Post Doc post available @uniofnottingham.bsky.social with Dong-Hyun Kim as part of our sLola grant! This post will involve some super cool mass spec to help us better understand antibiotic accumulation in Gram negative bacteria 😃 jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Finally published. Many thanks to a wonderful collaborative team and scientific platforms!!! And thanks to editors and reviewers for enthusiasm and a great review.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Alison and Nick are standing in front of the Microbiology Society conference poster board with their three children, one being held by Nick and the other two in a twin buggy.
A photo of the view back to Belfast from HMS Caroline, shows the Titanic museum and the river Lagan.
Bit of a change from the last time @tucker303.bsky.social and I were in Belfast for the @microbiologysociety.org annual conference. It’s been a brilliant conference, with wonderful talks and catch ups. Looking forward to next year in Birmingham!
#Microbio26
Failing to do my usual “tweeting” of #Microbio26 this year, but I am thoroughly enjoying the conference. Looking forward to tomorrow.
Really excited to be part of a PhD project with @tucker303.bsky.social funded by Sizewell C. The project looks at sustainable biotechnology and environmental impact of marine construction projects using metagenomics. Ideal for a student who wants to learn both wet and dry lab skills. #Microbio26
Silly question, but I hope someone can direct me: has anyone done RNA-seq to learn what genes are expressed in bacterial colonies vs liquid culture?
Night view of Belfast city with illuminated historic building and light trails promoting the Annual Conference 2026 at ICC Belfast, April 13-16.
Annual Conference 2026 begins today!
We’re delighted to open this year’s event—start by reading the welcome blog from Professor Gordon Dougan, FRS: https://microb.io/4bUkwMH #Microbio26
We're excited for @microbiologysociety.org #microbio26 to begin but also to share the fantastic news that our @eh-hayles.bsky.social's latest paper is now preprinted. If you wanna hear about temporal dynamics & acquisition of Shiga toxin subtype stx2a within #STEC in England go see her poster at A39
The paper for my tool, SCCmecExtractor is now up on bioRxiv. Highly recommend taking a look if you are interested in SCCmec and want to obtain these elements from whole genome sequences. It also does gene level typing of mec and ccr, even if extraction isn’t possible.
#microsky #AMR
PhD available with @overtonlab.bsky.social Sara Jabbari and me associated with our BBSRC sLoLa project!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (UK students only)
AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions
📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass...
🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk
Image of a crow with spread wings flying towards a bird feeder attached to a glass window.
We have a bird feeder on the window of my shared office, which is grand for the great tits, blue tits and other small birds. Also works well for the savvy crow.
💬 "Our aim is to help researchers make the most of real-time #nanopore #sequencing by providing an accessible, flexible, and open-source framework for metagenomic analysis."
Discover how software tool MARTi powers real-time classification and visualisation of #metagenomics. 💻 🧬
👉 buff.ly/iurkZDC
WEES March Seminar & Master Class: "Molecular evolution in a defensive symbiosis", Dr. Aileen Berasategui
📍 Master Class Time: 12 March, 14:00 Contact: b.taboada@nioo.knaw.nl (for details)
📍 Seminar Time: 12 March, 16:00 Location: Orion C1040, WUR
📝 Registration now open!
👀 Estimating the fitness cost and benefit of antimicrobial resistance from pathogen genomic data
🎤 Professor Xavier Didelot
📅 Wednesday 18th March @ 12
👉 Sign up: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/es...
If you have the opportunity, apply for the TSL @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Summer Conference. An intense week with top experts in plant-microbe interactions. What you can learn here in a week would normally take months (or longer)!!! @kamounlab.bsky.social 🦠🔬🌱
www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...
Salt supplementation-induced metabolic reprogramming in
Streptomyces coelicolor
journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Fitness effects of antimicrobial resistance genes in changing environments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
Excited to collaborate with @hassansalem.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social on this new Postdoc opportunity!
If you're interested in the developmental biology of symbiosis, apply and join us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 🪲🦠🔬
Screenshot of the Merlin Bird ID app listing predicted bird identities from the heard birdsong. Some listed birds include: Rook, Magpie, Common Chiffchaff, Long-tailed Tit.
Finally listened to @tucker303.bsky.social and got the Merlin Bird ID app. It’s nice to put a name to the birdsong I hear most mornings.
Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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Photo of green grass and a body of water in the background, with trees around.
Excited for day 2 of the @norwichmicro.bsky.social annual conference. I got to start my day with a lovely walk in. The @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social campus is quite lovely.
Great first day of the @norwichmicro.bsky.social annual conference. Poster session in full swing.
Looking forward to the @norwichmicro.bsky.social Annual Conference tomorrow as I will be presenting a poster on my tool: SCCmecExtractor. It is able to extract SCCmec elements from whole genome sequence data for staphylococci and mammaliicocci. #AMR #MGE #MicroSky #MRSA
github.com/AlisonMacFad...
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
🚨 We’re hiring – MRC-funded Postdoc (3 yrs)
Research Fellow to investigate how mobile genetic elements interact in Staphylococcus aureus and shape gene transfer and pathogenicity.
University of St Andrews
Closes 31 March 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR250/r...
Enquiries: afh22@st-andrews.ac.uk
This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for Masters and PhD Students. Deadline is the 20th of March.
Our new study combines experiments with bioinformatics to examine amino acid metabolism in Pseudomonas strains co-isolated from pond and soil communities
by Simon Maréchal, Beni Heiniger, @swagatika.bsky.social, Shaohua Gu, Christian Ahrens
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
