Cycling addicted caffeine junkie, with a deep appreciation for craft ale and gin :-) Teaching and research all things microbiology.

Birmingham
Joined August 2011
So, its quite humbling when a great colleague and good friend stands by their principles and walks away from a job – with nothing to go to – because of the chaotic, reckless restructuring proposed by the leadership team.
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Congratulations to our PhD student Hannah Doherty (@Hannahmayydwon) for winning the LES Michael O’Rourke Best Publication Award for her article ‘ChemGAPP: A tool for Chemical Genomics Analysis and Phenotypic Profiling’ published in Bioinformatics. @UoBbiosciences
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Chris Bryant shreds Rishi Sunak. 6.5 minutes long. Watch all of it in utter shock. This is our PM. How our nation has fallen 🫤
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This has been long in the planning but delighted the Primers have been launched - thanks to Steve Diggle for leading on these. Great that first one is from Georgina Lloyd & former #MicrobioJ EiC Chris Thomas from @IMIBirmingham #publishingforthecommunity
The first article published in the 'Microbial Primers' collection of #MicrobioJ introduces the logic of bacterial plasmids. Read the paper online: doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001336 👈
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Outstanding podcast on the coronavirus gain-of-function research in Wuhan that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Highly recommended. If you can listen to just one podcast on the origin of COVID-19, make it this one.
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Antibacterial agents: O-alkyl-deuterated pyronins US Patent 11685723 (issued 06/27/2023) freepatentsonline.com/116857…
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Toxic cultures exploit generosity. Takers impose extra work on givers, and no good deed goes unpunished. Healthy cultures reward generosity. People protect givers from takers, and cream rises to the top. Helpfulness is not a weakness to target. It's a strength to safeguard.
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I am really pleased to share something that @Lis_Lowe and my groups and some of our friends have been working on. Headline: We've identified the first mycobacterial endo-D-arabinanases. We've also found some new exo-D-arabinofuranosidases. Paper here:biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…🧵
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Super cool paper from @RhoyStarkiller @jrpenades and @joncoopervp on PICIs as diagnostics - congratulations all! – at Schluchsee, Germany
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Check out these two recent papers from @GraingerLab on Salmonella Typhimurium, published back-to-back in #MicrobioJ doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001330
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When you're trying to remember (and it's a long time ago) when a policy/procedure change wasn't completely crazy.
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Thinking of postgraduate study? Come and join our MRes and do some exciting research with @BCUHELS bcu.ac.uk/courses/mres-healt…
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Publishing one article in a @MicrobioSoc journal generates the revenue to give grants to four #ECR members to attend our Annual conference -when do you last publish in one of our journals? #microbio23 #PublishingForTheCommunity
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Heading into #microbio23 today for the genetics forum. Doesn't feel right having a conference in your home town though.... One of us is going to have to move.... @MicrobioSoc
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Not even at #microbio23 until tomorrow bug my app. Is going crazy notifying me of every upcoming presentation.... Useful function, but I turned it off 🤣
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Very poor from the @BBC re. @GaryLineker. Sold out for licence fees
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Beautiful scenes outside @uclh today! Thank you forever to our wonderful nurses. Up @theRCN!❤️✊🏼
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