Had a fantastic time at #ESCMICGlobal2026 presenting our work on polymicrobial communities in our bladder microtissue model. Really inspiring to be part of such a dynamic and engaging meeting. We’re hoping to submit a preprint soon. Stay tuned for more 🦠-🦠-🧫

I might be biased but @jennyrohn.bsky.social absolutely crushed her talk 🥳 at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 🦠🧫 human bladder microtissue model to investigate how novel antimicrobial therapies and fluid dynamics affect UPEC survival!

Unsurprisingly an amazing talk from @nicoledenisco.bsky.social on urobiomics 🦠🧬 rUTIs go beyond UPEC (~50% polymicrobial!), with the urobiome shaping disease, from protective Lactobacillus to distinct metabolomic signatures predicting relapse!!!

Despite its worldwide prevalence, research about #UTI is sparse here at #ESCMIDGlobal2026. But managed to find a concentrated mini-population of researchers at the poster session niche—enriched for the London strain, but quite a small sample size, p values not reaching significance! #UTISky #IDSky

Really grateful to be part of this amazing community. The conference has been absolutely fantastic, with incredible science, thoughtful discussions, and a great reminder of why we do what we do. Cherry on top: the poster award! 🎉 @globaluti.bsky.social 🙌

Next, 4 posters about a wide variety of great stuff - bladder flow modelling, phage therapy, catheter UTI, virulence mapping, and the gut/bladder axis @murraybeno.bsky.social @microberamon.bsky.social @nickyuen.bsky.social @fratorelli.bsky.social #UTISky #UTICONF2026

Its been umpety-ump years since I’ve actually presented a poster myself, but @microberamon.bsky.social had so much data we needed multiple posters! Needs must. Sorry Ramón if I get anything wrong! #UTICONF2026 #UTISky

Excited to be in Nashville exploring my favorite topic: host–pathogen interactions 🦠 Our team integrates urinary microenvironment + mechanical cues (flow) in a bladder microtissue model to better evaluate antibiotic and phage therapies against UPEC Come check out poster 16! 👀 #UTICONF26 #UTISky

After climbing Mount Kinabalu (4095.2 m!), I’m ready for my next adventure. I’m excited to share that on Monday I’ll be starting my second postdoc in the @continiclau.bsky.social group at Imperial College London.

Paper out! We used RNAseq to track changes in P. aeruginosa gene expression over 7 days of #biofilm infection in our #CysticFibrosis lung model. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #MicroSky (1/n)

Recurrent and chronic UTIs have a huge impact on patient's quality of life and is an area of research which is often overlooked and understudied. There are massive gaps in our understanding which we can fill to... (1/3) See all images in this post and that follow for the top 10! #MicroSky #UTISky

You can read the full preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Work by Jenny Littler, Niamh Harrington, Dean Walsh, @microberamon.bsky.social, Chris Parmenter @uonnmrc.bsky.social & Saskia Bakker #MicroSky

During her PhD, Jenny found something unexpected: biofilm-deficient P. aeruginosa mutants were just as tolerant to antibiotics as the WT when grown in our cystic fibrosis lung model. But why? #MicroSky 1/n

Now, this is officially a problem. MSCA fellowships need to be competitive, but it cannot be a lottery. Time to focus on the core mission of supporting science and ditching all vanity initiatives in the Horizon Europe program. (Looking at ERC super-grants...)

Excited to share our preprint that describes the mechanism of action of an historical infection remedy called Bald’s Eyesalve. In this preprint, we show that Bald’s Eyesalve has multifaceted mechanism of action against both S. aureus and A. baumannii (1/n).

Less than one week to apply to this 2.5 yr PDRA! If you're passionate about biophysics #AFM #Microscopy applied to bacteria and #antimicrobial research this will be a great opportunity in the beautiful city of Sheffield. 😀 jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

Pleased to reveal that our team has been selected for 2 oral presentations at #ESCMID @escmid.bsky.social Global in Munich! Both lines of research spearheaded by the fabulous @microberamon.bsky.social. #UTI isn’t just a serious healthcare problem - the science is an intriguing puzzle! #IDSky #UTISky

Gut-relevant short-chain fatty acids modulate host-pathogen dynamics of uropathogenic Escherichia coli at the colonic epithelial interface https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.700340v1

🧵Enterococcus faecalis is not just an extracellular organism. 🧵 A growing body of work shows it can survive + REPLICATE inside host cells, and that intracellular life may seed persistence, dissemination, and reinfection. 1/n #MMBR @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Very pleased to plug our latest preprint, lead author @microberamon.bsky.social - fantastic collaboration with labs of Dario Carugo (Oxford) and Martha Clokie (Leicester) https:// - and others #UTISKy #UTI #IDSky #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688052v1 more below👇🧵

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

Another paper from @microberamon.bsky.social's PhD 🦠 Two structural variants of an AMP-inspired antimicrobial polymer have different effects on P. aeruginosa. One kills with a bang, the other with a whimper pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #MicroSky @sebperrier.bsky.social @alexiahapeshi.bsky.social

🎉 Super happy to finally share our new paper in ACS Biomacromolecules! We used AFM & neutron reflectometry to study how two SNAPs (synthetic nanoengineered antimicrobial polymers) disrupt P. aeruginosa membranes. 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #SNAPs #AFM #NeutronReflectometry #AMR

I guess we can call this Cellfie 😂

Interesting cross-disciplinary technician position in our lab! You can learn all things microbiology and a beautiful organoid culture system while sitting in the heart of London @ucl.ac.uk ! Perfect for freshly graduated students. Apply! #UTISky #microbiology

Really cool exhibition at the London Design Biennale 2025. Microbiome Modulators as bioactive ceramics and probiotic interventions embedded in ceramic elements 🦠 bbe.ac.uk/living-assem...

Proud to present my work at the UK Cellular Microbiology Network Meeting earlier this week. Lots of great feedback and some very interesting talks! Congrats to all the speakers. Well done @microberamon.bsky.social for representing the lab. I like the rainbow title slide 😂 @jennyrohn.bsky.social

Great talk about polymicrobial biofilms in #UTI by our fabulous postdoc @microberamon.bsky.social! #UKcellmicro2025 #UTISky

Really excited about this opportunity! I will be sharing part of my postdoc work at Rohn lab @jennyrohn.bsky.social and a new hairstyle 💇‍♂️😂

Absolutely thrilled this is out🥳Our review explores why antibiotics often fail even when bacteria is susceptible in the lab. From phenotypic resilience and biofilm formation to host microenvironment, we dive into many factors behind these discrepancies www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Absolutely thrilled to present our latest review, where we discuss how host microenvironment and bacterial subversion strategies can undermine traditional antimicrobial sensitivity testing, and whether better models may one day get us "beyond the MIC" #IDSKy rdcu.be/emYoh

It was a pleasure to give a talk at IOI Conference!!! This work will be submitted soon, stay tuned to know more 📝 🦠 🧫

Fantastic talk from @victoriachu.bsky.social #pint25 microbiology🦠meets micro-engineering ⚒️ to develop new tools to investigate ascending UTIs

Now at #Biofilms11, @microberamon.bsky.social is introducing his work on exploring polymicrobial #biofilm in 3D urothelial organoids #MicroSky

Glad to see this published! Massive congratulations to Aaron for leading this excellent work. If you are interested in novel treatments to tackle biofilms 🦠 please have a read 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PAPER ACCEPTED! Can't wait until we're allowed to make the big reveal #UTISky

Come on down, anyone eligible for a post-doc do consider applying for this exciting project with @jennyrohn.bsky.social, @scottishwormboy.bsky.social & me! Got a touch of #UTISky #IDSky #ImmunoSky & 🧪 about it! 😉

I will be presenting a free live webinar tomorrow (April 30th) titled: "Unlocking the Secrets of Organoid Models in Biomedical Research", Sign up here 👉 tinyurl.com/42cz8wd8

New baddie bug list

Yesterday I had a wonderful time at #IOIECR25 @ineosoxford.bsky.social fantastic line-up of speakers covering interdisciplinar approaches to tackle AMR + truly motivational for ECRs!

It’s so much fun to be hosting Maria Hadjifrangiskou and Ashley Cavnar all the way from Vanderbilt to exchange lab expertise! #UTISky (we need to get them both on Bluesky…)

Preprint introducing our new in vitro model of biofilm in endotracheal tube! Fantastic work led by Dean Walsh, combining tube sections with chemically-defined synthetic ventilated airway mucus: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #MicroSky

Finally out (a little thread of my contribution 🧵) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paper of the day 📖: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Will be geometric viability assay (GVA)a substitute of CFUs in the near future?♻️More sustainable and 💰”cost-effective” method than traditional 🧫bacterial counting protocols.

Does the “R” of Rstudio stand for “Regret”? Finally I got some code working after weeks… not sure if I should celebrate or not

Mind-blowing 🧠 I have no idea histones or histones like proteins are present in bacteria nucleoids… www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My first Spartan Race🏋️‍♂️today was extremely fun and tough at the same time. Great mental healing therapy after quite rough months in the lab 🥼🧠I am not sure I can hold a pipette tomorrow 🧫🦠

No one ever thanks Parafilm in their Nobel Prize acceptance speech

It’s been a fun day using 3D-printers at Oxford University! 🧫 Another day pretending I have skills in a new discipline as bioengineering 😂

The idea of this project was incubated during lockdown. From the design and synthesis of new antimicrobial polymers to antimicrobial testing and in vivo efficacy. I feel really privileged to have collaborate with such a diverse and interdisciplinar team!