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Pathogenic Mechanisms Research Group
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Pathogenic Mechanisms Research Group - University of Galway.
PI: Dr Aoife Boyd. Host-microbe interactions: pathogenic Vibrio bacteria. Marine aquaculture. Natural antimicrobial molecules. Microbes & venomous animals.
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Submit your abstract for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists, Annual Conference 2026. Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s conference now features two-day attendance tickets.
Night view of Belfast City Hall illuminated with colourful lights, promoting abstract submission closing for Annual Conference 2026 at ICC Belfast from April 13-16.
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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jayhinton.bsky.social
Proud to be part of this incredible multidisciplinary team uncovering why some people are NOT infected by Salmonella. This new Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social funding will allow us to uncover why some people naturally resist infection and colonisation by Salmonella Typhimurium.
livuni-ives.bsky.social Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences @livuni-ives.bsky.social · 14d
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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October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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A request for weather interested volunteers!

Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue

Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...
October 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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ukbiofilms.bsky.social
✨Last chance to submit to our #BiofilmCreate #competition, which closes tomorrow (17 October 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

#scicomm #AMR #MicroSky #biofilm
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:
Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2." I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.
October 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
We are looking for a new generation of scientists pushing the boundaries of infection research and using AI to shape the future of health research.
🚀Apply for junior group leader positions in our HUMAN program by November 26.
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
Ankündigung von offenen Stellen am Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung mit QR-Codes zu den Stellenanzeigen
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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crick.ac.uk
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social
Happy to share our new review in Royal Society Open Biology 🎉
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation:
How tRNA mods rewire translation under oxidative + antibiotic stress (MoTTs, moonlighting, therapy angles).
Read: doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
#RNAsky #microsky #AMR #RNAmodifications
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation | Open Biology
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and their modifications are central to bacterial translation and physiology, yet their roles in stress adaptation remain underexplored. While extensively studied in eukaryotes, a...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a class of extremely porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide. #chemsky 🧪
Chemistry Nobel for scientists who developed massively porous ‘super sponge’ materials
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi pioneered the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide.
go.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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royalsociety.org
Are you a biologist or an ecologist with a research interest in pathogens, bacteria and symbionts?

Join our upcoming residential meeting in Manchester on obligate intracellular bacteria on 3-4 November 2025.

royalsociety.org/science-even...
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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efsa.europa.eu
📣 Just published | 4th joint monthly report on #WestNileVirus with @ecdc.europa.eu

➡️ Belgium reports its first WNV outbreaks in wild birds – a new EU country affected
➡️ 989 human cases & 63 deaths across 13 countries
➡️ 127 equid & 217 bird outbreaks across 9 countries

More 👉 link.europa.eu/fNP38x
High Magnification Microscopy of Malaria Infected Mosquito.
October 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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ecdc.europa.eu
🚀 We’re hiring!

#ECDC is looking for new leaders to strengthen Europe’s defences against infectious diseases.

🧭 Head of Unit – Resource Management Services
🗣️ Head of Section – Science & Public Health Communication

📅 Apply by early November → bit.ly/ECDCjobs

#ECDC #EUJobs #EUCareers
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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bioecoocean.bsky.social
🌊 Join us for the third episode of the #GOOS #BioEco #EOVs webinar series to discuss Coral cover and composition, and Microbe biomass and diversity!
🗓️ October 10th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM UTC
Please register now: aircent.re/4nrJNlA
October 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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khadershabaana.bsky.social
UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404
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October 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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#Listeria monocytogenes causes serious infections by invading cells and crossing intestinal, blood–brain, and placental barriers, leading to #bacteraemia, CNS, and maternal–neonatal complications https://www.nature.c...
Schematics showing the mechanisms of Listeria monocytogenes infection and dissemination.
October 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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vbcscitraining.bsky.social
Institutes across the Vienna BioCenter are offering fully-funded PhD positions in our Autumn call. Don't delay your application as the call is closing on 10 October 2025: www.vbcphd.at
October 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
molecularpathogen.bsky.social
Lecturership in Microbiolgy @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Application submission deadline coming soon - October 9th. universityvacancies.com/university-g...
Lecturer in Microbiology, Permanent, 1 FTE, Contract Type B, 011296 | University Vacancies Ireland
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October 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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teppo-h.bsky.social
Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.

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Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori
Avoin työpaikka: Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto, Turku. Duunitorilla lisäksi yli 30 000 muuta avointa työpaikkaa. Lue lisää nyt!
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September 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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📢 A new collection 'Climate Change and Infectious Diseases' is open for submissions!

A joint project with @natcomms.nature.com @nathealth.nature.com & @commsmed.nature.com, with @julietai.bsky.social as the lead editor for Nature Microbiology

#MicroSky 🦠
More info: www.nature.com/collections/...
Climate Change and Infectious Diseases
Through this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, Nature Microbiology, Nature Health, and Scientific ...
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September 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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jdrakephd.bsky.social
Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization.

Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
September 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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bioetry.bsky.social
Delighted to announce that The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios will be back next year!

Vibrio2026 will be held in Berlin in September 13-16. See you there Vibriologists!

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Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios
Fourwaves - Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios
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September 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Vibrio is one of the microbes taken off the CDC surveillance list :(

CDC Surveillance ended for
'campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio, and Yersinia.'
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say
"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.
www.statnews.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Vibrio vulnificus, a potentially harmful marine bacterium, is now found in most coastal regions worldwide, with warming waters and algal blooms linked to its increasing prevalence and northward spread. doi.org/g94n59
Global study maps spread of potentially dangerous Vibrio vulnificus in warming coastal waters
Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that is potentially very dangerous to humans, is a natural component of marine plankton.
phys.org
September 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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microbiologysociety.org
Abstract submission for Annual Conference 2026 is open!

Submit your research today for a chance to showcase your pioneering work with leading minds in microbiology. Abstract submission closes at 23:59 GMT on 11 November 2025.
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September 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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imili-micro.bsky.social
Welcome to the social media account of the International Microbiology Literacy Initiative (IMiLI). Nearly 1,000 researchers freely contribute to the IMiLI project integrating microbiology into education providing downloadable resources for all. Explore at imili.org
September 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM