Michael Chew

Will climate change lead to more fungal infections? | News | Wellcome Fungi can keep us healthy or cause disease. As climate change drives fungi to adapt, learn how we can harness the benefits and tackle the threats.

Will climate change lead to more fungal infections? This year, Wellcome @wellcometrust.bsky.social is investing over £50 million in fungal research across our Discovery Research, Climate and Health and Infectious Disease.
wellcome.org/news/will-cl...

Mental Health Award: Advancing target validation - Funding | Wellcome This call will provide funding for validation activities for novel targets with a clear therapeutic concept and strong biological rationale related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or ...

We’re supporting researchers to generate data on novel drug targets related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

💰 Level: up to £700,000 per project
🗓 Deadline: 15 April

Find out more about the funding call and apply ⤵️
wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Fitsum Tadesse receives prestigious Greenwood Africa Award | LSHTM Fitsum Tadesse receives prestigious Greenwood Africa Award | LSHTM

Congratulations Fitsum Tadesse @wellcometrust.bsky.social Early Career Award holder for this terrific recognition. www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Can bioimaging build capacity in fungi research? This month's guest expert is Dr Elizabeth Ballou, Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the University of Exeter. Fungi are beautiful and very charismatic.

Antifungal resistance is an important part of antimicrobial resistance.

But there are many fungal pathogens we don’t know anything about. Could bioimaging be part of the solution?

Learn more from Dr Elizabeth Ballou @exeter.ac.uk in 'Behind the Research' ⤵️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-bi...

PgtE protease enables virulent Salmonella to evade C3-mediated serum and neutrophil killing Non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars, such as Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (STm), are a leading cause of inflammatory diarrhea in otherwise healthy individuals. Among children, the elderly, an...

Wild-type Salmonella Typhimurium uses PgtE protease to evade C3-mediated serum killing:

Suggests that after escape from a macrophage, PgtE promotes systemic spread of the pathogen…

Elegant work from @manuelar.bsky.social’s team at UCSD…

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Many infectious diseases are so rare today that it is easy to forget how very common they were before the introduction of vaccines.

My chart presents an overview of the change in the US.

Great review by @pinholab.bsky.social and Simon Foster on the current knowledge regarding growth, elongation and division of Staphylococcus aureus www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Very excited about this project! Interested potential applicants are very welcome to contact me informally for more information before applying

Health inequalities which impact the treatment of urinary tract infections Find out about this studentship opportunity on Health inequalities which impact the treatment of urinary tract infections.

PhD studentship available.

The project is VERY interdisciplinary, combing social science, biophysics and microbiology to understand inequalities of UTIs treatment and replicate them in vitro to help choose the correct antibiotic.

Pls share, home students only #AMR #MicroSky

tinyurl.com/45d8h54u

To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the University of Birmingham, we are recruiting 100 Anniversary Fellows and 25 Anniversary Chairs fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk

If you are interested to join our community of researchers in infection, inflammation and immunology, please DM me!

PhD studentship alert!! Two projects available with me fully funded by BBSRC

This one is a collaboration with Dr Michelle Buckner
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

And this one a collaboration with @overtonlab.bsky.social warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Both will be lots of fun! Come & join us 😃

A prophage competition element protects Salmonella from lysis Most bacteria are polylysogens that carry multiple prophages integrated into the chromosome. These prophages confer advantages to their bacterial host…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pandemic linked to 16% rise in babies born with heart defects The proportion of babies born with a congenital heart abnormality increased by 16 per cent after the first year of the pandemic, according to research at City St George's, University of London and pub...

Concerning data showing spike in heart defects in babies born after pandemic- possibly links to growing evidence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risks pose-Covid in unvaccinated children and adults 🧪

Antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella during infection - Nature Reviews Microbiology In this Review, Giorgio and Helaine provide an overview of the physiology of antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella enterica during infection, discuss recent insights into the clinical implications of ant...

New Salmonella Persister cells Review is just out❗️

Rachel Giorgio & Sophie Helaine overview the physiology & clinical implications of antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella during infection

- highlighting important knowledge gaps that need to be addressed…

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Major funding to support next generation of bioscience researchers

Great news! In partnership with the University of Manchester, we have been awarded a major new Doctoral Landscape Award from the BBSRC to fund #PhD training in the #biosciences. 🌱🔬

Read more about the new NorthWest Doctoral Programme in Biosciences (NWD) ▶️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2024/11/20/u...

The Human Cell Atlas: towards a first draft atlas In a collection of research articles and related content, the Human Cell Atlas consortium presents tools, data and ideas towards the generation of their first draft atlas of cells in the human body.

Human Cell Atlas draft published today
- census of human cells & how they change as we grow & age.

Promises to transform understanding of health & disease…

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Calling all Mycobacteriologists! Please support this meeting if you can it is sorely needed and it would be a terrible shame to lose it

YouTube video by Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) The race against drug-resistant infections – The impact of AMR on people living with cancer

One of the awful truths about #AMR is how cruelly it robs the lives of patients who are otherwise recovering from other diseases such as cancer. For #WAAW2024 - The impact of AMR on people living with cancer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZHI...