The last two PhD students where I am the primary supervisor had their theses passed this week - congratulations Drs Alicia Quinn and Georgia Lloyd. Both excellent students would be awesome postdocs #sorghum #cycads #SpecialisedMetabolites

After coffee at #ISBA2025 - Prof Paul Jensen (SIO, UCSD) talking about Actinobacterial compounds are their ecological functions in marine sediments #specialisedmetabolites #chemicalecology #naturalproducts

After lunch at #ISBA2025: Keynote talk from Prof @lonegram.bsky.social (DTU) on ‘Tropodithietic acid - a multifunctional bacterial secondary metabolite’ #naturalproducts #specialisedmetabolites

Brilliant talk by PhD student Lisa Vader (Weber group, DTU) from our @magicmolfun.bsky.social network talking about her work on predicting terpene BGCs with @antismash.bsky.social - standing room only #ISBA2025 #naturalproducts #specialisedmetabolites

Next at #ISBA2025 Eric Helfrich on AI based expansion of natural product biosynthetic space #naturalproducts #specialisedmetabolites #actinomycetes

Awesome to see Duncan lab alumni Dr Jonathan Parra @jonathanparra.bsky.social present the work from his group at #ISBA2035 in the Netherlands ‘A beach microbiome: on the possible ecological role of actinomycetes in a turtle nesting area’ 🐢 🇨🇷 #puravida #acinomycetes #specialisedmetabolites