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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 5d

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · 6d

I joined School of Life Sciences 3 months ago and these guys have been so welcoming. Gibbet Hill Rovers making it feel like being apart of a community instantly. Thanks to @davidroper2.bsky.social for helping me get involved. Looking forward to season 3!

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · 7d

People get special things engraved…. We got cryo-EM pucks engraved.
Now time to make some samples @jeremykeown.bsky.social

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · 24d

On route to the Great Wall symposium!
Hopefully see lots of you there! thegreatwall-symposium.org/program/
We all need a break from the UK rain.

Program - The Greatwall-symposium

Day 1 Monday, September 15th, 2025 08.00 – 09.00 Registration Session 1. Building the wall (Chair: Cécile Morlot, IBS, Grenoble, France) 09.00 – 09.30 Simonetta Gribalbo (Institut Pasteur, France) A c...

thegreatwall-symposium.org

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · Sep 6

Reminder that we are recruiting an Assistant Professor Bacterial Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Deadline 24 Sept.

Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Sep 4

Beyond excited to see Joao Monteiro is coming to join us here @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social with a #ERCStG

Huge congratulations on getting this award, it is a MASSIVE achievement!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Sep 4

Uropathogenic #Ecoli #UPEC proliferate as round coccoid cells during intracellular infection; @alaskapokhrel.bsky.social @bill-lab.bsky.social &co show that accelerated division via FtsZ constriction drives this, the coccobacillus form persisting for generations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4gdx97i

Divisome dynamics in intracellular UPEC cells during infection. Left: Representative confocal image of intracellular UTI89 expressing a division marker (FtsZ-mCitrine; pseudo coloured green) with mCherry (pseudo coloured magenta) as cytoplasmic marker, bladder cell membranes shown in blue (CellBrite Steady Membrane 405) and nuclei shown in gold (NucSpot Live Cell 650). Right: Still images of a time-lapse sequence showing FtsZ-mCitrine (pseudo coloured green) driven coccobacilli divisions imaged using HiLo illumination.

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Sep 4

How do you know you have transitioned from postdoc to PI? When you enter the lab after a hiatus and can’t run a gel properly

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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Pls share: Distributing this advertisement from EMBL for a group leader position at their Hamburg, Germany site:

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader - EMBL Hamburg

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Infection Biochemistry? Join us at EMBL Hamburg! We are recruiting outstanding scientists to establish independent research groups tackling fundamental...

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · Sep 2

When the world seems so anti-science, here is something to brighten your day! The UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience is recruiting a new Director for its Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery to drive its drug discovery program! #DrugDiscovery #Biotech
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#drugdiscovery #medicinalchemistry #biotech #imb #uq #pharmaceuticalscience #hiring | Ian Henderson

🚀 Exciting Leadership Opportunity at the UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience! We are delighted to announce that the position of Director of Chemistry and Drug Discovery is now open for recruitment...

www.linkedin.com

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Tanmay Bharat @tbharat-lab.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sub-cellular chemical mapping in bacteria using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging

Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Sep 1

Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

Supervisors and Projects

www.bioch.ox.ac.uk

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Sep 1

@scientificlabs.bsky.social were very helpful with some of the best prices, @thermofishersci.bsky.social had good turnaround times, @bio-rad.bsky.social good response times and pricing, and @cytiva.bsky.social special shoutout to John, an outstanding and super helpful rep (ongoing purchase)

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Sep 1

Starting a lab has meant significant orders. For anyone going through this, here are the standout companies for me with quick responses, helpful product knowledge, competitive pricing and rapid delivery: @promegauk.bsky.social
Merck, Starlab and VWR.
Hopefully this helps others also!

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Aug 27

After a couple of months of lab set up we are back in action looking at bacteria being cute 🤗

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Joe Wanford @jwanford.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨 Job alert 🚨

I’m recruiting two postdoctoral research associates to join my lab at KCL to study how #Klebsiella pneumoniae regulates virulence factor expression during infection! #klebclub

Mol Micro: tinyurl.com/mtrwtx5e

Infection: tinyurl.com/2s3u8ca2

Deadline: 21st September.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Aug 15

🦠 A fan of bacteria?
We're hiring a Research Technician to join our team at the @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

Positive, organised, skills in molecular biology and protein purification?

Apply here 👉 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Please share! 🔬

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Aug 14

Huge congrats to Keown lab and co on their cool new paper! 📕 I watched this one come together and it is amazing to see all that hard work pay off. Proud of the first-time sole corresponding author 🎉

Jeremy Keown @jeremykeown.bsky.social · Aug 13

Very pleased to have our new work out where we perform a structure/function study on the bornavirus polymerase complex with fantastic coauthors. Have a read www.nature.com/articles/s41... @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @loiccarrique.bsky.social @franziskaguenl.bsky.social

The structure of the mammalian bornavirus polymerase complex - Nature Communications

Borna disease virus 1 replicates and transcribes its negative sense RNA genome in the nucleus of infected cells. Here, the authors present the cryoEM structures of the large polymerase protein in comp...

www.nature.com

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Jul 31

I wondering if anyone who does cryoEM or work with cold things could help me! I am looking for a hot plate to dry tools post being in liquid nitrogen. They all seem to be £800+ for something so simple. Anyone know where to source a cheap warming plate?

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’ve landed at the SLS, University of Warwick! 🎉 Thanks to the Wellcome Trust for supporting this next chapter. Everyone’s been so welcoming, and I’m excited for the challenges ahead (even the endless quizzes 📝).

Risk assessments first, then into the lab! Missing old friends, see you soon for EM 🔬❄️

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · May 28

I love reading @jiexiaolab.bsky.social papers. They have lovely elegant stories to unwrap this complex system.

Jie Xiao @jiexiaolab.bsky.social · May 27

Our new paper on FtsN is out! Now there are three tracks for organized cell wall constriction-- the old, boring E. coli always manages to surprise us.

A special shout-out to all the people who made this work possible, especially Dr. Jason Lyu, and Dr. David Weiss.

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

Third track model for coordination of septal peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation by FtsN in Escherichia coli - Nature Microbiology

Partitioning of FtsN and the septal peptidoglycan synthesis complex between an active synthesis track and an inactive denuded glycan track coordinates opposing peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation ...

www.nature.com

Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · May 28

I love reading @jiexiaolab.bsky.social papers. They have lovely elegant stories to unwrap this complex system.

Jie Xiao @jiexiaolab.bsky.social · May 27

Our new paper on FtsN is out! Now there are three tracks for organized cell wall constriction-- the old, boring E. coli always manages to surprise us.

A special shout-out to all the people who made this work possible, especially Dr. Jason Lyu, and Dr. David Weiss.

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

Third track model for coordination of septal peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation by FtsN in Escherichia coli - Nature Microbiology

Partitioning of FtsN and the septal peptidoglycan synthesis complex between an active synthesis track and an inactive denuded glycan track coordinates opposing peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation ...

www.nature.com

Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · May 7

Just @carokobras.bsky.social doing amazing stuff! She is a fantastic scientist and wonderful person. If you don't already follow her you should because she has some really exciting science on the way!

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Apr 10

We use them too!

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Melissa Webby @melissawebby.bsky.social · Mar 31

Biochemistry annual recess day. A fantastic idea for learning about what research is happening across the department and chatting to colleagues! @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social

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