PhD position available in our team to study how UPEC exploits metals to successfully colonise the host gut. Cool collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @banzhaflab.bsky.social Please share and get in touch for more details
PhD position available in our team to study how UPEC exploits metals to successfully colonise the host gut. Cool collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @banzhaflab.bsky.social Please share and get in touch for more details
E. coli is the leading bacterium causing death from AMR infections worldwide. If you'd like to explore approaches to exploit the DNA damage response as alternative antimicrobial, please apply to the following PhD studentship available in my lab starting October 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Our latest CRISPR ring nuclease paper focusses on Csx15 - which seems to act as of a sponge as well as a canonical phosphodiesterase. Great work led by @haotianchi.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Excited to share our new study! Great fun working again with my good friend @stephenrgarrett.bsky.social β always a highlight! Huge thanks to fantastic co-authors @samkaytucker.bsky.social, @drandyjroe.bsky.social and our star technician Vojtech Pavelka. academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...
PhD opportunity (unfortunately UK home students only) to work on nanoparticles to combat AMR with @forganross.bsky.social and me in UoG. If you have a microbiology background and an interest in chemistry this would be a perfect project for you! Please share!
π¨ PhD opportunity! π¨
Join us at St Andrews to study how multiple prophages shape bacterial behaviour & AMR.
Co-supervised with @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social
This is a competition-based EASTBIO PhD.
Full details and the application link are in the advert π
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Happy to share our latest NAR paper on Rel toxins targeting M. tuberculosis anti-SD region, with Tim Blowerβs team (@durham.ac.uk @nebiolabs.bsky.social) and Laurent Falquet
Thanks to FRM @frm-officiel.bsky.social and CNRS @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/article-...
Theres still time to apply for our PhD project on UPEC/immune cell interactions. Deadline December 4th
π¨ PhD Opportunity π¨
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology β all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
Hi Aude! Thanks so much for doing this! I am not able to send you a direct message, but if you could update the info, i have now moved at the University of Glasgow (www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...)
PhD opportunity in my lab: exploring how commensals and pathogens build biofilm communities on endotracheal (ventilator) tubes. Microbial ecology, medical microbiology and fancy imaging! Co-supervised with the fabulous Saskia Bakker and Jeremy Webb warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky
π¨PhD Opportunity Alertπ¨ Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophageβprophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
How the twin-arginine translocase (Tat) system manages to transport folded proteins across membranes without any leaks? To answer this fundamental question we solved the first structure of TatB3C3 complex with bound cargo. Please check out new preprint!
t.co/962Kj9pt6F
Really excited to share my first paper from the Whitney lab, alongside an amazing grad student, Polina. Here we identify a chaperone family required for the folding of a central domain of T7SS toxins, and solve the structure of the chaperone-toxin complex. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
It was a really nice experience to give a talk at Northumbria University! Very happy to get to present our work on Zorya systems for the first time - A huge thank you to @emmseveri.bsky.social and (not on bluesky?) CiarΓ‘n Kelly and Darren Smith for the invitation!
Really excited to share this story from Jake in the lab! We have found bacterial protein toxins that can enter Gram positive bacterial cells without the need for a receptor resulting in broad spectrum antibacterial activity.
For those of you who approached me at @microbiologysociety.org #Microbio25 (and anyone else interested!!), this is your last chance to apply for our PDRA position. Come join us in Glasgow!
π¨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44
Presenting a poster at #Microbio25 today/tomorrow. Come for a chat about defence hotspots in Pseudomonas phage!
Still time left to apply!!
Pleased to share that my main Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship project is now published! This study provides mechanistic insights into Zorya II function. Grateful to all who contributed! Read it here:https://tinyurl.com/ZoryaII
We have extended the deadline for this! If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions, check this out and join us!
π¨ #PhD opportunity! π¨
Come and work with @evaheinz7.bsky.social and me at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) on an exciting project investigating the roles that #bacteriophages play in the evolution and virulence of #enterococci. π§«π§¬
Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
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π WE ARE HIRING!
@uofgsii.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology.
βΊοΈ Vacancy Ref: 164773
βοΈ Closing date: 24 Feb 2025
π§ Informal Enquiries: Dr @giusym1990.bsky.social Giusy.Mariano@glasgow.ac.uk
More Info | How To Apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Still time to apply! Join us in Glasgowβbe part of my team. Closing date: Feb 24th
Love phage-bacteria interactions, anti-phage systems, and a sprinkle of evolutionary biology? Thereβs still time to apply and join our team in Glasgow at @uofgsii.bsky.social !
We are very pleased to share our latest preprint on the architecture of the membrane complex of the type 7 secretion system involved in bacterial competition in B. subtilis.
#CryoEM #microsky
π¨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44
Happy to share the final version of our paper on Serratia defence islands. Congrats to first-authors Tom and Suraj, and a big thank you to Blowerlab and @stephenrgarrett.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3vnyvufa
Thank you!