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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 🦠-🦠-🧫

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!!!

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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 🙌

Ramón explaining his poster to a fellow delegate

Ben explaining his poster to a fellow delegate

Francesca explaining his poster to a fellow delegate

Nick posing by his poster

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

Pretty sure you did a great job! 🥳

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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

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.

Added to my reading list!!! 🙏🏼 thanks for sharing 😉

A four-panel figure showing scanning electron micrographs of Pseudomonas biofilm on the surface of pig lung tissue. Aggregates of bacteria sit on top of a network of collagen fibrils, with some bacterial cells penetrating the collagen mesh.

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)

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#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

Four graphs, showing the response of PA14 and an isogenic pel mutant, and PAO1 and an isogenic pel psl double mutant, to meropenem and colistin. There is no difference between the response of mutants and WTs.

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

Congratulations!!!! 🥳 amazing news!!!

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...)

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).

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...

Confocal micrograph of a purple urothelium covered with bacteria - see https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688052v1

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 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...

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 ...

🧵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/...

Congratulations!!!!!! 🥳🥳 in my reading list!!! 🙏🏼

Happy birthday Jenny!!! 🥳

Congratulations @tosinorababa.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳

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...

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👇🧵

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

A cartoon showing a Gram-negative bacterium exposed to two variants of a polymer. A triblock structure causes formation of multiple small pores in the outer membrane. A diblock structure causes large pores in both outer and inner membranes, and cell lysis.

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