ARC DECRA fellow in microbiology | Using functional genomics to understand how bacteria make decisions | Klebsiella, Acinetobacter | Views my own
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Francesca Short retweeted
Would you like to watch Prof. Chris Greening @greeninglab talk about 'Profiling environmental persistence and transmission of pathogens', then come along to our One Health Night on Wednesday 16 October 2024! trybooking.com/CWBXL
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#PhD Scholarship available to join the @LithgowLab @MACSYS to work on bacterial cell envelopes. The funding requires being local (Aus or NZ) students. If you know bacterial cell biology and love a bit of biochemistry with your microbiology, contact [email protected]
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In our new paper at Cell (@CellCellPress), we reveal secrets of how the third form of life, archaea, make energy. We uncover new lineages of hydrogen-using enzymes, both minimal and complex. These help archaea thrive in all sorts of extreme environments. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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A wonderful 4 year collaboration with Hanah Margalit & her excellent team on #sRNAs, adding another layer of control to #capsule regulation in #hvKp. academic.oup.com/nar/advance… @KJwushuguy @TrevorLithgow
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Our huge new preprint is out, the sequel to our Huc paper.
1. Isolation of enzyme that consumes carbon monoxide from air
2. Discovery of quinone extraction as a new mechanism of energy coupling
3. Determination of structural basis of these activities
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Come join us in Durham for a postdoc! We have a three-year funded position on the biochemistry of phage defence, focussing on Bacteriophage Exclusion (BREX) systems. All application details here: tinyurl.com/mvwtjvxf
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Huge congratulations to @MonashBDI's Prof Chris Greening @greeninglab on the #PMPrizes 2023 Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year! See more⬇️
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🏆 Congratulations Professor Chris Greening (@greeninglab) of Monash University (@MonashUni) for receiving the 2023 Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year.
#PMPrizes
Our study of disinfectant mechanisms and antibiotic antagonism is out today in Nature Micro! @PaulsenLab @flamycain @BRaTlab @LipingLiMicrobe @StephanieN @JulianParkhill nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
Overall this work and the work of many others suggests we should be much more careful with our disinfectants than we currently are.
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Please RT - I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Monash Micro. 2-year position working using functional genomics + mol micro to understand how Klebsiella pneumoniae controls its virulence. Email me for more info :)
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Francesca Short retweeted
Very excited to share our new preprint! #IDtwitter #AMR #plasmids After battling against an endemic carbapenemase (IMP-4) for almost two decades, we wanted to understand how it was able to persist and spread. Turns out that it was not simple... (1/9)
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Our paper showing hydrogen is an important energy source in the deep, vast oceans is now published in Nature Microbiology (@NatureMicrobiol). The culmination of a five-year effort featuring insights from local and global waters and pure cultures. 1/3 nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
Huge congrats to Charles Nunez, whose Honours research is now published as his first, first-author paper! Charles did some challenging experiments to find out whether capsule or biofilm formation is more important for survival of hospital stresses.
New @BiofilmJournal publication from Yue Qu, @DrFranShort and colleagues provides a comprehensive comparison of biofilm formation and capsule production for bacterial survival on hospital surfaces
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Short answer: biofilm makes a MUCH bigger difference to survival, but the capsule still holds some surprises (doesn't it always!).
Thanks to co-supervisor Yue Qu, @XeniaKostoulias , @AntonPeleg , and everyone in the department for supporting our Honours students.