Fabrizio Alberti
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Fabrizio Alberti
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UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (Associate Professor) in engineering biology studying microbial natural products @warwickuni. 🍄🧬💊
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🚨🦠🧬Working in the field of Natural Products Chemistry and Biology?🧪🍃🚨

Registration and abstract submission for the #CBNP18 are open! warwick.ac.uk/naturalprodu...

Look forward to seeing you at Warwick University on 26-27 June!

Supported by @ukri.org, @RSC_CBBG and @natprodreports.bsky.social
And that’s a wrap for this year!

Very happy to hear so many cool stories from ECRs who work on natural products at the #CBNP18 at @warwickuniucu.bsky.social

Thank you once again to @ukri.org @natprodreports.rsc.org RSC CBBG and @microbesng.bsky.social for sponsoring the event.
June 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I had a brilliant time at #CBNP18 with @microbesng.bsky.social

Thank you @albertilab.bsky.social for inviting us & modelling fungi tattoos to celebrate our FREE fungal DNA extractions

@microkim.bsky.social @pannyinthelab.bsky.social @warwicklifesci.bsky.social
#MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #Fungi
June 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Good to reconnect with ECRs involved in understanding natural products pathways at #CBNP18 organised by @albertilab.bsky.social and Matt Jenner @rsc-cbbg.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🚨 Call for abstracts for the #CBNP18 🚨

We have extended abstract submission for oral presentations until this Sunday, 1st of June!

If you work in the natural product field, we would love to see your work submitted at warwick.ac.uk/naturalprodu...

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May 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🚨 Keynote speakers announcement 🚨

Happy to share that the keynote seminars of the #CBNP18 will be delivered by Dr. Anna Vagstad (ETH Zürich) and Dr. Nico Sbaraini Oliveira (University of Western Australia).

Looking forward to hearing about their excellent work in the natural product field!
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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🚨 We are HIRING 🚨

If you are looking for a technical post and have microbiology or molecular biology (DNA / RNA) lab experience check out our job advert 👀

We are based in Birmingham and it's a great place to work!

Please share 💙

#MicroSky #LabJobs #JobFairy #JoinOurTeam
⭐ Join the MicrobesNG Team! ⭐
We're expanding & need a skilled Lab Technician to help us prep & process samples, so if you love microbes + DNA and would like to join our team APPLY today 🦠🧬
👉 apply.workable.com/j/2F45D12845
📍Birmingham 🇬🇧
🔬 Lab Tech Role Available
#ScienceJobsUK #MicroSky
April 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Making the most of the good weather with our Alberti lab social playing frisbee golf today 🥏🌳☀️
April 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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It has been a surprisingly quick 4 years, which culminated in passing my PhD viva today! Thank you to my supervisors Antonia @antoniasagona.bsky.social, Fabrizio @albertilab.bsky.social and my lab mates for their support. And to Lona and Andy for being my examiners.
Many congratulations to Mickey @mickey-tad.bsky.social for successfully defending his viva today!! My warmest thanks to Andy @milja001.bsky.social and Lona Alkhalaf for being his examiners and to @nezislab.bsky.social for serving as Exam Advisor! @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @albertilab.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Many congratulations to Mickey @mickey-tad.bsky.social for successfully defending his viva today!! My warmest thanks to Andy @milja001.bsky.social and Lona Alkhalaf for being his examiners and to @nezislab.bsky.social for serving as Exam Advisor! @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @albertilab.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
New paper from the lab! Thanks to Fabrizio Alberti and his lab for the great collaboration and to Michael Tadesse for all his hard work!! Thanks @warwicklifesci.bsky.social, MIBTP and BBSRC for funding!
One-Two Punch: Phage-Antibiotic Synergy Observed against Staphylococcus aureus by Combining Pleurotin and Phage K
The surge in antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections has been deemed a major public health concern. There is an urgent need for novel antimicrobial therapies, chemical and nonantibiotic. The basidiomycota-derived, secondary metabolite pleurotin has been shown to be effective against Gram-positive bacteria, while bacteriophages could be the ultimate nonantibiotic alternative. In this study, the combination of pleurotin and phage K targeting S. aureus was examined. Pleurotin was isolated from the basidiomycota fungus Hohenbuehelia grisea. The cytotoxicity of pleurotin was assessed in two human cell lines in comparison to pleuromutilin, vancomycin, and phage K. The antibiotics were then tested independently or in combination with phage K against two S. aureus strains. Cytotoxicity of pleurotin in human cells was comparable to vancomycin and pleuromutilin. Results suggest that adding phage K has a synergistic effect and can lower the MIC for pleurotin, pleuromutilin, and vancomycin. This demonstrates that pleurotin could be a viable antistaphylococcal drug.
pubs.acs.org
March 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Reposted by Fabrizio Alberti
Looking forward to the #ECFG18 in Helsinki, 9-11 March 2027. Thanks to the Dublin organizers for #ECFG17
March 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🚨🦠🧬Working in the field of Natural Products Chemistry and Biology?🧪🍃🚨

Registration and abstract submission for the #CBNP18 are open! warwick.ac.uk/naturalprodu...

Look forward to seeing you at Warwick University on 26-27 June!

Supported by @ukri.org, @RSC_CBBG and @natprodreports.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM