Alan Koh
alansckoh.bsky.social
Alan Koh
@alansckoh.bsky.social
Research Scientist - Behavioural Phenomics Group | Imperial Collage London | MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences | STEM Ambassador | Co-founder of Mur Mur Moon
Honoured to be named among the UK 40 Under 40 in Science and Innovation.

Thank you to MRC LMS and everyone for the unwavering support. Excited to continue pushing the boundaries of science and contributing to our research community.
Congratulations to @alansckoh.bsky.social for winning the prestigious UK 40 Under 40 Award in the Science and Innovation category!

Alan is a postdoctoral researcher here at the LMS and at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Receiving this honour recognises the contributions he’s made in his field 🎉
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Reposted by Alan Koh
Cool work from Heath Murray's lab where they use Cas9 nickase to study how ssDNA breaks are repaired in Bacillus subtilis #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rescuing the bacterial replisome at a nick requires recombinational repair and helicase reloading - Nature Communications
DNA damage can lead to cell death. Here, the authors show that a simple cut on either strand of DNA can inactivate bacterial chromosome replication. Surprisingly, only a core set of recombination prot...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Reposted by Alan Koh
Now properly published at @natcomms.nature.com with few additional experiments incl. demonstration of Daptomycin's ability to depolarise non-growing cells.
See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM