Well done to Mazin Nasralla for his paper published in PNASNews TMAO depletes urea in a peptide solvation shell Combining neutron diffraction and modelling to uncover molecular mechanisms important for the physics of life. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

I have a paid summer Research Experience Placement funded by NERC for undergraduate students to work in my lab for 6 weeks. You need to be studying in the UK and not in your final year. Check for eligibility here: aries-dtp.ac.uk/study-with-us/…

Great time last week down at Diamond Light Source with Liam Perera and Charles Cockell looking at cold perchlorate solutions! @UKAstrobiology #astrobiology #Mars

Preservation of Bacillus subtilis’ Cellular Liquid State at Deep Sub-zero Temperatures In Perchlorate Brines astrobiology.com/2024/05/preser… #astrobiology #Mars #extremophile #microbiology

Wrote up a quick summary of our latest paper just to give it some context. blogs.ed.ac.uk/the_irish_astr…

🚨3 fully funded PhD positions available in the Life Sciences Institute in DCU! 🔬🧫🦠 A great opportunity for anyone interested in pursuing a career at a world-class facility in this exciting area! #PhDResearch #academicchatter DCU Life Sciences Institute DCU Research DCU Science and Health OoLEN

Best wishes to all who are participating in Take Your Dog to Work Day today

Very happy to have won a small grant award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to investigate the mechanisms underpinning the low temperature limit for life!

Congratulations to Dr Stewart Gault (Stewart Gault) who has been awarded a grant from Royal Society of Edinburgh to investigate the limits to the life of bacterium P. halocryophilus in low-temperature environments. 🦠edin.ac/3WlTmXf #astrobiology

Accounts article by Sarah & I on the roles of layered minerals in emergence & preservation of proto-proteins & implications for detection of biosignatures (on Mars) is now out in ACS Publications in a special issue by Martina Preiner & Claudia pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

New 2-year bioinformatic postdoctoral fellowship in my group at the University of Naples Federico II Unina Federico II funded by the European Research Council (ERC) project #Erc_CoEvolve coevolve.eu. Start date Nov 1st 2024! DM or contact me! Please RT! More info: donatogiovannelli.com//vacancies

The upcoming Society for Cryobiology Webinar will be out of this world! Join our panel of experts as they discuss cryobiology in Outer Space on Thursday 14 November at 8 AM (PDT). Read the presentation descriptions and register now at societyforcryobiology.org/webinars

Donald Trump was elected by Americans to defend the interests of Americans. The question we, as Europeans, must ask ourselves is, are we ready to defend the interests of Europeans?

🚨 We're hiring! Join our team ProtoSigns as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Modelling of Protocell Membranes. 🧪💻 👉 Details: universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-un… #OriginsOfLife #ComputationalBiology #ComputationalChemistry #AcademicTwitter

I am thrilled to share the first paper published from my PhD! This paper explores the growth and physiology of a bacteria in ammonia with implications for the habitability of ammonia-water environments on Earth and icy moons such as Enceladus. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to share my latest preprint just in time for #FEMS2025 ! This preprint is the start of a series of work I've been doing trying to understand the biophysical limits to life in extreme environments. So come have a chat at FEMS if you're interested in extremophile biophysics