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I am delighted that our manuscript 'Staphylococcus haemolyticus is a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes in the preterm infant gut' is now published. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Big thank you to all co-authors, particularly @lisalamberte.bsky.social and @halllab.bsky.social

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I'm very pleased to share the latest paper from my post doc with @kayla-king.bsky.social. We looked at how host microbiota can influence pathogen virulence evolution in a C. elegans model of infection: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Delighted for the labs first PhD students Jack Knowles and Lauren Pittaccio who have been offered their first conference talks at the upcoming Micro Soc Early Career Summer Conference 🤩 great that this friendly + peer-led EC conference platform exists for microbiologists 🙌 #ECConf25

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Fantastic seminar today by @valvanom.bsky.social as part of our new QUB AMR Hub seminar series - all about sneaky Enterobacter hiding inside macrophages 🕵️‍♀️ & the AIVRT vaccine research alliance 💉. Great to see a full seminar room!

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Metabolic ecology of microbiomes: Nutrient competition, host benefits, and community engineering Review by Erik Bakkeren, Vit Piskovsky, and Kevin R. Foster www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

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Register now! Two days left to register for the Early Career Forum Summer Conference. Join fellow early career members at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon-Tyne for two days of professional development opportunities.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Defence Systems are so hot right now 🔥 🔥 🔥 so check out our latest preprint to see how DSes contribute to niche adaptation, interact with each other, and drive accessory genome interactions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Gorgeous sunny weekend in Donegal ☀️🇮🇪! Can’t get over this beach

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Hopped over to Northern Ireland last week to give a talk at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social for their AMR seminar series. Thanks very much to @rwheatley8.bsky.social, @lindaoyama.bsky.social, and @sharonhuws.bsky.social for hosting me!

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Does anyone have any suggestions for companies / services for long read metagenomic sequencing? #microsky

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

New opinion paper from the lab! www.cell.com/trends/micro...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Fantastic first QUB AMR Hub seminar! Thank you @mulkern.bsky.social for your excellent talk 👏

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New Research Assistant position available in my lab to work on a project testing the efficacy of pills dependent #phage against clinical isolates of enteric bacteria . Part of a growing phage research theme in my lab my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Do people in the same household share strains when they have the same species? How many cells transmit when a strain is shared? Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable? We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper. 🧵[1/10]

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Leiden is very lovely! Great time at “new challenges in microbial eco-evolutionary medicine” 🦠

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

TWO postdoc positions in Computational Microbiology and/or biochemistry. Join our interdisciplinary group in the new Life and Mind Building @OxfordBiology, @UniofOxford, @IneosOxford Please apply and share this post: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP641/p...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

A happy Friday seeing this out! I lucked out and got to work with a couple of really great students on this, Shalini and Jacob, and I’m super proud to see their hard work rewarded #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

submitted 89 days ago • 6 comments

@friendlymicrobe.bsky.social and I invite you to the @bsacandjac.bsky.social antibiotic resistance and mechanisms conference Nov 27-28 in Birmingham! We have great talks on global AMR healthcare, mechanisms, vaccines/immunotherapy, antimicrobial interactions and outreach. bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-r...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Our final PhD position is now live - come help us see if AI approaches can aid our understanding of cellular signalling systems during infection and cancer. Maybe this could help develop new clinical interventions? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

So long #EESDrugresistance 👋 what a fantastic few days of resistance / tolerance mechanisms! Big thanks to the organisers for putting on this meeting 🙌

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Day one of #EESDrugresistance ✅ 🦠 super interesting to hear more about work on drug resistance in cancer cells (🤯). First time at EMBL Heidelberg and okkkk it’s very nice 😍

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 The Whelan lab is currently recruiting for a 6-week summer undergraduate student as part of the Lister Institute's Summer Studentship scheme. 🚨 The student will work along side a Postdoc to study interactions between pathogens from the cystic fibrosis microbiome. More info & to apply please see:

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone know when abstract submissions for MicroSoc Early Career Summer conference close? Can’t seem to find it on the event page 🦠 @microbiologysociety.org @kasiamparfitt.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

I'm excited to share our latest research on Enterobacter's infection biology in the Journal of Infectious Diseases (tinyurl.com/bcxmn8nc), showing that antimicrobial-resistant Enterobacter species can persist in human macrophages without replication, causing minimal cytotoxicity.

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New review out in @NatureRevMicro on the complex rltnshp btween metabolism & AMR! A true labor of love from previous postbac Mehrose, grad students Varun & Zirui, and collaborator @drrobsmith.bsky.social (plus figures I'll likely use for many talks to come 😊) rdcu.be/eaES2

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Flying visit back to Oxford… luckily coinciding with a brilliant talk by Michelle Pfeffer on the history of forecasting epidemics (very cool stuff 🤩). Go Michelle!

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