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Rachel M. Wheatley

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Evolutionary microbiologist interested in AMR & microbiomes 🦠 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Group Leader @ Queen’s University Belfast. she/her. Ex-GB athlete 🇬🇧

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 22d

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship to investigate the impact of microbial interactions on antimicrobial resistance evolution 🎉 🧫 really grateful for this investment in my lab and excited to start my fellowship in Jan’26!

www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships

Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.

www.ukri.org

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 38m

So fun to attend the FLF starting meeting in Glasgow and meet the rest of the round 9 cohort! This very well may be what happens when you try and submit your intro info at 4 weeks postpartum… but…. can anyone spot the error on my intro board? 😂😁

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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 1d

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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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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Arianne Babina @ariannebabina.bsky.social · 6d

🚨PHD PROJECT!🚨
Interested in #bacteria, #RNA, #evolution, #biotech, #EnvironmentalMicro?

Opportunity for a fully-funded #PhD with me, @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social, & @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social via the NorthWestBio DTP:

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

Deadline 21 Nov. #MicroSky Please share!

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 · 8d

New pre-print
Competition between phage constrains adaptation to thermal fluctuating temperatures.
More work led by Sam Greenrod in collaboration with @kayla-king.bsky.social lab.
#Phagesky#Microsky

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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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 🌟

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

University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Arianne Babina

www.gla.ac.uk

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 12d

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks Joao ☺️ ps one of my group members is reading a bunch of your defence system papers at the moment! They are a big fan

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 13d

Very cool postdoc project with a brilliant and very supportive PI 🌟 please share around! 🔊

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!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!! ☺️

Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you so much!

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 21d

Come and join us at @shigellameeting.bsky.social in Paris 2026. Registrations are now open! www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home and follow the Shigella starter pack go.bsky.app/6Vbwhjc (message to be added)! 215 days to go!

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you Varsha!! Miss our runs!

Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you!

Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks Ronan!

Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you! Looking forward to your talk soon ☺️

Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you!

Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks Lilly! My PhD students were telling me they met you at the micro ECR conference! (I think… slightly sleep deprived with an 8 week old currently, but I believe that’s what they said 😂)

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you!

Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you!! 😁

Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 21d

Aw thanks Will! How is life in Manc?