The #StrepA upsurge of 2022/23 was dominated by emm1; the high mortality associated with emm1 is alarming. What is more alarming is that those who die, sadly die quickly esp children ; blaming any single person for a strep A death is not sensible. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

savethevetschool.co.uk Colleagues, please lend us your support. The University wants to close down the vet school despite being ranked educationally above school average and smashing the REF because they want our land and vet education is too expensive.

We will announce a #postdoc opening in January. Cryo-ET and virus replication. If you're interested you can DM or email me already now. More info will follow!

Join our Streptococcus focused meeting: Strep GBI 2026. Keynote from Matthew Sullivan @drsull.bsky.social "A Cu-rious mechanism that protects Strep B from copper poisoning" 📌 Durham, March 30-31 🌐 strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi. Registration/abstracts 👉 pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham.

Become my colleague at CSSB! Hannover Medical School is recruiting a W1 Professor in Systems Virology (m/f/d), based at CSSB Hamburg. Focus: system-wide analysis of virus–virus & virus–host interaction networks. tinyurl.com/msh2449a #Virology #SystemsVirology #AcademicJobs

‘Tis the saison. A medium difficulty one to start.

A great read! Fleming's discovery of the antibacterial properties of Penicillium mould cannot have happened as he described. @kevinsblake.bsky.social rounds up the evidence. Spoiler: no sign of foul play, but certainly the canonical story is almost certainly distorted.

Out today, we can now multiplex receptor mapping at synapses thanks to a dimeric gold nanoparticle label optimized by Hoyoung that's distinguishable from monomers! Dimeric gold nanoparticles enable multiplexed labeling in cryoelectron tomography | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to share our first look at Enterococcus faecium infection biology: diabetic wounds are complex, and E. faecium persists despite early immune responses. In diabetic mice, it shows impaired clearance + sustained neutrophil recruitment, worsening healing.

Strep GBI 2026 registration is open. Join us for Streptococcus focused research. Keynote from Tom Parks @tom-parks.bsky.social "Streptococcus pyogenes - lessons from the host" 📌 Durham, March 30-31 🌐 strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi. Registration/abstracts 👉 pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham.

A recent update on Rapua, the initiate focused on accelerating Strep A vaccine development in Aotearoa New Zealand www.uniservices.co.nz/news/researc...

Happy to see our latest work online. Here we present a new method for microsecond time-resolved cryo-EM based on jet vitrification! Details in the 🧵 below... we hope you enjoy reading! (Hint, there's some fun videos...) #cryoEM #structuralbiology

PhD studentship opportunity! Join us at St Andrews to study the factors controlling plasmid transmission in the gut. Competition-funded as part of the EASTBIO DTP, co-supervised with Dr Jaclyn Pearson. Please share & pass on to anyone interested! 🦠🧫 Deadline 15th December👇

Why does daptomycin resistance appear so fast in Enterococcus? We finally have a clue. DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.

If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs. Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them! cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...

If I were to do a PhD again, I would not hesitate to apply to Jo's group: timely and exciting science, a great team and excellent supervisor. Plus a lab with a beach view.

📣New preprint alert! We report the alarming finding that stringent response mutations found in clinical isolates increase the frequency of donation of multiresistance plasmids in S. aureus 😱 Great team effort @microclaire.bsky.social @paulrjohnston.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sign up if you’re interested in #GroupAStrep #StrepA #streptococcus infections and research. This promises to be a fabulous meeting.

📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 📅 January 7, 2026 Please RP🙏thx!

Fantastic opportunity (available for both UK and international students) to do a PhD on the assembly of RNA viruses with @artisplicer.bsky.social - please share (and/or apply)! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Shout out to University of Birmingham folk: A science-themed play that I co-wrote is coming to you at the Midlands Art Centre on the 17th. A lab-night out? See you there! 🤞 linktr.ee/panaceaplay @wvschaik.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social @drjorhodes.com @jkreft.bsky.social

Are you an ECR considering a #fellowship as the next step? We are holding a competitive fellowship day in January 2026. Our priority areas: host-pathogen interactions, synthetic biology, enzymology, systems biology, chemical biology. #ScienceCareers biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/2025/11...

🚨 Fully funded PhD studentships 🚨 We have three fully funded PhD studentships available for Oct 26 start. Funded by the MRC DiMeN programme & the BBSRC Yorkshire Biosciences DTP. Details below as they are advertised. Contact me here or via email for more details or to discuss an application

Our new preprint is out 🥳🥳🥳 Henipaviruses, like Nipah and Hendra, package their genomes inside helical shells built by thousands of nucleoproteins. These nucleocapsids are essential to protect the viral RNA, but how do they ever let the polymerase in to read the sequence? 👇

Are you looking for a postdoctoral opportunity in the field of Biocatalysis and Structural Biology in Barcelona? The Biotransformation and Bioactive Molecules Group at the IQAC-CSIC is seeking a potential candidate to apply for a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship and join our team. 🔽

The Wallace Lab is expanding in 2026, with five new Postdoctoral Research Associate positions now open. If you're passionate about engineering biology for sustainability, we'd love to hear from you! 🧬 ♻️ Deadline: 12th November 2025, details below ⬇️

elifesciences.org/articles/102... I am very excited to share with you our publication building Deep3DSIM microscope using adaptive optic. It allows imaging into an intact fly brain >130 microns with high quality 3DSIM as well as remote focusing without moving the objective or specimen.

If you’re interested in metals, microbes and maths 🤘 - please check out this PhD on the impact of metals on microbial communities with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social @blindmath.bsky.social Denis Patterson and myself, you’d be based in Durham & be part of a vibrant interdisciplinary research group

Looking for a PhD? 🚀 MIBTP projects are out lots to explore! 🔬 #Bacteria • #AMR • #Interdisciplinary • FUN! My projects explore how Gram-negative bacteria build and maintain their three-layered cell envelope, using cryo-EM, fluorescence microscopy and biochemistry. warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...

Why did severe #StrepA infections in children increase after the pandemic? Our new @jamanetworkopen paper suggests COVID restrictions delayed immunity development in young children. tiny.cc/63vt001

Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science? Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us! #PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs

PhD opportunity to come and work in Glasgow, developing advanced tissue culture models to study Staphylococcus aureus colonisation and infection #microsky #PhD #DTPprogram Enquiries from potential applicants are welcome. www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

ACFs in Infectious Diseases in London are now advertised including at Imperial /LSHTM /City St Georges /Kings. Open evening October 2nd about all our NIHR ACF/ACL programmes -details👇

Ever wondered where your paracetamol comes from? Spoiler: crude oil. In this study – led by Nick Johnson from our lab in collaboration with @astra-zeneca.bsky.social – we show how biology and chemistry can work together to create a more sustainable alternative. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Less than 24 hours to go till our new 1.2GHz magnet arrives here in Birmingham. #nmr #nmrchat #bruker

Introducing AMR cartography - work by Andrew Balmer

The Streptococcus Great Britain & Ireland 2026 meeting will bring together ECRs and experts to highlight cutting-edge research focused on crucial aspects of Streptococcal biology, in Durham on March 30th/31st 2026. More information strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi. Registration opening soon.

📢Our review of the impact of bacterial purine synthesis on antibiotic tolerance and resistance expression is now out! A lot of food for thought and contrasting data from E. coli and S. aureus... 🤔 Read it here: rdcu.be/ezfQ7

This deep dive into the clinical phenotype of rheumatic fever highlights extreme diversity in presenting symptoms. An important observation from the START study, and highlights why better diagnostic tests are needed 🧪 @annapralph.bsky.social @rhcmcg.bsky.social bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/7...

📣 We're hiring! We have a 12-month vacancy for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with skills in molecular microbiology. See the details and apply here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please share!

I wrote about my 7/7 experience for the 20th (!) anniversary: The art of ‘travelling hopefully’ ft.com/content/ac05... via @ftweekend.com This, from the comments section, is going on my CV: In a world of pontificating dim wits, a voice that is crystal clear on what it means to carry on fully awake

The complete spectrum of serious #StrepA disease was observed in Auckland in 2023 - a mighty lab-based enhanced surveillance effort led by Andrew Fox-Lewis and Rachel Webb www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I’m excited to announce that our manuscript entitled “Oropouche virus infects human trophoblasts and placenta explants “ has been published by Nature Communications!! @natcomms.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

Fro the last few years, as part of a final assignment in my senior biophysical chem class I ask students to share a class-related memes, with ones they make themselves highly encouraged! For everyone's enjoyment, here are some of my favorites! #chemistry #biochemistry #sigfigs #units 🧪

Come & work with me @benvyle.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social & @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Research Assistant with funded PhD within multidisciplinary project on Syphilis & STI control in the UK. Working with us to understand stakeholder & community perspectives on novel STI control strategies

Really enjoyed writing about one of my favorite topics (influenza filaments). There is so much exciting new filament research now, it is clearly no longer 'the graveyard of postdocs' Bob Lamb called the topic during my PhD. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

It's out! The final peer-reviewed version of our paper about Prs-mediated tolerance in S. aureus COL is now published in Molecular Microbiology. Read it here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...