New pre-print www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Plasmid-dependent phage (PDPs) are ubiquitous, but the selective pressures that they impose on plasmids are not well understood. Project led by Daniel Cazares in collaboration with @brockhurstlab.bsky.social! #phagesky#microsky

🚨 Call for Abstracts! 🚨 Exeter Microbial Genomics Early Careers Symposium 🦠🧬 Present your work, chair a session, win prizes & network! 📅 12 Nov 📍 Penryn Campus ⏰ Submit TODAY by 5pm 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng #MicrobialGenomics #ECR #MNGPopUp Organised with @drramabht.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

Scientists have developed a new gene-editing approach that reprograms pathogens to stop producing toxins and instead make a helpful molecule. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #CRISPR #geneediting #MolecularBiology #MolBiol #microsky

very stimulating blog post for all those who are interested in phylogenetic trees and their construction (without being experts themselves) 👇 great weekend read! thx andrew @andrewjroger.bsky.social for pointing this out🙏 #MicroSky

📢 The full #Biofilms11 programme is now available and is packed with groundbreaking content that will spark collaboration and inspire new ideas💡 🗓️ Join @ukbiofilms.bsky.social and @microbiologysociety.org from 13-15 May 2025 in Cardiff ➡️ tinyurl.com/2karbnht #biofilms #biofilm #MicroSky

We also have a couple of poster presentations today 255 from @drramabht.bsky.social, 282 from @anna-k-richmond.bsky.social, 062 from Meg Llewellyn and 068 from Jasmine Thomas-Campbell. All cool stuff about defence systems!

At Poster 092 today! Loss of quorum sensing and a promoter region mutation in lung-like environments

@brockhurstlab.bsky.social giving a talk about eco-evolutionary mechanisms of AMR in the AMR session at #Microbio25

Poster A097 tomorrow at #Microbio25!

A reminder that there just a few days left to apply to work with us as a post doc on DETECTIVE-II. MRC funded project to work on genomics and metagenomics of AMR in China and the UK edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

glad to be here!

This is a truly incredible resource for anyone working on bacterial genomics. I'm struggling to assemble and organise 1,000 bacterial genomes, and I can’t even begin to fathom handling 2.4 million 🤯

PhD studentship alert!! Two projects available with me fully funded by BBSRC This one is a collaboration with Dr Michelle Buckner warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... And this one a collaboration with @overtonlab.bsky.social warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Both will be lots of fun! Come & join us 😃

Incredible graphic - the myriad of ways that bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics. 14 resistance mechanisms, summarised by Idan Yelin & Roy Kishony in Cell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to be featured in the GW4Alliance Newsletter this month! us6.campaign-archive.com?u=bfba6544e4...

🚨 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 🧪 🧬 💻

Are you a researcher with an interest in #microbiology, #ecology and #evolution? Join our upcoming scientific discussion meeting on the topic of microbial immune systems: ow.ly/fcKR50S89xA

Please share: Funded PhD project on the ecology and evolution of antibiotic resistance 🦠🧬🫁 at Queen’s University Belfast. Application deadline: 21 June Please 📧 me with any questions, happy to chat! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Wohoo 🎉 🎉Many Congratulations James!!!

SMBE pangenomes meeting details Dates: 26-28th November 2024. Location: National Museum of Nature and Science, Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan. Abstract submission: 1st June-31st August. Registration: 1st July-31st October. See the updated website: smbepangenomes.bacpop.org

Thrilled to share our new article now out in Nature Reviews Microbiology! We review how bacterial #AMR evolves within patients during #antibiotic therapy, highlighting the complexity of the problem and how to improve understanding in future work. 1/7 #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

All set for the Pangenomics course by @jomcinerney.bsky.social @physaliacourses.bsky.social Excited and looking forward to learning a lot from the expert himself!!!

Using phage therapy to resensitize P aeruginosa to antibiotics in murine lung infection, featuring @mermanchester.bsky.social’s Rosanna Wright, led by Jo Fothergill www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share that our official website is now live 🎉🎉 Find out more about our team and our exciting research here sites.exeter.ac.uk/multidefence/

Congratulations Matt!!! Wish I could be there to celebrate your success. Hopefully will see you soon :)

Our latest work is finally out! How #capsule serotypes of #Klebsiella pneumoniae influences #phage adsorption and infection, and #plasmid conjugation efficiency. Plasmids care about size-phages dont! Great work led by Matthieu Haudiquet in the lab @epcrocha.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

BBSRC 2-year PDRA position to work on ecology & evolution of phage therapy with synthetically engineered phages. Part of an exciting multi-university consortium & UK’s Engineering Biology priority. Synthetic genomics; experimental evolution; AMR. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #microsky

Exciting chance to join our Wellcome Trust collaborative project understanding AMR evolution in human infections! Genomics, experimental evolution, Pseudomonas. Research Assistant 4-days per week for 2-years, deadline 18.03. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #microsky

New preprint alert! Ever wondered about the relationship status between defense systems and HGT? Well... it's complicated! Dive into our study where we dissect this intricate bond across thousands of microbial genomes! #Genomics #Microbiology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper on plasmids and cooperation has been published today in Proceedings B! "Genes for cooperation are not more likely to be carried by plasmids." doi.org/10.1098/rspb... With @lauriebelch.bsky.social Tom Scott @stuwest.bsky.social. Summary thread below... 🧵

Come join the group in Utrecht!  I have a post-doc position to fill to work on using microbial genomics and metagenomics to build machine learning models to better understand the spread of pathogens and dissemination of resistance www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Interested in bacterial defence systems and their interactions? Read our latest review on multi layered genome defences sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #BBSRC_sLOLA