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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · 27d

UMKC is looking for a NTT faculty in biology to start in January. UMKC is a great place to work and Kansas City awesome. Please apply if interested! Info below:

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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · Jul 9

We are hiring new a Tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in my division at UMKC! If you are interested, please apply by going to the link below and searching for Job ID 55628. It is a really wonderful place to live and work!

erecruit.umsystem.edu/psc/tamext/K...

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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · Jun 25

🎉🎉🎉🎉 Congrats! Well deserved!

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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · May 20

So very frustrating. Months of work wasted… 😫

Gabi Serrato Marks @gserratomarks.bsky.social · May 20

NIH moved up the expiration date for some funding opportunities, effectively *canceling* the next application date without removing it from the standard table. I can't even imagine how many people are still prepping these grants.

👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Screenshot of NIMH BRAINS funding opportunity. The expiration date is now before the next application due date.

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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · May 20

Very frustrating 😔

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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · May 19

This will be an exciting seminar! Don't forget to sign up and attend if interested!

International AMP Network (iAMPNet) @iampnetwork.bsky.social · May 19

Webinar TOMORROW at 16:00 CET/10:00 AM EDT regarding a breakthrough Nature paper from Prof. Yifat Merbl's group. Registration if FREE! Just sign up to become an iAMPNet member and register. Use the links below!
www.iampnet.com/become-a-mem...
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/57387b...

Cell-autonomous innate immunity by proteasome-derived defence peptides - Nature

Proteasomal degradation of cellular proteins generate defence peptides constitutively and in response to bacterial infection. Such peptides might provide a source of natural antibiotics that...

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Nature @nature.com · Mar 26

Nature research paper: A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome

https://go.nature.com/4iECjJz

A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome - Nature

A new lasso peptide antibiotic exhibits broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, is unaffected by common resistance mechanisms and shows no toxicity towards human cells.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Mar 8

We can only combat this bias by celebrating #WomenInStem loud and proud. Women like Lilian, Emmy, McClintock, Karikó... of course the list goes on & on..

Please hit me with more fantastic women to celebrate. I'll do my best to work them into lectures.

To close: happy #InternationalWomensDay!

18/n

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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · Mar 2

Here is another fellow AMP GRCer
@jarvist.bsky.social

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Feb 27

I've also now made a Starter Pack for the #AntimicrobialPeptide field here:

go.bsky.app/JLHHzt1

Please let me know who I am missing! This is a very incomplete list so far. I also expect many will join Bluesky later. I will happily keep populating this list! 📣🧬🦠

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Feb 27

Full list of Antimicrobial Peptide #Feed hashtags:

#AMPs
#HDPs
#AntimicrobialPeptides
#AntimicrobialPeptide
#HostDefensePeptide
#HostDefencePeptide
#HostDefensePeptides
#HostDefencePeptides
#GRCAMP2025

(last updated Feb 27th 2025)

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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · Feb 27

Thanks for this Mark!

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International AMP Network (iAMPNet) @iampnetwork.bsky.social · Feb 24

At the AMPs GRC? Come stop by our poster later today or chat in person with any of our committee members! iAMPNet is free to join!

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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · Jan 28

Last chance! Checkout this free webinar on Antimicrobial Peptides happening soon!

International AMP Network (iAMPNet) @iampnetwork.bsky.social · Jan 15

🌟 Kick Off 2025 with Our First Webinar of the Year! 🌟

🎤 Speakers:
🔹 Belinda Omino
🔹 Padmanie Ramotar, M.Sc

Presentations will focus on research and mentorship experiences with iAMPNet!

📅 Date: January 28th
🕒 Time: 16:00 – 17:00 CET
💡 Register for free using this link: lnkd.in/eAPh62Mn

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Antonino Asaro @antonino-asaro.bsky.social · Jan 16

If you’re looking to explore lipid cell heterogeneity and dynamics at single-cell level from a fresh perspective, we encourage you to check out this review on single-cell lipid biology!!!

jean-maillat.bsky.social @jean-maillat.bsky.social · Jan 16

Amazing review to learn about single-cell lipid biology ! Congratulations to all authors @antonino-asaro.bsky.social @Agostina Crotta Asis @giodang.bsky.social published in @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social !

www.cell.com/trends/cell-...

Single cell lipid biology

Lipids are major cell constituents endowed with astonishing structural diversity. The pathways responsible for the assembly and disposal of different lipid species are energetically demanding, and gen...

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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · Jan 14

If you do research involving antimicrobial peptides, please consider joining the international AMP Network (iAMPNet) and follow us @iampnetwork.bsky.social

We provide monthly webinars and access to mentorship and networking opportunities with in the field

To learn more and join visit iampnet.com

iAMPNet | international antimicrobial peptide research network

International AntiMicrobial & host defence Peptide Network (www.iampnet.com)

iampnet.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Dec 18

The posting about @skypeascientist.bsky.social's need for monthly support is starting to work! Thank you to everyone who has become a monthly donor 🥹

We're still at ~80% of the monthly supporters we had in 2021, so I'm trying to claw us back to there. We can do it!

Join us!
givebutter.com/uA8ubg

Monthly Skype a Scientist Support Squad

Help us increase our monthly donations by $1000/month

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Richard Goodman @richard-goodman.bsky.social · Dec 6

As my first post on bsky post, I thought I'd share a recent paper of ours published in
@naturecomms.bsky.social
.

Here we use various techniques to determine the molecular mechanisms for an observed rise in chloramphenicol susceptibility at the same time as an increase in ESBL resistance.

Molecular mechanisms of re-emerging chloramphenicol susceptibility in extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales - Nature Communications

In this work, authors probe the molecular mechanism of re-emerging CHL susceptibility in Malawian Enterobacterales isolates, where they identify a stable truncation of resistance genes by insertion se...

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Amir Mitchell @amitchell.bsky.social · Nov 28

Fantastic resource. Thanks for putting this together Georgia!

georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · Nov 11

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Starter packs

BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...

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Justin Randall (Randall Lab, UMKC) @justin-randall.bsky.social · Nov 27

For those interested in how we might rapidly modify antimicrobial peptides to be less toxic, take a look at my most recent publication!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Deep mutational scanning and machine learning for the analysis of antimicrobial-peptide features driving membrane selectivity - Nature Biomedical Engineering

A high-throughput mutation-scanning method for interrogating sequence variation in antimicrobial peptides facilitates the understanding of sequence–structure–function relationships affecting the membr...

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