🚨Job alert!🚨We have three exciting new post doctoral positions available to join an ERC funded team with Richard Bardgett exploring the diversity, stability and functioning of the grassland soil microbiome (SoilResist). Details to follow > Soil Biodiversity Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester @BESPlantSoilEco

Our complete landscape of antimicrobial peptides: nature.com/articles/s4200… work of @PsamClark with @curtisbdobson @Lynda_K_Harris plus Tom Jowitt and me in Communications Biology Thanks to Manchester BBSRC DTP not to mention Prof Doug Kell CBE #FBPE #FBPA🔶🇪🇺 for setting up the collaboration!

Also begs the Qn of which transporters are used to get them in. Be interesting to look at IC50 vs Keio collection... bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

In a comprehensive exploration of structural features conferring antimicrobial peptide activity, @PsamClark @curtisbdobson Chris Knight @Lynda_K_Harris report on peptide length and composition, providing insight into the design of effective AMPs. nature.com/articles/s4200…

Lectureship in Data Science and Earth and Environmental Analytics The University of Manchester Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester Broad potential, including genomics, evolution and ecology (e.g. relating to Microbial Evolution Research Manchester (MERMan) or Soil Ecology Lab UoM ) : jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…

We're hiring an Ecologist! The University of Manchester is looking for a Lecturer In Global Change Ecology. Join us as part of Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester UoM Science and Engineering and The University of Manchester jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…

Opportunity to join Microbial Evolution Research Manchester (MERMan) at The University of Manchester in UoM Biology, