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The annual Norwich Medical School Cancer Genetics Team Movember bake sale is on! Come along to the Bob Champion Research and Education building and feed yourself with some tasty treats. @ueamedical.bsky.social

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

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⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to establish gut-brain/gut-CNS microfluidic chip systems to enable the study of the role of microbial products in regulating gut-immune-CNS communication 🔬

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 28 November 2025
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We gathered brilliant minds across disciplines to tackle a challenge: how do we integrate omics data to advance biology?

Huge thanks to our supporters:
@norwichmicro.bsky.social
@microbiologysociety.org
@aibio-uk.bsky.social
Microbial Genomics

The blog captures the highlights of the journey!

A microscopy photo of starch granules with the text "To explore the impact of novel carbohydrate containing foods on the gut microbiome and on health, Salary: £37,500 to £45,350, Contract length: 2.5 years, Apply by 30 November 2025"

🆕 Vacancy! We're looking for a Research Scientist to explore the impact of novel carbohydrate containing foods on the gut microbiome and on health.

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 30 November 2025
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Congratulations to @hannahvpye.bsky.social @lizzicoy.bsky.social and Claire Hill for winning poster prizes. The symposium was organised at @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

Claire Hill, Lizzi Coy and Hannah Pye receiving their award certificates.

Congratulations to the winners of the Microbial Genomics prizes at the Functional Multi-Omics Symposium organised by @yaasircheema.bsky.social.

Best Poster Prize: Claire Hill
Runner-up Best Poster Prize: Lizzi Coy
Communication Prize Winner: Hannah Pye

All set for @microbiologysociety.org Champion event at @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

adhesiomeR: a tool for Escherichia coli adhesin classification and analysis

Did you know E. coli has 525 adhesin genes across 102 systems?
That “sticky” secret is what makes it so dangerous, from UTIs to foodborne outbreaks.
A really nice work by scientists from @quadraminstitute.bsky.social and collaborators @Uwr Poland @BTU Germany

open.spotify.com/episode/78Am...

Interested in compound- microbiome interactions, and how they affect health? Join my lab at the Quadram Institute.

Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Norfolk, UK, March 2020–December 2022 ReSay · Episode

Prefer to hear about the latest, awesome science in podcast summary instead of reading the entire paper?

Our @eh-hayles.bsky.social's @microbiologysociety.org paper has already been turned into a podcast episode!

Listen here or read the paper here www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Very interesting paper, how viral mutants might have strategically spread and survived. Thanks you Eleanor for very important insight about this massive data.

happy Transposon Day @yaasircheema.bsky.social and co :)

Are you feeding your “Friend or Foe” present in your gut?

Very interesting study how high fat diet favours one type of bacteria. A just 5 min podcast of the paper on Spotify and Apple podcast

open.spotify.com/episode/7vNf...

Bacterial microcompartments and energy metabolism drive gut colonization by Bilophila wadsworthia Nature Communications - Here, the authors show that Bilophila wadsworthia uses bacterial microcompartments and anaerobic respiration of host-derived compounds to thrive in the inflamed gut,...

Excited to share our new paper! We show how Bilophila wadsworthia uses clever metabolic tricks to thrive in the gut — with links to high-fat diet🦠🔬
📖 rdcu.be/eoI4o
Published at @natcomms.nature.com with @springernature.com
#Microbiome #GutHealth #Bilophila

Quadram Institute honoured to announce The Princess Royal as Patron - Quadram Institute The announcement of The Princess Royal’s patronage of the Quadram Institute follows a recent visit to the institute to meet scientists, PhD students, patients, clinical trial volunteers and NHS staff…

"Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal has been an inspiring and active champion for science over many years, and we are deeply honoured that The Princess Royal will support our institute with her Patronage.”

💬 Our Director and Chief Executive Officer Professor Daniel Figeys

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🍺 @pintofscience.uk 2025 starts tomorrow !

Here's where you can find our researchers talking about our food, health and gut microbiome research in pubs and venues across our fine city of #Norwich

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Reversible excision of the wzy locus in Salmonella Typhimurium may aid recovery following phage predation ReSay · Episode

Here are the links for podcasts about this article open.spotify.com/episode/3Q4m...

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Reversible excision of the wzy locus in Salmonella Typhimurium may aid recovery following phage predation ReSay · Episode

Thanks Rob! Happy to make the research more accessible. Here is a link for Spotify users 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/3Q4m...

Reversible excision of the wzy locus in Salmonella Typhimurium may aid recovery following phage predation Author summary Salmonella Typhimurium is a major pathogen of livestock that adversely affects productivity and animal welfare and poses a risk of foodborne disease in the human population. Antibiotics...

Interested in #Salmonella #genetics and / or #phage ? - check out our newly published manuscript that implicates the reversible deletion of the wzy gene in S. Typhimurium (and likely other important Salmonella serovars) in evasion of phage predation journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Reversible excision of the wzy locus in Salmonella Typhimurium may aid recovery following phage predation Podcast Episode · ReSay · 14/05/2025 · 17m

...or if you are a glutton for punishment...or just have a long commute...you might prefer this extended version with all the details (17 minutes) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Reversible excision of the wzy locus in Salmonella Typhimurium may aid recovery following phage predation Podcast Episode · ReSay · 14/05/2025 · 6m

Prefer a more accessible form of our newly published manuscript? The inimitable @yaasircheema.bsky.social has made this 5 minute podcast...with some AI magic podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

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🆕 Vacancy! We are looking for a Group Leader in Functional Microbiome Research to join the laboratory of Professor @dfigeys.bsky.social

💷 Competitive
🗓️ Apply by 28 May 2025
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We have an open PhD position (deadline 14th March) in my group at QIB, Norwich, UK: buff.ly/1zRakR6
This might be of interest for researchers who want to understand gut microbial evolution, and how this changes when the human host is sick. Please RT.

Very proud of postdocs Josie and Zongting for presenting their algae-bacteria engineering work @microbiologysociety.org annual conference. Papers soon to follow! 🧪🧫

Thank you for the brilliant science and lecture!

Superb end of the day with Fleming Prize Lecture by @delafuentelab.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org #Microbio25

Apparently it can be predicted from your microbiome with 96% accuracy if one is a coffee drinker or not using machine learning. #Microbio25 #coffee #Liverpool

Fab talk about effect of location and supercoiling on gene expression by Caroline from @quadraminstitute.bsky.social #Microbio25

Nice presentation by @lucydillon.bsky.social on use of ML in AMR #Microbio25