Great morning listening to the Sheppard lab DPhil students present their first year of work at the Biology graduate symposium

Why is sharing your research with the media important? Sign up for this Microbiology Society free webinar on 24th October to find out more: microbiologysociety.org/event/full-e...

Engaging with the media (a free webinar for members)

🚨 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 🧪 🧬 💻

Research Assistant - Impact Of Microbe-Pathogen Interactions On The Health Of Individuals With Cystic Fibrosis:Oxford Road

Happy belated birthday Bex! 🎉

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Metabolic interactions control the transfer and spread of plasmid-encoded antibiotic resistance during surface-associated microbial growth

Ma et al. show that metabolic interactions determine the extent of spatial intermixing and the spatial positionings of different microbial populations during surface-associated growth. This determines...

🚨 Abstract submissions for the 2025 Micro Society Annual Conference are open! 🧬✨ Research on microbial warfare in bacteria and MGEs? We want to hear from you! Submit by Nov 12! 🔬 #Microbio2025#MicroSkymicrobiologysociety.org/event/annual...

Annual Conference 2025

Dad and brother loved it!

The best day celebrating the end of an era at Birmingham!

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Yesterday was a great day with Matt and Lilly graduating from their PhDs

Evolutionary dynamics of genome structure and content among closely related bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Interesting paper looking at bacterial evolution over ~100 years - in E. coli ST131. 1 structural change per 3 core genome SNPs.

First flash talk by @lillycummins.bsky.social on E. coli ST131 and how it has introduced novel alleles into the E. coli population.