The paper for my tool, SCCmecExtractor is now up on bioRxiv. Highly recommend taking a look if you are interested in SCCmec and want to obtain these elements from whole genome sequences. It also does gene level typing of mec and ccr, even if extraction isn’t possible. #microsky #AMR

PhD available with @overtonlab.bsky.social Sara Jabbari and me associated with our BBSRC sLoLa project! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (UK students only)

AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

We have a bird feeder on the window of my shared office, which is grand for the great tits, blue tits and other small birds. Also works well for the savvy crow.

💬 "Our aim is to help researchers make the most of real-time #nanopore #sequencing by providing an accessible, flexible, and open-source framework for metagenomic analysis." Discover how software tool MARTi powers real-time classification and visualisation of #metagenomics. 💻 🧬 👉 buff.ly/iurkZDC

2 year fellowship available in AMR research www.medicalresearchfoundation.org.uk/grants/antim...

WEES March Seminar & Master Class: "Molecular evolution in a defensive symbiosis", Dr. Aileen Berasategui 📍 Master Class Time: 12 March, 14:00 Contact: [email protected] (for details) 📍 Seminar Time: 12 March, 16:00 Location: Orion C1040, WUR

📝 Registration now open! 👀 Estimating the fitness cost and benefit of antimicrobial resistance from pathogen genomic data 🎤 Professor Xavier Didelot 📅 Wednesday 18th March @ 12 👉 Sign up: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/es...

If you have the opportunity, apply for the TSL @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Summer Conference. An intense week with top experts in plant-microbe interactions. What you can learn here in a week would normally take months (or longer)!!! @kamounlab.bsky.social 🦠🔬🌱 www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...

Salt supplementation-induced metabolic reprogramming in Streptomyces coelicolor journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Fitness effects of antimicrobial resistance genes in changing environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.06.710025v1

Excited to collaborate with @hassansalem.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social on this new Postdoc opportunity! If you're interested in the developmental biology of symbiosis, apply and join us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 🪲🦠🔬

Finally listened to @tucker303.bsky.social and got the Merlin Bird ID app. It’s nice to put a name to the birdsong I hear most mornings.

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you! 1/n

Excited for day 2 of the @norwichmicro.bsky.social annual conference. I got to start my day with a lovely walk in. The @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social campus is quite lovely.

Great first day of the @norwichmicro.bsky.social annual conference. Poster session in full swing.

Looking forward to the @norwichmicro.bsky.social Annual Conference tomorrow as I will be presenting a poster on my tool: SCCmecExtractor. It is able to extract SCCmec elements from whole genome sequence data for staphylococci and mammaliicocci. #AMR #MGE #MicroSky #MRSA github.com/AlisonMacFad...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

🚨 We’re hiring – MRC-funded Postdoc (3 yrs) Research Fellow to investigate how mobile genetic elements interact in Staphylococcus aureus and shape gene transfer and pathogenicity. University of St Andrews Closes 31 March 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR250/r... Enquiries: [email protected]

This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for Masters and PhD Students. Deadline is the 20th of March.

Our new study combines experiments with bioinformatics to examine amino acid metabolism in Pseudomonas strains co-isolated from pond and soil communities by Simon Maréchal, Beni Heiniger, @swagatika.bsky.social, Shaohua Gu, Christian Ahrens www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Come visit us at the Norwich Science Festival today! #norwichscifestival @vgeshkovski.bsky.social @adelineharant.bsky.social

Eight-year-old Esme has joined the Norfolk & Norwich Hospitals Charity’s AirMazing Challenge to ‘walk around the world’. Esme and 55 other young patients under our Cystic Fibrosis care have been given wearable fitness trackers to encourage them to exercise. https://orlo.uk/Hkgtr

⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for an ambitious and collaborative Group Leader or Career Track Group Leader to pioneer the development of next-generation microbiome assays and model systems 💷 Competitive 🗓️ Apply by 15 February 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/W3Sphca

