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Giusy Mariano @giusym1990.bsky.social · 7d

🚨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...

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Suzie Humphrey @suzieh.bsky.social · 7d

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! 🦠

Giusy Mariano @giusym1990.bsky.social · 7d

🚨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...

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · Feb 8

#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/...

Schematic overview of the PhD; combining bacterial genomes from a large collection to analyse adhesins, metabolic potential, bacterial warfare; and compare to other arthropod symbiontes and design a minimal microbiome.

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · May 29

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!

Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · May 29

🆕 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

A social card with an illustration of a bacteriophage and bacteria and the text "Research Scientist to join Dr Evelien Adrianssen's group to study bacteriophage, drug resistance and genetic evolution of Salmonella, Salary: 36,720 to 39,750, Contract length: 1.5 years, Apply by 2 July 2025

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · May 22

🚨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.
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Andreas Haag @andreashaag.bsky.social · Mar 31

🚨 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

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

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Suzie Humphrey @suzieh.bsky.social · Feb 21

Hi Vahid. This project is only available to home students due to the nature of the fees funding. We hope to have other projects with wider applicability in future, but don’t currently have a timeline for them. Apologies!

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José R Penadés @jrpenades.bsky.social · Feb 12

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), ...

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Giusy Mariano @giusym1990.bsky.social · Feb 10

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 !

Giusy Mariano @giusym1990.bsky.social · Jan 24

🚨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

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · Feb 8

#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/...

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Suzie Humphrey @suzieh.bsky.social · Feb 8

🚨 #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/...

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Suzie Humphrey @suzieh.bsky.social · Jan 31

I’ll be disappointed if you don’t!

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Suzie Humphrey @suzieh.bsky.social · Jan 31

Our loss is absolutely Glasgow’s gain! I’m so excited for you. 🤩

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Suzie Humphrey @suzieh.bsky.social · Jan 10

This is so cool! 🤩 Congratulations!

Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · Jan 10

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/

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · Jan 10

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/

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Professor Andrew J Roe @drandyjroe.bsky.social · Nov 29

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...

Cartoon showing how aurodox can inhibit multiple gram negative pathogens. Image by Iris Floria

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Suzie Humphrey @suzieh.bsky.social · Nov 29

PICIs as pawns, surely? 😂

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Suzie Humphrey @suzieh.bsky.social · Nov 29

I LOVE them so much!!

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Suzie Humphrey @suzieh.bsky.social · Nov 27

@katherine-baxter.bsky.social might know?

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Suzie Humphrey @suzieh.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hello. Could you add me please? I’m starting up a new lab with Enterococcus as one of our model organisms. 🤩

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · Nov 7

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.

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Michael Ormsby @michaeljormsby.bsky.social · Nov 13

🚨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

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Nov 2

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

Microbiology Society

Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefi...

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · Nov 9

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 🌟

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · Dec 7

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

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