Join the Barber Learning team at Winterbourne House and Garden on Saturday 22 November for an afternoon of creativity and funky fungi. You will get to ‘Meet the Microbes’ learning more about their weird and wonderful world and letting your imagination run wild! barber.org.uk/events/barbe...

Congratulations, @jessicamablair.bsky.social, Sara Jabbari and Tim Overton on winning prestigious BBSRC sLoLa grant www.ukri.org/news/powerin...

Congratulations to Prof David Grainger @graingerlab.bsky.social who has been awarded a long term grant to lead a pioneering investigation into one of the world’s most dangerous and understudied pathogens 🧫🦠 www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/mi...

Prof Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social co-leads a new UK collaboration tackling infection and antimicrobial resistance www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/bi...

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Congrats to Dr Jo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com who won the Berkeley Award at the British Mycological Society this Summer - the award, a major honour in the field of mycology, recognises outstanding contributions and potential in fungal research, well done Jo 🎉 www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/berkeley-awa...

Probiotics for preterm babies lowered antibiotic resistant bacteria in gut @halllab.bsky.social and @raymondkiu.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/pr...

Huge congratulations to IMI's Prof Robin May @robinmay9.bsky.social who has been appointed as UKHSA's @ukhsa.bsky.social Interim Chief Scientific Officer - excellent choice! 🎉 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Terrific news that @robinmay9.bsky.social of @imibirmingham.bsky.social has been appointed CSO of @ukhsa.bsky.social today! www.gov.uk/government/n... A fantastic choice!

New paper in Nature Communications authored by Prof Andy Lovering et al rdcu.be/euXWk

Photo dump IMI Summer school 2025 🦠🦠🦠

Photo dump of IMI Summer school 2025

And IMI Summer school 2025 wraps up! What a fantastic group of students! Thank you UoB school and @hannahtriv.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social

Excellent talk from @robinmay9.bsky.social about his life, David Attenborough being his inspo and the Food Standards Agency 🦠🥪

Last day of IMI Summer school 2025 starts with all things UCAS applications and Escaping the Toxoplasma 💩🦠

Peter Wildy Prize Lecture and Interview with Prof. Lindsay Hall from Annual Conference 2025 is now available on YouTube. Watch the full interview and lecture: 'Guardians of the Gut Bringing Microbiome Science to Life through Public Engagement' microb.io/40s1zvB #Microbio25

Some exciting results from the IMI Summer school experiments 🧪🧫🔬

Day 4 of IMI Summer school started with Feeding the Future and green bread 🍞 with UoB's Dr Helen Onyeaka, GI infections with Dr Ella Rodwell and Exploring the World of Gut Bacteria with the fabulous @halllab.bsky.social 🦠🦠🦠

How does your diet impact the microbiome? Let's find out...🦠🦠

Half way through the IMI Summer school 2025 starts with a fantastic Q&A panel with our own UoB students and Postdocs and @wvschaik.bsky.social giving a great talk on AMR & Phages 🦠🦠

Culture club! Do probiotic yoghurt drinks really contain live bacteria? Let's find out at IMI Summer school 2025 🦠🦠

Day 2 of IMI Summer school 2025 kicks off with some funky images from @contamclub.bsky.social and Mathematical modelling of an infectious disease with Rowland Seymour 🦠🦠🤢🤢

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...

Windows, hand rails, kettles, water fountains and jelly pots all antimicrobially active 🦠🦠 - swab and send in action with @lstmnews.bsky.social

Practicing pipetting and making dilutions - great start to IMI Summer school 2025 with @hannahtriv.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social

And so it begins! IMI Summer school 2025 follow us for all the fun this week 🦠🦠

The Society has supported the microbiology community for 80 years. Now we invite you to get involved by submitting your research, helping to shape the future of science and innovation. Publish with us - microb.io/Publishing-f...

Congratulations to our very own Prof Tim Dafforn who will become the new MOD Chief Scientific Adviser www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/pr...

Huge congratulations to Pauline for a brilliant seminar and for passing her PhD viva today!! 🤩🤩🤩 Big thanks to mark sutton and @lucyicm.bsky.social for examining!

Meet the visionaries taking on the world’s biggest problems - one of which is our very own Prof Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social as a new generation of 'goalkeepers' emerge with @gatesfoundation.bsky.social www.wired.com/sponsored/st...

An exciting new Doctoral Training Programme in Microbial Genomics for Health Protection, in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social, has just launched, funded by @nihr.bsky.social there are 9 PhD projects available (UK students only) www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

Fab talk by @lukeacton.bsky.social at @pintofscience.uk in Birmingham- love seeing the work my @imibirmingham.bsky.social pals are doing!

Ambitious project to develop low cost genome sequencing which will bring together an international collaboration led by our very own @pathogenomenick.bsky.social and @scalene.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

Tickets open: The Future of Immunity gres.hm/future-immunity Our understanding of our immune system is vastly different from 50 years ago, w/ modern therapies that would have once seemed like science fiction. @robinmay9.bsky.social asks: what next for #immunity? @imibirmingham.bsky.social

Congratulations to @therad-lab.bsky.social on receiving her Lister Award 🎉 www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/li...

NEW Tracking emerging viruses - featuring colleagues at @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/tr...

Having a great week in the USA visiting forests across different states to discuss forest health and forest product production. Next stop Louisiana … @imibirmingham.bsky.social #BIFoR

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

Today at 3.35pm IMI's Raymond Kiu @raymondkiu.bsky.social on the Impact of early life antibiotic and probiotic treatment on gut microbiome and resistome of preterm infants #microbio25

Well deserved Lindsay!! @halllab.bsky.social Amazing public engagement prize lecture at #Microbio2025 from my boss 😀 A role model in science comms #MicrobiomeSky @imibirmingham.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org

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 🎉

Upcoming talk by @halllab.bsky.social at 4:30pm on early life microbiomes in Room 12! #Microbio2025 #MicrobiomeSky

Well done @izziepotterill.bsky.social on your first conference presentation. Make sure to check out her poster on her larger project tomorrow #microbio25

We are in Liverpool this week at the @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference our IMI line up today looks like this .. #Microbio25

Not long to go now. All set for Monday! #AMGDMarch25 @imibirmingham.bsky.social

Thanks for the excellent hospitality and discussions @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social and colleagues - look forward to hosting you @imibirmingham.bsky.social soon

A University of Basel study shows that antibiotic failure is due to nutrient-starved Salmonella, not persister bacteria, as traditional methods underestimate surviving bacteria. Researchers suggest focusing on nutrient-related resilience to improve treatments. #AMR www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Impact of the use of azole fungicides, other than as human medicines, on the development of azole-resistant Aspergillus spp. efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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...