Prof Paula Salgado
@pssalgado.bsky.social
Structural Microbiologist studies molecular details of C. difficile at Newcastle University, UK. (she/her) Interested in science, politics, theatre, and so much more. Views my own. https://salgadolab.org/
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Happy holidays everyone from a not very wintry Newcastle!
December 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Happy holidays everyone from a not very wintry Newcastle!
At the #SalgadoLab festive lunch, @pav2601.bsky.social gave us a nice challenge: "what are you looking forward in 2026?" From conferences, new papers, new funding 🤞, we all realised there's lots to be excited about!
So, #sciencesky #microsky what are you looking forward in the New Year? 🧪
So, #sciencesky #microsky what are you looking forward in the New Year? 🧪
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
At the #SalgadoLab festive lunch, @pav2601.bsky.social gave us a nice challenge: "what are you looking forward in 2026?" From conferences, new papers, new funding 🤞, we all realised there's lots to be excited about!
So, #sciencesky #microsky what are you looking forward in the New Year? 🧪
So, #sciencesky #microsky what are you looking forward in the New Year? 🧪
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AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination - Nature Methods
An analysis of AlphaFold protein structure predictions shows that while in many cases the predictions are highly accurate, there are also many instances where the predicted structures or parts of pred...
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great experience at #VMxM @diamondlightsource.bsky.social today. Going back with data on 3 out of 4 targets and another trip to check on more promising crystals so very happy users! Thank you @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social and everyone at the beamline!
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Great experience at #VMxM @diamondlightsource.bsky.social today. Going back with data on 3 out of 4 targets and another trip to check on more promising crystals so very happy users! Thank you @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social and everyone at the beamline!
When the teacher becomes the student: learning from my first PhD student @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social and the best postdoc ever Anna Barwinska-Sendra how to blot grids getting ready for VMxM @diamondlightsource.bsky.social data collection #proudPI
December 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
When the teacher becomes the student: learning from my first PhD student @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social and the best postdoc ever Anna Barwinska-Sendra how to blot grids getting ready for VMxM @diamondlightsource.bsky.social data collection #proudPI
Got "About Time" by @alomshaha.bsky.social and Rebecca Struthers for my inquisitive and time-curious little man, who turns 8 (!!!) today. Can't wait for us to discover it together!
And to brag about knowing Alom before he was super famous 😁
And to brag about knowing Alom before he was super famous 😁
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Got "About Time" by @alomshaha.bsky.social and Rebecca Struthers for my inquisitive and time-curious little man, who turns 8 (!!!) today. Can't wait for us to discover it together!
And to brag about knowing Alom before he was super famous 😁
And to brag about knowing Alom before he was super famous 😁
It was a pleasure to be an examiner of the latest @henrikstrahl.bsky.social PhD graduate Laura Dobby. Great work and a very nice discussion in her viva. Congratulations Dr Dobby! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It was a pleasure to be an examiner of the latest @henrikstrahl.bsky.social PhD graduate Laura Dobby. Great work and a very nice discussion in her viva. Congratulations Dr Dobby! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social
Thanks to @kshbeckham.bsky.social for organising and hosting!
Great to host Matthias Wilmanns for this week’s MHD seminar @embl.org @matthiaswilmanns.bsky.social
Fantastic to welcome @matthiaswilmanns.bsky.social from @embl.org Hamburg giving a @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social seminar on his work in Type VII secretion
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thanks to @kshbeckham.bsky.social for organising and hosting!
Fantastic to welcome @matthiaswilmanns.bsky.social from @embl.org Hamburg giving a @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social seminar on his work in Type VII secretion
December 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Fantastic to welcome @matthiaswilmanns.bsky.social from @embl.org Hamburg giving a @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social seminar on his work in Type VII secretion
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Making of ✨ PRO GOOD ANTI BAD - One-day Art blast in Porto 🇵🇹 ✨
Saturday, 6 December, don’t miss this exhibition by cartoonists Zez Vaz, Vítor Ferreira and Mariana Vaz at Rua São Brás 56. Bring all your friends!
Saturday, 6 December, don’t miss this exhibition by cartoonists Zez Vaz, Vítor Ferreira and Mariana Vaz at Rua São Brás 56. Bring all your friends!
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Making of ✨ PRO GOOD ANTI BAD - One-day Art blast in Porto 🇵🇹 ✨
Saturday, 6 December, don’t miss this exhibition by cartoonists Zez Vaz, Vítor Ferreira and Mariana Vaz at Rua São Brás 56. Bring all your friends!
Saturday, 6 December, don’t miss this exhibition by cartoonists Zez Vaz, Vítor Ferreira and Mariana Vaz at Rua São Brás 56. Bring all your friends!
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Naturally occurring CodY variants alter ligand binding, DNA target affinity, and virulence in Clostridioides difficile www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Naturally occurring CodY variants alter ligand binding, DNA target affinity, and virulence in Clostridioides difficile
Clostridioides difficile is an important nosocomial pathogen that has been classified as an “urgent threat” by the CDC. Antibiotic use is the primary risk factor for the development of C. difficile -a...
www.biorxiv.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Naturally occurring CodY variants alter ligand binding, DNA target affinity, and virulence in Clostridioides difficile www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🌟 WeINSPIREBio is hosting its first event!
On Dec 4, we’re running a webinar:
Structures of Success: Career Journeys of Women in Structural Biology
If you work in SB, drug discovery, or just like hearing career stories from brilliant people, join us! And please share 🙏🏼
lnkd.in/ewjD5WPt
#cryoEM
On Dec 4, we’re running a webinar:
Structures of Success: Career Journeys of Women in Structural Biology
If you work in SB, drug discovery, or just like hearing career stories from brilliant people, join us! And please share 🙏🏼
lnkd.in/ewjD5WPt
#cryoEM
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🌟 WeINSPIREBio is hosting its first event!
On Dec 4, we’re running a webinar:
Structures of Success: Career Journeys of Women in Structural Biology
If you work in SB, drug discovery, or just like hearing career stories from brilliant people, join us! And please share 🙏🏼
lnkd.in/ewjD5WPt
#cryoEM
On Dec 4, we’re running a webinar:
Structures of Success: Career Journeys of Women in Structural Biology
If you work in SB, drug discovery, or just like hearing career stories from brilliant people, join us! And please share 🙏🏼
lnkd.in/ewjD5WPt
#cryoEM
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November is #CdiffAwarenessMonth. Amazing work by @lizahaart.bsky.social turned my idea into a cartoon to help explain why antibiotics are a risk factor for #CDI. More to come! The English version is supported by the #ESGCD (@escmid.bsky.social). Let me know if you think these cartoons are useful!
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
November is #CdiffAwarenessMonth. Amazing work by @lizahaart.bsky.social turned my idea into a cartoon to help explain why antibiotics are a risk factor for #CDI. More to come! The English version is supported by the #ESGCD (@escmid.bsky.social). Let me know if you think these cartoons are useful!
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Protein gel is sad 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Protein gel is sad 🧪
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing health threat, making infections harder to treat and complicating routine medical care.
EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform.
#WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
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EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform.
#WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
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A new gateway to global antimicrobial resistance data
New online portal connects bacterial genomes with experimental resistance data to support antimicrobial resistance research.
www.ebi.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing health threat, making infections harder to treat and complicating routine medical care.
EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform.
#WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
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EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform.
#WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
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Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Great work, beautiful structures and really interesting new insights into #Cdiff toxin inhibition. Congratulations to all! #microsky
#NewResearch
A bile acid-bound structure of toxin TcdB revealed the mechanism of inhibition and guided the design of a synthetic bile acid that alleviated C. difficile infection in mice.
#MicroSky 🦠💊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A bile acid-bound structure of toxin TcdB revealed the mechanism of inhibition and guided the design of a synthetic bile acid that alleviated C. difficile infection in mice.
#MicroSky 🦠💊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structure-guided design of a synthetic bile acid that inhibits Clostridioides difficile TcdB toxin - Nature Microbiology
A bile acid-bound structure of toxin TcdB revealed the mechanism of inhibition and guided the design of a synthetic bile acid that alleviated Clostridioides difficile infection in mice.
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Reflection as we begin #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek #WAAW
🔴 #AMR is a growing global emergency
🔴 Solutions must go beyond prescribing #diagnostics #access #prevention
🔴 No one is safe until everyone is safe, solutions must reach all
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#episky #microsky @msf.ca
🔴 #AMR is a growing global emergency
🔴 Solutions must go beyond prescribing #diagnostics #access #prevention
🔴 No one is safe until everyone is safe, solutions must reach all
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#episky #microsky @msf.ca
Antimicrobial resistance: a concise update
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to global public health, with approximately
5 million deaths associated with bacterial AMR in 2019. Tackling AMR requires a multifaceted
and cohesive...
www.thelancet.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Reflection as we begin #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek #WAAW
🔴 #AMR is a growing global emergency
🔴 Solutions must go beyond prescribing #diagnostics #access #prevention
🔴 No one is safe until everyone is safe, solutions must reach all
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#episky #microsky @msf.ca
🔴 #AMR is a growing global emergency
🔴 Solutions must go beyond prescribing #diagnostics #access #prevention
🔴 No one is safe until everyone is safe, solutions must reach all
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#episky #microsky @msf.ca
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#WAAW is here.
This year’s theme is “From Resistance to Resilience”, spotlights how healthcare workers tackle tough, #AMR infections.
Join the free online event on 18 Nov and help keep antibiotics working. #KeepAntibioticsWorking
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
This year’s theme is “From Resistance to Resilience”, spotlights how healthcare workers tackle tough, #AMR infections.
Join the free online event on 18 Nov and help keep antibiotics working. #KeepAntibioticsWorking
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) 2025
European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) is a European health initiative coordinated by ECDC.
www.ecdc.europa.eu
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
#WAAW is here.
This year’s theme is “From Resistance to Resilience”, spotlights how healthcare workers tackle tough, #AMR infections.
Join the free online event on 18 Nov and help keep antibiotics working. #KeepAntibioticsWorking
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
This year’s theme is “From Resistance to Resilience”, spotlights how healthcare workers tackle tough, #AMR infections.
Join the free online event on 18 Nov and help keep antibiotics working. #KeepAntibioticsWorking
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
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Chris is a brilliant structural biologist and mentor. Would highly recommend applying!
🚨Attention prospective PhD students🚨
Are you interested in molecular mechanisms, RNA viruses, structural biology or biophysics? 🧬🦠🧪
We have THREE fully-funded PhD projects available for October 2026 entry:
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
Please share/repost, and get in touch if you're interested
Are you interested in molecular mechanisms, RNA viruses, structural biology or biophysics? 🧬🦠🧪
We have THREE fully-funded PhD projects available for October 2026 entry:
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
Please share/repost, and get in touch if you're interested
chris hill PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships - 3 PhDs Listed
FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in chris hill. Search for PhD funding, scholarships & studentships in the UK, Europe and around the world.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Chris is a brilliant structural biologist and mentor. Would highly recommend applying!
Great to see S-layers get the attention they deserve! Very cool video, @tbharat-lab.bsky.social congrats to all
Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers
Review article published in @natrevmicro.nature.com with @bupbuse.bsky.social, Andriko von Kügelgen and @vikramalva.bsky.social.
S-layers are everywhere!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Review article published in @natrevmicro.nature.com with @bupbuse.bsky.social, Andriko von Kügelgen and @vikramalva.bsky.social.
S-layers are everywhere!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Surface layers (S-layers) are ubiquitous protein assemblies that coat prokaryotic cells, with their functional roles increasingly coming into focus. In this Review, Isbilir and colleagues discuss rece...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Great to see S-layers get the attention they deserve! Very cool video, @tbharat-lab.bsky.social congrats to all
Very cool structures, congrats to all! #microsky
Link seemed broken though so here's a working one:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Link seemed broken though so here's a working one:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Pleased to see this collaboration with a great PhD student Pei Cing Ng, from Prof. Luning Liu's lab at Liverpool University published. Structure of the H. neapolitanus carbonic anhydrase and localisation in a mini-carboxysome: www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Very cool structures, congrats to all! #microsky
Link seemed broken though so here's a working one:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Link seemed broken though so here's a working one:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A pleasure to have @mfwhite2.bsky.social for our first #BiosciencesInstitute seminar this year and hearing all about #bacterial #phage defences
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A pleasure to have @mfwhite2.bsky.social for our first #BiosciencesInstitute seminar this year and hearing all about #bacterial #phage defences
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New Review
British Society for Medical Mycology best practice recommendations for the diagnosis of serious fungal diseases: 2025 update
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
British Society for Medical Mycology best practice recommendations for the diagnosis of serious fungal diseases: 2025 update
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
British Society for Medical Mycology best practice recommendations for the diagnosis of serious fungal diseases: 2025 update
The fungal diagnostic landscape is evolving; whereas previously, traditional culture-based
methods dominated, most invasive fungal disease is now diagnosed with non-culture-based
tests, including dire...
www.thelancet.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
New Review
British Society for Medical Mycology best practice recommendations for the diagnosis of serious fungal diseases: 2025 update
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
British Society for Medical Mycology best practice recommendations for the diagnosis of serious fungal diseases: 2025 update
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...