Rush for funds to relocate laboratories to Europe is the latest hint of a US brain drain.

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Happy new year! We have some exciting news, the registration and abstract submissions for the 22nd Nucleic Acids Forum 2026 are now open! Join us on the 10th of July at Burlington House!
Hurry before it sells out! 🧬
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Exciting #postdoc opportunity in #biocatalysis and #oligonucleotide synthesis in my group at the University of York. Check out the details at jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Last date to apply is 8th March. Reach out to me if interested.

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Excited to share the very first publication from my group in #NucleicAcidsResearch earlier this month!

Appalling news for the biosciences in the UK. I have three grants under review at the moment so the last week since I heard these rumours have been a definite career low point. Shifting priorities (read political interference) are bad enough
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but retrospectively applying cuts is absolutely disgusting behaviour from the MRC. Hundreds of us have spent months preparing, reviewing and scoring grants only for all of that work to be chucked in the bin. A whole cohort of postdocs will need to leave academic research - incredibly sad

A peptide catalyst can replace an essential enzyme in a eukaryotic cell https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.701630v1

Super excited to share the news about the first paper from the Mukherjee group now being out in NAR now. Check it out: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Congratulations to @Najma Parveen and @Sophia Steblina!

YORK CHEMIST ELECTED FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Professor Paul Walton has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS).

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If you are a motivated postdoc looking for an exciting and challenging project to join in a young group look no further! We are looking for someone experienced in bioengineering, interested in DNA polymerases and chemoenzymatic synthesis: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Our first TB preprint with @jnb-lab.bsky.social is out! Using spectroscopic techniques from our lab, we resolve the exact mode of action of everyone's favourite TB drug, bedaquiline. I'd like to add a few comments about the microbiology part of the picture! #TBsky #MicroSky (1/7)

Our latest issue is out now! This themed issue focuses on Bacteriophages, providing further insight into phage diversity across ecosystems, including humans, animals, and plants.
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We are working on the program for the 5th Virtual ChemBioTalks on September 30th, 2025. While we already have commitments by our keynotes @oconnorlab.bsky.social and @craigmcrews.bsky.social, the remaining program is still in planning. Whom would you most like to hear at our next event?

And see this related preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus

Yup. That does say "phage nucleus" and it really is a nucleus-like compartment.

We find a lot of proteins - particularly antibiotic biosynthetic enzymes - are produced in soluble form in Streptomyces lividans but not E.coli. It’s a useful platform for the production of otherwise intractable proteins.

To honour Fanny Hesse (1850-1934) for introducing agar and revolutionising microbiology, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces hesseae (DSM 40473) after her.

#herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #RobertKoch #streptomyces #microbiology

Improving AlphaFold 3 structural modeling by incorporating explicit crosslinks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626671v1