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emmseveri.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Northumbria University: phage, synthetic biology, sialic acid, transport proteins. He/him.
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Post-doc opportunities! Wet/dry/hybrid projects available in my group. Drop me an email with CV if interested. www.scilifelab.se/research/pul...

Context matters: assessing the impacts of genomic background and ecology on microbial biosynthetic gene cluster evolution #mSystems MiniReview by by @raufs.bsky.social & @lkalan.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Gaining insights into the complexity of specialized metabolites and their possible ecological roles These metabolites not only function as antimicrobials, but also as cue molecules among other peculiar functions -see our paper in microLIFE of @femsjournals.bsky.social on surfactin and subtilosin A

Still time to apply! Join us in Glasgow—be part of my team. Closing date: Feb 24th

Physically doing science, not just being talked down to about it, would change a lot of people's minds. Part of the reason why folks are skeptical of scientific institutions is the moat between general public participation and the various fields of research.

#BACELL2025 website is online: bacell2025.eu, registration will be open in few weeks Join the meeting on Bacillus organized by Leendert Hamoen 17th and 18th of June 2025, Amsterdam, 🇳🇱

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Thank you for the wonderful pFOGG, @aharms485.bsky.social : three mutants done at first attempt, frequency min 40%. Made my day! And here’s his beautiful work where the construct is from: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I think genuinely being excited to read your friend's latest paper like they dropped a new album is something to hold onto as long as possible. This world we've built has a lot going wrong at the moment, but the living world and its exploration will always be a unique high for me

Deleting whole genes has never been easier with the power of Cascade-Cas3! Learn about this unusual CRISPR system in our new blog post. blog.addgene.org/deg...

Urinary bacteriophage cooperation with bacterial pathogens during human urinary tract infections supports lysogenic phage therapy. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-07598-8 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39905205/

Rhizosphere 6 meeting in the middle of the summer in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.rhizo6.org/home

Folks, this post doc position on #phage is not to be missed - if I were younger etc You can’t fail if you work with Giusy:

🚨 🧬 Updated preprint on the completed BASEL collection - what's new? Some fun with bacterial immunity and a new P22 relative infecting E. coli K-12. A thread 🧵

Major breakthrough by the Bumann lab @biozentrum.unibas.ch: Antibiotic killing of starved Salmonella is uniformly slow. Usually reported "biphasic killing" with highly resilient persisters is an artifact of CFU readouts because plating on high nutrients kills many previously drug-exposed cells. 😳🧨👇🏼

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Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé, Guillaume Cabanac theconversation.com/fake-papers-...

An ICE, a PICI, and a phage walk into a cell… and start crosstalking. Interesting read on how MGEs juggle interactions like pros! 🦠 academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Minimization of the Bacillus subtilis divisome suggests FtsZ and SepF can form an active Z-ring, and reveals the amino acid transporter BraB as a new cell division influencing factor #PLoSGenetics from Leendert Hamoen journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

New bioRxiv from the group by Lijie Song combined with the bioinformatics expertise of @matinnu.bsky.social in @tilmweber.bsky.social group, we report a biosynthetic potential of Paenibacilli through a genus-wide exploration of BGCs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44

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#OnThisDay in 1885 one of the founders of the Microbiology Society was born. Marjory Stephenson was a distinguished pioneer of chemical microbiology and contributed greatly to the development of research in bacterial metabolism. Learn more about Marjory: https://microb.io/3JX3rCL

Happy to share an excelent work from @neftalyl.bsky.social's PhD thesis published in #ISMEJournal @ismepublications.bsky.social Surfactin facilitates establishment of Bacillus subtilis in synthetic communities academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... Funded by @cemist.bsky.social @dg.dk & #NNF_INTERACT

Phage Phriends reunite: last night’s drinks ahead of VoM 2025 with @giusym1990.bsky.social

We derive iron-siderophore interaction networks among Pseudomonas strains from sequencing data. One key insight: natural strains form dense networks, whereas pathogens are loners. With @frimanscience.bsky.social @zhiyuanli.bsky.social & Nanjing colleagues www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 Only 7 more members to go, and we’ll need to open a second starter pack! 🚀 Join us! 🙌

An 841kb phage genome! cc @baym.lol www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to see this multi country collaboration published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social led by Polonca and Anna Ecology of prophage-like elements in Bacillus subtilis at global and local geographical scales www.cell.com/cell-reports... #Phage #Bacillussubtilis #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

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It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!

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Well, I should be packing and I’m drinking instead lol. Let’s see which country I end up in tomorrow lololol

Happy to share the final version of our paper on Serratia defence islands. Congrats to first-authors Tom and Suraj, and a big thank you to Blowerlab and @stephenrgarrett.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3vnyvufa

JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share! #exetercec jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Over the moon to share some amazing news—I’ve been awarded an MRC Career Development Award to pursue my research at the University of Glasgow !! 🎉 Can’t wait to get started on this exciting new chapter. Stay tuned—I’ll soon be advertising a PDRA position!

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🚨 PhD Opportunity @halllab.bsky.social! 🔬 Decoding Early Life Microbiota & Host Interactions 🧬 Ideal for those with bioinformatics/microbiome experience 🌍 Open to international candidates (MSCA mobility rules apply). 📅 Deadline: 18th Dec 🌐 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Preprint alert! Peptides are everywhere in biological environments, and these molecules serve as a rich source of nutrients for bacteria. Here, we uncover how one transporter protein allows S. aureus to utilise 100+ peptides for growth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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