I had the pleasure of showing families and children some of the tools we use in biology at the��@NewcastleUniversity Discover Festival today! I shared what I do as a microbiologist, highlighting the importance of my work on antibiotic resistance. #NCLDiscoverFest

Yesterday, I gave a #pintofscience talk for the first time! I really enjoyed talking about fighting bacteria by attacking the cell wall with the public. Thanks to the organizers !  #pint25 #newcastle

IVA Prime: automated primer design for in vivo assembly cloning https://t.co/VVcSnRvIcm https://t.co/ZeJtChUlEE

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Bacterial cell wall and antibiotics ?🧐 To find out more, come to #PINT25 @pintofscience

If you are looking for a PhD project with an opportunity to find new antibiotics, check the link and consider joining us! This is a new and exciting collaborative project between my and @kate_duncan's labs, based at @CBCB_Newcastle and @nubiosciences. https://t.co/DWR9Y9f43i

Our new study published on @NatureComms shows how fungi completely remodel their protective cell walls for adaptive survival against antifungal treatment. Check out the story here: https://t.co/ekcKXNFY1M @MSUChem @MSUNatSci #Nmrchat #NMR #NMRnews @EMSLscience @NationalMagLab

Hi everyone! I'm raising money for Children’s Cancer North and Candlelighters. The challenge is to cycle 105miles (170km) from Newcastle to Leeds on 6 July. Join us by contributing to our fund: https://t.co/1LD0X1FyVH Many thanks !

Hi everyone! I’m raising money this September for @macmillancancer by completing one of their 26-mile hikes (again)! If anyone has got any spare pennies, I would appreciate any amount of donation to this fantastic charity. https://t.co/k9p31IOoUE

Bacillus community, be aware!! https://t.co/iEond95uRe

Please come and talk to Neha today, one of our @NclBNS Final Year UGrads who is presenting her contribution to our #trimethoprim project at #MicroBio24 #HarrySmithStudentship #Poster192

A historical sequence deletion in a commonly used Bacillus subtilis chromosome integration vector generates undetected ... https://t.co/QCiDHyi9Hq #biorxiv_micrbio

Still plenty of time to apply for this AMR PhD studentship. If interested, please don't hesitate to contact me despite the holidays.

Happy Holidays from the Strahl -lab!

1) According to the @royalsociety, around 61% of postdocs are non U.K. nationals. 2) postdoc starting salaries are around £36k. 3) the last significant announcement from the Government about science policy was: ‘KICKING WOKE IDEOLOGY out of science’

What's 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 hiding in your go-to cloning plasmid? The plasmids we use typically have long histories of cutting & splicing and forgotten junk often litters plasmids. Excited to announce the release of pLannotate:

If you are looking for an AMR-themed PhD project and want to learn cool techniques such as microscopy and chemical genetic screens, come join my lab at @CBCB_Newcastle. This project is a close collaboration with @BanzhafLab and Gary Sharples (Durham). https://t.co/vG8CjjrpMr

I am excited to share my work on a new CRISPRi system in Bacillus subtilis with no leakiness, low noise, and rapidly reversible (with a new rapamycin-inducible degron) @fleshball Another gadget to the Synbio utility belt! #CRISPR #synbio

Our new study published on Nature Commutations reveals how fungi rebuilt their cell wall armor to withstand stress in extreme conditions, e.g. hypersaline environments typically unfavorable for microbial growth. Check out the story here:  https://t.co/y0X4DkeeMA @MSUChem #Nmrchat

Structural adaptation of fungal cell wall in hypersaline environment. Nat Commun 14, 7082 (2023). https://t.co/Dn1w6otasA