MEEHubs26 abstract deadline has been extended to April 26th. Come showcase your awesome Microbiology w. scientists worldwide!
meehubs2026.oa-event.com

🦠 What: awesome conference in microbial ecology and evolution, with hubs around the world
🦠 Where: Sunny* Manchester
🦠 When: 3rd-5th August 2026

My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Aerobactin is a key driver of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae translocation and virulence Author summary The emergence of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) poses a significant public health threat due to its capacity to cause severe, often fatal, systemic infections. Of further co...

Study from my Lab detailing how Aerobactin-mediated iron acquisition is critical for hypervirulent Klebsiella to disseminate from the gut to cause invasive disease. Tour de Force work led by my wonderful Grad student, Giovanna Hernandez! #PLoSPathogens #Klebsiella journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

These fuckin chuds

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

I long ago gave up any pretence of being normal. That's why I spent 2 days debugging code on my Easter break for a 4-year-old side project.

I feel seen.

Do you work on Klebsiella oxytoca genomes? Want to know which K and O loci they have?
Check out the new Klebs oxy species complex databases here: github.com/klebgenomics...
Poster today #ESCMIDGlobal2026 by Naoise McGarry!
Papers to follow soon.
@klebnet.bsky.social
@klebclub.bsky.social

go home biology, you’re drunk.
reverse transcriptase is now taking sequence instructions from a protein

Excellent piece.

I have now read this piece and it is very good.

Massive respect for @merenbey.bsky.social and Iva for their persistence and documenting this torturous process.

Highly recommended reading for anyone who cares about reproducibility in science.

The risks of antimicrobial resistance have been increasing, while harmful biocides have continued to be used where they are not needed.

The government must act now to reduce these risks and safeguard our future.

#AMR #MicroBio26

There's also an E. coli proteomic dataset available, but I don't think the study has been published (please correct me if I'm wrong). www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/archiv...

Transcriptomic differences noted in Glaesserella parasuis between growth in broth and on agar Glaesserella parasuis is the cause of Glӓsser’s disease in pigs and is a significant contributor to post-weaning mortality in the swine industry. Prevention of G. parasuis disease relies primarily on ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#microsky #synbiosky

Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro delineates adaptive changes selected during infection - Nature Communications Biofilm formation on implanted medical devices facilitates infection by the pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae. Here, Zaborskytė et al. use experimental evolution to show that the bacteria rapidly evolve ...

🆒 new pub!
Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro -> adaptations selected during infection by @gretazabo.bsky.social & Linus Sandegren
*hypermucoidy evolves via 📈c-di-GMP, overlaps w/ mutations in UTI and wound isolates.
*pleasure to advise this!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Breathing both ways: simultaneous aerobic–anaerobic respiration in microbes Microorganisms have historically been classified as obligate aerobes or anaerobes, facultative anaerobes, or microaerophiles, reflecting differences in respiratory strategies dictated by the use of ox...

Breathing both ways: simultaneous aerobic–anaerobic respiration in microbes www.cell.com/trends/micro... #jcampubs

Multiple fully funded PhD/postdoc positions available: experimental evolution of tumour suppression, egalitarian & fraternal ETIs, jumbo phage ecology & genetics. Related EoIs welcome.

Email CV/statement of motivation written in own words. Open until filled.

Grateful for reposting 🙏

Excellent talk from Jay Vornhagen on colonization success outcomes of Klebsiella pneumoniae.

So nice to see (micro)aerobic vs anaerobic environments considered. ABX model at the moment, but will be great to see if same principles apply to gut colonization models in metabolic health.

Whenever I presented Phold, I was frequently asked "can you do the same beyond phages?" We ( @oschwengers.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @binomicalabs.org et al) finally did it with Baktfold github.com/gbouras13/ba... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#MicroSky

🎉🥳 Preprint out 🥳🎉

Here is a work you will hear about for a while, lead by @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social in the @vivekmutalik.bsky.social's lab, we developed a workflow predicting phages receptor specifity and identifies RBP from genomes🤯

Very happy to be part of this adventure and this dream team 🥰

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Study in the Lancet reckons 14m excess deaths from the aid cuts, so that's the figure to beat.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

‼️ Excited to announce 1st session of #KlebClub2026!

We kick things off with a session on pathogenesis, with *Jay Vornhagen* as keynote speaker, alongside 2 short talks selected from submitted abstracts - Sylvie MIQUEL & @microbiosaroj.bsky.social

🗓 Thursday 9
🕘 9:00 -10:30 AM (EDT)

(1/2)

Human DNA levels in feces reflect gut inflammation and associate with presence of gut species in IBD patients across the age spectrum - Microbiome Background Feces represent a complex biological matrix that provides valuable information about intestinal physiology and gut microbial activity. Comprehensive fecal DNA sequencing is mostly utilized ...

Interesting paper, showing that most of the host DNA the stool of active IBD patients is derived from neutrophils, rather than from shed epithelial cells. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.

If preparing figures please consider "colorblind friendly" approaches (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). I am missing the long-wave opsin, which manifests in strange ways: I can't discern red vs. black. This dichromacy is rare and severe, but ~300 million have more common forms addressed in link.

This 👇

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

We’re hiring!
Postdoc position at APC/School of Micro, working on gut microbiome–pathogen interactions in an ERC-funded project with @hilarybrowne.bsky.social

🧫 Anaerobic microbiology + bioinformatics
📅 Deadline: 17 April 2026
📰 Apply here: buff.ly/IxGKwH6

#Microbiome #Postdoc #AcademicJobs

AI badly needs a dose of skepticism Some scientists are too eager to believe their own claims

"AI scientists are building ever-larger models, and then claiming that each model can solve even more than the previous one.

Then, model in hand, they go around looking around for problems to solve"

stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/ai-is-star...