Maggie Smith

Huge congratulations to Emma Davis, the winner of 2025's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize! We agree with Emma that all of the finalists' talks were brilliant and a massive well done to everyone involved!

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...

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Congratulations! Good choice by REF.

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.

Nature research paper: Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny

go.nature.com/3IwINxb

Ouch! Wishing a fast recovery!

My humble offering: Evolutionary relationships among diverse bacteriophages and prophages: all the world's a phage pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10051617/

Happy Birthday, mucker!! I hope you have a lovely day. You too Geertje!!

Super proud of amazing lab alumnus @mbottery.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious @wellcometrust.bsky.social fellowship to grow his lab @officialuom.bsky.social studying the evolution of fungal pathogens!

Mike has multiple postdoc positions available on his exciting project (details 👇)

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

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It is!!

If you enjoy single takes, I recommend the film ‘Boiling Point’ with Stephen Graham. Love ‘The Studio’ too.

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Congratulations to Professor Graham Hatfull on being elected as a Royal Society Fellow!! So pleased to see this. royalsociety.org/people/james...

I thought immediately of your work on antibacterial peptides when I read the hype.

Like antibiotics, we know antimicrobial peptides select for resistance in bacteria, but worse that peptide resistance can also cross-protect against host peptides, potentially undermining immunity. Caution required, not talk of “goldmines” on R4 Today

Arming the enemy: the evolution of resistance to self-proteins A remarkable range of novel antibiotics is attracting increasing interest as a major new weapon in the campaign against bacterial infection. They are based on the toxic peptides that provide the innat...

Given hyperbole about this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... in the news today (eg www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...) it is a good day to post this classic from >20 years ago: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Hi Ian, great to be here! Hoping to hear about yours and Paul’s adventures.

Thanks Paul! Took me a while!