Melissa Webby
@melissawebby.bsky.social
Assistant professor interested in all things cell envelope. Wellcome CDA fellow. University of Warwick. https://webby-lab.owlstown.net
Autumn is one of my favourite seasons. Views from the home office before all the colours blow away.
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Autumn is one of my favourite seasons. Views from the home office before all the colours blow away.
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warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
I am advertising for a PhD position in my group. We'll be investigating how pathogenic RNA viruses replicate in the nucleus. The project will teach cryoEM/ET, virus culture, and in vitro assays.
If you're interested reach out and I'd be happy to have a chat.
I am advertising for a PhD position in my group. We'll be investigating how pathogenic RNA viruses replicate in the nucleus. The project will teach cryoEM/ET, virus culture, and in vitro assays.
If you're interested reach out and I'd be happy to have a chat.
Dr Jeremy Keown
Dr Jeremy Keown
warwick.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
I am advertising for a PhD position in my group. We'll be investigating how pathogenic RNA viruses replicate in the nucleus. The project will teach cryoEM/ET, virus culture, and in vitro assays.
If you're interested reach out and I'd be happy to have a chat.
I am advertising for a PhD position in my group. We'll be investigating how pathogenic RNA viruses replicate in the nucleus. The project will teach cryoEM/ET, virus culture, and in vitro assays.
If you're interested reach out and I'd be happy to have a chat.
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Biochemical Society's Membrane Protein Conference
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Biochemical Society's Membrane Protein Conference
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
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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Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.
Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!
Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.
Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.
Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.
Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…
www.jic.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.
Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!
Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!
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!
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
On route to the Great Wall symposium!
Hopefully see lots of you there! thegreatwall-symposium.org/program/
We all need a break from the UK rain.
Hopefully see lots of you there! thegreatwall-symposium.org/program/
We all need a break from the UK rain.
Program - The Greatwall-symposium
Day 1 Monday, September 15th, 2025 08.00 – 09.00 Registration Session 1. Building the wall (Chair: Cécile Morlot, IBS, Grenoble, France) 09.00 – 09.30 Simonetta Gribalbo (Institut Pasteur, France) A c...
thegreatwall-symposium.org
September 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
On route to the Great Wall symposium!
Hopefully see lots of you there! thegreatwall-symposium.org/program/
We all need a break from the UK rain.
Hopefully see lots of you there! thegreatwall-symposium.org/program/
We all need a break from the UK rain.
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Reminder that we are recruiting an Assistant Professor Bacterial Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...
Deadline 24 Sept.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...
Deadline 24 Sept.
Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Reminder that we are recruiting an Assistant Professor Bacterial Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...
Deadline 24 Sept.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...
Deadline 24 Sept.
Beyond excited to see Joao Monteiro is coming to join us here @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social with a #ERCStG
Huge congratulations on getting this award, it is a MASSIVE achievement!
Huge congratulations on getting this award, it is a MASSIVE achievement!
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Beyond excited to see Joao Monteiro is coming to join us here @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social with a #ERCStG
Huge congratulations on getting this award, it is a MASSIVE achievement!
Huge congratulations on getting this award, it is a MASSIVE achievement!
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Uropathogenic #Ecoli #UPEC proliferate as round coccoid cells during intracellular infection; @alaskapokhrel.bsky.social @bill-lab.bsky.social &co show that accelerated division via FtsZ constriction drives this, the coccobacillus form persisting for generations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4gdx97i
September 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Uropathogenic #Ecoli #UPEC proliferate as round coccoid cells during intracellular infection; @alaskapokhrel.bsky.social @bill-lab.bsky.social &co show that accelerated division via FtsZ constriction drives this, the coccobacillus form persisting for generations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4gdx97i
How do you know you have transitioned from postdoc to PI? When you enter the lab after a hiatus and can’t run a gel properly
September 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
How do you know you have transitioned from postdoc to PI? When you enter the lab after a hiatus and can’t run a gel properly
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Pls share: Distributing this advertisement from EMBL for a group leader position at their Hamburg, Germany site:
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Group Leader - EMBL Hamburg
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Infection Biochemistry? Join us at EMBL Hamburg! We are recruiting outstanding scientists to establish independent research groups tackling fundamental...
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September 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Pls share: Distributing this advertisement from EMBL for a group leader position at their Hamburg, Germany site:
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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When the world seems so anti-science, here is something to brighten your day! The UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience is recruiting a new Director for its Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery to drive its drug discovery program! #DrugDiscovery #Biotech
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#drugdiscovery #medicinalchemistry #biotech #imb #uq #pharmaceuticalscience #hiring | Ian Henderson
🚀 Exciting Leadership Opportunity at the UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience!
We are delighted to announce that the position of Director of Chemistry and Drug Discovery is now open for recruitment...
www.linkedin.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
When the world seems so anti-science, here is something to brighten your day! The UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience is recruiting a new Director for its Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery to drive its drug discovery program! #DrugDiscovery #Biotech
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Sub-cellular chemical mapping in bacteria using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging
Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Sub-cellular chemical mapping in bacteria using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging
Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
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Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...
Supervisors and Projects
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...
Starting a lab has meant significant orders. For anyone going through this, here are the standout companies for me with quick responses, helpful product knowledge, competitive pricing and rapid delivery: @promegauk.bsky.social
Merck, Starlab and VWR.
Hopefully this helps others also!
Merck, Starlab and VWR.
Hopefully this helps others also!
September 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Starting a lab has meant significant orders. For anyone going through this, here are the standout companies for me with quick responses, helpful product knowledge, competitive pricing and rapid delivery: @promegauk.bsky.social
Merck, Starlab and VWR.
Hopefully this helps others also!
Merck, Starlab and VWR.
Hopefully this helps others also!
After a couple of months of lab set up we are back in action looking at bacteria being cute 🤗
August 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
After a couple of months of lab set up we are back in action looking at bacteria being cute 🤗
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🚨 Job alert 🚨
I’m recruiting two postdoctoral research associates to join my lab at KCL to study how #Klebsiella pneumoniae regulates virulence factor expression during infection! #klebclub
Mol Micro: tinyurl.com/mtrwtx5e
Infection: tinyurl.com/2s3u8ca2
Deadline: 21st September.
I’m recruiting two postdoctoral research associates to join my lab at KCL to study how #Klebsiella pneumoniae regulates virulence factor expression during infection! #klebclub
Mol Micro: tinyurl.com/mtrwtx5e
Infection: tinyurl.com/2s3u8ca2
Deadline: 21st September.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology
www.kcl.ac.uk
August 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨 Job alert 🚨
I’m recruiting two postdoctoral research associates to join my lab at KCL to study how #Klebsiella pneumoniae regulates virulence factor expression during infection! #klebclub
Mol Micro: tinyurl.com/mtrwtx5e
Infection: tinyurl.com/2s3u8ca2
Deadline: 21st September.
I’m recruiting two postdoctoral research associates to join my lab at KCL to study how #Klebsiella pneumoniae regulates virulence factor expression during infection! #klebclub
Mol Micro: tinyurl.com/mtrwtx5e
Infection: tinyurl.com/2s3u8ca2
Deadline: 21st September.
🦠 A fan of bacteria?
We're hiring a Research Technician to join our team at the @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Positive, organised, skills in molecular biology and protein purification?
Apply here 👉 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
Please share! 🔬
We're hiring a Research Technician to join our team at the @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Positive, organised, skills in molecular biology and protein purification?
Apply here 👉 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
Please share! 🔬
August 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🦠 A fan of bacteria?
We're hiring a Research Technician to join our team at the @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Positive, organised, skills in molecular biology and protein purification?
Apply here 👉 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
Please share! 🔬
We're hiring a Research Technician to join our team at the @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Positive, organised, skills in molecular biology and protein purification?
Apply here 👉 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
Please share! 🔬
Huge congrats to Keown lab and co on their cool new paper! 📕 I watched this one come together and it is amazing to see all that hard work pay off. Proud of the first-time sole corresponding author 🎉
Very pleased to have our new work out where we perform a structure/function study on the bornavirus polymerase complex with fantastic coauthors. Have a read www.nature.com/articles/s41... @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @loiccarrique.bsky.social @franziskaguenl.bsky.social
The structure of the mammalian bornavirus polymerase complex - Nature Communications
Borna disease virus 1 replicates and transcribes its negative sense RNA genome in the nucleus of infected cells. Here, the authors present the cryoEM structures of the large polymerase protein in comp...
www.nature.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Huge congrats to Keown lab and co on their cool new paper! 📕 I watched this one come together and it is amazing to see all that hard work pay off. Proud of the first-time sole corresponding author 🎉
I wondering if anyone who does cryoEM or work with cold things could help me! I am looking for a hot plate to dry tools post being in liquid nitrogen. They all seem to be £800+ for something so simple. Anyone know where to source a cheap warming plate?
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I wondering if anyone who does cryoEM or work with cold things could help me! I am looking for a hot plate to dry tools post being in liquid nitrogen. They all seem to be £800+ for something so simple. Anyone know where to source a cheap warming plate?
I’ve landed at the SLS, University of Warwick! 🎉 Thanks to the Wellcome Trust for supporting this next chapter. Everyone’s been so welcoming, and I’m excited for the challenges ahead (even the endless quizzes 📝).
Risk assessments first, then into the lab! Missing old friends, see you soon for EM 🔬❄️
Risk assessments first, then into the lab! Missing old friends, see you soon for EM 🔬❄️
July 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I’ve landed at the SLS, University of Warwick! 🎉 Thanks to the Wellcome Trust for supporting this next chapter. Everyone’s been so welcoming, and I’m excited for the challenges ahead (even the endless quizzes 📝).
Risk assessments first, then into the lab! Missing old friends, see you soon for EM 🔬❄️
Risk assessments first, then into the lab! Missing old friends, see you soon for EM 🔬❄️
I love reading @jiexiaolab.bsky.social papers. They have lovely elegant stories to unwrap this complex system.
Our new paper on FtsN is out! Now there are three tracks for organized cell wall constriction-- the old, boring E. coli always manages to surprise us.
A special shout-out to all the people who made this work possible, especially Dr. Jason Lyu, and Dr. David Weiss.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A special shout-out to all the people who made this work possible, especially Dr. Jason Lyu, and Dr. David Weiss.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Third track model for coordination of septal peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation by FtsN in Escherichia coli - Nature Microbiology
Partitioning of FtsN and the septal peptidoglycan synthesis complex between an active synthesis track and an inactive denuded glycan track coordinates opposing peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation ...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I love reading @jiexiaolab.bsky.social papers. They have lovely elegant stories to unwrap this complex system.
I love reading @jiexiaolab.bsky.social papers. They have lovely elegant stories to unwrap this complex system.
Our new paper on FtsN is out! Now there are three tracks for organized cell wall constriction-- the old, boring E. coli always manages to surprise us.
A special shout-out to all the people who made this work possible, especially Dr. Jason Lyu, and Dr. David Weiss.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A special shout-out to all the people who made this work possible, especially Dr. Jason Lyu, and Dr. David Weiss.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Third track model for coordination of septal peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation by FtsN in Escherichia coli - Nature Microbiology
Partitioning of FtsN and the septal peptidoglycan synthesis complex between an active synthesis track and an inactive denuded glycan track coordinates opposing peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation ...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I love reading @jiexiaolab.bsky.social papers. They have lovely elegant stories to unwrap this complex system.