Senior Lecturer, Newcastle Uni UK
We study the chemical language of bacteria (& what influences it) for antibiotic discovery
http://www.medicinesfromthesea.com
Editor Microbiology, Young Academy of Scotland, EAB RSC NatProdRep & EAB ACS JNatProd
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Time for @kateduncan.bsky.social to talk about chemistry and why microbes use it via some interactive questions
We start of the ‘2026 Celebration of Microbiology’ event @newcastleuni.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social organised by PhD and Postdoc reps from @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social Chloe, Natalia, Rachel and Jean-Lou
Want to research the basis of how drug resistant bacteria interact with human immune cells? Fully funded 4-year PhD position available (UK home students). Come and join our amazing interdisciplinary team at the intersection of microbiology, immunity, metabolism and the clinic! Please spread the word
Wonderful to have Dr Rebecca McHugh @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social to give a @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social seminar today on her BBSRC fellowship work at @uofgsii.bsky.social - fantastic to see talented people (Becca & group) working with talented bacteria (Streptomyces)
It’s a great honour to be invited to contribute to the journals ‘emerging investigators’ series - but the real honour was collaborating with three fantastic scientists who are far more ‘emerging’ than me!
Nature research paper: A natural depsipeptide antibiotic binds the E-site of the bacterial ribosome
go.nature.com/3RMNwPW
Dr Carolin Kabros (University of Birmingham) presenting the work on Staphylococcus leading up to her BBSRC Fellowship at a @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social #newPI #Microbiology
Our latest paper ‘Ecological context for bacterial natural products’ is now out in the Royal Society of Chemistry @natprodreports.rsc.org
International effort with @jonathanparra.bsky.social, Marla I Macias-Contreras & Dulce Guillen Matus #puravida #naturalproducts
pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
Don't miss this review by Mark Butler & Robert Capon at the University of Queensland providing a comprehensive account of the 217 natural product inspired antibiotics approved for human use from 1943-2025 #chemsky #natprod #medchem
Check it out on our website👇
PhD Project - Hiding in plain sight: How a multi-drug resistant pathogen evades detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
🔓Be sure to read this #OpenAccess Highlight by Barbara I. Adaikpoh from the University of Illinois Chicago in our latest issue looking at microbial natural products activated by plant stress #natprod #secmet
Find the full article on our website👇
Dr Katherine Duncan
Lis Lowe
James Connolly
Improved fractionation strategies can identify antibiotics with previously unseen scaffolds and mechanisms, exemplified by manikomycin from Streptomyces rimosus, which acts by targeting the E-site of the bacterial large ribosomal subunit.
Covering: This review covers literature from 2015 to present.It is widely recognised that there is a significant gap between bacterial natural product potential and detected/described products. As suc...
