EMBO Tuberculosis Conference 2016

From 19th to 23rd September, we all attended the EMBO Tuberculosis Conference at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Anna presented a poster summarising her work on translational reporters

Beth attends Ribosome 2019

In January 2019, Beth travelled to Mexico to attend the Ribosome Structure and Function 2019, where she presented a poster

Anna and Beth attend the European Society of Mycobacteriology Congress

From 30th June to 3rd July 2019, Anna and Beth attended the European Society of Mycobacteriology in Valencia, Spain.

Anna described her work, Adaptation through diversity, in an oral presentation, whilst Beth presented a poster entitled, Exploring mechanisms of translation in the human pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Our review about translational regulation in mycobacteria is out in Nucleic Acids Research

In this Review, we highlight important differences in the translational machinery of M. tuberculosis compared with E. coli, and also consider the role of leaderless translation in the ability of M. tuberculosis to establish latent infection and look at the experimental evidence that translational regulatory mechanisms operate in mycobacteria during stress adaptation.

https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gky574/5045644

Beth Sawyer brings science to the #BriSciFest2018

Beth and a team of volunteers from UCL, Reading and LSHTM took science to the streets of Brighton this weekend with a hands-on activity about the role of scientists in sport at #BriSciFest2018.

“To coincide with the Winter Olympics, we ran a stall about the science behind performance-enhancing drugs: what they are, their effects, side-effects and how they are detected. Over 200 people visited the stall and worked through the activities to catch the #dirtydopers. Thanks to the @BiochemSoc and @RoyalSocBio for funding and the opportunity to get involved in promoting molecular bioscience in this way.”