Thank you @wellcometrust.bsky.social for great news last week. Will be hiring postdocs soon!
Syma Khalid
@sykhalid.bsky.social
Prof of Computational Microbiology. Oxford Biochemistry & St Anne’s College. Bacterial Cell Envelopes. LFC fan 🌈
May 2027 @sykhalid.bsky.social & @timcoulson.bsky.social creators of @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social discuss Tim's latest book Predators. For more news on our 2027 📚 Festival www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
Revisiting Yeats’ The Scholars today it really hits home for me in terms of scientific research: how much are we really ‘getting’ what we are doing/measuring/simulating? Let’s really get inside the problem, the approach and the data - beyond the publication/ conference talk- the real meaning
Please spread the word @classicsatstannes.bsky.social Henry Power St Peter's College Oxford is bringing #HomerHaunted to our 18th Festival 3-8th May 2027 Learn more by signing up to our Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
Syma Khalid@sykhalid.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat an excellent, engaging interview! Here is an updated link: www.youtube.com/live/BTMBlHV... @classicsatstannes.bsky.social @vbivar.bsky.social
Our phenomenal cast for @firebrigademusical.bsky.social this Autumn! Come see us in Southampton at @mayflower.org.uk Studios on Saturday 19th September, as part of the British Science Festival ⚛️🔭🦠👩🔬🔥 Tickets are FREE! www.mayflower.org.uk/whats-on/bri...
Great to be recording season 2 of @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social podcast. One thing that has amazed me is how many people tell me and @sykhalid.bsky.social that they listen. Latest episode, all about mites, is out. Snippet in video, full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/3Zp4....
The next episode of @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social is out! We discuss the mighty mite. @sykhalid.bsky.social
Amazing news for the The Vaccine Identity Evaluation Consortium, which includes researchers from the Department of Biochemistry and partner institutions: a £3.7 million MRC DPFS grant to advance innovative technologies for detecting substandard and falsified vaccines. Congratulations 🙌 ⬇️
£3.7 million grant to advance devices for detecting substandard and falsified vaccines
The three-year project builds on research that began during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Thoroughly enjoyed teaching at the @stannescollege.bsky.social summer school in Hong Kong. There is something very life-affirming about teaching youngsters- it’s difficult to articulate it fully. A few pics below.
Italian @vanityfair.com’s article on Nolan’s The Odyssey, featuring a reading list by @stannescollege.bsky.social JRF in Classics; Dr Francesca Beretta. @classicsatstannes.bsky.social www.vanityfair.it/article/odis...
Dopo l'Odissea di Christopher Nolan, i nove libri per ritrovare Ulisse: da Omero a Margaret Atwood e Madeline Miller
Tra classici, saggi e nuove voci, le storie che riportano al centro Ulisse, le sue donne e le domande universali che il poema di Omero continua a porci. La guida di Francesca Beretta, ricercatrice a O...
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Svegliatevi, classicisti!! La nostra ricercatrice brillante Dott. Francesca Beretta parla dell'Odissea su London One Radio. Wake up, Classicists!! Our brilliant Junior Research Fellow Dr Francesca Beretta is taking about the Odyssey on London One Radio. www.youtube.com/live/BTMBlHV...
L'Odissea: da Omero a Christopher Nolan
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What an excellent, engaging interview! Here is an updated link: www.youtube.com/live/BTMBlHV... @classicsatstannes.bsky.social @vbivar.bsky.social
L'Odissea: da Omero a Christopher Nolan
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St Anne's College, Oxford@stannescollege.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Odyssey is one of 2026's biggest films, but it was written nearly 3,000 years ago. Why does Homer's epic still resonate today? Find out with Francesca Beretta on London One radio at 17:00pm today. https://share.google/PJm7ut0W6Ag51VmQB
We’re back! @sykhalid.bsky.social and I kick off season 2 of @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social podcast discussing the human heart. We’ll be releasing new episodes monthly open.spotify.com/episode/2gE5...
The Art and Science of our Beating Hearts
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History has hatched in London. For the first time in over 360 years, pelican chicks have successfully been born in St. James’s Park. These four new arrivals mark a monumental milestone for wildlife in the heart of our capital.
More Beaks To Feed! Pelican Chicks Born At St James's Park For The First Time
Four additions to the feathered family.
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Elise Stringfellow has just completed her MSt in Classical Languages and Literature and is off to read for a Graduate Diploma in Law. Prof. Syma Khalid and Dr Francesca Beretta rock the dark glasses. Francesca leaves us after 2 wonderful years for a Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies.
Glycoheterogeneity is an aspects of glycobiology that most would class into a category between difficult and intolerable, but @benschulz.bsky.social and us love it! So we wrote a whole review in Current Opinion in Structural Biology on it 🧵1/8 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.sb...
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 5mo agoA functional democracy depends on its participants being able to understand the operations of their government. In honor of the 250th anniversary of the US's founding, we've published five essays about the interpretative skills required of participants in a democracy. style.mla.org/the-mla-demo...
Back from Japan! Absolutely loved it. Landed an hour ago - have to give a 2 hour lecture tomorrow morning :( #badplanning
And Simon Foster too! Whoop for microbiology. A bit congratulations to Simon
Congratulations to Colin and @robklose.bsky.social. Not only excellent scientists, but also good colleagues and friends. Delighted for both of them.
Oxford Biochemistry @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social · 5mo agoToday we celebrate our colleagues Colin Kleanthous and Rob Klose as they join the Fellowship of the Royal Society, one of the highest honours in the scientific world, in recognition of their impactful contributions to knowledge. Congratulations! 👏 👏 👏 Read more ⬇️
Congratulations to Arsenal - thoroughly deserved (typed through gritted teeth)
Really fun multidisciplinary project with Enrique (Fadri) Martinez-Perez’s lab. Simulations by Punam Rattu, who did her PhD with me at @unisouthampton.bsky.social and is now in @philbiggin.bsky.social’s group here at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two structurally mobile regions control the conformation and function of metamorphic meiotic HORMAD proteins - Nature Communications
Metamorphic HORMA-domain proteins are essential components of meiotic chromosomes required for fertility. Here, the authors show that meiotic HORMADs contain a flexible loop region that is essential f...
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OXFORDSHIRE PEOPLE! Come to our FREE family physics singalong workshops! Or get £5 tickets for our concert of @firebrigademusical.bsky.social at an ACTUAL FIRE STATION (bring picnics!) All at GAP Festival in Goring & Streatley on Saturday 20th June... pls share share share! thegapfestival.org
Now out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Assembly of two functionally-distinct protein import complexes in the outer membrane of plant chloroplasts - Nature Communications
Chloroplasts import thousands of nucleus-encoded proteins via multiprotein translocons. The authors elucidate the assembly and molecular architecture of the outer-membrane TOC translocon (the import “...
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Jarvis Lab@pauljarvislab.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur new study characterises the assembly of two functionally distinct chloroplast protein import complexes (TOC-P and TOC-N) in the outer membrane of plant chloroplasts. Huge thanks to @Ivan Ahel's lab and @sykhalid.bsky.social's lab, for a fantastic collaboration! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...