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Dr Katherine Duncan
@kateduncan.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Newcastle Uni UK

We study the chemical language of bacteria (& what influences it) for antibiotic discovery from our oceans

http://www.medicinesfromthesea.com

Editor Microbiology, Young Academy of Scotland, SAB NatProdRep & EAB JNatProd
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We are incredibly lucky 🤗

We also love sharing this space and keep a benchtop with a ✨view✨ open for visiting collaborators and students.
November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.

For more details and to apply please see

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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We are very much looking forward to the Grand Opening of the Northern Eye Imaging facility tomorrow!

Follow us here for all the news coming from NUSBF!
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Molecules to medicine: advances in metabolomics for natural product drug discovery by Victoria Deleray,
Pieter C Dorrestein & Nicole E Avalon
#naturalproducts #secmet #metabolomics
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Molecules to medicine: advances in metabolomics for natural product drug discovery
Recent advances in metabolomics are accelerating natural product (NP) drug discovery. NPs possess diverse biological relevance and comprise a signific…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Come and join us!
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Looking for a PhD opportunity in Microbiology? Consider joining one of the UK's leading microbiology research clusters at Newcastle University. See the thread for MRC DTP studentships currently advertised. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social #microsky
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Interested in microbial sensing, signaling and regulation? Don’t miss the 2026 GRC! Submit your abstract to be considered for a short talk! I hope to see you in sunny Ventura in January! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...
2026 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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If you are interested in researching how drug resistant bacteria evade killing by our immune system, them this PhD project is for you. Come join the our team at Newcastle, in collaboration with University of Liverpool, and lead research at the interface of microbiology, immunology and metabolomics.
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Hiding in plain sight: How multi-drug resistant pathogens evade detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Hiding in plain sight: How multi-drug resistant pathogens evade detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University, listed on Fin...
www.findaphd.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Looking for an AMR-themed PhD project? Join us to investigate antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus through a fully funded MRC DTP PhD studentship starting in September 2026.

This project is close collaboration with @kateduncan.bsky.social and @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social.
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Resensitisation of antibiotic-tolerant Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Resensitisation of antibiotic-tolerant Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The walk home 🍂 🌌
October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If you’re interested in metals, microbes and maths 🤘 - please check out this PhD on the impact of metals on microbial communities with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social @blindmath.bsky.social Denis Patterson and myself, you’d be based in Durham & be part of a vibrant interdisciplinary research group
We're advertising a PhD at the intersection of mathematical ecology, metallobiology, and microbiology to study the impact of metals on microbial communities with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social @kateduncan.bsky.social and Denis Patterson. Come join us in lovely Durham!

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
When nutrients turn toxic: how metals shape microbial coexistence
iapetus.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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We're advertising a PhD at the intersection of mathematical ecology, metallobiology, and microbiology to study the impact of metals on microbial communities with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social @kateduncan.bsky.social and Denis Patterson. Come join us in lovely Durham!

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
When nutrients turn toxic: how metals shape microbial coexistence
iapetus.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Marine Biosciences Assistant/Associate Prof job at University of Florida explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... [for MNP folks, this is where Sansa Loesgen @loesgenlab.bsky.social is based]
University of Florida - Details - Assistant/Associate Professor in Marine Bioscience
explore.jobs.ufl.edu
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Autumn in the North Pennines
🍃🍂🍁🌲
[Hexham-Dilson-Corbridge 10Km]
October 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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🧬 Share your science at Natural Products in the 21st Century (NP21C) — 9–11 Feb 2026, Leuven
Join researchers exploring genomics, metabolomics & microbial natural products!
www.conferencemanager.dk/naturalprodu...
#NP21C #secmet
@tilmweber.bsky.social @marnixmedema.bsky.social @kblin.bsky.social
Natural Products in the 21st Century Conference
www.conferencemanager.dk
October 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Please join us in the North East on the 5th of November as we celebrate with a one day symposium for the launch of our BBSRC funded 100 keV Tundra TEM aka the Northern Eye:
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccpem-tfs-ne...
The symposium has been kindly sponsored by
@thermofishersci.bsky.social & @ccpem.bsky.social
Grand Opening of the Northern eye, a cryo-TEM in Newcastle
Grand Opening of the Northern Eye in Newcastle, a100 kV Tundra cryo-TEM in Newcastle University on Wednesday 5th November 2025
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Save the date: XVIII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products (MaNaPro), October 4th to 9th, 2026, Puerto Morelos, Riviera Maya, México. Organisers incl. Alejandra Prieto-Davó @alepdavo.bsky.social & Natalie Millán- #NaturalProducts #SecMet
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Join us in Birmingham for the annual BSAC #AntibioticResistance & Mechanisms workshop - excellent talks and it’s designed to make conversation & networking between attendees easy #MicroSky bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-r...
Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms (ARM) Workshop for Researchers 2025 - The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
bsac.org.uk
October 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I’ve now logged on to editorial manager three times in a row without having to reset my password, this might be a new personal best
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Editorial @acs.org by EiC Brad Moore ‘A new era for the Journal of Natural Products’ -this includes expanding multiomics science and i’m delighted to be appointed on to the editorial advisory board, please check out the recent and up and coming special issues/collections pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
A New Era for the Journal of Natural Products
pubs.acs.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Just registered for my favourite conference - the Marine Natural Products Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in March 2026. Chair @balunaslab.bsky.social and Vice-Chair Roger Linington have put together a really exciting program www.grc.org/marine-natur... - applications open - see you there?
2026 Marine Natural Products Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Marine Natural Products will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
October 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Really enjoyed giving an evening lecture (‘antibiotics from the abyss’) to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society on Tuesday at Tempest Anderson Hall. The AMR series was organised by @gavinhthomas.bsky.social (lectures 1&2 by @jessicamablair.bsky.social & Martha Clokie) www.ypsyork.org/events/antib...
October 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM