davidroper2.bsky.social
@davidroper2.bsky.social
Professor of Biochemistry at U.Warwick, UK. bacterial cell walls, cell division, antibiotic discovery and resistance mechanisms. I’m on
here for science just like @davidroper2.
His name is Gus if you are wondering…
30 years on since @YSBL_York who would have thought these two old gits would find themselves in a lab together again!
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Two PhD theses submitted to day from @warwicklifesci.bsky.social Kate Willett from my lab and Becca Bailey from @pstansfeld.bsky.social. Supervisor of one, internal examiner for another!
September 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Lovely trip back to @UniOfYork to the carbohydrate group meeting of the @RoySocChem. Old friends and familiar places
September 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It’s been my honour and privilege to co-organise the Great Wall Symposium with @ivo-boneca.bsky.social for the past 14 years, roll on 2027 more news soon.
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
And that’s a wrap on the Great Wall Symposium 2025!
Roll on 2027, venue to be confirmed shortly …
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
And we are off! Professor Tame of Yokohama City University starts his first experiment as part of his sabbatical thanks to an IAS fellowship here
September 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
How it’s started, how it’s going …
September 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Professors Roper and Tame visited Hadrians wall today and contemplated the eternal philosophical question of “what did the romans….”🤣
August 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Professors Roper and Tame up a hill in Yorkshire, grand…
August 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Just thinking about my September plans..
Anyone else..?
Just sayin...
August 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I was delighted to @UHCW path labs today to give a talk on our works and perspective on b-lactam usage and discuss with Steven Montgomery-Laird and colleagues, future collaborations and interactions @WarwickLifeSci
@BMSatWarwick & Institute of Translational Medicine.
August 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Today is World NTM awareness day (worldntmday.org) so timely to announce a collaboration between Professor Bavesh Kana at the University of the Witwatersrand. Charis Thompson in my lab works on a linkage between ST kinases and the control of peptidoglycan cross linking chemistry in NTMs.
August 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Dr Gillett dons the ceremonial robes yesterday to get her degree certificate @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Dr Cheng managed to look at the camera for a change..
July 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Andrew Harvey former Warwick Biochemistry student and now Global Marketing Director @pfizer (boy did well..) came to @uniofwarwick to speak and inspire at the graduation ceremony for @WarwickLifeSci graduates. Great to see you again!
July 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Phil Stansfeld and I played host to Dr Chandra Verma @ASTARsg former collegue of mine from @YSBL_York visits @WarwickLifeSci & @BMSatWarwick today to tell us about developments in the institute and research in his group.
If only he could stay longer for an international fiesta, old style !
July 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Another victory for Gibbet Hill Rovers, 1 - nil against statistics @WarwickLifeSci @warwickmed @uniofwarwick
July 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Striking fear into the ropergroup today, I’m back in the lab!!!
June 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Today we say farewell and best of luck for the future as Dr Fran Gillett leaves the Ropergroup and @WarwickLifeSci after 8 years, undergrad through postdoc and goes off to industry. We will miss you Fran
May 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Microbiology royalty @WarwickLifeSci today, Professor Malcolm Winkler and Tiffany Tsui @IndianaUniv. Fantastic lecture on Pneumococcal PG biosynthesis.
Took them to the Blue Pig in Wolvey of course!
May 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Sage words prof.
Ians post on linkedin was slightly longer and expands on the above, and is just beautiful.
April 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Dr Souvik Naskar from @imperialcollege @thelowlab and former @MRCDTP_IBR PhD student with me @WarwickLifeSci spoke today at the Warwick Integrated Structural Biology Centre symposium on his wonderful work on Vipp1 and revealed who’s in charge of data processing!
March 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Emma Hesketh from @LeicStructBio discussing the leciester Cryo-EM facilties, an important partner in the new Warwick Integrated Structural Biology Centre
warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dept...
March 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Opening symoposium for the Warwick Integrated Structural Biology Centre (warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dept...) today !
March 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Third goal
March 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Gibbet Hill Rovers took on Stats tonight and won 4:1, empathic victory.
March 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM