Ellie Boardman
@ellieboardman.bsky.social
Postdoc working on S. aureus T7SS in Tracy Palmer’s group at Newcastle University, UK
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Happy to share our latest T6SS review:
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
The type VI secretion system and associated effector proteins - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Basler and colleagues examine the type VI secretion system (T6SS), focusing on the diversity of antibacterial T6SS effectors and the evolutionary forces that shape them. They explain h...
nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Happy to share our latest T6SS review:
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
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Theres still time to apply for our PhD project on UPEC/immune cell interactions. Deadline December 4th
If you are interested in researching how drug resistant bacteria evade killing by our immune system, them this PhD project is for you. Come join the our team at Newcastle, in collaboration with University of Liverpool, and lead research at the interface of microbiology, immunology and metabolomics.
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Hiding in plain sight: How multi-drug resistant pathogens evade detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Hiding in plain sight: How multi-drug resistant pathogens evade detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University, listed on Fin...
www.findaphd.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Theres still time to apply for our PhD project on UPEC/immune cell interactions. Deadline December 4th
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"Postdoc in the job market"
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Postdoc in the job market"
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Happy to share our latest NAR paper on Rel toxins targeting M. tuberculosis anti-SD region, with Tim Blower’s team (@durham.ac.uk @nebiolabs.bsky.social) and Laurent Falquet
Thanks to FRM @frm-officiel.bsky.social and CNRS @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/article-...
Thanks to FRM @frm-officiel.bsky.social and CNRS @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/article-...
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Happy to share our latest NAR paper on Rel toxins targeting M. tuberculosis anti-SD region, with Tim Blower’s team (@durham.ac.uk @nebiolabs.bsky.social) and Laurent Falquet
Thanks to FRM @frm-officiel.bsky.social and CNRS @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/article-...
Thanks to FRM @frm-officiel.bsky.social and CNRS @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/article-...
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🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
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Our article on a 🛠️ molecular toolbox 🛠️ in predatory bacterium 🦁🦠 Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is published in PLOS Genetics (=> tiny.cc/6wuu001). 🎉
This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts.
#MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria
This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts.
#MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our article on a 🛠️ molecular toolbox 🛠️ in predatory bacterium 🦁🦠 Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is published in PLOS Genetics (=> tiny.cc/6wuu001). 🎉
This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts.
#MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria
This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts.
#MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria
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New paper alert! DNA replication and repair conflicts lead to cell death in gram positive bacteria, possible new targets for novel antimicrobials.
@microbiologysociety.org @winterhalterlab.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
@microbiologysociety.org @winterhalterlab.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Conflicts between the DNA replication and repair machineries promote cell death in Gram-positive bacteria
Cellular proliferation relies on the successful coordination and completion of genome replication and segregation. To help achieve this, many bacteria utilize regulatory pathways that ensure DNA repli...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New paper alert! DNA replication and repair conflicts lead to cell death in gram positive bacteria, possible new targets for novel antimicrobials.
@microbiologysociety.org @winterhalterlab.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
@microbiologysociety.org @winterhalterlab.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Looking for a PhD opportunity in Microbiology? Consider joining one of the UK's leading microbiology research clusters at Newcastle University. See the thread for MRC DTP studentships currently advertised. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social #microsky
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Looking for a PhD opportunity in Microbiology? Consider joining one of the UK's leading microbiology research clusters at Newcastle University. See the thread for MRC DTP studentships currently advertised. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social #microsky
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We are very much looking forward to the Grand Opening of the Northern Eye Imaging facility tomorrow!
Follow us here for all the news coming from NUSBF!
Follow us here for all the news coming from NUSBF!
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We are very much looking forward to the Grand Opening of the Northern Eye Imaging facility tomorrow!
Follow us here for all the news coming from NUSBF!
Follow us here for all the news coming from NUSBF!
We’ve kept registrations open till the end of this week so get your last minute applications in for posters and talks!
The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th.
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We’ve kept registrations open till the end of this week so get your last minute applications in for posters and talks!
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Still time to sign up and submit and abstract for this year’s CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting.
This is a really nice meeting and great opportunity for ECRs to present their work ✨
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
This is a really nice meeting and great opportunity for ECRs to present their work ✨
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Still time to sign up and submit and abstract for this year’s CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting.
This is a really nice meeting and great opportunity for ECRs to present their work ✨
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
This is a really nice meeting and great opportunity for ECRs to present their work ✨
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th.
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th.
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...
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🧐Checkout our preprint revealing the stepwise firing💥 mechanism of a Contractile Injection System @xujwet.bsky.social&@chipericson.bsky.social trapped the complex by structure-guided engineering🧪 in multiple intermediate states and imaged them by multimodal #cryoEM❄️🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
🧐Checkout our preprint revealing the stepwise firing💥 mechanism of a Contractile Injection System @xujwet.bsky.social&@chipericson.bsky.social trapped the complex by structure-guided engineering🧪 in multiple intermediate states and imaged them by multimodal #cryoEM❄️🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I’m Chloe, I am part of the Connolly lab and I study how the role of two-component systems differs between types of E.coli”
October 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I’m Chloe, I am part of the Connolly lab and I study how the role of two-component systems differs between types of E.coli”
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Hi, I’m Natalia Łoś from Dr Dave Bolam’s lab. I’m currently going into the third year of my PhD working on dietary fibre degradation by the members of the human gut microbiota 😊
Follow Natalia here : @natalia-los.bsky.social
Follow Natalia here : @natalia-los.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Hi, I’m Natalia Łoś from Dr Dave Bolam’s lab. I’m currently going into the third year of my PhD working on dietary fibre degradation by the members of the human gut microbiota 😊
Follow Natalia here : @natalia-los.bsky.social
Follow Natalia here : @natalia-los.bsky.social
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In MHD we are lucky enough to have an amazing group PhD Students and Research Associates. We’ve recently got some new representatives and would like give them the opportunity to introduce themselves here.
