PhD position available in our team to study how UPEC exploits metals to successfully colonise the host gut. Cool collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @banzhaflab.bsky.social Please share and get in touch for more details
Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:09 PM
January 23, 2026 at 4:39 PM
🚨 Fully‑funded PhD for Home Students🚨
We'll explore non-antibiotic alternatives in relatistic environments, uncovering how they work, if they affect antibiotic activity and whether they influcence AMR acquistion. Come join a wonderful supervisory team!
#MicroSky #UTISky #AMar
tinyurl.com/38u552bu
We'll explore non-antibiotic alternatives in relatistic environments, uncovering how they work, if they affect antibiotic activity and whether they influcence AMR acquistion. Come join a wonderful supervisory team!
#MicroSky #UTISky #AMar
tinyurl.com/38u552bu
Optimising the use of alternative therapies for the treatment of urinary infections - The University of Nottingham
tinyurl.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:12 PM
🚨 Fully‑funded PhD for Home Students🚨
We'll explore non-antibiotic alternatives in relatistic environments, uncovering how they work, if they affect antibiotic activity and whether they influcence AMR acquistion. Come join a wonderful supervisory team!
#MicroSky #UTISky #AMar
tinyurl.com/38u552bu
We'll explore non-antibiotic alternatives in relatistic environments, uncovering how they work, if they affect antibiotic activity and whether they influcence AMR acquistion. Come join a wonderful supervisory team!
#MicroSky #UTISky #AMar
tinyurl.com/38u552bu
🚨 Fully‑funded PhD for Home Students🚨
Explore alternative therapies for UTIs, how they work and interact with antibiotics and help shape new solutions to AMR! Join a our supportive team at UoN and make real impact in infection research.
#MicroSky #UTISky
Apply now: tinyurl.com/38u552bu
Explore alternative therapies for UTIs, how they work and interact with antibiotics and help shape new solutions to AMR! Join a our supportive team at UoN and make real impact in infection research.
#MicroSky #UTISky
Apply now: tinyurl.com/38u552bu
Optimising the use of alternative therapies for the treatment of urinary infections - The University of Nottingham
tinyurl.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
🚨 Fully‑funded PhD for Home Students🚨
Explore alternative therapies for UTIs, how they work and interact with antibiotics and help shape new solutions to AMR! Join a our supportive team at UoN and make real impact in infection research.
#MicroSky #UTISky
Apply now: tinyurl.com/38u552bu
Explore alternative therapies for UTIs, how they work and interact with antibiotics and help shape new solutions to AMR! Join a our supportive team at UoN and make real impact in infection research.
#MicroSky #UTISky
Apply now: tinyurl.com/38u552bu
Our next #UTIHour is just under a month away! Join our panel of experts on 2/17 at 4pm EST / 9PM UTC (ONE DAY AFTER #UTICONF26 ABSTRACTS ARE DUE).
We'll discuss the gut-bladder axis, and how disruptions in our intestines influence bladder health, infection risk & recurrence!
#IDSky #UTISky
We'll discuss the gut-bladder axis, and how disruptions in our intestines influence bladder health, infection risk & recurrence!
#IDSky #UTISky
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Our next #UTIHour is just under a month away! Join our panel of experts on 2/17 at 4pm EST / 9PM UTC (ONE DAY AFTER #UTICONF26 ABSTRACTS ARE DUE).
We'll discuss the gut-bladder axis, and how disruptions in our intestines influence bladder health, infection risk & recurrence!
#IDSky #UTISky
We'll discuss the gut-bladder axis, and how disruptions in our intestines influence bladder health, infection risk & recurrence!
#IDSky #UTISky
Happy to present the latest @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social #preprint from our lab from the talented @nickyuen.bsky.social - short-chain fatty acids influence host-pathogen interactions during uropathogenic E. coli infection in a human gut model 🦠 #MicroSky #UTISky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Happy to present the latest @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social #preprint from our lab from the talented @nickyuen.bsky.social - short-chain fatty acids influence host-pathogen interactions during uropathogenic E. coli infection in a human gut model 🦠 #MicroSky #UTISky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Gut-relevant short-chain fatty acids modulate host-pathogen dynamics of uropathogenic Escherichia coli at the colonic epithelial interface https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.700340v1
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 AM
My team at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc #bioinformatics with solid experience in metagenomic analyses.
Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important.
The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you 🫵
🔁 🙏
#microSky #phagesky #UTIsky
@cnrs.fr
Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important.
The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you 🫵
🔁 🙏
#microSky #phagesky #UTIsky
@cnrs.fr
January 15, 2026 at 11:19 AM
My team at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc #bioinformatics with solid experience in metagenomic analyses.
Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important.
The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you 🫵
🔁 🙏
#microSky #phagesky #UTIsky
@cnrs.fr
Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important.
The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you 🫵
🔁 🙏
#microSky #phagesky #UTIsky
@cnrs.fr
Microbiology in space aboard the International Space Station!!!
Surely astronauts contributed enough to get authorship?!
#science #MicroSky #ClinMicro #phages #UTISky
Surely astronauts contributed enough to get authorship?!
#science #MicroSky #ClinMicro #phages #UTISky
Phage-host interactions have a role shaping microbial ecosystems, but what happens in #microgravity? Experiments aboard the #ISS reveal distinct evolutionary adaptations in T7 bacteriophage & #Ecoli, revealing #phage variants effective against resistant pathogens @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3LtKOfs
January 14, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Microbiology in space aboard the International Space Station!!!
Surely astronauts contributed enough to get authorship?!
#science #MicroSky #ClinMicro #phages #UTISky
Surely astronauts contributed enough to get authorship?!
#science #MicroSky #ClinMicro #phages #UTISky
Given the recent influx of people from the other place, it’s good to mention our starter pack for #UTI research, and also remind people posting about UTI to use the #UTISky hashtag so we don’t miss anything! go.bsky.app/QYqt2D4
January 12, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Given the recent influx of people from the other place, it’s good to mention our starter pack for #UTI research, and also remind people posting about UTI to use the #UTISky hashtag so we don’t miss anything! go.bsky.app/QYqt2D4
New paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology! 📢
Under the lead of Pablo Molina, we introduce SimUrine, a fully defined synthetic urine medium for growth and antibiotic susceptibility testing of uropathogens under physiologically relevant conditions 🦠
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#UTISky
Under the lead of Pablo Molina, we introduce SimUrine, a fully defined synthetic urine medium for growth and antibiotic susceptibility testing of uropathogens under physiologically relevant conditions 🦠
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#UTISky
January 12, 2026 at 9:33 AM
New paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology! 📢
Under the lead of Pablo Molina, we introduce SimUrine, a fully defined synthetic urine medium for growth and antibiotic susceptibility testing of uropathogens under physiologically relevant conditions 🦠
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#UTISky
Under the lead of Pablo Molina, we introduce SimUrine, a fully defined synthetic urine medium for growth and antibiotic susceptibility testing of uropathogens under physiologically relevant conditions 🦠
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#UTISky
Interesting new study on first-in-class antibiotic gepotidacin, also the first new antibiotic approved for #UTI for 3 decades - good to have additional studies beyond just those that got it approved and licensed for use #UTISky
Gepotidacin provides #UTI symptomatic relief comparably to nitrofurantoin (in people with uncomplicated UTI in trials)
#UTISky #IDSky #ClinMicro #MedSky @cidjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
#UTISky #IDSky #ClinMicro #MedSky @cidjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
Early symptom response in patients with uncomplicated urinary tract infection treated with gepotidacin or nitrofurantoin: pooled analysis from two pivotal Phase 3 studies
Symptoms of uncomplicated urinary tract infections can be severely debilitating, therefore rapid symptom relief is important. EAGLE-2 and EAGLE-3 compared
academic.oup.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Gepotidacin provides #UTI symptomatic relief comparably to nitrofurantoin (in people with uncomplicated UTI in trials)
#UTISky #IDSky #ClinMicro #MedSky @cidjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
#UTISky #IDSky #ClinMicro #MedSky @cidjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
Early symptom response in patients with uncomplicated urinary tract infection treated with gepotidacin or nitrofurantoin: pooled analysis from two pivotal Phase 3 studies
Symptoms of uncomplicated urinary tract infections can be severely debilitating, therefore rapid symptom relief is important. EAGLE-2 and EAGLE-3 compared
academic.oup.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Gepotidacin provides #UTI symptomatic relief comparably to nitrofurantoin (in people with uncomplicated UTI in trials)
#UTISky #IDSky #ClinMicro #MedSky @cidjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
#UTISky #IDSky #ClinMicro #MedSky @cidjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
Attention postdocs, medical fellows, and residents of #UTISky and #IDsky!
Abstract submission for travel awards to our April UTI conference, #UTICONF26, are due on January 12.
The general abstract submission deadline is February 16.
Submit your applications at utiga.org!
Abstract submission for travel awards to our April UTI conference, #UTICONF26, are due on January 12.
The general abstract submission deadline is February 16.
Submit your applications at utiga.org!
January 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Attention postdocs, medical fellows, and residents of #UTISky and #IDsky!
Abstract submission for travel awards to our April UTI conference, #UTICONF26, are due on January 12.
The general abstract submission deadline is February 16.
Submit your applications at utiga.org!
Abstract submission for travel awards to our April UTI conference, #UTICONF26, are due on January 12.
The general abstract submission deadline is February 16.
Submit your applications at utiga.org!
Why are we ordering urinalysis and cultures on patients with no urinary symptoms 😭😭😭😭😭
January 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Great to see this out: new IDSA guidelines on management of complicated UTI.
Listened to excellent @cmicomms.bsky.social podcast with @angelahuttner.bsky.social @erinmccreary.bsky.social @bwtrautner.bsky.social & Valéry Lavergne earlier this year explaining how it was put together!
#UTISky #IDSky
Listened to excellent @cmicomms.bsky.social podcast with @angelahuttner.bsky.social @erinmccreary.bsky.social @bwtrautner.bsky.social & Valéry Lavergne earlier this year explaining how it was put together!
#UTISky #IDSky
Clinical Practice Guideline by Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): 2025 Guideline on Management and Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections: Timing of Intravenous to Oral Antibiot...
Barbara W Trautner, Nicolás W Cortés-Penfield, Kalpana Gupta, Elizabeth B Hirsch, Molly Horstman, Gregory J Moran, Richard Colgan, John C O’Horo, Muhammad
academic.oup.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Great to see this out: new IDSA guidelines on management of complicated UTI.
Listened to excellent @cmicomms.bsky.social podcast with @angelahuttner.bsky.social @erinmccreary.bsky.social @bwtrautner.bsky.social & Valéry Lavergne earlier this year explaining how it was put together!
#UTISky #IDSky
Listened to excellent @cmicomms.bsky.social podcast with @angelahuttner.bsky.social @erinmccreary.bsky.social @bwtrautner.bsky.social & Valéry Lavergne earlier this year explaining how it was put together!
#UTISky #IDSky
Great review - especially for those who dismiss this formidable bug as not terribly interesting in #UTI #UTISky
🧵Enterococcus faecalis is not just an extracellular organism. 🧵 A growing body of work shows it can survive + REPLICATE inside host cells, and that intracellular life may seed persistence, dissemination, and reinfection. 1/n #MMBR @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Enterococcus faecalis: an overlooked cell invader | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
SUMMARYEnterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium are human pathobionts that exhibit a dual lifestyle as commensal and pathogenic bacteria. The pathogenic lifestyle is associated with specific conditions involving host susceptibility and intestinal ...
journals.asm.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The application window for travel awards to attend #UTICONF26 are due in ONE MONTH, on January 12.
Abstract submissions are due in TWO MONTHS, on February 16.
Get your submissions in early, the deadlines sneak up on you faster than you think!
(📸 From Dr. Laura Schwartz 🦠)
#UTIsky #IDsky
Abstract submissions are due in TWO MONTHS, on February 16.
Get your submissions in early, the deadlines sneak up on you faster than you think!
(📸 From Dr. Laura Schwartz 🦠)
#UTIsky #IDsky
December 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The application window for travel awards to attend #UTICONF26 are due in ONE MONTH, on January 12.
Abstract submissions are due in TWO MONTHS, on February 16.
Get your submissions in early, the deadlines sneak up on you faster than you think!
(📸 From Dr. Laura Schwartz 🦠)
#UTIsky #IDsky
Abstract submissions are due in TWO MONTHS, on February 16.
Get your submissions in early, the deadlines sneak up on you faster than you think!
(📸 From Dr. Laura Schwartz 🦠)
#UTIsky #IDsky
#UTICONF26 is just around the corner!
We've got a great program covering:
🦠 #UTI diagnosis
🦠 Pathogenesis
🦠 Drivers
🦠 Microbiomes/reservoirs
🦠 Personalized therapies
🦠 Host-pathogen interactions
Deadlines:
Travel award - 1/12
Abstracts - 2/16
Early registration - 2/26
#UTISky #IDsky
We've got a great program covering:
🦠 #UTI diagnosis
🦠 Pathogenesis
🦠 Drivers
🦠 Microbiomes/reservoirs
🦠 Personalized therapies
🦠 Host-pathogen interactions
Deadlines:
Travel award - 1/12
Abstracts - 2/16
Early registration - 2/26
#UTISky #IDsky
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#UTICONF26 is just around the corner!
We've got a great program covering:
🦠 #UTI diagnosis
🦠 Pathogenesis
🦠 Drivers
🦠 Microbiomes/reservoirs
🦠 Personalized therapies
🦠 Host-pathogen interactions
Deadlines:
Travel award - 1/12
Abstracts - 2/16
Early registration - 2/26
#UTISky #IDsky
We've got a great program covering:
🦠 #UTI diagnosis
🦠 Pathogenesis
🦠 Drivers
🦠 Microbiomes/reservoirs
🦠 Personalized therapies
🦠 Host-pathogen interactions
Deadlines:
Travel award - 1/12
Abstracts - 2/16
Early registration - 2/26
#UTISky #IDsky
New preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Pyocyanin produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Creates Legacy Effects That Boost Antibiotic Resistance Evolution in Enterococci
Polymicrobial infections are small communities of multiple interacting bacterial species. Interactions among constituent species may modify the growth of community members in the presence of antibioti...
www.biorxiv.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Interest preprint on the links between UTI and BV. #UTISky
The Vaginal Microbiome in Women Recently Experiencing BV and UTI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.27.690987v1
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Interest preprint on the links between UTI and BV. #UTISky
✌🏻Cistitis, pielonefritis y prostatitis.
¡No todas las infecciones urinarias se tratan igual!
#EAAD #WAAW #AMSsky #MedSky #UTIsky
bsky.app/profile/hosp...
¡No todas las infecciones urinarias se tratan igual!
#EAAD #WAAW #AMSsky #MedSky #UTIsky
bsky.app/profile/hosp...
💊Las cosas han cambiado mucho en el tratamiento de la infección urinaria en los últimos años. ✅Jesús Rodríguez, médico de Urgencias, y José María Lozano, urólogo, nos explican cómo hacer un uso prudente de los antibióticos en estas infecciones tan comunes en tu consulta.
@guiaprioam.bsky.social
@guiaprioam.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM