@davidroper2.bsky.social
Professor of Biochemistry at U.Warwick, UK. bacterial cell walls, cell division, antibiotic discovery and resistance mechanisms. I’m on
here for science just like @davidroper2.
His name is Gus if you are wondering…
here for science just like @davidroper2.
His name is Gus if you are wondering…
30 years on since @YSBL_York who would have thought these two old gits would find themselves in a lab together again!
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
30 years on since @YSBL_York who would have thought these two old gits would find themselves in a lab together again!
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Looking for a PhD? 🚀 MIBTP projects are out lots to explore!
🔬 #Bacteria • #AMR • #Interdisciplinary • FUN!
My projects explore how Gram-negative bacteria build and maintain their three-layered cell envelope, using cryo-EM, fluorescence microscopy and biochemistry.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
🔬 #Bacteria • #AMR • #Interdisciplinary • FUN!
My projects explore how Gram-negative bacteria build and maintain their three-layered cell envelope, using cryo-EM, fluorescence microscopy and biochemistry.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
Dr Melissa Webby
Dr Melissa Webby
warwick.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Looking for a PhD? 🚀 MIBTP projects are out lots to explore!
🔬 #Bacteria • #AMR • #Interdisciplinary • FUN!
My projects explore how Gram-negative bacteria build and maintain their three-layered cell envelope, using cryo-EM, fluorescence microscopy and biochemistry.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
🔬 #Bacteria • #AMR • #Interdisciplinary • FUN!
My projects explore how Gram-negative bacteria build and maintain their three-layered cell envelope, using cryo-EM, fluorescence microscopy and biochemistry.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
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Just in time for Becca’s thesis submission, their paper on MreB membrane interactions is published in @biophysj.bsky.social: www.cell.com/biophysj/ful... 🎉
October 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Just in time for Becca’s thesis submission, their paper on MreB membrane interactions is published in @biophysj.bsky.social: www.cell.com/biophysj/ful... 🎉
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I joined School of Life Sciences 3 months ago and these guys have been so welcoming. Gibbet Hill Rovers making it feel like being apart of a community instantly. Thanks to @davidroper2.bsky.social for helping me get involved. Looking forward to season 3!
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I joined School of Life Sciences 3 months ago and these guys have been so welcoming. Gibbet Hill Rovers making it feel like being apart of a community instantly. Thanks to @davidroper2.bsky.social for helping me get involved. Looking forward to season 3!
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People get special things engraved…. We got cryo-EM pucks engraved.
Now time to make some samples @jeremykeown.bsky.social
Now time to make some samples @jeremykeown.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
People get special things engraved…. We got cryo-EM pucks engraved.
Now time to make some samples @jeremykeown.bsky.social
Now time to make some samples @jeremykeown.bsky.social
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Great opportunity to do a PhD with Giusy and co in Glasgow!
🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
October 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Great opportunity to do a PhD with Giusy and co in Glasgow!
Anyone else had a circuit board blow on a Sorval ultracentrifuge in the recent past?
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Anyone else had a circuit board blow on a Sorval ultracentrifuge in the recent past?
Two PhD theses submitted to day from @warwicklifesci.bsky.social Kate Willett from my lab and Becca Bailey from @pstansfeld.bsky.social. Supervisor of one, internal examiner for another!
September 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Two PhD theses submitted to day from @warwicklifesci.bsky.social Kate Willett from my lab and Becca Bailey from @pstansfeld.bsky.social. Supervisor of one, internal examiner for another!
New from Chris Sham at NUS www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria
Gene redundancy complicates systematic characterization of gene function as single-gene deletions may not produce discernible phenotypes. We report dual transposon sequencing (dual Tn-seq), a platform...
www.science.org
September 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
New from Chris Sham at NUS www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Lovely trip back to @UniOfYork to the carbohydrate group meeting of the @RoySocChem. Old friends and familiar places
September 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Lovely trip back to @UniOfYork to the carbohydrate group meeting of the @RoySocChem. Old friends and familiar places
It’s been my honour and privilege to co-organise the Great Wall Symposium with @ivo-boneca.bsky.social for the past 14 years, roll on 2027 more news soon.
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
It’s been my honour and privilege to co-organise the Great Wall Symposium with @ivo-boneca.bsky.social for the past 14 years, roll on 2027 more news soon.
And that’s a wrap on the Great Wall Symposium 2025!
Roll on 2027, venue to be confirmed shortly …
Roll on 2027, venue to be confirmed shortly …
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
And that’s a wrap on the Great Wall Symposium 2025!
