Aisling Brady
@aislingbrady.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool 👩🔬 you’ll probably find me talking about Salmonella and phages 🧫 or running 🏃♀️ or drinking coffee ☕️ or a beer 🍺 she/her 👩🏻🦰
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Fellowship application unsuccessful! First of many I am sure. Might be worth looking to leave Liverpool - if anyone in my network is looking for lecturers/junior group leaders. Hit me up. Virology, informatics, sequencing, RNA mods etc. 🦠🧬🧑💻
February 2, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Fellowship application unsuccessful! First of many I am sure. Might be worth looking to leave Liverpool - if anyone in my network is looking for lecturers/junior group leaders. Hit me up. Virology, informatics, sequencing, RNA mods etc. 🦠🧬🧑💻
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PhD position available in our team to study how UPEC exploits metals to successfully colonise the host gut. Cool collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @banzhaflab.bsky.social Please share and get in touch for more details
Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
PhD position available in our team to study how UPEC exploits metals to successfully colonise the host gut. Cool collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @banzhaflab.bsky.social Please share and get in touch for more details
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🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
Postdoctoral position - Synthetic Biology / Bacterial Immunity - Research
The Bikard lab at Institut Pasteur in Paris is seeking to hire postdoctoral researchers. We are investigating bacteria / bacteriophages interactions, and the genetic innovation that happens at this in...
research.pasteur.fr
January 28, 2026 at 11:19 AM
🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
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#microsky #phagesky #phage
At last! Great to see this one out: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Here, we discovered a nested phage-bacteria network despite their high genetic and ecological diversity. Kudos to everyone involved, especially @chloe-feltin.bsky.social !
@phimresearch.bsky.social
At last! Great to see this one out: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Here, we discovered a nested phage-bacteria network despite their high genetic and ecological diversity. Kudos to everyone involved, especially @chloe-feltin.bsky.social !
@phimresearch.bsky.social
Ecological ubiquity and phylogeny drive nestedness in phages–bacteria networks and shape the bacterial defensome
Author summary Viruses that infect bacteria, known as phages, are part of microbial communities and influence the abundance, diversity, and traits of their hosts. In an agriculture-related context, th...
journals.plos.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM
#microsky #phagesky #phage
At last! Great to see this one out: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Here, we discovered a nested phage-bacteria network despite their high genetic and ecological diversity. Kudos to everyone involved, especially @chloe-feltin.bsky.social !
@phimresearch.bsky.social
At last! Great to see this one out: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Here, we discovered a nested phage-bacteria network despite their high genetic and ecological diversity. Kudos to everyone involved, especially @chloe-feltin.bsky.social !
@phimresearch.bsky.social
Ecologist friends! Can anyone recommend papers that link species abundance distributions to ecological processes? I'm interested in what inferences can be made from SADs, and the theoretical basis for those inferences. Thanks 🫶
January 12, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Preprint alert📢!
Ever wondered how much bacterial parasites influence evolutionary outcomes of their host?
➡️ We co-evolved two bacterial strains in conditions in which the costs and benefits of prophage carriage varied
Here is what we found. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#MicroSky #PhageSky
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➡️ We co-evolved two bacterial strains in conditions in which the costs and benefits of prophage carriage varied
Here is what we found. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#MicroSky #PhageSky
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Environment-dependent evolution drives divergent adaptive strategies and parasite dynamics in a minimal community
Prophages, phage genomes integrated into bacterial chromosomes, are widespread, yet, the extent to which these resident parasites contribute to host fitness and shape evolutionary trajectories, partic...
www.biorxiv.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Preprint alert📢!
Ever wondered how much bacterial parasites influence evolutionary outcomes of their host?
