Dear PhD students and postdocs — we want to hear about your science firsthand at our annual Early Career Microbiologists Mini-Symposium @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK) this September. For more information and to apply: www.jic.ac.uk/event/early-...

A great lab to study in - PhD student hopefuls apply now!!

Come and study for a PhD with us on antibiotic-producing Streptomyces, trying to understand the roles of primary metabolic enzymes with additional cellular roles - Details below - please repost www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Just listened to this excellent podcast with @paulhoskisson.bsky.social Paul is such a great communicator and so articulate. Made a motorway drive (with hold ups) ALOT more pleasurable. Thanks. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

📢 Funded PhD in molecular microbiology & phage biology How do bacterial stress responses control prophage activation and horizontal gene transfer? Join us at St Andrews to dissect Clp protease–mediated regulation in Staphylococcus aureus. Apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Looking forward to hearing this

Streptomyces and other actinos are really fascinating bacteria. Always something new to discover.

TONIGHT!! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Great to see this is out now. Congratulations to all the authors.

📢 New plant science textbook Staff and alumni from our institute and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social have recently published Essential Plant Biology, a new textbook presenting current and comprehensive knowledge of plant biology 🌱

Our latest CRISPR ring nuclease paper focusses on Csx15 - which seems to act as of a sponge as well as a canonical phosphodiesterase. Great work led by @haotianchi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Catch this if you can! Highly recommended.

Here's just a few about the middle ages... fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/m...

Congratulations Mike! Well deserved. 👏👏👏

Manchester Institute of Biotechnology is looking for a new Professor. There are a few priority areas including microbial engineering (broadly defined, from pathways to cells to microbiomes). Closing 12 Jan. Join us in the best city in the UK 😜 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

So happy to see Mark recognised for his incredible work. Over a ~40 year career he and his group discovered ECF sigma factors, characterised many key developmental regulators of the Streptomyces lifecycle, and identified new mechanisms of bacterial gene regulation, antibiotic action and resistance.

Highlights from our recent participation! Members of the Multi-Defence Consortium presented both talks and posters on phage defence systems — showcasing exciting progress across the field. Great discussions, great science, and we’re excited to share more soon! #MicroEvo25

Congratulations to all the Microbiology Society Prize winners!

Congratulations!

Exciting news! I have two positions open in my lab at the UoManchester: one PDRA and one Research Tech. Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!

Improved LSRs for integrating DNA into the human genome. Great work!

#microsky #phagesky Mycobacterium #phage review by Graham Hatfull covering the state of the art www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

R.I.P Hamilton Smith, 1978 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of type II restriction-modification systems (HindII).

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #phagesky on BREX #phage defence

TONIGHT! Come along if you’re within reach of Sheffield and/or on a mercy dash from the south to get some Hendo’s. This is going to be fab. I’m (a) super excited; (b) on my way! musicintheround.co.uk/events/chris...

Thanks Sheffield, that was a super fun evening!

This was really fun. See it if you can.

hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/nu-omics/vom... #phagesky #phage #microsky Come and join us for Viruses of Microbes UK 2026 at @northumbriauni.bsky.social ! Fantastic chance for ECRs to showcase their work 🙂

Huge congratulations to Emma Davis, the winner of 2025's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize! We agree with Emma that all of the finalists' talks were brilliant and a massive well done to everyone involved!

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... please repost

Nature research paper: Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny go.nature.com/3IwINxb

Super proud of amazing lab alumnus @mbottery.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious @wellcometrust.bsky.social fellowship to grow his lab @officialuom.bsky.social studying the evolution of fungal pathogens! Mike has multiple postdoc positions available on his exciting project (details 👇)

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Please support this… chng.it/q4t8VxQgSf

Congratulations to Professor Graham Hatfull on being elected as a Royal Society Fellow!! So pleased to see this. royalsociety.org/people/james...

Like antibiotics, we know antimicrobial peptides select for resistance in bacteria, but worse that peptide resistance can also cross-protect against host peptides, potentially undermining immunity. Caution required, not talk of “goldmines” on R4 Today

Given hyperbole about this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... in the news today (eg www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...) it is a good day to post this classic from >20 years ago: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...