Rebecca McHugh

Are you attending the Microbiology Society's Annuall Conference in Belfast this year?

The Microbiology Society Early Career Forum is hosting an Early Career Social in on 13th April.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-care...

Hello #Streptomyces community! We are struggling to get a hold of ISP3 media in the UK. Would be great to hear of any suppliers if you have them :)

Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny - Nature Zip promotes the accumulation of free phages in bacterial lysogen communities, safeguarding phage progeny.

Very excited to read the published story from @themaxwelllab.bsky.social ! 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A beautiful morning in Milan for Day 2 of #FEMS2025

Andy and Ffion at Microbiology Society stand

Say hi to Andy and Ffion at the Microbiology Society stand 524. As a not-for-profit publisher and membership charity, we’re here to support and invest in the microbiology community for the benefit of everyone. @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social #mmc2025UK

Profs Gilles van Wezel and Eva Stegmann giving the Welcome Ceremony of the 20th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes in Edmond aan Zee (coastal Netherlands) #ISBA2025 #actinomycetes #streptomyces

New preprint! Deacon is a versatile tool for filtering FASTA/FASTQ files and streams at hundreds of megabases per second using minimizers, built with rapid metagenomic host depletion in mind, but equally useful for search.
github.com/bede/deacon

Fill | Microbiology Society Early Career Forum Co-chairing Scheme 2026 Cohort Application Form The Society runs the Early Career Forum Co-chairing Scheme as a professional development opportunity for its Early Career members to gain session chairing experience by working alongside more…

The 2026 edition of the Early Career Forum Co-chairing Scheme is right around the corner. Register your interest by 28 July 2025 23:59 BST for a chance to take part in session chairing activities during Annual Conference 2026 - microb.io/3GuiDds

Abstract submissions for this year’s Early Career Summer Conference at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, will close on 4 May at 23:59 BST. Submit your abstract for a chance to present during the event - microb.io/ECSCAbstract...

Early Career Summer Conference 2025

Abstract submission deadline is approaching for @microbiologysociety.org Early career summer conference. Set to be another cracking event, this year it’s going to Newcastle! More information on the link!

Early Career Summer Conference 2025

Abstract submission is open for the @microbiologysociety.org Early Career Summer Conference in Newcastle (23rd and 24th June). This is always a fantastic event, with a mix of talks, posters and professional development sessions. Abstract deadline 4th May.
microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

Thanks Tracy!

Yes! Can't wait!

Thanks Jess!

Thank you!!

Thanks pal!! Buzzing for us

Thank you!

Thank you Matt!

Aw thanks Rebecca 😊

Absolutely delighted to share that I've been awarded the BBSRC Fellowship to continue my working on antivirulence drugs at the University of Glasgow. A massive thank you to all of my mentors and collaborators. I can't wait to see what the future holds for the project 🔬

For those of you who approached me at @microbiologysociety.org #Microbio25 (and anyone else interested!!), this is your last chance to apply for our PDRA position. Come join us in Glasgow!

Very much looking forward to this!

I'm speaking about cross-scale infection imaging in the Infection Forum at #Microbio25 @microbiologysociety.org (TODAY 15:00, Hall 1A)!

Will touch on work out yesterday (🎉) in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance (@rebeccamchugh.bsky.social) where we evaluated the role of Aurodox in STEC infections. 🔬🧪

Evaluating the protective effects of Aurodox in a murine model of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Evaluating the protective effects of Aurodox in a murine model of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

Well done ⁦‪Becca et al, great to see this out - Evaluating the protective effects of Aurodox in a murine model of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli | npj Antimicrobials and Resistance www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Delighted so see this out!

And so begins a very long train journey from Norwich to Liverpool via every stop in between for Microsoc 2025

Prize Medal 2025 Prize Winner Prof Richard Lenski speaks to Early Career member, James Croxford about his up and coming lecture. Find out more about his work here: 🔗https://microb.io/PrizeWinner2025

Redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis Streptomyces bacteria make diverse specialised metabolites that form the basis of ~55% of clinically used antibiotics. Despite this, only 3% of their encoded specialised metabolites have been matched ...

Redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces.

Remarkable work led by @katienoble241.bsky.social and Rebecca Devine demonstrates why antibiotic biosynthesis is often switched on in solid cultures and off in liquid.

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

An exploded view of the 3D-printed microscope. A front-facing (A), oblique (B), and side-facing view (C) of the microscope are presented, with the chassis coloured in grey and the positions of additional components highlighted with different colours (orange = LED light source, magenta = 3D-printed condenser lens, blue = 3D-printed objective lens, green = CMOS camera). A scale bar is presented in (a) to provide a visualisation of the size of the microscope setup.

First senior-author paper is out today in the Journal of Microscopy! 🧪🔬

We present the first 3D printed microscope where both the optics & frame are entirely 3D printed - a low-cost, accessible, and reproducible tool for histological imaging!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jmi.13398

🚨 #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/...