Funded PhD opportunity for anyone interested in using cutting-edge chemistry to look at glycan profiles in prostate cancer samples 🙌🏻 The successful student will be based at the University of York with Prof Alison Parkin with the opportunity to carry out a placement at the @nucancer.bsky.social

Looking for a PhD opportunity in Microbiology? Consider joining one of the UK's leading microbiology research clusters at Newcastle University. See the thread for MRC DTP studentships currently advertised. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social #microsky

If you are interested in researching how drug resistant bacteria evade killing by our immune system, them this PhD project is for you. Come join the our team at Newcastle, in collaboration with University of Liverpool, and lead research at the interface of microbiology, immunology and metabolomics.

Interested in a PhD at the intersection of biophysics and microbiology? Apply for this MRC-funded opportunity at Newcastle University to do cutting-edge microscopy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis! 🔬🦠 Closing 4 Dec! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Want to work within a multidisciplinary group to combat antifungal resistance in Candida spp? Fully-funded MRC PhD studentship in collaboration with @nclfungalgroup.bsky.social and Francesco Del Carratore on the mode of action of a new class of antifungal drugs. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

PhD opportunity with me and @kshbeckham.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany. More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2) 🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl 📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025 Please repost. #Postdoc

Looking for an AMR-themed PhD project? Join us to investigate antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus through a fully funded MRC DTP PhD studentship starting in September 2026. This project is close collaboration with @kateduncan.bsky.social and @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social.

If you’re interested in metals, microbes and maths 🤘 - please check out this PhD on the impact of metals on microbial communities with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social @blindmath.bsky.social Denis Patterson and myself, you’d be based in Durham & be part of a vibrant interdisciplinary research group

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

PhD project available in my lab. Email me with CV if interested www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #microsky #bioimaging

The #SalgadoLab has now officially moved into @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social! Thank you to amazing lab members Anna, Ella and Pavi for making it happen and @henrikstrahl.bsky.social Kasia, Charles, Tom, Amandeep, Julie and everyone at CBCB! Looking forward to working closely with everyone! #microsky

#AMR - no one is safe until everyone is safe "These bugs have long been considered to only cause infections in older babies, but are now infecting babies in their first days of life" #AntimicrobialResistance www.sciencealert.com/study-reveal...

Very exciting to have Prof Mark Blaskovich @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social (hosted by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social) all the way from the University of Queensland, Australia to give a seminar on collaborative approaches to combat antimicrobial resistance #drugdiscovery #AMR #antibiotics

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

Our paper on the Bacteroidota BAM complex is out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! With @madejmar.bsky.social We found that BAM in Bacteroides and Porphyromonas gingivalis has a distinct architecture from BAM in Proteobacteria. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Check it out! A proper team effort from past and present group members and a great collaboration with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social

Also see the accompanying paper from Carol Gross' lab that used a similar approach for Bacillus subtilis: www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Finally out, such an awesome piece of work, very proud of this one: www.cell.com/cell-systems... #MicroSky

The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria blocks many antibiotics. Our latest work reveals that L-type pyocins bypass this barrier by inactivating the BAM complex, killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa without entering the cell, providing a new blueprint for beating antibiotic resistance.

New paper out, with a contribution from Dom Gurvic and I; led by Andy Lovering and @lalouxlab.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Previous preprint is now published in RSC Chemical Biology. If you are interested in plasma membrane labeling, see the paper! 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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...

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

#microsky We challenge the long-standing view that peptidoglycan alone protects cells from bursting. Our study shows that the periplasm — enclosed by OM–PG connections — acts as a pressure buffer essential for osmoprotection in Gram-negative bacteria. 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions. Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

Fascinating seminar by Prof @gebhardlab.bsky.social on ‘Building bacterial bridges – How an ancient bacterial trait can help us build the infrastructure of the future’ and visit at @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social (hosted by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social) #bacillus #spores

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Check out our latest preprint! We show that the same antibacterial toxin requires different immunity proteins depending whether it’s intra or extracellular

Check out this tour de force by Nils Meiresonne and colleagues, establishing FLIM-FRET as a reliable way to study protein interactions in live bacteria with spatiotemporal resolution! We open the door to exploring divisome protein interactions during cell division. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are recruiting for a PhD student who wants to understand how bacterial membranes are built and how they function. It would be a biology meets maths project … if this piques your interest take a look here: macsys.org/monash-phd-s... for project details and contact info

Big thanks to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of Otago for hosting me for a sabbatical. I thoroughly enjoyed the stay! Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.

This took us a while and I am all the happier it is finally out! I thought that simply adding ATP to purified potassium channel KtrAB should be sufficient to stabilize its active state. I was so wrong... Read the full story on how an IDR facilitates channel opening upon membrane interaction.

New paper out! Would you like to fluorescently label the plasma membrane in live, fixed or permeabilized cells? I tested different lipid structures and labelling approaches to decide what makes a good membrane labelling probe for such imaging experiments! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bacterial cell envelope wonders. Always fascinating to learn about cell envelope biogenesis and see all the ingenious molecular tricks we can use to study it. Great work from the Colin Kleanthouse lab @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social Check at rb.gy/akaugi @pnas.org

Certainly worth attending! @matthieublandenet.bsky.social from our group will be discussing the bacterial cell wall and its role as a key antibiotic target.

Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy! Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further. If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product Please RT🔬🦠

#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages) Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

We are looking for a postdoc with microbiology background for #superresolution #singlemolecule #ERC tracking project. Apply by 27.4.2025. 🦠🔬🧫 Pls share! www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

We have 3 positions for students who want to start a PhD in the next 12 months. If you like advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques and S. aureus cell biology, check links and apply(April 4) euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325394 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325395 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325396

Looking for a PhD opportunity in Microbiology? Consider joining one of the strongest clusters of microbiology research in UK at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, Biosciences Institute, and @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social. See thread for BBSRC DTP PhD studentships currently advertised.

Dissecting Gram-negative envelope biogenesis to understand drug delivery in Gram-negative pathogens. Supervised by Manuel Banzhaf, @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @henrikstrahl.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

(It took a while to travel this far but) its good to be finally in Dunedin!

This was a fantastic collaboration with our neighbors @mblokesch.bsky.social & David Adams and Mark Szczelkun and @steven-shaw.bsky.social in Bristol. Special thanks to the DCI for invaluable support with cryo-EM of a rather difficult target! @drhonsworth.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to be heading to the University of Otago for my sabbatical at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology! Looking forward to meeting everyone. Big thanks to Rachel Darnell and Greg Cook for organising, and to the Royal Society of New Zealand (@royalsocietynz.bsky.social) for the support!

Excited to share with you the story that enabled me to start my own lab: what happens when the bacterial DNA replication machinery encounters single-strand discontinuities on template DNA? What is required for break repair and replication restart? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...