Jai Mehat

Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution unlocks nutrient availability after a host switch Staphylococcus aureus has undergone metabolic remodeling to adapt to the dairy niche.

Insights into how #Staph aureus adapts to the bovine host by unlocking nutrients from the dairy niche. Great work by Amy Pickering, Jamie Gorzynski and others in the group. Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution after a host switch.|Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.

Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠

3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
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🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

Night view of Belfast City Hall illuminated with colourful lights, promoting abstract submission closing for Annual Conference 2026 at ICC Belfast from April 13-16.

“Pathogens without borders: Multi-host veterinary infections” at #Microbio26 brings together bacteriologists, virologists, parasitologists, and mycologists at the intersection of veterinary microbiology.

Abstract submissions close on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social

A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:

Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.

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Deadline: 12.11.25

More infos 👇
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High-risk clonal groups of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) demonstrate heterogeneous phenotypic characteristics in vitro and in vivo https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.648166v1

Call for applications 2025 - Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Research The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe, tis...

Two more weeks to apply to join us in Paris !
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"UKHSA has confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in the West Midlands region. Bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza is rare and has previously occurred a small number of times in the UK."

"The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype"

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Developing Phage Therapy to Combat Drug-Resistant Poultry Pathogens
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Please get in touch with any questions!

PhD Opportunities - FoodBioSystems Four-year funded PhD projects are available in areas that span the food chain from farm to fork. Closing date: 3 February 2024 (10:00 GMT)

🚨An exciting #PhD opportunity in my group🧫 @UniSurreyBioSci with Linda Oyama @QUB to work on #phage modulation of the poultry #microbiome and suppressing AMR. Closing date for applications is 3rd Feb

Apply here: tinyurl.com/y57huecd

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Sharing three fully funded PhD opportunities to join my lab at Queen’s to work on topics spanning bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, microbial interactions, & mobile genetic elements 🦠. Closing dates in January and February, and open to international candidates 🌍 Projects detailed below ⬇️

Use of Genome Scale Metabolic Reconstructions of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) phylogroups for the identification of lineage-specific metabolic pathways Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) are a genetically diverse pathotype primarily associated with extra-intestinal infections in birds. APEC lineages are predicted to have unique metabolic capabi...

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This is the preprint! Metabolic modeling of Avian Pathogenic E. coli, great work from former PhD student Huijun Long and bioinformatician HuiHai Wu, with @jaimehat.bsky.social and Rob La Ragione.

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, along w @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, are looking for a PhD student w bioinformatic experience/interest to investigate the evolution of transmissibility in bacterial pathogens, with a focus on P. aeruginosa. More info & link to apply below.

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Global phylogenomic analysis of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius reveals genomic and prophage diversity in multi-drug resistant lineages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.06.611613v1 Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is the foremost cause of opportunistic canine skin and mucosal infec

Global phylogenomic analysis of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius reveals genomic and prophage diversity in multi-drug resistant lineages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.06.611613v1

Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein home... Screening 100 million random genes, which lack homology to natural sequences, for their ability to rescue growth arrest of Escherichia coli cells caused by the toxin MazF, the authors find ~2,000 hi...

Fascinating paper on making new genes from random sequences!

Idan Frumkin & Michael Laub. Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein homeostasis pathways.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#Microsky #Genetics #Evolution #Microbiology

Brunel has an open position for a Microbiology Lecturer with a focus on antibiotic resistance or drug discovery. May suit ambitious early career scientists seeking to transition to an independent position. Happy to discuss, just send me a message.
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