Dan Canniffe☀️🧬🦠🧫🔬🌱

Funded #PhD studentship opportunity on optical spectroscopy and structural techniques to study #photosynthesis and #solar energy capture in purple bacteria!🌞🦠Apply by 7 Jan 2026 @HitchcockLab @BrionyYorke Please share with UG students (Oct 2026 start) tinyurl.com/YB-Adams-2026

Some archaea—an ancient group of microorganisms—have an entirely novel genetic code, according to a new study in Science. Their genetic code reassigns a DNA “stop” signal to incorporate the rare amino acid pyrrolysine into their proteins. The findings expand our understanding of how alternative genetic codes evolve and hint at new molecular tools for biotechnology applications. scim.ag/49xnYx3

FPI fellowship available in our group!!

🚨 We’re hiring a #Postdoc (2 yrs) in #SyntheticBiology at RPTU 🇩🇪! Join SONATE – synthetic organelles to produce therapeutic #Tolyporphins (skin cancer therapy). 🧪 Apply by 15.08.2025 📍 RPTU + 🇪🇸 Córdoba 📄 Send CV + 2 refs #Biotech #AcademicJobs #BMCs

🎓 New PhD Position Available! We’re excited to announce a new opportunity to join our team as a PhD student. 👇 Check out all the details in our post below. 🚀 Apply now! Please RT!

Funded position available to join my new team at @UniTurku Finland to do a PhD exploring how circadian clocks regulate extracellular electron transfer in photosynthetic cells. Application open until end of summer, start by end of year. Please share/apply ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitoski…

Last chance to register. Deadline is tomorrow! Check out the excellent lineup of speakers.

Our review on chlorophototrophic bacteria with @CanniffeLab dedicated to Don Bryant: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share that our preprint on the #evolution of far-red light #photoacclimation (FaRLiP) in #cyanobacteria has been published in Current Biology. cell.com/current-biolog…

Happy to have this deep dive into polysaccharide family 33 out: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… We define features driving substrate specificity, catalytic mechanism, and evolutionary links with multiple lyases and epimerises #glycotime @PNASNews

Massive congratulations to the new Dr @nicky_rudling on your @NLD_BBSRCDTP PhD. We’re so lucky that you’re staying with the group @LivUniISMIB as a postdoc! Many thanks to Prof. Tom Bibby for venturing so far north to examine

I have a PhD available via the YBDTP scheme looking at host glycan cross-feeding in the human gut microbiota. What networks does this underpin? What metabolites are produnced? and how would this ultimately impact the host (humans) #glycotime: From findaphd.com📷

AAP lab looks for a motivated PhD student to investigate stress physiology of marine phototrophic bacterium Dinoroseobacter shibae using a combination of RNA and Transposon insertion sequencing. alga.cz/en/c-670-caree…

Just moved online, thx to the team guided by @fraaije1 and @MatteviLab: Dehydrogenase versus Oxidase Function: The Interplay between Substrate Binding and Flavin Microenvironment | @ACSCatalysis pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

New preprint 🥳 on cyclic electron transfer in chlamydomonas 🌱🦠☀️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dusty ice exposed at the surface of Mars could provide the conditions necessary for the presence of photosynthetic life, according to a modelling study published in @CommsEarth. go.nature.com/4h5kBi5

Our paper on a new #AMG #tetrapyrrole is finally out. Spearheaded by ⁦@SheilaRoitman⁩ ⁦@Helen_Phage⁩ ⁦ nature.com/articles/s4146…

Obituary information for Dr. Donald A. Bryant kochfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Dr-…

Evolution of Thylakoid Structural Diversity!🌱🦠🌍 Annemarie's deep dive🤿 into the wide wild world of photosynthetic complexes and thylakoid architecture and is now available open access @AnnualReviews. She also made beautiful figures🎨. Check it out! annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Our group's 1st preprint just out🥳 We developed a novel tool to probe how&how fast photoactive systems respond to pH changes, in real time, at ground and excited-state level! Congratulations to all authors, esp. Chunyu & Antonio @ICFOnians @VUamsterdam chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…