➡️ We co-evolved two bacterial strains in conditions in which the costs and benefits of prophage carriage varied
Here is what we found. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#MicroSky #PhageSky
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➡️ We co-evolved two bacterial strains in conditions in which the costs and benefits of prophage carriage varied
Here is what we found. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#MicroSky #PhageSky
🧵
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I'm proud to share the latest methods work from my group. Led by @revathykri.bsky.social we wrote a book chapter on how we process and analyse viromes.
Thanks to co-authors @rikhaagmans.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social & Alise Ponsero
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
Thanks to co-authors @rikhaagmans.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social & Alise Ponsero
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
Virome Analysis
Viruses are omnipresent and the most abundant biological entities on the planet. They play a critical role in shaping the ecology and evolution of all life forms. This chapter provides methods to perf...
link.springer.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I'm proud to share the latest methods work from my group. Led by @revathykri.bsky.social we wrote a book chapter on how we process and analyse viromes.
Thanks to co-authors @rikhaagmans.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social & Alise Ponsero
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
Thanks to co-authors @rikhaagmans.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social & Alise Ponsero
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
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Excited to share our latest work with @albertomarina.bsky.social and @avigdoreldar.bsky.social labs, where we decipher the mechanism by which SPβ-like phages sense the SOS response to control the lysis–lysogeny switch. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
An unprecedented DNA recognition–mimicry switch governs induction in arbitrium phages
Temperate phages integrate multiple information sources to regulate lysis-lysogeny transitions. SPBeta-like phages use arbitrium signalling and DNA damage to control repressor activity during lytic in...
www.biorxiv.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Excited to share our latest work with @albertomarina.bsky.social and @avigdoreldar.bsky.social labs, where we decipher the mechanism by which SPβ-like phages sense the SOS response to control the lysis–lysogeny switch. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It was really great to meet you @vivekmutalik.bsky.social !
Had such a great time with @jayhinton.bsky.social strolling around Liverpool, discussing science &life, visiting Hinton Lab & other microbiology labs at Liverpool
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It was really great to meet you @vivekmutalik.bsky.social !
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High-throughput DNA extraction from soil: experiences? best kits? best tools? If you had a decent chunk of money to throw at it, what system would you set up to make it fast and high quality? 🌾 🧪 🔬 🦠
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
High-throughput DNA extraction from soil: experiences? best kits? best tools? If you had a decent chunk of money to throw at it, what system would you set up to make it fast and high quality? 🌾 🧪 🔬 🦠
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🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
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The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes! The winners will be awarded and deliver Prize Lectures at Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast from 13–16 April. Find out more about it: microb.io/PrizeWinners.... Meet the winners below. #Microbio26
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes! The winners will be awarded and deliver Prize Lectures at Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast from 13–16 April. Find out more about it: microb.io/PrizeWinners.... Meet the winners below. #Microbio26
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🚨#PhD studentship opportunity! Plasmids provide bacteria with antimicrobial resistance, but do they have more fundamental effects on behaviour? 🧫🦠💫🧟♂️
Apply for a 4y funded MRC DiMeN position with me and Jamie Wheeler @livuni-ives.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Apply for a 4y funded MRC DiMeN position with me and Jamie Wheeler @livuni-ives.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Resistant zombies: how drug-resistance plasmids manipulate the behaviour of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa at University of Liverpool on Fin...
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Resistant zombies: how drug-resistance plasmids manipulate the behaviour of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa at University of Li...
www.findaphd.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨#PhD studentship opportunity! Plasmids provide bacteria with antimicrobial resistance, but do they have more fundamental effects on behaviour? 🧫🦠💫🧟♂️
Apply for a 4y funded MRC DiMeN position with me and Jamie Wheeler @livuni-ives.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Apply for a 4y funded MRC DiMeN position with me and Jamie Wheeler @livuni-ives.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Theres still time to apply for our PhD project on UPEC/immune cell interactions. Deadline December 4th
If you are interested in researching how drug resistant bacteria evade killing by our immune system, them this PhD project is for you. Come join the our team at Newcastle, in collaboration with University of Liverpool, and lead research at the interface of microbiology, immunology and metabolomics.
