Pathogenic Mechanisms Research Group
@molecularpathogen.bsky.social
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.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-9792
PI: Dr Aoife Boyd. Host-microbe interactions: pathogenic Vibrio bacteria. Marine aquaculture. Natural antimicrobial molecules. Microbes & venomous animals.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-9792
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🚨 Excited to share our new paper is out! 🎉
We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut.
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63
We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut.
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63
Multi-layered ecological interactions determine growth of clinical antibiotic-resistant strains within human microbiomes
Nature Communications - The role of ecological factors in modulating the spread of antibiotic-resistance bacteria in the gut remains unclear. Here, the authors use anaerobic microcosms to study the...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 Excited to share our new paper is out! 🎉
We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut.
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63
We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut.
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63
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Working in the field of Microbial Sensing, Signaling, and Regulation? Apply for the upcoming STIM GRC soon to be considered for a short talk! See you in sunny Ventura www.grc.org/sensory-tran...
2026 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Working in the field of Microbial Sensing, Signaling, and Regulation? Apply for the upcoming STIM GRC soon to be considered for a short talk! See you in sunny Ventura www.grc.org/sensory-tran...
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Congratulations to our very own University of Galway zoologist, founder of the Venom Lab and creator of The Bug Doctor series, Dr Michel M. Dugon who has been named Galway Science Person of the Year!
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Congratulations to our very own University of Galway zoologist, founder of the Venom Lab and creator of The Bug Doctor series, Dr Michel M. Dugon who has been named Galway Science Person of the Year!
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We are recruiting for an Editor to join JMM! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to support our Disease, Diagnosis and Diagnostics section. Apply by 30 November 2025: microb.io/4oykaAo
Journal of Medical Microbiology Editor for the Disease, Diagnosis and Diagnostics: Call for Expressions of Interest
10 November 2025
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November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
We are recruiting for an Editor to join JMM! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to support our Disease, Diagnosis and Diagnostics section. Apply by 30 November 2025: microb.io/4oykaAo
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Applications are open for the John Innes/Rudjer Bošković Summer School in Applied Molecular Microbiology in Dubrovnik, Croatia (12–20 Sept 2026).
Find out more & apply: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
@johninnescentre.bsky.social #AppliedMicrobiology #MolecularMicrobiology
Find out more & apply: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
@johninnescentre.bsky.social #AppliedMicrobiology #MolecularMicrobiology
Applied Molecular Microbiology | John Innes Centre
John Innes/Rudjer Bošković – Summer Schools in Applied Molecular Microbiology Applications are invited for a summer school on Microbial Specialised Metabolites: Discovery…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Applications are open for the John Innes/Rudjer Bošković Summer School in Applied Molecular Microbiology in Dubrovnik, Croatia (12–20 Sept 2026).
Find out more & apply: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
@johninnescentre.bsky.social #AppliedMicrobiology #MolecularMicrobiology
Find out more & apply: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
@johninnescentre.bsky.social #AppliedMicrobiology #MolecularMicrobiology
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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.
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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.
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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.
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
🔗 bit.ly/4hujsRG
@livuninews.bsky.social | #TeamLivUni
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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.
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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...
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
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...
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...
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✨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
🎨 📷 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
✨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
🎨 📷 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
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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:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."
Also university administration:
October 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."
Also university administration:
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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...
🚀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...
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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...
🚀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...
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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...
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
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...
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...
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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:
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...
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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:
How tRNA mods rewire translation under oxidative + antibiotic stress (MoTTs, moonlighting, therapy angles).
Read: doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
#RNAsky #microsky #AMR #RNAmodifications
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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
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 🧪
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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...
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
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...
Join our upcoming residential meeting in Manchester on obligate intracellular bacteria on 3-4 November 2025.
royalsociety.org/science-even...
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📣 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
➡️ 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
October 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
📣 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
➡️ 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
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🚀 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
#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
🚀 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
#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
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🌊 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 10th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM UTC
Please register now: aircent.re/4nrJNlA
October 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🌊 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 10th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM UTC
Please register now: aircent.re/4nrJNlA
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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
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404
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October 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404
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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...
October 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
#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...
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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
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
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
Lecturership in Microbiolgy @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Application submission deadline coming soon - October 9th. universityvacancies.com/university-g...
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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
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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📢 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/...
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
📢 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/...
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/...
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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
Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
September 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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
Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology