Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship to investigate the impact of microbial interactions on antimicrobial resistance evolution 🎉 🧫 really grateful for this investment in my lab and excited to start my fellowship in Jan’26! www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

@jtono.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🏉 🇨🇦!!!

Two great talks today from MERMan PhD students @mattjago.bsky.social (mutation spectrum) and @amarquiegui98.bsky.social (bioremediation by microbial communities)

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Amazing poster session last night from this year's Lister summer students!

Can't wait to welcome everyone! Always such a brilliant buzz as people and ideas connect

Currently hiding from a thunderstorm in a cozy Oxford pub, reading a stellar student report, while on my way to the annual Lister Fellows meeting…. feeling very privileged to have this job! @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social

🎓 6x fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships 🎓 We are recruiting our first cohort of PhD students to start Oct 2026. Students will shape their own projects within supervisory teams spanning the universities of Manchester & Oxford. www.findaphd.com/phds/program/mrc-core-in-exposome-immunology/?p6899

Join us for Annual Conference 2026! Abstract submission and registration are open for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists. Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s Conference also features two-day attendance tickets.

Come do your PhD as part of this amazing new network of scientists! Please feel free to get in touch with any questions. @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social

Following on from the PDRA adverts, we are also happy to announce the MRC Core in Exposome Immunology PhD scheme, details below. Reach out with any questions www.findaphd.com/phds/program... www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear...

Absolutely amazing inaugural Professorship lecture from @hepworth-lab.bsky.social today! So well delivered, and so well deserved. 👏 Can’t wait to see what’s next, Matt!

MERMan seminars are back! Last week, @zahraaalbaqsami.bsky.social presented her #Thermophiles2025 talk which generated a lot of buzz & Qs from the group!

There’s still time to sign up for the next AMR in Focus webinar, ‘AMR surveillance to policy’, taking place on 8 September 13:00 BST. Register now: microb.io/AMRinFocus-S...

New review 🔥 Single-cell RNA-Seq has been revolutionary for studying eukaryotic cells and now it's time for it to do the same for microbes! We describe the technology for single-bacterium RNA-Seq & the questions now studied using it.🧵⬇️ science.org/doi/10.1126/... @andrewpountain.bsky.social

In case you missed it! 🫵 This September and October, sign up for our upcoming AMR in Focus webinars. From Surveillance to Policy to Transitioning from Academia to Industry, our AMR in Focus webinar series showcases the latest developments in AMR. Sign up now: microb.io/AMR-in-Focus #KnockingOutAMR

Another PDRA position! Join our team exploring how the mammalian immune system shapes microbiome ecology & evolution, and vice versa. In collaboration with @hepworth-lab.bsky.social funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Microbiology Outlooks provides a new platform for impactful reviews and perspectives across all areas of microbiology and intersecting fields. Submit your manuscript or proposal to help shape the field of microbiology. Find out more: microb.io/MOutsJournal

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September

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We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others Please share & get in touch if interested! tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

New paper out @molbioevol.bsky.social on antimutator Ecoli, mutational spectra and the distribution of fitness effects of antibiotic resistance with @knightjar.bsky.social @rokkrasovec.bsky.social and others @mermanchester.bsky.social doi.org/pzfm Read🧵for highlights and fun stats (1/13)

Robert Waterhouse at #ESEB2025 - PIs/Profs please give your students a break when they're doing orthology, ancestral state reconstruction, gene/species tree reconciliation work - it's not an overnight process, there are no push-button tools, and fast doesn't equal correct! Love this :-)

Go Team! Deeply honoured that the MERMan lab reps won an @manchester.ac.uk‬ "FMBH heroes" award - thanks ‪@fbmh-uom.bsky.social‬ and @mermanchester.bsky.social for nominating us ❤️❤️❤️

Thrilled to announce I've been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Career Development Award at @fbmh-uom.bsky.social , University of Manchester! My research will investigate the remarkable adaptability of Aspergillus fumigatus, a deadly fungal pathogen, to help combat drug resistance.

I think a good rule of thumb is to spend at least as much time thinking about your data as you did obtaining it. It's common for people to spend a lot less time thinking than doing which gives rise to all kinds of problems.

