Two people discussing scientific posters at the Microbiology Society Early Career Summer Conference 2025.
Registration is open for our Early Career Summer Conference 🤝👩🔬
Join us on 6–7 July 2026 at the University of Birmingham for chance to network with peers and experienced colleagues in various fields of Microbiology, secure your place today: https://microb.io/ECConf26
#ECConf26
Just over two weeks left to register for MENI 2026! A !!free!! microbial evolution meeting in Ireland with some fantastic keynote speakers @jpjhall.bsky.social @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social @tweethinking.bsky.social #Evolution #microbes
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First slide of Francis Gyapong's (3rd year PhD student) talk on culturing the stickleback microbiome.
First slide of Mel Lawson's (PDRA) talk on using a Drosophila model of pathogen-microbe interactions.
First slide of Michelle Hardman's (PDRA) talk on microbe-microbe interactions.
The Whelan lab is well represented at #microbio26 today!
@fgyapong.bsky.social culturing the 🐟 microbiome (10:45 Microbiome f.& B182)
@melissalawson.bsky.social a 🪰 model pathogen-microbe int. (14:30 Infection f.)
@michelle-micro.bsky.social on microbe-microbe int. (15:00 Und. Microbe Function f)
A screenshot from the conference app sharing the title, abstract and location for my talk at 10:45-11:00 in Hall 2A
Really looking forward to today’s pangenomics session at #MicroBio26 !
I’ll be speaking at 10:45 to discuss how a successful pathogen can alter the evolution of an entire species pangenome 🦠
🔊 Looking for a Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution to join my lab 🦠
🥼Main duties: Research (AMR + microbiome) + lab assistance.
⏲️ Post duration: 30 months
🗓️ Closing date for applications: 20th April 2026
💰 Salary: ~£35k
Details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/2a3v66y7
Please share!
Am stoked and thrilled that our latest paper is now out. A longitudinal study of invasive E. coli from children in the Netherlands over 50 years
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📣 The Whelan lab is hiring a bioinformatics postdoc 📣
Together with @fabricejpierre.bsky.social, we are offering a 1-year bioinformatic PDRA position in comparative genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. To find out more please visit whelanlab.co.uk/contact/. Applications close 3 April 2026!
It was a pleasure to write this with input from PhD students @evehallett.bsky.social and Priyanshu from the @sheppardlab.bsky.social
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past two years thinking about genome evolution and how recent research revealing complex gene-gene interactions has complicated traditional ‘gene-centric’ genomic approaches to evolution. So here is a review that consolidates these thoughts!
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Are you, or do you know, a masters/undergrad looking to take part in a cool research project in bird behaviour, in a lovely field site? Look no further! 👇
(pls share!)
MENI is back! Join us in Dublin this August 2026 for our 3rd Meeting for Microbial Evolution in Ireland. We are delighted to have @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social @jpjhall.bsky.social and @tweethinking.bsky.social join us as keynote speakers this year. miniurl.com/MENI
I am delighted to share our pre-print on a LIN code system for C. jejuni and C. coli 🎊
A great initiative supporting women in microbiology! #microsky
🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
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Microbial pangenomics is reshaping our understanding of microbial diversity. Reaching new frontiers of an open and evolving discipline, hear the latest insights at Annual Conference 2026. Registration is open: microb.io/AC26Register #Microbio26
The first preprint from @izziepotterill.bsky.social PhD. A clone within ST131 clade C with a totally unique capsule region.
We're pleased to announce the annual IOI Early Career Researcher Conference will be held on 20 March 2026 at Saïd Business School, Oxford.
A conference for early career researchers, designed by early career researchers.
Register for your free place now:
www.ineosoxford.ox.ac.uk/event/ioi-ea...
The ContamCalendar 2026 will likely be the final calendar we make, so we wanted it to be a great one.
The new design folds out to be A3, perfect for displaying the beautiful microbes inside 😍
Also full of microbe-related days throughout the year 📆🦠🧫🍄
💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥
Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠
Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition
Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC
‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2026 🗓️🚨‼️
Excited to say the ContamCalendar is back for its fifth edition! We’ve created a fresh new design, folding out for an A3 monthly spread. It’s our best yet, we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄
Get yours here ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️
Look out for an exciting announcement later…. 👀 #ContamCalendar
Our latest is out tonight in @microbiologysociety.org MGen. Using long read seq to ID and then control hospital transmission of a CRKp we believe shows genomic and clinical signs of hypervirulence
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HUGE congrats Dr Hall 👏
Brilliant day having a project meeting with @sheppardlab.bsky.social and @lillycummins.bsky.social today on our BBSRC project. I still love my research even if I get less time on it now.
Just submitted my abstracts. Make sure to pop yours in 📝
So much of this article is full of hope then,
"About 43% of respondents had experienced some form of discrimination or harassment.. in around four out of ten bullying cases, a student reported bullying by their supervisor."
We need safeguards in place to stop this from happening.
