Huge congratulations to @rhyswg.bsky.social and colleagues for this behemoth of a paper shedding light onto the mechanism of pyocins and their impact on cell function.

A Garmin watch face with a living microbial battlefield powered by your daily stats that is never the same! 🦠⌚️ The BacFighT6 Watch Face runs a live, #T6SS mediated bacterial simulation on your wrist. apps.garmin.com/apps/eaf881d...

This has been such a fun collaboration and a great example of team science

Fab to see this out finally! Lots of hard work from all involved 🥳

Check out our latest T7SS toxin story. These reverse toxins aren’t as rare as we thought!

Out Now! Structure and substrate recognition by the bacterial twin-arginine translocation (Tat) core complex #MicroSky

Out Now! A phage takes the wheel #MicroSky

A lot of work, over many years, and we finally see the missing piece at the heart of type 3 export!

Structure of the proton-powered secretion motor at the heart of the bacterial flagellum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.13.732081v1

This pit of fire has been burning for 55 years. And there’s something ALIVE at the bottom of it! 1/7 ⚛️🧪

Latest research from the lab out now. We examined the role and expression of fimbriae during UPEC bloodstream infection. A real team effort and brilliant collaboration with Mark Schembri’s lab in Brisbane. Thanks to the MRC and BBSRC for supporting our research @ukri.org

Register now for the EMBO Workshop "Advances and new frontiers in #ProteinTranslocation across membranes" in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 21–25 Sep 2026. Abstract submission/Registration by 19/30 Jun https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-protein-translocation#ProteinTranslocation#EMBOProteinTranslocation #EMBOevents 🧪

Rejection is part of science. So is resilience. 🔬 Tim Blower and @stewartlab.bsky.social share how setbacks helped shape their careers. We don't talk about this enough. 🔁Please repost and share your own stories of defeat or bouceback. Break the stigma! lister-institute.org.uk/news/resilie...

What are the genetic and molecular determinants underpinning the repair of bidirectional replication fork collapse in bacteria? PhD position open in my lab in collaboration with the brilliant @heathmurraylab.bsky.social. Please share and contact me if interested: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We have a PhD studentship open! (UK only sadly) but if you are or know a student keen to work on some *really* weird mycobacterial enzymes then get in touch! #glycotime Advert below www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We’ve been sciencing! M abscessus makes a arabinanase toxin to chop up the cell wall of competitor mycobacteria! #glycotime 🦠 thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the funding that makes this collaborative work possible! Also Sam’s structures are 😍 and Jean-Lou did some lovely biochem

Our work on understanding how Staphylococcus aureus mode of cell division contributes to pathogenesis is now available in bioRxiv

Come work with us in Oxford! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL601/p...

Are you a structural biologist pushing the boundaries of molecular science with an ambitious research programme? Join our Structural Studies Division as a tenure-track Group Leader, with core funding, world-leading facilities & enthusiastic colleagues. Apply by 16 MAR www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🌀 How do spirochete bacteria swim through thick fluids like champions? We solved T. denticola flagella structure - asymmetric proteins expand one side, compress the other for perfect corkscrew motion! @debnathghosal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202... #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #Microbiology

7 years to the day that I started in @proftracypalmer.bsky.social’s lab I am leaving for pastures new in Ben Berks’s lab at Oxford Biochemistry! It’s a very sad goodbye but onto exciting new things!

Excited to share our new study! Great fun working again with my good friend @stephenrgarrett.bsky.social — always a highlight! Huge thanks to fantastic co-authors @samkaytucker.bsky.social, @drandyjroe.bsky.social and our star technician Vojtech Pavelka. academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...

We are back, soon! The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break. Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon. @microbiologysociety.org Please spread the word

Happy to share our latest T6SS review: nature.com/articles/s41... Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!

Theres still time to apply for our PhD project on UPEC/immune cell interactions. Deadline December 4th

"Postdoc in the job market"

🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 Interested in microbiology, phages & water security? Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters. Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project! Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

Our article on a 🛠️ molecular toolbox 🛠️ in predatory bacterium 🦁🦠 Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is published in PLOS Genetics (=> tiny.cc/6wuu001). 🎉 This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts. #MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria

New paper alert! DNA replication and repair conflicts lead to cell death in gram positive bacteria, possible new targets for novel antimicrobials. @microbiologysociety.org @winterhalterlab.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Looking for a PhD opportunity in Microbiology? Consider joining one of the UK's leading microbiology research clusters at Newcastle University. See the thread for MRC DTP studentships currently advertised. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social #microsky

We are very much looking forward to the Grand Opening of the Northern Eye Imaging facility tomorrow! Follow us here for all the news coming from NUSBF!

We’ve kept registrations open till the end of this week so get your last minute applications in for posters and talks!

Still time to sign up and submit and abstract for this year’s CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting. This is a really nice meeting and great opportunity for ECRs to present their work ✨ nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...

The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th. nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...

🧐Checkout our preprint revealing the stepwise firing💥 mechanism of a Contractile Injection System @xujwet.bsky.social&@chipericson.bsky.social trapped the complex by structure-guided engineering🧪 in multiple intermediate states and imaged them by multimodal #cryoEM❄️🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m Chloe, I am part of the Connolly lab and I study how the role of two-component systems differs between types of E.coli”

Hi, I’m Natalia Łoś from Dr Dave Bolam’s lab. I’m currently going into the third year of my PhD working on dietary fibre degradation by the members of the human gut microbiota 😊 Follow Natalia here : @natalia-los.bsky.social

In MHD we are lucky enough to have an amazing group PhD Students and Research Associates. We’ve recently got some new representatives and would like give them the opportunity to introduce themselves here. First up our two representatives for the PhD student community:

Check it out! A proper team effort from past and present group members and a great collaboration with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025 Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

We think this much larger BAM enables biogenesis of outer membrane β-barrel and surface-exposed lipoprotein complexes, which are a hallmark of the Bacteroidota.

Berks and @smlea.bsky.social labs also found yet a different BAM architecture in Flavobacterium johnsoniae, another member of Bacteroidota. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our paper on the Bacteroidota BAM complex is out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! With @madejmar.bsky.social We found that BAM in Bacteroides and Porphyromonas gingivalis has a distinct architecture from BAM in Proteobacteria. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Great opportunity to do a PhD with Giusy and co in Glasgow!

Nice to see our summer student Niamh who did a great job in the lab this year supported by a Vacation Studentship! @proftracypalmer.bsky.social

Exciting postdoc opportunity with a fab PI in beautiful Basel

PPE51 is one of the best candidates to form a MOM transport channel. However, our data indicate that it is not that simple. PPE51 mutations in Mmarinum (4 close homologs) indeed reduce the growth on glycerol & glucose, but also highly increase permeability.. and no, we do not fully understand this

Last introduction for the today.. Dr Kesha Josts @kjosts.bsky.social The Josts lab are working on the mechanisms of iron transport in bacterial pathogens, with a focus on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. www.ncl.ac.uk/cbcb/staff/p...

Next introducing Dr Alessandra Dantas. The Dantas group is interested in stress responses, antifungal resistance and in understanding the molecular mechanisms driving fungal adaptation to environmental stressors. @alesdantas.bsky.social www.ncl.ac.uk/dental/about...