A cracking weekend in Annecy with a whole load of old friends and their families. Good times.

Even a >3 h delay to my flight back from Geneva can’t dampen my spirits.

On Saturday, we gathered two teams from IBB-PAS to run the Relay Marathon #Ekiden in Warsaw. It was a good day for running, but it made for a sore Sunday (for me, at least). Thanks to all of our runners for a great team effort!

Finally, we're recruiting!
If you'd like to do a PhD using NMR structures to study the dynamics of a metalloenzyme, then you're in luck! Come to Warsaw for this project, in collaboration with Simone Ciofi-Baffoni's group at CERM, Florence: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...

Another manuscript, with Paola Massari's group at Tufts, is now on BioRXiv. We characterised the copper storage protein from Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which is important in its periplasmic copper homeostasis but is also a potential vaccine candidate: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Florence never fails to take your breath away

A great week at the IPNC conference in Florence. Learned a lot about this interesting group of bacteria which will help in our forthcoming project, and nice to meet a whole new community of researchers.

This weekend, my parents came to visit me in Warsaw, so I gave them a tour of the lab. Turns out it was the first time they'd visited any of my labs, which is weird. But I think they're now convinced that I really do have a proper job 🤷‍♂️

Looking for a postdoc position? Want to apply your biochemistry skills to answer interesting evolutionary questions of how metalloenzymes evolve? Join my growing team in Warsaw at @IBBPAS. We're seeking a talented new postdoc to work on the superoxide dismutases.
ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...

Today was a good day. It began with a short run with K in Łazienki Park on a bracing December morning, in support of Santa’s helpers. They need all the help they can get, they have a lot of work to do at this time of year.

Ok, which one of you did this?

I have a PhD position available in my group, to start in March 2025. If you have a keen interest in biochemistry and would like to study an exciting and novel class of copper proteins (aka weird Cu tubes) from bacteria, I'd love to hear from you.
You should apply here: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...

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Nice weekend in the UK visiting the Big Smoke

Two leaving presents from my former colleagues in Newcastle now hang on the wall of my office in Warsaw ❤️