Senior Lecturer at the University of York
Joined June 2018
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Mar 20
It is a pleasure to announce the 4th UK MGE workshop will be in York on 23rd-24th June 2026! Registration is free and we are actively looking for contributors. Interested? If so, please register at ukmgeworkshop.org and select the talk option
We hope to see you in June!
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Jan 3
A few days left to apply for an exiting #PhD opportunity I am offering @BiologyatYork with Sean Meaden & @Hong_Gao_Tees. Join an interdisciplinary team to study how viruses shape bacterial evolution and the spread of antibiotic resistance. Apply by 7th Jan bit.ly/4jfv9wx
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3 Oct 2025
Fantastic @BiologyatYork #Microbial_Life seminar yesterday by Mark Dillingham @BristolUni 🧬🧪. An engaging talk and fascinating to hear about RecBCD, phage-host arms race, DNA mimics and the enigmatic retrons! Massive thanks to @BioRad, Starlab and BMKGENE for their sponsorship.
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23 Sep 2025
🚨Exciting #Postdoc opportunity in the Fogg & Antson labs at YorkUni: 3-year post to explore the #StructuralBiology & mechanism of viral DNA-packaging motors using cutting-edge #CryoEM, biophysical and molecular approaches. Apply by 9th Oct at bit.ly/3Iz3bOu #ScienceJobs
ALT A view of the city of York, including the gothic York Minster cathedral
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Paul CM Fogg retweeted
23 Jan 2025
3rd year attending @VoM_UK & a first presenting 🎙️ Great experience being able to discuss the evolutionary function of Gene Transfer Agents & another brilliant year of talks from the phage community 👏
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27 Nov 2024
Collaborative and interdisciplinary @BBSRC #PhDposition now available @UniOfYork - tinyurl.com/3ve22fx7. Experience a vibrant mix of genetic and protein engineering, microbiology of an industrially relevant model organism, and single-molecule biophysics. Apply by 6th Jan.
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Paul CM Fogg retweeted
21 Nov 2024
Fully funded #PhD position now available! Want to learn skills in protein engineering, microbiology and single-molecule biophysics? Come join our interdisciplinary team @BiologyatYork & @UoY_PET led by Dr Purba Mukherjee.
Apply here:
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tinyurl.com/3ve22fx7
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27 Nov 2024
We have a fascinating preprint just out, revealing the widespread packaging of bacterial genomic DNA into capsids in the human gut:bit.ly/3B2ajza. Major denizens of the #microbiome implicated with broad potential impact on bacterial evolution and horizontal gene transfer
ALT Concept summary of the approach used in the present study. A. Diagram of a caesium chloride gradient tube of VLPs purified from human faecal samples. Two bands of different densities are illustrated, followed by a flow chart of the Oxford Nanopore sequencing process and an illustrative chart showing read length distributions typical of phage, transducing phage particles and gene transfer agents. B. Distributions of read lengths obtained from six faecal VLP fractions.
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Paul CM Fogg retweeted
12 Jun 2024
We present a preprint about a “stargate” mechanism of the capsid opening required for genome delivery in members of the Microviridae family. See below for a short manuscript summary (1/9).
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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7 Jan 2024
Last chance to apply for one of these bacteriophage #PhDposition I am offering in collaboration with Prof. Fred Antson @BiologyatYork @YSBL_York. Opportunities to study structural, molecular, genetic and evolutionary aspects of viruses of microbes.
6 Oct 2023
I am pleased to offer two exciting PhD opportunities @UniOfYork to study virus assembly, structure and genome processing. Viruses are the most abundant organisms on the planet with a massive impact on all aspects of life. Apply: bit.ly/3tqGVOJ or bit.ly/3ZJTmBx
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Paul CM Fogg retweeted
2 Jan 2024
#NewPaper from @PCMFogg and colleagues 'The influence of coiled-coil motif of serine recombinase toward the directionality regulation'
Read it here:
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Paul CM Fogg retweeted
7 Nov 2023
We just updated our story about defence system synergism, biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… . We teamed up with @Eugene_Koonin and @garushyants, and analysed >40,000 genomes to show that defence systems often non-randomly co-occur in bacterial genomes.
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6 Oct 2023
I am pleased to offer two exciting PhD opportunities @UniOfYork to study virus assembly, structure and genome processing. Viruses are the most abundant organisms on the planet with a massive impact on all aspects of life. Apply: bit.ly/3tqGVOJ or bit.ly/3ZJTmBx
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5 Oct 2023
Fantastic thread by Pavol, summarizing his discovery of most likely the founding member of a new family of tail-less phages - bit.ly/3Q3UPiP @iScience_CP. Also, crucial insights into how to handle these phages that are so often overlooked due to purification biases!
3 Oct 2023
Jorvik is the first characterised tailless membrane-containing dsDNA phage infecting an alphaproteobacterium. Read below the highlights of the study from @YSBL_York, @BiologyatYork and @LMDM17199375. It opens a new door to phage perception (1/7) cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
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Paul CM Fogg retweeted
2 Oct 2023
Thank you so much for inviting me to give a seminar @BiologyatYork @YBRI_UoY @PCMFogg @daniela_barilla ! I had excellent discussions with your team and @SeanMeaden @GavinHThomas @insanity_one , Paul Pryor and Marjan Van Der Woude. I am on my way back full of ideas!!
20 Sep 2023
We are looking forward to hosting Dr @antonia_sagona for the inaugural seminar of our new seminar series #MicrobialLife: from molecules to communities @BiologyatYork @YBRI_UoY @UniOfYork
Supported by @genewizeu @StarlabUKLtd @Cytiva @DrMarkFrost @NEBiolabs @UnileverUKI
ALT Poster advertising Dr Antonia Sagona's seminar on 2nd October
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Paul CM Fogg retweeted
20 Sep 2023
We are looking forward to hosting Dr @antonia_sagona for the inaugural seminar of our new seminar series #MicrobialLife: from molecules to communities @BiologyatYork @YBRI_UoY @UniOfYork
Supported by @genewizeu @StarlabUKLtd @Cytiva @DrMarkFrost @NEBiolabs @UnileverUKI
ALT Poster advertising Dr Antonia Sagona's seminar on 2nd October
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Paul CM Fogg retweeted
22 Mar 2023
Apparently, capsids of marine phages are decorated with the same type of spikes as gene transfer agents. And the spike fibre is anchored in the base by the same amino acid motif.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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Paul CM Fogg retweeted
10 Nov 2022
Antibiotic resistance (AR) is a major issue & could lead to 10 million deaths by 2050. We now have a funded PhD project to understand AR using advanced biophysical tools! Join @daniela_barilla, @PCMFogg and I @BiologyatYork & @PhysicsatYork!
Apply now👇👇
tinyurl.com/yzkmus37
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Paul CM Fogg retweeted
14 Nov 2022
📢Looking for an exciting PhD? Interested in #AntibioticResistance plasmids🧬and the mechanisms responsible for their survival in bacteria?
💵Funded @BBSRC project open to applicants worldwide with me & @PCMFogg & @Steve_Quinn_Lab in York
findaphd.com/phds/project/fu…
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ALT Super-resolution microscopy images of an E. coli cell
ALT Schematic of a bacterial cell with plasmids being segregated prior to cell division
ALT 3D structure of a protein involved in plasmid segregation
ALT Views of the University campus and York city
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