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Rebecca J Hall
@drrebeccajhall.bsky.social
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Evolutionary microbiologist. Postdoc @IMIBirmingham. Metabolism, symbiosis, AMR.
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · Mar 28
A happy Friday seeing this out! I lucked out and got to work with a couple of really great students on this, Shalini and Jacob, and I’m super proud to see their hard work rewarded #microsky

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Glucose alters the evolutionary response to gentamicin in uropathogenic Escherichia coli
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are a major health and economic concern. Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) are the leading cause of UTI, and antibiotic-resistant UPEC are increasingly common. The m...
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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 5d
Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…
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Michelle Buckner @bucknerlab.bsky.social · 6d
Job opportunity in my lab! We're looking for a post-doc to come join us for an exciting project exploring the evolution of #AMR and #hypervirulence in #klebsiella. Please share!! @unibirmingham.bsky.social Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV067/r...
Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
Apply now for the Research Fellow role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 8d
Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson
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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 7d
🔊 Fully-funded 4yr PhD studentship with the NWB DTP, working on novel regulators of bacterial nitrogen metabolism 🦠
Primary supervisor: @ariannebabina.bsky.social (University of Glasgow)
Co-supervisors: myself (Queen’s Belfast)+ Dónal Wall (Glasgow)
🌟 please share 🌟

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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Arianne Babina
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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 13d
New ERC funded computational postdoc position in my lab! We are looking for someone who will study the genomics of bacterial evolution using samples from experimental evolution and clinical trials. Lots of opportunities for interesting and fun collaboration!
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Job Details
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Peter Mulhair @petermulhair.bsky.social · 14d
Last chance to join us next month for the #Biodiversity25 conference.

A fantastic set of speakers, mix of talks & focused workshops, and the chance to meet others in the field of biodiversity genomics 🧬

In-person registration closes next Monday 29th September!

Registration 🔗: bit.ly/4j3vAZ9
Understanding Life: Using Largescale Biodiversity Reference Genomes — 20251027
Understanding life: Using largescale biodiversity reference genomes
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · 21d
Congratulations Rachel! Super well deserved!!
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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 27d
Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦

Key takeaways:
🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution
🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes
🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential
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Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · 27d
Bifido adaptations across hosts

@halllab.bsky.social survey insects, reptiles, birds & mammals to uncover how Bifidobacterium adapts to hosts. Bifidobacterium & host exhibit strong co-phylogenetic associations, driven by vertical transmission & dietary selection
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Host-specific microbiome and genomic signatures in Bifidobacterium reveal co-evolutionary and functional adaptations across diverse animal hosts
Bifidobacterium are beneficial members of the microbiota across animal hosts. Kujawska et al. demonstrate that bifidobacteria have likely co-evolved more closely with mammals, particularly primates, a...
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · Sep 3
The Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes are hiring an Assistant Professor in Bacterial Genomics! Happy to have a chat if anyone wants to know more about the department/UoB
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...
Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham
An academic position as a Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job oppor...
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Sep 3
The Royal Society's Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme is now open for applications. This scheme offers a first step into an independent research career for early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern. Find out more and apply now: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/dorot...
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Gavin Thomas (he/him) @gavinhthomas.bsky.social · Sep 2
Delighted with our new paper on a novel itaconate transporter in the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, led by Javeria and Reyme. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @javeriamehboob.bsky.social @bethkw.bsky.social A duplicated transporter on its way to itaconate selectivity
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Itaconate utilisation by the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa requires uptake via the IctPQM TRAP transporter
Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 is one of the major causes of disease persistence and mortality in patients with lung pathologies, relying on various host metabolites as carbon and energy sources for grow...
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Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social · Sep 1
Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · Aug 29
New preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards.
We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Genomic constraints shape the evolution of alternative routes to drug resistance in prokaryotes
Background Variation within the prokaryotic pangenome is not random, and natural selection that favours particular combinations of genes appears to dominate over random drift. What is less clear is wh...
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · Aug 21
Didn’t know this, interesting!
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · Aug 20
Particularly enjoyed the lovely figures

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Microbes release lower-value metabolites at higher rates
Microbes release a wide range of metabolites into their environment, yet the reasons for this release and the factors that influence release rates are not well understood. Here, using a combination of...
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Aug 13
We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes

Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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James Kitchens @kitchensjn.bsky.social · Aug 19
Excited to share our new preprint for the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package! ARGs can sometimes feel like a black box, so
@yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958

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tskit_arg_visualizer: interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs
Summary: Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) are a complete representation of the genetic relationships between recombining lineages and are of central importance in population genetics. Recent brea...
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · Aug 19
Enjoyed reading this today!
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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Aug 17
Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com!

We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨

Huge team effort!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · Aug 12
Excited to share new #program, STEPS, which can simulate #dynamics of the E. coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (#LTEE) or other microbes in serial transfer regime.

telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s...

STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.
STEPS To It
Announcing a new program, called STEPS, to simulate the dynamics of evolving microbial populations.
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Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Aug 12
A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others

Please share & get in touch if interested!

tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3
Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Oxford Road
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Matt Hutchings @matthutchings.bsky.social · Aug 7
Ever wondered why some antibiotics are made by Streptomyces on agar plates but not in liquid cultures? Read this work on redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis. Led by katienoble241.bsky.social and Rebecca Devine, and in collaboration with @barriewilks.bsky.social

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · Aug 7
Amazing seminar from @bkoskella.bsky.social, seems I might be a phage convert.
A slide entitled ‘Phages as signatures and drivers of microbiome composition and function’
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · Aug 6
Excellent writing retreat, thanks @resp-micro.bsky.social for organising! Might be recovering from the ultimate frisbee for the rest of the day…
A UoB sign saying ‘G.15 Westmere House’, behind some colourful flowers
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · Aug 1
Nice to be back.
A bottle of alcohol free beer on a table in the Golden Fleece, York, with a skeleton at the bar in the background.
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