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Ramon Garcia Maset@microberamon.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢 We’re hiring a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford funded by The Urology Foundation (TUF). We aim to study how urination-like shear stress shapes uropathogenic E. coli behaviour, particularly bacterial filamentation, using an advanced human bladder model under flow

📢 We’re hiring a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford funded by The Urology Foundation (TUF). We aim to study how urination-like shear stress shapes uropathogenic E. coli behaviour, particularly bacterial filamentation, using an advanced human bladder model under flow

I might be biased, but what an excellent presentation from my partner in crime in the lab! 👏 He shared part of his PhD work on tackling P. aeruginosa biofilms using a combination of ultrasound, antibiotics, and antibiofilm agents. 🦠

Fascinating talk by Jing Yan on single-cell imaging/segmentation of microbial biofilm communities #Eurobiofilms2026

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Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 2mo ago

Out Now! Genome-scale metabolic modelling identifies vaginal microbiome members as potential probiotics #MicroSky

Really happy my PhD work has been published! Thank you to all who contributed! We developed a new microtissue model for bladder cancer and use it to test conventional Mitomycin C chemotherapy and a novel oncolytic virus. @jennyrohn.bsky.social @jinhuigao.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

An advanced in vitro bladder cancer model integrating bladder cancer spheroids into a healthy human urothelium for preclinical therapeutic testing - British Journal of Cancer

British Journal of Cancer - An advanced in vitro bladder cancer model integrating bladder cancer spheroids into a healthy human urothelium for preclinical therapeutic testing

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Honoured to have done my first viva as an external examiner yesterday in stunning Granada. What a special experience! Massive congratulations to Dr. @virpc.bsky.social 🎓🎉🍾

Excited 🎉 to receive The Urology Foundation Innovation & Research Award 2026. We want to answer a simple question: does flow matters in UTIs? We will investigate how bacteria sense and respond to urinary flow, and how shear stress shapes host-pathogen interactions in a microtissue bladder model🔬🧫

Had a fantastic time at #ESCMICGlobal2026 presenting our work on polymicrobial communities in our bladder microtissue model. Really inspiring to be part of such a dynamic and engaging meeting. We’re hoping to submit a preprint soon. Stay tuned for more 🦠-🦠-🧫

Prof Jenny Rohn@jennyrohn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My final talk at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 was, fittingly, @microberamon.bsky.social sharing his beautiful work with polymicrobial infections in our 3D urothelial model - brilliant presentation! #UTISky

I might be biased but @jennyrohn.bsky.social absolutely crushed her talk 🥳 at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 🦠🧫 human bladder microtissue model to investigate how novel antimicrobial therapies and fluid dynamics affect UPEC survival!

Unsurprisingly an amazing talk from @nicoledenisco.bsky.social on urobiomics 🦠🧬 rUTIs go beyond UPEC (~50% polymicrobial!), with the urobiome shaping disease, from protective Lactobacillus to distinct metabolomic signatures predicting relapse!!!

Despite its worldwide prevalence, research about #UTI is sparse here at #ESCMIDGlobal2026. But managed to find a concentrated mini-population of researchers at the poster session niche—enriched for the London strain, but quite a small sample size, p values not reaching significance! #UTISky #IDSky

Really grateful to be part of this amazing community. The conference has been absolutely fantastic, with incredible science, thoughtful discussions, and a great reminder of why we do what we do. Cherry on top: the poster award! 🎉 @globaluti.bsky.social 🙌

Prof Jenny Rohn@jennyrohn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Huge congrats to @microberamon.bsky.social for winning a poster prize at #UTIConf2026 for presenting P-FLO, his innovative urine-flow human urothelial model! #UTISky

Next, 4 posters about a wide variety of great stuff - bladder flow modelling, phage therapy, catheter UTI, virulence mapping, and the gut/bladder axis @murraybeno.bsky.social @microberamon.bsky.social @nickyuen.bsky.social @fratorelli.bsky.social #UTISky #UTICONF2026

Its been umpety-ump years since I’ve actually presented a poster myself, but @microberamon.bsky.social had so much data we needed multiple posters! Needs must. Sorry Ramón if I get anything wrong! #UTICONF2026 #UTISky

Excited to be in Nashville exploring my favorite topic: host–pathogen interactions 🦠 Our team integrates urinary microenvironment + mechanical cues (flow) in a bladder microtissue model to better evaluate antibiotic and phage therapies against UPEC Come check out poster 16! 👀 #UTICONF26 #UTISky

Prof Jenny Rohn@jennyrohn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Here’s (most of) the Rohn Lab for the launch of globalUTI.bluesky.social UTIGA26! @nickyuen.bsky.social @microberamon.bsky.social @victoriachu.bsky.social @fratorelli.bsky.social @murraybeno.bsky.social #UTICONF26 #UTISky #UTI

After climbing Mount Kinabalu (4095.2 m!), I’m ready for my next adventure. I’m excited to share that on Monday I’ll be starting my second postdoc in the @continiclau.bsky.social group at Imperial College London.

