Exciting news! I have two positions open in my lab at the UoManchester: one PDRA and one Research Tech. Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!

Currently hosting event on antifungals in medicine and agriculture, focusing on #AntiMicrobialResistance #AMR. With 6.5 million invasive infections globally each year, and 3.8 million deaths attributable to them. Area of fast-rising concern!

Very proud of Ed's first conference talk at #BSMM2025 did great despite the technical hiccups!!

Interested in working on Mucorales adaptation? Thanks to new funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social, we will have two postdoc and a technician positions advertised very soon! if interested, please get in touch for more information.

Thrilled to announce I've been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Career Development Award at @fbmh-uom.bsky.social , University of Manchester! My research will investigate the remarkable adaptability of Aspergillus fumigatus, a deadly fungal pathogen, to help combat drug resistance.

The MHRA today released new guidance for #Phage therapy in the UK. This will provide direction for scientists and researchers working to make this treatment a reality for patients. 🔬 🧪 🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

New preprint with nice detective work by PhD student Khadija Hanga: gain of pOXA MDR plasmid is facilitated by chromosomal mutations affecting OmpF which act synergistically with the plasmid’s carbapenamase to give high level resistance. Led by @mbottery.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@wellcometrust.bsky.social Thanks for organizing the ERC meeting. I found the research culture activity really helpful, so many great thought-provoking ideas

Beautiful day to get out of the office and do some fieldwork! Soil samples + 🍄 #failsafe #mycology @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social

New in Nature Comms, we show that azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus are more likely to evolve resistance to new antifungals due to variants in their DNA mismatch repair system rdcu.be/d3Iyc @natureportfolio.bsky.social #microsky #fungi #amr

In case you missed it: @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social surveyed the clinical literature to reveal how #AMR evolves within patients, why eco/evo mechanisms vary among infections, & what we can do better to improve treatments www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky

It was great fun to be part of this project! Super cool to see Rock-Paper-Scissors dynamics in real microbial populations

PhD studentship alert! Fully funded, co-supervised with @rokkrasovec.bsky.social and Prof Mike Bromley, University of Manchester Exploring routes of horizontal gene transfer in pathogenic fungi Exciting project, will be a bunch of fun! Come & join us 🔬 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events We’re out in Nature !! doi.org/ntzk Very exciting for my first bluesky post! – it’s been a long haul by an excellent team from across Europe, led by @frantecol.bsky.social

Fungal Genetics Stock Centre, there's something fishy going on here...

It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to present our work!

Excited to be giving a talk this afternoon on the risk of AMR evolution in fungal pathogens @newcastleuni.bsky.social #WAAW #AMR