Alison MacFadyen
@alisonmacfadyen.bsky.social
Computational Biologist at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Interests: #Knitting, #Gaming, Sci-Fi, #Running, #MolecularMicrobiology She/Her
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‘Why solutions to antimicrobial resistance are urgently needed‘ sergemostowylab.bsky.social & I had the opportunity to write an editorial for @dmmjournal.bsky.social ‘s collection celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social you can read it here: journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
Why solutions to antimicrobial resistance are urgently needed
Summary: This Editorial discusses the growing global problem of antimicrobial resistance, and new and emerging opportunities for developing real-world solutions, involving both basic science and clini...
journals.biologists.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
‘Why solutions to antimicrobial resistance are urgently needed‘ sergemostowylab.bsky.social & I had the opportunity to write an editorial for @dmmjournal.bsky.social ‘s collection celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social you can read it here: journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
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Happy to share our new AMR resource which has phenotypic AMR (usually MIC data) collected from publications and databases. This is paired with assemblies and annotations
We're excited for users who might train new models, find phenotype/genotype mismatches, or any other use
We're excited for users who might train new models, find phenotype/genotype mismatches, or any other use
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing health threat, making infections harder to treat and complicating routine medical care.
EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform.
#WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
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EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform.
#WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
🧬💻
A new gateway to global antimicrobial resistance data
New online portal connects bacterial genomes with experimental resistance data to support antimicrobial resistance research.
www.ebi.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Happy to share our new AMR resource which has phenotypic AMR (usually MIC data) collected from publications and databases. This is paired with assemblies and annotations
We're excited for users who might train new models, find phenotype/genotype mismatches, or any other use
We're excited for users who might train new models, find phenotype/genotype mismatches, or any other use
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Closing date for applications is the 19th August
*JOB AD*: interested in doing a postdoc in microbial metabolomics? Passionate about natural products mass spec?
Come join the group! Informal enquires welcome!
Closing Date: 19 August 2025
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
Come join the group! Informal enquires welcome!
Closing Date: 19 August 2025
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
Research Associate - Microbial Metabolomic
Research Associate - Microbial Metabolomic
jobs.ncl.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Closing date for applications is the 19th August
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Ever wondered why some antibiotics are made by Streptomyces on agar plates but not in liquid cultures? Read this work on redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis. Led by katienoble241.bsky.social and Rebecca Devine, and in collaboration with @barriewilks.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ever wondered why some antibiotics are made by Streptomyces on agar plates but not in liquid cultures? Read this work on redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis. Led by katienoble241.bsky.social and Rebecca Devine, and in collaboration with @barriewilks.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Meet Alyssa Winder, our Vacation Studentship recipient from the University of Suffolk. Alyssa shared that the grant provided valuable financial support; giving them more time to focus on research and build key professional development skills.
July 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Meet Alyssa Winder, our Vacation Studentship recipient from the University of Suffolk. Alyssa shared that the grant provided valuable financial support; giving them more time to focus on research and build key professional development skills.
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Abstracts closing! There’s still time to submit your abstract for Microbiology Society Annual Meeting in Ireland 2025. Submit your abstract now, before 1 August 2025: microb.io/IrelandMeeti... #MicrobioIrish25
July 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Abstracts closing! There’s still time to submit your abstract for Microbiology Society Annual Meeting in Ireland 2025. Submit your abstract now, before 1 August 2025: microb.io/IrelandMeeti... #MicrobioIrish25
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This opportunity is still open but closing at the end of July!
**NEW Doctoral Training Programme just launched!!** This exciting programme on Microbial Genomics for Health Protection is joint between @imibirmingham.bsky.social and UKHSA @ukhsa.bsky.social. 9 brilliant projects available!!
An exciting new Doctoral Training Programme in Microbial Genomics for Health Protection, in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social, has just launched, funded by @nihr.bsky.social there are 9 PhD projects available (UK students only) www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
July 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This opportunity is still open but closing at the end of July!
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📣 Save the date
📆 Tuesday 7 Oct '25
Get ready for the return of the Norwich Bioscience Institutes Accessible Science Talks!
Schools and colleges can join us online to hear directly from our researchers and technical specialists about their science & careers🔬🧬🌿🦠💻
📆 Tuesday 7 Oct '25
Get ready for the return of the Norwich Bioscience Institutes Accessible Science Talks!
Schools and colleges can join us online to hear directly from our researchers and technical specialists about their science & careers🔬🧬🌿🦠💻
July 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
📣 Save the date
📆 Tuesday 7 Oct '25
Get ready for the return of the Norwich Bioscience Institutes Accessible Science Talks!
Schools and colleges can join us online to hear directly from our researchers and technical specialists about their science & careers🔬🧬🌿🦠💻
📆 Tuesday 7 Oct '25
Get ready for the return of the Norwich Bioscience Institutes Accessible Science Talks!
Schools and colleges can join us online to hear directly from our researchers and technical specialists about their science & careers🔬🧬🌿🦠💻
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VACANCY - We're recruiting for an enthusiastic and talented Proteomics Scientist to join the #Proteomics Platform team, providing comprehensive services to the JIC, Norwich Research Park and other external partners.
okt.to/1aYUoQ
Closing date - 23 July 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite
okt.to/1aYUoQ
Closing date - 23 July 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite
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July 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
VACANCY - We're recruiting for an enthusiastic and talented Proteomics Scientist to join the #Proteomics Platform team, providing comprehensive services to the JIC, Norwich Research Park and other external partners.
okt.to/1aYUoQ
Closing date - 23 July 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite
okt.to/1aYUoQ
Closing date - 23 July 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite
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Anyway posting this again.
June 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Anyway posting this again.
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
Research Associate Genetic and functional analysis of Gram positive secretion systems and substrates
Research Associate Genetic and functional analysis of Gram positive secretion systems and substrates
jobs.ncl.ac.uk
April 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
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University of Glasgow Bacteriologists representing at #Microbio25 @uofgsii.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
University of Glasgow Bacteriologists representing at #Microbio25 @uofgsii.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org
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Marjory Stephenson Prize Winner, Professor George Salmond's, lecture on Phytopathogenesis, Quorum Sensing, Antibiotics, Flotation and Phages is about to start in Hall 1 at #Microbio25. Read about the prize winner - microb.io/ProfGeorgeSa...
Annual Conference 2025
31 March - 03 April 2025
microb.io
April 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Marjory Stephenson Prize Winner, Professor George Salmond's, lecture on Phytopathogenesis, Quorum Sensing, Antibiotics, Flotation and Phages is about to start in Hall 1 at #Microbio25. Read about the prize winner - microb.io/ProfGeorgeSa...
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VACANCY ⬇️ If you haven't yet - apply this week!
Application review starts today and the vacancy will remain open until the position is filled or April 25, 2025, whichever occurs first.
Apply online: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
Application review starts today and the vacancy will remain open until the position is filled or April 25, 2025, whichever occurs first.
Apply online: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
March 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
VACANCY ⬇️ If you haven't yet - apply this week!
Application review starts today and the vacancy will remain open until the position is filled or April 25, 2025, whichever occurs first.
Apply online: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
Application review starts today and the vacancy will remain open until the position is filled or April 25, 2025, whichever occurs first.
Apply online: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
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One week left to apply for this BBSRC funded PhD position in the Duncan lab, cosupervised by @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @ruamicro.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Antibiotics from the abyss – assessing the impact of deep-sea mining on biodiscovery at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Antibiotics from the abyss – assessing the impact of deep-sea mining on biodiscovery at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
One week left to apply for this BBSRC funded PhD position in the Duncan lab, cosupervised by @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @ruamicro.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Further insight into how CutRS functions in Streptomyces and some thoughts on how its redox state detection via conserved dual cysteine residues in the extra cellular domain of a sensor kinase may be present in almost all bacteria
@tommclean.bsky.social
@matthutchings.bsky.social
@tommclean.bsky.social
@matthutchings.bsky.social
Extracellular redox sensors control the protein secretion stress response in Streptomyces https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.20.644377v1
March 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Further insight into how CutRS functions in Streptomyces and some thoughts on how its redox state detection via conserved dual cysteine residues in the extra cellular domain of a sensor kinase may be present in almost all bacteria
@tommclean.bsky.social
@matthutchings.bsky.social
@tommclean.bsky.social
@matthutchings.bsky.social
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Come and join me at the Quadram Institute: we're looking for a new group leader working on pathogens and/or spoilage in the food chain.
🆕 Vacancy! We're looking for an exceptional scientist with a research focus on bacterial foodborne pathogens or microbial spoilage to join our Microbes and Food Safety research programme 🧫
💷 Competitive salary and support package
🗓️ Apply by 14 April 2025
➡️ buff.ly/XWvxrTB
💷 Competitive salary and support package
🗓️ Apply by 14 April 2025
➡️ buff.ly/XWvxrTB
March 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Come and join me at the Quadram Institute: we're looking for a new group leader working on pathogens and/or spoilage in the food chain.
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Family includes everyone! ❤️
November 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Family includes everyone! ❤️
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🦘✂️ Thanks to @cziscience.bsky.social , @wytamma.bsky.social and I are writing the next version of the Snippy bacterial variant calling pipeline. We want your input on what features s it will have. Please fill out this (longish) survey to help make Snippy great again!
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Snippy: Microbial Variant Calling Community Survey
Help us drive the next wave of innovation in Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) discovery and genome analysis by sharing your valuable experiences and insights. This in-depth survey aims at understa...
forms.gle
March 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🦘✂️ Thanks to @cziscience.bsky.social , @wytamma.bsky.social and I are writing the next version of the Snippy bacterial variant calling pipeline. We want your input on what features s it will have. Please fill out this (longish) survey to help make Snippy great again!
forms.gle/YJP6WQjsk8KK...
forms.gle/YJP6WQjsk8KK...
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Missed the @norwichmicro.bsky.social Annual Conference?
📽️ Watch back on some of the scientific posters ⤵️
📽️ Watch back on some of the scientific posters ⤵️
Centre for Microbial Interactions Annual Conference 2025 poster preview - Quadram Institute
The Centre for Microbial Interactions (CMI) is an initiative that has been launched to support and promote the ground-breaking discovery research conducted by the extensive microbiology community at…
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March 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Missed the @norwichmicro.bsky.social Annual Conference?
📽️ Watch back on some of the scientific posters ⤵️
📽️ Watch back on some of the scientific posters ⤵️
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We're currently recruiting a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer and an Associate Professor in #Pharmacy / #MedicinalChemistry Deadline is 19th March for both posts. Details here:
careers.uos.ac.uk/job/672999
careers.uos.ac.uk/job/672991
The quality of life on the Suffolk coast is rather nice! 😎👨🏻🔬👩🔬🔬🧪
careers.uos.ac.uk/job/672999
careers.uos.ac.uk/job/672991
The quality of life on the Suffolk coast is rather nice! 😎👨🏻🔬👩🔬🔬🧪
February 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We're currently recruiting a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer and an Associate Professor in #Pharmacy / #MedicinalChemistry Deadline is 19th March for both posts. Details here:
careers.uos.ac.uk/job/672999
careers.uos.ac.uk/job/672991
The quality of life on the Suffolk coast is rather nice! 😎👨🏻🔬👩🔬🔬🧪
careers.uos.ac.uk/job/672999
careers.uos.ac.uk/job/672991
The quality of life on the Suffolk coast is rather nice! 😎👨🏻🔬👩🔬🔬🧪
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MicrobesNG POPUP Conference is coming to Norwich! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics conference 3rd Jul
ECR's submit your abstract (talk or poster) by 3rd Apr www.surveymonkey.com/r/POP_UP_NOR
Please repost!
Organised with @getgenome.bsky.social & @norwichmicro.bsky.social
#MNGPopUp #ECR #MicroSky
ECR's submit your abstract (talk or poster) by 3rd Apr www.surveymonkey.com/r/POP_UP_NOR
Please repost!
Organised with @getgenome.bsky.social & @norwichmicro.bsky.social
#MNGPopUp #ECR #MicroSky
February 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
MicrobesNG POPUP Conference is coming to Norwich! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics conference 3rd Jul
ECR's submit your abstract (talk or poster) by 3rd Apr www.surveymonkey.com/r/POP_UP_NOR
Please repost!
Organised with @getgenome.bsky.social & @norwichmicro.bsky.social
#MNGPopUp #ECR #MicroSky
ECR's submit your abstract (talk or poster) by 3rd Apr www.surveymonkey.com/r/POP_UP_NOR
Please repost!
Organised with @getgenome.bsky.social & @norwichmicro.bsky.social
#MNGPopUp #ECR #MicroSky
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Good to the see The Science, Art and Writing Trust @sawtrust.bsky.social on BlueSky. This amazing charity goes into schools in deprived areas to do practical science with the kids who then interpret what they learned through art and poetry. www.sawtrust.org
The SAW Trust - The SAW Trust
The SAW Trust is a science education charity that aims to break down traditional barriers between science and the arts.
www.sawtrust.org
February 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Good to the see The Science, Art and Writing Trust @sawtrust.bsky.social on BlueSky. This amazing charity goes into schools in deprived areas to do practical science with the kids who then interpret what they learned through art and poetry. www.sawtrust.org