I have been invited to speak at the Royal Society Meeting: Changing views of translation. I will be talking about Translational control of adaptive responses in Mycobacteria. I can’t wait!
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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
So happy to see this work co-led with Iñaki Comas from the IBV-CSIC in Spain finally out in Nature Communications.
Integration of transcriptomes and methylomes from MTB lineages reveals that creation of new transcriptional start sites due to single points mutations is shaping the transcriptional landscape within the MTB complex.
Very happy to see this great work led by Luiz Pedro Carvalho from the Francis Crick Institute finally out.
Getting to the bottom as to why there are almost no recorded cases of tuberculosis becoming resistant to the antibiotic D-Cycloserine.
Here is a link to the blog Beth wrote for the Biochemical Society reviewing their e-course on using technology for effective teaching. Enjoy!
In January 2019, Beth travelled to Mexico to attend the Ribosome Structure and Function 2019, where she presented a poster
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
We have further addressed translational regulatory mechanisms that may ensure the adaptation and survival of M. tuberculosis in the host by performing the first ribosome profiling experiment in the virulent strain H37Rv.
Check out the preprint here!
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 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.”