I'm delighted to share that I have joined the School of Biological Sciences at @unisouthampton.bsky.social as Professor in Microbial Biofilms. I'm very excited about this next step in my academic journey and the opportunity to work more closely with all the great scientists at Southampton and

Delighted to share that Lyuboslava Harkova passed her PhD viva today with only minor corrections. Her thesis focused on virulence regulation in Acinetobacter baumannii. Special thanks to Prof Jake Malone and Dr Ayca Sayi Yazgan for being fantastic examiners

Delighted to share that @evgeniamaslova.bsky.social passed her PhD viva today with only minor corrections. Her project focused on novel models to study wound infection. Thank you to the @nc3rs.bsky.social for funding her PhD and @flamycain.bsky.social and Anthony Tsolaki for being superb examiners.

Delighted to share the latest from the lab, where we uncover the impact that the artificial sweetener saccharin has on bacteria
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
@embomolmed.org

Delighted to give a seminar today at @maynoothuni.bsky.social and chat with so many great scientists.

Fantastic few days at the @bsacandjac.bsky.social ARM workshop, a real honor to co-chair this meeting and congratulations to the fantastic poster winners

Very excited to be co-chairing the British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotheraphy Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms conference with @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social
Looking forward to 2 days of great talks and networking
@kateduncan.bsky.social
@craigmaclean.bsky.social
@catrinm.bsky.social

Latest preprint from our lab

Delighted to share that we will be hosting the 2024 Galleria mellonella Workshop
@Bruneluni with the support of the NC3Rs and @gmrcuk
and led by
@Evgenia_Maslova
. Its free but places are limited! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

🚨 We are hiring! 🚨

Exciting new #postdoc position available to help us explore the capacity of the artificial sweetener ace-K to be used to tackle wound infection. Please RT! careers.brunel.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Can we limit infection by disarming pathogens rather than killing them? In this review we discuss the current state of play with this approach to tackle antibiotic resistance. www.nature.com/articles/s44...