Read my latest short interview for the Science Underdog Series #SciComm #ScienceCommunication #BacterialSuperpowers www.patreon.com/corradonai/p...

Science Underdog Champion: Sarah Wettstadt | Science Underdogs w/ Corrado Nai

I am starting a new series celebrating people who champion science underdogs. This month on September 17 was International Microorganism Day

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🎉 Out today in Cell: the paper I've been looking forward to sharing for a long time 🎉 We used cryo-ET to find a molecular machine nobody knew existed on the surface of a minimal bacterium, and worked out what it does. 🧵(1/7) #TeamTomo #cryoET

This will be an amazing opportunity for the right person. The Department of Veterinary Medicine in Cambridge is recruiting for an established chair who will also be our Head of Department. Your research can be in any area of veterinary science. Please circulate. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...

Why choose a career in cystic fibrosis research? 4 researchers from across the CF Lung Health Network share what motivates them and the difference they hope to make for people living with CF. #CysticFibrosis #ResearchCareer

Luke Allsopp, Associate Professor in Molecular Bacteriology at NHLI, is one of 47 scientists featured in a new book call Scientists Making a Difference 📕 In the book, Luke discusses his research and how his curiosity in the world around him led to a career in STEM. Congratulations Luke 👏

Discussing my passion and career in #STEM + #infection in the #ScientistsMakingaDifference book. I work on the bacterium #pseudomonas that’s particularly common in people with #CF #Youngscientists @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @lifearc.bsky.social @imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.

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🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

"There's this concept that circulates that if you don't ace your exams or get into the top university, then basically your whole career is burnt bread," Liston explained. "That's not a healthy framework." That misconception became the spark for the book. www.the-scientist.com/a-stem-caree...

A STEM Career Adventure Book for Future Scientists | The Scientist

Inspired by real careers in biomedical science, this interactive narrative-style book lets readers explore how every choice can shape a scientist's future.

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Structural basis of biofilm formation mediated by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa fibrillar adhesin CdrA led by @olivia--smith.bsky.social Collaboration with @alexbateman1.bsky.social , Andres Floto and @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social labs

So we blocked IFNγ in Mtb infected macaques and….the animals were fine. Turns out mice overestimate the importance of IFNγ in TB because IFNγ drives iNOS in mice but not macaques or humans. This means we don’t actually know how T cells suppress Mtb. rdcu.be/ff9GB #tuberculosis #immunology

Fresh out of the lab! Our new preprint is now up on BioRxiv, exploring how the beneficial bacterium Pseudomonas putida controls its T6SS nanoweapon. It turns out the Gac/Rsm pathway acts as a strict molecular brake on the system. 👇 (1/4) Read the full preprint here: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Today is wear yellow day for Cystic Fibrosis Trust #CFWeek. Future Imperial Medics doing a Clinical Research & Innovation research experience with Precision-CF Innovation hub in YELLOW! Researching towards unlocking a life unlimited for people with CF @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @imperialnhli.bsky.social

Today is wear yellow day to raise awareness of and fundraise for #CFWeek. Precision-CF Innovation hub in yellow! Researching towards unlocking a life unlimited for people with CF @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @imperialnhli.bsky.social

With no treatment available when Michael was diagnosed with SPG50, his dad Terry built a team, launched Elpida and helped create a gene therapy now improving Michael's life. A powerful reminder this #RareDiseaseDay of the support needed for rare conditions.

Are you a structural biologist pushing the boundaries of molecular science with an ambitious research programme? Join our Structural Studies Division as a tenure-track Group Leader, with core funding, world-leading facilities & enthusiastic colleagues. Apply by 16 MAR www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🔍How do fungal-bacterial pathogen interactions worsen disease outcomes? Check out our latest Micro Briefing highlighting new research from The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at University of Exeter and Mackerere University, Uganda. Read the full paper here🔗 https://10.1099/jmm.0.002128

"Precarity is the one constant of academic science. Themes of instability thread themselves through everything we do." A brief blog post from me about the @ukri.org funding pause and who the real victims will be. occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2... #AcademicSky

An innovative approach supercharges the innate immune system to provide a first line of defence against respiratory infections. go.nature.com/4qQncQx

‘Universal vaccine’ protects mice against multiple pathogens

An innovative approach supercharges the innate immune system to provide a first line of defence against respiratory infections.

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📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review

Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

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Dr. Libby Duignan, CPI Scientist will present her work entitled 'Optimizing Phage Production: Strategies for Scale-Up, Purification and Analysis' at the Viruses of Microbiome 2026 meeting in Newcastle today. @northumbriauni.bsky.social @ukcpi.bsky.social, @cysticfibrosis.org.uk

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... interested in bacterial antagonism? PhD opportunity in our team, see below. Please repost!

Characterising antibacterial toxins in the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Characterising antibacterial toxins in the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🔬 Postdoc position – Infection Biology & Cryo-ET (Zurich) 🇨🇭 We are looking for a motivated Postdoc to join our interdisciplinary team. 📩 Interested? Check out the job advert: www.imm.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:cb17... 👉 More info on the lab: www.weiss-laboratory.com Please share with interested colleagues!

We're advertising for a bacteriology technician and a post-doc to work on AI-guided antibiotic development as part of a large multidisciplinary Fleming Initiative project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

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🧪 New research by @basler-lab.bsky.social reveals a surprising microbial trade-off: Pseudomonas aeruginosa activates a defense program to survive “speargun” attacks from rival bacteria, but this defense makes it more vulnerable to antibiotics. @unibas.ch @snsf.ch @nccr-antiresist.bsky.social 👇

How bacteria resist hostile attacks

Some bacteria use a kind of molecular “speargun” to eliminate their rivals, injecting them with a lethal cocktail. Researchers led by Prof. Marek Basler at the Biozentrum have now discovered that cert...

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🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research

The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...

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JB Editor's Choice: Panich, Wadhwa et al. describe a new type of motility in Salmonella they refer to as "swashing", which does not appear to require active propulsion. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

Type VII ABC transporters underpin many core activities in the bacterial cell envelope - including efflux, cell division and lipoprotein trafficking. A new paper in PLOS Biology reveals YbbAP-TesA as a novel Type VII system in E. coli. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Structural characterization of the YbbAP-TesA ABC transporter identifies it as a lipid hydrolase complex that extracts hydrophobic compounds from the bacterial inner membrane

In E.coli, three of the four Type VII ABC transporter systems have been structurally characterized. This study solves cryo-EM structures of the fourth Type VII ABC system, YbbAP-TesA, and suggests tha...

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Really pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab. We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung. The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut www.nature.com/articles/s41...

High frequency body site translocation of nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Nature Communications

Here, the authors report within-host diversity and body site translocation dynamics in hospital samples of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and reveal that body site sharing was likely due to within-patient tra...

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