www.nature.com/articles/s41... Biological AI to interpret and generate DNA, RNA, proteins and cellular systems

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Phages drive the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes by facilitating host adaptation to heavy metal stress #phage #phagesky

The list of new (2026) elected members of the @femsmicro.org European Academy of Microbiology is out 👏 Congrats to the newcomers, most of them very well-known names incl many friends & close colleagues 😀 fems-microbiology.org/european-aca...

Great time in Segovia with Jay Hinton—one of my favourite microbiology colleagues. The castle of the background (El Alcazar) hosted the first chemistry lab in Spain in the XVIII century. While working there, Joseph Proust discovered the Law of Definite Proportions that every Chemistry student knows

Does an imbalanced gut microbiome worsen chronic kidney disease? By elucidating the ecological causes for changes in the gut microbiota composition and its consequences for disease progression we were able to answer this question. Read more at: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

📰 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐊 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧, 𝐌𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐫, 𝐒𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐧

95 new Fellows join the European Academy of Microbiology 🔬 The newly elected Fellows represent a wide range of expertise across microbiology and related disciplines , spanning institutions across Europe and beyond. Read the full announcement📄https://buff.ly/CdRK14U

The complete set of nucleobases found in terrestrial DNA and RNA — adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil — have been detected in samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu, according to research in Nature Astronomy. go.nature.com/3P9A9YN 🔭 🧪

New personal view article The diagnostic void: how #typhoid -by-default drives antimicrobial resistance in Ethiopia www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #Salmonella #OpenAccess #OA

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phage #phagesky

🦠 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘂𝘀 — 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄?” Historian @kirchhelle.bsky.social chats with 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 & 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝗯𝗱𝗲𝗻 about revival of phage biology & phage therapy as antibiotics fail. 🎧 2024 BBC Radio 4 — listen worldwide: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #phage #phagesky #microsky

😓😢 Sabotaging the NSF fellowship is a blunder | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

😮👀 The metabolome of an E. coli CRISPRi library identifies benefits of minimal metabolite levels and targets for engineering: Cell Systems www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Almost all of the scientists were previously at US institutions go.nature.com/4qMlrUR

Join us for our 2nd Aerosols and Microbiology: Bridging disciplines to advance health & environmental sustainability meeting. 📅Date: 9–11 June 2026 📍 Location: Leeds Marriott Hotel, UK Register your place: https://microb.io/Aerosols2026 #Microbiology #Conference #Health #Research

Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

By my count, this is the third CDC outbreak notice in the past three months involving Moringa leaf and various Salmonella strains. What's with that?

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

Congratulations to Mariana Byndloss @maribyndloss.bsky.social for her promotion to Associate Professor with tenure at Vanderbilt University @vanderbilt.edu Photo credit: Bäumler lab archives

So happy to see this story out! Incredible work on systematically standardizing a good cellular model for iNTS-macrophage interactions, which clearly shows how different Salmonella pathovariants are in terms of intracellular behaviour! @jayhinton.bsky.social

Bloodstream-associated Salmonella Typhimurium and Enteritidis iNTS pathovariants hyper-replicate in human macrophages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.702237v1

😢 this is seriously unfortunate. Many places, same story. www.cpr.org/2026/02/09/n...

Congratulations to Çagla Tükel @caglatukel.bsky.social for her election to fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology! asm.social/2OC

CHECK IT OUT 🦠👀 Very cool article by science journalist Carrie Arnold reviewing recent research from leading laboratories on how the unique shape of a microbial #biofilm emerges from interactions of its component microbes with each other and their environment www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-biofil...

