Kate Beckham
@kshbeckham.bsky.social
Royal Society University Research Fellow | NUAcT Fellow @ Newcastle University @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social
Investigating mycobacterial transport systems
#structuralbiology #microbiology
Instagram @kshbeckham
Investigating mycobacterial transport systems
#structuralbiology #microbiology
Instagram @kshbeckham
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Kate Beckham
@kshbeckham.bsky.social
· Sep 22
Now we are on Bluesky, over the next couple of days we would like to introduce some of the MHD groups on Bluesky who you can follow for more research updates. Or check out our handy MHD starter pack 😀
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Keep up to date with all the latest from the MHD theme ✨
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We are delighted to share a stunning short/long chain acyl-CoA carboxylase complex with a total of 16 subunits (8 x AccA3, 2 x AccD4, 4 x AccD5, 2 x AccE5). It hosts two related carboxylate transferase subunits (AccD4, AccD5). Our story is now on www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.15.688623v1
Architecture of an asymmetric mycobacterial short chain/long chain acyl-CoA carboxylase
Endogenous extraction has revealed a mycobacterial hybrid acyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) complex exhibiting distinct long-chain (LC) and short-chain (LC) acyl-CoA carboxyl transferase (CT) activities. ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We are delighted to share a stunning short/long chain acyl-CoA carboxylase complex with a total of 16 subunits (8 x AccA3, 2 x AccD4, 4 x AccD5, 2 x AccE5). It hosts two related carboxylate transferase subunits (AccD4, AccD5). Our story is now on www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.15.688623v1
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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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🚨 PhD opportunity! 🚨
Join us at St Andrews to study how multiple prophages shape bacterial behaviour & AMR.
Co-supervised with @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social
This is a competition-based EASTBIO PhD.
Full details and the application link are in the advert 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Join us at St Andrews to study how multiple prophages shape bacterial behaviour & AMR.
Co-supervised with @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social
This is a competition-based EASTBIO PhD.
Full details and the application link are in the advert 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO: When Phages Collide: Understanding How Multiple Prophages Shape Bacterial Behaviour at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: When Phages Collide: Understanding How Multiple Prophages Shape Bacterial Behaviour at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🚨 PhD opportunity! 🚨
Join us at St Andrews to study how multiple prophages shape bacterial behaviour & AMR.
Co-supervised with @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social
This is a competition-based EASTBIO PhD.
Full details and the application link are in the advert 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Join us at St Andrews to study how multiple prophages shape bacterial behaviour & AMR.
Co-supervised with @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social
This is a competition-based EASTBIO PhD.
Full details and the application link are in the advert 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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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-...
Reposted by Kate Beckham
Architecture of an asymmetric mycobacterial short chain/long chain acyl-CoA carboxylase https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.15.688623v1
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Architecture of an asymmetric mycobacterial short chain/long chain acyl-CoA carboxylase https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.15.688623v1
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PhD opportunity in the lab of a young PI who’s simply going stratospheric, on using #phage for water treatment. What’s not to like? You can’t miss this chance.
#microsky #phagesky
#microsky #phagesky
🚨 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 3:46 PM
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‘The latest surveillance data found that the number of antibiotic-resistant infections in 2024 equated to an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases a week.’
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Deaths linked to antibiotic-resistant superbugs rose 17% in England in 2024
Data also shows an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases of antibiotic-resistant infections a week last year
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
‘The latest surveillance data found that the number of antibiotic-resistant infections in 2024 equated to an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases a week.’
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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🚨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 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🚨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
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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 9:57 AM
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....
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Second talk was from Prof. Frank Sargent with an interesting talk on TXSS. Another set of brilliant talks from the #dreamtheme, with plenty of further reading, thanks to speakers, @dave-bolam.bsky.social chairing and the other organisers from the theme!
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Second talk was from Prof. Frank Sargent with an interesting talk on TXSS. Another set of brilliant talks from the #dreamtheme, with plenty of further reading, thanks to speakers, @dave-bolam.bsky.social chairing and the other organisers from the theme!
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Two great seminars this week 👏🏻
Great to attend @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social seminar series yday, 1st talk from Kathleen of @jmarlesw.bsky.social lab with a brilliant Structural Biology 101 from an ÄKTA aficionado for the angstrom averse, to explain the structure discovery pipeline and what’s making structural biologists so sad.
