Very happy to see our microphysiological human mini-bladder published! 🎉
We show how urine composition affects tissue health and thus invasivness of UPEC, and how cell wall-deficient UPEC from the tissue reactive UTIs. 🦠
Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#UTISky
and least your postdoc now knows they are not insane, but the science was faulty so start with
New paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology! 📢
Under the lead of Pablo Molina, we introduce SimUrine, a fully defined synthetic urine medium for growth and antibiotic susceptibility testing of uropathogens under physiologically relevant conditions 🦠
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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👉 Host-targeted immunity meets antibiotic synergy!
We show that OM-89 reprograms bladder epithelial cells to boost their lysosomal activity and antibiotic uptake, helping clear intracellular UPEC.
📖 Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#UTI #InfectiousDisease #HostDefense #Organoids #UTIsky
Almost 4 days of learning about teaching and mentoring. What an intense experience! Was it a lot? Yes. Was it fun? Oh yes! I learned more than expected. As scientist we have the responsibility to train the next generation. Let's do it the best possible way. 🤓 #teaching #workshops #EPFL #learning
Indeed 🤩
Had a blast at the New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology Symposiums this week 🦠 Indeed my favorite meeting and even more so when I meet old and new friends! Not to forget to mention the party 😎 #EESMicrobiology @EMBLEvents
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!
It's a wrap! Incredible science, people and discussions at the "New challenges in Microbial Eco-Evolutionary Medicine" workshop. Thank you @lizscurious.bsky.social for the invitation. It was a pleasure to talk about our research on recurrent #UTI using #organoids and collaboration with OM pharma.
Another PhD opportunity to join the growing Microbiology community in Southampton 💪 🦠 🔬
Interested in how bacteria adapt to challenges like temperature changes and antibiotics? Join my lab at UoS to explore the role of accessory elements!
tinyurl.com/PhDbacteriaUoS
Apply here: tinyurl.com/MicroUoS
I'm for example incredible grateful for Daria Siekhaus who was and still is my mentor and role model. She always advised me to follow my passion 💚
Being a woman in science can be challenging for many reasons. Having a supportive network (family, friends, mentors) is essential! If you want to go into STEM, go for it and find yourself a mentor. Female scientists are usually more than happy to share their experiences💚
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Could you please add me too? :)
The Image & Optics Facility @ Institute of Science and Technology Austria is expanding it’s image analysis services and has a vacant position for a service oriented *Image Analysis Specialist* with a strong interest for data infrastructure organization🔬🧑💻📈 - sharing is much appreciated!
We found that many bacterial species use exogenous peptidoglycan fragments - released by lysis of neighboring cells - as a general danger signal, triggering a danger response that protects bacteria against many dangers: biofilm formation.
Details here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A simple ex vivo bladder infection model permits study of host-pathogen interactions in UTI
✍️Rixa-Mareike Köhn, Molly A Ingersoll and colleagues @institutcochin.bsky.social @pasteur.fr
@aimi-uts.bsky.social
#MicroSky #Infection #UTI
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Had a great time at the first ever Klebsiella meeting taking place in Paris the past days. Lots of information and great science to digest for a non-Klebsiella person. We even had the first snow since years in Paris ❄️ #Klebs2024