Rebecca Diss

PhD student in the Schlimpert lab at the John Innes Centre. She/her 🦠🧫🔬👩‍🔬🏳️‍🌈

[Thanbichler lab @ThanbichlerLab]

Many thanks to all the participants of the 5th @VAAM_Microbes Discussion Meeting on Microbial Cell Biology (MCB2024) for the amazing talks, the lively discussions and the friendly, interactive atmosphere! We hope you had a safe journey home and look forward to seeing you again in two years.

[Susan Schlimpert @SusanSchlimpert]

I am grateful, honoured and extremely excited to receive an #ERCCoG to study the functional diversity of bacterial NLR-like proteins in #Streptomyces. Many thanks to @ERC_Research, my amazing team, who made this possible and to my colleagues and mentors for their support.

[Susan Schlimpert @SusanSchlimpert]

Join the crew and apply for a fully-funded PhD position in our lab @JohnInnesCentre to study how multicellular bacteria control their cell cycle in response to DNA damage. For more information and how to apply 👉https://t.co/22AUSaXqeR.

[Joe Sallmen @JWSallmenII]

Deep in the heart of East Anglia, this group of researchers tries to answer the big questions: who are these bacteria, what exactly is their problem, and why do they smell that way?

[Kathy Stratton @iamkathystrat]

Really excited to share my latest research later today at #microsoc23 come listen to my talk at 2:15pm in Hall 9 if you’re interested in cell division, DNA damage, and Streptomyces 🧬🔬

[Kathy Stratton @iamkathystrat]

Happy to announce my 1st first-author paper is now available to read on #bioRxiv 🥳
I’d like to thank my supervisor @SusanSchlimpert, as well as @MatthewJBush, Govind Chandra, @cemstevenson, and Kim Findlay for their invaluable contributions 💜 @JohnInnesCentre

[Susan Schlimpert @SusanSchlimpert]

I have a 12-month postdoc position available in our lab to study Streptomyces cell biology. If you are looking to develop your own project for a fellowship application or seek a short-term post, please apply! Application deadline: 13.02.2022

[Susan Schlimpert @SusanSchlimpert]

New Year, new paper - Excited to share the final version of @MatthewJBush's paper describing the first component of the division machinery (apart from FtsZ itself) that is specifically required to divide growing Streptomyces hyphae into compartments. https://t.co/QDE6nC1vJ4 1/5

[Susan Schlimpert @SusanSchlimpert]

The lab is ready for Christmas - Christmas decoration is up in the lab, we went for a Christmas lunch and a walk along the Norfolk coast and saw lots of seals. Feeling very lucky to have such a great team! @MatthewJBush @JWSallmenII @iamkathystrat @biologymax @disslikesmicro

[Resist NOW 💊 Open for orders now! @AMR_comics]

We are live!!

Resist NOW will be a science fiction comic about antimicrobial resistance made by 7 different science artists who work together with awesome scientists to highlight their research!

Support us on @Kickstarter !
https://t.co/xyOhnXrNuv

[Kathy Stratton @iamkathystrat]

It’s time for the WES ceremony! Congratulations to @disslikesmicro1

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

According to the new IPCC report, the carbon budget that gives us the best odds of staying below 1,5°C runs out in less than 5 and a half years at our current emissions rate. Maybe someone should ask the people in power how they plan to “solve” that?

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

I liked #LineofDutyFinale. Someone very greedy & mediocre gets repeatedly promoted above his competence, and whoever did the promoting gets off scot free. Meanwhile, systemic failings are written off as a few bad apples. A neat summary of institutional accountability in the UK.

[Rebecca Diss @disslikesmicro]

Yikes! I will officially be starting a PhD @JohnInnesCentre this autumn! 👩‍🔬🧫🔬

[Rebecca Diss @disslikesmicro]

Fungi are attractive

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

[Journey to the Microcosmos @JourneyToMicro]

The tardigrade has a reputation of being able to survive anything, this week we’re diving into why that’s not exactly true and whether immortality is even possible in the Microcosmos.

https://t.co/BbF0gvvnxn

[Imperial College London @imperialcollege]

Our life scientists have sequenced the genome of #AlexanderFleming’s penicillin mould for the first time and compared it to later versions.

They found that UK and US strains of the Penicillium mould use slightly different methods to produce penicillin: https://t.co/WTK6W249Vy

[Cairngorms National Park @cairngormsnews]

24 hrs of torrential rain in the eastern #Cairngorms produced this sùil-chruthaich the #gaelic name for a quaking/quivering/floating bog