New blog from our student Jose: Attending the IIT Bombay International Summer School was transformative. New research perspectives, global peers, and unforgettable experiences in Mumbai. Read my full reflections: wix.to/okYt4Kw

Broadening Horizons: My Experience at the IIT Bombay International Summer School

By Jose CachayOne of the most rewarding experiences during my PhD was attending the International Summer School at IIT Bombay. It had not been part of my original plans, but I had decided to apply, an...

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Great times at the Metaproteomics Symposium this year, highly recommend attending this, great people, great science @MetaP_Init

Oooh, red bird bath…could it be algae???

My favourite image of the week, algae in microdroplets…🧪

Last night John Howard spoke at Pint of Science 🍺🧪: “The Circle of (Micro)life - how microbe cooperation could help pollution remediation & agriculture." More: wix.to/C0KX5vf #PintOfScience #Microbes #SciComm

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Our very own John Howard presented at Pint of Science at the Neepsend Social Club last night with a fantastic talk entitled

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Join us! @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position using experimental evolution to understand real-world resistance dynamics. See preprint for the 🤯 strain collection we will be working with www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Closing 15 May. Apply: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #mevosky

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Gardening world pays tribute to Sheffield's Nigel Dunnett

The urban horticulture professor designed the wildflower planting in the Tower of London's moat.

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Always a good, honest conference review from our very own Luke Richardson 🧪 @MicrobioSoc #biotech www.pandhalresearchgroup.co.uk/post/microbi...

Microbiology Society Annual Conference Belfast: A practical guide to presenting at conference with no data

By Luke RichardsonAnother year has passed, and just slightly less important than Christmas and Mum’s birthday is the Microbiology Society Annual Conference. This year, myself and José Cachay flew to s...

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System clean and ready to go. Consortia 2…ready, steady…GOOOOOOO!!!!!

Annual Conference is the UK's largest annual gathering of microbiologists. Register now to secure your spot: https://microb.io/AC26Register #Microbio26

Blink and miss: Trump’s tactic of threats first and U-turn later is proving stale in Iran war

Blink and miss: Trump’s tactic of threats first and U-turn later is proving stale in Iran war

President’s move, dubbed Trump Always Chickens Out, appears to have soured as he loses hold on situation in Iran

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What the hell is eating our Nannochloropsis ?! ☠️🧪

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Two days...two viva's

Both Ali and Helen had their PhD viva examinations, one day apart. Here's what they had to say about it...Ali The day finally came that I would defend the research I conducted over the coarse of the m...

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Great to catch up with our polymer experts in the White City, Imperial College London. Love seeing actual products! 🧪

Maybe the MAGA was “Make Algae Great Again”, as we push to the magic $2.50 a barrel for algae biodiesel 😭🧪

Got soundly mocked for wearing this jumper during a conference call today…probably deserved

Wanted to show my second year students how tangential flow works in my biotech lecture earlier- the box was too heavy to transport so I took photos instead. Lame. So so lame.

Register for our limited online seminar series, Safe Microbiome Perturbations. Join us next Friday at 1pm (GMT) for an insightful session on 'Oral Microbiome and Bioinformatics Approaches.' Register for free: https://microb.io/4cx4avi #OralMicrobiome #WebinarSeries

Friday drinks with the lab always taste the best 🧪🍻

Engineering synthetic co-cultures to be "needy" leads to unexpected consequences. We barely scratch the surface here, but get some interesting insights #biotech 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Characterising complex metabolic responses in an engineered, cross-feeding microbial co-culture using quantitative proteomics

Microbial communities play a key role in biogeochemical transformations in a wide range of ecosystems, but they also hold significant potential to enh…

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“Phycosphere Friday” Nannochloropsis and his pals. 🧪

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Scaling up our research over seven orders of magnitude

When research outgrows the laboratory, the transition to industrial infrastructure marks a pivotal shift from theoretical discovery to practical application.

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We need to sympathise with the USA people, not lambast them because their government is letting them down.

Microdroplets with algae a go! 🧪

Made an egg and coconut curry for dinner- it was disgusting 🤢

Sadly my research group don’t want to do Science conferences in USA🇺🇸 currently, despite my efforts to separate politics and science, I can’t make them go :-( 🧪 #science

Peering into our new 1500 L photobioreactor- this will cultivate a consortia identified from screened in 100 uL…we are now 7 orders of magnitude bigger! 🧪

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Scuttlebutt and Solutions: Why we should present our research problems

by Luke Richardson after MMEG 2025Occasionally, the life of an academic does feature some excitement: a conference. Now, I’ll take any opportunity to leave our windowless, underground lab (ironically ...

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@frankiemaguire.bsky.social loved the pina colada analogy 😂