Paper out! We used RNAseq to track changes in P. aeruginosa gene expression over 7 days of #biofilm infection in our #CysticFibrosis lung model. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #MicroSky (1/n)

Recurrent and chronic UTIs have a huge impact on patient's quality of life and is an area of research which is often overlooked and understudied. There are massive gaps in our understanding which we can fill to... (1/3) See all images in this post and that follow for the top 10! #MicroSky #UTISky

You can read the full preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Work by Jenny Littler, Niamh Harrington, Dean Walsh, @microberamon.bsky.social, Chris Parmenter @uonnmrc.bsky.social & Saskia Bakker #MicroSky

During her PhD, Jenny found something unexpected: biofilm-deficient P. aeruginosa mutants were just as tolerant to antibiotics as the WT when grown in our cystic fibrosis lung model. But why? #MicroSky 1/n

Now, this is officially a problem. MSCA fellowships need to be competitive, but it cannot be a lottery. Time to focus on the core mission of supporting science and ditching all vanity initiatives in the Horizon Europe program. (Looking at ERC super-grants...)

Melanie Blokesch@mblokesch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Postdoc in my lab just got her letter => 96.4%(!!) = NOT funded! 😔 Comments are ridiculous: "overlaps with existing teaching commitments, raising concerns about timely execution"- there is NO teaching commitment!! + "among the risks, administrative risks are not clearly identified or addressed." 🙄

Excited to share our preprint that describes the mechanism of action of an historical infection remedy called Bald’s Eyesalve. In this preprint, we show that Bald’s Eyesalve has multifaceted mechanism of action against both S. aureus and A. baumannii (1/n).

Freya Harrison@friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Remember the medieval remedy we reconstructed years ago? We've now dissected the various ways it attacks and kills bacteria! Preprinted & submitted, led by @tosinorababa.bsky.social & Jess Furner-Pardoe w/ many collaborators #MicroSky #Ancientbiotics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Less than one week to apply to this 2.5 yr PDRA! If you're passionate about biophysics #AFM #Microscopy applied to bacteria and #antimicrobial research this will be a great opportunity in the beautiful city of Sheffield. 😀 jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

Pleased to reveal that our team has been selected for 2 oral presentations at #ESCMID @escmid.bsky.social Global in Munich! Both lines of research spearheaded by the fabulous @microberamon.bsky.social. #UTI isn’t just a serious healthcare problem - the science is an intriguing puzzle! #IDSky #UTISky

Gut-relevant short-chain fatty acids modulate host-pathogen dynamics of uropathogenic Escherichia coli at the colonic epithelial interface https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.700340v1

🧵Enterococcus faecalis is not just an extracellular organism. 🧵 A growing body of work shows it can survive + REPLICATE inside host cells, and that intracellular life may seed persistence, dissemination, and reinfection. 1/n #MMBR @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Enterococcus faecalis: an overlooked cell invader | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

SUMMARYEnterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium are human pathobionts that exhibit a dual lifestyle as commensal and pathogenic bacteria. The pathogenic lifestyle is associated with specific conditions involving host susceptibility and intestinal ...

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Very pleased to plug our latest preprint, lead author @microberamon.bsky.social - fantastic collaboration with labs of Dario Carugo (Oxford) and Martha Clokie (Leicester) https:// - and others #UTISKy #UTI #IDSky #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688052v1 more below👇🧵

Effect of human urinary microenvironment and fluid flow on antibiotic and phage therapy efficacy against uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Urinary tract infections (UTI) remain a major global health burden, with high recurrence despite antibiotic treatment. The escalating prevalence of antimicrobial resistance further compromises therape...

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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

Another paper from @microberamon.bsky.social's PhD 🦠 Two structural variants of an AMP-inspired antimicrobial polymer have different effects on P. aeruginosa. One kills with a bang, the other with a whimper pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #MicroSky @sebperrier.bsky.social @alexiahapeshi.bsky.social