Dave Baker

Alessia Buscaino describing the evoluytion of commensalism and pathogenesis in Candida albicans and the potential role of RNAi #CMINorwich26 @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Laboratory Support Technician to join our Science Operations team 🥼

💷 £24,250 to £26,500
🗓️ Apply by 31 March 2026
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Microbiome stability in wild and rehabilitated insectivorous bats revealed by shotgun metagenomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Advance notice: Will be de-rigging the cameras today as hedgehog corner is being revamped over the next few days. Taking out a raised bed and putting in a wildlife-friendly pond. We’ll still be feeding the hedgehogs (and one cat) but cameras will be offline.

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⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for an ambitious and collaborative Group Leader or Career Track Group Leader to pioneer the development of next-generation microbiome assays and model systems

💷 Competitive
🗓️ Apply by 15 February 2026
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A social card with the text, "Senior Research Scientist Microbiome Assay and Metaproteomics, to support with day-to-day running of the Figeys lab, including line management, overseeing budgets and scientific direction. Salary: £45,450 to £56,750, Contract length: 2 years, Apply by 15 February 2026."

⏰ Closing soon! We are looking for a Senior Research Scientist to support with day-to-day running of @dfigeys.bsky.social lab, including line management of staff, overseeing budgets, and leading the scientific direction.

💷 £45,450 to £56,750
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How’s your day going? My Saturday morning currently involves a game of escape and evasion from the resident tortoise, Carlos. He loves to have sex with my boots. Which is quite annoying.

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⏰ Closing soon! We are looking for a Research Scientist (Bioinformatics) to join @buscainolab.bsky.social to work on the interplay between Candida albicans and gut bacterial adaptation, with a focus on RNA interference.

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
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Nice to see solid genetic tool development being published in Microbiology @microbiologysociety.org

'Improving a Tn7-based luciferase reporter system for promoter activity studies'

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Oral bacteria play a role in chronic liver disease - Quadram Institute Dr Naiara Beraza contributed to a new study led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and King’s College London that has found strong evidence that bacteria from the mouth migrate to the gut in…

A new study published in the journal @natmicrobiol.nature.com shows that identical bacterial strains occur in both the mouth and gut of patients with advanced chronic liver disease and also reveals a mechanism by which oral bacteria affect gut health.

A New Cost Effective, Simplified Workflow for Transposon Insertion Sequencing (TIS)
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Large scale genomic rearrangements in selected Arabidopsis thaliana T-DNA lines are caused by T-DNA insertion mutagenesis
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#Genomics #Bioinformatics

A New Cost Effective, Simplified Workflow for Transposon Insertion Sequencing (TIS) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.23.699905v1

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🆕 Vacancy! We are looking for a Research Scientist to join an exciting multipartner consortium in the END2AMR project to help develop novel antimicrobials using high throughput transposon mutagenesis.

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
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⏰ Closing soon! We are looking for a Group Leader with a focus on nutrition and microbiome-based interventions for the prevention and management of obesity to join our Food, Microbiome and Health research programme as a Group Leader.

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Need a winter warmer? Groundbreaking gene-edited tomato soup trial with higher levels of 'Sunshine' vitamin recruiting now - Quadram Institute Human trial of gene edited food, to understand whether biofortifying tomatoes in this way leads to higher levels of vitamin D in the blood

🆕 Our scientists and those @johninnescentre.bsky.social are launching one of the first human trials of gene edited food, to understand whether biofortifying tomatoes in this way leads to higher levels of vitamin D in the blood after people have eaten them 🍅

New book shares Quadram’s Best Practice in Microbiome Research - Quadram Institute Researchers from the Quadram Institute have developed an open access book to help ensure best practice in microbiome research.

The Best Practice in Microbiome Research presents protocols covering the design of ethical, inclusive studies, sample collection and genomic sequencing, bioinformatics processing of data and statistical analysis.

END2AMR launches to accelerate innovation against drug-resistant bacterial infections - Quadram Institute The Quadram Institute is part of END2AMR, a major new public-private research initiative designed to tackle some of the most difficult-to-treat bacterial infections

The END2AMR consortium will focus on chronic and drug-resistant infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which are responsible for significant global morbidity and mortality.

What causes Candida infections? - Quadram Institute A new study will investigate Candida infections to understand how fungi adapt to the human gut and address the challenge of fungal infections

Supported by £2.7 million of funding from Wellcome’s Biology of Fungal Adaptation programme, a five-year research project leverages a network of leading international experts from the Quadram Institute, @dunnschool.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social.

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Be part of research at the Quadram Institute!

We’re running the ViTaL-D study to investigate whether @johninnescentre.bsky.social biofortified tomatoes developed through gene editing to be high in vitamin D leads to higher levels of active vitamin D in the blood 🍅

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Congrats @efosternyarko.bsky.social and team for this great work building capacity for public health genomics to investigate cholera and other enteric bacteria, across Africa 👏

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What causes Candida infections? - Quadram Institute A new study will investigate Candida infections to understand how fungi adapt to the human gut and address the challenge of fungal infections

🆕 New project uncovering the role of a molecular switch in Candida albicans infections.

Professor @buscainolab.bsky.social will lead a new study investigating how fungi adapt to life in the human gut, to address the growing global health challenge of fungal infections.

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Congratulations to our Zimbabwean research collaborator Dr Tapfumanei Mashe for winning two awards at the 2025 Africa Health Excellence Awards in Durban, South Africa for Community Builder of the Year & Honorary Health Researcher of the Year.

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Strengthen your #fungal genome analysis using genomics tools and databases! #Fungal26

Join our experts online for Fungal Pathogen Genomics 2026.

🗓️ Dates: 1-5 June 2026, UK time zone

Financial assistance is available 💰
📩 Apply by 16 March to be considered
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🖥️🧬🧫 #Genomics

An action shot from tracking sanger lanes from late 90's!

30 years ago to the day I walked into Norwich Research Park, UK. 6 years at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social then 8 years at @johninnescentre.bsky.social then 8 years at @earlhaminst.bsky.social, and finally @quadraminstitute.bsky.social where I am today. That’s a hell of a lot of DNA Sequencing!

It's the last few days to apply for this #PhDposition starting in Oct 2026 in the @langridgelab.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social.

Apply by 2 Dec if you have ever wondered what happens if bacteria follow the rules of life, but in a different order? 🤔 this could be the project for you🦠🧬🧩

Prebiotics reverse effects of anti-depressants on the gut microbiome - Quadram Institute Scientists from the University of Ottawa and Beijing Institute of Lifeomics found that SSRIs, SNRIs and Tricyclic Antidepressants, commonly prescribed anti-depressants that target the…

"These findings reinforce the urgent need to understand how drugs and other xenobiotics affect the gut microbiome."

💬 Our Director, Professor @dfigeys.bsky.social

Quadram joins world-class team to unlock secrets of antimicrobial resistance - Quadram Institute The project is being led by the University of Birmingham, and funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, through its Strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) grants scheme.…

“We are hugely excited to be part of this award, which will deliver fundamental new knowledge about a super important aspect of bacterial biology.”
💬 Professor @webberma.bsky.social

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Exciting day at London’s Science Museum for the #InnovationforGrowth meeting where we’re showing off AirSeq technology from @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @nhm.org

Meeting organised by @ukri.org to highlight the importance of research and innovation for economic growth.

Researching the biology of bacterial biofilms to boost bioremediation - Quadram Institute Research into how the biofilms of Shewanella oneidensis and Geobacter sulfurreducens bacteria could help clean up metals from wastewater

🆕 Blog! This #BiofilmsWeek we catch up with Dr Heather Felgate to discover how studying the biofilms of Shewanella oneidensis and Geobacter sulfurreducens bacteria could help clean up metals from wastewater 🦠

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