I am delighted and honoured to have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant to investigate how animal hosts control their microbial communities. Post-doc positions coming soon! @qmul.bsky.social. #ERCStG www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

Interested in joining the lab? The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to bring outstanding scholars from around the world to UBC. I can nominate one person, and help with application materials. More information at www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam... DM if you are interested!

Really cool paper! @emstevens93.bsky.social and @kayla-king.bsky.social Within-host competition causes pathogen molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis url:https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf071/8115470

Excited to share our new results published on Ecology Letters! We explored warming's impact on host resistance to a bacterial pathogen across different host lifestages, and over eco-evolutionary timescales. Check more details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are recruiting @ox.ac.uk @dunnschool.bsky.social for a joint project between Kevin Foster's group and mine! Cluster hire of two postdocs interested in: 1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 2) Microbiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please share!

New paper out today from the lab on Akkermansia muciniphila 🦠and how it breaks down host glycans! Very proud of my group, especially @cassiebakshani.bsky.social who did an amazing job. @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Deadline extended for a 3 year #postdoc in my lab exploring the amphibian skin #microbiome and colonisation resistance to chytrid fungi www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN634/p...

Interested in microbial #metabolism, #mucosalbiology and #UTI? Then check out the open postdoctoral position in the Mucosal Immunology Group at ETH Zurich! NB: All applications must go via the ETH job portal: www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Closing date: 24th Feburary 🧪🧫🔬

Newly published Microbial Primer with @kayla-king.bsky.social! Check the potential of microbiomes in buffering animals from climate stress and in conservation here: doi.org/10.1099/mic.... #Microbiome #ClimateChange #Conservation #ThermalStress

New pre-print!!! What types of genes end up on plasmids and why? The take home message of this paper is that beneficial genes move from plasmids to chromosome, causing the ecological value of plasmids to decay over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sharing three fully funded PhD opportunities to join my lab at Queen’s to work on topics spanning bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, microbial interactions, & mobile genetic elements 🦠. Closing dates in January and February, and open to international candidates 🌍 Projects detailed below ⬇️

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Really cool paper linking alkaloids to microbiome diversity and metabolism in poison frogs www.cell.com/current-biol...

Join my group @blizardinstitute.bsky.social for a 3 year #post-doc position exploring skin #microbiome assembly and colonisation of #chytrid fungi in amphibians. Part of a super exciting new collaboration with the glycoscience laboratory @imperialmed.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS023/p...

Thrilled to start our recent BBSRC funded project exploring how the skin and mucosal #glycome shapes #microbiome assembly and colonisation resistance against chytrid fungi in #amphibians @blizardinstitute.bsky.social www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...