🎉 On the 9th of December, our director Prof. Rasmita Raval and other representatives from the @liverpooluni.bsky.social, were invited to participate in the 2025 Christmas Parliamentary Science Reception in the House of Commons.
#MicroSky #STEM #Governance #Innovation #Science
Professor Andrew Harrison, Executive Director of CERIC-ERIC recently visited the Open Innovation Hub for Antimicrobial Surfaces at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social for a tour of our facilities.
A great opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss ongoing science!
#biofilms #surfacescience #surfaces
Recently, Dr Kevin Sanderson, NSG Group's Chief Technology Officer and Dr. Su Varma, NSG Group’s Academic Director (R&D) visited the Open Innovation Hub for Antimicrobial Surfaces facilities at the University of Liverpool.
A great opportunity to discuss ongoing and future collaborative projects.
📢Join the #BiofilmCreate competition!
📸Send in your photography and art related to biofilms to @ukbiofilms.bsky.social!
⏰5pm UK time, 17 October 2025.
🎉 Awards include gift cards for first (£200), second (£100) and third (£50) place
👉More details here: biofilms.ac.uk/biofilm-crea...
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On the 13th of September we had the opportunity to organise a drop-in activity on biofilms in collaboration with the @ukbiofilms.bsky.social
A big thank you to all our volunteers for helping deliver this activity!
👇 Read all about it on our website!
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💡 Check out our latest publication in the ACS Omega journal!
In this study, we investigated the use of Raman Spectroscopy in assessing bacterial metabolic activity using the dye Prussian Blue.
#MicroSky #Biofilms #Raman
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👏Dr. Mirko Prodanov presented the RegulatoryToolbox cost action at the 4th Regional One Health Conference, 3 Sep 2025, N. Macedonia, organized by (BOHN) bohnetwork.org.
The event brought together experts and decision-makers to discuss solutions to current challenges in public health. 🍀
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📢 We're excited to share that our 2025 Annual Report is now available! 👉 tinyurl.com/5m3kb3cy
The report highlights:
🔬 Research Strategy
🌏 International strategy
🏭 Industry engagement
🧑🏽🏫 Training
🗣️ Case studies
#biofilms #biofilm #MicroSky
📢Come join us at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for an exciting PhD opportunity investigating the "Electrochemistry of Microbial Cells"!
⏰ Deadline 1st of September 2025
👉Apply here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/elec...
#MicroSky #Biofilms
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📢Come join us at @livuniphysics.bsky.social for an exciting PhD opportunity "Understanding Microbial Colonisation of Surfaces via Correlative Spectroscopic Imaging"!
⏰ Deadline 01/09/2025
👉Apply here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/unde...
#MicroSky #Biofilms
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📢Come join us at @livuniphysics.bsky.social for an exciting PhD opportunity "Mapping Bacterial Interactions in Biofilm Colonies"!
⏰ Deadline 01/09/2025
👉Apply here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/mapp...
#MicroSky #Biofilms
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A very interesting paper in the @biofilmjournal.bsky.social from the Raval group exploring the limitations of a very commonly used method for assessing bacterial viability.
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📢Come join our team @liverpooluni.bsky.social!
Three very interesting PhD projects available, applications close 1st of September 2025!
#MicroSky #Biofilms #AnalyticalChemistry #Surfaces
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‼️Deadline extended for oral abstracts submissions to the Vibration at Interfaces Faraday Discussions @rsc.org!
⏰Send you applications in by the 21st of July 2025!
👉 Follow the link to submit: www.rsc.org/events/detai...
🎉Our first open workshop—“Regulatory Science: From Research to Market” happened on 26 June 2025!
An excellent turn out: 70+ participants from 20 countries!
Many thanks to our great speakers!
🤝Visit our website to join and find out more!
www.biofilmtools.eu
#MicroSky #Biofilms #Regulations
🎉My first corresponding author credit! So proud of this chapter!
🔍 If you want to know about what fungi have been found in wounds of all kinds, this is the chapter for you!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#MicroSky #mycology #wounds #infections
💫Exciting times at the SSRC!
💪Our new @brukercorporation.bsky.social AFM-IR platform is up and running! We cannot wait to start using this cutting edge technology in our work!
#microsky #biofilms #surfacescience
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📢 Join us in April 2026 for the Faraday Discussion series!
📌 The Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University
📅 8 - 10 April 2026
⏰ Deadlines:
Oral abstracts: 07 July 2025
Poster abstracts: 26 January 2026
Register: 16th March 2026
👇 Find out more:
www.liverpool.ac.uk/antimicrobia...
Last week our team had the opportunity to showcase their work at the annual @ukbiofilms.bsky.social summit in Cardiff!
🥳Well done to PhD student Abbie Johnson winning the prize for best presentation!
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A cartoon showing logic gates of high/low temperature and high/low pH triggering release of an active molecules to target either biofilm or planktonic bacteria.
A logic gate to release antimicrobials from deep within silicone medical devices in response to temperature and pH indicators of microbial presence - super cool talk from Yuri Diaz Fernnandez from @livuniopenhub.bsky.social at #Biofilms11 #MicroSky (Image: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...)
Images of mixed macrocolonies of C. albicans and S. aureus, with fluorescent tags used to show spatial structure of the communities. The two species are not fully mixed.
Now at #Biofilms11, @liam-rooney.bsky.social is showing us how mesolens imaging (large field of view + high resolution) reveals macrocolony biofilm structure, and can be combined with other sensing techniques to track metabolites like O2 #MicroSky (Image: www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-p...)
An electron micrograph showing a surface view of a biofilm. It is dry and quite flat, with a cracked surface like dried mud.
Some biofilms are dry, not hydrated: Gordon Ramage & collaborators used repeated cycles of wetting with media, then drying, to culture dry surface #biofilm of Candida auris to explore how they persist and tolerate antimicrobials #Biofilms11 #MicroSky (Image: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)
Excellent talk by Darla Goeres at #biofilms11 in Cardiff! Come join our cost action and help improve biofilm standards!
www.cost.eu/actions/CA23...
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Electron microscopy images showing pitting and degradation of a plastic bead by P. aeruginosa.
How did I miss this paper? @ronanmccarthy.bsky.social lab screened nosocomial bugs for plastic-degrading enzymes, reasoning that they've been selected for this ability. They found a P. aeruginosa enzyme that efficiently degrades plastic #Biofilms11 #MicroSky (Image: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
👏Well done to PhD student Abbie Johnson for her flash presentation at #biofilms11!
There's still time to check out her poster #116 in the last poster session!
@ukbiofilms.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org
@livunisps.bsky.social
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Come and check out the excellent posters from our group members Dan Smaje, Abbie Johnson and @ericasl.bsky.social at #Biofilms11!
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#Biofilms11 has officially started! Looking forward to three days full of #biofilm centric talks!
#microsky
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Registration for #Biofilms11 closes tomorrow, 1st May at 12:00 midday BST! Secure your place now: microb.io/Biofilms11
We look forward to welcoming you at #Biofilms11! Discover cutting edge technology developments such as imaging, data-driven and modelling approaches. Register now: microb.io/biofilms11
Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids: We measured the spatiotemporal spread of plasmids in biofilms and found that plasmids only spread in some biofilm regions!
Collab with lab of @sbigot.bsky.social & Christian Lesterlin
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