Helen Taylor

Synthetic Biology.🔬Chemistry.🎓👩‍🔬
Medical writer 💻📝and outreach deliverer. Passionate about ScienceComm 👩‍🏫 Manchester bound. 🐝

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Born #OnThisDay in 1912 was Alan Turing FRS. Celebrated as "Father of computer science, mathematician, logician, wartime codebreaker, victim of prejudice", he made foundational contributions to artificial intelligence & theoretical biology during his short career.

[Angewandte Chemie @angew_chem]

@Micklefield_Lab have engineered a #methyltransferase for selective carboxy(m)ethylation with enzymatically produced carboxy SAM derivatives #proteinengineering @UoMMIB https://t.co/ST7HVTqtFK

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

This vein visualization technology uses near-infrared light, which is absorbed by blood but reflected by the surrounding tissue, to locate veins up to 15mm deep, and then projects the results back on the skin.

[Helen Taylor @BiochemHelen]

@IrlamCadNow @WGSManchester STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.🙂

[Helen Taylor @BiochemHelen]

Great morning of outreach talking to the children at
@WGSManchester and Irlam Endowed Primary School about my journey into STEM and the exciting options available to all of them. 👩‍🔬🧬always encouraging to hear their aspirations and enthusiasm for Science.🔬⚗️📚💊

[VESPA Mindset @VESPAmindset]

“...children [make] assumptions about what type of people enter different types of work while still in primary school...” then “only "minimal changes" in attitudes between the ages of 7 and 17...” Now we’ll need to work even harder to fight this: https://t.co/jl9eBgEIn8

[Helen Taylor @BiochemHelen]

Definitely going to try some of these later!

[Helen Taylor @BiochemHelen]

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[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Amazing timelapse of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster returning to Earth from space after successfully launching the THAICOM-8 satellite.

[Pint of Science World @pintsworld]

We seek to share the work of scientists and empower them.

We can and need to use this to support diversity in STEM.

Now more than ever we need to amplify the Black voices in our community.

Here's a list of #BlackInSTEM researchers thanks to @EstOdek

https://t.co/SpjFfxI8F1

[Helen Taylor @BiochemHelen]

First virtual outreach and such a pleasure talking to the Y5 girls at @WGSJuniors about antibiotics and my job as a scientist.👩‍🔬🧬some great questions and nice to hear about their new routine and adapting working hard from home.🏡📚

[Micklefield Lab @Micklefield_Lab]

It’s our groups Christmas dinner. Many thanks to everyone in the lab for their hard work, dedication & tireless pursuit of new science.

[Helen Taylor @BiochemHelen]

Great weekend spent with the #RSC talking #chemistry with all the parents and kids at #bluedotfestival Until next year! ⚗🧪🚀🛸

[Micklefield Lab @Micklefield_Lab]

Excellent paper by Anthony Green's new team in MIB here at the Univ of Manchester – Design and evolution of an enzyme with a non-canonical organocatalytic mechanism.
https://t.co/yPrsD9UkEe

[Helen Taylor @BiochemHelen]

@d2dnottingham hi, just messaging as we have still not recieved our tickets for tomorrow and we are worried as to whether we will get in. I have our confirmation email and referemce number. Will this be enough for us to get in?

[Micklefield Lab @Micklefield_Lab]

Delivered a lecture at Tsinghua Univ in Beijing. Great to learn about their SynBio, particularly host George Chen, who’s work on bioengineering PHAs (bioplastics) addresses a massive global challenge. Also enjoyed visiting the Summer Palace.
https://t.co/LnfGtlIY0H

[Micklefield Lab @Micklefield_Lab]

Pleased to give invited lecture at Peking Univ in Beijing. Thanks to Xiaoguang Lei for hosting me. He & his colleagues are doing excellent Chemical Biology!
https://t.co/x7z2zuRtXE

[Micklefield Lab @Micklefield_Lab]

Presented lecture at Shandong University, State Key Laboratory Microbial Technology (SKLMT), met young faculty doing great work at new Qingdao campus, then climbed “small mountain.” Thanks to Xiaoying Bian for inviting me. https://t.co/XFYYznoqhY

[Micklefield Lab @Micklefield_Lab]

Jason received the @RoySocChem Bader Award (2019) for “innovative contributions to the elucidation of natural product biosynthetic pathways & the development of enzymes for synthesis” – Thanks to co-workers in the Micklefield Lab! #RSCawards https://t.co/NRbTXRxEpQ

[Micklefield Lab @Micklefield_Lab]

Visiting ECUST in Shanghai to lecture on latest stuff from the Micklefield Lab & to expand collaborative projects with Lixin Zhang head of State Key Lab (SKLBE). Privileged to work with ECUST as will be back in Sept/Oct!
https://t.co/TdGMNZ5Fv9

[Nature Catalysis @NatureCatalysis]

Vitamin K-dependent carboxylases play a part in bacterial secondary metabolism, as revealed by their role in the synthesis of the crucial and unusual malonic acid group in the antibiotic malonomycin.
@Micklefield_Lab
https://t.co/HJgdEVOcOn

[Micklefield Lab @Micklefield_Lab]

Christmas fun & team bonding. Many thanks to everyone in the lab for excellent work in 2018. Best wishes to Brian Law & Ying Zhou who are moving on after many years in our lab.