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Illustration promoting the Education and Outreach Network Winter Conference, featuring scientific icons. The event will take place online on 7 November 2025 and is free to attend.

Registration for the Education and Outreach Network Winter Conference is open until 4 November 2025 at 23:59 GMT. The event is free to attend and will take place online on 7 November 2025. Secure your place here: Link in bio.

The @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social's Hospitium was such a lovely location for the @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025 conference dinner. Gorgeous gardens, fabulous food & captivating conversations

Thank you to the organisers for creating a great program & friendly interdisciplinary environment

Excellent day 2 at #BioPhyChrom2025 some great talks and discussions! So glad to present some of the work we’ve just started and get some excellent feedback 🧬And… I SAW LONGBOI @biochemsoc.bsky.social

Already getting excited for this one! Abstract deadline submission is 11th November 2025 so be sure to submit before then #microsky #microbiosocchampion

Universal rules govern plasmid copy number - Nature Communications Plasmids exhibit a broad range of sizes and copies per cell, and these two parameters appear to be negatively correlated. Here, Ramiro-Martínez et al. analyse the copy number of thousands of diverse b...

🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!!

Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species,
stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Attenuation of virulence in Yersinia pestis across three plague pandemics Yersinia pestis has spilled over from wild rodent reservoirs to commensal rodents and humans, causing three historically recorded pandemics. Depletion in the copy number of the plasmid-encoded virulen...

Exciting papers - always fascinating to read research on pathogenic history 🧪🧬

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/content/arti...

Annual Conference 2025 31 March - 03 April 2025

Join the Careers session now in Hall 4 to discuss career prospects outside of academia for microbiologists. It begins at 10:00 BST. For the full programme visit:

Speakers will include scientists from @microbesng.bsky.social @vidiia.bsky.social and @novogene-europe.bsky.social amongst others #MicroBio25

Excited to be co-chairing my first ever session at #MicroBio25 with @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social tomorrow. Come and listen to the amazing panel of speakers who’ll be talking about their careers and transitioning out of academia - Hall 4, Thurs AM @microbiologysociety.org

Our #microbio25 session ‘Beyond the Lab’ has started in Hall 3b, come join us Prof Nic Holden, Dr Monica Gostic and me to hear what other opportunities there are for microbiologist🧫🦠🍄🧪🧬💊💻
First up Dr Izzy Webb with an update from DSIT

Interested in plague? Interested in gene expression and essentiality? 🧬
Come see my poster at #MicroBio25 (A201) where we’re using CRISPRi to discover new viable therapeutic targets against Yersinia pestis @microbiologysociety.org

@microbesng.bsky.social 🧬🧬

What an incredible month at @newcastleuni.bsky.social! I've loved working in the Howard Lab, getting to grips with cell-free protein synthesis and DOE. A huge thank you to everyone in the Devonshire Building for being so welcoming and friendly. Next stop: MicroSoc! #MicroBio25

Priority pathogens: UK draws up new disease-threat watch list Some are viruses with global pandemic potential - like Covid - others infectious illnesses with no treatments.

UKHSA’s interesting new list of 20 priority pathogens that could pose greatest risk to public health in UK published today

Most are viruses...

Includes 5 bacterial families:
Anthrax, Gonorrhoea, Staphylococcus, Group A&B Streptococcus & Enterobacteriaceae…

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Excited to be doing this training 🤓

Had a fantastic evening last month discussing careers in Science & Tech with female students. It was interesting to hear about the wide range of opportunities in the field 🧬 Big thanks to Godolphin for having me! 🤗 #STEM #WomenInSTEM

Publishing Fundamentals Webinar: Publishing Process 4 March 2025, Virtual

Are you registered for the Publishing Fundamentals webinar on 4 March? This session is dedicated to the publishing process, detailing the various stages along the way to help you get your research published. Members can register for free here:

Funded PhD: Evaluating the health risks of zoonotic diseases in agricultural run-off: implications for human and animal well-being in the context of climate change at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD... PhD Project - Funded PhD: Evaluating the health risks of zoonotic diseases in agricultural run-off: implications for human and animal well-being in the context of climate change at University of Glasg...

🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨
Interested in the environmental persistence of bacterial pathogens 🦠 & quantifying the role of climate change in virulence and #AMR? Come and join us! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=182832
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🚨 #PhD opportunity! 🚨

Come and work with @evaheinz7.bsky.social and me at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) on an exciting project investigating the roles that #bacteriophages play in the evolution and virulence of #enterococci. 🧫🧬

Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Excellent day networking and listening to cool science yesterday at the Microbial Genomics roadshow 🧬