First up our two representatives for the PhD student community:
First up our two representatives for the PhD student community:
October 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
In MHD we are lucky enough to have an amazing group PhD Students and Research Associates. We’ve recently got some new representatives and would like give them the opportunity to introduce themselves here.
First up our two representatives for the PhD student community:
First up our two representatives for the PhD student community:
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Check it out! A proper team effort from past and present group members and a great collaboration with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social
The Staphylococcus aureus LXG-domain toxins EsxX and SAR0287 do not promote virulence in a zebrafish larval infection model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.04.680436v1
October 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Check it out! A proper team effort from past and present group members and a great collaboration with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social
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VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions
We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025
Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows
We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025
Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows
October 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions
We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025
Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows
We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025
Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows
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We think this much larger BAM enables biogenesis of outer membrane β-barrel and surface-exposed lipoprotein complexes, which are a hallmark of the Bacteroidota.
October 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
We think this much larger BAM enables biogenesis of outer membrane β-barrel and surface-exposed lipoprotein complexes, which are a hallmark of the Bacteroidota.
Reposted by Ellie Boardman
Berks and @smlea.bsky.social labs also found yet a different BAM architecture in Flavobacterium johnsoniae, another member of Bacteroidota.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A new paradigm for outer membrane protein biogenesis in the Bacteroidota - Nature
Structural and biochemical studies of the β-barrel-assembly machinery from Flavobacterium johnsoniae reveal a subunit composition and assembly that are distinct from those of the canonical Escherichia coli complex.
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Berks and @smlea.bsky.social labs also found yet a different BAM architecture in Flavobacterium johnsoniae, another member of Bacteroidota.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Our paper on the Bacteroidota BAM complex is out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! With @madejmar.bsky.social
We found that BAM in Bacteroides and Porphyromonas gingivalis has a distinct architecture from BAM in Proteobacteria.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
We found that BAM in Bacteroides and Porphyromonas gingivalis has a distinct architecture from BAM in Proteobacteria.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Structure of a distinct β-barrel assembly machinery complex in the Bacteroidota - Nature Microbiology
Structural and functional characterization of the β-barrel assembly machinery complex in Bacteroidota reveals a distinct, seven-component complex with a large extracellular domain that may enable β-barrel–surface lipoprotein complex assembly.
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Our paper on the Bacteroidota BAM complex is out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! With @madejmar.bsky.social
We found that BAM in Bacteroides and Porphyromonas gingivalis has a distinct architecture from BAM in Proteobacteria.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
We found that BAM in Bacteroides and Porphyromonas gingivalis has a distinct architecture from BAM in Proteobacteria.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Great opportunity to do a PhD with Giusy and co in Glasgow!
🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
October 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Great opportunity to do a PhD with Giusy and co in Glasgow!
Nice to see our summer student Niamh who did a great job in the lab this year supported by a Vacation Studentship! @proftracypalmer.bsky.social
Meet the Vacation Studentship 2025 grant awardees 🤩! We loved receiving these photos! When you publish with us, we have the funds to continue supporting Early Career Microbiologists in developing their knowledge and skills.
September 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Nice to see our summer student Niamh who did a great job in the lab this year supported by a Vacation Studentship! @proftracypalmer.bsky.social
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Exciting postdoc opportunity with a fab PI in beautiful Basel
Postdoc position (100%, funded) in “bacterial and jumbophage interaction”
@yuping-li.bsky.social
@biozentrum.unibas.ch
@unibas.ch
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...
#phage #jumbophage #barteria #job #research #biology #microbiology #science #basel #recruiting #career
@yuping-li.bsky.social
@biozentrum.unibas.ch
@unibas.ch
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...
#phage #jumbophage #barteria #job #research #biology #microbiology #science #basel #recruiting #career
September 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Exciting postdoc opportunity with a fab PI in beautiful Basel
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PPE51 is one of the best candidates to form a MOM transport channel. However, our data indicate that it is not that simple. PPE51 mutations in Mmarinum (4 close homologs) indeed reduce the growth on glycerol & glucose, but also highly increase permeability.. and no, we do not fully understand this
PPE51 modulates membrane integrity in Mycobacterium marinum | mBio
The impermeable outer membrane of pathogenic mycobacteria presents a major obstacle
to nutrient acquisition and antibiotic penetration. PPE51, a substrate of the ESX-5
secretion system, has previously...
journals.asm.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
PPE51 is one of the best candidates to form a MOM transport channel. However, our data indicate that it is not that simple. PPE51 mutations in Mmarinum (4 close homologs) indeed reduce the growth on glycerol & glucose, but also highly increase permeability.. and no, we do not fully understand this