🦠🧬 Join us for a workshop on Phage Therapy in Liverpool (25 Nov 2025)!

A 1-day free event bringing together clinicians, academics, regulators & industry to discuss the future of phage therapy; happening in tandem to a 2-day focus meeting on Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics (1/2)

Great to get together in Manchester last week for our consortium’s annual meeting – halfway through our 5-year collaboration! Inspiring discussions, exciting updates, and lots of ideas ahead. Excited for what’s next! 💡🔬🤝 #Science #Microbiology #TeamScience

🔬 Three fronts in bacterial defense!
At EMBO symposium this week in Paris, our PIs showcased:
• @mfwhite2.bsky.social: cyclic nucleotide defence signaling
• Prof. Stineke Van Houte: prophage warfare in P. aeruginosa
• Prof. Tim Blower: autoregulating toxins & phage defence

We had fantastic poster presentations at the EMBO symposium the Immune System of Bacteria in Paris this week

@samriddhigupta.bsky.social gave her poster presentation today at #Microbio25 about discovering new counter-defence systems in prophage genomes

Second poster session starting soon #Microbio25

We also have a couple of poster presentations today 255 from @drramabht.bsky.social, 282 from @anna-k-richmond.bsky.social, 062 from Meg Llewellyn and 068 from Jasmine Thomas-Campbell. All cool stuff about defence systems!

@brockhurstlab.bsky.social giving a talk about eco-evolutionary mechanisms of AMR in the AMR session at #Microbio25

New member in the team 😀
Welcoming Meg Llewellyn who has joined as an MbyRes student with Prof Edze Westra and Dr Aleksei Agapov.

A very warm welcome to Jasmine Thomas-Campbell - PhD student with @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social and Prof. Edze Westra; and to @taoranfu.bsky.social - PDRA with @brockhurstlab.bsky.social who have recently joined our Multidefence team 🥳 Looking forward to working together!!

End of Day 1 of the Hooke meeting. Had an exciting line up of talks. Our talented ECRs @annakrichmond.bsky.social Anna Olina, Aleksei, Steven, Paritosh and Maureen showcased their amazing research. Looking forward to Day 2.

Are you a researcher with an interest in #microbiology, #ecology and #evolution? Join our upcoming scientific discussion meeting on the topic of microbial immune systems: ow.ly/fcKR50S89xA

Our talented postdoc Steven Shaw has been awarded a bursary from Oxford Nanopore to showcase his work at the Symposium on the immune system of bacteria 2024 at the Harvard Medical School 🎉🎉 Stop by and learn about his interesting work!!!

Many Congratulations to @prajwalvb.bsky.social for winning the Microbial Genomics Poster Prize at #Microbio24!!!

Our brilliant postdoc Anna Olina is showcasing her research on the role of prophages in antiviral defence at the MicrobioSoc Conference!! Stop by poster A320 and learn about her fantastic work! #Microbio24

A very warm welcome to the newest member of our team, Maureen Micaletto, who has joined as a postdoc with Prof. Stefano Pagliara.
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Introducing our ECR cohort!!!