Gemma C. Atkinson

Heads up! The Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria 2027 is now open for registrations! 20-22nd July 2027, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK Places are limited, so register soon. Visit the website to see our fantastic line-up of speakers: sisb2027.info #phage

Had a bit of a break from the socials and forgot my Bluesky password, but really happy to belatedly share some great work from PhD student Jose Nakamoto on the diversity of toxin-antitoxin-chaperone systems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Viral AlphaFold Database (VAD) is live in Science Advances ~27,000 predicted viral protein monomers & homodimers Conserved folds across bacteria, archaea & eukaryotic viruses New toxin–antitoxin system KreTA uncovered Vast “functional darkness” remains uncharted www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looking forward to this!

ooo this looks fun, and in ❤️York❤️

Really excited to share our resource and analysis of AlphaFold-predicted monomers and homodimers across viruses and phages. Project driven by fab PhD student @rodai.bsky.social and with our great collaborators Joana Pereira @joanampereira.bsky.social and @ninjani.bsky.social

Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

The BASEL collection of E. coli #phages is limited by its host strain. @humollidorentina.bsky.social @damienpiel.bsky.social @aharms485.bsky.social &co use a modified host to add 36 new phages, revealing roles of O-antigen in recognition & R-M systems in immunity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4jirGvX

last day to apply for a post-doc position in my group #phagesky #microsky

Looking forward to attending this conference for the 1st time and co-chairing this session with amazing speakers! Join us on 2 and 3 April and listen to @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social, @epcrocha.bsky.social , @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social and Tim Blower! #Microbio25

Reminder about two open positions: 1) tenure track group leader position on data driven infection research lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 2) post-doc in mine/Vasili's join team lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #phagesky #microsky

Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project. Read more and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #phage #bioinformatics

Bioinformatics junior group leader position in Lund, specialising in infection and/or epidemiology. These are really nice positions with generous support. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested in becoming our colleague! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Post-doc opportunities! Wet/dry/hybrid projects available in my group. Drop me an email with CV if interested. www.scilifelab.se/research/pul...

Excited to share that our paper on locus visualisation tool LoVis4u is out! Entirely driven by fantastic PhD student Artyom Egorov @egorov.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...

Some exciting news about our structure prediction infrastructure LU-Fold: we have joined forces with SciLifeLab to improve accessibility to technologies and expertise. Read more here nbis.se/news/LUfold

Big day for the family. Today one of these two became a full professor. Nice job @hauryliuk.bsky.social !

Such a good VH-GCA lab symposium day to round off the year!

Grateful to the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) for funding a 3 year project on antibiotic resistance & phages in my group. If you're looking for a post-doc position in 2025, have a phagey background, & are interested in combining wet and dry research then keep a look out for an ad soon!

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Exciting times! Our latest preprint is now live 🤩! After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So fab to hear when people find our lab tools useful. Now that he’s on Bluesky, I can tag Artyom @egorov.bsky.social , the amazing PhD student who made iLund4u and loVis4u

Anyone looking for an assistant professor position in biodiversity research? Not one but three positions available at Stockholm U: www.su.se/department-o...

Sharing new tools made by Artyom Egorov in my group! 1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises #phage or #plasmid seqs with beautiful vector graphics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very proud of my life and science other half Vasili Hauryliuk @hauryliuk.bsky.social being awarded the Göran Gustafsson prize in molecular biology from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences! www.kva.se/nyheter/33-m...

Senior lectureship available in Lund with specialisation in cryo-EM. Come and join us and have fun playing around with the brand new Glacios 2 #cryoem lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Now we have a bioinformatics PhD position In my group in Lund to work on the same fun #phage defence project! Read more and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... deadline March 5th

Join the fun! And stay tuned for a bioinformatics PhD position to work on the same project!

In person/online LU-Fold drop-ins for researchers in Sweden! Interested in how AlphaFold2 can benefit your research? Planning a grant application? - Weds 24 Jan 10.30 Ecology, Café Le Mani - Mon 5th Feb 14.00-15.30 Zoom (link here atkinson-lab.com/lu-fold/) - Tues 6 Feb 10.00 Forum Medicum Cafe

Dear Swedish colleagues. I am giving a talk at KI at 3pm on Monday on genomics, imaging and AI. Do come along! news.ki.se/calendar/gen...

LU-Fold is now available to researchers across Sweden! Curious about how high-throughput #AlphaFold folding of monomers and co-folding of complexes can help your research? Get in touch for a chat! medicine.lu.se/lu-fold

Ten days remaining to apply to this exciting PhD position - join us in our quest to explore novel archaeal lineages!

Yay! I think this is going to be fun! #phagesky

Looks like we're getting a critical mass over here where the skies are blue!

Hey #phagesky and #microsky does anyone have recommendations for bacterial promoter prediction software? asking for a friend ...

At his intrinsically disordered best: @hauryliuk.bsky.social

We have a PhD vacancy. Structural and functional protein bioinformatics, with a focus on bacteria-phage interactions lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Love how Ellie’s drawings are both beautiful and educational!