Many congratulations to Tom Darton, newly awarded a Future Leaders fellowship from UKRI, to establish a controlled human infection model for Staph. Aureus - very well-deserved! Sheffield Uni - Clinical Medicine 🦠 💉 🫀💙🔬🩺 75 new Future Leaders Fellows and upcoming rounds announced ukri.org/news/75-new-fu…

Know anyone who might want to join? Please tell them to apply (PhD) - 'A threat in plain sight: the genomics and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in the most common hospital pathogens' (Deadline Jan 5th): ineosoxford.ox.ac.uk/training-educa…

We are looking to appoint a new Microbial Genomics senior editor, loosely in the area of 'Functional Genomics & Microbe-Niche Interactions'. Feel free to email me if you're interested. More details here: microbiologysociety.org/news/society-n…

Positions available in our group for an exciting Wellcome trust funded project exploring C. difficile-host-commensal interactions-if interested do get in touch! Advert links to follow

Applications for #JMedMicro Editor roles close on 5 March. If you are interested in editing for the journal and have expertise in antimicrobial resistance, diagnostics, microbiome or clinical virology, please apply here: microb.io/jobs

Due to high demand, we will be closing registration for Annual Conference 2024 in Edinburgh early. Please make your booking on our website to join us: microb.io/3Ti2hJn #Microbio24

The DWS Travel #Grant has been instrumental in supporting numerous aspiring scientists. We shine a spotlight this #BritishScienceWeek on Jess Buddle, a highly motivated #PhD student studying #microbiology ~ buff.ly/48KcthE #smashingstereotypes #WomenInSTEM #STEM

Excited for some great talks at #Microbio24! I have a PhD studentship, 2-year postdoc and 1-year research assistant positions available, so please message me through the conference app or on here if you'd like to meet to chat about opportunities! #MicroSoc

Microbiomes are crucial for health and the environment. This review in #MGen uses deep learning to analyse metagenomics, improving pathogen identification and disease prediction. Submit your work to #MGen's Metagenomics and Microbiomes section! doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…

PhD opportunity in chemical biology and antibiotic discovery with @gLarrouyM_lab Ed Tate and me! imperial.ac.uk/a-z-research/c…

Check out this great opportunity from John Innes Centre to hear about state-of-the-art research in bacterial microbiology! Applications are invited from post docs and PhD students (deadline 10th June). Full details can be found at the link below ⬇️

Delighted to share our recent molecular genomic work characterising non-invasive throat and skin isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes during the 2022-23 upsurge in Sheffield, UK Claire Turner Thushan de Silva and other colleagues Three findings: 🧵👇

UK increases in #pertussis, #AMR concerning and potentially preventable (also #H5N1). #StrepA is another concern globally-but prev neglected by UK science. Today 3 papers on X! Need a #StrepAvaccine rdcu.be/dHxGA doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Job Claxon! Lectureship position available in School of Immunity and Infection. Come join us here in Glasgow Glasgow Microbiology UofG Sii UofG MVLS Details here- gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ (vacancy number 147328)

🚨EXCITING JOB OPPORTUNITY!!🚨 Come work with us in our new labs investigating bacterial adherence to sex-specific cells and developing novel therapeutics to stop them! For informal enquiries please DM me or email [email protected] jobs.ac.uk/job/DHW987/res…

1/2 🧵⚠️ Another season of high iGAS incidence 🤒. In the Netherlands and England, 20-60% of all iGAS cases caused by Streptococcus pyogenes emm type 3.93 (baseline <1%) containing a unique genomic inversion. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Funding for an exciting(!) non-clinical PhD with us Sheffield Uni - Clinical Medicine 🦠 💉 🫀💙🔬🩺 Thushan de Silva The Florey Institute : Investigating immune responses to skin and soft tissue infection - Please SHARE findaphd.com/phds/project/i…

There were hypotheses about the potential drivers of the 22-23 upsurge of scarlet fever and deaths from invasive StrepA, but something was missing. Read our blog from Jenny Hall on the investigation here👇microb.io/3WLDIV9 Molecular Microbiology Sheffield Claire Turner The Florey Institute

✨️ It's been a long time coming ✨️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… Really excited to finally be able to share the publication of my first first-author research paper in PLOS Biology today! A Thread 🧵

Congratulations Jess! An absolutely beautiful paper on an incredibly important topic DiMeN DTP Science at Sheffield