Funded 4-year PhD studentship alert! 📣 "Efficacy & Mechanisms of Novel Treatments for Antibiotic-Tolerant Infections" shorturl.at/ruD0t Come join our vibrant and supportive group in St Andrews and undertake an industry placement @amprologix.bsky.social with @matupton.bsky.social. Please share!

Eastbio: Efficacy and Mechanisms of Novel Treatments for Antibiotic-Tolerant Infections at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Eastbio: Efficacy and Mechanisms of Novel Treatments for Antibiotic-Tolerant Infections at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Exciting news! As part of our Vacation Studentships, we're partnering with, New England Biolabs, who are funding two additional grants specifically for Black students. Learn more about how we’re working together: https://microb.io/4rIMPot #BlackInMicro 

Great news for the Trust and research community - we welcomed our first Research Technical Professional Fellow daphnejackson.org/2026/09/a-se...

Happy international microorganism day! Deck the halls with vials of agar... Fa lalalalaa la la la la! #IntMicroDay 🦠🐡🧪🧬🧫

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It’s International Microorganism Day! For a third year running, some of our Champions have told us about their favourite microbes and our very talented Champion, Eliza Wolfson, has brought these to life with her illustrations! @eliza-coli.bsky.social @femsmicro.org

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It’s International Microorganism Day! For a third year running, some of our Champions have told us about their favourite microbes and our very talented Champion, Eliza Wolfson, has brought these to life with her illustrations! @eliza-coli.bsky.social @femsmicro.org

Have you completed our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion questionnaire on Mi Society? ✍️ Your responses are instrumental in supporting us to make the Society more inclusive. Log into Mi Society today to complete the questionnaire: https://microb.io/3UFqMCN #EDI #Inclusivity #ScienceCommunication

🔔 New preprint from our lab: how does the chemical composition of infection-like environments shape how costly (or not) antibiotic resistance mutations are? We find that efflux pump regulator mutants can have a selective advantage in synthetic human urine + identify likely component driving this.

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Fitness costs of antibiotic resistance mutations in rich media do not reliably predict those in infection-like environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.08.750013v1

Happy 60th Star Trek 🎂 My faithful little companion that’s been with me all these years and has become such a large part of my work and social life. I’ll be celebrating with @rigb.org this Saturday. Join the livestream! www.rigb.org/whats-on/sci...

The science of Star Trek

Celebrate 60 years of Star Trek as Jamie Gallagher and host of speakers delve into the real science behind t

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Peer review is essential to academic publishing but happens mostly behind the scenes. Andrew Preston (MIC Editor-in-Chief) and Tom Sharp pull back the curtain in our Publishing Fundamentals webinar, 16 Sept. Free for members, register here: https://microb.io/publishing-fundamentals #Microbiology

#Engineering microbial systems capable of sensing host-derived stress hormones has proved technically challenging. This study reconstitutes adrenergic sensing in E. coli, creating a probiotic strain capable of sensing host #stress and secreting #therapeutics. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4zI6itm

Missed our Annual Conference this year? Want to re-watch the incredible Prize Winner Lectures and Hot Topic? Follow this link to catch up on all the sessions: https://bit.ly/4g7UgS7

If Zachary Blount had one dollar for every cell he plated in his dissertation looking for new Cit+ mutations, he could single handedly pay off the US debt of $40,000,000,000,000. www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n...

Join APC as a Research Assistant on NourishMind with @harschellekens.bsky.social. Use cell culture, molecular biology and biochemical methods to support gut-brain research. 16 months | €34,129 to €44,311 | Apply by 12:00, 21 Aug 2026: buff.ly/63KPDcM #ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs #ResearchAssistant

It’s World Honey Bee Day! 🐝 Bees have long been a focal point of antimicrobial studies. 🍯 Check out a new paper on mānuka honey: https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001746 #AMR #WorldHoneyBeeDay #Microbiology #NewPaper

Fully funded PhD position available in my group at #UCD | Environmental metagenomics | Microbial dark matter - Apply here forms.gle/ms5kpYQQi1w7... #PhD #AMR #Metagenomics #Microbiology #Bioinformatics #MicroBiomica

Proud to see our review "Anti-type VI tactics: bacterial defenses against T6SS attacks" featured on the Cover @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/bioch... Kudos to @nicrivard.bsky.social for creating this fantastic Cover illustration! But… do do you recognize the original painting?

Happy Noodlococcus Day! 🍜🦠🧫

🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social Bacteriology Research Fellow Dr @liam-rooney.bsky.social has seen two separate research projects selected by @sciencecampaign.bsky.social (CaSE) as part of its policy engagement work for the @parliament.scot and @senedd.wales. 🔗 Full story: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...

Congratulations to Victoria Orr, winner of a poster prize at Annual Conference 2026, whose research has just been published in Microbial Genomics! Read the full paper: https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001789 #MGen #Microbiology #OpenAccess #Microbio26

Registration is now open! Our Education and Outreach Winter Conference is back. Join us virtually on 21 October 2026 exploring innovation, collaboration and connectivity in microbiology. Free for members! Find out more: https://microb.io/EON2026 🔬🌍. #Microbiology #SciComm #EON2026

TODAY'S THE DAY! We can't wait to welcome you all to the National STEM Learning Centre later today for the start of this year's BIG Event! #BIGEvent26

🆕 Blog! Improving inclusivity; Introducing our new EDI Committee Co-chair Dr Emma Waters @emmabeansworth.bsky.social buff.ly/Ox74B7K

Improving inclusivity; Introducing our new EDI Committee Co-chair Dr Emma Waters - Quadram Institute

Dr Emma Waters reflects on her new role, why improving inclusivity is so important and how the EDI committee works

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Fantastic opportunity to join a brilliant lab and wider collaborative team!

Georgia Isom@georgiaisom.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Interested in joining our group in Oxford? We are looking for a PDRA with single particle Cryo-EM experience to help us figure out how sphingolipids are transported to the cell surface of Gram-negative bacteria. The deadline is 31st July. Informal enquires are welcome. Please share!

Interested in joining our group in Oxford? We are looking for a PDRA with single particle Cryo-EM experience to help us figure out how sphingolipids are transported to the cell surface of Gram-negative bacteria. The deadline is 31st July. Informal enquires are welcome. Please share!

come and join us if you are in Oxford

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