What a kick-off to @pintofscience.uk in York last night! Presenters covered topics on solar panels & biodiversity, sustainable fishing & maths, biomolecules science, and stressed microbes by @gavinhthomas.bsky.social #pint26 #STEM #AVERTproject #BBSRC

Pint of Science starts today! If you are available tonight, and in York, grab a last-minute ticket to join @gavinhthomas.bsky.social who will talk about the intriguing ways microbes respond to stress. pintofscience.co.uk/event/nature...

Nature, Numbers, and the Invisible World

Explore the hidden rules that shape our world, from the stress responses of microbes and the molecular machinery of life to the maths behind ecosystems, mo…

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Pint of Science starts in 7 days! If you’ve already got your ticket, see you soon; if not, grab a ticket (or 5!) here: pintofscience.co.uk/event/nature...

Nature, Numbers, and the Invisible World

Explore the hidden rules that shape our world, from the stress responses of microbes and the molecular machinery of life to the maths behind ecosystems, mo…

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AVERT project@avertproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@gavinhthomas.bsky.social is taking the stage for the Pint of Science Festival! 🍻🔬Join him on May 18th for a fascinating deep dive into the world of microbes and how they handle stress pintofscience.co.uk/event/nature... #outreach #BBSRC

Updated scheme for the classification of bacteriocins in gram-positive bacteria and a comprehensive overview for Lactobacillaceae Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (@asm.org) from @sarahlebeer.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Updated scheme for the classification of bacteriocins in gram-positive bacteria and a comprehensive overview for Lactobacillaceae | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

SUMMARYMany gram-positive bacteria, particularly those within the family Lactobacillaceae, possess significant biotechnological potential across food, feed, supplement, pharmaceutical, and agricultura...

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Our B. subtilis autolysis paper by former group members Kenneth Seistrup and @alansckoh.bsky.social is finally out. This one has been lingering in my drawer for far too long. (1/3). #microsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

⏰ Registration closing soon! Join us in Manchester for a 1-day meeting on Therapeutics & Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). Talks, panels, ECR sessions, speed networking & a WAAW sandpit. Don’t miss out 👇 https://microb.io/TherAMR26

Less than 2 weeks to go! Make sure you join @gavinhthomas.bsky.social for this year's largest celebration of scientific research, Pint of Science. If you haven't yet booked your ticket for #pint26 then now is the time and tell your friends!

AVERT project@avertproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@gavinhthomas.bsky.social is taking the stage for the Pint of Science Festival! 🍻🔬Join him on May 18th for a fascinating deep dive into the world of microbes and how they handle stress pintofscience.co.uk/event/nature... #outreach #BBSRC

@gavinhthomas.bsky.social is taking the stage for the Pint of Science Festival! 🍻🔬Join him on May 18th for a fascinating deep dive into the world of microbes and how they handle stress pintofscience.co.uk/event/nature... #outreach #BBSRC

Nature, Numbers, and the Invisible World

Explore the hidden rules that shape our world, from the stress responses of microbes and the molecular machinery of life to the maths behind ecosystems, mo…

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Big shout-out to our PDRAs - Katy Davis, Justin Lau and Ben Willson - who presented posters at today’s event 👏 Special congratulations to Katy for winning the poster prize 🏆 Great research, great team, great result! #ResearchLife #PDRA #PosterPrize #BlueskyScience @biologyatyork.bsky.social

@poojag96.bsky.social work on the bioenergetics of spore germination is now published- Pooja had a really nice summary that I've put below but essentially we think the role of bioenergetics in spore germination has been completely overlooked! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

💼JOB OFFER: There is a great opportunity for #PDRAs to join the #KathrynLilley #UniversityofCambridge lab to work on an ancient set of effector proteins IM30 family, that promote membrane integrity. See: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc.... Apply by the 13th Feb

Presenting a collection of projects spanning my time at the University of Otago and Newcastle University was a squeeze, but I think I managed! @avertproject.bsky.social @bsacandjac.bsky.social

A few pictures from a recent annual meeting with our expert Scientific Advisory Board - thank you all for joining and for the invaluable discussions and feedback.

Bacterial networks #BacNet26 in September 2026 will be chaired by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and co-chaired by @s-lab.bsky.social with @coralietesseur.bsky.social Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...

New paper out in AAC looking at the development of hyper-tolerance and cross-tolerance to cell wall-targeting antimicrobials via mutations in the mevalonate and Epa biosynthesis pathways and the LiaFSR cell envelope stress response. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1128/aac....

Prolonged exposure to teixobactin generates cross-tolerance to other cell wall-targeting antimicrobials in Enterococcus faecalis | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Antimicrobial tolerance (AMT) is the ability of a microorganism to survive but not proliferate during high-dose antimicrobial treatment (1). Mechanisms of AMT have been linked to many different cellul...

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Beautiful systematic analysis of membrane thickness inside native cells. This is a great use of both the Chlamy Dataset (bsky.app/profile/cell...) and #MemBrain segmentations (bsky.app/profile/lore...). The open-source workflow is a very helpful resource for #TeamTomo. Thanks and congrats!! 🧪 🔬

Desislava Glushkova@deglushk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Just published! We share an open-source workflow to measure membrane thickness from tomograms, including a tutorial with 3D visualizations. We analyze thickness variations across organelles and reflect on where to define a membrane boundary. @becklab.bsky.social #teamtomo rupress.org/jcb/article/...

‼️Research update - the last-resort 💊antibiotic daptomycin attacks🧫bacteria through two independent mechanisms & IM30 protein LiaH helps remodel membranes under stress. Great work by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social & @jbuttresssci.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social team #microsky #BBSRC #sLoLa ⬇️

Henrik Strahl@henrikstrahl.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Now properly published at @natcomms.nature.com with few additional experiments incl. demonstration of Daptomycin's ability to depolarise non-growing cells. See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky