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Rebecca Lowry Palmer
@bexlowrypalms.bsky.social
mum of two+microbiologist. Navigating career in science post kids 👩🏽‍🔬
Currently - PDRA Manchester uni, MERMan research group - bacterial mutation rates and DNA repair 🦠
Personal projects underway - Bdellovibrio: evolution, ecology and agriculture 🌱
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✨I am thrilled to announce that my #ERCStG project will be funded by @erc.europa.eu. It explores how predatory bacteria interact with bacteria, which they invade and kill 🔬. I am very grateful to the ERC, the panel, reviewers, mentors, collaborators and colleagues! 🙏
#ERCStG => tiny.cc/174s001
September 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Can Pseudomonas spp. Biocontrols help us to tackle Kiwi Canker? Isabella Frost is finding out! #PPATH2025
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Pseudomonas is under attack again, with Rebecca Lowry Palmer harnessing Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus as a Biocontrol Agent Against Pseudomonas syringae in Tomato Plants. #ECPP2025 #PPATH2025
September 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Very excited to be in Nottingham for the @bspp.bsky.social #bspp2025 giving a talk and poster presentation on my work with Bdellovibrio, plants and microbial evolution 🌱
September 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Bacterial #QuorumSensing is often assumed to follow a strict hierarchy. @brownlab.bsky.social &co find that #Pseudomonas aeruginosa instead uses a reciprocal, cooperative system that enhances responsiveness to population density & environmental changes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3I7DhRG
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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closing at the end of this week!
Another PDRA position! Join our team exploring how the mammalian immune system shapes microbiome ecology & evolution, and vice versa. In collaboration with @hepworth-lab.bsky.social funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Microbial Ecology:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
👏👏👏 incredible stuff
Delighted to share that we have been awarded a UKRI FemTech Accelerator in collaboration with MyBliss. We look forward to sharing the exciting science we’ve been cooking up!
August 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes

Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
August 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The most divine break in Wales with my wild ones ☀️🌊🐚
August 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Happy share this latest study from the team. Here we look at placental macrophage biology across pregnany and their interaction with Listeria monocytogenes.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Interactions between placental Hofbauer cells and L. monocytogenes change throughout gestation
Gestational changes in Hofbauer cells alter their interactions with Listeria monocytogenes.
www.science.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Charlie Mo: generic trade off in phage resistance leads to betalactam susceptibility and down-regulation of virulence genes in phage-resistant #MRSA strains #phages2025 🦠

elifesciences.org/articles/102...
Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.
elifesciences.org
August 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Interested in investigating the use of bacteriocins for the treatment of urinary tract infections? Come work with me and @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social Professor Lesley Hoyles as a research associate on an exciting project funded by The Urology Foundation

vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate:Clifton Campus
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Very proud to have our lab’s first work published in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social!

In this work, we use functional metagenomics to find phage defenses from human and soil microbiomes!

Congrats to first author @luis840alberto.bsky.social !

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

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July 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Do plasmids evolve faster 🐇, slower 🐢, or just like chromosomes 🧬?

In our new paper, we tackled this question using theory, simulations, bioinformatics, and experiments!

👇 Check out all the details in Paula’s thread!

Hint: 🐇 (most of the time)
July 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Check out these amazing lipid-monolayer-trapping oligomeric OMPs published by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and Lovering Labs. The BAM complex in these bugs must be wild!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A porin-like protein used by bacterial predators defines a wider lipid-trapping superfamily - Nature Communications
This study reveals that an outer membrane protein from the predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus forms a pentameric assembly that traps a lipid monolayer within. This allows the discovery of two superfa...
www.nature.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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#MicroSky Summer read!

Predatory bacteria kill and eat other bacteria. Their deadly actions come in many flavors, often via direct physical contact between predator &
prey 🧛

How do they do it?
Our review 📖 @coralietesseur.bsky.social @ysantin.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Strategies and mechanisms of contact-dependent predation in bacteria
Predatory bacteria kill other bacteria to acquire nutrients. Among diverse strategies to kill and feed on prey, contact-dependent predation stands out…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Allotment Sunday
July 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
My little work buddy today - poorly but there's always energy for painting and a thousand activities 🤦🏻‍♀️😬🎨
July 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Fresh from peer review a new and improved version of @taoranfu.bsky.social’s paper out today in @asm.org mSystems
journals.asm.org/eprint/8NWNW...
July 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Exciting opportunities to join me in this research will be coming soon! If you're passionate about understanding microbial evolution & tackling antimicrobial resistance, keep an eye out or feel free to get in touch. 🔬🧬 🍄 #AMR #Microbiology #Evolution
July 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Interested in working on Mucorales adaptation? Thanks to new funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social, we will have two postdoc and a technician positions advertised very soon! if interested, please get in touch for more information.
July 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM