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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 25d

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

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Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social · Aug 22

You were missed!

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Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congratulations Rachel!

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jul 15

Mutations generate variation, critical for #evolution, but #MutationBias restricts the choice of mutation type. @deepaagashe.bsky.social &co use #Ecoli strains with different mutation biases to show that changing an old bias should yield more beneficial mutations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46LjCRt

$Schematic of the key prediction tested in this work. As the transversion (Tv) mutation bias of WT E. coli is shifted away from the ancestral bias, the resulting distribution of fitness effects (DFE) is predicted to change. Specifically, it should shift left with a bias reinforcement, with a lower fraction of beneficial mutations. In contrast, reversing the ancestral bias is predicted to cause right-shifted DFEs with higher proportions of beneficial mutations.$

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Jo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com · May 20

Our JPIAMR grant (led by @edfeil.bsky.social) is ramping up, and Bath are looking for a research associate to work on Candida epidemiology for this project. Come work with us! www.myscience.org/jobs/id31031...

Research Associate in Candida One-Health genomic epidemiology - University of Bath - job portal | jobs.myScience

Job title Research Associate in Candida One-Health genomic epidemiology

www.myscience.org

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Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social · May 20

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
Post doc available to work on Candida genomics with me at the Milner Centre for Evolution (U Bath, UK) as part of the JPIAMR funded project Fugaci www.jpiamr.eu/projects/fug...
For queries, email me!

FuGACI – JPIAMR

JPIAMR is a global collaborative organisation and platform, engaging 28 nations to curb antimicrobial resistance (AMR) with a One Health approach.

www.jpiamr.eu

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Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social · May 10

Great news. If the squad looks a bit broken right now, this means it'll Zu bi mended.

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Jose A Escudero @jaescudero.bsky.social · May 8

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Finally out after peer review, our work showing that "Mobile #Integrons carry Phage Defense Systems" is now published in Science 🎉

Short 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mobile integrons encode phage defense systems

Integrons are bacterial genetic elements that capture, stockpile, and modulate the expression of genes encoded in integron cassettes. Mobile integrons (MIs) are borne on plasmids, acting as a vehicle ...

www.science.org

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Uli Klümper @ulikluemper.bsky.social · Apr 29

Antimicrobial effects, and selection for AMR by non-antibiotic drugs in a wastewater bacterial community

by @aprilhayes.bsky.social, @edfeil.bsky.social, @willhgaze.bsky.social, @profjrsnape.bsky.social, @ecehh.org et al.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social · Apr 12

PhD on C.diff epidemiology with me and Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern to join the new centre cwbe.ac.uk @bathchem.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

CWBE CWBE

cwbe.ac.uk

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Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social · Mar 6

The website for our new centre of excellence in water-based early-warning systems for health protection is now live : cwbe.ac.uk follow us at @cwbe.bsky.social

CWBE CWBE

cwbe.ac.uk

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Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social · Dec 26

Indeed

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · Nov 15

I'm advertising a PhD studentship (open to international students) on understanding how temperature may alter the ecology and evolution of AMR. Might suits someone with a microbiology/wet lab background who wants to expand into ecoevo. Or vice versa! But interest more important than experience.

An advert for a PhD investigating how and why temperature may alter the ecology and evolution of antibiotic resistance.

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · Nov 11

I'm advertising a PhD studentship (open to international students) working on long read pangenome / assembly algorithms in bacteria. Would suit someone with maths/compsci/coding background. Aptitude + interest more important than experience.
Details here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New graph algorithms for analysis of the genomes and pangenomes of bacteria and their mobile elements. at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - New graph algorithms for analysis of the genomes and pangenomes of bacteria and their mobile elements. at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social · Nov 11

Amazing!

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Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hi. Thought it was time to join the grown-ups!

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