New preprint from us! The latest part of our C. difficile vancomycin resistance story. We identified a new two-component system (VnrRS) that can control expression of the vanG pathway - just needs one amino acid change @buddlejess.bsky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social @claireyt.bsky.social

Fantastic to see this immense body of excellent work published! Well done @alexjkeeley.bsky.social and everyone involved 👏 #StrepA @floreyinstitute.bsky.social @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social

🧵 Our paper out today in @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... On development of #StrepA #Immunity over life course in #TheGambia raising hope for #vaccines on the horizon 1/ #Immunosky #IDsky #MicroSky #globalhealth.

Now with updated invited speakers; please take a look & consider putting in an abstract if of interest! Giving an opportunity to the eukaryotic side of microbial genomics to shine 😊Sept 12, Glasgow, 1-day conference. #MicroSky #protistsonsky #protists #fungi microbiologysociety.org/event/full-e...

Seize the opportunity to share your research at Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes. Submit your abstract before 12 August, for a chance to present your work to leading researchers and peers. Find out more information on abstract submission and registration: microb.io/EukaryotesAb... #Eukaryotes25

New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions. Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

My little office plant is flowering 😁 #bloom-scrolling

@molmicrosheffield.bsky.social the school of bioscience is looking great today! #sheffielduni

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

Exciting postdoc opportunity!

@ukri.org policy fellowships - apply to come join @ukhsa.bsky.social on a natural hazards and resilience fellowship £280k award for 18 months - 3 months inception, 12 months placement and 3 months knowledge exchange.

And here it is, the completed BASEL collection finally published as early access in @plosbiology.org - see the thread for more details. 🤗🧬🎣

last day to apply for a post-doc position in my group #phagesky #microsky

From 2013 to 2022, invasive group A Streptococcus infections increased in 10 US states, with higher incidence among older adults, American Indian or Alaska Native persons, and vulnerable groups. https://ja.ma/3G9OPT2

It was really great to see Caroline, a previous @sheffielduni.bsky.social AMR MSc student, give such a fantastic and interesting talk. #Microbio25

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...

Early career member, Liam Cremona interviews the 2025 Peter Wildy Prize winner, Professor Lindsay Hall, about their research around the Gut microbiome and public engagement. Find out more here: 🔗https://microb.io/ProfLindseyHall @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project. Read more and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #phage #bioinformatics

⏳ Only 2 hours to go until today’s TARGetAMR webinar at 12 PM (GMT)! Don't miss out on an exciting session packed with insights on AMR genomics. Grab a coffee, get comfy, and join us soon! ☕💻 📢 Still time to register: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ma...

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The #WellcomeTrust CDA Fellowship team is fully assembled! Saikou Bah, Henna Khalid, Sona Jabang & Jess Buddle, let the #StrepA research commence 🥳🎉 @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social #UniversityofSheffield

I am very excited that @target-amr.bsky.social and the Fungal AMR One Health network (www.fungalamr.org) are organising an online mini-symposium on Fungal AMR Genomics on 25 March 1-4 pm GMT. Please sign up here! www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/jo...

📢 Preprint - not peer-reviewed🤞: Development of #immunity to #StrepA in The Gambia. We assessed IgG to conserved and M protein antigens across the life course, exploring association with protection against infection: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #IDSky #Immunosky

🔬🦠 Join us for a virtual Micro-Symposium on Bacterial Biofilms! 🦠🔬 📅 Monday, 24 February 2025 ⏰ 11:00 AM CET 💻 Free access, registration required! 📩 Register now to secure your spot! 🔗 #Microbiology #Biofilms #AMR #MicroSky www.sfm-microbiologie.org/evenement/we...

I have a PhD on how human gut bacteria feed off host glycans and produce metabolites that alter host cell behaviour #glycotime findaphd.com

📣Research Technician job alert! Needed to support our #iSpyLIFE field work and #strep biobanking. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

OUT NOW: Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation by Knut Drescher & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We developed a microscopy-based technique🔬 to measure attachment of viruses #phages to host cells. 🦠 The paper was posted online today: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #phagesky #microsky

What an fantastic Christmas present from Henna the research technician in my lab! Merry Strepmas!

Forget Die Hard vancomycin is a Christmas antibiotic

#MicroSky #PhageSky impressive work 👏 would love though if we could abandon the war metaphors ("arms race") in the interactions of bacteria with phage. thx @jayhinton.bsky.social for pointing this out 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉 I'm a #newPI , and I'm so excited to share our new paper out in Nature Comms today! 🧵 rdcu.be/d2gBV Quick intro for the new followers: I'm from Monash Uni in Melbourne, and we study T and B cell responses to viruses, bacteria & parasites with the goal of improving vaccines. #ImmunoSky #MicroSky

I just made a first release of TNA - new tool to compare 2 bacterial genomes. Is shamelessly inspired by ACT, but should be simpler to use. Drag-n-drop two genomes: it runs BLAST for you and then you can visualize. For Mac, Windows 11, Linux tna.readthedocs.io

👀 Working on a #StarterPack for early career researchers (PhD students & Postdocs) in #genomics & #bioinformatics 🧬🖥️ Please share! Happy to add those working in this area so please suggest. Seeing a lot of PIs on here but would love to see more students 🎓🚀

Incredible graphic - the myriad of ways that bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics. 14 resistance mechanisms, summarised by Idan Yelin & Roy Kishony in Cell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For all bacterial RNA researcher check out Sept 1-4, 2025 - Microbial RNA meeting in Strasbourg

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.

Join us! 4 Assistant/ Associate Professor posts available at University of Warwick School of Life Sciences, 2 in Host-Pathogen interactions and 2 in Plant Sciences: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... #microsky

This is an awesome piece of work from @foster_lab , demonstrating that high level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus requires a distinct mode of cell division - Two codependent routes lead to high-level MRSA www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Next year's Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2025 will be held here in the bracing and beautiful port city of Liverpool 31st March – 3rd April! Watch out: abstract submission deadline is earlier than previous years, on the 12th November... microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...

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!)

An early Halloween cartoon for New Scientist.

Hi old and new followers! Happy Monday and allow me to share our latest on eco-evolutionary responses of microbes to stressors in the Large Experimental Array of Ponds, led by super collaborators Charles Xu and Rowan Barrett: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper on "the practices of wage theft that often surround academic promotions, and specifically, the common requirement that someone must already be working at the level for which they are hoping to be promoted" BSky author @troyheff.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0729... #AcademicSky #HigherEd

We will soon be recruiting a PDRA to our MRC funded renewal of the UK-China AMR DETECTIVE project. A mix of genomics, metagenomics and wet lab work. Please reach out if you might be interested. Project will start in February for 3 years

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKD365/a... Come and join us, use our state of the art facilities including cutting edge microscopy for live pathogen imaging, high throughput drug discovery platforms. ⁦‪@ukbiofilms‬⁩ ⁦‪@MicrobioSoc‬⁩ ⁦‪⁦‬⁩ #AMR #microbiome ⁦‪@UoN_BDI‬⁩ @asm @ami

In Lancet ID www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Shiranee Sriskandan & I discuss what observational data can & can't tell us about anti-toxin therapy in Invasive Group A Strep & why we need to find ways to deliver trials that can truly answer these questions. @drtoddlee.bsky.social