Bacterial chromosome biology, gene expression, pathogenicity... and football. @graingerlab.bsky.social

Birmingham, UK
@danielabarilla.bsky.social kicking off #BioPhyChrom2025 - a fantastic turn out too...
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Talk slots full but we can take late breaking poster abstracts until August 7th. Hope to see you in York to hear about your chromosome story 🧬🦠🧫 eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
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If you're interested in chromosome biology (DNA folding, gene regulation, replication, polymer modelling and more) we're organising the below this autumn. It'd be great to see you there. Please share if you can. :-)
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Glad the weather is nice... here's me on graduation day exactly 25 years ago 😮
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Big congrats and thank you to Dr. @ali_trigg - a tough pandemic impacted PhD but you got there in the end through hard work and perseverance.
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Well done @ali_trigg who's successfully navigated her PhD defence with @RuaMicro and @JessicaMABlair 🥳🍾🧪🧬
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Amazed this is being publicised in this way. I imagine scammers everywhere are now getting ready to send fake messages purporting to be one of the 70,000 below.
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Last session of #molmicro2022 underway with our very own @FrickelLab talking about toxoplasma gondii
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Go Fatema! One for the nucleoid fans at #molmicro2022
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Big thanks to all of our poster presenters and industry sponsors for bringing the great hall to life #molmicro2022
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Mercy Kimani with the last one before we head in to flash talks and posters...
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Federico Antoniciellio talking about regulatory switches in helicobacter
Fact of the day for #molmicro2022... talks are being held in the Sir Edward Elgar concert hall. Elgar was a big @Wolves fan and would cycle 40 miles each way to watch games at Molineux in the late 1800's
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Angelika Gründling doing her thing on c-di-AMP #molmicro2022
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.@Alex_Scott343 talking about cell envelope organisation and reactive oxygen species... and he's looking for a post-doc position if anyone has an opening #molmicro2022
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Now @Natalie_Otaibi presenting on flagellar structures determined by cryoEM
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Afternoon session at #molmicro2022 underway
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Last #molmicro2022 talk before lunch Frederico D'Agostino on sRNAs in helicobacter
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#molmicro2022 next speaker @emilywarmanj telling us about her discovery of widespread bidirectional promoters in prokaryotes
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#molmicro2022 session 2 kicking off with Tom Santangelo reminding us that prokaryotes and bacteria are not synonyms #archaea
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Next up at #molmicro2022 Nusrat Abedin from @UniofNottingham talking about chronic wound infections...
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Next up we have @luke_allsopp talking about regulation of T6SS in pseudomonas
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...and we're off with #molmicro2022 @Biolluminator starting the talks with a story about quorum sensing and metabolism in vibrios.
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Feel a bit sorry for the old bull
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Congrats Dr Lucas Walker aka @lucas_walker92 ! 🍾🎉🥳 graduating today... Always bitter sweet for me, happy to see people succeed but sad to see them go.
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We just extended our early bird deadline by ONE WEEK. Really good uptake for the meeting so far (thanks everyone). You can register here shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-…
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We got a fancy new graphic for our meeting in the autumn from @MolMicroEditors Early bird booking discount until May 13th. Loads of opportunities to speak or present a poster. Would much appreciate you all spreading the word. shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-… birmingham.ac.uk/research/mi…
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Should I tell them they got the spelling wrong?
This September, after much rearranging, @IMIBirmingham will be hosting the 7th Mol Micro conference. Lot's off opportunities for students/post-docs to present and a reduced registration fee until May 13th 🧫🦠🧬🧪 You can register here shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-…
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Planned tasks for the day vs email
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Pretty sure I already do to much of that 😀 though it's normally along these lines... remember asking me what jungle was at the GRC? Well, this is it 👇 piped.video/watch?v=Opkdc8e4…
Replying to @Bryce_Nickels
Yeah, I guess they are. Chaz died not many years ago... but you wont stop talking! piped.video/qGNojF9qKS0
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Oh yeah, they've been going for many years and have now reached the status of national treasures. I remember this very clearly from my teens piped.video/JBuYFyXWYm0
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The more I listen the more I think Vic Reeves club singer style (this will not translate across the pond) piped.video/watch?v=3i2xnMnG…
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Replying to @Bryce_Nickels
Ironic that I work here (which in my imagination looks like New Jersey) whilst you're living it up in the English countryside.
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But when's somebody gonna paint Biosciences?? I feel we're overlooked. As a bonus, the artist would only need a very limited colour palette.
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How did Piers Corbyn manage to talk Michael McIntyre into this?
Hang on, this is #Omicron, right?
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Each member of ABBA reminds me of a climbing wall with a different level of difficulty.
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Thank you and congratulations to @tom_guest who successfully defended his thesis today. A model PhD student who's been a pleasure to have in the lab. Good luck in your new position with @CavaLab_MIMS starting next week 🥳🥂🎉
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Another week closer to freedom... time to unwind for the weekend. Delicious beer courtesy of @BanzhafLab & tunes courtesy of '94. Have a good one all 😎
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I've been indulging my love of vinyl a lot over lockdown... gives me something to look forward to at the weekend. A few of this weeks tunes courtesy of @discworldSE8 are about to hit the decks...
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we'd see this little guy a lot too...
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Right Said Fred trending - but there's only one for me piped.video/watch?v=Ge_4SlJW…
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I always imagine hosting an impromptu dinner parties with whoever is trending on Twitter... Chris Whitty, Borat and Darren Grimes should be interesting.
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Replying to @pathogenomenick
It can happen, but the result is catastrophic 😉
Replying to @MikeyJ
Every time I try to use "the system"
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Every time this add pops up in Twitter I think it's @MikeyJ
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We're hosting the 7th Molecular Microbiology conference @IMIBirmingham in September 2021. Speakers confirmed so far are...
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First pint is... a Lagunitas IPA cheers 🍻
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