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Justine Rudkin @scousemicrobe.bsky.social · 8d

PhD opportunity to come and work in Glasgow, developing advanced tissue culture models to study Staphylococcus aureus colonisation and infection #microsky #PhD #DTPprogram

Enquiries from potential applicants are welcome.

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Understanding Pathogens, from Molecules to Phenotypes - Justine Rudkin

www.gla.ac.uk

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Jun 27

It can only be a last day when there are this number of primers in the bin

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Jun 17

Don’t know why I’d never thought of a commute coffee before now

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Apr 7

It’s more like a “Ainsley can’t be trusted to carry things” trolly. But aye, it’s really good. It has baskets that you can use as well. Very handy. Can’t fit a lot of plates. It also folds. 10/10

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Apr 7

Two in one day really is ridiculous. I don’t think I’ve ever had this many glassware breakages in a year before never mind a day!

Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Apr 7

8 am on a Monday. Do I just go home?

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Apr 6

Were you wearing the same jumper though?

Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Apr 3

After a great week at #microbio25 I’m set up on the train with a good book and a coffee which is the perfect way to travel 📚. That’s if the last few nights of missing my 9pm bed time in favour of the pub don’t mean that I immediately fall asleep 🤣

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Apr 2

@liam-rooney.bsky.social gave an incredibly interesting talk about novel imaging techniques for infection biology and that’s great BUT look at the tiny wee sad face inside this digitally cross sectioned and optically clear galleria is! It looks like how I feel in the mornings

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Apr 2

What do you like more, the jumper or the GUS assay data?

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Mar 31

And so begins a very long train journey from Norwich to Liverpool via every stop in between for Microsoc 2025

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · Mar 24

dussl's making headlines! 🌞

Why one Glaswegian is marketing SPF to Scotland's wettest city.

heraldscotland.com/news/25028013.one-glaswegian-marketing-spf-scotlands-wettest-city/?ref=li

Why one Glaswegian is marketing SPF to Scotland's wettest city

Meet the 30-year-old entrepreneur behind dussl, the Glasgow skincare brand selling sunscreen to the UK city where it rains nearly 200 days a year.

www.heraldscotland.com

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Matt Hutchings @matthutchings.bsky.social · Mar 21

Very happy to share this work led by @tommclean.bsky.social and @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social. The conserved Streptomyces sensor kinase CutS senses disulphide bond formation outside the cell. If it fails CutS activates CutR which switches on production of foldase HtrA3

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Extracellular redox sensors control the protein secretion stress response in Streptomyces

Translocating unfolded polypeptides across membranes is essential in all domains of life and in bacteria requires the conserved Sec machinery and ATP. Bacterial Sec substrates fold outside the cell an...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Mar 21

Further insight into how CutRS functions in Streptomyces and some thoughts on how its redox state detection via conserved dual cysteine residues in the extra cellular domain of a sensor kinase may be present in almost all bacteria
@tommclean.bsky.social
@matthutchings.bsky.social

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Mar 21

Extracellular redox sensors control the protein secretion stress response in Streptomyces https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.20.644377v1

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Matt Hutchings @matthutchings.bsky.social · Mar 10

Redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces.

Remarkable work led by @katienoble241.bsky.social and Rebecca Devine demonstrates why antibiotic biosynthesis is often switched on in solid cultures and off in liquid.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis

Streptomyces bacteria make diverse specialised metabolites that form the basis of ~55% of clinically used antibiotics. Despite this, only 3% of their encoded specialised metabolites have been matched ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Mar 7

There are some signs near the pond that can be opened during toad crossing times but most people don’t seem to pay much attention to them. The stars and Dougs’ head torch looked cool in this picture of it though

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Mar 7

Also got a fun snap of these frogs tonight too!
In the past I’ve have only seen one or two frogs per evening so finding 8 tonight was a bit of a surprise

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Mar 7

First #toadwatch of the season and it was busy! 28 toads and 8 frogs were given a lift to the pond 🐸
Toads return to the pond they spawned in each year to breed, often covering great distances to do so. Due to habitat fragmentation they are increasingly killed by cars whilst on their journey

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Mar 3

It’s official @tommclean.bsky.social and I have peaked in terms of our scientific writing 📄

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Feb 27

😂

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Feb 27

It’s not as useful as you might think, the amount of money spent on pipettes is astronomical

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Ainsley Beaton @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social · Feb 27

Wonderfully artistic advertising from @microbesng.bsky.social. They are already my favourite sticker maker and now we may need to add posters and plasmid sequencing to that

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · Feb 21

Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Feb 12

VACANCY - We’re seeking a Proteomics Scientist to work alongside our experienced platform manager to help serve the growing needs of proteomics-based technology at the John Innes Centre (JIC).

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/pr...

Closing date - 2 March 2025
Contract - Full-time, indefinite

Proteomics Scientist | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a talented, motivated individual as a proteomics specialist to serve the growing needs of proteomics-based technology at JIC, which is a globally recognized…

www.jic.ac.uk

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