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Pathogenic Mechanisms Research Group
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Pathogenic Mechanisms Research Group - University of Galway.
PI: Dr Aoife Boyd. Host-microbe interactions: pathogenic Vibrio bacteria. Marine aquaculture. Natural antimicrobial molecules. Microbes & venomous animals.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-9792
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ethicalseafood.bsky.social
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing concern in global food systems – and aquaculture is an important part of that conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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quadraminstitute.bsky.social
The role will use animal models, multiomics, immunoassays, imaging, & functional analyses to identify beneficial microbial agents which, in FMT studies, have been shown to delay or protect against age-related decline in the brain🧠

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 28 November 2025
➡️ buff.ly/hFGpGvP
A social card with an image of the gut and brain and the text "Research Scientist to undertake research projects on understanding the microbiome-gut-brain axis and its role in ageing. Salary: £37,500 to £45,350, Contract length: 4.5 years, Apply by 28 November 2025."
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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ciimar.bsky.social
The next CIIMAR Neptune Seminar will feature Sandra Pereira (FCUP/CIIMAR).

📅 November 26
📷 11:30
📍Boca da Baleia, CIIMAR

More details here: www.ciimar.up.pt/events/neptu...

#CIIMARevents #CIIMARseminars #CIIMARresearch
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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lalouxlab.bsky.social
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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geomikerobe.bsky.social
Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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eth-dbiol.bsky.social
Intracellular Salmonella require T3SS effectors to cause infection. A study by the Hardt lab @ethz.ch ETH Zürich gives new insights into which bacterial factors are critical for infection in vivo, and provides new tools for researchers to further explore. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
November 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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rleonsampedro.bsky.social
🚨 Excited to share our new paper is out! 🎉
We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut.

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63
Multi-layered ecological interactions determine growth of clinical antibiotic-resistant strains within human microbiomes
Nature Communications - The role of ecological factors in modulating the spread of antibiotic-resistance bacteria in the gut remains unclear. Here, the authors use anaerobic microcosms to study the...
rdcu.be
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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arianebriegel.bsky.social
Working in the field of Microbial Sensing, Signaling, and Regulation? Apply for the upcoming STIM GRC soon to be considered for a short talk! See you in sunny Ventura www.grc.org/sensory-tran...
2026 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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uniofgalway.bsky.social
Congratulations to our very own University of Galway zoologist, founder of the Venom Lab and creator of The Bug Doctor series, Dr Michel M. Dugon who has been named Galway Science Person of the Year!
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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microbiologysociety.org
We are recruiting for an Editor to join JMM! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to support our Disease, Diagnosis and Diagnostics section. Apply by 30 November 2025: microb.io/4oykaAo
Journal of Medical Microbiology Editor for the Disease, Diagnosis and Diagnostics: Call for Expressions of Interest
10 November 2025
microb.io
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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amiposts.bsky.social
Applications are open for the John Innes/Rudjer Bošković Summer School in Applied Molecular Microbiology in Dubrovnik, Croatia (12–20 Sept 2026).

Find out more & apply: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

@johninnescentre.bsky.social #AppliedMicrobiology #MolecularMicrobiology
Applied Molecular Microbiology | John Innes Centre
John Innes/Rudjer Bošković – Summer Schools in Applied Molecular Microbiology Applications are invited for a summer school on Microbial Specialised Metabolites: Discovery…
www.jic.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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microbiologysociety.org
Submit your abstract for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists, Annual Conference 2026. Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s conference now features two-day attendance tickets.
Night view of Belfast City Hall illuminated with colourful lights, promoting abstract submission closing for Annual Conference 2026 at ICC Belfast from April 13-16.
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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jayhinton.bsky.social
Proud to be part of this incredible multidisciplinary team uncovering why some people are NOT infected by Salmonella. This new Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social funding will allow us to uncover why some people naturally resist infection and colonisation by Salmonella Typhimurium.
livuni-ives.bsky.social Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences @livuni-ives.bsky.social · 27d
NEWS | Professor @jayhinton.bsky.social and an international team have been awarded £4.56M Wellcome Discovery Award to investigate natural human resistance to Salmonella

🔗 bit.ly/4hujsRG

@livuninews.bsky.social | #TeamLivUni
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October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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edhawkins.org
A request for weather interested volunteers!

Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue

Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...
October 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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ukbiofilms.bsky.social
✨Last chance to submit to our #BiofilmCreate #competition, which closes tomorrow (17 October 2025)!

🎨 📷 Showcase your talent in photography/art whilst highlighting the impact of #biofilms

🏆Gift cards will be awarded in both categories

🗳️biofilms.ac.uk/create

#scicomm #AMR #MicroSky #biofilm
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:
Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2." I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.
October 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
We are looking for a new generation of scientists pushing the boundaries of infection research and using AI to shape the future of health research.
🚀Apply for junior group leader positions in our HUMAN program by November 26.
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
Ankündigung von offenen Stellen am Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung mit QR-Codes zu den Stellenanzeigen
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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crick.ac.uk
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social
Happy to share our new review in Royal Society Open Biology 🎉
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation:
How tRNA mods rewire translation under oxidative + antibiotic stress (MoTTs, moonlighting, therapy angles).
Read: doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
#RNAsky #microsky #AMR #RNAmodifications
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation | Open Biology
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and their modifications are central to bacterial translation and physiology, yet their roles in stress adaptation remain underexplored. While extensively studied in eukaryotes, a...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a class of extremely porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide. #chemsky 🧪
Chemistry Nobel for scientists who developed massively porous ‘super sponge’ materials
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi pioneered the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide.
go.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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royalsociety.org
Are you a biologist or an ecologist with a research interest in pathogens, bacteria and symbionts?

Join our upcoming residential meeting in Manchester on obligate intracellular bacteria on 3-4 November 2025.

royalsociety.org/science-even...
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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efsa.europa.eu
📣 Just published | 4th joint monthly report on #WestNileVirus with @ecdc.europa.eu

➡️ Belgium reports its first WNV outbreaks in wild birds – a new EU country affected
➡️ 989 human cases & 63 deaths across 13 countries
➡️ 127 equid & 217 bird outbreaks across 9 countries

More 👉 link.europa.eu/fNP38x
High Magnification Microscopy of Malaria Infected Mosquito.
October 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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ecdc.europa.eu
🚀 We’re hiring!

#ECDC is looking for new leaders to strengthen Europe’s defences against infectious diseases.

🧭 Head of Unit – Resource Management Services
🗣️ Head of Section – Science & Public Health Communication

📅 Apply by early November → bit.ly/ECDCjobs

#ECDC #EUJobs #EUCareers
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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bioecoocean.bsky.social
🌊 Join us for the third episode of the #GOOS #BioEco #EOVs webinar series to discuss Coral cover and composition, and Microbe biomass and diversity!
🗓️ October 10th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM UTC
Please register now: aircent.re/4nrJNlA
October 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM