Eachan Johnson

🚨4-year PhD position with @tinearnvig.bsky.social and me How do genetically identical bacteria generate multiple phenotypes, maximising survival in case of sudden catastrophes like nutrient starvation or host immunity?

FACULTY POSITION: We are seeking an Assistant Professor to join our growing and vibrant Department of Microbiology at Cornell! FOCUS: Using bacteria to address 21st century challenges. (part of a cohort hire in SynBio). *please repost* academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33098 #MicroSky

We are looking for a PhD student to join us in London next year! Are you interested in genetic screens? Host-pathogen interactions? Intestinal biology? Our lab applies curiosity driven research within medically relevant models of pathogenesis. Interested? Apply here: bit.ly/4icnsqM

Come and join my group at @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social! We have an opening for a postdoc position in photopharmacology. Prior experience with photoswitches and photopharmacology essential. Deadline 27th April. For more details see my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #Chemsky

The latest AI/ML tools for co-folding proteins around small molecule ligands can produce impressive results. Until you start looking at them closely.

Very excited to share our recently published work on NTM and their response to acid stress! As my first paper, I’m especially grateful for the support and guidance from @luizcarvalholab.bsky.social , Rachel and @maxgg.bsky.social . More to come!

Are you interested in being the first biologist in our new team? Come join our small but growing group. Deadline for applications is 3rd March. #Tuberculosis 🧪🦠 #TBDrugDiscovery

I am happy to share our recent publication in @nature.com on a mucosal immunization strategy that clears C. difficile colonization in mice. Congratulations to Audrey Thomas, lead author on the work. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 4-year PhD position in my lab at @crick.ac.uk Using active learning & chemical genomics to find new antibiotics with new targets in pathogenic bacteria. Looking for: chemistry / chem bio / comp bio / micro backgrounds with coding interest. Deadline 17 March. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

I’m looking forward to this incredible opportunity to advance the science of antibiotic discovery with the Gr-ADI consortium.

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... interested in bacterial antagonism? PhD opportunity in our team, see below. Please repost!

I am looking for a postdoc to develop high-performance algorithms in computational genomics. Email or DM me if interested. For more information, see hlilab.github.io/vacancies. RTs appreciated!

Collaboration of AI and wet experiments with high thoughput technology is the one of solution IMHO.

We’re excited to share our latest study that reshapes our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lipid composition, with major implications for drug discovery, immunity, and vaccine development. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A thread.

"Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" Is uite literally what you'd see if coliderbias:

@peterfineran.bsky.social and colleagues develop Tn-seq for phages by leveraging anti-CRISPR (Acr) as a positive selectable marker in the presence of CRISPR-Cas counter-selection, and identify essential genes in phage from non model orgs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Light-activated metal complexes have been shown to disable antibiotic resistance enzymes in E. coli, significantly enhancing the effectiveness of existing antibiotics without harming human cells. doi.org/hbcxrb

📣 Paper alert! I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

🚨Deadline for our Senior Scientist applications is next week. If you want to develop your academic career in London and help us tackle next-generation drug discovery for Gram-negative infections, apply!

Crick group leaders work across disciplines, supported by core funding and mentoring to build ambitious, curiosity-driven research. Apply now to join us ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Just a few weeks left to apply for our clinical PhD programme. We're looking for clinicians who are passionate about research to join the 3-year fully funded programme. Learn more and see what positions are available ⬇️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

📢 We're searching for a PhD-level Senior Research Scientist to develop a next-generation antibacterial drug discovery strategy for Gram-negative infections. If you're looking to combine CRISPRi and high-throughput assays, reach out to me by email or apply below. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Join our community of more than 120 ambitious research programmes in infectious disease, chemical biology, and many other areas of biomedicine - all under one roof with fantastic facilities and support.

We are inviting applications for postdoctoral fellows in immunology of TB at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town. For more information see the attached ad: idm.uct.ac.za/media/739223

Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!

Important piece from Sarah Stanley at Berkeley on new NIH definitions that can be construed to arbitrarily halt research that is both safe and important to public health and future cures www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g... via @statnews.com

🧪 Excited to share our new work on reactive metallo-scaffolds (r-mS)! We combine metal complexes with chemoproteomics to discover new liganding sites across the proteome! Shout out to a great collaboration with GSK! Fantastic team effort 🫶🏻 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Our article on human multidomain protein biogenesis is now published in @natsmb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social More info below ⬇️

Now online! Mining the CD4 antigen repertoire for next-generation tuberculosis vaccines

Be my colleague! Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is hiring two tenure-track positions for Fall 2026, chemical education and coatings technology. Chen Ed: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Coatings: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...

Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely! chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

My institution is looking to hire a new microbiologist: apply.interfolio.com/173702. Please share, and let me know if you have any questions about the position or UTA.

So...what would happen to the global TB epidemic if we hypothetically "eliminated" undernutrition? In this preprint, we combined estimates from our new review (doi.org/10.1093/ije/...) with population-specific BMI distributions to find out...(doi.org/10.1101/2025...)

How to make training data from tacit knowledge in medicinal chemistry is one of the big challenges.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

A new methods paper from us, this time with a focus on reliable monitoring membrane potential and cell lysis at different growth stages and cell densities. Also, note the surprisingly high level of background lysis in seemingly healthy B. subtilis cultures. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now available in a polished format! An important step toward accelerated functional genomics for the Cryptosporidium parasite. Brought to you by the incomparable @lucy-watson.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...