Register today for Microbiology Society Annual Meeting in Ireland 2025. Join us for a one-and-a-half day meeting in Athlone, Ireland for an opportunity to explore current Microbiology research and spark collaboration amongst fellow researchers, educators and early careers.

🚨One week left to apply for this exciting postdoctoral opportunity. 4 year project investigating novel therapeutics targeting IBD-associated pathobionts. Come and join us at TCD Microbiology 🦠🧬🔬

🚨One week left to apply for this PhD opportunity. Come and join us at TCD Microbiology. All fees and full €25000 stipend covered for 4 years.

Looking to appoint a new or experienced Postdoc to join my team. Investigating novel therapeutics targeting Crohn's disease associated bacteria. Background in Microbiology, Immunology, Biochemistry or related field. 🦠🔬 Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Closing date: 31st May 2025

Looking to appoint a PhD candidate with background in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related field to work on discovery of infection combatting therapeutics in marine sponge-associated bacteria. Closing date 31st May 2025. International applications welcomed!🌎

First PhD student of the Rudkin Lab presenting at her first Microbiology Society event. Super proud of how well she's doing. Hope it's the first of many #MicroBio25

Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk Older adults in Wales who had the jab were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia that those not vaccinated www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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

Day 2 #microbio25 in sunny Liverpool. The Role of Microbiomes in Humans, Animals and Ecosystems part 2 begins at 10.15 in Hall1B. 🦠🧍🐄 🏜️

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 🎉

Our final PhD position is now live - come help us see if AI approaches can aid our understanding of cellular signalling systems during infection and cancer. Maybe this could help develop new clinical interventions? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣Publication alert! Another great output from @metagymomics.bsky.social for his PhD. Looking at strain level genetic variation within members of the vaginal microbiome. #microsky @pauldcotter.bsky.social @calumwalsh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Packed Moyne Institute Lecture Theatre for @sligomicrobe.bsky.social! Strainspotting in the vaginal microbiome.

Our lab contributed to this including @hamrockfergal.bsky.social : CsrA-mediated regulation of a virulence switch in Acinetobacter baumannii. Great work led by Phil Rather's group. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A work that started 10y ago with a simple experiment with a curious result. Great to see it finally published. Massive effort by @nic-ler.bsky.social and Andrew Cameron! Happy to have contributed to this!

In UK, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections in humans have INCREASED by 13% since 2018… Despite a target to reduce them by 10%. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📣Fully funded PhD position available in our lab at @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social, in collaboration with Dr. Connolly at Newcastle University (@ruamicro.bsky.social). "Dissecting the RNA-centric landscape of microbiota-pathogen interactions in the gut”. 🦠 Apply here: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

Interested in a PhD in bacterial pathogenesis? Then consider applying to the inaugural David Holden PhD Studentship at Imperial inaugural David Holden PhD Studentship (home funded students only). Deadline Jan 31st! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

First post of the year to mark my return from maternity leave :) Excited to share the first open PhD position in my group. Deadline end of February. Please spread the word. www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=181239

We found that many bacterial species use exogenous peptidoglycan fragments - released by lysis of neighboring cells - as a general danger signal, triggering a danger response that protects bacteria against many dangers: biofilm formation. Details here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper from the Faber lab in @plosbiology.org characterizing the C. difficle ncRNA ModT, with effects on sporulation and the transition into stationary phase, evidence for RBP association -- and similar abundance to some ribosomal RNAs! 🧫🦠 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Deadline - this Friday

2x professorships available in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology including in Microbial Engineering area (broadly defined to include microbiomes, environmental biotech etc) — join us! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

We're looking for an Assitant Professor in Microbiology to join us @tcdgenmicro! Come and join our growing team. www.tcd.ie/microbiology... www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ Job ID: 037876. Closes 31st January

PhD projects available in our lab all listed in the below link. All focus on bacterial gene regulation, in the context of basic understanding, disease, or antibiotic resistance. Deadlines in January... www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

Delighted to receive the Emerging Investigator Award from @hrbireland to fund this research aimed at developing new Crohn's disease therapeutics. Huge thanks to UCC collaborators Subrata Ghosh, Marietta Iacucci, Susan Joyce and Jens Walter for their support! 🤩🦠🔬💊

Anyone have a good paper looking at presence/absence rates of outer membrane porins in E. coli clinically? What is the occurrence rates of infections caused by E. coli lacking ompA/C/F? I've lots of papers showing the impact of omp loss on AMR and virulence, but how common is this? #MicroSky

Another PhD opportunity in the team! This time its an exciting collaboration with @halllab.bsky.social and @kimhardie.bsky.social looking at why not all bacteria become resistant! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline 10th Jan and open to Uk and overseas! Pls repost!

An inspirational superstar of the Microbiology world! 🦑🦠💡

Really happy to share our latest paper on how metabolic regulation and overlaps directly with virulence in enteric pathogens. Congrats to Kabo Wale on this work, it was a pleasure to co supervise this PhD with Prof Andy Roe journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

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Use it or lose it: Unless we publish papers in our society owned and published journals they will cease to be, along with all the conferences and meetings the proceeds support. Microbiology Society publishes many excellent journals, all edited by experts. #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org

Fantastic opportunity for a motivated student!