James Gurney

French farm has €90,000 worth of escargot snails stolen The break-in was "a real blow", says L'Escargot Des Grands Crus, which was preparing deliveries for the holiday season.

Escargone... I'll see myself out www.bbc.com/news/article...

For example, I've considered setting take home essay questions the require consideration of unethical experimental situations. ChatGTP, it seems, isn't very keen on writing on certain topic. But I've not worked out how to set such work without it potentially causing distress for some students.

Interesting, if anyone has other suggestions on ways to poison AIs to reduce student cheating I'm all ears!

PhD opportunity in my lab: exploring how commensals and pathogens build biofilm communities on endotracheal (ventilator) tubes. Microbial ecology, medical microbiology and fancy imaging! Co-supervised with the fabulous Saskia Bakker and Jeremy Webb warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

Interested in doing a PhD in phage biology? See below a super cool project on megaphage ecology and evolution available at the University of Jyväskylä (FIN) in Elina Laanto's lab (Project no. 4). Co-supervision provided by yours truly.

Long contractile tailed bacteriophage in a yellow-gold environment.

I made a phage… I think it’s in LB

Such a Friday, double win at Biology Department with Bio for Breakfast and Research day @jamesgurney.bsky.social @persisterbritt.bsky.social @kswetzel1.bsky.social

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap `genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.

My lab is gonna make the switch to from dplyr to genzplyr right away.

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

GURNEY LAB The Gurney lab began in 2022 at Georgia State University. We study how Phage interact with their bacterial hosts and how we might use that knowledge to build better phage therapeutics.

Ohhh, could you add my lab? We have a bunch of immune system stuff brewing www.gurneylab.com

Conda create -n chopchop

Picture of MEME students on the beach

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

I was thinking of this graphic just the other day in relation to AI and current gen in education.

273 °C also work at stopping those things.

YouTube video by The League of Nerds Trust Us, we're Liars -Pilot Podcast

A few months ago, myself @sallylepage.bsky.social and @dhewlett.bsky.social sat down and recorded a pilot podcast for Kurzgesagt interviewing Cancer expert @kimberly-luddy.bsky.social about all things Cancer. While the project is no more, I thought I'd share it! youtu.be/ZXo6uTf3Im8

Household energy after submitting grant this week.

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

please repost

PhD fellowship in biofilm-phage interactions

PhD fellowship in biofilm-phage interactions - with Mette Burmølle at University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰
deadline 1 October 2025

employment.ku.dk/faculty?show...

#phagesky #microsky

Come join us in Knoxville! 🧫🧪🦠

Recent paper from the lab studying predictors of phage cocktail efficacy against complex clinical Pseudomonas populations

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

Led by Rosanna Wright with extraordinary MSc (PhD) student Maisie Czernuska

Better together: Reciprocal activation of quorum sensing circuits enhances bacterial communication Many bacteria use quorum sensing to control gene transcription based on population density. This primer explores a recent study in PLOS Biology which found that in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, two quorum-s...

Andrew Frando, @jrchandler.bsky.social, and I wrote a primer about excellent work done in Sam Brown's group @brownlab.bsky.social

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The las and rhl QS systems have a reciprocal, synergistic, and unequal relationship. Top: Single-signal models demonstrate that the summed effects of single signals (3 oxo C12 HSL alone, red; C4 HSL alone, orange) cannot account for the maximal expression of lasI or rhlI. The upper green, flat surfaces in the plots indicate the maximum mean expression level measured across all combinations of signal concentrations while the lower semi-transparent surfaces mark the sum of single signal effects. The plotted points represent observed expression levels when C4 HSL is withheld (red) and when 3 oxo C12 HSL is withheld (yellow). Lines indicate the model predictions. Bottom: Multi-signal non-linear models capture the synergistic effects of both signals and match observed expression levels. Model estimates are shown as grid lines. Horizontal bars show the mean value of expression observed at each combination of signal concentrations. Lines extend from these mean values to the relevant grid point for clarity. Right: Data show that relationship of the las and rhl systems is reciprocal, and the multi-signal model quantifies the strength of those interactions. In particular, it reveals the contribution of both signals to the maximum fold-change in expression of both synthases. The charts in this panel summarize the contribution of 3 oxo C12 HSL (red), C4 HSL (yellow), and the synergistic combination of both (orange).

Bacterial #QuorumSensing is often assumed to follow a strict hierarchy. @brownlab.bsky.social &co find that #Pseudomonas aeruginosa instead uses a reciprocal, cooperative system that enhances responsiveness to population density & environmental changes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3I7DhRG

Standing room only for Eli Mehlferber from @brownbio.bsky.social for breakfast talk this morning. Giving a great talk.

BBC News has become subscription based

WHAT?!? one way to cut off my last connection to the UK. Since when has the BBC News become subscription based?

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

~3 inch Joro Spider. Invasive species in Georgia now.

New foster in the house. “Lovely” she fits her name to a tee. If you know anyone looking for a dog in the Atlanta area hit me up!

This is what the look of betrayal from a cat looks like.