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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 6h

📢 Have your say and help shape the future of UK life sciences.

🗓️ Deadline: 11:59pm, 13 October

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Call for Evidence - Committees - UK Parliament

Life sciences investment

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 6h

Following recent decisions by pharmaceutical companies to scale back investment, the UK Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is seeking written evidence on the competitiveness of the UK’s life sciences sector.

Image shows a background with the United Kingdom flag with a vaccine in the foreground.

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 8h

We made a small error in our last post — Emma’s last name was misspelt. The correct spelling is Emma Davies. Apologies for the oversight!

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Saied Ali @saiedali.bsky.social · 8h

📢 New from our group in J Med Microbiol (@microbiologysociety.org): “The Lingering Legacy of One Letter in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.”

Clinicians must understand the #SIE concept to avoid unnecessary carbapenem use.

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#AMR #AMS #EUCAST #MicroSky #IDSky

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uccmicrobiology.bsky.social @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social · 8h

Proud moment for UCC Connected! 🌍🧫
Three UCC researchers were the Irish finalists at the @microbiologysociety.org Early Career Researcher of the Year in London!✨

👏 Emmanuel Kuffour Osei, @AaronCurtis & Liam Walsh — representing Ireland on the global stage! 🌟

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 9h

Our next AMR in Focus series, 'Transitioning from academia to industry in AMR’, takes place on 20 October at 13:00 BST 🎓🥼

Hosted by guest speaker Magdalena Karlikowska, this webinar zooms in on the key questions surrounding navigating the transition into industry. Register now: microb.io/42mO69s

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 12h

📢 We're hiring!

We are looking for a Communications and Engagement Officer to work across our website, social media platforms and associated communications channels.

Applications close on 10 October 2025. Learn more and apply on our website: microb.io/jobs

Jobs

View the current job vacancies at the Microbiology Society.

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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 1d

Lactobacillus, what a #LittleLegend !
Part of our gut and vaginal microbiome, this microbe is one of the most widely used #probiotics to treat diarrhoea and eczema. Thanks to Hiral Raval, a @microbiologysociety.org champion, for suggesting I draw this for #InternationalMicroorganismDay
🐡🧪🧫#scicomm

A black and white cartoon of lactobacillus on a mottled pinky yellow splashy background. The bacillus is peaceful, wearing a headband and decorated with hippie style flowers, stars and peace signs

A Microbiology Society branded version of a black and white cartoon of lactobacillus on a mottled pinky yellow splashy background. The bacillus is peaceful, wearing a headband and decorated with hippie style flowers, stars and peace signs. The quote is 'As they are probiotic strains, I love them from the gut of my heart! - Hiral Raval, BioGeneVersity, India.

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Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms @mpm-hki.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss our posters at #Candida2025 today! Myrto presents poster #A12 about dissecting C. albicans isolates using reporter cell lines. Steffi's poster #A6 is about ECE1 in non-albicans Candida species. And Verena presents her multi-reporter cells at poster #A24.
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Kasia M Parfitt @kasiamparfitt.bsky.social · 1d

At @microbiologysociety.org HQ watching the Young Microbiologist of the Year presentations 🧫🦠

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 1d

The vaginal microbiome is super interesting - is there another body site where a healthy microbiome = a low-diversity microbiome? @phoebecrossley.bsky.social talk about her research at @microbiologysociety.org young microbiologist of the year finals microbiologysociety.org/blog/meet-ea... #MicroSky

Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year talk finalist: Phoebe Crossley

This year, the Microbiology Society is awarding <a href="https://microbiologysociety.org/grants-prizes/all-prizes-and-competitions-/early-career-microbiologist-year.html?_gl=1*1t02973*_up*MQ..*_g...

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 1d

Very nice talk from @emmanuelkuffo15.bsky.social speaking about his hunt for Strep. suis phage at the @microbiologysociety.org young microbiologist of the year finals - and there's a pre-print up! #MicroSky

J.O.K.Emmanuel🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @emmanuelkuffo15.bsky.social · Jan 9

The original plan was to isolate >50 phage-host combos (I naively thought this would be the straightforward bit of the project—it wasn’t). Eventually we got 2 phages tripling the number of genome-sequenced, in vitro characterised Strep. suis phages! Read about Bonnie & Clyde👇🏿

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 1d

@aaroncurtismicro.bsky.social adapted our ex-vivo pig lung infection model to conduct dual host-pathogen proteomics in response to Aspergillus infection - he’s a finalist in @microbiologysociety.org young microbiologist of the year #MicroSky www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

A man in front of a display screen, showing images of Aspergillus growing on sections of lung tissue.

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Lilly Cummins @lillycummins.bsky.social · 1d

Great science-filled afternoon at @microbiologysociety.org HQ watching finalists present at the Early Career Microbiologist of the Year Finals! All the speakers gave fantastic talks on a wide variety of subjects 🦠🧫🔬

Photograph taken from within a seated audience showing a screen with ‘EARLY CAREER MICROBIOLOGIST OF THE YEAR TALK FINAL’

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Charlotte Lewis @cb99-lewis.bsky.social · 1d

Well done Emma!! Amazing stuff!

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 1d

Huge congratulations to Emma Davis, the winner of 2025's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize! We agree with Emma that all of the finalists' talks were brilliant and a massive well done to everyone involved!

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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely delighted for Emma Davies, who after a day of outstanding talks from across the UK and Ireland won the @microbiologysociety.org ECMoTY competition with a presentation on her PhD work @cvrinfo.bsky.social Well done Emma!

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 1d

Huge congratulations to Emma Davis, the winner of 2025's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize! We agree with Emma that all of the finalists' talks were brilliant and a massive well done to everyone involved!

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Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms @mpm-hki.bsky.social · 13h

At today's poster session at #Candida2025 come and check out Anna's poster #B022! She presents her PhD project about Candida albicans protein kinases and how they affect pathogenicity.

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aaroncurtismicro.bsky.social @aaroncurtismicro.bsky.social · 13h

It was an honour to be a representative of the Irish Division today at the @microbiologysociety.org Early Career Microbiologist of the year awards in London. It was a privilege to present my work alongside some truely amazing researchers from a wide range of expertise and interests

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 13h

Diagnostic stewardship – optimization of superficial wound swab cultures can reduce the environmental impact of the microbiology laboratory. Published Open Access and fee-free in ACMI using a Publish and Read agreement: doi.org/10.1099/acmi... #AccessMicro #PublishAndRead

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 13h

This Black History Month, we take a look at some of our blogs celebrating the month and the many contributions of Black scientists, past and present.

Read the collection today: microb.io/42omVev

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 1d

Huge congratulations to Emma Davis, the winner of 2025's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize! We agree with Emma that all of the finalists' talks were brilliant and a massive well done to everyone involved!

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 1d

How well do you clean your contact lenses? A new study from University of Liverpool investigated what could be happening inside your lens when bacteria are able to linger.

Check out our Micro Briefing or read the full paper on #JMM here: 10.1099/jmm.0.00207

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 1d

Phosphate sensing by PhoPR regulates the cytotoxicity of Staphylococcus aureus. Published Open Access and fee-free in Microbiology using a Publish and Read agreement: doi.org/10.1099/mic.... #MicrobioJ #PublishAndRead

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Cytotoxicity is altered in transposon mutants of TCSs in S. aureus. To quantify cytotoxicity, the bacterial supernatant from transposon mutants in each non-essential HK and RR gene was incubated with THP-1 cells, and the percentage of dead cells was quantified using trypan blue exclusion. THP-1 killing was calculated relative to the THP-1 killing of JE2 (WT) in each assay. Each dot represents one biological replicate (n = 3), error bars represent the sd and statistical significance was determined using multiple t-tests with an FDR of 1% applied. Significant hits, which had an adjusted P-value ≤0.01, are highlighted in purple.

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Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms @mpm-hki.bsky.social · 2d

The #Candida2025 meeting has started! And what a great kick-off with these two keynote speakers: @slg1717.bsky.social introduced her group's work around IL-17 and our boss Bernie presented a great overview about our group's candidalysin research. 🍄🧬🔬

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 2d

Microbial Genomics is looking to appoint a Deputy Editor-in-Chief, who will help develop the editorial strategy and new content for the journal. Applications close on 1 November, more information about the role can be found here: microb.io/48Ridd3

<i>Microbial Genomics </i> Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Call for Expressions of interest

06 October 2025

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