Enjoyable two days spent in London discussing how to assess microbiome safety.

🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social colleagues attended the recent @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast. Spanning all career stages, the team showcased their research and contributed to key sessions, demonstrating the depth of Bacteriology at Sii. 🔗 More: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...

New paper out in Nature Comms 🎉 Congrats to first author @sekid.bsky.social & thanks team & collaborators We show that B. bifidum & E. coli can cooperate in the breastfed infant gut through nutrient cross-feeding, helping shape early-life microbiome development 🦠👶 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The journey to #Microbio26 begins. En route to Belfast via train, bus, and ferry. Looking forward to a great conference 🧫 @microbiologysociety.org

New preprint from us @modmedmicro.bsky.social where we validate the diagnostic accuracy of a metagenomic nanopore sequencing method for respiratory RNA viruses. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

🔍What does a healthy vaginal microbiome look like? In this month's Microbe Talk, Lilly chats with molecular microbiologist Prof Wilhelmina Huston to find out what we know so far about these microbes' effect on sexual health🦠 Listen in wherever you get your podcasts 🎧https://microb.io/4rkNmMn

New paper out from @doctoranastasia.bsky.social with lots of other cool folks (+me) looking at the future requirements for translating microbiome research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Had great fun writing this paper with some of my #microbiome research heroes! @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @sarahlebeer.bsky.social @dbogaert.bsky.social @sligomicrobe.bsky.social & many more 😍🦠🧫

Annual Conference is the UK's largest annual gathering of microbiologists. Register now to secure your spot: microb.io/AC26Register #Microbio26

Marjory Stephenson Prize 2026: Professor Mark Buttner — @johninnescentre.bsky.social Outreach and Engagement Prize 2026: @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social — @uniofsurrey.bsky.social Translational Microbiology Prize 2026: @alanlparker.bsky.social — @cancerwales.bsky.social

The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes! The winners will be awarded and deliver Prize Lectures at Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast from 13–16 April. Find out more about it: microb.io/PrizeWinners.... Meet the winners below. #Microbio26

Great opportunity to work in a fantastic research group and environment.

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... With Gillian Rodger, @nstoesser.bsky.social, @samlipworth.bsky.social, @stat-sarah.bsky.social, and many others!

PhD opportunity to come and work in Glasgow, developing advanced tissue culture models to study Staphylococcus aureus colonisation and infection #microsky #PhD #DTPprogram Enquiries from potential applicants are welcome. www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

This is what happens when you chose to publish with @microbiologysociety.org. You are building the future of microbiology and giving a start to some incredible new scientists.

In the lead-up to the Early Career Microbiologist of the Year talk prize final, taking place on 7 October 2025 during the Executive Committee meeting, we spoke to talk finalist Emily Stevenson, from University of Exeter, UK: microb.io/3KqsyCw

In the lead-up to the Early Career Microbiologist of the Year talk prize final, taking place on 7 October 2025 during the Executive Committee meeting, we spoke to talk finalist Emma Davies, from the University of Glasgow, UK: microb.io/4n5ba4J

It's time to submit your abstracts if you want to present at the @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference in Belfast next year. Lot's of great sessions, you'll definitely find a place for your research.

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols. Thread 1/n

🎉 #biasedPI but check out the interview by @phoebecrossley.bsky.social as one of the finalists in this year's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize talks. Work she did during her time in the lab of Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz

In the lead-up to the Early Career Microbiologist of the Year talk prize final, taking place on 7 October 2025 during the Executive Committee meeting, we spoke to talk finalist Emmanuel Kuffour Osei from University College Cork, Ireland: microb.io/4mewzHv @EmmanuelKuffo15.bsky.social

Share your unique insights, help lead new conversations and feature in our first-ever issue of Microbiology Outlooks. Submit your proposal, review or perspective now. microb.io/MOutsJournal

Delighted to be one of the funded projects for the @innovateuk.bsky.social Engineering Biology SPARKS Award together with partners CC Bio Ltd and supported by Dr Ryan Kean. "Engineering tailored biotherapeutics to target vaginal pathogens" lnkd.in/et3H9iQq @uofgsii.bsky.social

Interested in bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative bacteria causing UTIs? Come and work with me and PI @davidnegus.bsky.social as a research assistant on a 12-month project, funded by The Urology Foundation. #UTIsky

🚨New pre-print out now!🚨 We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy. (1/5)

Save the date for Microbes in Microbiomes 2026 in Miami, USA! Follow along for key updates on registration, grants and abstract submissions by visiting the event page - microb.io/MiM26 #MiM26

Great opportunity to work on an exciting project, bioinformatic analysis of microbiome sequencing data of the PrePOP study. Details below....

