P.S. if you were at #MicroEvo25 and didn’t get chance to scan the QR code on my poster, but would like to see some videos from our Iceland fieldwork 🌋 you can find them all here linktr.ee/magdalenakur...

Winning the poster prize was an amazing way to end #MicroEvo25 🎉 Absolutely loved sharing (the start of!) my PhD research! Thanks to @brockhurstlab.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social and Sophie for the encouragement & to @microbiologysociety.org for organising such a fantastic event!

Had the best day at #MicroEvo25 yesterday! Excited for day two and to be chatting more about hot spring microbial community coalescence 🌋 find me at poster 62 (likely with a coffee in hand)

Learn about hot spring microbial communities from @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social at poster 62 🌋 #MicroEvo25

Go Team! Deeply honoured that the MERMan lab reps won an @manchester.ac.uk‬ "FMBH heroes" award - thanks ‪@fbmh-uom.bsky.social‬ and @mermanchester.bsky.social for nominating us ❤️❤️❤️

Incredibly honoured to have won the @fbmh-uom.bsky.social Heroes Award for sustainability with the wonderful @mermanchester.bsky.social lab reps team! 🥳🌟

Really enjoyed the challenge of presenting my PhD project in three minutes for the @fbmhdocacad.bsky.social summer symposium & winning the jury prize for best talk! 🧫🧬🏅 Had so much fun capturing the project in a creative way for a diverse audience 🥳

Had a fantastic time at @pintofscience.uk last night! Here I am wobbling on a chair trying to turn a #Phage into a #T6SS. Thanks @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social‬ for the pic!

Had the absolute best time at @pintofscience.uk talking about microbial evolution and some of the work I’ve been doing at @mermanchester.bsky.social with @flanagella.bsky.social and @dannagifford.bsky.social 🧫💊🧬

Really enjoyed doing a trial run of my @pintofscience.uk talk for @mermanchester.bsky.social today! Come see me talk about experimental evolution next Monday 🧬🧫💊 pintofscience.co.uk/event/tiny-t...

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Excited to be presenting work from the Gifford Lab at #microbio25 on testing the effectiveness of combination therapy in E. coli in limiting antibiotic resistance spread 🦠🧫🧪 Come talk to me at poster A142 today!

If you’re at the @microbiologysociety.org conference go and see @flanagella.bsky.social’s poster of some of our work at A142 🧫💊 #microbio25

Big moment for InViFlo — our first public outing at the Physics of Life conference! We’re building flexible, low-cost organ-on-a-chip tools for real-time, high-res science. Want a free chip? Take our quick survey at inviflolabs.com — and please share

🚨 The Whelan lab is currently recruiting for a 6-week summer undergraduate student as part of the Lister Institute's Summer Studentship scheme. 🚨 The student will work along side a Postdoc to study interactions between pathogens from the cystic fibrosis microbiome. More info & to apply please see:

Thank you for the cupcakes @microbesng.bsky.social 🧁

🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Loving these friendly microbes! Thank you @microbesng.bsky.social 🧫🦠

Very excited to share that my first publication is now out! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Some excellent Xmas #boardgames with @mermanchester.bsky.social tonite. Findings: - it is impossible to express the rules of Wavelength in english - Articulate is the best party game ever Team gold ftw

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events We’re out in Nature !! doi.org/ntzk Very exciting for my first bluesky post! – it’s been a long haul by an excellent team from across Europe, led by @frantecol.bsky.social

📣 PhD on mutation rate and #AMR evolution in E. coli starting Oct'25 with me, @whelanfj.bsky.social & Mato Lagator at University of Manchester (MERMan Group @mermanchester.bsky.social) Please email me if interested. Open to UK and international students #MicroSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Had the best time talking about and showing everyone how cool bacteria are! 🧫