People spend loads on #UTI preventions that aren’t truly effective, like D-mannose. £19.99 only buys you a 2-week course. The rest of the products on display were similarly expensive and unlikely to do much. We need better therapies! (See Alt text for source of negative D-mannose RCT) #UTISky

🚨New paper 🚨 #UTIsky #UTI #UPEC dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Really nice paper. #Microsky #UTIsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to @carlosebflores.bsky.social on his latest publication with @jennyrohn.bsky.social, "Bacterial adhesion strategies and countermeasures in urinary tract infection" in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new review for some Thursday morning reading! This paper details the elements needed to develop relevant physiologic models of the bladder and discusses current technology. Very grateful to have been a part of this review! Happy reading, everyone! #UTIsky #UTI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Need a break from the Christmas food? Check out the latest supercool ex-vivo UTI model from the ingersoll lab @immunobladder.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Four out of five prizes won🎖️ by AIMI students at the UTS Faculty of Science Transdisciplinary ECR Retreat Congratulations to: Lachy (best talk) Liam (runner up talk) Sophia (people’s choice talk) @arianacostas.bsky.social (best poster)

🚨 New preprint 🚨 With two excellent students Shalini Choudhary and Jacob Smith, we started looking at how the metabolic microenvironment of the urinary tract might affect uropathogenic E. coli evolution and response to antibiotics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 MinD is famously known for positioning FtsZ at mid-cell in bacteria In our study, myself and @iduggin.bsky.social found that MinD homologues in Haloferax volcanii influence the localisation of CetZ1, a homologue of FtsZ and tubulin #Archaeasky #Microsky

Todays view from the lab 🥹❄️

Why is preterm birth risk doubled with maternal UTI? It depends on the immune response. We found distinct immune signatures in a UTI-associated preterm birth mouse model. In a human cohort from @AShea_Lab, urine cytokine levels could predict preterm birth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in following our researchers and their work? Find them in our starter pack of AIMI researchers! go.bsky.app/QYFfTtT #microsky #microbiology

Our mission is to decipher interlinked human, animal, and environmental problems in microbiology and disease We investigate how microbes grow, live, adapt, and survive, with a focus on antibiotic resistance, infectious diseases, vaccine development, and biosecurity

JAMS Sydney has made its way to Bluesky! ✨ Help us connect JAMSters as they make their way over so let us know if you'd like to be added! 🦠 go.bsky.app/B1uUprK

It is World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness week and the CSIRO have some very funny memes (This ABBA one is my favourite) www.csiro.au/en/news/all/...

If you are in Sydney don’t miss the AMR day this Thursday: www.theasm.org.au/conferences-...