Great opportunity to do a PhD in an excellent lab.

Only one day left until the #JMedMicro talk with Dr. Mathew Diggle! Don't miss out on his talk ‘Beyond the Cough: Understanding Today's Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Threats. Register here: microb.io/3jr2ciT

Cheers to submitting my first major grant as a PI. Reviewers be kind...

Polymyxin B lethality requires energy-dependent outer membrane disruption New preprint in collaboration with colleagues @ucl.ac.uk and @uniofnottingham.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our Head of #Microbiology Prof @pauldcotter.bsky.social was a key contributor to a recent scientific publication exploring strain-level variation among #vaginal #Lactobacillus #crispatus & Lactobacillus iners using comparative #metagenomics seqbiome.com/strain-level... #womenshealth #vaginalhealth

We are recruiting for an Editor to join #JMedMicro! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to support our AMR section. Find out more and apply by 30 May here:

Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy! Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further. If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product Please RT🔬🦠

New paper from the group - here we show that aurodox prevents shiga toxin mediated damage in a murine model. Interesting changes to the microbiota too. Amazing work by @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social and the group. Paper here- rdcu.be/efW0K

Bacillus subtilis MurJ and Amj Lipid II flippases are not essential for growth #JBacteriol by Kiera Englehart & Jonathan Dworkin journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Very proud day to have our wonderful PhD student successfully defend his thesis 🥳 Congrats Dr @metagymomics.bsky.social Great start to the weekend. 👏👏👏

What a week! Grateful for the chance to share my recent work on #bacteria, #evolution, and #RNA at my first #MicroBio25 conference. As a new lecturer in the UK, it was an incredible introduction to the vibrant microbiology community here! @microbiologysociety.org

A new guide to probiotics available in the UK has been made available. Includes information on applications, dosage forms and evidence. #microbiomesky probioticguide.uk?utm_source=i...

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!

I guess I can't say I presented my poster on #Microbio25 without posting a photo of myself with the poster. You can still come and hear about my research on Streptomyces at poster B057 today! @microbiologysociety.org

Great time at #MicroBio25 with the University of Glasgow crew….. such a happy bunch doing awesome science!

Absolutely loved my first @microbiologysociety.org annual conference! 🦠 It was great to attend so many fascinating talks, chat over lots of interesting posters and share my research with such a supportive community!

How to keep mucus-loving gut bacteria happy, in my new article with @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/this-mucus-l...

Ending a fantastic week at #MicroBio25 with a view of the conference centre from the Ferry cross the Mersey @scousemicrobe.bsky.social

Missed the mmc conference abstract deadline but eager to present your latest work? Fear not! Late and Breaking abstracts open until Friday 2 May. More information here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

Delighted our study (7+ years in the making) is out today in Nature. In a nutshell, 48 hours of antibiotics in week 1 led to impaired vaccine responses up to 15 months later in infants. We show (in-vivo) a probiotic can fix it #microbiome #science #immunology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Day 1 of the @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference was a success! Very proud of @uofgsii.bsky.social UG student Lucy Hunter presenting her final year project on sustainability in the microbiology curriculum. Lucy is very keen to collaborate with others in this area, reach out if interested 🌿🧫

If you're still at #MircoBio25, head down to poster 89 and catch up with all the work that @phoebecrossley.bsky.social is up to as part of her PhD in my lab #microsky #vaginalmicrobiome

To all enjoying #MicroBio25 remember: all @microbiologysociety.org events rely on our journals - every paper pays 4x travel grants! Make 2025 when you submit a paper to a MicroSoc journal www.microbiologyresearch.org $0 OA for Publish+Read institutions www.microbiologyresearch.org/publish-and-...