I am so excited to share our new findings with you! We provide the structural evidence for a direct protein-to-DNA information pathway, showing how a bacterial enzyme 'reads' its own structure to 'write' DNA. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I love this concept -- plasmid to Cryo structure in a day!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🌱🚨 Funded PhD for UK students 🇬🇧🌿
Take a look at this Plant BioDesign Doctoral Training Program.
Come work with me and @michaelwebster.bsky.social to study plant rubiscos. High throughput biochem at Cambridge and Cryo-EM techniques at the John Innes Centre.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬
annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)
Large group of people gathered together at the LMB
25 years on from publishing the structure of the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit, alumni, collaborators & friends of Venki Ramakrishnan’s group joined us for a symposium celebrating the legacy of this work.
Read about the event and find photos here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/25-years-of-...
#LMBNews
Applications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme
This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social.
🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025
www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
Chris Russo and Anastasiia Gusach have developed a new method to prepare #cryoEM samples that avoids protein damage during freezing
Read more: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/a-new-method...
#LMBResearch
Start independent research at the JIC with us 👇.
Really interested in finding those with an interest in structural biology and biochemistry of plants and microbes.
Please do get in touch by email if you'd like to know more 👍
@UniBasel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...
Brilliant insight on something that takes a lot of patience to discover, thanks for sharing Oli.
NEWS - Talented early-career researcher receives major @wellcometrust.bsky.social funding
The innovative research project of JIC early-career plant scientist, Dr @miguelmontez.bsky.social, has attracted a prestigious funding award from a global health charity.
www.jic.ac.uk/news/talente...
Upper - cryo-EM reconstruction of stomatin AQP1 complex. Lower - reconstruction of stomatin-UT-B complex.
Happy to share a new preprint from the Clarke & Vallese (@fravallese.bsky.social) labs reporting #cryoem structures of two RBC stomatin complexes – with AQP1 & UT-B - continuing the SPFH theme from our recent vault preprint! This was a fun one and has been cooking for a while - read on for more! ⬇️
👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk
VACANCY - We’re currently hiring into two new senior roles:
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: okt.to/tqoasR
🗓️ Closing date: 25 August 2025
·An Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: okt.to/fDV0ha
🗓️ Closing date: 5 September 2025
VACANCY - We're looking for a Research Software Engineer to join the Informatics Platform, to solve novel challenges and provide support in bioinformatics and scientific computing.
okt.to/gZ487w
Closing date - 8 September 2025
Salary - £37,500 to £45,350
Contract - Full-time until 30 March 2027
VACANCY - We’re recruiting for a visionary group leader to lead fundamental research on Discovery Plant Science as part of our vibrant research community
Successful candidate will be offered a six-year tenure-track position with the opportunity to apply for tenure:
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
PRESS RELEASE - Major funding boost to bring world leading researchers to the John Innes Centre
We have been awarded an equal share of the new £54 million Global Talent Fund, to attract and support leading researchers and their teams to relocate to the UK:
www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...
VACANCY - We’re seeking an Optical Microscopy Support Specialist to join our Bioimaging Platform, to help train users on light microscopes, collaborate on imaging projects and provide technical support.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/op...
Closing date - 11 August 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite
We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
🗓️ Closes 25 August
Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
🗓️ Closes 5 September
🚨 New @biorxivpreprint alert! 🚨
We are thrilled to share our latest findings—building on our earlier work on suppressors of helper NLRs of the NRC family—a Phytophthora infestans L-shaped effector captures resistosome assembly intermediates of tomato NRC3!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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GROUP LEADER VACANCY
JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.
If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
Norwich has a great structural biology community, join us :)
New work from Matti Turtola showing that mRNA poly(A) tail length is controlled by a kinetic ruler. A real pleasure to work with him!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
That's a fancy video. I was certainly surprised to see the Very Important Protein in Plants discovered in a tropical jungle🌴😅. It's pure marketing ofc (The Krios: Now in Black), but I do like the messaging about discovering the molecular world all around us-- including plants and cyanobacteria🧪🧶🧬🔬🌾🌊
New cryo-EM/ET story - a brilliant collaboration with Sergey Melnikov's lab in Newcastle @sergeymelnikov.bsky.social and Stefan Pfeffer's lab in Heidelberg @pfeffercryolab.bsky.social. Great work in particular by Karla Helena-Bueno and @sophiekopetschke.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The final version of our work on the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is now online in @science.org 🎉
You can find the full story here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@verenaresch.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the cover and animation, she really brought it to life 👩🎨
Been thinking about creating a collection of good protein structure figures, as inspiration for my own work.
#1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@kamounlab.bsky.social
#2 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Nice comparison of structures within the context of a larger complex
