Chris Thomas
Professor at University of Birmingham. Passionate about plasmids: how they work; how to use them; how to displace them when they are a nuisance. Founded International Society for Plasmid Biology (ISPB) in 2004. Currently Treasurer of ISPB and FEMS
- After discussion with some current students at the University of Birmingham I sent them a link to a YouTube video some of my students (Carys Ladd, Sanem Sertug and Yuqian Ye) made about our work a few years ago so I thought I would share the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH8A...
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- Chris Thomas Our commercialisation arm, University of Birmingham Enterprise Ltd, issued a press release last week (bit.ly/3SBfuLq) related to our recent Nucleic Acids Research paper (bit.ly/4lSyCSH ) and other on-going work.
- Reposted by Chris ThomasThe paper is now live: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... Absolutely delighted to play a role in this fascinating story!
- The second great paper concerns the discovery in Eva Top's group that an enigmatic protein encoded by IncP-1beta plasmids modulates the IncP-1 circuitry in E. coli to make the plasmid a burden in this host: Elg et al recently accepted in Molecular Biology and Evolution doi.org/10.1093/molb...
- This week's highlight was the 2nd ISPB Virtual Seminar 2025 (www.plasmidbiologysociety.org/ispb-virtual...) organised by Manuel Ares Arroyo, Fabienne Benz and Pedro Dorado Morales (Inst Pasteur) Great talks by Maho Tokuda and Celia Souque. You can still sign up if you have not already done so.
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