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Two great seminars this week 👏🏻
Very nice work :)
I am excited to share our new preprint on our structural and biochemical analyses of human methionine synthase (MTR). This was the hard work of Douglas Ferreira who carried out this research as a significant part of his PhD. #CryoEM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Structural insights into cobalamin loading and reactivation of human methionine synthase
Human methionine synthase (MTR) is an essential enzyme of one carbon metabolism. Consisting of a catalytic N-half and a cobalamin binding C-half, MTR utilises this intricate organometallic cofactor in...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Very nice work :)
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Thinking about your first steps to independent research? We'd love to hear from you. More details below, or contact me directly for details - reposts appreciated!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Biomolecular Science Fellowship Day - St Andrews, Fife (GB) job with UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | 12848597
The School of Biology at the University of St Andrews is inviting applications from outstanding visionary Research Fellow and Future Leader candida...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thinking about your first steps to independent research? We'd love to hear from you. More details below, or contact me directly for details - reposts appreciated!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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SWBio PhD studentships available- join my lab to investigate phage structure with @btemperton.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ytdft9bj
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November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
SWBio PhD studentships available- join my lab to investigate phage structure with @btemperton.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ytdft9bj
Thanks to all of the organisers. It was a great meeting, again. Happy to hear it will be back in Newcastle again next year.
Great end to the meeting. Congratulations to all of the talk and poster prize winners. Looking forward to seeing you all again next year 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Thanks to all of the organisers. It was a great meeting, again. Happy to hear it will be back in Newcastle again next year.
So much exciting structural biology on show 😃
Lots of great posters at this year’s meeting 👏🏻
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
So much exciting structural biology on show 😃
Beautiful work from @augustsilale.bsky.social 🤩 @nusbf.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Beautiful work from @augustsilale.bsky.social 🤩 @nusbf.bsky.social
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Another exciting day in Newcastle for structural biology! The CCP4 Structural Biology Meeting 2025 is here!
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Another exciting day in Newcastle for structural biology! The CCP4 Structural Biology Meeting 2025 is here!
Wow, really impressive work 🤩
Starting the day with our keynote speaker Prof Harry Low @lowlab.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Wow, really impressive work 🤩
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Back in the toon to celebrate the launch of the Tundra! Congratulations to everyone involved in making this possible 👏
#NorthernEye #cryoEM @nusbf.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social
#NorthernEye #cryoEM @nusbf.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Back in the toon to celebrate the launch of the Tundra! Congratulations to everyone involved in making this possible 👏
#NorthernEye #cryoEM @nusbf.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social
#NorthernEye #cryoEM @nusbf.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social
Lots of exciting developments to understand the structure of membrane protein in its native environment
Keynote lecture from @stemuench.bsky.social giving us a historical perspective of EM and the exciting challenges left to explore
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Lots of exciting developments to understand the structure of membrane protein in its native environment
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Structural and functional analysis of drug resistance in tuberculosis via a novel MmpL3 binding site. Supervised by @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social and @kshbeckham.bsky.social.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Structural and Functional Analysis of Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis via a Novel MmpL3 Binding Site at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Structural and Functional Analysis of Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis via a Novel MmpL3 Binding Site at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD....
www.findaphd.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Structural and functional analysis of drug resistance in tuberculosis via a novel MmpL3 binding site. Supervised by @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social and @kshbeckham.bsky.social.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Want to work within a multidisciplinary group to combat antifungal resistance in Candida spp? Fully-funded MRC PhD studentship in collaboration with @nclfungalgroup.bsky.social and Francesco Del Carratore on the mode of action of a new class of antifungal drugs. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Targeting thioredoxin reductase to combat antifungal resistance in Candida spp. at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Targeting thioredoxin reductase to combat antifungal resistance in Candida spp. at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Want to work within a multidisciplinary group to combat antifungal resistance in Candida spp? Fully-funded MRC PhD studentship in collaboration with @nclfungalgroup.bsky.social and Francesco Del Carratore on the mode of action of a new class of antifungal drugs. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Interested in a PhD at the intersection of biophysics and microbiology?
Apply for this MRC-funded opportunity at Newcastle University to do cutting-edge microscopy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis! 🔬🦠
Closing 4 Dec!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Apply for this MRC-funded opportunity at Newcastle University to do cutting-edge microscopy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis! 🔬🦠
Closing 4 Dec!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Molecular mechanism of slow growth and antibiotic tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using single-molecule microscopy at Newcastle University on FindAPhD....
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Molecular mechanism of slow growth and antibiotic tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using single-molecule microscopy at Newcastle Universit...
www.findaphd.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Interested in a PhD at the intersection of biophysics and microbiology?
Apply for this MRC-funded opportunity at Newcastle University to do cutting-edge microscopy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis! 🔬🦠
Closing 4 Dec!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Apply for this MRC-funded opportunity at Newcastle University to do cutting-edge microscopy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis! 🔬🦠
Closing 4 Dec!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...