PhD opportunity in my lab: exploring how commensals and pathogens build biofilm communities on endotracheal (ventilator) tubes. Microbial ecology, medical microbiology and fancy imaging! Co-supervised with the fabulous Saskia Bakker and Jeremy Webb warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

Celebrated every 15 October, Global Hand Washing Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of hand hygiene in curbing the transmission of certain diseases and the spread of antimicrobial resistance.

Abstract submissions for Microbiology Society Annual Meeting in Ireland 2025 are open! Open to both members and non-members. Submit yours before 1 August 2025 for a chance to present your research - microb.io/IrelandMeeti... #MicrobioIrish25

Heard all fantastic talks about AMR and Microbiomes at @microbiologysociety.org annual conference? Could your next conference be biofilms 11? @ukbiofilms.bsky.social

On 16 February 2025, the Microbiology Society celebrates 80 years since its founding in 1945 by visionary microbiologists like Ralph St John Brookes, Muriel Roberts, Marjory Stephenson, and Alexander Fleming.

Join us at Nottinghsm Science and Curiosity Festival to make your own germs and find how to avoid catching them by taking part in our great greetings experiment @ukbiofilms @MicrobioSoc @UoN_BDI @UoNLifeSci @AMHTGroup

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab & @brockhurstlab.bsky.social are seeking a PhD student interested in investigating the ecol & evol of pathogens in cystic fibrosis exacerbations. This PhD is funded as part of @pulse-cf.bsky.social w @alexhorsley.bsky.social et al. More info & link to apply below.

According to CDC's wastewater program, almost all wastewater sample sites in California, from San Diego in the south to Redding in the north, have tested positive for H5 bird flu.

2 exciting PhD opportunities: - with @fionawhelan.bsky.social understanding evolution of transmissibility in Pseudomonas www.findaphd.com/phds/project... - with @claudiaigler.bsky.social Patrick Cai on AI-powered phage genome design www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please spread the word!

Another PhD opportunity in the team! This time its an exciting collaboration with @halllab.bsky.social and @kimhardie.bsky.social looking at why not all bacteria become resistant! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline 10th Jan and open to Uk and overseas! Pls repost!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #microsky

Hope you like this historical overview of Microscopy and microbiology: great working with @SLIM_Nottingham underpins cutting edge imaging @UoN_BDI @ukbiofilms @MicrobioSoc doi.org/10.1088/1742-6… via @ioppublishing https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2877/1/012111

Can I ask you to share a PhD advert at Bristol Uni please? Rhomboid proteases play a role in neurons that is essential for life- but it is not characterised. Got a student interested in cell biology, electrophysiology and neurobiology? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/56f24f7c

To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the University of Birmingham, we are recruiting 100 Anniversary Fellows and 25 Anniversary Chairs fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk If you are interested to join our community of researchers in infection, inflammation and immunology, please DM me!

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...

I'm advertising a PhD studentship (open to international students) working on long read pangenome / assembly algorithms in bacteria. Would suit someone with maths/compsci/coding background. Aptitude + interest more important than experience. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

My department is hiring! We're looking to fill three academic posts: One in host-pathogen interactions: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... Two in plant sciences: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... Closing date 15th December #MicroSky

Over here in Amsterdam, we are still looking for a postdoctoral researcher with microbiome bioinformatics skills and a mindset for statistics: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post...

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKD365/a... Come and join us, use our state of the art facilities including cutting edge microscopy for live pathogen imaging, high throughput drug discovery platforms. ⁦‪@ukbiofilms‬⁩ ⁦‪@MicrobioSoc‬⁩ ⁦‪⁦‬⁩ #AMR #microbiome ⁦‪@UoN_BDI‬⁩ @asm @ami

Come find me at poster number 1️⃣ at #Pseudomonas2024 on Wednesday if you’re interested in the interface between antibiotic resistance and microbial interactions 🦠🫁

Microbiology Society will be hosting an online meeting about innovative infection models - 13 November Great line-up including @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social @kendrarumbaugh.bsky.social @kimhardie.bsky.social Marvin Whiteley, Albert Bolthuis microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

What. A. Day. @ the East Midlands Microbiome Res Network Day! Got to pitch some of my crazy ideas and meet *so* many faces I am used to only seeing online. Thank you so much for the invite @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social , Leah Cuthbertson, @kimhardie.bsky.social et al.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Fully funded PhD studentships on @ukbiofilms CTP BITE with @Unilever based in @UoN_BDI and @AMHTGroup Deadline May 21st. You’ll be one of a pair of aligned students supported by our vibrant teams in fabulous facilities

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Fully funded PhD studentships on @ukbiofilms CTP BITE with @Unilever based in @UoN_BDI and @AMHTGroup Deadline May 21st. You’ll be one of a pair of aligned students supported by our vibrant teams in fabulous facilities

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. Full details at link below. @kimhardie.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... we have a pair of studentships that will support through the NBIC BITE CTP and exploit advanced microscopy platforms in Nottingham

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... We have a pair of studentships, come and join us and enjoy our first class imaging facilities in Nottingham

Pretty wild to have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant! Even wilder that Manchester got 7, same as 🇩🇰 or 🇫🇮 & more than any other UK uni (what golden triangle??)… mine is about how intragenomic conflicts shape long-term bacterial genome evolution. AKA LTEEv2.0. More here: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

We're hiring @microbesplanet.bsky.social! There is an open PhD position in my group to explore the effects of oxygen fluctuations on aquatic microbiomes. Apply here: microplanet.at/wp7.3-phd2 @cemess.bsky.social @dome-vienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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

Great talk, that sparked a lovely discussion.ECRs also enjoyed their informal chat about catered with @rwheatley8.bsky.social real pleasure to host

One more week to submit your abstract to #Eurobiofilms2024 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 ➡️ eurobiofilms2024.dk

Working on AMR and the microbiome? 🦠🧫 I am organising a one-day workshop at Magdalen in May. The aim is to bring together a small group of researchers for a day of talks and discussions, ft mix of research topics & career stages. Are you interested? forms.gle/26hx1UhvBBfh... #MicroSky

🚨JOBS🚨🦠🔬 Two 4 year post-docs available in my lab at Warwick. Looking for experts in super-resolution #microscopy, single molecule fluorescence, FRET or protein biochemistry. Visa+NHS fees covered. Salary~£40K. Two exciting team science projects with outstanding collaborators #microsky

Assistant Professor position in Molecular Microbiology at Utrecht University, app deadline Jan 31,2024. #AcademicSky 🧪 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Two PhD positions available in our lab @FBM_UNIL. We are looking for microbiologists interested in microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, metabolomics, and social bees! Lausanne is amazing: Vibrant scientific environment & high quality of life 🇨🇭🚞🏂🌄🧪🐝🦠 shorturl.at/ptyOT shorturl.at/dipvA

If understanding the eco-evo dynamics of Icelandic hot-spring microbial communities sounds like fun, then this might be the perfect PhD for you! With @coytelab.bsky.social and Sophie Nixon and part of an exciting multidisciplinary consortium www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

4-year postdoc in a new Center of Excellence @voltcenter.bsky.social 💻Multivariate data analysis 🔢Data integration 🧬Bioinformatics 📠Omics 🌍Climate change We offer nice work environment, exciting projects, Scandinavian work-life balance, good salary jobportal.ku.dk/alle-opslag/... Pls share

The journal Microbiology, published by the Microbiology Society, is looking to appoint two new Senior Editors to help shape panels in regulation, sensing & signalling and eukaryotic microbiology. Join us in advancing microbiological research. Express your interest: microb.io/3sUvKyh

Assistant/Associate Professorship in Integrated Host-Pathogen Biology. Closing date 11th January 2024. We are looking for someone with expertise in host-pathogen biology to establish research on principles underpinning cellular responses to infection www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44301/ #microsky 🦠

What a great use of a School-wide holiday celebration: a plug for a really important local charity that works to end rough sleeping in Nottingham 🎉. Thanks so much, Paul Scotting, for all your hard work with this!

I still have 2 4-year post doc jobs available, will advertise early January. One is for a super resolution microscopist to image bacterial cell division, other is for biochemist or single molecule biophysicist to use single molecule FRET to study bacterial cell wall synthesis

An excellent summary as to why early career scientists should publish in Society Journals. Please read it. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We have published a manuscript describing a software tool to reduce ambiguity and improve interpretability in microbial GWAS, called panfeed. Here's a quick explainer: www.microbial-pangenomes-lab.org/2023/11/09/M... And here's the link to the paper: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

The Dunn School at University of Oxford just can't stop recruiting! This time an Associate Prof in cell/mol biology with focus on infection, immunology, inflammation Come and join us... Please spread the word www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...