🧫💊 To all ECRs working in the natural product field 🍃🍄

Join us at @warwickuni.bsky.social for #CBNP19!

The conference will take place on 2-3 July 2026.

Info and registration: tinyurl.com/4tdpzr5e

Sponsored by @ukri.org, @microbesng.bsky.social and @natprodreports.rsc.org

And that’s a wrap for this year!

Very happy to hear so many cool stories from ECRs who work on natural products at the #CBNP18 at @warwickuniucu.bsky.social

Thank you once again to @ukri.org @natprodreports.rsc.org RSC CBBG and @microbesng.bsky.social for sponsoring the event.

I had a brilliant time at #CBNP18 with @microbesng.bsky.social

Thank you @albertilab.bsky.social for inviting us & modelling fungi tattoos to celebrate our FREE fungal DNA extractions

@microkim.bsky.social @pannyinthelab.bsky.social @warwicklifesci.bsky.social
#MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #Fungi

The Chemical Biology of Natural Products Symposium logo (red background, CBNP in white capital letters and XVIII in orange, with the model of a protein) is showing on two small tv screens and from a white projector screen. They are having from the grey concrete wall on an auditorium.

Good to reconnect with ECRs involved in understanding natural products pathways at #CBNP18 organised by @albertilab.bsky.social and Matt Jenner @rsc-cbbg.bsky.social

🚨 Call for abstracts for the #CBNP18 🚨

We have extended abstract submission for oral presentations until this Sunday, 1st of June!

If you work in the natural product field, we would love to see your work submitted at warwick.ac.uk/naturalprodu...

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Abstracts for presentation at #CBNP18 from all natural product ECRs are still welcome!

Submit yours here: tinyurl.com/3pn3bdak by the 26th May for talks or the 8th June for posters.

Thank you to our sponsors @ukri.org @natprodreports.rsc.org @RSC_CBBG @microbesng.bsky.social

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🚨 Keynote speakers announcement 🚨

Happy to share that the keynote seminars of the #CBNP18 will be delivered by Dr. Anna Vagstad (ETH Zürich) and Dr. Nico Sbaraini Oliveira (University of Western Australia).

Looking forward to hearing about their excellent work in the natural product field!

🚨 We are HIRING 🚨

If you are looking for a technical post and have microbiology or molecular biology (DNA / RNA) lab experience check out our job advert 👀

We are based in Birmingham and it's a great place to work!

Please share 💙

#MicroSky #LabJobs #JobFairy #JoinOurTeam

Making the most of the good weather with our Alberti lab social playing frisbee golf today 🥏🌳☀️

It has been a surprisingly quick 4 years, which culminated in passing my PhD viva today! Thank you to my supervisors Antonia @antoniasagona.bsky.social, Fabrizio @albertilab.bsky.social and my lab mates for their support. And to Lona and Andy for being my examiners.

Congrats again on passing your viva @mickey-tad.bsky.social!

Many congratulations to Mickey @mickey-tad.bsky.social for successfully defending his viva today!! My warmest thanks to Andy @milja001.bsky.social and Lona Alkhalaf for being his examiners and to @nezislab.bsky.social for serving as Exam Advisor! @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @albertilab.bsky.social

One-Two Punch: Phage-Antibiotic Synergy Observed against Staphylococcus aureus by Combining Pleurotin and Phage K The surge in antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections has been deemed a major public health concern. There is an urgent need for novel antimicrobial therapies, chemical and nonantibiotic. The basidiomycota-derived, secondary metabolite pleurotin has been shown to be effective against Gram-positive bacteria, while bacteriophages could be the ultimate nonantibiotic alternative. In this study, the combination of pleurotin and phage K targeting S. aureus was examined. Pleurotin was isolated from the basidiomycota fungus Hohenbuehelia grisea. The cytotoxicity of pleurotin was assessed in two human cell lines in comparison to pleuromutilin, vancomycin, and phage K. The antibiotics were then tested independently or in combination with phage K against two S. aureus strains. Cytotoxicity of pleurotin in human cells was comparable to vancomycin and pleuromutilin. Results suggest that adding phage K has a synergistic effect and can lower the MIC for pleurotin, pleuromutilin, and vancomycin. This demonstrates that pleurotin could be a viable antistaphylococcal drug.

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New paper from the lab! Thanks to Fabrizio Alberti and his lab for the great collaboration and to Michael Tadesse for all his hard work!! Thanks @warwicklifesci.bsky.social, MIBTP and BBSRC for funding!

Looking forward to the #ECFG18 in Helsinki, 9-11 March 2027. Thanks to the Dublin organizers for #ECFG17

🚨🦠🧬Working in the field of Natural Products Chemistry and Biology?🧪🍃🚨

Registration and abstract submission for the #CBNP18 are open! warwick.ac.uk/naturalprodu...

Look forward to seeing you at Warwick University on 26-27 June!

Supported by @ukri.org, @RSC_CBBG and @natprodreports.bsky.social