmental persistence of bacterial pathogens 🦠 & quantifying the role of climate change in virulence and #AMR? Come and join us! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=182832
Please share!
Interested in the environmental persistence of bacterial pathogens 🦠 & quantifying the role of climate change in virulence and #AMR? Come and join us! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=182832
Please share!
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🚨 #PhD opportunity! 🚨
Come and work with @evaheinz7.bsky.social and me at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) on an exciting project investigating the roles that #bacteriophages play in the evolution and virulence of #enterococci. 🧫🧬
Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Come and work with @evaheinz7.bsky.social and me at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) on an exciting project investigating the roles that #bacteriophages play in the evolution and virulence of #enterococci. 🧫🧬
Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
February 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🚨 #PhD opportunity! 🚨
Come and work with @evaheinz7.bsky.social and me at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) on an exciting project investigating the roles that #bacteriophages play in the evolution and virulence of #enterococci. 🧫🧬
Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Come and work with @evaheinz7.bsky.social and me at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) on an exciting project investigating the roles that #bacteriophages play in the evolution and virulence of #enterococci. 🧫🧬
Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Excellent day networking and listening to cool science yesterday at the Microbial Genomics roadshow 🧬
November 12, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Excellent day networking and listening to cool science yesterday at the Microbial Genomics roadshow 🧬