Excited to share our new paper on a Salmonella contractile injection system, out now in @NatureComms! Congrats to first author @Rooshanie Ejaz and @CloudyKielkopf, @freddie__martin, @HangryHobbit, @RebrovaEva, great collab with @Salmo_Lab #cryoem tinyurl.com/5n7dybvy

Hi everyone I am excited to be launching a science themed Clothing brand called VirionApparel ™ – this brand is inspired by Science with a particular focus on Bacteriophage viruses. youtu.be/EYnriGZRe84 virionapparel.com Reshares are much appreciated :) Thanks, James.

🚨Preprint! From my PhD “Genome delivery of a contractile tailed phage and its superinfection exclusion mechanism”. We use #cryoEM to study the genome ejection of the #phage T4, revealing how the tape measure protein regulates the process @NMITaylorLab biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Most recent paper out now at science advances. We investigated a BASEL phage belonging to the felixounavirus genus and discovered evolutionary relationships with distantly related phages. Collaborative work between @HiCryoEM and @mihnea_bostina science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

Excited to see our work published in @ScienceAdvances! We present RBPseg, a method for structural prediction of #phage receptor-binding proteins. We applied it to diverse tail fibers and validated the predicted structures using #cryoEM. Read here: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

Exited to share our preprint on the structure of a Salmonella contractile injection system 🥳 Wonderful work by first author @Rooshanie Ejaz and @CloudyKielkopf, @freddie__martin, @HangryHobbit, @RebrovaEva, great collab with @Salmo_Lab @UCPH_CPR #cryoem shorturl.at/QHLpm

Congratulations to first author Leyre Arraiza and all co-authors for our preprint on the structure of a PVC of Photorhabdus luminescens in extended and contracted states! @UCPH_CPR #cryoEM @cryoEM_Papers shorturl.at/Gqmhm

This is jaw dropping level stuff!

Excited to announce that collaborative work between the Bostina lab (@mihnea_bostina) and PHI lab (@PeterFineran) at @otago and the Wolf lab (@HiCryoEM) at @OISTedu, has been published in Nature Communications. Congratulations all :) nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Very stoked to finally have my first co-first author manuscript published with PNAS nexus. We describe the phiM1 virion structure with a focus on the ejectosome, showing considerable structural variance relative to phage t7. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…

Late post: Had the absolute mega opportunity to attend the 2024 FASEB conference on Virus Structure and Assembly. I presented our upcoming publication, and was fortunate to be awarded travel scholarship funding in the closing ceremonies. Big thanks to the FASEB organizers :)

Phage painting under the night sky!

Excited to have created my first GitHub repository today. My script generates a spectrum of capsid vertex coordinates in @UCSFChimeraX , and prints their coordinates for use in asymmetric reconstruction workflows. I2 symmetry is currently required. github.com/JimHBean/capsid_v…

Come see our poster at lorne proteins. Beach A, near the crabs and seaweed @LorneProteins

Delayed Hanmer Springs @nzsbmb conference post. Was absolutely delighted with last weeks talks and with the opportunity to present one of our exciting recent phage projects.

Excited for our upcoming Phage Bites session that will be running online next week! See our student/ECR presentations that will be followed by a panel discussion of 'Standardisation in Phage Therapy' Aus/NZ - There is still time to register to attend!: forms.gle/99K754woh8CKKPZB8