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@heathmurraylab.bsky.social
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📣 Applications are NOW OPEN for our International Undergraduate Summer School 2026

🗓️ 29 June - 22 August 2026
📍 John Innes Centre, NR4 7UH

⏰ Deadline: 16 January 2026

Find out more and apply: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Excited to share our new study! Great fun working again with my good friend @stephenrgarrett.bsky.social — always a highlight! Huge thanks to fantastic co-authors @samkaytucker.bsky.social, @drandyjroe.bsky.social and our star technician Vojtech Pavelka. academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Happy to share our most recent work www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... Here we describe how efficient DNA replication in E. coli is dependent on an interaction between SSB-ssDNA and the DNA polymerase (Pol III). Thanks to all the co-authors for their hard work!
Genome integrity relies on rapid recycling of DNA Pol III in bacteria | PNAS
DNA replication requires precise coordination between DNA unwinding and DNA synthesis. In all domains of life, protein–protein interactions at the ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Ready to shift your world view? 🌎🌍🌏

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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Don't wait to apply! The deadline is coming up soon...

Come join us! Western Mass is a fantastic place to do science!
🚨Job posting! #UMassAmherst Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences is hiring a TT faculty member in #Immunology. Both fundamental and translational areas considered. Please spread the word!
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Details - Assistant Professor - Immunology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Finally out in @nature.com! We uncovered a mechanistic framework for a general and conserved mRNA nuclear export pathway. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 1/
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Nature research paper: Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup

go.nature.com/486YtjW
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup - Nature
The discovery of an unusual protist named Solarion arienae, which has a mitochondrial genome with some intriguing features, provides insight into the early radiation of eukaryotic groups.
go.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Apply now to attend the next EMBO Bacterial Networks meeting #EMBOBacNet

🗓️13-18 September 2026
📍Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain

📝Program and registration info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...

👩‍🔬Organised with co-chair @s-lab.bsky.social and ECR @coralietesseur.bsky.social

#MicroSky
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Congratulations to my student Josh Hensley and our amazing collaborators at UCSD David Pride lab! In press today, we developed a technique to evolve phages to broaden bacterial host range to tackle bacteria that evade antibiotics. #phagesky #phage #microsky #virussky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Experimental phage evolution results in expanded host ranges against antibiotic resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates - Nature Communications
Ghatbale et al. adapted a co-evolutionary technique to develop Klebsiella pneumoniae phages to be highly active longitudinally against K. pneumoniae clinical isolates, including drug resistant isolate...
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.

Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Early Career Scientist Awards 2026
Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself!

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November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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We are back, soon!
The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break.
Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon.
@microbiologysociety.org
Please spread the word
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Very happy to see this piece out in @plosbiology.org, on the bacterial immune systems and microbial communities. It was a great team effort with Rafael Custodio, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social , @brownlab.bsky.social, and Edze Westra! 🦠🧫 #phagesky #mevosky

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Bacterial immune systems as causes and consequences of microbiome structure
Bacterial immune systems have evolved in response to diverse molecular "parasites", yet their ecological roles remain poorly understood. This Essay explores how interactions between mobile genetic ele...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Equipositioning of Chromosomes in the Polyploid Archaeon Haloferax volcanii by HpaAB https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.19.689047v1
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Join us in Colorado next spring for the Keystone Symposia “Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection”. Registrations are now open! Details below ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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EarlyBird & Talk Submission Deadline for our Prokaryotic Cell Biology Conference is just around the corner, dont leave it too late to register and submit your abstract!
Register or send your abstract to [email protected] before 12th January for consideration!
➡️https://bit.ly/4plmKtr
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Are you looking to establish yourself as a scientific group leader? BRIC is recruiting 1-2 junior group leaders to join our research centre in the heart of Copenhagen.
See more at www.bric.ku.dk

Please repost and get in touch if you are curious.
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes! The winners will be awarded and deliver Prize Lectures at Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast from 13–16 April. Find out more about it: microb.io/PrizeWinners.... Meet the winners below. #Microbio26
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!

🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity
Professorship in Biodiversity. The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the
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October 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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There's just over 2 weeks left to apply for a fully funded PhD studentship with us working on C. difficile vancomycin resistance. Two more studentships - linked in the thread below - close in early January
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Two 4-year PhD positions available for Oct 2026 🪴 We're part of CNAP with 12 plant/microbe research groups combining excellent fundamental science with innovation.

1st - MAGIC Crops: Genomics to breed high yielding, resilient and nutritious amaranth for smallholder farmers
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November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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🚨Job claxon 🚨

University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post

A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse

For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork Vacancies
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November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Hmmm
This work has so many implications on literature 😳😬

Fluorescein-based dyes are not valid reporters of oxidative stress in bacteria, and conclusions based on their use must be reconsidered | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Fluorescein-based dyes are not valid reporters of oxidative stress in bacteria, and conclusions based on their use must be reconsidered | PNAS
Dihydrodichlorofluorescein derivatives have been employed as reporters of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) in innumerable studies. Their...
www.pnas.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM