Seána Duggan

🧫 Today's #ImageOfTheWeek is a dual species biofilm featuring Candida glabrata (pink) & Staphylococcus aureus (gold). These dense biofilms are resistant to antifungal drugs, making treatment extremely challenging.

📸 @orlandorosss.bsky.social & @seanaduggan.bsky.social

#AMR #fungi #research

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment Nature Microbiology - This Review discusses the evolution, emergence and expansion of environmental fungicide and antifungal drug resistance.

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment

New Review Article by @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and @drjorhodes.com

Read it here: rdcu.be/eyobz

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

AI-generated drawing of a woman looking through a microscope with DNA and fungi drawn in the background. The text contains the same content as the bsky post.

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share!

More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

🚨📆⏰ LAST DAY FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 🧬🦠🧫
Got that last bit of data wrapped up & approved by your supervisor? Why not submit an abstract for the ECR Symposium TODAY!
Submit at tinyurl.com/BIM-abst... by tonight at 11.59 PM EST (4.59 AM BST)

#BiM2025 #BlackInMicrobiology #EarlyCareerResearch

The authors describe how ONT sequencing, primarily with MinION, shows potential for pathogen surveillance in Africa, especially during outbreaks. However, routine diagnostic use & reporting could improve. Better documentation & scaling are needed to fully realise public health impact.

Utilization of Oxford Nanopore Technology for human infectious disease detection and surveillance in Africa: a scoping review Background. Nanopore‐based sequencing by Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) offers rapid, cost‐effective and portable sequencing. As an emerging technology, ONT must be evaluated for efficacy and prac...

New in #AccessMicro a scoping review on use of Oxford Nanopore’s portable sequencing in infectious disease detection & surveillance across Africa, highlighting applications, costs & challenges. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #Genomics #GlobalHealth #Nanopore @microbiologysociety.org

We are inviting submissions on a range of topics, including but not limited to:
🦠Fungal Pathogenesis and Virulence
🗣️Host Immune Responses to Fungal Infections
💊Antifungal Resistance
🧪Fungal Interactions
🔬Emerging threats and innovations

Institutional agreements: fee-free Open Access publishing 

Learn about routes to free #OpenAccess publishing here: www.microbiologyresearch.org/fee-free-ope...

Check if your institution has an agreement with @microbiologysociety.org here: microbiologysociety.org/institutiona...

📝Call for papers📝

I'm co-editing a @microbiologysociety.org #JMedMicro collection on Fungal Pathogenesis.

Contribute a review, research or short communication article by Nov 2025 (flexible)

If interested, get in touch!

#FungalPathogens #MedicalMycology #InfectiousDiseases

What an awesome first day at FEMS Micro Milan! Thank you very much for the award @femsmicro.org I am truly honoured! 💕 #FEMS2025

Delighted to be at the #BMS2025 and highly appreciate the sparkling water buffet

🚨 Visit Stand 32 at #FEMS2025 and say hi to Vicky, Sarah and Naomi! 👋 @Microbiosoc is a not-for-profit publisher and membership charity.

Fantastic to see this out, Joshua. Congrats!

Slide shows shows fite-positive bacilli in a human leprosy case; the picture was published in the Access Microbiology journal in 2019.

We now turn to the archive of a newer title: our open research platform, Access Microbiology. Revisiting our first issue in 2019, take a look at this image of human leprosy - doi.org/10.1099/acmi... #AccessMicro

Interested in working on Mucorales adaptation? Thanks to new funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social, we will have two postdoc and a technician positions advertised very soon! if interested, please get in touch for more information.

Culture harder: use more specimen to increase methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus culture yield relative to PCR Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causes considerable morbidity and mortality in both community-acquired and healthcare-associated infections, but detecting colonization with MRSA…

Culture harder: use more specimen to increase methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus culture yield relative to PCR. Published #OpenAccess and fee-free in #AccessMicro using a #PublishAndRead agreement:
doi.org/10.1099/acmi...

What happens in the lab while you’re away @mrccmm.bsky.social

Fantastic to see so many big players in the publishing sector moving towards transparent and open practices.

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

Finally! @nature.com is making #PeerReview reports public.

Transparency like this is a huge win for science, trust, & credibility.

Now if only they'd adopt #doubleblind review and always disclose reviewer identities, they might be as transformative as @stacksjournal.bsky.social

#SciPub 🧪

Tja… if the trains even arrive. But thankfully this place remains “paradiesisch”.

Wrapping up a lovely few days in Jena for the JSMC & ILRS alumni meeting at @leibniz-hki.de, seeing all the old haunts and catching up with so many wonderful people. I’m in awe of science in Jena, going from strength to strength and leveraging all the talent & infrastructure there.

PLOS Biology Associate Editor- FTC UK-Remote

I am recruiting - if you have a background in plant mol cell bio, a keen interest in sustainability and planetary health and are looking to move away from the bench, this may be for you!

Have a 👀 and please reach out if Qs

1yr FTC, remote in the UK

job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...

Conferences with your friends are some of the best bits of the job. The job is not easy, but how very lucky to have such strong and opinionated women as my peers to conspire and collaborate with

Opinionated as a complement 🙌🏻

… and thanks to these colleagues for making work so fun @scousemicrobe.bsky.social @mervesuzanzeden.bsky.social @emstevens93.bsky.social @dorabonini.bsky.social

Credit to @scousemicrobe.bsky.social for the excellent micro community pun.

We’ve just finished another wonderful #StaphGBI meeting in Leicester. I’m bowled over by the quality, novelty and amount of unpublished data we were treated to. What a great thing our quorum of staphylococcologists is!

From novice to expert: preparing your peer review | mBio Peer review is the process that academic journals, conferences, and funding agencies use to ensure the quality of scholarly work before it is published, presented, or funded. Reviewers for academic jo...

Excited to share our editorial on peer review, out now in #mBio! This was a mighty group effort with my mBio Early Career Editorial Board peer mentoring group
@proctordm.bsky.social and Rachy Abraham.

From novice to expert: preparing your peer review | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Are you interested in fungus-host interactions in the skin? Then, this postdoc position may be of interest to you 👇
#MedMycoSky #MicroSky

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Antifungal Immunity Research available to study T cell responses and fungal sensitization in atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...