Our work on understanding how Staphylococcus aureus mode of cell division contributes to pathogenesis is now available in bioRxiv

🔔Seminar Opportunity🔔

We're looking for (self)recommendations for a Postdoc who is working in the area of AMR (any area, any discipline) to give an online seminar in May.

Reply, DM or email me, there will more opportunities in the future as well so will be good to have a list.

#MicroSky #AMR

Come work with us in Oxford!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL601/p...

Job opening for Research Group Leader in Structural Studies at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, focusing on macromolecular structures.

Are you a structural biologist pushing the boundaries of molecular science with an ambitious research programme?
Join our Structural Studies Division as a tenure-track Group Leader, with core funding, world-leading facilities & enthusiastic colleagues.
Apply by 16 MAR
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🌀 How do spirochete bacteria swim through thick fluids like champions?

We solved T. denticola flagella structure - asymmetric proteins expand one side, compress the other for perfect corkscrew motion!

@debnathghosal.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202...

#StructuralBiology #CryoEM #Microbiology

7 years to the day that I started in @proftracypalmer.bsky.social’s lab I am leaving for pastures new in Ben Berks’s lab at Oxford Biochemistry! It’s a very sad goodbye but onto exciting new things!

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...

We are back, soon!
The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break.
Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon.
@microbiologysociety.org
Please spread the word

The type VI secretion system and associated effector proteins - Nature Reviews Microbiology In this Review, Basler and colleagues examine the type VI secretion system (T6SS), focusing on the diversity of antibacterial T6SS effectors and the evolutionary forces that shape them. They explain h...

Happy to share our latest T6SS review:
nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!

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

A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death

"Postdoc in the job market"

Happy to share our latest NAR paper on Rel toxins targeting M. tuberculosis anti-SD region, with Tim Blower’s team (@durham.ac.uk @nebiolabs.bsky.social) and Laurent Falquet
Thanks to FRM @frm-officiel.bsky.social and CNRS @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/article-...

🚨 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...

Our article on a 🛠️ molecular toolbox 🛠️ in predatory bacterium 🦁🦠 Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is published in PLOS Genetics (=> tiny.cc/6wuu001). 🎉

This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts.

#MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria

Conflicts between the DNA replication and repair machineries promote cell death in Gram-positive bacteria Cellular proliferation relies on the successful coordination and completion of genome replication and segregation. To help achieve this, many bacteria utilize regulatory pathways that ensure DNA repli...

New paper alert! DNA replication and repair conflicts lead to cell death in gram positive bacteria, possible new targets for novel antimicrobials.
@microbiologysociety.org @winterhalterlab.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Looking for a PhD opportunity in Microbiology? Consider joining one of the UK's leading microbiology research clusters at Newcastle University. See the thread for MRC DTP studentships currently advertised. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social #microsky

We are very much looking forward to the Grand Opening of the Northern Eye Imaging facility tomorrow!

Follow us here for all the news coming from NUSBF!

We’ve kept registrations open till the end of this week so get your last minute applications in for posters and talks!

We’ve kept registrations open till the end of this week so get your last minute applications in for posters and talks!

Still time to sign up and submit and abstract for this year’s CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting.

This is a really nice meeting and great opportunity for ECRs to present their work ✨

nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...

We have a fantastic keynote speaker @lowlab.bsky.social, representatives from industry and beyond and we will also select a range of talks and posters from ECR attendees so a great opportunity to enrich that CV! Plus… a free meal at St James Park 🥳

The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th.

nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...

🧐Checkout our preprint revealing the stepwise firing💥 mechanism of a Contractile Injection System @xujwet.bsky.social&@chipericson.bsky.social trapped the complex by structure-guided engineering🧪 in multiple intermediate states and imaged them by multimodal #cryoEM❄️🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m Chloe, I am part of the Connolly lab and I study how the role of two-component systems differs between types of E.coli”

Hi, I’m Natalia Łoś from Dr Dave Bolam’s lab. I’m currently going into the third year of my PhD working on dietary fibre degradation by the members of the human gut microbiota 😊

Follow Natalia here : @natalia-los.bsky.social

In MHD we are lucky enough to have an amazing group PhD Students and Research Associates. We’ve recently got some new representatives and would like give them the opportunity to introduce themselves here.

First up our two representatives for the PhD student community:

Check it out! A proper team effort from past and present group members and a great collaboration with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions

We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025

Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

We think this much larger BAM enables biogenesis of outer membrane β-barrel and surface-exposed lipoprotein complexes, which are a hallmark of the Bacteroidota.

A new paradigm for outer membrane protein biogenesis in the Bacteroidota - Nature Structural and biochemical studies of the β-barrel-assembly machinery from Flavobacterium johnsoniae reveal a subunit composition and assembly that are distinct from those of the canonical Escherichia coli complex.

Berks and @smlea.bsky.social labs also found yet a different BAM architecture in Flavobacterium johnsoniae, another member of Bacteroidota.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...