🧫 #MMEG2025 is back! 📍 University of Birmingham | 15-16 Dec 🎤 20+ ERC talks, posters & flash talks 🍽️ Social at Indian Brewery Taproom Keynote: Prof. Corinne Whitby Abstracts due 2 Nov - get those abstracts submitted! Join us for a cracking microbial ecology community meeting 👉

Have research, results, or ideas to share with the microbial ecology community? Don’t miss your chance to present it at #MMEG2025 - abstract submissions close 2 November! 📨 Submit your abstract: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...

New paper out! 🎉 Our collab with Jorge & Amanda shows that Bifido can remotely control placental endocrine function (in 🐀) - modulating >400 proteins! 🚀 Published in J Transl Med - translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Gut microbes shaping the placenta - pretty amazing stuff! 🧫🤰

MMEG is coming to @unibirmingham.bsky.social in December - look out for some exciting announcements about the programme in the next few weeks! Abstract submission and registration is open 👇🏻

📢🚨 Check out @drgdavidson.bsky.social's 3-year senior PDRA role below @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social! Super exciting project exploring wildlife ecology 🐾 and gut microbiome bioinformatics 🧬! 👉 Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18... 💬 Informal enquiries to Gabrielle welcome!

Come join us 2-4th March 2026 for a cracking #microbiome conference in Hinxton UK! Speaker line up is AMAZING and lots of opportunities for ECRs for selected talks, flash talks and posters. Bursaries are also available! See details below 👇

We were gutted that @eliza-coli.bsky.social’s stunning illustration wasn’t chosen for the front cover - I mean, just look at it! ✨ Working with Eliza was a joy & if you’re looking for a brilliant scientific illustrator to bring your projects to life, I can’t recommend her highly enough 🎨🧫🦠

Such an engaged audience at #EESMicrobiome with lots of great questions after my talk! Big thanks to the organisers for inviting me to present some of the teams recent early life #microbiome work. Conference has been AMAZING so far!

🚨 An excellent opportunity for scientists in Africa, at all career stages, working on maternal & child microbiome research 🚨 📚 Blended learning (3 months) incl. prep modules, hands-on training (12-17 Apr 2026) & mentoring. coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/human-...

Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦 Key takeaways: 🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution 🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes 🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential

Bursaries to support your participation at our Microbiome research conference! #Microbiome26 Get up to 50% off the conference registration fee - apply by 24 November 📩 Join us to explore the latest tools and approaches driving advances in the field. 📎bit.ly/4kttBOX#Microbiome26#MicrobiomeSky #AcademicSky

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨ Huge team effort! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠🌍 Free Online Symposium African Microbiomes & Mental Health 📅 29 Sept 2025 | 🕒 14:00 SAST / 13:00 BST 🔗 Register or submit an abstract: forms.gle/8WBZnimr3xui... 🎤 Join leading researchers, clinicians & lived experience experts. 🌟 Submit an abstract for a 10-min spotlight talk! 📄 Speaker info below

🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome. 💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia 📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 🌍 Int’l applicants welcome! Application link below. #microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky

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

Barnstorming talk by @coytelab.bsky.social at the @imibirmingham.bsky.social seminar series today! 🧬 “An ecosystem on a leash: understanding the drivers of gut microbiome dynamics” Thanks for making the trip down from Manchester and sharing some super cool published & preliminary data! 🚀

Exciting webinar on AI & Health Data coming up! 🧠💻 Featuring @unibirmingham.bsky.social & UK Dept for Business & Trade Explore clinical & public health research, collab opportunities & more. 🗓️ July 15 | 10:00–11:30am EST 🔗 lu.ma/9v8i0fdl #AI #HealthData #UKResearch #UoB #DBT #DigitalHealth

Newly published study by Prof Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social and Prof Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social finding that antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus bacteria are common in premature babies www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/wi...

🌍 #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2025 At @halllab.bsky.social we’re uncovering how microbes - right from day one - help shape the gut, strengthen immunity, and protect against infection. We're exploring how, when, and which microbes colonise - in order to develop interventions for a healthier start to life.

Amazing to see this now published! Congrats to @lisalamberte.bsky.social and @wvschaik.bsky.social - on leading this important #microbiome study on #AMR and Staphylococcus haemolyticus in the preterm gut 👇

🌍 Thrilled to share that I've been selected as a 2025 UK Goalkeeper by WIRED Consulting in partnership with @gatesfoundation.bsky.social! This incredible initiative celebrates those driving progress towards the UN SDGs – and I’m honoured to be among this year’s cohort. www.wired.com/sponsored/st...

(1/6) 🌟 Excited to share our new paper! Advancing microbiome safety assessments: opportunities, challenges & recommendations 🧫🦠 This work came out of an academic–industry workshop hosted by @microbiologysociety.org in early 2024. 🔗 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Amazing evening talking science @pintofscience.uk in Birmingham Was really great to present some of the amazing data from @halllab.bsky.social Also credit to the organisers for such an amazing venue !

