Dixon Ng

Microbiologist, structural-biologist adjacent, and I occasionally dabble in bacterial genetics.

[Dixon Ng @dnng82]

@OdileHarrison @acmedsci @Oxford_NDPH @UniofOxford That's fantastic, congratulations!

[Dixon Ng @dnng82]

Congrats @vee_coli!

[Véronique Taylor @vee_coli]

New prepint alert @themaxwelllab! 📢 📢 📢 Superinfection exclusion (Sie) proteins aren’t just for defence – they also ensure the spread of viral progeny! Prophages that lack Sie proteins devour their young via a process we call the Kronos effect.
https://t.co/uxv42rYPoJ

[Dixon Ng @dnng82]

Congrats for publishing this work!

[Pramalkumar Patel @pramalpatel]

I am thrilled to share our work on a novel prophage-encoded phage defence from @theMaxwellLab:

Anti-phage defence through inhibition of virion assembly
https://t.co/qgzR97s4KH

[Australian Academy of Science @Science_Academy]

Are you undertaking postdoctoral research and want to collaborate with scientists in Japan? Applications are invited from any field of the physical sciences, life sciences, engineering and more for the #JSPS Fellowships program. https://t.co/L1giQPkI8n

[Dr. Melanie Blokesch @MBlokesch]

Happy to share our work on T6SS & pili by PhD student Simon Otto.
And thanks to Richard Servajean & Anne-Flo Bitbol for the amazing collaboration.
Interactions between pili affect the outcome of bacterial competition driven by the type VI secretion system https://t.co/eFBzcNclNS

[Dixon Ng @dnng82]

Why it's good to not always jump onto a bandwagon.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

NO SUPERCONDUCTIVITY—a group just debunked the #LK99 room temperature superconducting experiment. It was too good to be true after all. Dr @VanGennepD called it earlier before debunking paper came out. He predicted it was just basic iron ferromagnetic behavior, and he was right.

[Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn]

Thread: Oppenheimer was central to the Manhattan Project’s success and was a phenomenal and inspiring leader, but no one man could have made it work and it’s important to remember that it was still very much a team endeavor. Here are a few people whose key ideas made it possible:

[Dixon Ng @dnng82]

If this doesn't bother you, then you're part of the problem, not the solution.

https://t.co/ZI9FVPKdfC

[THE DUMENIL LAB @DumenilLab]

Looking for a postdoctoral position in the exciting and fast moving field of CryoEM-CryoET, then this add is for you 👀👇

https://t.co/QlUYzLbNGH

[Aimee Potter, PhD @AimeePotterPhD]

1/8🧵 Transcriptome-guided metabolic network analysis reveals rearrangements of carbon flux distribution in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Gc) during neutrophil co-culture | mSystems https://t.co/4BDnzH4eC9

[Jolie Hamel @Jolie_Hamel]

I haven’t mentioned it here yet, but I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow morning at @CSM2023_Halifax in the bacteriophage and bacterial defence system symposium!

Looking forward to talking about my Masters work on characterizing a new anti-CRISPR protein from Streptococcus!

[U of T Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium @UofTEPIC]

Natalie Au is up next presenting her work in @MoraesTrevor’s lab on characterizing the protective potential of monoclonal antibodies against TbpB (transferrrin binding protein B) from Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

#IDMicro2023

[Dixon Ng @dnng82]

Congrats @LandonGetz, fantastic news.

[U of T Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium @UofTEPIC]

We are delighted to announce that @LandonGetz is the inaugural recipient of the @gskca EPIC Convergence Postdoctoral Fellowship in #AMR!

Working with @theMaxwellLab and @mike_tilapia, Getz is developing phage therapy to address AMR.

Read more: https://t.co/HTG85QlsUq

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

School strike week 251. Today, I graduate from school, which means I’ll no longer be able to school strike for the climate. This is then the last school strike for me, so I guess I have to write something on this day.
Thread🧵

[Dixon Ng @dnng82]

@senjutisaha Christine will be thrilled to see this picture.

[Evgeny Semchenko @SemchenkoEvgeny]

Friends! Join us for ASM Hour on Tuesday 6th June. We will touch on EMCR opportunities in Australia and hear from EMCR superstars @RachaelLappan and @Lucyleef! Zoom link https://t.co/hYBygR4INr. 12pm East-Coast, 11.30am NT/SA and 10am WA. @AUSSOCMIC

[Lucrezia Catapano @lulu_catapano]

the new CCP4 paper is out!! I am very glad to be part of this fantastic community.
I am very happy to see our illustration as a front cover 😍. A big thanks to Paul Emsley, @glycojones and @upintheair for the diffraction image.

[Dixon Ng @dnng82]

@bidetofevil You won't be disappointed.