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MEEhubs@meehubs.bsky.social · 1h ago

What, is it over already? MEEHubs2026 concluded just minutes ago. It's been a blast, and here are some stats for you: 711 registrations, 241 posters, 71 talks, 3 days, participants from 32 countries. Bye from all the hubs 🩵🩵🩵 #MEEHubs2026 #MEEHubs26

What, is it over already? MEEHubs2026 concluded just minutes ago. It's been a blast, and here are some stats for you: 711 registrations, 241 posters, 71 talks, 3 days, participants from 32 countries. Bye from all the hubs 🩵🩵🩵 #MEEHubs2026 #MEEHubs26

A huge thank you from the Whelan lab for an excellent #MEEHubs26 conference! Amazing talks, chats, & intl networking! We’re so thankful to have a chance to showcase our work with posters from @ambercutcliffe.bsky.social @fionapoulter.bsky.social @rebeccawallis.bsky.social Michelle Hardman… [1/2]

…Hannah Jones, and *award winning* presentations from @fgyapong.bsky.social and @melissalawson.bsky.social ! Thank you so much to everyone who volunteered their time to put this together including @dannagifford.bsky.social @mbottery.bsky.social & Will Smith in the Manchester hub #MEEHubs26 [2/2]

Hey Montreal, the Zurich hub is trying to out-blue you! #MEEHubs2026 #MEEHubs26

MEEhubs@meehubs.bsky.social · yesterday

That is one of the blue-est rooms we have ever seen! In fact, it's looking pretty MEEHubs blue to us! 🩵 #MEEHubs26 #MEEHubs2026

MEEHubs doesn't stop when the talks stop: from a mouth-watering spread in Morelia to a bonfire in Irvine to an Apero in Zurich, we've got your social calendar covered during the conference #MEEHubs2026 #MEEHubs26

Last but not least, a discussion panel on microbiomes and microbial inoculants for agricultural sustainability. That's it for the day at #MeeHubs2026 Morelia!

Our keynote speaker Jasmine Ono (Nottingham): "Breaking a species barrier allows selection on recombinant hybrids in budding yeasts" #meehubs26 #meehubs2026

Conor Sharp (Reading): "Bacterial warfare is associated with virulence and antimicrobial resistance" #meehubs26 #meehubs2026

Peggy Sechele (Manchester): "Microbial warfare is a driver and potentiator of resistance to antibiotics and phages" #meehubs26 #meehubs2026

And finally Adam Mulkern (Oxford): "Antibiotics reshape the antagonism landscape of polyclonal Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections" #meehubs26 #meehubs2026

Day 2 at #MEEHubs2026 Morelia. Plenary talk by Etzel Garrido on bacteria shaping plant-insect interactions #MEEHubs26

That is one of the blue-est rooms we have ever seen! In fact, it's looking pretty MEEHubs blue to us! 🩵 #MEEHubs26 #MEEHubs2026

Jesse Shapiro@bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · yesterday

#MEEHubs2026 Montreal may have collectively lost the quiz but we are winning the poster session ;)

MEEHubs has both in-person posters at the hubs and virtual posters online! We're so excited to be able to bring great research together through this platform #meehubs26 #meehubs2026

MEEHubs or MEEPubs? Our cross-hub pub quiz pitted hubs against each other in a thrilling battle. Congrats to "alan", "Tom" and "swayam" for winning free registration to a local hub at the next MEEHubs! #MEEHubs26 #MEEHubs2026

#Manchester #MEEhubs26 Day 2 is on! Fantastic talks from @olimeacock.bsky.social @melissalawson.bsky.social @evokait.bsky.social on microbial community interactions with keynote by @dundee.ac.uk's Prof. Sarah Coulthurst 🦠↔️🦠

Great atmospheres at social events at each hub! Not only a great place to listen to MEE talks, but an opportunity to eat a massive spread in Chernihiv, play bocce in Ann Arbor, or stand in the rain in Manchester. Don't worry Montreal, you're not the only hub with downpour! #MEEHubs26 #MEEHubs2026

@massimoamicone.bsky.social giving a fantastic talk on evolutionary rescue in simple microbial communities at MEEHubs 2026 @meehubs.bsky.social #meehubs2026

And our final speaker of the session is Kaitlin Schaal (Liverpool): "Modeling and experimental approaches allow us to parse drivers of community responses to environmental change" #meehubs26 #meehubs2026

Melissa Lawson (Manchester): "Decoding Lung Microbial Interactions: Harnessing a High-Throughput Fly Model to Reveal Pathogen- Microbe Virulence Dynamics in the Lung Environment" #meehubs26 #meehubs2026

Next we have Oliver Meacock (Sheffield): "When cooperation isn't cooperative: resolving the paradox of stable mutualisms in microbial ecosystems" #meehubs26 #meehubs2026

Manchester kicking off today's MEEHubs with keynote speaker Professor Sarah Coulthurst (Dundee): "The bacterial Type VI secretion system – a versatile antimicrobial weapon" #meehubs26 #meehubs2026

Day 1 wrapped up with the Irvine and Ann Arbor hubs hosting. Thanks all for an amazing first day and see you tomorrow! Grab a beer, a coffee, or finish off your z's to prep for a fully packed Day 2. #MEEHubs26 #MEEHubs2026

The next few sessions were hosted by Chernihiv, Morelia, and Montreal. That's excellent science spanning 9h of time difference! #MEEHubs2026 Sad you missed out on one of these talks? Don't worry! They're all recorded so you can view whenever you want!

First up in Manchester is our first plenary speaker, Professor Stineke van Houte: "Understanding the role of bacterial anti-phage defences to inform phage therapy" #meehubs26

Finally, we have Sadhbh Dodd from Trinity College Dublin: "Intraspecific variation is key for predicting the outcome of bacterial species interactions in the cystic fibrosis lung" #meehubs26

Manchester is very happy and excited to be the UK host for #MEEHubs26!

Our next speaker this morning is down the drain, Greg McCallum from University of Liverpool: "The hospital sink drain microbiome: a melting pot for antimicrobial resistance plasmids" #Meehubs26

What's the vibe where you are? Are you having a beer or a coffee? #MEEHubs2026

Anna S. Weiss@annasophieweiss.bsky.social · 2d ago

You know it’s @meehubs.bsky.social if one hub has beer while another has breakfast. The Zürich hub is concluding a fantastic first day of #MEEHubs26 - can’t wait to rewatch what we’ll be missing out on tonight and excited for two more days of science and fun across hubs 🙌🏼🚀

You know it’s @meehubs.bsky.social if one hub has beer while another has breakfast. The Zürich hub is concluding a fantastic first day of #MEEHubs26 - can’t wait to rewatch what we’ll be missing out on tonight and excited for two more days of science and fun across hubs 🙌🏼🚀