Rachel M. Wheatley
@rachelmwheatley.bsky.social
Evolutionary microbiologist interested in AMR & microbiomes 🦠 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Group Leader @ Queen’s University Belfast. she/her. Ex-GB athlete 🇬🇧
Happy World Judo Day! Lots of good times and can’t wait to get stuck back in once the newborn chaos calms a bit … 🤩🥋
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Happy World Judo Day! Lots of good times and can’t wait to get stuck back in once the newborn chaos calms a bit … 🤩🥋
So fun to attend the FLF starting meeting in Glasgow and meet the rest of the round 9 cohort! This very well may be what happens when you try and submit your intro info at 4 weeks postpartum… but…. can anyone spot the error on my intro board? 😂😁
October 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So fun to attend the FLF starting meeting in Glasgow and meet the rest of the round 9 cohort! This very well may be what happens when you try and submit your intro info at 4 weeks postpartum… but…. can anyone spot the error on my intro board? 😂😁
Born Monday 21st July 🎉 🍾 Adjusting to new parent life… fuelled by adrenaline, caffeine, and percy pigs!
August 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Born Monday 21st July 🎉 🍾 Adjusting to new parent life… fuelled by adrenaline, caffeine, and percy pigs!
FHEA awarded 🥳 always happy to get a certificate!
July 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
FHEA awarded 🥳 always happy to get a certificate!
Delighted for the labs first PhD students Jack Knowles and Lauren Pittaccio who have been offered their first conference talks at the upcoming Micro Soc Early Career Summer Conference 🤩 great that this friendly + peer-led EC conference platform exists for microbiologists 🙌 #ECConf25
June 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Delighted for the labs first PhD students Jack Knowles and Lauren Pittaccio who have been offered their first conference talks at the upcoming Micro Soc Early Career Summer Conference 🤩 great that this friendly + peer-led EC conference platform exists for microbiologists 🙌 #ECConf25
Fantastic seminar today by @valvanom.bsky.social as part of our new QUB AMR Hub seminar series - all about sneaky Enterobacter hiding inside macrophages 🕵️♀️ & the AIVRT vaccine research alliance 💉. Great to see a full seminar room!
June 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Fantastic seminar today by @valvanom.bsky.social as part of our new QUB AMR Hub seminar series - all about sneaky Enterobacter hiding inside macrophages 🕵️♀️ & the AIVRT vaccine research alliance 💉. Great to see a full seminar room!
Gorgeous sunny weekend in Donegal ☀️🇮🇪! Can’t get over this beach
May 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Gorgeous sunny weekend in Donegal ☀️🇮🇪! Can’t get over this beach
Leiden is very lovely! Great time at “new challenges in microbial eco-evolutionary medicine” 🦠
April 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Leiden is very lovely! Great time at “new challenges in microbial eco-evolutionary medicine” 🦠
So long #EESDrugresistance 👋 what a fantastic few days of resistance / tolerance mechanisms! Big thanks to the organisers for putting on this meeting 🙌
March 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
So long #EESDrugresistance 👋 what a fantastic few days of resistance / tolerance mechanisms! Big thanks to the organisers for putting on this meeting 🙌
Day one of #EESDrugresistance ✅ 🦠 super interesting to hear more about work on drug resistance in cancer cells (🤯). First time at EMBL Heidelberg and okkkk it’s very nice 😍
March 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Day one of #EESDrugresistance ✅ 🦠 super interesting to hear more about work on drug resistance in cancer cells (🤯). First time at EMBL Heidelberg and okkkk it’s very nice 😍
Flying visit back to Oxford… luckily coinciding with a brilliant talk by Michelle Pfeffer on the history of forecasting epidemics (very cool stuff 🤩). Go Michelle!
February 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Flying visit back to Oxford… luckily coinciding with a brilliant talk by Michelle Pfeffer on the history of forecasting epidemics (very cool stuff 🤩). Go Michelle!
A little bit of snow in Belfast! ❄️ photo from my relatively slippy walk into work…
January 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A little bit of snow in Belfast! ❄️ photo from my relatively slippy walk into work…
Cat, fire, book. A 10/10 start to the Christmas break.
December 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Cat, fire, book. A 10/10 start to the Christmas break.
Our first lab group Christmas dinner 🤩 featuring awesome and very cute crochet Pseudomonas made by PhD student Lauren! 🦠 🦠
December 19, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Our first lab group Christmas dinner 🤩 featuring awesome and very cute crochet Pseudomonas made by PhD student Lauren! 🦠 🦠
Absolutely brilliant AMR knowledge exchange event in Belfast today. Hearing about research across patients, plants, animals, and the environment. Thank you Linda Oyama & colleagues for organising this! #AMRAwarenessWeek
November 19, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Absolutely brilliant AMR knowledge exchange event in Belfast today. Hearing about research across patients, plants, animals, and the environment. Thank you Linda Oyama & colleagues for organising this! #AMRAwarenessWeek
Did a two week brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) trial last month. Absolutely loved it. So now it looks like BJJ needs to be fitted in the weekly timetable of trying to do judo, boxing, weightlifting, and the occasional jog… 😁
November 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Did a two week brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) trial last month. Absolutely loved it. So now it looks like BJJ needs to be fitted in the weekly timetable of trying to do judo, boxing, weightlifting, and the occasional jog… 😁
Funded PhD project now open via NorthWest Bio DTP - Space invaders: genetic and metabolic factors underpinning successful pathogen invasion into microbial communities 🦠
Project description: shorturl.at/RmMeR
How to apply: shorturl.at/JOtaH
🌟 Applications now open with a deadline of January 6th 🌟
Project description: shorturl.at/RmMeR
How to apply: shorturl.at/JOtaH
🌟 Applications now open with a deadline of January 6th 🌟
November 9, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Funded PhD project now open via NorthWest Bio DTP - Space invaders: genetic and metabolic factors underpinning successful pathogen invasion into microbial communities 🦠
Project description: shorturl.at/RmMeR
How to apply: shorturl.at/JOtaH
🌟 Applications now open with a deadline of January 6th 🌟
Project description: shorturl.at/RmMeR
How to apply: shorturl.at/JOtaH
🌟 Applications now open with a deadline of January 6th 🌟
Super interesting first day at Queen’s Crucible (“interdisciplinary lab”) - great to hear about so much different research, learn more about interacting with policy, and of course…. I love the stash 🖊️🗒️ 🤩
September 11, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Super interesting first day at Queen’s Crucible (“interdisciplinary lab”) - great to hear about so much different research, learn more about interacting with policy, and of course…. I love the stash 🖊️🗒️ 🤩
What a brilliant time at #Pseudomonas2024! Great to meet up with old colleagues and new. First time at a #Pseudomonas meeting (but it won’t be my last 😁). Thank you to the organisers and Micro Soc for this super event.
September 6, 2024 at 11:09 AM
What a brilliant time at #Pseudomonas2024! Great to meet up with old colleagues and new. First time at a #Pseudomonas meeting (but it won’t be my last 😁). Thank you to the organisers and Micro Soc for this super event.
Come find me at poster number 1️⃣ at #Pseudomonas2024 on Wednesday if you’re interested in the interface between antibiotic resistance and microbial interactions 🦠🫁
September 4, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Come find me at poster number 1️⃣ at #Pseudomonas2024 on Wednesday if you’re interested in the interface between antibiotic resistance and microbial interactions 🦠🫁
Fiderepass hut hike - 40km of rain, sunshine, sunburn, and snow fields. Absolutely stunning to walk along this ridge. A 10/10 long weekend away in Oberstdorf! ⛰️
July 15, 2024 at 6:49 AM
Fiderepass hut hike - 40km of rain, sunshine, sunburn, and snow fields. Absolutely stunning to walk along this ridge. A 10/10 long weekend away in Oberstdorf! ⛰️
“Time to Think” Fellowships for early-career life scientists at @wiko_berlin now open with a November deadline 🧬
Opportunity to spend time, with brilliant people, at a really special place 🤩
Lucky enough to be there in 2021, happy to answer q’s 🙂
www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellow-we...
Opportunity to spend time, with brilliant people, at a really special place 🤩
Lucky enough to be there in 2021, happy to answer q’s 🙂
www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellow-we...
July 3, 2024 at 4:17 PM
“Time to Think” Fellowships for early-career life scientists at @wiko_berlin now open with a November deadline 🧬
Opportunity to spend time, with brilliant people, at a really special place 🤩
Lucky enough to be there in 2021, happy to answer q’s 🙂
www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellow-we...
Opportunity to spend time, with brilliant people, at a really special place 🤩
Lucky enough to be there in 2021, happy to answer q’s 🙂
www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellow-we...
Submitted revisions for the first senior author paper 🙌🎉 how exciting.
Fingers crossed for reviews 🤞
Fingers crossed for reviews 🤞
May 27, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Submitted revisions for the first senior author paper 🙌🎉 how exciting.
Fingers crossed for reviews 🤞
Fingers crossed for reviews 🤞
A gorgeous day to walk to fellowship academy lunch ☀️ and also a very nice one-monthiversary of my new job at @QUBbioscience 🙌
May 9, 2024 at 4:54 PM
A gorgeous day to walk to fellowship academy lunch ☀️ and also a very nice one-monthiversary of my new job at @QUBbioscience 🙌
After a brilliant time at #Microsoc24 - it’s my official second day in the new office at @QUBbioscience 🎉 (& I’m loving the new staff goodie bag 👌)
April 12, 2024 at 12:52 PM
After a brilliant time at #Microsoc24 - it’s my official second day in the new office at @QUBbioscience 🎉 (& I’m loving the new staff goodie bag 👌)