Orkney is looking very inviting this week 🤧🌻

Anyone else experienced contstant smell of vinegar/acetic acid with covid? (I've been assured its not me that smells of vinegar!). Everything just smells faintly of fish and chips/TLCs...

I definitely second this about Jessica Blair - not my supervisor but always helpful, supportive and approachable. An absolute star of IMIBirmingham Thank you Jess for keeping us all going!!

I am really pleased to share something that Lis Lowe👩🏼‍🔬 and my groups and some of our friends have been working on. Headline: We've identified the first mycobacterial endo-D-arabinanases. We've also found some new exo-D-arabinofuranosidases. Paper here:biorxiv.org/content/10.110…🧵

Insane finish from Eilish McColgan at #Birmigham2022 🎊👏🎊 such a fantastic atmosphere!!!

Please RT: Postdoctoral position available in mycobacteriology and single-cell technologies in the Microbial Individuality and Infection Lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Please see details below.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the post antibiotic era… 😱

Sad to miss #molmicro2022 UoB Biosciences. If you’re there please go and see Aaron 🦠🛸’s poster. He’s not in the abstract book but it’s a nice story he’s working on.

Well that's that... 6 years at the IMIBirmingham have come to an end. Big thank you to Professor Gurdyal Singh Besra FMedSci FRS and the Birmingham TB labs 🦠🧫 its been great!

This is the meal I think about more than any other - vegan momos from Taste Tibet 😍 a major highlight of being back in Oxford, still as good as ever

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Infection Biology in IMIBirmingham. Come and join the team! For questions, informal enquiries please contact Geoghegan Lab Willem van Schaik @[email protected] or @alanmcn1. jobs.ac.uk/job/CTP894/ass…

It doesn't cost me anything to be kind.

I'm excited to share our ongoing work describing the dessert diversity at the canteen Institut Pasteur, since 1887 ! 🧁 This study included extensive sampling of 102 independent samples over 3 years. Here's a 🧵 of our key findings. 1/7

Our new review is out in Nature Reviews Microbiology: Molecular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance Revisited. Dr Lizzy Darby Ilyas Alav Mark Webber Eleftheria Trampari Maria Solsona & Pauline IMIBirmingham Quadram Institute #WAAW 😃 nature.com/articles/s4157…

Miss -> Mrs -> Dr all in one month! That's probably enough name changes for now.

📢Today is your LAST CHANCE to apply for the INEOS Oxbridge Doctoral Initiative on #AntimicrobialResistance We have x7 fully-funded projects based at University of Oxford & Cambridge University 👩‍🔬🧫🧬👨‍🔬 Apply now!⤵️ ineosoxford.ox.ac.uk/careers-study/… Oxford Biology Oxford Chemistry Cambridge Infectious Diseases IRC

Very exciting opportunity to work with Sheppard Lab AND @alanmcn1 on AMR at Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research 🤩

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 IOI researchers and their collaborators have found that the use of the antibiotic colistin in animal feed is increasing #AntibioticResistance amongst humans. Read the full story here ➡️ineosoxford.ox.ac.uk/news/colistin-… Paper in The Lancet Microbe ➡️doi.org/10.1016/S2666-…

Fascinating study from Craig MacLean and co! I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak and comment last week - really great (and worrying) work!. theguardian.com/society/2023/a…

Really can't recommend this enough! Such a good gig tonight 🤩