Bill Söderström

Register now for our first webinar of 2026!!! 🎉🥳🎊

#UTISky #IDSky #ESGUTI #ESCMID

This looks absolutely fantastic, two great labs @bill-lab.bsky.social & @immunobladder.bsky.social with great stories about intracellular uropathogens in urinary tract infection! A hot topic for sure. I'll be virtually there! #UTI #UTISky

Divisome dynamics in intracellular UPEC cells during infection. Left: Representative confocal image of intracellular UTI89 expressing a division marker (FtsZ-mCitrine; pseudo coloured green) with mCherry (pseudo coloured magenta) as cytoplasmic marker, bladder cell membranes shown in blue (CellBrite Steady Membrane 405) and nuclei shown in gold (NucSpot Live Cell 650). Right: Still images of a time-lapse sequence showing FtsZ-mCitrine (pseudo coloured green) driven coccobacilli divisions imaged using HiLo illumination.

Uropathogenic #Ecoli #UPEC proliferate as round coccoid cells during intracellular infection; @alaskapokhrel.bsky.social @bill-lab.bsky.social &co show that accelerated division via FtsZ constriction drives this, the coccobacillus form persisting for generations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4gdx97i

There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity for an Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions has arisen at the John Innes Centre. To read the full job description for this role…

New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions.

Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

Best thing since sliced beard. mLychee and family! They’re great.

We use.
I think there was a Bio-Rad alternative at some point? www.bio-rad.com/en-au/sku/SL...

I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line:

"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws"

Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.

A simple ex vivo bladder infection model permits study of host-pathogen interactions in UTI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.23.630047v1

A simple ex vivo bladder infection model permits study of host-pathogen interactions in UTI Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most common infections, worldwide. To understand mechanisms of UTI pathogenesis and find new treatments, researchers often use animal models, such as mice...

Need a break from the Christmas food? Check out the latest supercool ex-vivo UTI model from the ingersoll lab @immunobladder.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Frontiers | MinD proteins regulate CetZ1 localization in Haloferax volcanii

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

MinD is famously known for positioning FtsZ at mid-cell in bacteria

In our study, myself and @iduggin.bsky.social found that MinD homologues in Haloferax volcanii influence the localisation of CetZ1, a homologue of FtsZ and tubulin

#Archaeasky #Microsky

Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium 2024 — Australian Society for Microbiology A collaboration between the Australian Institute for Microbiology and Infection (AIMI) at UTS and the Australian Society for Microbiology NSW-ACT Branch. Join us for a one-day symposium dedicated to ...

If you are in Sydney don’t miss the AMR day this Thursday: www.theasm.org.au/conferences-...

Mate, add me 🙏

Mate, add me and Iain Duggin please. Cheers