Siobhán O'Brien

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

Dublin is looking especially radiant this evening, maybe it’s the tenure? Thanks Trinity! 🎉🎓

Congratulations Rachel!

UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship to investigate the impact of microbial interactions on antimicrobial resistance evolution 🎉 🧫 really grateful for this investment in my lab and excited to start my fellowship in Jan’26!

www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

Here's the paper you may be referring to

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

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

This was the paper I was trying to remember last night, it looks great - look forward to getting stuck in!

Heading home after #ESEB2025. Head is melted but inspired by all of the incredible science. Was great to present our work (mostly by the brilliant @kelbrick.bsky.social) on evolution in multistressor environments, and of course to reconnect with old friends and colleagues from across Europe!

Boarding a plane to Barcelona for my first #ESEB since 2018 — two kids and one pandemic later. Excited for the science, slightly worried about my drastically reduced beer tolerance. #ESEB2025

Gifted in Euro just to make things awkward

Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1

Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation Abstract. Most knowledge about bacterial evolution and ecological interactions comes from laboratory studies. One difference between the wild and most labo

Our new paper on experimental evolution in wild tree-holes -Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation

#ISMEJournal
@duhitasant.bsky.social Tom Smith Edgar Wong Juli Cohen
@kayla-king.bsky.social
Tom Bell

academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

Research Ireland have a new programme to attract mid and established researchers from abroad to Ireland. Nice starting package and we don’t have REF 😂https://www.researchireland.ie/funding/global-talent-ireland/

Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!

Four year fully funded PhD studentship: Bioprospecting Marine Sponge Streptomyces for Novel Anti-Virulence Therapeutics at Trinity College Dublin on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Four year fully funded PhD studentship: Bioprospecting Marine Sponge Streptomyces for Novel Anti-Virulence Therapeutics at Trinity College Dublin, listed on FindAPhD.com

Looking to appoint a PhD candidate with background in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related field to work on discovery of infection combatting therapeutics in marine sponge-associated bacteria. Closing date 31st May 2025. International applications welcomed!🌎

Amazing news Hassan, so delighted for you!

Very excited to be presenting my work on how within-patient P. aeruginosa diversity can determine interspecies interactions with S. aureus in CF today at #Microbio25 !! 🦠 Come find me at B064 if you want to chat about Pseudomonas, microbial ecology or anything CF !!👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Presenting some of my Masters work today at #Microbio25. Come chat to me at poster A260 :))

Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics - 2025 meeting

I'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

🥳 Delighted this is going ahead again!

Boys In the Better Land Fontaines D.C. · Dogrel · Song · 2019

if I had to pick one! open.spotify.com/track/2dxXKq...

Are plants more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than altruists when tapped into fungal networks?

Read our new theory paper out today in @pnas.org w/ @stuwest.bsky.social @tomwscott.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(photo T. Munita)

Elevated mutation rates in multi-azole resistant Aspergillus fumigatus drive rapid evolution of antifungal resistance Nature Communications - Here, Bottery et al show that resistance to next generation antifungals is more likely to occur within azole resistant Aspergillus fumigatus due to the close linkage between...

New in Nature Comms, we show that azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus are more likely to evolve resistance to new antifungals due to variants in their DNA mismatch repair system rdcu.be/d3Iyc @natureportfolio.bsky.social #microsky #fungi #amr

Hello Bluesky,
We're so excited to be launching our first post for EMPSEB30! 🎉🤩
We've got lots of news to share! We've found an amazing venue and some fantastic plenary speakers, and we're on the lookout for sponsors!
Visit empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de to dive in!

#EMPSEB30 #Students #Conference

JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share!
#exetercec

jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

This is the first of many papers from @kelbrick.bsky.social ‘s PhD, with @jpjhall.bsky.social, Andy Fenton & Steve Parratt.

We found a fun interaction between refuges, nutrient content and motility: Increased motility was favoured in a spatially structured environment , but this phenotype was constrained under high salinity because increased movement negated the benefits of a spatial refuge