🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Apply here: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

PhD opportunity (unfortunately UK home students only) to work on nanoparticles to combat AMR with @forganross.bsky.social and me in UoG. If you have a microbiology background and an interest in chemistry this would be a perfect project for you! Please share!

Very nice talk from @emmanuelkuffo15.bsky.social speaking about his hunt for Strep. suis phage at the @microbiologysociety.org young microbiologist of the year finals - and there's a pre-print up! #MicroSky

The vaginal microbiome is super interesting - is there another body site where a healthy microbiome = a low-diversity microbiome? @phoebecrossley.bsky.social talk about her research at @microbiologysociety.org young microbiologist of the year finals microbiologysociety.org/blog/meet-ea... #MicroSky

If you want to know more about how rhizosphere members impact Streptomyces growth and how this can be used to activate silent BGCs visit p234 today and ask the very talented @alejandradiag.bsky.social all about it! #isba2025

Two weeks remaining to enter our prize draw to win registration to our 2026 Annual Conference in Belfast. Submit a paper to any of our journals to confirm your entry into the prize draw. See our portfolio: microb.io/Journals #Microbio26 #AcademicPublishing

Visit poster 63 to find out what Golsa has been doing with DESI-MS and Streptomyces metabolite detection! #isba2025 @evodivmet.bsky.social

Congratulations to Microbiology Society President Gordon Dougan on receiving a CBE for "services to vaccines and global health" in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2025!

Fantastic talk by @janitensen.bsky.social about lipid-based storage compounds and their possible role on development and stress response in Streptomyces #isba2025

Share your research in #Ecology of #Actinomycetes #secmet #natprod 🧫🧪🦠🌎 at #ISBA2025 in our session! Submit your #abstract for an #oral or #poster #presentation by the end of the week to join Daniel Rozen and myself as Co-Chairs and speakers Linda Kinkel & Tamara Martin Pozas! #soil #ocean #water

Abstract submissions for this year’s Early Career Summer Conference at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, will close on 4 May at 23:59 BST. Submit your abstract for a chance to present during the event - microb.io/ECSCAbstract...

🚨WE’RE HIRING!🚨 A Research Technician (2y) to join our team & work on exciting projects in bacterial evolution & gene regulation. Come join our growing, supportive Bacteriology Dept @uofglasgow.bsky.social ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #MicroBio25 #microsky @microbiologysociety.org Apply by 30th April: tinyurl.com/2z9z9kse

For those of you who approached me at @microbiologysociety.org #Microbio25 (and anyone else interested!!), this is your last chance to apply for our PDRA position. Come join us in Glasgow!

Nominations for all prize lectures are currently open, as well as applications to sit on the panels that make the decision. Information in the link- microbiologysociety.org/grants-prize...

Tomorrow I will be presenting my research at #Microbio2025, "From Petri dishes to soil: Streptomyces on the hunt of antimicrobials and beyond", supervised by @lore-fermar.bsky.social. You can find me in poster B057!

Find out more about academic publishing during #Microbio25. Join our Publishing Fundamentals Q&A session on Tuesday 1 April at 13:15 BST and ask us your questions. Learn more about the Q&A -

Marjory Stephenson Prize Winner, Professor George Salmond's, lecture on Phytopathogenesis, Quorum Sensing, Antibiotics, Flotation and Phages is about to start in Hall 1 at #Microbio25. Read about the prize winner - microb.io/ProfGeorgeSa...

University of Glasgow Bacteriologists representing at #Microbio25 @uofgsii.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org

Peter Wildly Prize Winner, Professor Lindsay Hall hosts their lecture on 'Guardians of the Gut: Bringing Microbiome Science to life through Public Engagement' in Hall 1 at 9:00 BST #Microbio25. Read about the prize winner- microb.io/ProfLindsayH...

Such an inspiring talk! Great science, amazing outreach- how do you do it all @halllab.bsky.social ?!

Amazing prize lecture from @halllab.bsky.social! What a role model #MicroBio25 @microbiologysociety.org @imibirmingham.bsky.social

Amazing talk by Prof Lindsay Hall on public communication ! #microbio25

Great talk yesterday at #Microbio25 from @whelanfj.bsky.social about evolution of an epidemic PA strain over 30 years!

It's @halllab.bsky.social giving the Peter Wildy Prize lecture #Microbio25

‪ Amazing phage talk from @colinhillucc.bsky.social at #MicroBio25- really cool to see such cool research being done in my field, and remember that phages can be ph-riends!

So glad to be here at #microbio25 ! Very important opening words: “publishing 1 paper with us allows 4 students to attend this AC for free” #publishforthecommunity

The @uofglasgow.bsky.social Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Prize 2025 winners present their lecture at #Microbio25 at 14:25 BST, "Embedding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion into Biosciences Undergraduate Curricula through Staff-Student Partnerships." Read more here: microb.io/EDIPrizeWinn...

@blackinmicro.bsky.social thank you for everything you do 👏 Thank you @microbiologysociety.org for introducing the EDI prize, it’s great to see these conversations take place at scientific conferences. If you missed it, check out this blog post: microbiologysociety.org/news/society... #MicroBio25

We are looking for candidates with expertise in charitable fundraising to co-opt to our Trustee Board. Find out more about this great opportunity:

Further insight into how CutRS functions in Streptomyces and some thoughts on how its redox state detection via conserved dual cysteine residues in the extra cellular domain of a sensor kinase may be present in almost all bacteria @tommclean.bsky.social @matthutchings.bsky.social

First time at Annual Conference or would like some guidance? We asked some of our members for some advice on how to navigate a large scientific conference. 🤝#Microbio25

Mark your calendars! On 31 March, we're unveiling a new journal at Annual Conference. See you at #Microbio25!

Check out the Microbial Primers list from the Microbiology Society. Whether you're an early career researcher or an established scientist, ‘Microbial Primers’ is your first-step navigational tool in the expansive landscape of microbiology. #MicroSky www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

Fully Funded #PhD Position with Prof Andy Roe, Dr Rebecca McHugh and me as part of NorthWestBio bbsrc DTP INS AND OUTS OF DISARMING TYPE 3 SECRETION – UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE TO AURODOX www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... please repost

As part of the University of Glasgow College Futures #PhD Programme (Planetary Health🌍) Michael Ormsby & Donal Wall have a PhD available studying bacterial environmental persistence & quantifying the role of climate change in #AMR Link: shorturl.at/MF5ZC #microsky Apply: shorturl.at/avB7f Please RT!

Wonderful talks from the new PhD students in Bacteriology here at the School of Infection & Immunity @UniversityofGlasgow Introducing Megan Smith-Cerdán, Phoebe Crossley, Alejandra Diaz de Aguinaga & Emily Tonge. Lots of exciting science underway.

Use it or lose it: Unless we publish papers in our society owned and published journals they will cease to be, along with all the conferences and meetings the proceeds support. Microbiology Society publishes many excellent journals, all edited by experts. #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org

[email protected] opening #LatAmGenomeMining24 at the CITMAT!

Spread the word! #MicroSky 🧫🦠 The 2nd LatinAmerican Natural Product Genome Mining workshop is taking place in Guanajuato in August🎉Applications now open to LatinAmerican researchers @ different career stages from postgraduates to PIs. Come to establish new collaborations and learn from each other! 🧬

Atención!Está abierta la 2nda convocatoria del taller de Minería Genómica de Productos Naturales de Latinoamérica🎉si trabajas en Latinoamérica en este tema y eres estudiante de postgrado, postdoc o nuevo jefe de grupo interesad@ en aprender y establecer colaboraciones este taller es para ti!🧫🦠

Hi 🧫🦠🧪🔬⚙️folks, can you pls notify talented students of our 4yr @dstlmod @EPSRC fully funded iCASE #PhD studentship on #engbio development of #bioadhesives! Only open to those with single UK nationality due to Dstl activities Deadline April 17 Info: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Cool work from @evodivmet.bsky.social et al - Phylometagenomics of cycad coralloid roots reveals shared symbiotic signals www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #PublishingForTheCommunity

Please share: The Stubbendieck Lab is hiring a postdoc to study microbial competition & secondary metabolism in human microbiomes. Experience in natural product chemistry or BGCs preferred. For more info and to apply: apply.interfolio.com/141377

Latest Microbial Primer on Bacterial Growth Kinetics has just been published www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

The #MicrobialPrimer Collection of articles that @digglelab.bsky.social has put together for @MicrobioSoc are a great resource for citing in manuscripts, teaching, PhD student theses and all round just a good read! Some crackers in here microbiologyresearch.org/content/microb…#MicroSkyky

I wrote a short blog post for the Microbiology Society regarding our recent colibactin regulation review. Available here. @sofiasandalli.bsky.social @drandyjroe.bsky.social

A little over a week left to apply for this PhD position in Glasgow. Come study how Staphylococcus aureus transitions from the nasal to bloodstream niche, and how the microbiome influences colonisation status

One of my students has created a #ClinicalMicrobiology game/revision aid as part of his senior thesis project - please give it a try and complete the survey to let us know what you think! And please retweet/forward on to your students as well! kacper-kr.github.io/Epidemiologi...

Still time to apply for this PhD. Deadline is January 31st. #microsky

MGen are looking for editors. Our Ed board is a brilliant and collegiate group. Come and join us! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...