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Open Innovation Hub for Antimicrobial Surfaces
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Creating scientific platforms in the area of antimicrobial surfaces & surface analysis. The Hub is focused on designing and engineering a new generation of intelligent surfaces that are capable of inhibiting bacterial, viral, and fungal attachment.
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📢Join the #BiofilmCreate competition!

📸Send in your photography and art related to biofilms to @ukbiofilms.bsky.social!

⏰5pm UK time, 17 October 2025.

🎉 Awards include gift cards for first (£200), second (£100) and third (£50) place

👉More details here: biofilms.ac.uk/biofilm-crea...

#MicroSky
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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On the 13th of September we had the opportunity to organise a drop-in activity on biofilms in collaboration with the @ukbiofilms.bsky.social

A big thank you to all our volunteers for helping deliver this activity!

👇 Read all about it on our website!

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September 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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💡 Check out our latest publication in the ACS Omega journal!

In this study, we investigated the use of Raman Spectroscopy in assessing bacterial metabolic activity using the dye Prussian Blue.

#MicroSky #Biofilms #Raman

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September 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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📢 We're excited to share that our 2025 Annual Report is now available! 👉 tinyurl.com/5m3kb3cy

The report highlights:

🔬 Research Strategy
🌏 International strategy
🏭 Industry engagement
🧑🏽‍🏫 Training
🗣️ Case studies

#biofilms #biofilm #MicroSky
September 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Get inspired to scale the challenges with our August issue!

Read about:

🦟Fighting malaria
🕹️Remote controlled probiotics
🍄Antifungal resistance
💉mRNA vaccines against bacteria
⚕️Yellow fever vaccine
🫧Archaeal ribosomes
🦠giardia-host interactions

and more.
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

#MicroSky
August 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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📢Come join us at @livuniphysics.bsky.social for an exciting PhD opportunity "Mapping Bacterial Interactions in Biofilm Colonies"!

⏰ Deadline 01/09/2025

👉Apply here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/mapp...

#MicroSky #Biofilms

@ukbiofilms.bsky.social
Mapping Bacterial Interactions in Biofilm Colonies | Courses | University of Liverpool
Biofilms are complex communities of microorganisms often attached to a surface and encased within protective matrix. They represent a key challenge in healthcare, due to their increased tolerance to t...
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July 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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📢Come join us at @livuniphysics.bsky.social for an exciting PhD opportunity "Understanding Microbial Colonisation of Surfaces via Correlative Spectroscopic Imaging"!

⏰ Deadline 01/09/2025

👉Apply here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/unde...

#MicroSky #Biofilms

@ukbiofilms.bsky.social
Understanding Microbial Colonisation of Surfaces via Correlative Spectroscopic Imaging | Courses | University of Liverpool
Microbial attachment to surfaces is the first step to biofilm formation, sophisticated microbial communities encased in a protective matrix. The impact of biofilms on global economies is almost $5tril...
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July 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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📢Come join us at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for an exciting PhD opportunity investigating the "Electrochemistry of Microbial Cells"!

⏰ Deadline 1st of September 2025

👉Apply here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/elec...

#MicroSky #Biofilms

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Electrochemistry of Microbial Cells | Courses | University of Liverpool
Bacteria are capable of complex metabolic activities which affect them and the environment surrounding them, for example inducing corrosion. Our understanding of microbial-surface electrochemistry is ...
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July 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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It’s the final day of an unforgettable graduation week! Our Chancellor Wendy Beetlestone shares a special message for our amazing #ClassOf2025 🎓✨

And remember—your journey with us doesn't end here. You're now a valued member of our alumni community ➡️ brnw.ch...

#LivUniGrad
July 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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📢Check out our latest publication exploring the limitation of using Live/Dead staining to determine bacterial cell death using correlative fluorescence microscopy, SEM and super resolution Microscopy.

#biofilms #MicroSky

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July 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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📢 3 PhD positions available in the Raval group!

⏰ Deadline 1st of September 2025

🧑‍🔬 The selected students will be enrolled in the
@ukbiofilms.bsky.social BITE doctoral training programme.

Follow the link to apply 👇

www.liverpool.ac.uk/antimicrobia...

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PhD opportunities | Open Innovation Hub for Antimicrobial Surfaces | University of Liverpool
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July 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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‼️Deadline extended for oral abstracts submissions to the Vibration at Interfaces Faraday Discussions @rsc.org!

⏰Send you applications in by the 21st of July 2025!

👉 Follow the link to submit: www.rsc.org/events/detai...
July 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Beautiful sunshine over Manchester Central this morning, as we look ahead to today's pre-Congress workshops and meetings at #mmc2025! We'll see you soon! 😀🔬
Front view of Manchester Central conference centre. Steps in the foreground. The building has a large domed roof and large white clock front and centre. Clear, blue sky beyond.
June 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Attending #mmc2025UK? The Microbiology Society are exhibiting and would love you to come and say hi. Come and visit us at stand 524.
June 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🎉My first corresponding author credit! So proud of this chapter!

🔍 If you want to know about what fungi have been found in wounds of all kinds, this is the chapter for you!

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

#MicroSky #mycology #wounds #infections
Prevalence and Influence of Fungal Biofilm in Wound Infections
Wound infections disrupt the normal wound healing process leading to longer treatment, hospitalisation, patient discomfort, and in extreme cases severe outcomes like amputations and death, representin...
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June 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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💫Exciting times at the SSRC!

💪Our new @brukercorporation.bsky.social AFM-IR platform is up and running! We cannot wait to start using this cutting edge technology in our work!

#microsky #biofilms #surfacescience

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May 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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📢 Join us in April 2026 for the Faraday Discussion series!

📌 The Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

📅 8 - 10 April 2026

⏰ Deadlines:
Oral abstracts: 07 July 2025
Poster abstracts: 26 January 2026
Register: 16th March 2026

👇 Find out more:

www.liverpool.ac.uk/antimicrobia...
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May 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Last week our team had the opportunity to showcase their work at the annual @ukbiofilms.bsky.social summit in Cardiff!

🥳Well done to PhD student Abbie Johnson winning the prize for best presentation!

@livunisps.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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✨Our annual #BiofilmCreate Competition is now open for 2025!

📷🎨🧑‍🔬Showcase your talent in #photography / #art whilst highlighting the impact of #biofilms

🏆 Gift cards will be awarded in both categories

🗳️biofilms.ac.uk/create

#biofilm #science #scicomm #AMR #microsky #biofilmaware
May 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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jallkja.bsky.social
Excellent talk by Darla Goeres at #biofilms11 in Cardiff! Come join our cost action and help improve biofilm standards!

www.cost.eu/actions/CA23...

#microsky
May 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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👏 Well done to PhD student Daniel Smaje! Excellent flash talk! Come visit his poster during the next #biofilms11 break!

#microsky

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May 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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👏Well done to PhD student Abbie Johnson for her flash presentation at #biofilms11!

There's still time to check out her poster #116 in the last poster session!

@ukbiofilms.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org
@livunisps.bsky.social

#microsky
May 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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A logic gate to release antimicrobials from deep within silicone medical devices in response to temperature and pH indicators of microbial presence - super cool talk from Yuri Diaz Fernnandez from @livuniopenhub.bsky.social at #Biofilms11 #MicroSky (Image: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...)
A cartoon showing logic gates of high/low temperature and high/low pH triggering release of an active molecules to target either biofilm or planktonic bacteria.
May 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Come and check out the excellent posters from our group members Dan Smaje, Abbie Johnson and @ericasl.bsky.social at #Biofilms11!

#microsky

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May 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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#Biofilms11 has officially started! Looking forward to three days full of #biofilm centric talks!

#microsky

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May 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM