Suzie Humphrey
@suzieh.bsky.social
Professional microbe admirer. Interested in mobile genetic elements and how they influence bacterial evolution and AMR spread.
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
Why does daptomycin resistance appear so fast in Enterococcus? We finally have a clue.
DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.
DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.
A two-component system signaling hub controls enterococcal membrane remodeling in response to daptomycin https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.16.688641v1
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Why does daptomycin resistance appear so fast in Enterococcus? We finally have a clue.
DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.
DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.
Another day, another PhD with a fantastic supervisor! For those interested in staphylococcal prophages, this is a brilliant opportunity to join Andreas’ lab. 🤩
🚨 PhD opportunity! 🚨
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 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO: When Phages Collide: Understanding How Multiple Prophages Shape Bacterial Behaviour at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: When Phages Collide: Understanding How Multiple Prophages Shape Bacterial Behaviour at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Another day, another PhD with a fantastic supervisor! For those interested in staphylococcal prophages, this is a brilliant opportunity to join Andreas’ lab. 🤩
A fantastic opportunity with two amazing supervisors!
🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨
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 — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
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 — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A fantastic opportunity with two amazing supervisors!
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
October 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Are you fascinated by phages? An admirer of anti-phage systems? Bewitched by biofilms? Well, what are you waiting for?! Come and join us in Glasgow to work on this brilliant project! 🦠
🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
October 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Are you fascinated by phages? An admirer of anti-phage systems? Bewitched by biofilms? Well, what are you waiting for?! Come and join us in Glasgow to work on this brilliant project! 🦠
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
We are still looking for a motivated student to join us in the wonderful world of mosquito microbiome genomies! Funding unfortunately only for UK students for this one. If interested, please send CV & letter of motivation (email in image below) #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬 🧪Please share widely😊 1/2
#PhD alert, here @unistrathclyde.bsky.social in the very friendly, diverse, artsy & welcoming city of Glasgow 🏴
Disentangling the functional modules of #mosquito #microbiomes - what puzzle pieces build our #holobionts?
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬🧪
More here 😊 www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Disentangling the functional modules of #mosquito #microbiomes - what puzzle pieces build our #holobionts?
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬🧪
More here 😊 www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
June 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We are still looking for a motivated student to join us in the wonderful world of mosquito microbiome genomies! Funding unfortunately only for UK students for this one. If interested, please send CV & letter of motivation (email in image below) #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬 🧪Please share widely😊 1/2
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Join my lab as a postdoctoral research scientist to investigate the diversity of drug-resistant #Salmonella and how #bacteriophages can help future food safety.
Apply by 2 July, details below!
Apply by 2 July, details below!
🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join Dr @evelienadri.bsky.social 's group to study bacteriophages, drug resistance and genetic evolution of Salmonella 🦠
💷 £36,720 to £39,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 July 2025
➡️ buff.ly/7M2mDaa
💷 £36,720 to £39,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 July 2025
➡️ buff.ly/7M2mDaa
May 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Join my lab as a postdoctoral research scientist to investigate the diversity of drug-resistant #Salmonella and how #bacteriophages can help future food safety.
Apply by 2 July, details below!
Apply by 2 July, details below!
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
🚨New pre-print out now!🚨
We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy.
(1/5)
We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy.
(1/5)
May 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🚨New pre-print out now!🚨
We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy.
(1/5)
We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy.
(1/5)
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
🚨 PhD opportunity in my lab with @mfwhite2.bsky.social!
Use bacterial viruses (phages) to take on antibiotic-resistant superbugs 🦠🧫
Join us at St Andrews to explore virus–bacteria battles.
🔬 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhD #Microbiology #PhageTherapy #AntibioticResistance
Use bacterial viruses (phages) to take on antibiotic-resistant superbugs 🦠🧫
Join us at St Andrews to explore virus–bacteria battles.
🔬 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhD #Microbiology #PhageTherapy #AntibioticResistance
Harnessing Bacterial Viruses to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Harnessing Bacterial Viruses to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🚨 PhD opportunity in my lab with @mfwhite2.bsky.social!
Use bacterial viruses (phages) to take on antibiotic-resistant superbugs 🦠🧫
Join us at St Andrews to explore virus–bacteria battles.
🔬 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhD #Microbiology #PhageTherapy #AntibioticResistance
Use bacterial viruses (phages) to take on antibiotic-resistant superbugs 🦠🧫
Join us at St Andrews to explore virus–bacteria battles.
🔬 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhD #Microbiology #PhageTherapy #AntibioticResistance
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
New mechanism of gene transfer! With @tcostalab.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, we discovered that cf-PICIs form tail-less elements that, once released, spread among different bacterial species by hijacking tails from various phages. More exciting news soon! shorturl.at/kRJqE
Chimeric infective particles expand species boundaries in phage inducible chromosomal island mobilization
Some mobile genetic elements spread among unrelated bacterial species through unknown mechanisms. Recently, we discovered that identical capsid-forming phage-inducible chromosomal islands (cf-PICIs), ...
shorturl.at
February 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New mechanism of gene transfer! With @tcostalab.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, we discovered that cf-PICIs form tail-less elements that, once released, spread among different bacterial species by hijacking tails from various phages. More exciting news soon! shorturl.at/kRJqE
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
Love phage-bacteria interactions, anti-phage systems, and a sprinkle of evolutionary biology? There’s still time to apply and join our team in Glasgow at @uofgsii.bsky.social !
🚨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
February 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Love phage-bacteria interactions, anti-phage systems, and a sprinkle of evolutionary biology? There’s still time to apply and join our team in Glasgow at @uofgsii.bsky.social !
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
#PhD alert, here @unistrathclyde.bsky.social in the very friendly, diverse, artsy & welcoming city of Glasgow 🏴
Disentangling the functional modules of #mosquito #microbiomes - what puzzle pieces build our #holobionts?
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬🧪
More here 😊 www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Disentangling the functional modules of #mosquito #microbiomes - what puzzle pieces build our #holobionts?
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬🧪
More here 😊 www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
February 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
#PhD alert, here @unistrathclyde.bsky.social in the very friendly, diverse, artsy & welcoming city of Glasgow 🏴
Disentangling the functional modules of #mosquito #microbiomes - what puzzle pieces build our #holobionts?
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬🧪
More here 😊 www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Disentangling the functional modules of #mosquito #microbiomes - what puzzle pieces build our #holobionts?
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬🧪
More here 😊 www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
🚨 #PhD opportunity! 🚨
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. 🧫🧬
Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
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. 🧫🧬
Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
February 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🚨 #PhD opportunity! 🚨
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. 🧫🧬
Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
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. 🧫🧬
Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
This is so cool! 🤩 Congratulations!
New Scientist (@newscientist.bsky.social) wrote a feature on our work! 🧪✨🔬
We made the first fully 3D printed microscope, with potential for rapid customisation and low-cost manufacturing.
newscientist.com/article/2462618-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-microscope-made-in-under-3-hours/
We made the first fully 3D printed microscope, with potential for rapid customisation and low-cost manufacturing.
newscientist.com/article/2462618-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-microscope-made-in-under-3-hours/
January 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is so cool! 🤩 Congratulations!
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
New Scientist (@newscientist.bsky.social) wrote a feature on our work! 🧪✨🔬
We made the first fully 3D printed microscope, with potential for rapid customisation and low-cost manufacturing.
newscientist.com/article/2462618-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-microscope-made-in-under-3-hours/
We made the first fully 3D printed microscope, with potential for rapid customisation and low-cost manufacturing.
newscientist.com/article/2462618-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-microscope-made-in-under-3-hours/
January 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
New Scientist (@newscientist.bsky.social) wrote a feature on our work! 🧪✨🔬
We made the first fully 3D printed microscope, with potential for rapid customisation and low-cost manufacturing.
newscientist.com/article/2462618-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-microscope-made-in-under-3-hours/
We made the first fully 3D printed microscope, with potential for rapid customisation and low-cost manufacturing.
newscientist.com/article/2462618-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-microscope-made-in-under-3-hours/
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
New paper from the group. Very proud to share our recent work for the first time here on Bluesky- give me 50 likes and it’s a permanent move!🤣.
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
November 29, 2024 at 9:15 PM
New paper from the group. Very proud to share our recent work for the first time here on Bluesky- give me 50 likes and it’s a permanent move!🤣.
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
A fully-funded PhD studentship (UK & International) is available in my group on Multi-Scale Imaging of Host-Pathogen Interactions to Characterise the Effects of Anti-Infective Therapeutics. More information at shorturl.at/TrrMD, apply at shorturl.at/LCaRX. Deadline 6th January, DM for more details.
November 7, 2024 at 11:40 AM
A fully-funded PhD studentship (UK & International) is available in my group on Multi-Scale Imaging of Host-Pathogen Interactions to Characterise the Effects of Anti-Infective Therapeutics. More information at shorturl.at/TrrMD, apply at shorturl.at/LCaRX. Deadline 6th January, DM for more details.
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
🚨Fully funded #PhD position available with
Taya Forde, @suzieh.bsky.social and me, evaluating the health risks of #zoonotic diseases in fish farms in the context of #climatechange 🐟☀️🌡️🧫 NorthWestBio DTP
Link: tinyurl.com/jcmcmyh7
Apply here: tinyurl.com/z4srm48a
Taya Forde, @suzieh.bsky.social and me, evaluating the health risks of #zoonotic diseases in fish farms in the context of #climatechange 🐟☀️🌡️🧫 NorthWestBio DTP
Link: tinyurl.com/jcmcmyh7
Apply here: tinyurl.com/z4srm48a
November 13, 2024 at 3:48 PM
🚨Fully funded #PhD position available with
Taya Forde, @suzieh.bsky.social and me, evaluating the health risks of #zoonotic diseases in fish farms in the context of #climatechange 🐟☀️🌡️🧫 NorthWestBio DTP
Link: tinyurl.com/jcmcmyh7
Apply here: tinyurl.com/z4srm48a
Taya Forde, @suzieh.bsky.social and me, evaluating the health risks of #zoonotic diseases in fish farms in the context of #climatechange 🐟☀️🌡️🧫 NorthWestBio DTP
Link: tinyurl.com/jcmcmyh7
Apply here: tinyurl.com/z4srm48a
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
Use it or lose it: Unless we publish papers in our society owned and published journals they will cease to be, along with all the conferences and meetings the proceeds support. Microbiology Society publishes many excellent journals, all edited by experts. #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org
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November 2, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Use it or lose it: Unless we publish papers in our society owned and published journals they will cease to be, along with all the conferences and meetings the proceeds support. Microbiology Society publishes many excellent journals, all edited by experts. #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
Funded PhD project now open via NorthWest Bio DTP - Space invaders: genetic and metabolic factors underpinning successful pathogen invasion into microbial communities 🦠
Project description: shorturl.at/RmMeR
How to apply: shorturl.at/JOtaH
🌟 Applications now open with a deadline of January 6th 🌟
Project description: shorturl.at/RmMeR
How to apply: shorturl.at/JOtaH
🌟 Applications now open with a deadline of January 6th 🌟
November 9, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Funded PhD project now open via NorthWest Bio DTP - Space invaders: genetic and metabolic factors underpinning successful pathogen invasion into microbial communities 🦠
Project description: shorturl.at/RmMeR
How to apply: shorturl.at/JOtaH
🌟 Applications now open with a deadline of January 6th 🌟
Project description: shorturl.at/RmMeR
How to apply: shorturl.at/JOtaH
🌟 Applications now open with a deadline of January 6th 🌟
Reposted by Suzie Humphrey
to not leave this on 𝕏 only:
@ASMicrobiology
Dr. Esther Lederberg discovered lambda phage—the first known virus with a lytic-lysogenic life cycle. She reported on the findings in a 1953 paper, available at the Center for the History of Microbiology/ASM Archives: asm.social/1AV
#phagesky #MicroSky
@ASMicrobiology
Dr. Esther Lederberg discovered lambda phage—the first known virus with a lytic-lysogenic life cycle. She reported on the findings in a 1953 paper, available at the Center for the History of Microbiology/ASM Archives: asm.social/1AV
#phagesky #MicroSky
December 7, 2023 at 5:01 PM
to not leave this on 𝕏 only:
@ASMicrobiology
Dr. Esther Lederberg discovered lambda phage—the first known virus with a lytic-lysogenic life cycle. She reported on the findings in a 1953 paper, available at the Center for the History of Microbiology/ASM Archives: asm.social/1AV
#phagesky #MicroSky
@ASMicrobiology
Dr. Esther Lederberg discovered lambda phage—the first known virus with a lytic-lysogenic life cycle. She reported on the findings in a 1953 paper, available at the Center for the History of Microbiology/ASM Archives: asm.social/1AV
#phagesky #MicroSky