Divjot Kaur

BSc Biochemistry | Studying PhD in Synthetic Biology | Directed evolution 🧬

[Rachel Wheatley @WheatleyRM]

Our paper out in @EvolLetters 🎉

[Rachel Wheatley @WheatleyRM]

🚨 Pop Up Oxford! 🚨 A (free!) microbial genomics conference, with a focus on early career researchers - abstract submissions now open 🦠🧬

[npj Antimicrobials and Resistance @npjAMR]

New research out now in @ISMEJournal from @CraigMacLean9, @stephan_uphoff, @pramod_k_jangir, @Divjot_K, @E_colicious et al!

"Regulatory fine-tuning of mcr-1 increases bacterial fitness and stabilises #antibiotic resistance in agricultural settings"🧬💊⤵️

https://t.co/iB5KetNt7R

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

@jijzarco @uniofwarwick Thank you! It was a great day 😁

[Seth Shipman @seth_shipman]

*Preprint Alert* This one’s in a new area for the lab: phage editing! We're using retrons to produce recombineering donors ~inside~ bacterial hosts. A wild-type phage infects the host and an edited phage comes out. https://t.co/8T0IGXBnge

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

Best birthday #27 💕 Thank you to all my lovely lab friends for making it so special @RWheatley8 @E_colicious

[Rachel Wheatley @WheatleyRM]

Day of #earlycareerresearcher firsts: decision back on my first senior author paper, written with a brilliant masters student supervised last year on a remote project 🥳 (first ever masters student!). First time submitting with @MicrobioSoc , & the process so far has been great

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

@RWheatley8 @MoussaJenni Thanks Rachel 😃
Happy to help!

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

@jijzarco @Schubes0 @dbgoodman Thank you @jijzarco !!

[Wyss Institute @wyssinstitute]

Move over CRISPR, the retrons are coming. Researchers have harnessed this genetic quirk from bacteria to create a DNA editing tool that allows them to perform and track millions of experiments in a single test tube. https://t.co/RZfen1KOQp

[Schubes @Schubes0]

Now in PNAS with a few extra goodies, for the afficionados:
https://t.co/WENDtYDFCk

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

@NataliaKapelPhD You are now also an engineer!! 👏

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

@jijzarco Thank you! Yes, we definitely should

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

So grateful to be a part of this amazing work! 🧬

[Fabrizio Alberti @AlbertiFabrizio]

So pleased to share the first article coming out of the Alberti lab, on engineering isoprenoid quinone production in yeast: https://t.co/sm9KsDAsiI

@Divjot_K @duha20122282 @CorreLabo

@LeverhulmeTrust @WarwickLifeSci @warwickchem.

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[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

Exciting! Retrons function as anti- phage defense #progress

[Sorek Lab @SorekLab]

After more than three decades of mystery, we are happy to report that we discovered the function of some of the coolest bacterial elements - retrons.

Retrons function as anti-phage defense systems!

See our new preprint https://t.co/cTev9C7Hr0

@AdiMillman @AudeBer @AAvihail

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

@jijzarco @imperialcollege Congratulations Jose !

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

@VWaschulin @Apple 😂 I might have to try that

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

Scientists @UniofOxford have developed rapid testing technology for #COVID-19.
The team, led by Prof. Zhanfeng Cui and Prof. Wei Huang (@oxengsci & OSCAR) have been working to improve test capabilities as the virus spreads: https://t.co/s1PgK52eAO

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

@Celia_Sqe Congratulations lovely 🎉

[Divjot Kaur @Divjot_K]

@UniSurreyBioSci @Harvard Thank you everyone ! Really goes to show how worth it placement years can be. I had a great time during mine 😁