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Hiding in plain sight: How multi-drug resistant pathogens evade detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Hiding in plain sight: How multi-drug resistant pathogens evade detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University, listed on Fin...
www.findaphd.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Theres still time to apply for our PhD project on UPEC/immune cell interactions. Deadline December 4th
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Final call! Abstract submissions for Annual Conference 2026 close at 23:59 GMT tonight. Submit your work and join us in Belfast: microb.io/AC26Abstracts #Microbio26
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Final call! Abstract submissions for Annual Conference 2026 close at 23:59 GMT tonight. Submit your work and join us in Belfast: microb.io/AC26Abstracts #Microbio26
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Excited to share our latest work, where we create Salmonella mutants deficient for cohorts of SPI-2 T3SS effectors. These strains can be used to efficiently identify particular effectors that contribute to SPI-2 phenotypes doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Salmonella multimutants enable efficient identification of SPI-2 effector protein function in gut inflammation and systemic colonization - Nature Communications
Intracellular Salmonella enterica uses a type III secretion system to secrete more than 30 effector proteins into host cells. Here, Newson et al. generate six mutant strains deficient in different set...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Excited to share our latest work, where we create Salmonella mutants deficient for cohorts of SPI-2 T3SS effectors. These strains can be used to efficiently identify particular effectors that contribute to SPI-2 phenotypes doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Intracellular Salmonella hijacks the mitochondrial citrate carrier to evade host oxidative defenses
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Intracellular Salmonella hijacks the mitochondrial citrate carrier to evade host oxidative defenses - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors show that Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium co-opts the host mitochondrial citrate carrier (CIC) to regulate the redox state of its vacuole, facilitating intracellular...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Intracellular Salmonella hijacks the mitochondrial citrate carrier to evade host oxidative defenses
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One week to go! Abstract submissions for Annual Conference 2026 close at 23:59 GMT on Tuesday 11 November. If you study microbes, there’s a home for your work at #Microbio26
Submit your work to one of >20 available sessions at: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
Submit your work to one of >20 available sessions at: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
One week to go! Abstract submissions for Annual Conference 2026 close at 23:59 GMT on Tuesday 11 November. If you study microbes, there’s a home for your work at #Microbio26
Submit your work to one of >20 available sessions at: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
Submit your work to one of >20 available sessions at: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
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🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social postgrad researchers have taken top honours in the @microbiologysociety.org Sir Howard Dalton Early Career Microbiologist of the Year competition.
Emma Davies (@cvrinfo.bsky.social) was named winner, with Phoebe Crossley (Microbiology) 3rd.
🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...
Emma Davies (@cvrinfo.bsky.social) was named winner, with Phoebe Crossley (Microbiology) 3rd.
🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...
October 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social postgrad researchers have taken top honours in the @microbiologysociety.org Sir Howard Dalton Early Career Microbiologist of the Year competition.
Emma Davies (@cvrinfo.bsky.social) was named winner, with Phoebe Crossley (Microbiology) 3rd.
🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...
Emma Davies (@cvrinfo.bsky.social) was named winner, with Phoebe Crossley (Microbiology) 3rd.
🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...
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I am delighted to be a co-investigator on this newly funded Wellcome Discovery Award. Excited to begin work with the team (including those not on Bluesky!)
@jayhinton.bsky.social @roygoodacre.bsky.social @lisamaierlab.bsky.social @blancaps.bsky.social
@jayhinton.bsky.social @roygoodacre.bsky.social @lisamaierlab.bsky.social @blancaps.bsky.social
NEWS | Professor @jayhinton.bsky.social and an international team have been awarded £4.56M Wellcome Discovery Award to investigate natural human resistance to Salmonella
🔗 bit.ly/4hujsRG
@livuninews.bsky.social | #TeamLivUni
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@livuninews.bsky.social | #TeamLivUni
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I am delighted to be a co-investigator on this newly funded Wellcome Discovery Award. Excited to begin work with the team (including those not on Bluesky!)
