In partnership with the University of Manchester, we've secured a prestigious Doctoral Focal Award from UK Research and Innovation for a new PhD programme aimed at shaping the future of bioengineering in the UK 📅 Applications will open on 6 February 2026 🔗 bit.ly/3MyLwIy #TeamLivUni #EPSRC #NERC

NEWS | Researchers from the Microbiome Innovation Centre are part of a UK-wide consortium awarded £644,000 by #BBSRC to establish the Microbiome Innovation Network (Microbiome-Net) ➡️ bit.ly/4nCPKfv #TeamLivUni | #Microbiome | @news.ukri.org | @ukbiofilms.bsky.social

Experimental evolution in an era of molecular manipulation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Exciting postdoctoral opportunity joint between my lab and Mark Viney's at University of Liverpool- Great opportunity if you are looking to apply C. elegans molecular biology skills to study the fascinating role of epigenetics in parasitic nematode lifecycles! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR771/p...

Eve Schneider & I wrote a @science.org Perspective on a striking new study by Zhang et al.: Read how a small genetic shift in a taste receptor, led to a big leap in ecological opportunity for birds 🍒🐦 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #evolution #sensorybiology #taste #birds

I'm very pleased to share the latest paper from my post doc with @kayla-king.bsky.social. We looked at how host microbiota can influence pathogen virulence evolution in a C. elegans model of infection: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Revolutionise your biodiversity surveys with eDNA! 🧬 Our in-person training (Sept 8-12, 2025) covers wet lab techniques (DNA extraction to Illumina library prep) & bioinformatics (raw data to taxonomy & diversity analysis). Choose one or both! Register by July 21st: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join Dr Adam Burke in our latest blog as he discusses his work as a NERC Environmental Omics Facility Research Associate. ➡️ bit.ly/3FmPO2e @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social | #Metabolomics | #TeamLivUni

Some millionaires taking the bus

12/12 📰 For more background and wider context, check out the @liverpooluni.bsky.social press release covering this study’s impact on understanding and diagnosing infectious intestinal diseases: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/20/a...

Our new paper, just out “Superspreaders have lower gut microbial alpha-diversity and distinct gut microbial composition in a natural rodent population”. Highlights gut microbial signatures for those individuals that have the potential to spread the most infectious disease. doi.org/10.1186/s425...

*JOB ADVERT LIVE!* Come be my next MRC-funded postdoc in London, studying uropathogenic E. coli virulence/host response in our lovely human urothelial microtissue model! Great collaboration with @gpollara.bsky.social & @scottishwormboy.bsky.social #UTISky #UTI Join us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

NEWS | £1m of Life Sciences Innovation Zone funding will support the creation of a Microbiome & Infectious Disease Innovation Hub (MaID) to harness our expertise in the rapidly expanding field. More ⬇️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/23/l... @livunihls.bsky.social @lpoolcityregion.bsky.social

🔈🎉 I will soon be advertising a postdoc in my friendly London lab, funded by MRC @ukri.org, to decipher uropathogen virulence and host response pathways in our 3D-UHU human urothelial model! A great collaboration with co-Is @gpollara.bsky.social and @scottishwormboy.bsky.social #UTISky #UTI

UK Genome Science 2025 is going live for this year - www.genomescience.org.uk - get registering!

Job alert ‼️ 2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social - ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...

Nothing says science more than a blue disco light. Looking forward to getting these into our genomics workflow. @nerc-eof.bsky.social @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social @sptlabtech.bsky.social

Now might be a good time to protect your data if you’ve used this service. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A new study supported by NEOF proves the potential of eDNA as a tool for monitoring earthworm populations, paving the way to inform agricultural policy and practices for sustainable soil management www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/news/decoding-soil-ednas-breakthrough-sustainable-farming

Happy Persian new year

Kind feedback from Sarena Banu Hull researcher @eeiathull.bsky.social using mRNA-seq in NEOF-VF to study how climate change affects social amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum). "Had a great training experience at the well-equipped, supportive, and friendly Sheffield NERC Environmental Omics Facility!"

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.

I'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

@uniofcam.bsky.social Zoology PhD candidate @sofiadartnell.bsky.social is SNP_typing at NEOF-VF to estimate the number of Bombus terrestris colonies invaded by cuckoo bumblebees (B. vestalis) across varying landscapes. These cuckoos are obligate parasites & may indicate healthy bumblebee habitats

Python for Bioinformatics course open from the Centre for Genomic Research at @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social In person 1st & 2nd May 2025. Open to academics and industry, aimed at python beginners @elixiruknode.org tess.elixir-europe.org/events/cgr-p...

☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!

BBSRC fellowships are open: 3yrs of funding, ECRs worldwide are eligible (including the US 👀). Deadline 7th May. If you've a some postdoc experience (but no prior independent fellowships) and fancy coming to my Dept/ Institute in @liverpooluni.bsky.social, drop me a message.

Looking forward to welcoming colleagues from Mike Begon's 40+ year career assemble for his retirement BegonFest today. An incredible body of work, mentorship and impact in the field. Wishing him and Linda all the best for the future @livuni-ives.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social

🆕New in @plosbiology.bsky.social: we show compensatory mutations make plasmids play Rock-Paper-Scissors and turn conjugation into a weapon🛡️💫✂️🦠 w/Rosanna Wright, Jamie Wood, @mbottery.bsky.social, @kmudz.bsky.social, @scottishwormboy.bsky.social, Ellie Harrison & @brockhurstlab.bsky.social #MicroSky

The Guardian is an absolute swamp of junk "science". I miss the days when actual scientists and experts wrote its science blogs.

NEOF provide ONLINE bioinformatics courses for UK based researchers working within the NERC remit; these are held online over 2 days and ... they are FREE! Visit neof.org.uk/training/ for more info and to register. Next one is Python for bfx: 14th & 16th January 25 - Register by Monday 16/12 noon

Great seeing the opening webinar for @target-amr.bsky.social network. If you’re in AMR in the UK please think about joining. Lots of interesting people @wvschaik.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social

We hope to help Early Career Researchers further their career by gaining funding in their own name and generating pilot data for future fellowship or other applications - NEOF Pilot Funding for ECR opens 14Jan25 #ECR #genomics #metabolomics #proteomics

Absolutely thrilled to announce our newly awarded MRC @ukri.org project grant! 🍾 Together with @gpollara.bsky.social & @scottishwormboy.bsky.social, we'll seek novel bacterial virulence and host defence determinants using clinical #UTI samples in my lab's human urothelial microtissue model! #UTISky

Please sign up, it will be fun! Open for all with an interest in AMR and genomics (in the UK and elsewhere). www.targetamr.org.uk (and please give @target-amr.bsky.social a follow!)

BBSRC 2-year PDRA position to work on ecology & evolution of phage therapy with synthetically engineered phages. Part of an exciting multi-university consortium & UK’s Engineering Biology priority. Synthetic genomics; experimental evolution; AMR. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #microsky

First tranche of genomic data from our Wellcome Trust project studying AMR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in bronchiectasis. Increases by 10x the number of Pa genomes from this neglected disease! Led by Niamh Harrington and @scottishwormboy.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I forget how lucky I was to grow up here until I go back to see family. (Fife coast, Scotland)

Job alert. We’re looking for head of dept in ecology, evolution and behaviour at UoLiverpool. Fantastic group of colleagues and a chance to provide leadership in addressing climate change. my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...

Job opportunity in microbiomes at Liverpool. Initially short term but likely to be extended. Jo Fothergill and myself www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEL318/p...