Extension of the deadline for latecomers. Register to the Secretion Days in Marseille !

Julien GIRAUD@juliengiraud.bsky.social · 2mo ago

👉Reminder : FIVE DAYS LEFT👈 📅 Secretion Days 2026 will take place on October 8-9 in Marseille 🌊 🎤Invited speaker : Wilbert Bitter; @wilbertbitter.bsky.social 🆓 Free, spot are limited ! 📥 Registration is open until June 15 via the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Want to research the basis of how drug resistant bacteria interact with human immune cells? Fully funded 4-year PhD position available (UK home students). Come and join our amazing interdisciplinary team at the intersection of microbiology, immunity, metabolism and the clinic! Please spread the word

Hiding in plain sight: How a multi-drug resistant pathogen evades detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Hiding in plain sight: How a multi-drug resistant pathogen evades detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Latest paper from the lab - particularly glad that we managed to get this one out, after getting scooped several times over… more spectacular work from PhD students extraordinaire, Kailin and Rosa, in close collaboration with Marc Erhardt’s group.

The structure of the Vibrio alginolyticus flagellar filament suggests molecular mechanism for the rotation of sheathed flagella - Nature Communications

Most bacteria use a flagellum, to swim and disseminate in their environment, and it is essential for virulence. In Vibrio, the flagellum is surrounded by a sheath, a membrane-like shield that protects...

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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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Our latest CRISPR ring nuclease paper focusses on Csx15 - which seems to act as of a sponge as well as a canonical phosphodiesterase. Great work led by @haotianchi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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 opportunity (unfortunately UK home students only) to work on nanoparticles to combat AMR with @forganross.bsky.social and me in UoG. If you have a microbiology background and an interest in chemistry this would be a perfect project for you! Please share!

🚨 PhD opportunity! 🚨 Join us at St Andrews to study how multiple prophages shape bacterial behaviour & AMR. Co-supervised with @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social This is a competition-based EASTBIO PhD. Full details and the application link are in the advert 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

EASTBIO: When Phages Collide: Understanding How Multiple Prophages Shape Bacterial Behaviour at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - EASTBIO: When Phages Collide: Understanding How Multiple Prophages Shape Bacterial Behaviour at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Theres still time to apply for our PhD project on UPEC/immune cell interactions. Deadline December 4th

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

If you are interested in researching how drug resistant bacteria evade killing by our immune system, them this PhD project is for you. Come join the our team at Newcastle, in collaboration with University of Liverpool, and lead research at the interface of microbiology, immunology and metabolomics.

🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 Interested in microbiology, phages & water security? Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters. Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project! Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

PhD opportunity in my lab: exploring how commensals and pathogens build biofilm communities on endotracheal (ventilator) tubes. Microbial ecology, medical microbiology and fancy imaging! Co-supervised with the fabulous Saskia Bakker and Jeremy Webb warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Apply here: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

How the twin-arginine translocase (Tat) system manages to transport folded proteins across membranes without any leaks? To answer this fundamental question we solved the first structure of TatB3C3 complex with bound cargo. Please check out new preprint! t.co/962Kj9pt6F

Really excited to share my first paper from the Whitney lab, alongside an amazing grad student, Polina. Here we identify a chaperone family required for the folding of a central domain of T7SS toxins, and solve the structure of the chaperone-toxin complex. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A widespread family of molecular chaperones promotes the intracellular stability of type VIIb secretion system–exported toxins | PNAS

To survive in highly competitive environments, bacteria use specialized secretion systems to deliver antibacterial toxins into neighboring cells, t...

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It was a really nice experience to give a talk at Northumbria University! Very happy to get to present our work on Zorya systems for the first time - A huge thank you to @emmseveri.bsky.social and (not on bluesky?) Ciarán Kelly and Darren Smith for the invitation!

Really excited to share this story from Jake in the lab! We have found bacterial protein toxins that can enter Gram positive bacterial cells without the need for a receptor resulting in broad spectrum antibacterial activity.

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · last yr.

Proteolytically activated antibacterial toxins inhibit the growth of diverse Gram-positive bacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.13.648598v1

For those of you who approached me at @microbiologysociety.org #Microbio25 (and anyone else interested!!), this is your last chance to apply for our PDRA position. Come join us in Glasgow!

Giusy Mariano@giusym1990.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44

🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44

Presenting a poster at #Microbio25 today/tomorrow. Come for a chat about defence hotspots in Pseudomonas phage!

Still time left to apply!!

Giusy Mariano@giusym1990.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44

Pleased to share that my main Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship project is now published! This study provides mechanistic insights into Zorya II function. Grateful to all who contributed! Read it here:https://tinyurl.com/ZoryaII

We have extended the deadline for this! If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions, check this out and join us!

Giusy Mariano@giusym1990.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44

🚨 #PhD opportunity! 🚨 Come and work with @evaheinz7.bsky.social and me at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) on an exciting project investigating the roles that #bacteriophages play in the evolution and virulence of #enterococci. 🧫🧬 Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Eva Heinz@evaheinz7.bsky.social · last yr.

And another #PhD, again @unistrathclyde.bsky.social in the very friendly, open-minded and diverse Glasgow! #Enterococcal #phages and their role in infections - how much do they contribute to success of nosocomial pathogens? Details here, led by Suzie Humphrey 😊 www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

📌 WE ARE HIRING! @uofgsii.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology. ⏺️ Vacancy Ref: 164773 ⌛️ Closing date: 24 Feb 2025 📧 Informal Enquiries: Dr @giusym1990.bsky.social Giusy.Mariano@glasgow.ac.uk More Info | How To Apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Still time to apply! Join us in Glasgow—be part of my team. Closing date: Feb 24th

Giusy Mariano@giusym1990.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44

Love phage-bacteria interactions, anti-phage systems, and a sprinkle of evolutionary biology? There’s still time to apply and join our team in Glasgow at @uofgsii.bsky.social !

Giusy Mariano@giusym1990.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44

We are very pleased to share our latest preprint on the architecture of the membrane complex of the type 7 secretion system involved in bacterial competition in B. subtilis. #CryoEM #microsky

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 2y ago

A ubiquitin-like protein controls assembly of a bacterial Type VIIb secretion system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634720v1

🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44