🆕 Blog! This #BiofilmsWeek we catch up with Dr Heather Felgate to discover how studying the biofilms of Shewanella oneidensis and Geobacter sulfurreducens bacteria could help clean up metals from wastewater 🦠
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🆕 Blog! This #BiofilmsWeek we catch up with Dr Heather Felgate to discover how studying the biofilms of Shewanella oneidensis and Geobacter sulfurreducens bacteria could help clean up metals from wastewater 🦠
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🆕 We're part of a major new project aiming to understand exactly what makes some bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
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This project is with @jessicamablair.bsky.social and Sara Jabbari at UoB, @webberma.bsky.social at Quadram, @bugsinblood.bsky.social at Imperial and Dong-Hyun Kim at Nottingham - we are kicking off the project right now!
18.11.2025 09:51 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Really excited to say that we have been awarded a BBSRC sLola! Really looking forward to kick off this project with such a fantastic team! @webberma.bsky.social @overtonlab.bsky.social @bugsinblood.bsky.social Sara Jabbari, Dong-Hyun Kim @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.ukri.org/news/powerin...
18.11.2025 09:48 — 👍 53 🔁 9 💬 9 📌 0Super excited to be part of one of these projects - and looking forward to working with an amazing team!
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Interested in how microbes, the gut, and the immune system interact to influence brain and eye health as we age? Come and work with me at the Quadram!
14.11.2025 11:08 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0How do preservatives actually protect us from food-borne infections?
Mark Webber of @quadraminstitute.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of their #Microbiology paper on the effects of common preservatives on Salmonella and how insights can help find healthier alternatives microb.io/4hMVhyc
Heroic work by @bluebirdsjunk.bsky.social in pulling this mammoth study together
'Staphylococcus haemolyticus Population Genomics Provides Insights into Pathogenicity and Commensalism'
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Please share! Funded PhD with us studying how AMR evolves in mixed communities
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A digital illustration of different bacteria with the text, "Funded PhD, How does antibiotic resistance evolve in mixed communities?" With Professor Mark Webber, Apply by 2 December 2025
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🦠 How does antibiotic resistance evolve in mixed communities? with Professor Mark Webber @webberma.bsky.social
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Vacancy social card for a Group Leader position, seeking a scientist with a research focus on bacterial foodborne pathogens or microbial spoilage. Competitive salary and support package offered. Apply by 14 April 2025.
We're seeking a forward-thinking Group Leader to develop their research programme on bacterial foodborne pathogens or microbial spoilage 🦠 ⤵️
💷 Competitive salary and support package
🗓️ Apply by 14 April 2025
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Anyone interested in joining us @quadraminstitute.bsky.social as part of @norwichmicro.bsky.social we’re recruiting for group leaders!
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🆕 We catch up with Dr Andrew Bell to find out about his Quadram Institute Fellowship focused on how gut bacteria use a certain group of sugars called sialic acids 🦠
Everett et al in AAC (1996 vol 40) has a panel of quinolone resistant coli isolates with data for which produced OmpC vs OmpF and may be a start point
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