More info & tickets see poster and link: sites.exeter.ac.uk/vanhoutelab/... (2/2)

🦠🧬 Join us for a workshop on Phage Therapy in Liverpool (25 Nov 2025)! A 1-day free event bringing together clinicians, academics, regulators & industry to discuss the future of phage therapy; happening in tandem to a 2-day focus meeting on Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics (1/2)

Happily representing @multidefence.bsky.social at the #EESMicrobiology in Heidelberg! Come to my poster if interested in prophage-mediated phage defence! Also don't miss @emgoodall.bsky.social's talk today, and @alekseiagapov.bsky.social and @davvi36.bsky.social posters!

Presenting a poster about Pseudomonas defence systems at #EESMicrobiology in Heidelberg. If you happen to like it, don't forget to check out our consortium @multidefence.bsky.social

Great to get together in Manchester last week for our consortium’s annual meeting – halfway through our 5-year collaboration! Inspiring discussions, exciting updates, and lots of ideas ahead. Excited for what’s next! 💡🔬🤝 #Science #Microbiology #TeamScience

Edze Westra kills viruses @multidefence.bsky.social

As part of the @multidefence.bsky.social consortium, we worked with a globally curated dataset of >4,000 P. aeruginosa (from 10.1126/science.adi0908) to reveal differences in the number and composition of defence systems between isolates from (and not from) cystic fibrosis cases 2/n

Great to be in Manchester for the annual @multidefence.bsky.social meeting, with Luna and Simon!

Passing through the Borders on the train to Manchester for the annual @multidefence.bsky.social meeting

This work was led by the incredible @charlotteechong.bsky.social 💻 🧬 as part of the @multidefence.bsky.social sLoLa consortium funded by @ukri.org BBSRC and in collaboration with a wonderful set of new (and old!) colleagues 9/n

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... A funded PhD studentship is available for a joint project between my lab and @andreashaag.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

🔬 Three fronts in bacterial defense! At EMBO symposium this week in Paris, our PIs showcased: • @mfwhite2.bsky.social: cyclic nucleotide defence signaling • Prof. Stineke Van Houte: prophage warfare in P. aeruginosa • Prof. Tim Blower: autoregulating toxins & phage defence

We had fantastic poster presentations at the EMBO symposium the Immune System of Bacteria in Paris this week

Coming back to Microbial Warfare session today we have @charlotteechong.bsky.social giving a talk about "Genomic analyses to infer defence system interactions among global Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations" at 12:15

@samriddhigupta.bsky.social gave her poster presentation today at #Microbio25 about discovering new counter-defence systems in prophage genomes

Second poster session starting soon #Microbio25

We also have a couple of poster presentations today 255 from @drramabht.bsky.social, 282 from @anna-k-richmond.bsky.social, 062 from Meg Llewellyn and 068 from Jasmine Thomas-Campbell. All cool stuff about defence systems!

Phage vs Phage from @annaolina.bsky.social at #Microbio25. Fantastic talk!

We also have a couple of poster presentations today 255 from @drramabht.bsky.social, 282 from @anna-k-richmond.bsky.social, 062 from Meg Llewellyn and 068 from Jasmine Thomas-Campbell. All cool stuff about defence systems!

Our upcoming talks today at #Microbio25 in the Microbial Warfare session: Prof Tim Blower's talk about “All the World’s a Phage” - Exploring phage-host interactions, at 14:45 and from @annaolina.bsky.social about Phage vs. Phage: When Pseudomonas’ own prophages step up the defenсe, at 15:45

@brockhurstlab.bsky.social giving a talk about eco-evolutionary mechanisms of AMR in the AMR session at #Microbio25

Poster A092!

Poster A097 tomorrow at #Microbio25!

Welcome to Maryam Ravari & @gretelwaugh.bsky.social to the @multidefence.bsky.social team! They will be supporting @yueyicai.bsky.social in establishing experimental pipelines to explore the regulation of multi-layered bacterial defence systems - what a team! tiffanybtaylor.wordpress.com/people/

🚨PhD studentship opportunity! Bacteria protect themselves with a huge arsenal of defences, but does this affect how they gain new traits on plasmids? 🧫🦠💫 Apply for a funded 4y position with me @livuni-ives.bsky.social, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social @jojofoth.bsky.social & @multidefence.bsky.social ⬇️

Happy New Year! We're off to a great start in our lab as we welcome Yueyi Cai to the group. Yueyi joins as a postdoc who will be working on understanding how layered bacterial defence systems are regulated. She will join the brilliant @multidefence.bsky.social team. Welcome!

New member in the team 😀 Welcoming Meg Llewellyn who has joined as an MbyRes student with Prof Edze Westra and Dr Aleksei Agapov.

A very warm welcome to Jasmine Thomas-Campbell - PhD student with @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social and Prof. Edze Westra; and to @taoranfu.bsky.social - PDRA with @brockhurstlab.bsky.social who have recently joined our Multidefence team 🥳 Looking forward to working together!!

End of Day 1 of the Hooke meeting. Had an exciting line up of talks. Our talented ECRs @annakrichmond.bsky.social Anna Olina, Aleksei, Steven, Paritosh and Maureen showcased their amazing research. Looking forward to Day 2.

The team is en route to London to be part of the Royal Society Hooke meeting!!! royalsociety.org/science-even...

Shout to all the incredible postdocs on the #MultiDefence project! Your contributions drive research forward, and we're so grateful for all that you do 🎉 #NPAW Charlotte Chong, Rosanna Wright, Aleksei Agapov, Anna Olina, Steven Shaw, Sam Went, Maureen Micaletto @drramabht.bsky.social

We have another position advertised 😃 with @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social in Bath to understand the regulation of multi layered defence systems!! You can apply at www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... Applications close on 9th September.

Interested in defence systems and HGT?? Join our dynamic consortium for exciting research!!! We have a postdoctoral position in Liverpool with @jpjhall.bsky.social Details below👇

New preprint on the interactions between conjugative plasmids and defence systems (restriction-modification systems), with Mark Szczelkun and Edze Westra #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you a researcher with an interest in #microbiology, #ecology and #evolution? Join our upcoming scientific discussion meeting on the topic of microbial immune systems: ow.ly/fcKR50S89xA

Our talented postdoc Steven Shaw has been awarded a bursary from Oxford Nanopore to showcase his work at the Symposium on the immune system of bacteria 2024 at the Harvard Medical School 🎉🎉 Stop by and learn about his interesting work!!!

New preprint from our talented postdoc Sam Went at Tim Blower’s lab 🎉🎉Congratulations to all the authors!!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Many Congratulations to @prajwalvb.bsky.social for winning the Microbial Genomics Poster Prize at #Microbio24!!!

Thrilled to have our amazing postdoc Aleksei Agapov, taking the stage at #Microbio24 - Understanding phenotypes in the omics era session this afternoon talking on understanding the functional range of antiphage systems. Don't miss out!

Our brilliant postdoc Anna Olina is showcasing her research on the role of prophages in antiviral defence at the MicrobioSoc Conference!! Stop by poster A320 and learn about her fantastic work! #Microbio24

A very warm welcome to the newest member of our team, Maureen Micaletto, who has joined as a postdoc with Prof. Stefano Pagliara. projects.exeter.ac.uk/biomicroflui...

Excited to share that our official website is now live 🎉🎉 Find out more about our team and our exciting research here sites.exeter.ac.uk/multidefence/

Interested in bacterial defence systems and their interactions? Read our latest review on multi layered genome defences sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #BBSRC_sLOLA

Introducing our ECR cohort!!!