Kieran Bates
@kieran-bates.bsky.social
Group Leader @ Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London | Microbiome | Ecology & Evolution | Infectious Disease
www.bateslab.uk
www.bateslab.uk
I am delighted and honoured to have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant to investigate how animal hosts control their microbial communities. Post-doc positions coming soon! @qmul.bsky.social. #ERCStG www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...
Queen Mary early-career researchers awarded prestigious European Research Council Starting Grants
www.qmul.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I am delighted and honoured to have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant to investigate how animal hosts control their microbial communities. Post-doc positions coming soon! @qmul.bsky.social. #ERCStG www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...
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Interested in joining the lab? The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to bring outstanding scholars from around the world to UBC. I can nominate one person, and help with application materials. More information at www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...
DM if you are interested!
DM if you are interested!
August 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Interested in joining the lab? The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to bring outstanding scholars from around the world to UBC. I can nominate one person, and help with application materials. More information at www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...
DM if you are interested!
DM if you are interested!
Really cool paper! @emstevens93.bsky.social and @kayla-king.bsky.social Within-host competition causes pathogen molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis url:https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf071/8115470
June 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Really cool paper! @emstevens93.bsky.social and @kayla-king.bsky.social Within-host competition causes pathogen molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis url:https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf071/8115470
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Excited to share our new results published on Ecology Letters! We explored warming's impact on host resistance to a bacterial pathogen across different host lifestages, and over eco-evolutionary timescales.
Check more details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check more details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Excited to share our new results published on Ecology Letters! We explored warming's impact on host resistance to a bacterial pathogen across different host lifestages, and over eco-evolutionary timescales.
Check more details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check more details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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We are recruiting @ox.ac.uk @dunnschool.bsky.social for a joint project between Kevin Foster's group and mine! Cluster hire of two postdocs interested in:
1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
2) Microbiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Please share!
1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
2) Microbiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Please share!
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February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We are recruiting @ox.ac.uk @dunnschool.bsky.social for a joint project between Kevin Foster's group and mine! Cluster hire of two postdocs interested in:
1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
2) Microbiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Please share!
1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
2) Microbiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Please share!
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New paper out today from the lab on Akkermansia muciniphila 🦠and how it breaks down host glycans! Very proud of my group, especially @cassiebakshani.bsky.social who did an amazing job. @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbohydrate-active enzymes from Akkermansia muciniphila break down mucin O-glycans to completion - Nature Microbiology
Biochemical characterization of 66 carbohydrate-active enzymes from the gut microorganism Akkermansia muciniphila reveals that these enzymes can break down a range of host glycans, including mucin, wh...
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January 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New paper out today from the lab on Akkermansia muciniphila 🦠and how it breaks down host glycans! Very proud of my group, especially @cassiebakshani.bsky.social who did an amazing job. @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deadline extended for a 3 year #postdoc in my lab exploring the amphibian skin #microbiome and colonisation resistance to chytrid fungi www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN634/p...
Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London
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January 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Deadline extended for a 3 year #postdoc in my lab exploring the amphibian skin #microbiome and colonisation resistance to chytrid fungi www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN634/p...
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Interested in microbial #metabolism, #mucosalbiology and #UTI? Then check out the open postdoctoral position in the Mucosal Immunology Group at ETH Zurich! NB: All applications must go via the ETH job portal:
www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Closing date: 24th Feburary
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www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Closing date: 24th Feburary
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Postdoctoral researcher –Understanding bacterial metabolism in the urinary tract
www.jobs.ethz.ch
January 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Interested in microbial #metabolism, #mucosalbiology and #UTI? Then check out the open postdoctoral position in the Mucosal Immunology Group at ETH Zurich! NB: All applications must go via the ETH job portal:
www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Closing date: 24th Feburary
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www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Closing date: 24th Feburary
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Newly published Microbial Primer with @kayla-king.bsky.social! Check the potential of microbiomes in buffering animals from climate stress and in conservation here: doi.org/10.1099/mic....
#Microbiome #ClimateChange #Conservation #ThermalStress
#Microbiome #ClimateChange #Conservation #ThermalStress
Microbial Primer: Microbiome and thermal tolerance – a new frontier in climate resilience?
Microbiome-animal host symbioses are ubiquitous in nature. Animal-associated microbiomes can play a crucial role in host physiology, health and resilience to environmental stressors. As climate change...
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January 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Newly published Microbial Primer with @kayla-king.bsky.social! Check the potential of microbiomes in buffering animals from climate stress and in conservation here: doi.org/10.1099/mic....
#Microbiome #ClimateChange #Conservation #ThermalStress
#Microbiome #ClimateChange #Conservation #ThermalStress
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New pre-print!!! What types of genes end up on plasmids and why? The take home message of this paper is that beneficial genes move from plasmids to chromosome, causing the ecological value of plasmids to decay over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Chromosomal capture of beneficial genes drives plasmids towards ecological redundancy
Plasmids are a ubiquitous feature of bacterial genomes, but the evolutionary forces driving genes to become associated with plasmids are poorly understood. To address this problem, we compared the fit...
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January 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
New pre-print!!! What types of genes end up on plasmids and why? The take home message of this paper is that beneficial genes move from plasmids to chromosome, causing the ecological value of plasmids to decay over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sharing three fully funded PhD opportunities to join my lab at Queen’s to work on topics spanning bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, microbial interactions, & mobile genetic elements 🦠. Closing dates in January and February, and open to international candidates 🌍 Projects detailed below ⬇️
December 30, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Sharing three fully funded PhD opportunities to join my lab at Queen’s to work on topics spanning bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, microbial interactions, & mobile genetic elements 🦠. Closing dates in January and February, and open to international candidates 🌍 Projects detailed below ⬇️
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Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs
We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…
zamudiolab.org
December 18, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
Really cool paper linking alkaloids to microbiome diversity and metabolism in poison frogs www.cell.com/current-biol...
Alkaloids are associated with increased microbial diversity and metabolic function in poison frogs
Caty et al. demonstrate that alkaloids play a role in structuring the skin microbial community of dendrobatid poison frogs. They provide evidence that this is partly due to the ability of some microbial taxa to metabolize alkaloids.
www.cell.com
December 20, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Really cool paper linking alkaloids to microbiome diversity and metabolism in poison frogs www.cell.com/current-biol...
Join my group @blizardinstitute.bsky.social for a 3 year #post-doc position exploring skin #microbiome assembly and colonisation of #chytrid fungi in amphibians. Part of a super exciting new collaboration with the glycoscience laboratory @imperialmed.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS023/p...
Post-Doctoral Research Assoicate (KB) at Queen Mary University of London
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November 23, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Join my group @blizardinstitute.bsky.social for a 3 year #post-doc position exploring skin #microbiome assembly and colonisation of #chytrid fungi in amphibians. Part of a super exciting new collaboration with the glycoscience laboratory @imperialmed.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS023/p...
Thrilled to start our recent BBSRC funded project exploring how the skin and mucosal #glycome shapes #microbiome assembly and colonisation resistance against chytrid fungi in #amphibians @blizardinstitute.bsky.social www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...
£1.1 million fund awarded to understand how glycans shape the amphibian skin microbiome and susceptibility to a deadly fungus
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November 23, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Thrilled to start our recent BBSRC funded project exploring how the skin and mucosal #glycome shapes #microbiome assembly and colonisation resistance against chytrid fungi in #amphibians @blizardinstitute.bsky.social www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...