Patrick Moynihan
@pmoyniha.bsky.social
Interested in all things mycobacteria and cool science broadly. Sr. Research Fellow at the Uni. of Birmingham,UK. Soon, relocating to the Univ. of Western Ontario. Editor for Microbiology. Views are mine. @pmoyniha@mstdn.science, @pmoyniha
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Federal funding announced today will support #WesternU's newest Canada Research Chair, @schulichmeddent.bsky.social prof Patrick Moynihan, & seven renewed chairs across campus. Western also receives $13.9M from Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat to support the indirect costs of research.
Western's new Canada Research Chair fights tuberculosis - Western News
One new Canada Research Chair was awarded at Western and seven chairs renewed. The university also received $13.9 in research support funding.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Federal funding announced today will support #WesternU's newest Canada Research Chair, @schulichmeddent.bsky.social prof Patrick Moynihan, & seven renewed chairs across campus. Western also receives $13.9M from Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat to support the indirect costs of research.
One unexpected thing moving to Canada - compared to the UK companies like @thermofishersci.bsky.social and @sigmaaldrich.bsky.social have absolutely abysmal shipping times. It takes *weeks* for things that are 'in stock' to be delivered.
August 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
One unexpected thing moving to Canada - compared to the UK companies like @thermofishersci.bsky.social and @sigmaaldrich.bsky.social have absolutely abysmal shipping times. It takes *weeks* for things that are 'in stock' to be delivered.
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Sadly, this is almost the number of people that die globally of TB every 2-3 days.
Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
11,000 more TB patients died after Trump's USAID cuts. That number will rise. | Opinion
The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting USAID.
www.usatoday.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sadly, this is almost the number of people that die globally of TB every 2-3 days.
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Structural motif search across the protein-universe with Folddisco https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.06.663357v1
July 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Structural motif search across the protein-universe with Folddisco https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.06.663357v1
New paper from my friend Andy Lovering. When porins get weird: rdcu.be/euXWk
A porin-like protein used by bacterial predators defines a wider lipid-trapping superfamily
Nature Communications - This study reveals that an outer membrane protein from the predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus forms a pentameric assembly that traps a lipid monolayer within. This allows...
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July 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New paper from my friend Andy Lovering. When porins get weird: rdcu.be/euXWk
I have vastly underestimated the amount of work that goes into moving a lab across an ocean. Great time to be buying loads of stuff that is mostly imported too....
June 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I have vastly underestimated the amount of work that goes into moving a lab across an ocean. Great time to be buying loads of stuff that is mostly imported too....
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New Type VII ABC Transporter just dropped!
We are super excited to present our characterisation of the YbbAP-TesA complex, a novel Type VII ABC transporter linked to a periplasmic thioesterase.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We are super excited to present our characterisation of the YbbAP-TesA complex, a novel Type VII ABC transporter linked to a periplasmic thioesterase.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
May 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New Type VII ABC Transporter just dropped!
We are super excited to present our characterisation of the YbbAP-TesA complex, a novel Type VII ABC transporter linked to a periplasmic thioesterase.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We are super excited to present our characterisation of the YbbAP-TesA complex, a novel Type VII ABC transporter linked to a periplasmic thioesterase.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web.
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April 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web.
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Happy to share our newest preprint addressing the basis of trehalose essentiality in mycobacteria! This is a story brewing in the lab for the longest time, started by MSc grad Justin Lim, & now completed by the amazing PhD grad-turned-postdoc @yushuchen.bsky.social! #MicroSky #Mycobacteria 1/8
Exquisite specificity of Pks13 defines the essentiality of trehalose in mycobacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.647003v1
April 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Happy to share our newest preprint addressing the basis of trehalose essentiality in mycobacteria! This is a story brewing in the lab for the longest time, started by MSc grad Justin Lim, & now completed by the amazing PhD grad-turned-postdoc @yushuchen.bsky.social! #MicroSky #Mycobacteria 1/8
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Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
Research Associate Genetic and functional analysis of Gram positive secretion systems and substrates
Research Associate Genetic and functional analysis of Gram positive secretion systems and substrates
jobs.ncl.ac.uk
April 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
Having a nice walk after @proftracypalmer.bsky.social delivered an excellent talk at the mycobacterial biology GRC.
April 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Having a nice walk after @proftracypalmer.bsky.social delivered an excellent talk at the mycobacterial biology GRC.
Excited to be at the first ever GRC on the biology of mycobacteria. Finally a myco meeting that is not immunology or drug-focused!
April 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Excited to be at the first ever GRC on the biology of mycobacteria. Finally a myco meeting that is not immunology or drug-focused!
If anyone is looking for a post doc, or knows someone looking for one, Andy Lovering has a post open. Awesome lab and great opportunity: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Research Fellow - School of Biosciences - 105497 - Grade 7
You will provide expertise, support and guidance in a team working on novel lipid transfer proteins. You will need an in-depth understanding of the research questions, techniques and experimental prot...
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March 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If anyone is looking for a post doc, or knows someone looking for one, Andy Lovering has a post open. Awesome lab and great opportunity: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Starting to see papers that are just alphafolds of stuff with no experiments. Who is reviewing this?
January 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Starting to see papers that are just alphafolds of stuff with no experiments. Who is reviewing this?
The punishment for having more than one structure in a manuscript is having to interface with OneDep multiple times. What a brutal interface. Someone give the PDB some more money and a web designer, please.
January 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The punishment for having more than one structure in a manuscript is having to interface with OneDep multiple times. What a brutal interface. Someone give the PDB some more money and a web designer, please.
So proud of Aaron and the entire team for this. Lots of co-authors not in the photo below who helped with this paper.
Congratulations to European Society of #Mycobacteriology (ESM) Hugo David Award Winners 2024 (1st semester): Dr Aaron Franklin and his colleagues. This award is given by the ESM Steering Committee to the two best papers of the year published by ESM members
November 26, 2024 at 6:10 PM
So proud of Aaron and the entire team for this. Lots of co-authors not in the photo below who helped with this paper.
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Congratulations to European Society of #Mycobacteriology (ESM) Hugo David Award Winners 2024 (1st semester): Dr Aaron Franklin and his colleagues. This award is given by the ESM Steering Committee to the two best papers of the year published by ESM members
November 26, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Congratulations to European Society of #Mycobacteriology (ESM) Hugo David Award Winners 2024 (1st semester): Dr Aaron Franklin and his colleagues. This award is given by the ESM Steering Committee to the two best papers of the year published by ESM members
I am begging people to use fewer acronyms (ideally zero) in their grant/fellowship etc apps. As a panelist if I am even slightly off your subject area it makes it really challenging to parse.
November 25, 2024 at 10:56 AM
I am begging people to use fewer acronyms (ideally zero) in their grant/fellowship etc apps. As a panelist if I am even slightly off your subject area it makes it really challenging to parse.
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Nothing beats Prism in terms of ease of use, but I am growing to like JASP. It's open source and GUI based and you can even look under the hood and see the exact R code that it runs.
jasp-stats.org
jasp-stats.org
JASP - A Fresh Way to Do Statistics
JASP is an open-source statistics program that is free, friendly, and flexible. Armed with an easy-to-use GUI, JASP allows both classical and Bayesian analyses.
jasp-stats.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Nothing beats Prism in terms of ease of use, but I am growing to like JASP. It's open source and GUI based and you can even look under the hood and see the exact R code that it runs.
jasp-stats.org
jasp-stats.org
I love making figures for papers. Seeing a story come together is a very rewarding part of this job.
November 20, 2024 at 12:34 PM
I love making figures for papers. Seeing a story come together is a very rewarding part of this job.
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Most accurate Oded post ever...
"It appears that your recommended reviewers are not really your friends, Mr. Bond"
November 16, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Most accurate Oded post ever...
Just renewed my GraphPad Prism license for the last time. They doubled the price on it this year, with zero justification. I guess 2025 is the year I finally learn R.
November 15, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Just renewed my GraphPad Prism license for the last time. They doubled the price on it this year, with zero justification. I guess 2025 is the year I finally learn R.
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This is the best description of microbial taxonomy I've ever seen in my life. (xkcd.com/3010/)
#MicroSky
#MicroSky
November 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
This is the best description of microbial taxonomy I've ever seen in my life. (xkcd.com/3010/)
#MicroSky
#MicroSky
Was talking to two different people today about the importance of life outside of science. A good reminder that this job can consume you, but the most important things are not this job.
November 14, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Was talking to two different people today about the importance of life outside of science. A good reminder that this job can consume you, but the most important things are not this job.