Fungal natural products Heterologous production: fast, easy, cheap. Introducing BLACK YEASTS 🍄 Fast to engineer, capable of expressing complex fungal biosynthetic pathways, and ready to accelerate natural product discovery. Check the paper 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SyntheticBiology #fung

Black yeasts are efficient heterologous hosts for the production of a wide range of fungal polyketides - Nature Chemical Biology

Here, the authors establish and validate two black yeasts as heterologous hosts for fungal polyketide discovery and production, combining the metabolic robustness of filamentous Aspergillus species wi...

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I have several open Postdoc and Research assistant positions at BRIGHT, Technical University of Denmark. Looking for candidates with a background in Biotechnology, Biology or a similar field. Links to positions below. Please share.

Today we celebrated the official launch of BRIGHT, a research program funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation at DTU. Many had to join online due to the snow, but luckily our Minister for Higher Education and Science, @christinaegelund.bsky.social was able to join along with many others 💚

NEW: In a world first, researchers from @oxengsci.bsky.social have engineered quantum behaviour inside proteins. The breakthrough could lead to new medical technologies, including tracking genes and molecules inside living cells. Find out more ⬇️

Oxford team engineer quantum-enabled proteins, opening a new frontier

In a world first, a research team led by the University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science has shown it is possible to engineer a quantum mechanical process inside proteins, opening the

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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Great speech from Mark Carney today in Davos. Let's stand together and build a more just and sustainable World for the mutual benefit of us all 💚 Link to Full speech here. www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...

Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

Call is open!

Alex Loy@loyteam.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📢 20 postdoctoral positions (full-time, 4 years) for outstanding female scientists 👩‍🔬 🔬 @univie.ac.at The E-STEEM programme call opens January 7th, 2026 and closes March 3rd, 2026. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... I participate as a host...

Dear colleagues and #expatinDenmark This Saturday there are a number of peaceful demonstrations in Denmark for support of Greenland. In Copenhagen we meet at Rådhuspladsen at 12:00 and walk together to the American embassy. Hope to see many of you there ❤️ www.facebook.com/events/12052...

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Dear international colleagues in Denmark. Remember that many of you can also vote in the upcoming election the 18th of November. I don't care what you vote, but please consider voting 💚

Martin Lidegaard@martinlidegaard.radikale.dk · 12mo ago

This election is also yours #dkpol

1/3 To those interested in microbial iron & metal transport: In 1992, the late JB Neilands (UCB), the pioneer in the study of Fe transport entrusted me with his collection of purified siderophores from a wide range of microbes—many of them unique chemical species that can no longer be reproduced

Bacteria in hot springs can move against fast water flow without flagella. Instead, they use pili like grappling hooks to crawl upstream, revealing a surprising survival strategy in extreme environments. isme-microbes.org/hot-spring-b... #microbes #bacterialmotility #extremophiles #hotsprings

Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91 go.nature.com/46QHIZk

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

Nature - The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

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Jane Goodall, pioneering chimpanzee zoologist who revealed the animals’ links to humans, dies aged 91 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Jane Goodall, much-loved pioneering chimpanzee expert, dies aged 91

Award-winning primatologist who established world’s longest-running chimp study still lectured on conservation and climate even over age of 91

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En "lille" overset detalje Ved ikke om jeg nogensinde vil kunne få et normaliseret forhold til de fleste Israelere igen (medmindre de går igennem deradikalisering), men det bliver da kun sværere, hvis ingen af dem der bla. har været med til at sulte folk ihjel bliver dømt for deres forbrydelser 💔🕊️

Really excited to share my first paper from the Whitney lab, alongside an amazing grad student, Polina. Here we identify a chaperone family required for the folding of a central domain of T7SS toxins, and solve the structure of the chaperone-toxin complex. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A widespread family of molecular chaperones promotes the intracellular stability of type VIIb secretion system–exported toxins | PNAS

To survive in highly competitive environments, bacteria use specialized secretion systems to deliver antibacterial toxins into neighboring cells, t...

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Please repost! Postdoc in adaptive laboratory evolution and C1 synthetic metabolism! Location: DTU Biosustain 🦠🧬🔬 Starting in 01/2026! Fell free to reach out if you have questions! efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

New York Times article discusses @nature.com paper by our Rune Dietz, Christian Sonne, and others at @au.dk and the University of Copenhagen 🌐🐋🧪🌏 @newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social #Science #Research #impact #Mercury #Arcticchange

Study Shows Mercury Levels in Arctic Wildlife Could Rise for Centuries

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#Synthetic C1 #metabolism in #Pseudomonas putida enables strict formatotrophy and methylotrophy via the reductive glycine pathway—led by J. Turlin, M. G. Alván, @oscarpuiggene.bsky.social w/@stefanodonati.bsky.social & @sebwenk.bsky.social @mbio.bsky.social #SynBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Synthetic C1 metabolism in Pseudomonas putida enables strict formatotrophy and methylotrophy via the reductive glycine pathway | mBio

Soluble C1 feedstocks, such as formate and methanol, have gained attention as sustainable substrates for biotechnology, with the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on sugar-based resources. Despite their promise, the metabolic ...

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1/3 Today is #worldorangutanday so here some pictures of these magnificent great apes from when we visited Borneo/Kalimantan in 2018. Orangutan means 'people of the forest' (orang=person; hutan=forest), and this critically endangered species is one of humans closest relatives.

1/ 🚨 New preprint! We've developed a robust IDMS-based LC-MS/MS workflow for high-throughput intracellular metabolomics in diverse bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Metabolomics #MassSpec #SystemsBiology

A Robust Isotope Ratio LC-MS/MS Workflow for High-Throughput Metabolic Profiling of Bacteria

Stable isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS) has become a cornerstone of quantitative metabolomics, enabling accurate intracellular metabolite quantification across a range of biological systems. ...

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Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school.

Save the date - this is going to be a great conference!

New paper out! We discovered a tiny archaeon with the smallest known archaeal genome — only 238 kbp! Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile has almost no recognizable metabolic pathways and may rely heavily on a host to survive. It also represents a novel, deep-branching lineage in the archaeal tree.

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · last yr.

A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651781v1

As the Trump administration destroys science in the United States, keep an eye on what is happening in Serbia.

Chemistry World@chemistryworld.com · last yr.

Researchers say the rule will make it impossible for the majority of scientists in the country to carry on with, or to apply to, prestigious ERC research grants, or grants from Serbia’s own national science foundation.

I'm a bit miffed that I only got the email about this half an hour ago, but at long last, our antiSMASH 8 paper is out.

Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash.bsky.social · last yr.

antiSMASH 8.0: extended gene cluster detection capabilities and analyses of chemistry, enzymology, and regulation academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs

Dear Synbio community. We are looking for books, YouTube channels, websites etc that is targeted for layman audiences to provide explanations for what we do. If you know of any such resources could you please provide it in this thread? Maybe we can all use links to such resources for our students🧪

Dear Synbio community. We are looking for books, YouTube channels, websites etc that is targeted for layman audiences to provide explanations for what we do. If you know of any such resources could you please provide it in this thread? Maybe we can all use links to such resources for our students🧪

#invertefest Please enjoy some art that will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at a local wildlife refuge. My first since leaving research behind to pursue my arthropod art dreams... in a crashing economy and increasingly authoritarian regime, wee! 😅 LindZeamays.com/printshop 🎨🐡🌱🪳🪲