@jayhinton.bsky.social @roygoodacre.bsky.social @lisamaierlab.bsky.social @blancaps.bsky.social
@jayhinton.bsky.social @roygoodacre.bsky.social @lisamaierlab.bsky.social @blancaps.bsky.social
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NEWS | Professor @jayhinton.bsky.social and an international team have been awarded £4.56M Wellcome Discovery Award to investigate natural human resistance to Salmonella
🔗 bit.ly/4hujsRG
@livuninews.bsky.social | #TeamLivUni
🔗 bit.ly/4hujsRG
@livuninews.bsky.social | #TeamLivUni
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NEWS | Professor @jayhinton.bsky.social and an international team have been awarded £4.56M Wellcome Discovery Award to investigate natural human resistance to Salmonella
🔗 bit.ly/4hujsRG
@livuninews.bsky.social | #TeamLivUni
🔗 bit.ly/4hujsRG
@livuninews.bsky.social | #TeamLivUni
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New paper with my (amazing) friend and mentor @jrpenades.bsky.social
Really looking forward to see what plasmid aficionados think of this one!!
With @asantoslopez.bsky.social @wfigueroac3.bsky.social Akshay Sabins and others
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Really looking forward to see what plasmid aficionados think of this one!!
With @asantoslopez.bsky.social @wfigueroac3.bsky.social Akshay Sabins and others
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Non-conjugative plasmids limit their mobility to persist in nature
Sabnis et al. explain why non-conjugative plasmids move at a low rate in nature. While
increased mobility can easily evolve by incorporating phage DNA into plasmids, this
is disadvantageous because it...
www.cell.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New paper with my (amazing) friend and mentor @jrpenades.bsky.social
Really looking forward to see what plasmid aficionados think of this one!!
With @asantoslopez.bsky.social @wfigueroac3.bsky.social Akshay Sabins and others
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Really looking forward to see what plasmid aficionados think of this one!!
With @asantoslopez.bsky.social @wfigueroac3.bsky.social Akshay Sabins and others
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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After being with the journal since its very inception, the time has come for me to step back from Microbial Genomics. This is a wonderful opportunity to have a leadership role in one of the leading journals for microbial genomics research
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<i>Microbial Genomics </i> Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Call for Expressions of interest
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October 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
After being with the journal since its very inception, the time has come for me to step back from Microbial Genomics. This is a wonderful opportunity to have a leadership role in one of the leading journals for microbial genomics research
microbiologysociety.org/news/society...
microbiologysociety.org/news/society...
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Why not apply for a Microbiology Society grant to support your attendance at @shigellameeting.bsky.social?
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microbiologysociety.org/grants/all-g...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Why not apply for a Microbiology Society grant to support your attendance at @shigellameeting.bsky.social?
microbiologysociety.org/grants/all-g...
microbiologysociety.org/grants/all-g...
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Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! 💙
To celebrate postdocs we've teamed up with @proteintech.bsky.social to organise free social events for staff and students at universities.
Register for a free event near you:
pintofscience.co.uk/paw/
#NPAW2025 #CelebratePostdocs
To celebrate postdocs we've teamed up with @proteintech.bsky.social to organise free social events for staff and students at universities.
Register for a free event near you:
pintofscience.co.uk/paw/
#NPAW2025 #CelebratePostdocs
September 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! 💙
To celebrate postdocs we've teamed up with @proteintech.bsky.social to organise free social events for staff and students at universities.
Register for a free event near you:
pintofscience.co.uk/paw/
#NPAW2025 #CelebratePostdocs
To celebrate postdocs we've teamed up with @proteintech.bsky.social to organise free social events for staff and students at universities.
Register for a free event near you:
pintofscience.co.uk/paw/
#NPAW2025 #CelebratePostdocs