#NewResearch Diverse genomes of lytic phages are found in bacterial assemblies, challenging assumptions about the nature of the lytic lifestyle. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NewResearch The long-term existence of diverse virulent phages within cultures of Escherichia coli and others challenges the virulent–temperate dichotomy and points to non-canonical phage lifestyles. #MicroSky 🦠 @peterdoug.bsky.social @emggroupucph.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Friday we lost a brilliant mind, colleague, and friend to her battle with pancreatic cancer. Those who knew her will remember Helene Andrews-Polymenis for her warmth, generosity and leadership. She will be missed by many. RIP

Our recent paper in npj Antimicrobials and Resistance is a great example of scientific serendipity: after staring at thousands of bacterial growth curves over many studies, we started wondering whether the curve shapes themselves carry mechanistic information 1/9 🦠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#microsky #phagesky The 3rd (? Lost track!) manuscript on a CRISPR/anti-CRISPR -based transposon tool to study gene essentiality in #phages www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The final form of my 2nd postdoc paper with the Bassler Lab! Turns out our favorite quorum-sensing phage isn’t a one-off, but rather a member of a globally dispersed family of phages that sense a universal autoinducer. #phagesky #microsky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Thank you Shaopu_Wang and colleagues for highlighting our latest work in a nice N&V www.cell.com/cell-metabol... www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

#MachineLearning methods are used to predict #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR from genomic data. @lbarquist.bsky.social &co show that sampling biases driven by population structure severely undermine the accuracy of AMR prediction models even with large datasets @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4iZ0zXQ

Very good news ‼️ fems-microbiology.org/european-aca... @femsmicro.org

🔔New Preprint🔔 Just posted on Access Microbiology (first time using this platform, seems great!) our work on looking for antimicrobial proteins in snake venom. This is work from the first bit of funding I received and the project (1/3) www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #MicroSky

New paper from the lab! Led by Patrick Müller: we show that non-antibiotic compounds — but not macrolide antibiotics — can induce an efflux pump that protects Bacteroidaceae from macrolides. A neat twist on drug–microbe interactions... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very interesting new protective response in live (!) neutrophils against bacterial infection:

#ConsensusStatement A new Consensus Statement presents the standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies (STREAMS) guidelines. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#microsky #phagesky #phge defence Preprint from the @soreklab.bsky.social reporting a plethora of novel TIR-based immune signalling systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations to Dr Annis Newman ‼️ It was a pleasure to read Dr Newman’s PhD thesis - and then to spend this morning’s Viva discussing the elegant science she did in @drprernavohra.bsky.social’s group at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

If you’re interested in solving bacterial mysteries, this PhD project is for you! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Had such a great time with @jayhinton.bsky.social strolling around Liverpool, discussing science &life, visiting Hinton Lab & other microbiology labs at Liverpool

Impact of Small RNA Sponges on Regulatory RNA Networks in Bacteria #microsky www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

It’s not only medications—environmental chemicals can also inadvertently harm our gut microbes. Excited to have contributed a bit to this important study!

#microsky #phagesky #phage Anyone who’s tried deleting prophages in the lab by HR knows the difficulties of the task. Here we have an example of how HR-mediated natural transformation might hit the same hurdle in a more native context. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

I took this photo in Dec 2024 - it explains my belief that sunsets are incredible at this time of year… Another calm evening had turned West Kirby’s Marine Lake into a perfect mirror ‼️ 🌇💛 🌇💛 #Sunset #BlueSky #Reflection #GoldenHour #WestKirby #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay

if you are interested in a PhD in tuberculosis drug discovery, check out our opportunities 🧪🦠 #Tuberculosis lstm.ac/PhD

The sunsets at this time of year are incredible. Last night’s was unforgettable — the calm evening turned West Kirby’s Marine Lake into a perfect mirror, reflecting the sky back at us. Truly life-affirming 🌇💛 🌇💛 #Sunset #BlueSky #Reflection #GoldenHour #WestKirby #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay

🚀New preprint from our lab! I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡 Continue reading (🧵)

🧫🦠🌍🧬 Alexander Harms group just made TnSeq possible for phages, enabling the possibility to infer functions over different hosts and conditions. This will revolutionise our toolbox to understand not only phage physiology, but also ecological plasticity! Congrats @aharms485.bsky.social!