Roll on 2027, venue to be confirmed shortly …
Roll on 2027, venue to be confirmed shortly …
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Want to know what natural products are in clinical trials? Read this review! Great job from Mark Butler, Rob Capon, Mark Blaskovich! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#naturalproducts #antibiotic #amr #drugdiscovery #drug
#naturalproducts #antibiotic #amr #drugdiscovery #drug
Natural product-derived compounds in clinical trials and drug approvals
Covering: January 2014–June 2025. Previous review: Natural Product Reports, 2014, 31, 1612Natural products (NPs) have long been foundational in medicine, from ancient herbal remedies to the discovery ...
pubs.rsc.org
September 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Want to know what natural products are in clinical trials? Read this review! Great job from Mark Butler, Rob Capon, Mark Blaskovich! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#naturalproducts #antibiotic #amr #drugdiscovery #drug
#naturalproducts #antibiotic #amr #drugdiscovery #drug
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ICYMI: Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding #MRC #AcademicSky
Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding
We’re introducing a new flexible research grant and removing closing dates from our board funding opportunities.
www.ukri.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ICYMI: Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding #MRC #AcademicSky
And we are off! Professor Tame of Yokohama City University starts his first experiment as part of his sabbatical thanks to an IAS fellowship here
September 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
And we are off! Professor Tame of Yokohama City University starts his first experiment as part of his sabbatical thanks to an IAS fellowship here
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So excited our antibiotic potentiation story is out 🤩 Led by the extraordinary @manonlang.bsky.social with @fox-science.bsky.social & @amazeld.bsky.social +amazing collaborators @immunobladder.bsky.social @imaneelmeouche.bsky.social 🦠 We believe it can make a difference in #AMR infections!
Uridine as a potentiator of aminoglycosides through activation of carbohydrate transporters
Uridine boosts aminoglycoside treatment efficiency against antibiotic-susceptible as well as antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains.
www.science.org
September 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
So excited our antibiotic potentiation story is out 🤩 Led by the extraordinary @manonlang.bsky.social with @fox-science.bsky.social & @amazeld.bsky.social +amazing collaborators @immunobladder.bsky.social @imaneelmeouche.bsky.social 🦠 We believe it can make a difference in #AMR infections!
How it’s started, how it’s going …
September 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
How it’s started, how it’s going …
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Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
Director, Centre for Population and Disease Genomics
Centre for Population & Disease Genomics - Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Full-time, fixed-term position for up to 5 years at Academic Level E Ba...
uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
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Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it?
Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria
Archaea regularly interact with bacteria but reports of archaea killing bacteria are very rare. This study shows that many archaea encode peptidoglycan hydrolases, which specifically target bacterial ...
journals.plos.org
August 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it?
Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Latest study with the super-human friend that is Zong. Gen epi of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter in China. Lots of within and between hospital spread and increasing in incidence
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The clinical impact and dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter: a genome-based study in China | Microbiology Spectrum
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter (CPEn) causes difficult-to-treat infections and has emerged globally as a significant antimicrobial resistance threat. Here, we generated genome sequences of 128 CPEn clinical isolates with accompanying clinical data. ...
journals.asm.org
August 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Latest study with the super-human friend that is Zong. Gen epi of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter in China. Lots of within and between hospital spread and increasing in incidence
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Professors Roper and Tame visited Hadrians wall today and contemplated the eternal philosophical question of “what did the romans….”🤣
August 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Professors Roper and Tame visited Hadrians wall today and contemplated the eternal philosophical question of “what did the romans….”🤣
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#NewResearch
Streptomyces use both polar and dispersed cell wall synthesis during rapid, exploratory growth @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social
#BacteriaCellWall #MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Streptomyces use both polar and dispersed cell wall synthesis during rapid, exploratory growth @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social
#BacteriaCellWall #MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Streptomyces uses both polar and dispersed cell wall synthesis during exploratory growth - Nature Microbiology
Streptomyces venezuelae requires MreB1-dependent dispersed peptidoglycan cell wall synthesis and DivIVA-mediated polar cell wall synthesis during its rapid exploratory growth phase.
www.nature.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
#NewResearch
Streptomyces use both polar and dispersed cell wall synthesis during rapid, exploratory growth @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social
#BacteriaCellWall #MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Streptomyces use both polar and dispersed cell wall synthesis during rapid, exploratory growth @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social
#BacteriaCellWall #MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Professors Roper and Tame up a hill in Yorkshire, grand…
August 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Professors Roper and Tame up a hill in Yorkshire, grand…
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A remarkable paper. Davisson and colleagues describe an in vitro reaction running under plausible prebiotic conditions that efficiently and stereoselectively aminoacylates a model tRNA.
This suggests a path through which nature may have chosen L vs. D amino acids!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This suggests a path through which nature may have chosen L vs. D amino acids!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A remarkable paper. Davisson and colleagues describe an in vitro reaction running under plausible prebiotic conditions that efficiently and stereoselectively aminoacylates a model tRNA.
This suggests a path through which nature may have chosen L vs. D amino acids!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This suggests a path through which nature may have chosen L vs. D amino acids!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...