Our work characterizing how mutational bias is influenced by the local sequence context beyond trinucleotides is out now @pnas.org! We also showed which motifs are most prone to mutations caused by strand misalignment, revealing several new hotspots! 🧬
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🚨 Please share this fully-funded #PhD #opportunity within your network!👇 👇
Only two weeks are left to apply!
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Really exciting to see this paper out! This is a massive effort from clinicians, bioinformaticians and microbiologists investigating links between pancreatic and bile microbiota in healthy individuals and cancer patients. journals.lww.com/internationa...
My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak “This country has given me endless opportunities…: The America we inhabit today bears almost no resemblance to the country I chose all those years ago” newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...
🔈Paper out! We turned the most fascinating phage host-switch mechanism, diversity-generating retroelements, into a programmable mutagenesis tool, DGRec. You can perform targeted hypermutation of any 50-200bp sequence directly in vivo in E. coli www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great work from Jo Sadler's group!!
As scientists, asking ourselves if our direction of travel is the right one is the responsible thing to do. This is why I'm really pleased to share this article summarising our reflections on the current state of biobased approaches to manage #plastic waste.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper out!! Really enjoyed working with Juhyun Kim from Kyungpook National University thinking about how microbial cell factories, minicells and microbial communities can be harnessed for safe and precise food production.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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pared to benign and malignant pancreatico–biliary disease, as well as correlate our findings with the pancreatic intratumoral and neighboring adjacent tissue (NAT) microbiome.
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Bio-based approaches to plastic degradation have been an intense area of research in recent years, and although they show great promise, they also raise societal, ethical and regulatory questions. Her...
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Precision fermentation is redefining microbial food manufacturing by enabling programmable biosynthesis of nutrients and functional ingredients. Despi…
🚨new #PhD #opportunity open in our group!
In collaboration with John Tregoning,we are recruiting for a project focused on #engineering #synthetic #vesicle platforms for programmable #immune #training and #vaccine #delivery.
📅 Application deadline: 16th April
www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/stu...
Tobias Warnecke
Programmable bacterial adhesion to plastic surfaces for enhanced biodegradation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.16.710745v1
