Pidot Lab

On the hunt for bacteria that kill bacteria! Interested in natural product antibiotics - discovery, biosynthesis and genome mining

[Marnix Medema @marnixmedema]

MIBiG 4.0 is out! Thanks @MitjaMZ and @kaiblin for spearheading this huge effort, and to the entire community for investing time in extending this resource on BGCs of known function.

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

Great to see this work finally out in PLoS Pathogens! It had a long incubation period but great support from fantastic collaborators at home and abroad - thanks to all involved for your hard work! https://t.co/KGhSl3Qsmj

[Doherty Institute @TheDohertyInst]

Exciting discovery! 🌊🔬 A bacterium found in a marine sponge from the Great Barrier Reef shows remarkable similarity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for TB. These findings inform future research & treatment strategies 🌍💡https://t.co/t2E3BLWUk8

@UniMelbMDHS @TheRMH @PidotLab @tstinear

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

Very grateful to be part of this great collaborative effort led by @sjwill99 that has been awarded the RSC Horizon Prize! Thanks very much to the @RoySocChem and all involved!

[Doherty Institute @TheDohertyInst]

Congratulations @PidotLab @Nick_E_Scott and their research collaborators for being awarded the prestigious Horizon Prize by @RoySocChem for their innovative research on the breakdown of unusual sulfur-containing sugars.
Learn more 👉 https://t.co/9Mz5jhNQmW
@UniMelbMDHS @TheRMH

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

Mark your calendars everyone and join us at the Aus-NZ Natural Products Symposium to be held in Sydney, Nov 11-12. Great line up of speakers so far and plenty more to come!

[Constance Bailey @CBBaileyLab]

Please save the date for the 3rd Aus-NZ Natural Products Symposium this year joint with the RACI NSW Natural Products Symposium on November 11-12 at University of Sydney: https://t.co/nZeQayhdon

[Constance Bailey @CBBaileyLab]

Mark your calendars for the 32nd International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products and the 12th International Congress on Biodiversity held August 24-28, 2025 in Sydney!

https://t.co/GACgCvb85A

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

@marnixmedema @UniMelb @YitHengChooi @uwanews Great to have you here @marnixmedema! Looking forward to the next visit!

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

Check out our lab's latest piece in The Conversation on new antibiotic development!

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

Scientists are racing to discover new antibiotics that can defeat these drug-resistant superbugs.

The recently discovered antibiotic clovibactin renewed hope that we can get out of this antibiotic resistance crisis, writes @PidotLab (@TheDohertyInst). https://t.co/1SckhOBydv

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

@SmitsLab @LoreAment +1 for clinker!

[UWA Research @UWAresearch]

2nd AUSNZ Natural Products Chemistry & Biology Symposium

13-14 Nov Bayliss, UWA
👉 https://t.co/N82M8PSjwD

An opportunity for researchers to showcase their work in natural products research & discuss the future of the field in Australasia

@SMS_UWA #uwaresarchimpactseries

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

@GillesvanWezel @LeidenBiology Many thanks @GillesvanWezel and team for welcoming me and for the great hospitality and scientific discussions!! Looking forward to the next meeting in Australia in the future!

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

Don't miss out on what is going to be a fantastic natural products meeting! Abstracts and registration closing soon!!!
Register here: https://t.co/3q9LYwtJbG

[Jaclyn M. Winter @JMWinterlab]

This is going to be a great meeting! Please RT :)

[Heng Chooi @YitHengChooi]

Don't miss out on the exciting AusNZ #NaturalProducts Chemistry & Biology Symposium in 🇦🇺#Perth! Exciting speakers await. ECRs and students seize this opportunity to showcase your work! And #SBA2023 in the same week too. Please #RT https://t.co/kVMSrcyt4H

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

Thanks @sjwill99- you beat me to it!
Check out our new paper on the cytotoxin terpenomycin produced by Nocardia! With many thanks to our fantastic collaborators @Hertweck_Lab @c_hertweck @tstinear @sjwill99

[SJ Williams @sjwill99]

Beautiful work led by Sacha Pidot. Happy to have contributed to this in a small way. https://t.co/yqIFQEtlh5

[Heng Chooi @YitHengChooi]

Along with #SBA2023 we will be having the 2nd AusNZ Natural Products Chemistry and Biology Symposium just before the conference in Nov. More reasons to come to Perth! Registration NOW OPEN https://t.co/kVMSrcyt4H #naturalproduct

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

Very grateful to be appointed a Fellow of the Australian Society of Microbiology! Thanks very much to all involved - and of course to my lab and collaborators near and far! @AUSSOCMIC @TheDohertyInst @UniMelb

[JRood_Plasmid_EIC @EicJrood]

Congratulations to Sacha Pidot, Gupta Vadakattu and Subir Sarker, all of whom recently were appointed as Fellows of the Australian Society for Microbiology. @AUSSOCMIC @ASM_VicBranch

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

Very grateful and happy to have received support for our antibiotic discovery work from #NHMRC. Excited to see where we can take this project!

[Doherty Institute @TheDohertyInst]

Congratulations to our researchers who have been awarded $5.6m for innovative research projects studying infectious diseases and immunology through the @nhmrc Ideas Grant Scheme.
https://t.co/hPPld9RDDV
@UniMelbMDHS @TheRMH @PeterRevill1 @AbdouH
@PidotLab @Nick_E_Scott

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

Really great work here from Hannah - glad we could play a part in it! @Buettner_H @Hertweck_Lab

[Hannah Büttner @Buettner_H]

Two are better than one! In the strong partnership of a soil beneficial fungus and its bacterial endosymbiont the bacterial production of two metabolites synergistically promote the host protection against nematode predators.@Hertweck_Lab @ChemicalScience https://t.co/W85ITFIksy

[Pidot Lab @PidotLab]

@CBBaileyLab @SydneyChemistry Excited to have you and your lab join the NP peeps down under!

[Lachlan Coin @lachlanjmc]

Great opportunity for a continuing level D/E position in bacteriology.