CRISPR system reprograms bacteria to disarm deadly toxin
Gene-editing technique disables Shiga toxin genes in <i>E. coli</i>
Scientists have developed a new gene-editing approach that reprograms pathogens to stop producing toxins and instead make a helpful molecule. cen.acs.org/biological-c...
#CRISPR #geneediting #MolecularBiology #MolBiol #microsky
30.07.2025 20:46 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
very stimulating blog post for all those who are interested in phylogenetic trees and their construction (without being experts themselves) 👇 great weekend read!
thx andrew @andrewjroger.bsky.social for pointing this out🙏
#MicroSky
11.07.2025 14:19 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Biofilms 11
📢 The full #Biofilms11 programme is now available and is packed with groundbreaking content that will spark collaboration and inspire new ideas💡
🗓️ Join @ukbiofilms.bsky.social and @microbiologysociety.org from 13-15 May 2025 in Cardiff ➡️ tinyurl.com/2karbnht
#biofilms #biofilm #MicroSky
03.04.2025 09:29 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
At Poster 092 today! Loss of quorum sensing and a promoter region mutation in lung-like environments
01.04.2025 08:28 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
@brockhurstlab.bsky.social giving a talk about eco-evolutionary mechanisms of AMR in the AMR session at #Microbio25
01.04.2025 10:54 — 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Poster A097 tomorrow at #Microbio25!
31.03.2025 20:07 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
glad to be here!
17.11.2024 00:15 — 👍 41768 🔁 6329 💬 399 📌 163
This is a truly incredible resource for anyone working on bacterial genomics. I'm struggling to assemble and organise 1,000 bacterial genomes, and I can’t even begin to fathom handling 2.4 million 🤯
15.11.2024 21:00 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Professor Jessica Blair
Professor Jessica Blair
PhD studentship alert!! Two projects available with me fully funded by BBSRC
This one is a collaboration with Dr Michelle Buckner
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
And this one a collaboration with @overtonlab.bsky.social warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
Both will be lots of fun! Come & join us 😃
15.11.2024 14:57 — 👍 103 🔁 65 💬 2 📌 1
Incredible graphic - the myriad of ways that bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics.
14 resistance mechanisms, summarised by Idan Yelin & Roy Kishony in Cell
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
13.11.2024 12:45 — 👍 390 🔁 149 💬 17 📌 8
Thank you!
13.11.2024 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me too :)
13.11.2024 13:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Research Assistant - Impact Of Microbe-Pathogen Interactions On The Health Of Individuals With Cystic Fibrosis:Oxford Road
🚨 The Whelan lab is hiring! 🚨 We're looking for a Research Assistant to join our lab at U of Manchester. We're seeking someone with experience in microbiology & microbiome to support our growing group. Note this isn't a postdoc role (though keep 👀 for those announcements soon!) #Microsky 🧪 🧬 💻
24.09.2024 08:04 — 👍 33 🔁 44 💬 0 📌 2
Are you a researcher with an interest in #microbiology, #ecology and #evolution? Join our upcoming scientific discussion meeting on the topic of microbial immune systems: ow.ly/fcKR50S89xA
05.06.2024 15:02 — 👍 5 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Wohoo 🎉 🎉Many Congratulations James!!!
03.05.2024 12:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SMBE pangenomes meeting details
Dates: 26-28th November 2024.
Location: National Museum of Nature and Science, Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract submission: 1st June-31st August.
Registration: 1st July-31st October.
See the updated website: smbepangenomes.bacpop.org
01.05.2024 09:11 — 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Awesome 👏👏👏 Congratulations Matt!!!
01.05.2024 16:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
All set for the Pangenomics course by @jomcinerney.bsky.social @physaliacourses.bsky.social
Excited and looking forward to learning a lot from the expert himself!!!
15.04.2024 09:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Mike!!
11.04.2024 21:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Using phage therapy to resensitize P aeruginosa to antibiotics in murine lung infection, featuring @mermanchester.bsky.social’s Rosanna Wright, led by Jo Fothergill www.nature.com/articles/s41...
28.03.2024 16:41 — 👍 17 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations Matt!!! Wish I could be there to celebrate your success. Hopefully will see you soon :)
14.03.2024 08:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BBSRC 2-year PDRA position to work on ecology & evolution of phage therapy with synthetically engineered phages. Part of an exciting multi-university consortium & UK’s Engineering Biology priority. Synthetic genomics; experimental evolution; AMR. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #microsky
08.03.2024 15:30 — 👍 15 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 2
Exciting chance to join our Wellcome Trust collaborative project understanding AMR evolution in human infections! Genomics, experimental evolution, Pseudomonas. Research Assistant 4-days per week for 2-years, deadline 18.03. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #microsky
05.03.2024 21:22 — 👍 16 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 1
PhD Candidate in the Fineran Lab - studying the type I-D CRISPR-Cas system 🦠👩🏼🔬
📍University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ 🇳🇿
🇸🇰PhD student at Plevka Lab, CEITEC_Brno🇨🇿 | biochemistry & structural biology 🧬🧫🧪🔬
SWBio PhD Student co-supervised by Prof Tiffany Taylor @ University of Bath and Prof Edze Westra @ University of Exeter. Investigating bacterial defence system regulation and synergistic interactions. Exeter MSci Conservation and Biology graduate.
Postdoctoral Researcher / University of Cambridge 👩🏻🔬
Molecular evolution of pathogens | Wellcome Trust Fellow @biology.ox.ac.uk | Independent Investigator Data Analytics & Epi Group @psioxford.bsky.social | MedSci Fellow @lincoln.ox.ac.uk | Oxford DTP & Zoology alum | https://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ4613/
A hub of #lifescience research, training, and innovation focused on understanding the natural world through the lens of #genomics.
📍 Norwich, UK
🔗 earlham.ac.uk
Studying metabolic evolution, microbial macroevolution, biospheric self-organization, and the feedbacks between Earth and life. Dad, Husband, Scientist.
https://rogierbraakman.com/
PhD Researcher in the Westra/van Houte lab at the University of Exeter. I'm interested in using flow cytometry to run high-throughput competition/coevolution experiments to learn about the evolutionary ecology of bacterial defence systems.
Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University | Engineering phage & microbes to discover and create new biology.🇨🇦🇦🇺 👨👩👦👦 🦠🧬
Postdoc in Westra’s Lab University of Exeter | CRISPR | Quorum Sensing | Immune System of Bacteria
Exploring #ComputationalBiology & #Bioinformatics + Documenting my learning journey | Built by @noureldenrihan.bsky.social | 🌐 djosergenomics.github.io
Microbial evolution 🦠 | MbyRes in Westra Lab at the University of Exeter | Trinity College Dublin graduate | 🇮🇳🇮🇪🇬🇧
Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
PhD student with the Westra/van Houte Lab @UniExeCornwall. Researching how phage talk to each other whilst being mediocre at best at communicating myself 🦠
Microbiology Society: A world in which the science of #microbiology provides maximum benefit to society | microbiologysociety.org
lnk.bio/microbiosoc
The Yeast journal publishes articles and reviews on the most significant developments in unicellular fungi biology.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10970061
Posts by @melaniadangiolo.bsky.social
#Yeast #mycology #fungi #microbiology
PhD Student in Integrative structural biology on RNA-binding proteins.
#crystallography #SAXS #NMR #RNA #biophysics #biochemistry #structuralbiology
Microbiologist - Bacterial genetics
