To know about #FMT is one thing — but to speak with experts pioneering it is another. SCELSE's Prof Cynthia Whitchurch @cwhitch.bsky.social visited Sydney's Microbiome Research Centre, to explore gut microbiome links to mental health and disease for future collaborations.

Between 2018–2023, antibiotic resistance increased in over 40% of the pathogen–antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual rise of 5–15%. Resistance is highest in the WHO South-East Asian & Eastern Mediterranean Regions, where 1 in 3 reported infections were resistant 👉 bit.ly/438Ta1u

Our first effort exploring gut bacteria-extracellular ATP interactions is published! We show that eATP rewires gene expression and physiology in harmless and pathogenic bacteria, impacting production of bioactive metabolites, antimicrobial sensitivity, and virulence. A 🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Antibiotic resistance is accelerating.

We have a PhD opportunity available in our group @johninnescentre.bsky.social through the NRP Doctoral Training Partnership. Help us uncover the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial NLRs. Start date: October 2026. For more information and how to apply👉 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/bey...

My lab @scelse.bsky.social NTU is growing! Fun evening out with the team, I'm so fortunate to work with such a great group of scientists!

Quite an interesting protein search AI model combining sequence, structure, and function text - faster and more accurate than similarity searches. Who has tried it🤩🙌? Only a few secs to search bacterial TFs and integrases #microsky 🧬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧐Checkout our preprint revealing the stepwise firing💥 mechanism of a Contractile Injection System @xujwet.bsky.social&@chipericson.bsky.social trapped the complex by structure-guided engineering🧪 in multiple intermediate states and imaged them by multimodal #cryoEM❄️🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Off to @caltechlcssp.bsky.social to follow up the conversation started past Feb in Asilomar on *Biotech Beyond Conventional Containment*. Time to rethink the (now banned) release of Lab-trained microorganisms for extensive environmental remediation in view of new genet technols & urgent global needs

Holy moly

Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!

It should be noted that Google has noticed the backlash enough that they quietly published a code that would removed AI results for their searches. An enterprising person built a default site to search without AI, and the results are goddamn refreshing as hell. udm14.org

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

New comment Rethinking the role of animals in antimicrobial resistance www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OneHealth #OpenAccess #OA

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

Things are awful in UK academia, but they're even worse in Australia. All solidarity and thoughts with colleagues there too. It's a tough time. www.straitstimes.com/asia/austral...

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