note, gliding is not comparable to sliding the here described spreading is very similar to sliding (=spreading by growth and facilitating compounds, like polysaccharides), which was known for Salmonella - the authors are not fully correct stating that sliding always depends on surfactant

Mycobacterium smegmatis Expands Across Surfaces by Hydraulic Sliding - Environmental Microbiology Reports enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - Our new paper is out!

UCLA Health ended an NDM-1 Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak by tracing it to an ICU sink biofilm via whole-genome sequencing, then eliminating it with targeted disinfection, plumbing changes, and staff education—showcasing the power of diverse IPC measures. #AMR www.newswise.com/articles/the...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

Woke last night to the sound of thunder. How far off, I sat and wondered. (First published notice of the superbug that would come to be known as MRSA, 1961.)

Delighted to share our latest publication from @medmycology.bsky.social adapting the EVPL model to study A. fumigatus virulence, made possible through collaboration with @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social. Many thanks to @researchireland.ie for funding this work www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Paper! @phoebesilva.bsky.social's labour of love* optimising synthetic #CysticFibrosis mucus for growth of NTHi is out #MicroSky #Biofilm www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... *more like seething resentment as the bugs steadfastly refused to grow in most things we threw at them ^_^

The general trend is crazy. Here is Twitter vs Bluesky volumes for the last week. On some days they are equal in volume.

Delighted to be able to share our new review on R-pyocins produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It covers genetics, regulation, killing mechanisms and therapeutic potential amongst other things. #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📣 New collaborative work on invasive Strep A epidemiology. A synchronous rise in cases caused by a previously rare emm type 3.93. Genomic analysis identifies a genomic rearrangement in isolates associated to the surge. Added value of long-read seq! Thanks to all! wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A little thread below 1/n

Tools to analyze early heart morphogenesis in detail are limited. @noelresearchlab.bsky.social &co develop computational package called morphoHeart that allows for integrated 3D analysis of both #heart & extracellular matrix morphology in live #zebrafish embryos 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/42DlqtJ

Setting up an account to talk about my review article in @microbiologysociety.org - all about how #AI has been applied to virus research! #machinelearning #virology doi.org/10.1099/jgv....

You missed our series about unnoticed, but influential female scientists in microbiology that were honoured by naming a bacterium after them? Here is the basic information about the 26 women and their groundbreaking work 👉 www.dsmz.de/collection/honouring-women-in-science #herstory #WomenInScience

I’m excited to share the first results of my PhD research, now available as a preprint! We investigated if a reductionist model of phage steering could effectively target P. aeruginosa despite the additional selective pressure of competition with S. aureus.

Staphylococcus aureus gliding comets: formation and observation - new observations of the S. aureus comets and how to get the assay to work www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Staphylococcus aureus gliding comets: formation and observation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.17.628996v1