Applications for the Microbes, Microbiomes & Bioinformatics Doctoral Training Programme close at midnight tomorrow⏰

A snowy start to 2026 here at the Quadram Institute ❄️

Researchers from the Quadram Institute have come together to develop a new open access book filled with cutting-edge methods and protocols to ensure best practice in microbiome research.

We look forward to continuing to work with policymakers in 2026 to provide the latest evidence on food, health and microbiome research.

In 2026, we will be relaunching the Quadram Institute newsletter ✉️ Sign up now to keep up to date with our latest research news, activities and events ⤵️

Happy New year from the Quadram Institute!☀️ #HappyNewYear #2026

As 2025 ends, we share our most viewed blogs published this year plus other blog highlights including: 🍍 The science of how fruit affect blood sugar 🧠 Is there a brain microbiome? 🍽️ What is hidden hunger and how can biofortification help?

⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for a Summer Intern to generate microscopy videos of bacteria bursting in response to administering antibiotics as part of a public education video on the uses of antibiotics and risks of misuse 🔬 🗓️ Apply by 5 January ➡️ buff.ly/YlUQUho

The Best Practice in Microbiome Research presents protocols covering the design of ethical, inclusive studies, sample collection and genomic sequencing, bioinformatics processing of data and statistical analysis.

⏰ Closing soon! Interested in doing a microbiology PhD? Apply for a project on the Microbes, Microbiomes & Bioinformatics Doctoral Training Programme by 6 January 2026. Find out more about the projects and application requirements➡️ buff.ly/Q24bDLO

We are looking for an exceptional scientist with a research focus on nutrition and microbiome-based interventions for the prevention and management of obesity to join our Food, Microbiome and Health research programme as a Group Leader. 💷 Competitive 🗓️ Apply by 18 January 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/8KeAdxg

📽️ Watch some highlights from our time taking part in @senseaboutsci.bsky.social 's Evidence Week where we talked to policymakers about hidden hunger ⤵️

Our role in END2AMR is to understand the mechanisms by which pathogens and host contribute to outcomes of antimicrobial treatment during infection, and to help use this information to develop improved ways to combat infection.

This year we’ve published 44 blogs covering our research, impact and careers of our staff and students✨ Our researchers have shared the exciting research they’ve been doing as well as what they’ve been up to outside of the lab working with the community and policymakers⤵️

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas 🎄 #ChristmasTree

⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to investigate how microbial sulfur and nitrogen metabolism influences host health in the context of protein malnutrition and obesity 🦠 🗓️ Apply by 28 December 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/hRhxVH7

This looks like a brilliant opportunity! #MicroSky

We’re looking for a Summer Intern to generate microscopy videos of bacteria bursting in response to administering antibiotics as part of a public education video on the uses of antibiotics and risks of misuse 🔬 🗓️ Apply by 5 January ➡️ buff.ly/YlUQUho

PhD students on the Microbes, Microbiomes and Bioinformatics Doctoral Training Partnership flew to The Gambia to share research projects and experience the reality of microbiology research in a different cultural context 🦠 Applications are open until January 6 2026 ⤵️ buff.ly/Sv6Vziy

The END2AMR consortium will focus on chronic and drug-resistant infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which are responsible for significant global morbidity and mortality.

✅ Are you aged over 18? ✅ Live within 70 miles of Norwich? ✅Think you might be low in vitamin D? Join the ViTaL-D study and help us understand if @johninnescentre.bsky.social tomatoes biofortified through gene editing could help boost vitamin D levels 🍅

Take a look back on our policy highlights from 2025 including: 📍 Visits from Members of Parliament and the House of Lords 🗣️ Multiple mentions of Quadram Institute in Parliament 📊 Highlighting hidden hunger to policymakers and how bioscience can help Plus more ⤵️

Our latest newsletter is out now 📩 Sign up to stay up to get our latest news straight to your inbox ⤵️

“It is exciting that @wellcometrust.bsky.social has recognised the importance of fungal organisms in health and disease through this funding call,” 💬 Professor Alessia Buscaino

BLOG - From cereal killers to high-fibre bread: the importance of networking in the wheat research community Dr Eleri Tudor, Delivering Sustainable Wheat Programme Manager, attended the @dsw-isp.bsky.social Institute Strategic Programme annual meeting @rothamsted.bsky.social earlier this year 👇

We were delighted to welcome Medical Research Council Executive Chair Professor Patrick Chinnery and colleagues to the Quadram Institute yesterday where they met our Group Leaders and toured our our state-of-the-art labs, our NHS Endoscopy department & Clinical Research Facility. ➡️ buff.ly/vMAUWdP

📻 Listen back to BBC Radio Norfolk to hear our researcher @emmabeansworth.bsky.social talk about the launch of Am I a Scientist? which aims to break down current stereotypes of what scientists are. 🔊 Listen from 24:05 ▶️ buff.ly/a8Z8Wmp 🥼 Find out more about Am I A Scientist ➡️ buff.ly/ZhpyuhK

🆕 Blog! We share our most read blogs published in 2025, by webpage views, covering bioscience explainers and how our researchers have been gaining experience in policy and industry. buff.ly/VqRK26Q

Norwich Cathedral has Budge the cat and it seems Zeus the cat has adopted the @quadraminstitute.bsky.social Very friendly, does have an owner and lives locally. Likes the entrance lobby, would recommend.

