Delighted to share our latest research on EHEC type 3 secretion regulation through amino acid deamination. Big collaborative effort over several years. Thanks to all our co-authors and funders. 📄 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Catabolism of serine enantiomers represses enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli virulence factors via modulation of the nitrogen stress response | PNAS

Attaching and effacing pathogens, including enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), colonize their preferred intestinal niche by sensing diverse...

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Early bird registration for VTEC 2026 ends this Friday (February 27th). Please share with your networks and consider registering for this great One-health conference covering all topics VTEC related, taking place in Aberdeen on the 10-13th of May.

James Connolly@ruamicro.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Registration is now LIVE for the 2026 international symposium on Shiga toxin producing E. coli (VTEC), being held in Aberdeen on the the 10-13th of May 2026. The early bird deadline is February 27th so don’t miss out and register now. www.vtec2026.org

Excited to share our new study! Great fun working again with my good friend @stephenrgarrett.bsky.social — always a highlight! Huge thanks to fantastic co-authors @samkaytucker.bsky.social, @drandyjroe.bsky.social and our star technician Vojtech Pavelka. academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...

PhD position available in our team to study how UPEC exploits metals to successfully colonise the host gut. Cool collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @banzhaflab.bsky.social Please share and get in touch for more details

Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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E. coli is the leading bacterium causing death from AMR infections worldwide. If you'd like to explore approaches to exploit the DNA damage response as alternative antimicrobial, please apply to the following PhD studentship available in my lab starting October 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Exploiting the bacterial DNA damage response as an alternative antimicrobial at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Exploiting the bacterial DNA damage response as an alternative antimicrobial at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

UK’s BBSRC has awarded £9M to support 19 early-career researchers tackling major challenges in health, agriculture, and technology. Projects include innovative approaches to #AMR, gut microbiome therapies, crop resilience, and nature-inspired engineering solutions. www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/...

£9 million investment fuels groundbreaking bioscience research | Innovate UK

From unlocking the secrets of animal movement to tackling antimicrobial resistance, UK’s brightest bioscience minds are pushing the boundaries of innovation.

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🚨WE’RE HIRING!🚨 A Research Technician (2y) to join our team & work on exciting projects in bacterial evolution & gene regulation. Come join our growing, supportive Bacteriology Dept @uofglasgow.bsky.social ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #MicroBio25 #microsky @microbiologysociety.org Apply by 30th April: tinyurl.com/2z9z9kse

New paper from the group - here we show that aurodox prevents shiga toxin mediated damage in a murine model. Interesting changes to the microbiota too. Amazing work by @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social and the group. Paper here- rdcu.be/efW0K

Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project. Read more and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #phage #bioinformatics

Postdoctoral research fellow with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of bacteriophage-host interactions

Description of the Workplace In the Atkinson lab we are interested in making discoveries about protein function and structure, with a focus on bacterial immune system components that protect against b

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‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research. #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel

In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

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“a well-organized, financed, politically motivated, and steadily globalizing campaign of disinformation & attacks against science that makes it difficult to mount an effective global response to the climate & pandemic threats” @michaelemann.bsky.social & Hotez skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...

A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer

Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...

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Here’s Newhaven harbour, on a less windy/rainy night !

More time to think is the key parameter every researcher seems to crave for.

Rosa Ritunnano@rritunnano.bsky.social · 2y ago

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.

Graham Kendall@grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2y ago

Over 100 German Universities Partner with #MDPI in New National Agreement

This is just “wow”! Blown away by this paper. 🤯

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences@pnas.org · 2y ago

Researchers engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to express an enzyme derived from sea sponges, which polymerizes bioglass from silica, allowing the bacteria to self-assemble lenses that focus light into narrow, intense beams. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

This was the simple and, IMHO, brilliant, solution. Mandated immediate open access, no need for the ridiculous surcharges imposed by the "elite" journals! Thank you NIH!

Prachee Avasthi@pracheeac.bsky.social · 2y ago

• Author accepted manuscripts (peer reviewed articles) must be made available in Pubmed Central WITHOUT EMBARGO upon the official date of publication. • Policy effective date is Dec 31, 2025 (no end date).

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The Silent Pandemic of Antifungal Resistance

As the world grapples with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, another insidious threat looms large: drug-resistant fungi.

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IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...

Hi everyone! For my new followers, I'm a Bioinformatics PhD student (UK) who also runs a science art shop where I make stickers and jewellery! My most recent creation is festive microbial cards ❄️ pinkpetri.etsy.com

Last week I showed to MSc students this iconic movie of a #leukocyte chasing a #bacteria, just wait... Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s ! (as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy) #CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social

There is no brain microbiome 🧪 Excellent letter by @mjpallen.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @faecalmatters.bsky.social

Mark Pallen@mjpallen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.

New paper from the group. Very proud to share our recent work for the first time here on Bluesky- give me 50 likes and it’s a permanent move!🤣. doi.org/10.1098/rsob...

Fully funded PhD available to work with me and the fab @paulhoskisson.bsky.social and @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social on the aurodox story- www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... 💊🦠🧫

Already feels like twitter v2 here and the chance for a better community.

Latest paper from the group - Current understandings of colibactin regulation | Microbiology Society www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I wrote a short blog post for the Microbiology Society regarding our recent colibactin regulation review. Available here. @sofiasandalli.bsky.social @drandyjroe.bsky.social

Regulation of a carcinogenic genotoxin

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Really pleased to share Curtis Cottam’s first paper from his PhD, where he discovered a new Arabinose transporter in pathogenic E.coli and investigated the impact of Arabinose utilisation on virulence gene regulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Metabolism of ʟ -arabinose converges with virulence regulation to promote enteric pathogen fitness

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Come do a PhD with me at University of Glasgow. 3-year fully funded PhD for UK students. Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infectionhttps://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/fully-funded-friend-to-foe-colonisation-as-an-entry-point-for-staphylococcus-aureus-infection/?p166823

📢 I have a funded PhD position available in Glasgow. Functional genomics project with vaginal Lactobacillus. Please share www.findaphd.com/phds/project...