‘Why solutions to antimicrobial resistance are urgently needed‘ sergemostowylab.bsky.social & I had the opportunity to write an editorial for @dmmjournal.bsky.social ‘s collection celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social you can read it here: journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Happy to share our new AMR resource which has phenotypic AMR (usually MIC data) collected from publications and databases. This is paired with assemblies and annotations We're excited for users who might train new models, find phenotype/genotype mismatches, or any other use

Closing date for applications is the 19th August

Ever wondered why some antibiotics are made by Streptomyces on agar plates but not in liquid cultures? Read this work on redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis. Led by katienoble241.bsky.social and Rebecca Devine, and in collaboration with @barriewilks.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Meet Alyssa Winder, our Vacation Studentship recipient from the University of Suffolk. Alyssa shared that the grant provided valuable financial support; giving them more time to focus on research and build key professional development skills.

Abstracts closing! There’s still time to submit your abstract for Microbiology Society Annual Meeting in Ireland 2025. Submit your abstract now, before 1 August 2025: microb.io/IrelandMeeti... #MicrobioIrish25

This opportunity is still open but closing at the end of July!

📣 Save the date 📆 Tuesday 7 Oct '25 Get ready for the return of the Norwich Bioscience Institutes Accessible Science Talks! Schools and colleges can join us online to hear directly from our researchers and technical specialists about their science & careers🔬🧬🌿🦠💻

VACANCY - We're recruiting for an enthusiastic and talented Proteomics Scientist to join the #Proteomics Platform team, providing comprehensive services to the JIC, Norwich Research Park and other external partners. okt.to/1aYUoQ Closing date - 23 July 2025 Contract - Full time, indefinite

Anyway posting this again.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

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...

University of Glasgow Bacteriologists representing at #Microbio25 @uofgsii.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org

Marjory Stephenson Prize Winner, Professor George Salmond's, lecture on Phytopathogenesis, Quorum Sensing, Antibiotics, Flotation and Phages is about to start in Hall 1 at #Microbio25. Read about the prize winner - microb.io/ProfGeorgeSa...

VACANCY ⬇️ If you haven't yet - apply this week! Application review starts today and the vacancy will remain open until the position is filled or April 25, 2025, whichever occurs first. Apply online: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

One week left to apply for this BBSRC funded PhD position in the Duncan lab, cosupervised by @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @ruamicro.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Further insight into how CutRS functions in Streptomyces and some thoughts on how its redox state detection via conserved dual cysteine residues in the extra cellular domain of a sensor kinase may be present in almost all bacteria @tommclean.bsky.social @matthutchings.bsky.social

Come and join me at the Quadram Institute: we're looking for a new group leader working on pathogens and/or spoilage in the food chain.

Family includes everyone! ❤️

🦘✂️ Thanks to @cziscience.bsky.social , @wytamma.bsky.social and I are writing the next version of the Snippy bacterial variant calling pipeline. We want your input on what features s it will have. Please fill out this (longish) survey to help make Snippy great again! forms.gle/YJP6WQjsk8KK...

Missed the @norwichmicro.bsky.social Annual Conference? 📽️ Watch back on some of the scientific posters ⤵️

We're currently recruiting a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer and an Associate Professor in #Pharmacy / #MedicinalChemistry Deadline is 19th March for both posts. Details here: careers.uos.ac.uk/job/672999 careers.uos.ac.uk/job/672991 The quality of life on the Suffolk coast is rather nice! 😎👨🏻‍🔬👩‍🔬🔬🧪

MicrobesNG POPUP Conference is coming to Norwich! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics conference 3rd Jul ECR's submit your abstract (talk or poster) by 3rd Apr www.surveymonkey.com/r/POP_UP_NOR Please repost! Organised with @getgenome.bsky.social & @norwichmicro.bsky.social #MNGPopUp #ECR #MicroSky

Good to the see The Science, Art and Writing Trust @sawtrust.bsky.social on BlueSky. This amazing charity goes into schools in deprived areas to do practical science with the kids who then interpret what they learned through art and poetry. www.sawtrust.org