Scientist (metals, proteins, and microbes), home fermenter. 🏃🏻‍♂️

Joined November 2016
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Peter Chivers retweeted
We are recruiting for my lab in Warsaw. One postdoc position available for a biochemistry project on superoxide dismutases (of course). ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/2025/… We're also looking for a technician. ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/2025/… Get your application in!

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Peter Chivers retweeted
Apply for a PhD in my group at #CNAP, University of York. Deadline Mon 6th Jan 2025. We enjoy fab #plantsci, tackle #realworldproblems, #collaborate with #industry, cogitate with academics, #travel, #chuckle and learn #funstuff. findaphd.com/phds/project/de…
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28 Aug 2024
Deadline is 3rd September for this new #postdoc role in @hall_lab - check out the details below, and remember if you want to apply you have to submit an application via the UoB vacancies portal (email applications can't be accepted). 🦠🧫💩🧒💊😀
18 Aug 2024
The #postdoc role in @hall_lab @IMIBirmingham for this exciting project is now live! If you're passionate about #microbiome research, and want to explore iron uptake in beneficial Bifido check out the details below and see if you're a 'fit'! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
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Just over a week left to apply for the Durham PDRA associated with this project (see link in original post).
1 Aug 2024
We're very excited to start this new @BBSRC funded project @IMIBirmingham in collaboration with @ptchivers exploring #iron uptake and use in #Bifido! Keep an 👀out for a soon to be advertised #PDRA post @hall_lab & check out @ptchivers #PDRA role 👉durham.taleo.net/careersecti…
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1 Aug 2024
We're very excited to start this new @BBSRC funded project @IMIBirmingham in collaboration with @ptchivers exploring #iron uptake and use in #Bifido! Keep an 👀out for a soon to be advertised #PDRA post @hall_lab & check out @ptchivers #PDRA role 👉durham.taleo.net/careersecti…

Thanks to a new funding injection, @unibirmingham researchers will investigate how the gut microbiota can help infants that have iron deficiency anaemia. @IMIBirmingham birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/n…
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PhD position if you are interested in protein engineering and metals using a combination of computational and experimental approaches. Deadline is 20th Feb. findaphd.com/phds/project/me…
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21 Oct 2023
We are recruiting! Excited to get started on a new project funded by an @bbsrc Pioneer Award. If you are interested in live imaging, signalling dynamics and stem cells and looking for a postdoc position, join us @DurBiol: durham.taleo.net/careersecti…

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Peter Chivers retweeted
I am recruiting! We're looking for two PhD students to join my new lab's research team at IBB Warsaw. Projects will involve biochemistry, structural biology, bioinformatics and biophysics, studying the superoxide dismutases.
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Apparently, bees love honey garlic (common name).
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Peter Chivers retweeted
New in #JBacteriology: Eight new bacterial selenoproteins include the methymercury formation proteins HgcA and HgcB in Clostridium difficile. Motifs suggest selenium roles in biochemistry of organometallics. @ASMicrobiology @JBacteriology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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A reminder of this PhD opportunity - metals, microbes, and proteins in varying measure!
For those who like metals and microbes! Competitive PhD studentship being advertised for next year in Durham (open to worldwide applicants). With @Prof_Sarge at Newcastle. findaphd.com/phds/project/ma…
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Peter Chivers retweeted
Next event: Selective recognition and separation of f-block elements using lanmodulin by @CotruvoLab from @psu_chemistry Penn State Uni. Wed 14th Dec, 1.30pm (UK time) online, details: mib-nibb.webspace.durham.ac.…
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Peter Chivers retweeted
Fully funded PhD studentship available in my lab @UEA_Chemistry (Oct 23 start) to study iron-sulfur cluster assembly using biophysical methods including native mass spec. Closing date Nov 21st. Please RT! biodtp.norwichresearchpark.a…

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Anyone out there know possible bugs that might produce the red colour? About 2 to 2.5 cm from top. #Winogradsky column started March 2021, left in a North facing window until Sept 2022, then to South facing. Seems diff. to something growing lower in a different column (right).
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Peter Chivers retweeted
VACANCY: Chief Experimental Officer (Job # 22001793) @DurhamUniversity, Dept. Biosciences (Biomolecular Interactions), £43,414-£51,805 pa, Permanent - Full Time, Supporting Metals in Biology research, ICP-MS, protein production, protein biochemistry. tinyurl.com/6u94yvyz

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Peter Chivers retweeted
We just updated our preprint, reporting the resurrection of nitrogenases. Life is stubborn. It has sustained a unique solution to dinitrogen reduction - one of the most challenging biochemical reactions in nature - for millions of years: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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90 minutes on a Sunday afternoon
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