Lactic acid lover? Check out @ronni.bsky.social 's new work in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social showing how Enterococcus faecalis-derived LA suppresses macrophage activation, in turn promoting bacterial persistence and polymicrobial wound infection in vivo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Strep/Enterococcal colleagues! Streptococcal Biology GRC/GRS are open for applications. Acceptances are underway and the meeting is on track to fill up. If you’re aiming for a short talk (lots of slots), registering early matters for full consideration. Share widely! www.grc.org/streptococca...

We are now over 2/3 full for the 2025 Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction GRS! Apply to join us July 19-20 (through 25 for GRC) at Salve Regina University! It’s going to be a great meeting with amazing science and people!Please re-post!! #MAST

My lab at SCELSE, NTU, Singapore, is recruiting a PhD student to study food chain biofilms! The PhD will commence in January 2026 and tuition and stipend is provided for 4 years. Singaporean and international applicants welcome. See attached for more details. Please share widely!

How does Enterococcal QS activation impact infection outcomes across different host microenvironments? To answer this as fluid dynamics change over the course of infection, @harisantypas.bsky.social led our first foray into enterococcal infective endocarditis w/ some surprisingly results. #microsky

Thrilled to see this incredible story unfold! My team played a small part in this journey, and it’s exciting to see such an important mechanism finally elucidated. Huge kudos to Brenda Tien, @ronni.bsky.social, @kimingeneva.bsky.social and everyone involved! 🎉

Check out how 💪🏼Enterococci💪🏼 use lactic acid to suppress the inflammatory response and promote virulence. Project started by Brenda Tien during her PhD and brought home by the always excellent @ronni.bsky.social! 🥳

JOB CLAXON! I am recruiting a post-doctoral researcher on a BBSRC-funded project (36 months) on the genetics and functional genomics of vancomycin resistance in enterococci. Further details here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please DM or email me if you want to discuss this post.

This is now open to international students as well, so please share even wider! Deadline is 14th Feb. Anyone interested please get in touch, happy to chat with anyone about this project. #AMR #MicroSky

We have a fully-funded PhD position to develop and test a mathematical model that can explain how metal ions influence microbial coexistence. Will suit candidates with a natural sciences, maths, ecology, or microbiology background who can imagine themselves doing some wet lab and some modelling.

This drug repurposing project for the clearance of intracellular pathogens - led by @ronni.bsky.social - is now published in ASC Infectious Diseases. 🤩 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...