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Microbial ecology / evolution / genomics @ University of York
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Anne Chevallereau
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JOB OFFER
#PhageSky
We have a postdoc position opening in my group to investigate phage-MGE interactions ! We're based in the very nice city of Lyon, France
@mmsb-lyon.bsky.social
Contact me for more info ! >> Apply on the CNRS webpage
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral researcher Microbiology (M/F)
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR5086-ANNCHE-007/Default.aspx?lang=EN
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Ashish Malik
22 days ago
PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP. On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network. Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
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Gavin Thomas (he/him)
29 days ago
I'll be writing more about this soon, but Reyme's developed a very cool culturomics workflow to enable us to understand and recreated real microbiomes from the human underarm. Corynebacterium focus in this paper.
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Revealing the diversity of commensal corynebacteria from a single human skin site | mSystems
This study uncovers the hidden diversity of Corynebacterium, an important yet often overlooked group of bacteria inhabiting human skin. Focusing on the underarm and using advanced sequencing technique...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/msystems.00459-25
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Giusy Mariano
about 1 month ago
🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me,
@suzieh.bsky.social
and
@walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social
to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Paul Fogg
about 2 months ago
🚨Exciting
#Postdoc
opportunity in the Fogg & Antson labs: 3-year post based
@biologyatyork.bsky.social
to explore the
#StructuralBiology
& mechanism of viral DNA-packaging motors using cutting-edge
#Cryo-EM
, biophysical and molecular approaches. Apply by 9th Oct at
bit.ly/3Iz3bOu
#ScienceJobs
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Jobs - The University of York
http://bit.ly/3Iz3bOu
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Daniel Padfield
about 2 months ago
I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (
padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about
) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠
#microsky
Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
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Daniel Padfield
about 2 months ago
Today in the AI hellscape we are building for ourselves, people are easily creating "official looking" websites of popular bioinformatics software that are not at all linked to the developers.
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Dr Katherine Duncan
about 2 months ago
Really looking forward to sharing our science with Yorkshire Philosophical Society at Tempest Anderson Hall on Oct 14th - thank you to
@gavinhthomas.bsky.social
for the invite
www.ypsyork.org/events/antib...
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Antibiotics from the Abyss | Yorkshire Philosophical Society
promoting the understanding of science since 1822
https://www.ypsyork.org/events/antibiotics-from-the-abyss/
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Kat Coyte
2 months ago
closing at the end of this week!
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"the assemblage used a peak of 2.18 million CPU cores" Fair enough 🤯
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Rayan Chikhi
2 months ago
🌎👩🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Kat Coyte
3 months ago
A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon,
@brockhurstlab.bsky.social
& others Please share & get in touch if interested!
tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3
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Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Oxford Road
https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=32976&Source=JobtrainGoogle
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Michael Brockhurst
3 months ago
We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by
@ukri.org
BBSRC sLoLa
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Ellinor Alseth
3 months ago
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...
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Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/282139/research-position-in-microbial-pharmacology-and-population-biology
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Meaghan Castledine
3 months ago
Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚
www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1
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Ryan Cook
5 months ago
New pre-print alert! 🚨🫁 COPD affects millions worldwide. While we know bacterial dysbiosis drives disease, the role of bacteriophages remains unexplored. We re-analysed 135 COPD metagenomes to characterise the lung virome for the first time 🫁 1/9
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Asaf Levy
5 months ago
Our new paper is online in Genome Biology: "Plasmids, prophages, and defense systems are depleted from plant microbiota genomes"
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Plasmids, prophages, and defense systems are depleted from plant microbiota genomes - Genome Biology
Plant-associated bacteria significantly impact plant growth and health. Understanding how bacterial genomes adapt to plants can provide insights into their growth promotion and virulence functions. He...
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-025-03641-3
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Alex Crits-Christoph
5 months ago
HMMER is the bedrock of genomic annotation globally, and now its funding is terminated for no reason.
@cryptogenomicon.bsky.social
is now on bsky:
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David Sünderhauf
6 months ago
I *finally* get to share our work on plasmid competition– super proud to now have this on bioRxiv: CRISPR-Cas is beneficial in plasmid competition, but limited by competitor toxin-antitoxin activity when horizontally transferred
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Fiona J Whelan
8 months ago
Come join us! Next week marks my 1 year anniversary at
@uniofmanchester.bsky.social
and I've never looked back!
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Karim Majzoub
8 months ago
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TIGR-Tas: A family of modular RNA-guided DNA-targeting systems in prokaryotes and their viruses
RNA-guided systems provide remarkable versatility, enabling diverse biological functions. Through iterative structural and sequence homology-based mining starting with a guide RNA-interaction domain o...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv9789
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This was great fun during my PhD- highly recommend!
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Daniela Barillà
9 months ago
📢 New round of PhD studentships. Open to applicants worldwide. 📅 Deadline 14th March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#microsky
#archaeasky
#chromosome
🧬🧬🧬
@steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social
@georgerheath.bsky.social
Join us in beautiful York, UK!
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Life pushed to extremes: probing the mechanisms of chromosome segregation in thermophilic Archaea at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Life pushed to extremes: probing the mechanisms of chromosome segregation in thermophilic Archaea at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/life-pushed-to-extremes-probing-the-mechanisms-of-chromosome-segregation-in-thermophilic-archaea/?p178083
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Giusy Mariano
10 months ago
🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now !
tinyurl.com/bddz4z44
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Michael Brockhurst
9 months ago
☎️ Calling
#MEvoSky
☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting
@mermanchester.bsky.social
community in Manchester!
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Sorek Lab
10 months ago
Our paper out @CellCellPress: Structure guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity Congrats Erez Yirmiya, Azita Leavitt, Gil Amitai, our collaborators at the Kranzusch lab, and coauthors A 🧵 1/10
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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Structure-guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity
Large-scale, structure-guided computational pipeline sifts through millions of phage proteins to identify those that bind and antagonize host immune proteins. Detected proteins are shown to inhibit no...
https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)01478-8
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Hetan Shah
10 months ago
Please spread the word as we have opened the call for
@britishacademy.bsky.social
International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
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International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for three years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/international-fellowships/
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Bioinformatician job at Aberdeen. Opportunity to work with David Fisher and other great people (inexplicably not on BSky).
www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/bioi...
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Jamie Hall
10 months ago
🚨PhD studentship opportunity! Bacteria protect themselves with a huge arsenal of defences, but does this affect how they gain new traits on plasmids? 🧫🦠💫 Apply for a funded 4y position with me
@livuni-ives.bsky.social
,
@brockhurstlab.bsky.social
@jojofoth.bsky.social
&
@multidefence.bsky.social
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BBSRC NWD: Let the right one in: exploring the trade-offs between genome defence and openness in microbiomes at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - BBSRC NWD: Let the right one in: exploring the trade-offs between genome defence and openness in microbiomes at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/bbsrc-nwd-let-the-right-one-in-exploring-the-trade-offs-between-genome-defence-and-openness-in-microbiomes/?p180227
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Eduardo Rocha
10 months ago
Here's a project with surprising results: we show the presence of virulent phages across bacterial genome assemblies. Not any phage, and not your typical T1 contaminant, many phages have large genomes and seem to be in a state of persistence/oscillation (?!) between lysogeny and the lytic cycle.
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Ryan Wick
10 months ago
New year, new assemblies! I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes! It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention. Check it out:
github.com/rrwick/Autoc...
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A tool for generating consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes - rrwick/Autocycler
https://github.com/rrwick/Autocycler/wiki
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Aude Bernheim
11 months ago
Out in NAR, AntiDefenseFinder & our "systematic" analysis of inhibitors of antiphage systems wt Bondy-Denomy lab led by
@ftesson.bsky.social
and E. Huiting. Not so "systematic" as very few known, fun stuff on MGE, antidefense islands and cool phages exaptations!
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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Exploring the diversity of anti-defense systems across prokaryotes, phages and mobile genetic elements
Abstract. The co-evolution of prokaryotes, phages and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) has driven the diversification of defense and anti-defense systems ali
https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkae1171/7919512?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=nar&utm_medium=email
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Tatiana Dimitriu
11 months ago
PhD opportunity in St Andrews on plasmids, antibiotics and defence systems, in collaboration with Helen Alexander in Edinburgh. Funding via BBSRC EastBio, please share & pass on to anyone interested!
#microsky🦠🧫🧬
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Heather Snell
11 months ago
To celebrate the closing of my first year as a PI, I present the drastically miss-sized things I have ordered next to what I was trying to order, a thread.
#sciencesky
#neuroskyence
#neuroscience
Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.
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Daniel Padfield
11 months ago
JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share!
#exetercec
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Ben Longdon
11 months ago
Great opportunity with fantastic person in sunny Cornwall!
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Daniel Padfield
11 months ago
Two days left to apply for this! Please share.
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Chris MacDonald
11 months ago
Fully funded 4-year PhD (Oct 2025 entry). This PhD seeks to understand the fundamental principles of membrane remodelling in photosynthetic organisms. Open to international applications. Deadline 6th January. More details:
tinyurl.com/mtvwu3h8
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Daniel Padfield
11 months ago
Yesterday I was in the
@royalsociety.bsky.social
to collect the Medical Research Foundation Emerging Leaders Prize for Climate Change and Health. Excited to expand my group and start collecting new data! The prize is a (dormant) fig tree! A proud day, feel very lucky and got to celebrate the wins!
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Looking for a PhD in phage ecology, metagenomics and defence systems? We have a fully funded PhD opportunity to join us at the University of York with great collaborators. See here for more info:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Melanie Blokesch
12 months ago
Exciting times! Our latest preprint is now live 🤩! After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Diverse phage defence systems define West African South American pandemic Vibrio cholerae
Our understanding of the factors underlying the evolutionary success of different lineages of pandemic Vibrio cholerae remains incomplete. Interestingly, two unique genetic signatures define the West ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624991v1
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Luis Bolaños
about 1 year ago
Happy to share our newest research: "Metagenomic time-series reveals a western English Channel viral community dominated by members with strong seasonal signals"
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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Metagenomic time-series reveals a western English Channel viral community dominated by members with strong seasonal signals
Abstract. Marine viruses are key players of ocean biogeochemistry, profoundly influencing microbial community ecology and evolution. Despite their importan
https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae216
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Gemma C. Atkinson
about 1 year ago
Sharing new tools made by Artyom Egorov in my group! 1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises
#phage
or
#plasmid
seqs with beautiful vector graphics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Daniel Padfield
about 1 year ago
PLEASE SHARE: PhD opportunity to start September 2025! Come work on climate change and antibiotic resistance with me, Ed Feil, Angus Buckling, and others. We will use lab experiments, modelling and sequencing to look how plasmid transfer, selection, and costs of resistance change with temperature.
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Mike Blazanin
about 1 year ago
Tried to put together a Microbial Evolution starter pack, but there were so many great people I didn't want to leave out it turned into 3 starter packs Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added! A thread (1/3)
go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi
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Tatiana Dimitriu
about 1 year ago
New review paper led by Mick Vos (currently not on social media) Why do mobile genetic elements transfer DNA of their hosts?: Trends in Genetics
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
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Why do mobile genetic elements transfer DNA of their hosts?
The prokaryote world is replete with mobile genetic elements (MGEs) – self-replicating entities that can move within and between their hosts. Many MGEs not only transfer their own DNA to new hosts but...
https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/fulltext/S0168-9525%2824%2900174-4
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Funded Master's position with us here in York, working with me, Paul Fogg,
@gavinhthomas.bsky.social
and Michelle Rudden. Skin phages, bioinformatics and synthetic biology. Contact me for more info.
tinyurl.com/y2ewh5ce
about 1 year ago
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Michael Brockhurst
about 1 year ago
3x PDRA positions linked to our BBSRC sLoLa 'Rules of life in CO2-driven communities: Microbiome engineering for a Net Zero future' all based at University of Manchester 1/5
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Britt Koskella
about 1 year ago
Hey
#isme19
folks - if you work at the interface of global change and host -microbe interactions and are looking for an assistant professor position, we are hiring! I’m here at the meeting and happy to chat with anyone who is interested in hearing more.
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476
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Assistant Professor - Global Change Biology- Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476
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5 days left to apply! Innovative grad scheme run by Generation Research at York to start a PhD with me and James Chong studying phages in soils (and beyond).
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