🎉 Fantastic start to the @hologen.bsky.social in sunny Copenhagen! From 5-9th May we had a week of training, talks & new connections - including our 1st #HoloGen Symposium. Brilliant energy from our new PhD cohort - excited for the impactful years ahead! 💥 #Hologenomics #Microbiome #PhDLife #MSCADN

Looks like I’ve got another move across the world in me! 🌏✈️📦 I'll be starting at @uniofbath.bsky.social in a few weeks as senior lecturer/associate prof in human microbiome. Excited to be back in Europe + for new collabs (alongside ongoing 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇫🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹 ones). Thanks to everyone who helped; more soon!

Very happy that HiBC is out: rdcu.be/ekSCO 🔥 @natcomms.nature.com Excellent team spirit, and, as always, great driving factor by @tcahitch.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐ We hope that these bacterial isolates from the human gut will facilitate many studies by others... 😀

This meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

Check out @sekid.bsky.social's exciting preprint on critical microbe-microbe interactions during🤱 feeding! A clinical cohort & (new) ecological computational analysis highlights key relationships & in vitro studies indicate how & why E. coli helps stabilise Bifido during this early diet window!

And here jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Applications are now open for positions on our Advisory Council, Committees, Divisions, and Members Panel. Increase your professional development and networking opportunities while getting more involved with the Society's community: microb.io/GovernanceVacancies2025

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-...

Fantastic talk from @raymondkiu.bsky.social on preterm infant gut microbiome in the Knocking Out AMR session this afternoon! Proud to be part of @halllab.bsky.social surrounded by great scientists and research 🧫🧬🥼 #Microbio25 @microbiologysociety.org

Find out what my amazing colleagues are working on at #Microbio2025 Luke: poster 263 (Iron transporter in Bifidobacterium) and Charlie: poster 255 (therapeutic Bifidobacterium for IBD). @lukeacton.bsky.social @charliejones17.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @imibirmingham.bsky.social

First up at 9am today at #Microbio25 is Prof Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social winner of the Peter Wildy prize, the award recognises excellence in science communication, outreach and engagement in the field of microbiology – congrats Lindsay 🎉

Big thanks to Liam for such a fun conversation on a range of #microbiome and public engagement topics ahead of my @microbiologysociety.org Peter Wildy Prize Lecture in Liverpool next week! 🦠🧫💩🤱🗣️

🎓 #PhDPosition ! 🔬 Bioinformatic & Experimental Discovery of Novel Bifidobacteria for Breast Cancer Therapy with Dr Stephen Robinson and Professor Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/nml1L1W

Anyone interested in joining us @quadraminstitute.bsky.social as part of @norwichmicro.bsky.social we’re recruiting for group leaders! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF274/g...

🎉 Congratulations to @stewartlab.bsky.social who has been named the Life Sciences Laureate at the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK 🎖️ Read more 👇 www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... #WeAreNCL

Have you had a good mentor that has influenced you or your career in a profound way? Here’s how to show your gratitude - the Nature Award for mentoring in science is open for nominations! This year our focus is on mentors in the UK #academicSky 🧪 www.nature.com/nature/award...

So excited to share this latest work by @kelseyhuus.bsky.social !!! She shows that flagellin in the human gut affects whether or not people develop fever in response to vaccine, and the amount of flagellin reflects diet

Really excited that @matthewjdalby.bsky.social is able to share this exciting collaborative study with @drvishalcpatel.bsky.social - its been a long-time coming! We explore how gut #microbiome alterations drive systemic inflammation & immune dysfunction in chronic liver disease (CLD) #LiverDisease

Have/nearly have a PhD? ≤7 years post-doc experience? Working outside UK? Not a UK citizen? BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK! 💷 Includes: Research expenses £12k Relocation up to £8k 🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT) #ResearchFunding

Evaluating Agar-Plating and Dilution-to-Extinction Isolation Methods for Generating Oak-Associated Microbial Culture Collections #ISMEComms from @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

📢 Calling all female African scientists. Applications open for the EMBL-UNESCO 3-month residencies in infection biology: 🪴 Grow your network 🧪Develop your skills 🧠Exchange knowledge with international colleagues Deadline: 31 March 2025 www.embl.org/about/info/s... #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

We are delighted to announce Professor Gordon Dougan FRS from the University of Cambridge, as the Microbiology Society's new President beginning from 1 Jan 2025. Learn more about his journey into Presidency and his goals for the society in this interview.

@imibirmingham.bsky.social is here! Give them a follow 😃

New paper out today from the lab on Akkermansia muciniphila 🦠and how it breaks down host glycans! Very proud of my group, especially @cassiebakshani.bsky.social who did an amazing job. @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 We are hiring for a 3-yr PDRA 🚨 The Whelan lab is seeking a microbiologist interested in microbe-pathogen competition and use of a Drosophila melanogaster chronic infection model to investigate the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome. For more info check out whelanlab.co.uk & apply at the link below: