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Happy to share our latest work from the Liz Kellogg ❄️🔬 lab, in collaboration with the Protein Technologies Center at St. Jude, where we describe the structure of Fanzor2. Special thanks to my co-authors, Zuhaib Qayyum and Ajay Tanwar. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Such great news for St. Jude Research. We are lucky to have M. Madan Babu spearheading such an important effort.

Identification of SLC45A4 as a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Evolution of a large periplasmic disk in Campylobacterota flagella enables both efficient motility and autoagglutination! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

New preprint from the lab describing how most poxviruses, including avipoxviruses, antagonise DNA-PK to block cGAS/STING-dependent interferon production during infection. Is this a stalemate in the molecular host/pathogen arms race?biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Want to know why some antibiotics get across the membrane via Peptide Transporters and others don't? Your dreams have come true! Read it here: rdcu.be/dWuH2 Awesome collaboration with Simon Newstead, Susan Lea, Justin Deme, Jo Parker, Gabriel Kuteyi, Simon Lichtinger

Structural basis for antibiotic transport and inhibition in PepT2 | Nat Commun doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

If you like this kind of work we have a funded PhD place in the lab starting in Oct 2025 to explore antiviral innate immune responses across species. See here for details of how to apply or ask me for more info: bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/available-targ…

We spoke to Professor Simon Newstead (Simon Newstead) from the University of Oxford about how his research could lead to new medications to treat pain with reduced side effects. Find out more ⤵️ linkedin.com/pulse/treatmen…

Deadline for the BPS #cryoem subgroup Almeida award has been extended to November 15th, so get your nominations in now! ❄️🔬

Online now! Structural and functional studies of the EGF20-27 region reveal new features of the human Notch receptor important for optimal activation dlvr.it/TFyCfj

Hello Biophysical Society Cryo-EM Subgroup Members, As we approach the 2025 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, we need nominations for 5 Cryo-EM Subgroup leadership positions. This is a great chance to become more involved with the Society and to support the Cryo-EM

I'm a PhD student at University of Oxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-) Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!

Mature #HIV-1 contains >2000 copies of “spacer peptide 2”, but we didn’t know why. We now see that SP2 binds the matrix protein and triggers the change into its mature arrangement. Summary video from Margot Riggi :

Sam, Shiroh and I wrote a review about the latest on the surface proteins of infected-erythrocytes. PfEMP1, RIFINs, weird antibodies and immune manipulation. Check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S13…

A broad call for a PhD researcher/ postdoc in our group at the MDC in Berlin. An ideal PhD student - a computational scientist, a postdoc-structural biologist, but feel free to re-convince me We extended the deadline for after Easter, Apr 24th. apply here mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/sc…

John Briggs has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. Congratulations to him and the other outstanding researchers from across the world! ❕royalsociety.org/news/2025/05/n… John Briggs The Royal Society

Exciting news! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. Nature Microbiology We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Looking for a fully-funded D. Phil. / Ph.D. studentship in structural biology and vaccinology? Come to join our team. Fully and generously funded by a donation from the Kyner-Field family with full fees at overseas level. Join us?? bioch.ox.ac.uk/studentships