Let’s stare into the far red 🏮. A stunning tour-de-force of high-resolution #CryoEM by Gio, Bill, & company reveals how the machinery of photosynthesis redshifts itself so cyanobacteria can live on far red light, deep in the cracks of rocks or under microbial mats. #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 🔬 🌍

New preprint out from the team! Master‘s student extraordinaire Julia Bauer stumbled across a Ca transporter needed for endospore maturation in Solibacillus 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Possibly outing myself as the biggest nerd ever here but what a massive day for Ryan Sharpe, Oakville, Ontario, Canada appearing on both US Jeopardy and UK University Challenge!!

Postdoc position available!

This is a 2-year post funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. You'll be based in the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology here in Newcastle, using super-resolution microscopy to look at the bacterial cell wall. 🔬🦠

Please re-post 🙏

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY885/r...

We are happy to join the science community at BlueSky! #MicroSky

First post of the year to mark my return from maternity leave :) Excited to share the first open PhD position in my group.
Deadline end of February.
Please spread the word. www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=181239

Single molecule imaging of RecB in vivo reveals dynamics of DNA Double Strand Break repair in Escherichia coli https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629153v1

This has been an ongoing collaboration with Michaela Wenzel’s group since my PhD days so a huge thank you to everyone involved @alansckoh.bsky.social @henrikstrahl.bsky.social and hopefully this provides some cool results/techniques for upcoming AMR research! (3/3) #microsky

ii) daptomycin’s ability to cluster fluid lipid domains requires cell wall precursor lipids whilst membrane depolarisation does not, and finally, the Bacillus IM30 protein LiaH seems to play an intriguing role in clustering these daptomycin-cell wall precursor lipid complexes. (2/3)

So happy our pre-print on daptomycin mechanism of action is now out! Here, we present three main findings: i) daptomycin does not form large membrane pores in either B. subtilis or S. aureus, (1/3)