Dr Jess Buttress

An SPFH Protein Couples Membrane Stress to Differentiation in Bacillus subtilis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.704340v1

🔔Collabator Alert🔔

I’m putting together a project on UTIs and the urogenital microbiome and am looking for a collaborator with solid metagenomic sequencing/analysis experience. If you’d be interested in joining the work, I’d love to talk

#MicroSky #UTISky

Bacteriocin biophysics: From protein-protein interaction models to navigators of the bacterial cell envelope Bacteriocins are toxins deployed by bacteria to kill their competitors. Here, I reflect on my laboratory’s work on protein bacteriocins and their immunity proteins from Gram-negative bacteria. We unco...

A gift of an article from the inimitable Colin Kleanthous as he says a moving farewell to his laboratory. A brave, unrepentant and scientifically brilliant journey is described - please have a read, friends.

www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Exploiting the bacterial DNA damage response as an alternative antimicrobial at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Exploiting the bacterial DNA damage response as an alternative antimicrobial at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

E. coli is the leading bacterium causing death from AMR infections worldwide. If you'd like to explore approaches to exploit the DNA damage response as alternative antimicrobial, please apply to the following PhD studentship available in my lab starting October 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

💼JOB OFFER: There is a great opportunity for #PDRAs to join the #KathrynLilley #UniversityofCambridge lab to work on an ancient set of effector proteins IM30 family, that promote membrane integrity. See: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc.... Apply by the 13th Feb

Fabian was quicker :) But yes, we have an open postdoc position in bacterial bioenergetics and membrane biology, using on B. subtilis as the model. Come join us! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social is a great place to work, and we are a friendly, international lab. Visa+IHS fees covered. #microsky

It was a pleasure to be an examiner of the latest @henrikstrahl.bsky.social PhD graduate Laura Dobby. Great work and a very nice discussion in her viva. Congratulations Dr Dobby! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social

Super proud of you! 🦠

Let’s stare into the far red 🏮. A stunning tour-de-force of high-resolution #CryoEM by Gio, Bill, & company reveals how the machinery of photosynthesis redshifts itself so cyanobacteria can live on far red light, deep in the cracks of rocks or under microbial mats. #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 🔬 🌍

Decoding the functional role of the calcium ATPase YloB in microbially induced calcite precipitation and sporulation in Solibacillus silvestris Calcium homeostasis is essential for bacterial physiology, yet its regulation and role in specialized processes such as microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) and sporulation remain poorly u...

New preprint out from the team! Master‘s student extraordinaire Julia Bauer stumbled across a Ca transporter needed for endospore maturation in Solibacillus 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Possibly outing myself as the biggest nerd ever here but what a massive day for Ryan Sharpe, Oakville, Ontario, Canada appearing on both US Jeopardy and UK University Challenge!!

Research Assistant/Associate - Mapping the Bacterial Cell Wall with Super-resolution Microscopy at Newcastle University Apply for the Research Assistant/Associate - Mapping the Bacterial Cell Wall with Super-resolution Microscopy role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View det...

Postdoc position available!

This is a 2-year post funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. You'll be based in the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology here in Newcastle, using super-resolution microscopy to look at the bacterial cell wall. 🔬🦠

Please re-post 🙏

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY885/r...

We are happy to join the science community at BlueSky! #MicroSky

PhD studentship: Structural and functional characterisation of mycobacterial outer membrane proteins at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - PhD studentship: Structural and functional characterisation of mycobacterial outer membrane proteins at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

First post of the year to mark my return from maternity leave :) Excited to share the first open PhD position in my group.
Deadline end of February.
Please spread the word. www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=181239

Single molecule imaging of RecB in vivo reveals dynamics of DNA Double Strand Break repair in Escherichia coli https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629153v1

This has been an ongoing collaboration with Michaela Wenzel’s group since my PhD days so a huge thank you to everyone involved @alansckoh.bsky.social @henrikstrahl.bsky.social and hopefully this provides some cool results/techniques for upcoming AMR research! (3/3) #microsky

ii) daptomycin’s ability to cluster fluid lipid domains requires cell wall precursor lipids whilst membrane depolarisation does not, and finally, the Bacillus IM30 protein LiaH seems to play an intriguing role in clustering these daptomycin-cell wall precursor lipid complexes. (2/3)

So happy our pre-print on daptomycin mechanism of action is now out! Here, we present three main findings: i) daptomycin does not form large membrane pores in either B. subtilis or S. aureus, (1/3)