Would you like to have your own kitchen garden? 🌿 If you’re a vegan or vegetarian, with regular periods, living within 70 miles of #Norwich you can take part in our HARVEST study growing biofortified greens in kitchen garden🌱 Find out more➡️ buff.ly/49xToBz

📻 Tune into BBC Radio Norfolk at 2.20pm to hear our researcher @emmabeansworth.bsky.social talk about the launch of the 'Am I a Scientist' online teaching resource ⤵️ buff.ly/QdHqWf4

🆕 New book shares Quadram’s Best Practice in Microbiome Research 📗 Published by Springer Nature, Best Practice in Microbiome Research (IBSN: 978-1-0716-5008-0 & 978-1-0716-5009-7 ) draws on our depth and breadth of experience and expertise in microbiome research. buff.ly/STm0RP7

🎁 5 Community leadership UK Node member Maria Traka (@quadraminstitute.bsky.social) was elected co-lead of the ELIXIR Europe Food and Nutrition Community, strengthening UK leadership at European level 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/ma... #adventcalendar #leadership

We work with policymakers and members of parliament to provide strong scientific evidence on food, gut microbiome and health. Working with policymakers is key to delivering our mission of delivering healthier lives through innovation in gut health, microbiology and food.

🆕 We're proud to announce the launch of #END2AMR (European Novel Drug Research to Address Microbial Infections and Drug Resistance) – a major new public-private research initiative designed to tackle some of the most difficult-to-treat bacterial infections.

Supported by £2.7 million of funding from Wellcome’s Biology of Fungal Adaptation programme, a five-year research project leverages a network of leading international experts from the Quadram Institute, @dunnschool.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social.

“We plan to do further experiments on these bacteria, looking at growing them in a model of pleural infection to see what genes they use to adapt to life in pleural fluid and cause infection” 💬 Dr Eleanor Mishra

Abstract deadline closing soon! ⏰ The second Biofortification Hub Community Meeting "Biofortification: From Science to Society" organised by by the University of Aberdeen @rowettinstitute.bsky.social is happening next March Submit by 21 December ➡️ buff.ly/rjgLjh4 @johninnescentre.bsky.social

We were delighted to welcome @ukhsa.bsky.social Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Lucy Chappell to the Quadram Institute on Friday. Professor Chappell met researchers from across the Norwich Research Park during Friday’s visit. Read more about our health research ➡️ buff.ly/vMAUWdP

Do you have a PhD in microbiology, molecular microbiology or a related discipline, with experience in molecular genetics, microbial genomics or microbiome analysis? Check out our current vacancy ⤵️ 🗓️ Apply by 28 December 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/hRhxVH7

Be part of research at the Quadram Institute! We’re running the ViTaL-D study to investigate whether @johninnescentre.bsky.social biofortified tomatoes developed through gene editing to be high in vitamin D leads to higher levels of active vitamin D in the blood 🍅 ➡️ buff.ly/gm0zYtx

Do you have an excellent track record in an area of research that can address diet-microbiome-host interactions and their contribution to metabolic health and disease? Check out our current vacancy ⤵️ 💷 Competitive 🗓️ Apply by 18 January 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/8KeAdxg

A lovely write up of all the fab work The Quadram Institute has been up to over 2025. I’m so proud to represent the Institute in Parliament! Here’s to a bigger and better 2026! ⭐

🆕 Blog! As we head towards the end of 2025, we reflect on our policy highlights across food and heath ✨ buff.ly/gOUkEFh

What a start to the day at @quadraminstitute.bsky.social A stunning Norwich City hedgehog from @andrewchapple.bsky.social and fresh baked croissants from Jenn in the Human Studies team. Thanks 🙏

“We can test which antibiotics, or other treatments, are actually effective at preventing microbes from sticking to catheters, to try and give clinicians better tools to treat these infections if they do happen." 💬 Professor Mark Webber

🆕 New project uncovering the role of a molecular switch in Candida albicans infections. Professor @buscainolab.bsky.social will lead a new study investigating how fungi adapt to life in the human gut, to address the growing global health challenge of fungal infections. buff.ly/FGzNwWS

“The Quadram Institute is proud to be part of the newly launched National Research Organisations (NRO) Group – uniting UK research centres to #MakingResearchMatter for people, communities & the economy." 💬 Professor @dfigeys.bsky.social

Congratulations to our Zimbabwean research collaborator Dr Tapfumanei Mashe for winning two awards at the 2025 Africa Health Excellence Awards in Durban, South Africa for Community Builder of the Year & Honorary Health Researcher of the Year. Read more about our collaboration ➡️ buff.ly/4fJ87VQ

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated microbiologist to bridge in vitro microbiome models and in vivo systems, using functional assays, molecular biology, and bioinformatics. 🗓️ Apply by 28 December 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/hRhxVH7