A heads up to my dual citizenship friends. 🇬🇧 🇺🇳
They are updating the rules about which passports you can use to enter the UK - so don't get caught out!
If you will be negatively impacted by this change, please reach out and make your voice heard!
Also, a shout out to @tuesparholt.bsky.social, @tilmweber.bsky.social and the rest of the sequencing team because the Embleya strains from the NBC collection really were the missing piece of the puzzle!
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This was an incredible project and I learned so much in the process. So, I need to give a huge thank you to JuanPa and @barriewilks.bsky.social for including me on the project, and to Siobhán who first sequenced the genome!
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Also, to the institutes involved at various stages: @johninnescentre.bsky.social , @earlhaminst.bsky.social, @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social, @dtu.dk and Microbial Screening Technologies.
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Thom Booth
Thom Booth
The voices of thousands of overseas voters weren't heard due to postal delays at the last General Election.
Yet the government has proposed a new law with no improvements for Brits abroad:
❌ No postal vote improvements
❌ No dedicated overseas representation
❌ No automatic voter registration
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Oh what, the singling out of British citizens abroad for caps on donations to political parties doesn’t work? Colour me surprised.
Cap all donations, not just donations from citizens abroad.
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Then @thombooth.bsky.social used the presence/absence of known telomere proteins to identify a potentially new telomere protein which is linked to the Sg2247 class telomere, which previously did not have an identified maintenance system (notice the dot in the red circle)
Did you know most 'complete' Streptomyces genomes are missing their telomeres?
Thanks to David and Tues hard work, we now have a new tool to recover them!
A pleasure to be part of a team. :)
🦠🧪💻 #microsky
1/ 🔬 Our work, "Dynamic transitions of initiator binding coordinate the replication of the two chromosomes in Vibrio cholerae", is now published in Nature Communications.
Here's a thread on how we think Chr1 and Chr2 replication is coordinated in Vibrio. 🧵
Link : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our study into the incredible genome of Embleya australiensis has been published in Microbial Genomics.
We've shown that Embleya carry gigantic secondary chromosomes around 4 - 6 Mb in size!
Enjoy reading and don't hesitate to reach out!
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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