Tim Blower

@BlowerLab

Senior Principal Investigator at New England Biolabs and Honorary Professor at Durham University. Views my own. He/him.

New England Biolabs, MA blowerlab.com Joined September 2020

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For all phage defence pholks - registration for the Symposium on the Immune Systems of Bacteria 2027 is now open! 20-22nd July, 2027, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. See you there! sisb2027.info

sisb2027.info Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria 2027 Visit the post for more.

Tim Blower @BlowerLab Sep 24

New preprint from the MultiDefence consortium - continuing to expand the restriction-modification landscape with MANTIS. Full info here: biorxiv.org/content/10.648… . Well done team!

Tim Blower @BlowerLab Mar 20

Postdoc position now open in my lab at New England Biolabs. Focus is on exploring phage defence systems through biochem and structural biology. @NEBiolabs provides an academic research environment with the freedom of industry. Please take a look! 🤓🧫🧬 tinyurl.com/49phcyh6

Tim Blower @BlowerLab Nov 17, 2025

Rel/Par superfamily toxins have yet another activity - trimming off the 16S rRNA to kill tuberculosis. Thanks again to wonderful collab with @GenevauxPierre and team, out today shorturl.at/Rm8N4 @DurBiol @NEBiolabs @izaakbeck 🤓🎊🎉

academic.oup.com Ribonuclease toxin RelE1 inhibits growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis through specific cleavage of... Abstract. Toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems are central to bacterial immunity, genome maintenance, and pathogenicity. Toxins of TA systems use diverse strategie

Tim Blower @BlowerLab Nov 4, 2025

Looking for great PhD candidates! Excited to collab with Prof Mark Szczelkun at Bristol UK, studying MADS phage defence. This will be a CASE studentship including research visits to New England Biolabs HQ in MA, USA 🤓 @NEBiolabs shorturl.at/KZGup deadline 3rd Dec

www.findaphd.com Funded PhD SWBio DTP- (CASE) Understanding the molecular mechanism of the MADS bacterial immune... PhD Project - Funded PhD SWBio DTP- (CASE) Understanding the molecular mechanism of the MADS bacterial immune system and its synergy with CRISPR-Cas at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com