The early bird 🐥 registration for the 8th International Bacterial Wilt Symposium has been extended until the 15th of November! To join those who have already registered visit our website 👉https://event.wur.nl/ibws2026

New paper with my (amazing) friend and mentor @jrpenades.bsky.social Really looking forward to see what plasmid aficionados think of this one!! With @asantoslopez.bsky.social @wfigueroac3.bsky.social Akshay Sabins and others www.cell.com/cell-reports...

We studied how exogenous mucins influence phage-bacterium interplay in human epithelial cells. This work is now available in BiorXiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience 3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social? www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...

Phages evolve fast, or do they? In oysters, some stay identical for years. With >1,200 phages & 600 Vibrio genomes, we reveal long-term stability and new mobile elements. Proud of this collaborative work across our teams (Roscoff-UdeM and @epcrocha.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

5-years in the making this paper has been a real journey! Also, a fun collaboration with @frimanscience.bsky.social @jofoth.bsky.social Edze Westra, Simon Lovell, Aras Kadioglu #mevosky #phagesky

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share. duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others Please share & get in touch if interested! tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

One week left to submit your abstract to @microbiologysociety.org meeting on “Understanding and Predicting Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics” at Liverpool 26-27 November Lots of spaces for ECR talks and posters! microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

🚨 Reminder! You have just over two weeks to submit an abstract, if you want to present at the @microbiologysociety.org meeting "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" in Liverpool in November! #microsky 🦠🧫🔬

Fresh new abstract books are waiting for the #esm2025 congress, which starts in a few days. Don’t forget to follow us from Sunday onwards!

Great postdoc opportunity available in Zurich!

Top two recurring typos with the current grant write-up: 1) Metagnomes 🧌 (Metagenomes) 2) Pants 🩳 (Plants)

🧫🦠🔬🧬 @science.org Sedentary chromosomal integrons as biobanks of bacterial antiphage defense systems | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @baptistedarracq.bsky.social @eloilittner.bsky.social @celineloot.bsky.social @epcrocha.bsky.social et al. #microbiology #phage #immunity #phagesky #MicroSky

This will be an excellent meeting - highly recommended!

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

Hope to see lots of interesting Ralstonia research in Wageningen next year!

Join the ESEB 2025 symposium on bacteria-phage ecology and evolution (S43) with Frédérique Le Roux and Michael Brockhurst as invited speakers. Submit abstracts by April 25, 2025 (eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...). See you in Barcelona, August 17-22, 2025! #phagesky

👂We want to hear all about your work! This is your chance to showcase your research in #EvolutionaryBiology and network with colleagues from all over the world! Select from 51 symposia for your #Abstract: https://eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia/​  👉🏻 Submit Now: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

Michael Lin (Stanford) reports his grant on anti-COVID meds was terminated. Pandemics become endemic. Endemic diseases require treatments. Treatments require research. Research requires continuity of support. Continuity of support requires federal funding. But the WH just doesn't get it.

Job alert ‼️ 2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social - ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...

Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project. Read more and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #phage #bioinformatics

Awwww yeah, check this out: snowflake yeast making their cover debut! www.nature.com/nature/volum... We have two papers in this issue: 1) A paper examining whole genome duplication in the MuLTEE 2) A review of long-term experiments in evolutionary biology led by @jameststroud.bsky.social 🧪

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Join us at the Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM) in the south of France! ☀️ We're looking for a POSTDOC to explore the phageome and plant microbiome, diving into cutting-edge research at the intersection of viromics and microbial ecology. 📆 Deadline: March 15, 2025 @evbc.bsky.social

I'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

Frankfurt was good fun!

Hamburg was great as always!

In non-science news, the Insomnium European tour is running smoothly and we had a great time in Utrecht yesterday. Today we play in 🇩🇪 Oberhausen Turbinehallen - come and see us!

Great to see this work out with bunch of great colleagues!

We derive iron-siderophore interaction networks among Pseudomonas strains from sequencing data. One key insight: natural strains form dense networks, whereas pathogens are loners. With @frimanscience.bsky.social @zhiyuanli.bsky.social & Nanjing colleagues www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How do mobile genetic elements (MGEs) like phages, plasmids and phage-plasmids shape the gut microbiome - and could they be hidden influencers for infant health?👀 Check out our new perspective article with @frimanscience.bsky.social and Tommi Vatanen on this very topic! #microbiome #phagesky 🦠 1/8

Does resistance evolve within patients? Yeah, but it’s complicated, evidence is piecemeal, and we need to make far better use of clinical trials for quantitative understanding of how & why AMR outcomes vary between patients. Led by @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Funded PhD studentship (for UK students) developing synthetic phage therapy focusing on eco-evolutionary dynamics with me, Claudia Igler and Patrick Cai. Synthetic genomics / experimental evolution / Pseudomonas 🧫 🫁 🧬 #microsky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Less than a week left to apply for this RA position ⬇️ AMR evolution in human Pseudomonas airway infections 🧫 🫁 💊 #microsky

BBSRC 2-year PDRA position to work on ecology & evolution of phage therapy with synthetically engineered phages. Part of an exciting multi-university consortium & UK’s Engineering Biology priority. Synthetic genomics; experimental evolution; AMR. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #microsky

Exciting chance to join our Wellcome Trust collaborative project understanding AMR evolution in human infections! Genomics, experimental evolution, Pseudomonas. Research Assistant 4-days per week for 2-years, deadline 18.03. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #microsky

New preprint in collaboration with @asantoslopez.bsky.social lab and led by Jorge Sastre. Combining experimental evolution and analyses of longitudinal samples from hospitalised patients, we unveiled a new mechanism of plasmid-mediated evolution beyond HGT 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The new Helsinki research website is now online. If you are interested in applying for fellowships (e.g. MCSA), please don't hesitate to get in touch!

Also, we have a related Ph.D. position available at the University of Lund in the lab of @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social @hauryliuk.bsky.social. The deadline for application is the 5th of March.

We have a 3-year PDRA position available of evolution of symbiosis using RNAi and experimental evolution to understand the mechanisms and architecture of host control in the Paramecium-Chlorella photosymbiosis. Collab with Tom Richards and Dunc Cameron www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Join the fun! And stay tuned for a bioinformatics PhD position to work on the same project!

Three-year postdoc available on anti-phage defense systems and phage biocontrol of phytopathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum at Helsinki (FIN) in collaboration with @hauryliuk.bsky.social and gemmaatkinson.bsky.social. Application deadline 29.2.2024. #phagesky #microsky jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Our paper engineering yeast to be phototrophic (gaining energy from light) by chucking a rhodopsin into the vacuole is out in Current Biology. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Application deadline has been extended until Feb 5th!

The deadline for this PD fellowship in 🇪🇸 is approaching! Cris Vieitez and I are open to jointly sponsoring a candidate who's interested in developing new robotic platforms for studying microbial consortia in high throughput. If curious, we welcome inquiries until the end of this week, get in touch!