Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience 3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social? www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...

Not quite the summer I planned recovering from a hip replacement, but looking forward to being more mobile and pain free! My microsoc bag is making an excellent ice pack wrap! 20 days in and all going well!

Thrilled to share my first last-author paper, just out in #mSystems! A work about #RBPs, #RNA and #sporulation in #subtilis. Special thanks to my brilliant student T. Kaboré who's signing hist first PhD paper and to the whole team @galinier-lab.bsky.social 👉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Come and work with us in beautiful Bath.

Come and work with us in beautiful Bath.

Molecular insights into microbially induced calcite precipitation by Solibacillus silvestris - Michael Seidel @seamicha.bsky.social from @gebhardlab.bsky.social lab #BACELL2025

**NEW Doctoral Training Programme just launched!!** This exciting programme on Microbial Genomics for Health Protection is joint between @imibirmingham.bsky.social and UKHSA @ukhsa.bsky.social. 9 brilliant projects available!!

Interested in phages ? Want to work as team that will isolate, genome sequence and charachterise 1000s of phage to build a biobank . Come work with me and Martha Clokie at Leicester jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/va...

Purple bacteria update - sadly it failed in our phenotypic screen - so no purple concrete on the horizon, but the undergrads and I wanted to know what it was - Janthinobacterium spp. - meaning violet. It is Gram neg and produces pigments that are purple/violet called jagaricin and violacien. 💜

Grant rejection tradition - (should be a choc almond croissant, but they hadn’t made them 😡)Very sad that I wrote probably my best grant ever, reviewers had barely any criticism, but there’s just not enough money at BBSRC. The minor criticism from panel has received a WTF from everyone I’ve told 🤷🏼‍♀️

Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩 Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭! Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.

Job alert ‼️ 2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social - ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

What's happened to Oligocalc? Website is no longer available - feeling lost with my primer design!

Fully funded PhD position available to join our team! We will focus on untangling the molecular mechanisms used by pathogenic, antibiotic resistant E.coli to colonise the host gut. Highly interdisciplinary project in collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and Manu Banzhaf. Please share

Exciting day in the lab - welcome to the world Dr Andreas Lawaetz. Celebrated with Swedish cake for the Dane! Thank you to @graingerlab.bsky.social and Mark Lindsay for being excellent examiners! #proudsupervisor

Purple bacteria update - it’s still beautiful and making me very happy! #happyfriday

Super cool to hear Jose Penades talking about his new work using Google AI-co-scientist research.google/blog/acceler... this morning on #radio4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... chimeric infective phage particles!

How to make Emma happy on a Monday morning - the discovery of a purple bacteria isolated from our new rock samples! 💜

We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

🅲🅾🅾🅻 🆃🅴🅲🅷🅽🅾🅻🅾🅶🆈 “Bacterial-MERFISH” provides ~1000-fold volumetric expansion of individual cells, charts gene expression in hundreds of thousands of cells, deciphering bacterial single-cell heterogeneity, intracellular transcriptome organization, and bacterial adaptation to µm-scale niches in vivo

Exciting postdoc opportunity to join Orkun Soyer's lab at the University of Warwick!! More info in the ad below: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

New mug powering grant rebuttal writing! #manifestingpostdocarrival

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A good first day back - my PhD student Andreas Lawaetz (not migrated to bluesky yet!) just submitted his thesis.

Do you want to come and do a PhD in beautiful Bath with @kevinpaine.bsky.social and me? Come and help us understand how to use bacteria to make bioconcrete. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.04.631297v1

"Over a decade of research indicates that contamination, typically from laboratory reagents, is the most plausible explanation for such findings, particularly when even supposedly ultrapure water has been shown to harbour DNA signatures and culturable microbes." www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Reading the intro to Andreas’s PhD and pleased to report the actual expert has arrived! #OliCat

🧪We are hiring!!!🧪 2 postdocs in #RNAbiology #bioengineering for our @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social funded MOMENTUM project. Join us to study bacterial gene expression with #microfluidics and #microscopy. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/03290000/Jobs/2024/1_Postdoc_momentum_Sharma_2025-01_V0.pdf

Do you want to come and do a PhD in beautiful Bath with @kevinpaine.bsky.social and me? Come and help us understand how to use bacteria to make bioconcrete. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A reminder that there just a few days left to apply to work with us as a post doc on DETECTIVE-II. MRC funded project to work on genomics and metagenomics of AMR in China and the UK edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨We have a "Scientist" position in my lab at @StJude 👉This position is stable and not dependent on external funding. 🗒️ Ideally, the candidate holds a PhD in Microbiology or related and +3 years experience post degree. See ad for job details. Please kindly repost! talent.stjude.org/careers/jobs...

Too true @annayahprosser.bsky.social (great piece!) it was the most amazing night and I am really going to miss seeing her genius mash ups in the surprise songs #longliveeras theconversation.com/the-end-of-t...

Last lecture of the academic year done! Lab work here I come!

Flagellar rotation facilitates the transfer of a bacterial conjugative plasmid in Bacilli www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Train trips - I should do more of them - have got so much done in the 7 hours I have spent on them this past week. Including writing the lecture I have to give tomorrow - the last of this academic year!!

JOB CLAXON! I am recruiting a post-doctoral researcher on a BBSRC-funded project (36 months) on the genetics and functional genomics of vancomycin resistance in enterococci. Further details here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please DM or email me if you want to discuss this post.

Microbiology is amazing - Sourdough Panettone done! #ChristmasReady

Microbiology on the weekend! Sourdough Panettone!

We recently built an interactive 3D exploration tool for bacterial #SingleCell RNA-seq, led by a master's student in design hosted by my group. Short video trailer below highlighting some of the features, or check out the paper for more details! 🧪🦠🧫🧬🖥️ academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...

Excited to share our latest, "Biofilm dispersal patterns revealed using far-red fluorogenic probes." @plos.bsky.social We developed a cell-labeling strategy using far-red dyes to image dense microbial communities (where fluorescent proteins often do not work well) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

RhoFold+, nucleotide language model for accurate 3d structure prediction of RNA, from the Wyss institute: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible! #proteomics #bioinformatics

Took a much needed break from marking to photosynthesise behind my favourite fluffy ears. We went to see the giraffes 🦒 as you do in wildest Wiltshire! #selfcareTuesday

Really pleased to have Olivia back in our shared lab - even if she’s not in my group any more. She’s currently applying for PhDs, if she applies to you snap her up!

Bacterial single-cell RNA sequencing captures biofilm transcriptional heterogeneity and differential responses to immune pressure -in #NatureCommunications by Lee Korshoj and Tammy Kielian www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cambridge word of the year #manifest - this is what I’ve been doing since I submitted my latest grant - manifesting my post-doc. This is how it works right? Willing them into existence?? amp.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...