Prof Jenny Rohn
@jennyrohn.bsky.social
Cellular microbiologist, #UTI host/pathogen interactions, lab head at University College London, novelist, broadcaster, writer, pundit, sci comm, musician, gardener, Editor of LabLit.com, all things geek-chic. M7HZT on ham radio. More at jennyrohn.com
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Effect of human urinary microenvironment and fluid flow on antibiotic and phage therapy efficacy against uropathogenic Escherichia coli
Urinary tract infections (UTI) remain a major global health burden, with high recurrence despite antibiotic treatment. The escalating prevalence of antimicrobial resistance further compromises therape...
www.biorxiv.org
Very pleased to plug our latest preprint, lead author @microberamon.bsky.social - fantastic collaboration with labs of Dario Carugo (Oxford) and Martha Clokie (Leicester) https:// - and others #UTISKy #UTI #IDSky #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688052v1 more below👇🧵
Latest in the Unerased Whiteboards of UCL series…finally something that my medical students could explain to me! Apparently this represents the dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Latest in the Unerased Whiteboards of UCL series…finally something that my medical students could explain to me! Apparently this represents the dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway
Shall I skeet about sleet?
Rain is at that ambivalent point when it’s carefully considering the pros and cons of taking on a more solid form….and right now out the train window just as I type this, it’s turned into snow!
Entire carriage is entranced.
Rain is at that ambivalent point when it’s carefully considering the pros and cons of taking on a more solid form….and right now out the train window just as I type this, it’s turned into snow!
Entire carriage is entranced.
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Shall I skeet about sleet?
Rain is at that ambivalent point when it’s carefully considering the pros and cons of taking on a more solid form….and right now out the train window just as I type this, it’s turned into snow!
Entire carriage is entranced.
Rain is at that ambivalent point when it’s carefully considering the pros and cons of taking on a more solid form….and right now out the train window just as I type this, it’s turned into snow!
Entire carriage is entranced.
TFW you realise that your own university department is nowhere near as interesting as some…
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
TFW you realise that your own university department is nowhere near as interesting as some…
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A vaccine-mismatched flu A(H3N2) variant (subclade K) drifted away from prior variants in the Southern Hemisphere (2025) and will likely dominate in the Northern Hemisphere 2025–26. Vaccines may still help, but planning for a worsened flu season and close monitoring is needed
Emergence of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) variants with immune escape potential warrants enhanced molecular and epidemiological surveillance for the 2025–2026 season | Journal of the Association of Medi...
Background: All of the major antigenic changes in influenza A(H3N2) viruses since 1968 have involved mutations at just nine amino acid positions, called cluster transition sites, surrounding the recep...
utppublishing.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A vaccine-mismatched flu A(H3N2) variant (subclade K) drifted away from prior variants in the Southern Hemisphere (2025) and will likely dominate in the Northern Hemisphere 2025–26. Vaccines may still help, but planning for a worsened flu season and close monitoring is needed
My go-to “true” metric of academic success would involve coffee and biscuit consumption somehow
Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?
go.nature.com/3JUWNSs
go.nature.com/3JUWNSs
Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia
Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?
go.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My go-to “true” metric of academic success would involve coffee and biscuit consumption somehow
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PhD studentship opportunity! Join us at St Andrews to study the factors controlling plasmid transmission in the gut. Competition-funded as part of the EASTBIO DTP, co-supervised with Dr Jaclyn Pearson. Please share & pass on to anyone interested! 🦠🧫 Deadline 15th December👇
www.findaphd.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
PhD studentship opportunity! Join us at St Andrews to study the factors controlling plasmid transmission in the gut. Competition-funded as part of the EASTBIO DTP, co-supervised with Dr Jaclyn Pearson. Please share & pass on to anyone interested! 🦠🧫 Deadline 15th December👇
Campus cyclamen
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Campus cyclamen
All the winter coats in St Pancras station
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
All the winter coats in St Pancras station
Bacteria have to adapt rapidly to changes in environment. Can they ‘remember’ those conditions? Another one for my “to read” pile! cc @microberamon.bsky.social @victoriachu.bsky.social @nickyuen.bsky.social @fratorelli.bsky.social #UTISky #MicroSky
#Review
Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exploring the concept of bacterial memory - Nature Microbiology
This Perspective discusses the concept, mechanisms and evidence for memory in bacteria at individual and community levels.
