Steve Diggle

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

Lecturership in Microbiolgy @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Application submission deadline coming soon - October 9th. universityvacancies.com/university-g...

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YouTube video by American Society for Microbiology Fanny Angelina Hesse and the Discovery of Agar

Since the late 19th century, microbiologists have relied on agar and its derivatives for growing and separating microbes. However, how many of us really know the story of how this ingredient changed science? The remarkable story of Fanny Angelina Hesse youtu.be/qyTjqIKTQLo

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Cyclic-di-GMP signalling mutants drive ecological succession and self-generated diversity in experimentally evolved biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms represent a discrete form of microbial life which are physiologically distinct from free-living planktonic cells. The altered phenotypic manifestations of the biofilm may also elicit lifestyl...

New paper alert! Serial selection for hyper-biofilm production identifies c-di-GMP as central to genetic control and phenotypic dynamics. @microbiologysociety.org @webberma.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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Julian Davies

Julian Davies was a renowned scientist who made crucial strides in the study of antibiotics & antibiotic resistance. Honor his legacy at the Julian Davies Memorial Symposium on Oct. 10, hosted by the University of British Columbia. Register by Sept. 15 to attend via Zoom or in person! asm.social/2Af

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Pretend to be David Attenborough by declaring "others may not be so lucky" after you have finished watching an animal doing anything whatsoever. Richard Bowen, Swansea

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Attending a Georgia One Health Symposium hosted by Georgia Southern University. Great mix of people from different places and backgrounds. Lots of future possibilities for collaborative work. #OneHealth

I know. Annoying. They made the announcement recently

Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham Apply now for the Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

We have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III.

Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it

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Role of AprA and pyocyanin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa on Staphylococcus aureus tolerance to silver The opportunistic pathogens Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are often found together causing persistent infections where they exhibit complex interactions that affect their virulence ...

New paper alert! Complex interactions between Pseudomona aeruginosa and Staph aureus involved in tolerance to silver of Staph. @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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Type VI secretion system activity at lethal antibiotic concentrations leads to overestimation of weapon potency Competition assays are a mainstay of modern microbiology, offering a simple and cost-effective means to quantify microbe–microbe interactions in vitro. Here, we demonstrate a key weakness of this meth...

New paper alert! Toxins can skew the results of competition assays, fascinating short communication from @prokaryota.bsky.social and @willpjsmith.bsky.social. @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Host niche-specific challenges hindering the treatment of polymicrobial infections | Journal of Bacteriology Antimicrobial recalcitrance in pathogenic microbes is a growing problem around the world (1–3). In addition to struggling to keep up with the growing multitude of organisms evolving resistance mechanisms, we must also contend with a variety of other issues that hinder antibiotic effectiveness. For example, polymicrobial infections are now understood to be a major problem in the world of antimicrobial recalcitrance due to the ability of certain microbial communities to work together via polymicrobial synergism. In fact, many infections that are recalcitrant to antimicrobials have been determined to be polymicrobial (4). Polymicrobial infections have been shown to significantly increase the cost of patient treatment and hospital length of stay, costing thousands of dollars for the individual (5). Polymicrobial chronic wounds alone now cost more than 28 billion dollars a year and affect more than five to seven million Americans every year (6, 7). In addition to battling complex communities of microorganisms, we must also determine the best way to prescribe the same antibiotics across multiple body sites with minimal impact on patients. Antibiotic prescription can have negative impacts at sites across the body, including allergic reactions and inhibiting or killing the host microbiome (8, 9). As every patient is unique (different immune responses, hormone levels, and ages), and each body site is different (nutrient composition and stressors), we must adapt our antibiotic prescription methods to most effectively treat the individual and their illness. This minireview focuses on the challenges that hinder effective antimicrobial prescription across the body, emphasizing the importance of accounting for distinct polymicrobial communities and niche-specific stressors to the bacteria that differ at each body site.

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Come and be our new Chair of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech! www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search

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Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.

Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal

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I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

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Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

They will get accepted quickly! A perfect business model.

I’ve been thinking this will happen for sometime now. I feel it’s a matter of when and not if

Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show Exclusive: Research on burden of antibiotic resistance for 122 countries predicts dire economic and health outcomes

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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c...

Important read

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Storage stability of non-encapsulated pneumococci in saliva is dependent on null-capsule clade, with strains carrying aliC and aliD showing a competitive disadvantage during culture enrichment Non-encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae (NESp) represent up to 19% of circulating pneumococci and exhibit high rates of genetic exchange and antimicrobial resistance. Saliva is increasingly used as ...

New paper alert! In depth characterisation of non-encapsulated pneumococci in saliva: stability, detection and recovery. Important findings for using saliva samples for carriage studies. @microbiologysociety.org @annewyllie.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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