Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols. Thread 1/n

🐟💊🦠Our new study in @natwater.nature.com 🐟💊🦠 "Microbial risks triggered by oral administration of antibiotics in fish aquaculture persist long after the legally mandated antibiotic withdrawal time" www.nature.com/articles/s44... #microsky #amr 1/8

#NewResearch Opposing forces generated by exopolysaccharide trail binding versus type IV pilus retraction generate a high cyclic diGMP–high cyclic AMP state in Pseudomonas aeruginosa that promotes social motility. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For our scientists. By @ellecordova.bsky.social

If you're interested in learning microbiology🦠, AI 🤖, and bioinformatics 🧬, check out our lab’s knowledge graph (built by Jeff—our in-house software engineer). An efficient way to train PhD students! genomiverse.net/JeffsKnowled... #Microbesky #Microbiomesky #AI4S #Bioinformatics

NTU shared our DNA alignment tool designed for microbes 🦠🧬☰! #Microbiomesky #Microsky blogs.ntu.edu.sg/science/2025...

MIT News: news.mit.edu/2024/human-g... — Sharing our new publication in Cell Genomics: cell.com/cell-genomic... about why our human gut microbiome rarely updates its CRISPR defense systems!

Pleased to welcome my new colleague from SBS @ NTU Singapore, Anni Zhang @annizlab.bsky.social, to the platform. She is a dynamic addition to our school, and it's always a pleasure to discuss science with her. Looking forward to her contributions here. Find more about her lab 👇

Hi everyone, I'm a bioinformatician & microbiologist. My new lab @Nanyang Technological University uncovers diverse microbial mechanisms (regulatory networks, selective sweeps, host-microbe interactions, ...) via machine learning! genomiverse.net

Our group review on the history of #Myxococcus xanthus as a model organism (journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...) made the cover of the Journal of Bacteriology!!!🦠🧫🔬

An inspiring read! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... A beautiful historical perspective on Ester Lederberg's legacy from @ccwendling.bsky.social & @zacharybailey.bsky.social

📣 Ready to lead your own lab? NTU Singapore's Nanyang Assistant Professorship offers a 100% paid salary & a S$2.75M start-up package. We're visiting the US this Sept to recruit top talent. Meet us in NYC, Boston & more! #FacultyJobs #TenureTrack Register HERE: lnkd.in/gSy5qpA7

😳 #phage #phagesky #microsky Pseudomonads coordinate innate defense against viruses and bacteria with a single regulatory system: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Nice to see a follow up story on @drlauranolan.bsky.social Pseudomonas aeruginosa T6SS toxin Tse8

Who couldn’t use a little OUTSIDE ASSISTANCE 🦠 ??? Intracellular 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘢 cells can only escape vacuoles with help from extracellular cells via type III secretion–driven Ca²⁺ influx, ultimately promoting pathogen spread in vivo. Suzanne Fleiszig Lab @UCBerkeley in Nature Comm

this is all new and pretty exciting. but please, don't get even started with hyping the archaea as 'ancient microbes'. extant #Archaea are no more or no less 'ancient' than their bacterial cousins, which also survived numerous of 'Eath's extremes' during their history. thank you. #MicroSky

#microsky #phage #phagesky eCIS hits again.

#microsky #AMR

Biofilm formation and dynamics in the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

This piece is amazing and it resonates really well with my public health students.

Our latest efforts to understand Enterococcal wound infection. In long-term collaboration with @gthibault.bsky.social, we discovered how E. faecalis makes extracellular ROS - via EET!⚡️Which in turn dysregulates host UPR to delay wound healing. Led by @aarontan.bsky.social - his videos below are 🤩!

I do hope one day we'll be able to move phages beyond a tantalising promise to knowing if and how they can be part of our antibiotic arsenal #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #MicroSky @bsacandjac.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jac/advance-...

Want to learn more about dissecting microbial community interactions across scales using the corrinoid model? Check out this @annualreviews.bsky.social of Microbiology article from our lab. Congrats to co-first authors Zoila and Becky! #microsky www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

#ResearchBriefing Deep, long-read metagenome sequencing expands knowledge of prokaryotic phylogenetic diversity #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really cool work, congrats Gechlang, Sean, and team! 👏🏽

𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗟𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 🦠🧬 Dive into the lytic cycle! A bacteriophage injects DNA, hijacks the host, and rapidly replicates until the bacterium lyses, releasing a new swarm of virulent phages! #blender #3D #cgi #science #research #biology #phage #lyticcycle #bacteria #scicomm #sciart

Degradation of extracellular polymeric substances shapes microbial community diversity journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #jcampubs

Bacterial cell wall & periplasm paradigm shift - important read #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Targeted disruption of phage liquid crystalline droplets abolishes antibiotic tolerance of bacterial biofilms led by @abultarafder.bsky.social Great collaboration with @pearce-maths.bsky.social and @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Here's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Very excited to be co-organizing the next Keystone Symposia on Human Microbiomes, in Jan 2026 in Banff with Ami Bhatt and Harry Sokol. www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/... Speaker list includes Emily Balskus, Don Ingber, Mohamed Abou Donia, Tamia Harris-Tryon, and Julie Segre.

We wrote 2 📕 chapters with tips & tricks to identify protein-protein interactions in bacteria 🦠 1) In vivo proximity labeling with miniTurbo link.springer.com/protocol/10.... 2) An adapted polar recruitment assay feat. E. coli as a test tube link.springer.com/protocol/10..... Enjoy #MicroSky 🧪

Finally online! Our latest research is out @nature.com: We show that non-antibiotic drugs can disrupt colonization resistance, raising the risk of enteric infections. rdcu.be/ewwrG

Tissue destruction during food spoilage is associated with the formation of biofilms by Pseudomonas species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664243v1

Great to start this research @quadraminstitute.bsky.social with @cwhitch.bsky.social @science-bear.bsky.social @alisonmather.bsky.social @haideralkhanaq.bsky.social, Samuel Bloomfield, Greg Wickham, Ryan Sweet. Excited to continue food chain biofilm research in my lab @scelse.bsky.social!

Thrilled to see my first publication on food chain biofilms out! Check out the super cool biofilms Pseudomonas makes on food surfaces and the contribution of these to food spoilage. We're continuing to work in this space to find novel ways to extend food shelf life and reduce food waste! 🧫🧪

Words cannot describe how excited I am to share the findings from the second half of my postdoc in @aaronwhiteley.bsky.social's lab where we discover that bacteria use functional amyloids to defend themselves from predatory bacteria. rdcu.be/euu5Y. See thread for details on this epic adventure 1/.

(multispecies) biofilm aficionados take note 👇 "...interesting emergent behaviors - regarding growth and enzymatic activity - in the four-species community which were not seen in the monocultures."

newatlas.com/medical-devi... #MicroSky

New capabilities! SCELSE has installed a new isothermal microcalorimetry system (Symcel CalScreener) to track microbial metabolism in real-time — including responses to antibiotics, phage; and in biofilms and during transitions to alternate lifestyles. Pix (R): Prof Whitchurch - cwhitch.bsky.social

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

First live video of a colossal squid highlights one of the most exciting knowledge gaps in deep ocean exploration – Southern Fried Science

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Nearly missed my bus stop reading this fascinating review :)

Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩 Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭! Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.

So happy we finally published this great piece from Antje Keller @antjekeppler.bsky.social and colleagues on the path forward for FAIR bioimage sharing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...