I am looking for a motivated #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join my group at Imperial @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperiallifesci.bsky.social. The project focuses on #Antimicrobial #Materials & #Biomimetic #Interfaces Please repost! @imperialsci.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

🎉 Delighted to share the first pre-print from my lab where we demonstrate that intergenic DNA repeats mediate phase variation of the mucoid phenotype in hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #klebclub

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Honoured to speak on #FMT #LBPs at the #EHMSG meeting today in session with Nicolas Benech and Jens Walter. Thanks to Gianluca Ianiro for organising, and for even getting a @nobelprize.bsky.social winner for Physics to speak to us, Giorgio Parisi! @imperialmdr.bsky.social #microbiomeclinicians

Read about our recently published paper on vancomycin-resistant enterococci and the gut microbiome in this news article from @imperiallifesci.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/news/267313/...

Very pleased to see this out in @cmijournal.bsky.social - what non-antimicrobial options are there for recurrent #UTI, and what might be the role for #FMT? www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119... @rohmaghani.bsky.social @imperialmdr.bsky.social @imperialbrc.bsky.social #MicroSky

New paper from my amazing lab, led by my incredible postdoc, @bdmicro.bsky.social A Canadian study that is highly relevant to beekeepers everywhere. Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In case you missed it, check out our latest paper describing how vancomycin-resistant enterococci exploit antibiotic-mediated killing of gut commensals to grow in nutrient-enriched and metabolite-depleted intestines: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #AMR #GutMicrobiome

Great to see this work from Shiv Radhakrishnan and colleagues out in #GutMicrobes - using network analysis to explore #microbiome #metabolome interactions in an #IBD inception cohort: doi.org/10.1080/1949... @imperialmdr.bsky.social @imperialhepatology.bsky.social #IBDSky #GISky

V nice study this. VRE growth in gut microbiome relies on different short chain fatty acids, which are themselves modulated by antibiotic exposure. Complex but important to understand how antibiotic resistant bacteria persist in microbiome @natcomms.nature.com 🧪 #AMR #ClinMicro #IDSky #UTISky

Vancomycin-resistant 𝙀𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙪𝙢 (VRE) thrives in the antibiotic-perturbed gut VRE gobbles up enriched sugars and amino acids, and loss of short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) eliminates natural growth brakes Therapeutic angle: Prebiotic SCFA mixtures block VRE growth!

A great privilege to work with @julieakmcdonald.bsky.social lab on this new paper, now out in @natureportfolio.nature.com Communications - how #antibiotic-related changes in gut #nutrients and #metabolites promote #VRE colonisation: doi.org/10.1038/s414... @imperialmdr.bsky.social

So excited to share a new paper from my lab just published in Nature Communications! We showed that vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) occupied distinct intestinal niches in the antibiotic-treated intestine. doi.org/10.1038/s414... Amazing work by first author Olivia King and colleagues!

Today, Professor Donal Wall, @uofglasgow.bsky.social attended a pitch session as part of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee's 'Under the Microscope' inquiry to explain why they should be interested in microbiomes.

Newly published study by Prof Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social and Prof Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social finding that antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus bacteria are common in premature babies www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/wi...

We are looking for a new postdoctoral fellow to join our team at NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine, near Research Triangle Park. If you are interested please DM me and or also apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/219...

🔬🦠 How to make sense of the taxonomic complexity & interpersonal variability of the gut microbiota? We propose that beneath this complexity lies a hierarchy of factors that control gut microbiota assembly. Read more! #Microbiome #GutHealth authors.elsevier.com/a/1km32_,2Ci...

New pre print! We establish an ex vivo blood vessel model to investigate the effect of infection on vascular physiology in real time. We show Klebsiella inhibits vasodilation in a T6SS-dependent manner by targeting eNOs. Superb work by @safimicro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

9 more days to apply to the #PostDoc position to join our @microclockerc.bsky.social ERC Synergy project if you have background in high throughput cloning and genetic modification of model bacteria Expertise with liquid handling robots, HTP screening, cloning is preferred! tinyurl.com/2d2c8fe5

Great to work with the lab of @julieakmcdonald.bsky.social and see this preprint out on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, looking at how nutrient availability and microbial #metabolites impact #VRE colonisation in the #antibiotic treated gut: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #MicroSky #GastroSky

I’m excited to share a new preprint from our lab! We showed that vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) colonise antibiotic-treated intestines by occupying distinct nutrient- and metabolite-defined intestinal niches. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Feel like this paper slipped under the radar on ‘the other platform’ so giving it another airing here. Phage can significantly remodel the bacteriome in faecal samples - yet another confounder 🙄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Job Fairy Our MRC UK-China AMR project DETECTIVE-II needs a post doc. Please reach out if you are interested edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Please Share. Postdoc available with me on Pollinator Microbiomes. To develop/engineer microbial communities that protect bees from stressors. Collaborating with Quinn McFrederick (UCR) & Marc-Emmanuel Dumas (Imperial). www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jobs/description/index.php?jobId=21816

UK research fellowship interview season is upon us - here are some tips to help you prepare! Featuring a list of 100(!) popular Q&A questions elisagranato.com/how-to-apply...

Great to have our new review out - what we do and don't know about how clinical, biological and procedural considerations impact the efficacy of #IMT #FMT in repairing the #GutMicrobiome: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... … a great team effort

🚨 The Whelan lab is hiring! 🚨 We're looking for a Research Assistant to join our lab at U of Manchester. We're seeking someone with experience in microbiology & microbiome to support our growing group. Note this isn't a postdoc role (though keep 👀 for those announcements soon!) #Microsky 🧪 🧬 💻

Anybody interested in applying for a postdoctoral fellowship to study the Klebsiella oxytoca species complex using systems biology approaches, please contact me. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p... #MicroSky

The first East Midlands Microbiome Research Network (EMMRN) Research Day is being held on 3 July 2024. Sign up to attend in-person or online! Registration is free. Big thanks to the Microbiology Society for sponsoring the event.

Come and work with me (NTU) and Ellis O'Neill (Nottingham) on a BBSRC DTP-funded PhD. October 2024 start. UK and international students welcome to apply. Identifying the novel natural products in the Klebsiella oxytoca complex using genomic and metabolomic techniques #MicroSky

Latest paper with the amazing Zong now live in Lancet Microbe. A systematic review of the use of phages for bacterial decolonisation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Examining the human microbiome in  33 deceased subjects (1600 samples, 53 sites, 7 organs). Differences between mucosa and lumen samples, highlighting the importance of niches in humans! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two postdoc positions available in my lab for a Wellcome Trust funded project to investigate nutrient competition and metabolite inhibition by the gut microbiota to restrict MDR pathogen growth. Deadline 21 Feb 2024, apply here! www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descrip...

Please add microbiome-related conferences for 2024 in this thread. Thanks.

Our latest paper is out now. The brilliant Chris Connor’s entire PhD in one paper. And I hope a new avenue of research opened in MDR E. coli journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/n