Laura Catón

#ASMicrobe2024, Atlanta, there we go (samples included!!) @ASMicrobiology @FEMSmicro Thanks for the award and great opportunity!! Happy to show the beauty of (the genetics) of bacteria structural colour!! (@VignoliniLab+Hoekmine BV)

Day 1 in the marine Flavobacteria conference in Roscoff! High versus low tide (9.5m!!) what a great view aside from the first ecology and biochemist sessions ... More tomorrow! @SBRoscoff

Happy to announce the line-up for the 2024 Wellcome Trust Synthetic Biology for Health and Sustainability Conference in Cambridge, UK on 21–23 October. …erences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/syntheti… | What an exciting line-up. Hope you can join us!

Thanks to everyone in our groups in Cambridge and MPI who contributed to making this happen.

@PanosSarris is its phenotype angle dependent? Looks structural colour, C. lytica, Flavobacterium ... check pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… and feel free to contact hoekmine.com

Dear community, the samples we obtained from a deep cave revealed a bacterium with a weird phenotype... it produces a glowing compound that phosphoresce (in normal light). Any idea of what species this could be?

@ProfTomEllis Thanks @ProfTomEllis happy to share the work between Hoekmine BV and @VignoliniLab . More to come!

Stunning talk now on making and mutating structural colour from Flavobacteria from Laura Catón from Cambridge #swissuksynbio

Great opportunity at the OT6, thanks to #FEMS2023 three more days ahead #microbiology #IndustrialMicrobiology #biotech #Genetics Contact me to discuss and view preserved samples of our bacterial structural colour model organism #flavobacteria IR1 @VignoliniLab #HoekmineBV

@Joe_E_Weaver Thanks@Joe_E_Weaver, glad you have enjoyed the talk :)

Laura Catón giving one of the most visually pleasing talks on engineering bugs whose colony structure gives vibrant non-pigmented colours. Ask to see her physical sample preserved in resin! #FEMS2023

What’s a habit you picked up in the lab that now invades other parts of your life? I’ll go first

Which kind of PCR band did you get? Reply this tweet with your worst PCR

‘What is it like being a PhD student?’ twitter.com/buitengebieden…

Congratulations to Benjamin Droguet @VignoliniLab for making it to the finals of the UK ClimateLaunchpad competition for climate-friendly cellulose pigments and glitter spin-out Sparxell Sparxell.com - and good luck in the European Finals on 27/9! #climatesolutions

@XenosInScience @MicrobioSoc Thanks @XenosInScience @MicrobioSoc #ECMConf22 check our latest publication if you want to know more about how Polysaccharide metabolism regulates structural colour in bacterial colonies | Journal of The Royal Society Interface royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Had a really cool chat at the #ECMConf22 organised by @MicrobioSoc over the poster about bacterial photonics crystals (did you ever see anything like that? 🤩) This is the sample of Flavobacterium. Depending on an angle of the view you can see different colours of this dry colony

Great talks at the @LivingLightConf this year! We had two contributions from PhD students in our own lab, Gea and Laura (@LauCaton), both of whom presented work on structurally coloured bacterial colonies. Thanks to the organisers for a great conference!

Do you disagree with UKRI decision about covid PhD extensions - sign the Petition: UKRI should extend all PhD students affected by COVID-19 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/3152…

Structural Colour and Predation naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/structur… #behindthepaper #isme #ismejournal #ismej

The coloured colonies of Flavobacteriia now in a bacteria-on- bacteria predation study. Check our newest paper in ISME Journal (rdcu.be/b6CMw). hoekmine.com

We are back- Join our online meeting in July! More info here livinglight-conference.org