Registration is open for the Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes meeting in Glasgow! This event will showcase diverse scientific achievements in eukaryotic genome research. Register now and submit your abstract by 12 August: microb.io/MicroGenomic...

The MERMan contingent at #microbio25 headed home today after a great week in Liverpool for the @microbiologysociety.org annual conference - Thanks to the society and organisers for putting on a great event, and supporting us in presenting 6 talks and 5 posters packed full of microbial evolution!

Great talk on sorting signal from noise in microbial engraftment in FMT from @sharok.bsky.social !!Representing the Surette lab & @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social #CSM2025

…with was great! Well done, @geocox44.bsky.social ! So much amazing work in such a short amount of time. #CSM2025

And now: anxiously awaiting to hear the Thermo Fisher Lecture from Georgina Cox!! #CSM2025

And ditto again in part 2 today! Everything from insect-microbe interactions to GM to remove AMR to dynamics in micro colonies. The future of Canadian microbiology is bright #CSM2025

Amazing Armand Frappier Award Lecture from Rabia Fatima (Hynes lab @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social) on alternative mechanisms of phage-antibiotic-synergy #CSM2025

Absolutely amazing calibre of presentations in the first student competition at #CSM2025 today! I’m always so impressed by how much I learn from these, the next generation!

#CSM2025 great start to the day this morning in the AMR & drug discovery session! Dao Nguyen on Ab tolerance in P aeruginosa, @christianlandry.bsky.social on some wicked new work on fungal-wide AMR mutations, Owen McArthur (@lkalan.bsky.social lab) on Klebsiella-pathogen interactions, & …

#CSM2025 day one we heard a brilliant keynote from Simonetta Gribaldo @sgribaldo.bsky.social on the evolution of diderms (mostly, Gram negs) and monoderms (+). She is a bioinformatician turned microbiologist, who opened the “wet” component of her lab later in her career (something I can relate to!)

1/At the #HoffmanLab lab meeting, we often have tech talks describing useful tools for other lab members. Since they might also prove useful for others, we've been posting almost every #HoffmanLabTechTalk for years. 🧪🧬💻

I had an absolute blast today! @usherbrooke.bsky.social- you’ve done an amazing job building an incredible, vibrant group of microbiologists & bioinformaticians here! Special thanks to @jpcote.bsky.social for the invite! Can’t wait to keep the discussions going at #CSM2025 tomorrow!

It was a privilege to be able to attend my first FLF annual conf. Really inspiring sessions on everything from inclusive leadership to the future impacts of AI. Long & frequent networking sessions made for a lot of new connections & chance to catch up with old friends. Feeling privileged! @ukri.org

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

🚨 We're recruiting! The Journal of Medical Microbiology is seeking two Editors for our Molecular and Microbial Epidemiology section. Help shape the future of microbiology research. 📅 Apply by 20 June 2025 🔗 microb.io/News

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

🚨🧬 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE - 23rd MAY 🧬🚨 🧑‍💻 Get that abstract in - we'd love to hear about your amazing work in genome science this summer 🌞 www.genomescience.org.uk

CF-Tracker study now open on @cftrustuk.bsky.social Trials Tracker too! www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/get-involved...

Current status of #canadaelections with Liberals 4 (predicted) seats away from a majority. Your. vote. matters. source: newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/fe... @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social

Delighted to have been awarded a BBSRC Fellowship to look at the genetics of how insects have adapted to living in freshwater habitats 🧬🦋🪰🪲🌊 Extremely grateful to all who have supported me over the years and excited to be at Liverpool with some great colleagues! www.ukri.org/news/9-milli...

Its such a privilege to be part of this work. It’s been years in the making but only because of how thorough and conscientious @sharok.bsky.social , @surettem.bsky.social and other co-authors have been to make sure we got this right. Huge congrats, Sharok, on this amazing study 🎉

I have been enjoying my first international conference so far. Thanks @microbiologysociety.org for the travel awards. While I have gained communication skills, I have equally listened to great talks and met some incredible people #microbio25

This morning @mermanchester.bsky.social is represented by Will Smith and @amarquiegui98.bsky.social #microbio25 !