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Bacteria have to adapt rapidly to changes in environment. Can they ‘remember’ those conditions? Another one for my “to read” pile! cc @microberamon.bsky.social @victoriachu.bsky.social @nickyuen.bsky.social @fratorelli.bsky.social #UTISky #MicroSky
First snow in the UK this year?
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
First snow in the UK this year?
Mad family scramble to find winter gear this morning! 🥶 ❄️
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Mad family scramble to find winter gear this morning! 🥶 ❄️
The Chronic and Recurrent #UTI Priority Setting Partnership supported by James Lind Alliance (funders AMR Action UK, Bladder Health UK & The Urology Foundation) needs your help! Please take our survey to help prioritise research questions for this horrible malady www.surveymonkey.com/r/UTI2 #UTISky
Shortlisting survey - chronic and recurrent UTI Priority Setting Partnership (PSP)
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November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The Chronic and Recurrent #UTI Priority Setting Partnership supported by James Lind Alliance (funders AMR Action UK, Bladder Health UK & The Urology Foundation) needs your help! Please take our survey to help prioritise research questions for this horrible malady www.surveymonkey.com/r/UTI2 #UTISky
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FISH images of microbial cells in host organs/ tissues sometimes remind me of Van Gogh's starry night. Am I the only one? No? Yes? Maybe?
Anyways, I just wanted to recreate it ;)
#microbiomesky #microbiome #art
Anyways, I just wanted to recreate it ;)
#microbiomesky #microbiome #art
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
FISH images of microbial cells in host organs/ tissues sometimes remind me of Van Gogh's starry night. Am I the only one? No? Yes? Maybe?
Anyways, I just wanted to recreate it ;)
#microbiomesky #microbiome #art
Anyways, I just wanted to recreate it ;)
#microbiomesky #microbiome #art
Just walked in on @rpgrant.bsky.social in the study cracking open Stryer’s Biochemistry. #CultClassic
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Just walked in on @rpgrant.bsky.social in the study cracking open Stryer’s Biochemistry. #CultClassic
Clear here, but Great Britain has a rainy spine this morning…
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Clear here, but Great Britain has a rainy spine this morning…
Beautiful crescent moon rising this morning over Kent
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Beautiful crescent moon rising this morning over Kent
Cheating a bit for #WildflowerHour - slim pickings this week, so rather than showing a yet another humble yarrow, I opted for these lovely (post-flower) rowan berries after a night’s rain @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Cheating a bit for #WildflowerHour - slim pickings this week, so rather than showing a yet another humble yarrow, I opted for these lovely (post-flower) rowan berries after a night’s rain @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Amazing opportunity to work with a great lab in Warwick! 🦠
PhD opportunity in my lab: exploring how commensals and pathogens build biofilm communities on endotracheal (ventilator) tubes. Microbial ecology, medical microbiology and fancy imaging! Co-supervised with the fabulous Saskia Bakker and Jeremy Webb warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky
Dr Freya Harrison
Dr Freya Harrison
warwick.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Amazing opportunity to work with a great lab in Warwick! 🦠
Couple behind me on the train doing Wordle out loud. It’s very sweet, but has ruined the puzzle for me today as I’ve already deduced 4 letters from their musings!
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Couple behind me on the train doing Wordle out loud. It’s very sweet, but has ruined the puzzle for me today as I’ve already deduced 4 letters from their musings!
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🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
I’ve noticed for years than men ask more questions than women @ science conferences…
“Women delivered 47.8% of presentations but accounted for only 36.4% of participations, significantly fewer than men both in absolute terms and relative to their representation among attendees.”
#MicroSky #IDSky
“Women delivered 47.8% of presentations but accounted for only 36.4% of participations, significantly fewer than men both in absolute terms and relative to their representation among attendees.”
#MicroSky #IDSky
Gender differences in audience participation at infectious disease & microbiology conferences: a prospective observational study
@sarah-delliere.bsky.social #IDSky
Men overrepresented among audience participants during ID /micro meetings
www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org/article/S119...
@sarah-delliere.bsky.social #IDSky
Men overrepresented among audience participants during ID /micro meetings
www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org/article/S119...
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
November 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM