🆕 Blog! This #BiofilmsWeek we catch up with Dr Heather Felgate to discover how studying the biofilms of Shewanella oneidensis and Geobacter sulfurreducens bacteria could help clean up metals from wastewater 🦠 buff.ly/q21zHkI

🆕 We're part of a major new project aiming to understand exactly what makes some bacteria resistant to antibiotics. buff.ly/dpm22l5

Heroic work by @bluebirdsjunk.bsky.social in pulling this mammoth study together 'Staphylococcus haemolyticus Population Genomics Provides Insights into Pathogenicity and Commensalism' www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do preservatives actually protect us from food-borne infections? Mark Webber of @quadraminstitute.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of their #Microbiology paper on the effects of common preservatives on Salmonella and how insights can help find healthier alternatives microb.io/4hMVhyc

Did you know? Marine bacteria such as Vibrio fischeri can form bioluminescent biofilms. These bacteria can form symbiotic relationships with hosts like the Hawaiian bobtail squid, and the glow can help camouflage the squid from its prey! @ukbiofilms.bsky.social #BiofilmCreate #BiofilmAware

Did you know? Not all biofilms are bad. Biofilms actually play important roles in wastewater treatment, bioremediation and even producing electricity in microbial fuel cells! @ukbiofilms.bsky.social #BiofilmCreate #BiofilmAware

Last week I attended the ECR symposium on Microbial Genomics jointly organised by @microbesng.bsky.social, @norwichmicro.bsky.social and Get Genome. I had the wonderful opportunity to present some of my PhD work @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

Lovely talk from @hoyuliu.bsky.social explaining how energy production & membrane proteins affect plasmid acceptance during conjugation 👀🧬 @quadraminstitute.bsky.social #MNGPopUp #ECR #MicroSky #AMR #Plasmids #Microbiology #Conjugation

🦠 🧬 How do bacteria accept resistance genes? Register for #MNGPopUp to find out! @hoyuliu.bsky.social reveals genes that impact plasmid acceptance during conjugation—🔑 to stop spread of #AMR 📅 July 3 | 📍Norwich 🔗 linktr.ee/microbesng #MicroSky #ECR @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @webberma.bsky.social

Had a lovely time at @biofilms11 in Cardiff last week! Thank you to all who came and had a catch about my PhD work which is funded by @ukri.org BBSRC. Take a look at the blog the comms team has put together where we chat more about the experience

Had a great time last week @escmid.bsky.social #escmidglobal2025 where I also had the opportunity to present some of my PhD work @quadraminstitute.bsky.social funded by @ukri.org Thank you to everyone who came to chat about my work! 😊🎉

Excited to be @escmid.bsky.social #escmidglobal2025 this week! I'll be giving a talk on Tuesday morning about some of my PhD work @ukri.org @quadraminstitute.bsky.social on looking at the genes important for conjugation in bacteria 🧫 Please come chat about AMR, plasmids or biofilms with me 🎉

I had a lovely time at the @norwichmicro.bsky.social #CMINorwich25 conference last week. I feel very lucky to be awarded the @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social people's choice runner up. Thank you to everyone who came to chat about my PhD #bbsrc and congratulations to all the other prize winners!

Super grateful to have had the opportunity to talk about some of my PhD work at the BSAC #ARMworkshops2024 yesterday! Thanks to everyone for the interest in my work - hopefully more exciting things to come from all this! 😊

ECR talks at BSAC AMR! First, @hoyuliu.bsky.social is using tradis to find genes essential for plasmid acceptance in E. coli. Many fundamental metabolic genes- but also efflux pumps may affect plasmid uptake & stability via impact on OM structure. Lovely, important fundamental microbiology #MicroSky