We’re happy to share our update to the fischerazoles story with the discovery of FshF, a SAM-dependent methyl transferase that catalyses an unusual fatty acid rearrangement 🧪
https://t.co/705ao3qTz3
Check out our group’s just-published paper in @NatureComms: a macrocyclase with a built-in kinase domain that can phosphorylate peptides during RiPP biosynthesis and be swapped into other pathways 🧬 @BlueBio4Future@CiimarUp
https://t.co/Jx6vGSbYKT
🎉 The final day of @BlueBio4Future was a huge success!
Today’s open session featured amazing talks on topics ranging from protein structural prediction to the chemical ecology of ant-fungi symbiosis and genome mining tools!
Huge thanks to all who joined—let’s keep going! 🚀
Happy International Women’s Day!
We’re celebrating women who have changed the world. Here are all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.
Tell us about the women who inspire you the most - and why
#InternationalWomensDay
🌟 Exciting News! Our review on Fatty acyl-AMP ligases (FAALs) in bacterial natural product biosynthesis has just been published in Natural Product Reports, Royal Society of Chemistry! 🎉
Special thanks to @pnleao@BlueBio4Future@CiimarUp@ICBAS_UPorto
https://t.co/YppFNzrGYO
🔓Don't miss this article in our latest issue, part of our Emerging Investigators collection, by Silja Mordhorst & co @uni_tue on the opportunities and challenges of RiPP-based therapeutics
Check out the full #OpenAccess review on our website🔽
https://t.co/KypH43dUmd
🌿 Dive into the world of biocatalysis! Join us for a @BlueBio4Future three-day training session from May 20th to 22nd, 2024.
Discover the latest advancements and interact with research experts.
🧑🔬Apply now: https://t.co/axFP94rZAM
#Biocatalysis@REA_research@CiimarUp
Exciting new preprint from our collaborators! It describes the data standard for tailoring enzymes and their reactions, currently utilized in creating a new database. Check it out below!
🚀 Exciting PhD Opportunity! 🎓
📅 Application Deadline: April 18, 2024
🔍 Theme: Exploring Marine Actinobacteria for Biosurfactant Production
🏢 Work Location: CIIMAR and NGC
📧 For inquiries and applications, email [email protected].
#PhD#Marine#Biosurfactants#CIIMAR#NGC
🧪We are hiring a synthetic organic chemist with interests in natural products and biocatalysis for our ERC grant that just started! 🧪Please RT!! https://t.co/OyBRh6DzhH
INVITATION
We are starting a new round of online community annotathons to populate v4.0 of the MIBiG repository with high-quality data. If you have relevant expertise in natural product genomics or chemistry, please participate!
Please register here: https://t.co/jlPef8rW8i
Out today in @NatureBiotech! PhD students & postdocs: there's a trick – overlooked and underused – for having new ideas in the creative process. Talk science 1 on 1 with a science buddy that you trust and think of it as an improvisation. https://t.co/Xw7VpKHot2…
@MartinJLercher
The cyanobacterium Aetokthonos hydrillicola really is nasty, as we show in the most recent @PNASNews cover story (https://t.co/J8wyvW96r5). A thread… 1/
Sila's paper on an unusual branched biosynthetic pathway for the production of microbial sunscreens out now in ACS Chemical Biology https://t.co/iAdKvwolSR
At the Blue Think Conference 2023 held yesterday at
@CiimarUp, we celebrated the talent of our students.
Diogo Oliveira, Nádia Silva, and Marco Sousa were awarded "Best Poster"; Marlene Pinheiro, Raquel Castelo Branco, and Jorge Cardoso won "Best Presentation".