Michelle Hardman presenting her talk on microbe microbe interactions.
Mel Lawson presenting her talk on pathogen-microbe interactions.
Francis with this poster on culturing the stickleback skin microbiome.
I’m the proudest PI at #microbio26 !
@michelle-micro.bsky.social
@melissalawson.bsky.social
@fgyapong.bsky.social
Francis presenting his flask talk.
Come see @fgyapong.bsky.social at poster B182 to learn how he has cultured up to 95% of the stickleback skin microbiome 👏 🦠 🐟 #microbio26
Thrilled to be presenting my first talk and second poster at #MicroSoc2026!
Excited to share my work on stickleback skin microbiomes from the Whelan, MacColl & MERMan research groups.
Grateful to the Microbiology Society for supporting my travel.
#Microbiology #postdoc
First slide of Francis Gyapong's (3rd year PhD student) talk on culturing the stickleback microbiome.
First slide of Mel Lawson's (PDRA) talk on using a Drosophila model of pathogen-microbe interactions.
First slide of Michelle Hardman's (PDRA) talk on microbe-microbe interactions.
The Whelan lab is well represented at #microbio26 today!
@fgyapong.bsky.social culturing the 🐟 microbiome (10:45 Microbiome f.& B182)
@melissalawson.bsky.social a 🪰 model pathogen-microbe int. (14:30 Infection f.)
@michelle-micro.bsky.social on microbe-microbe int. (15:00 Und. Microbe Function f)
Francis's title slide of his presentation entitled Environmental Variation Shapes the Stickleback Skin Microbiome.
Retrospective post: @fgyapong.bsky.social recently gave his MERMan seminar on his work on the stickleback skin microbiome.
Not pictured: yummy treats sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social
The MERMan contingent at #microbio25 headed home today after a great week in Liverpool for the @microbiologysociety.org annual conference - Thanks to the society and organisers for putting on a great event, and supporting us in presenting 6 talks and 5 posters packed full of microbial evolution!
I have been enjoying my first international conference so far. Thanks @microbiologysociety.org for the travel awards. While I have gained communication skills, I have equally listened to great talks and met some incredible people #microbio25
Great talk by @liam-rooney.bsky.social at the #microbio25 (infection forum) "on how the infection model (Galleria monella) can be used to visualise infection dynamics with imaging.
An image of University of Manchester scientists with details of their poster numbers and titles on display at the Microbiology annual conference.
In addition to @brockhurstlab.bsky.social @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social 's upcoming talks in the AMR session today, we have many @mermanchester.bsky.social posters on display! Come learn from our talented scientists about evolution, AMR, and microbiomes #microbio25
PhD student in the Whelan lab & @mermanchester.bsky.social all ready for a sunny poster session! Come chat to @fgyapong.bsky.social at A257 about the stickleback microbiome #microbio25 #proudpi
🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄
Day six: Table of contents (TOCs) email alerts
A recommendation of @surettem.bsky.social 's, TOCs from broader journals like Nature & Science help me keep on top of major advancements in other fields & to think more broadly about my own science.
PhD student w me and Andrew MacColl, @fgyapong.bsky.social shares some of his thoughts & images of fieldwork in the north of Scotland 🦠🧪🐟🧬
www.whelanlab.co.uk/jekyll/updat...
2 incubators with their doors open full of plates.
A smiling Francis culturing samples.
Culture plates ready to be cultured.
And that’s a wrap on #Francis’scultureparty! 1200 plates cultured 😮💨, 3 incubators full! Given that Francis was running on ~6hrs sleep after a full day of travel and was still smiling is really testament to this guy’s dedication! Well done, @fgyapong.bsky.social ! Now, we relax!
Thanks Fiona, you are my inspiration 🤩
A set of ~1500 agar plates of various colours/types
That’s a lot of plates! @fgyapong.bsky.social returns from 2 weeks in the field tonight and the lab’s ready to get culturing! #Francis’scultureparty
Finally found something I am working on.
Thank you Sir
@unixterminal.bsky.social
Hello Sir, would love to have a session on using Unix for bioinformatics analysis? Am a beginner and would be glad if there are any tutorials to start with. Thank you
Hellos sir, would love to learn how to use Linux (Unix) to do data analysis and my bioinformatics study. Any assistance please?
I'm recruiting PhD students for Oct 24 start at University of Bath. Fully funded for UK students only. If interested in developing data structures/algorithms for bacterial genomics, or exploring plasmid epidemiology, or ML/AI on bacterial/phage geno/pheno data, give me a call!
I got a chance to chat with Mark O. Martin, one of my favorite microbiologists alive, about some of the stuff I'm working on and how it ties into amateur biology. Have a watch if you wanna know more. Also happy to answer questions here 💚
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I created a whole website on how to apply for faculty positions, with links to various helpful resources.
sites.google.com/view/apply-a...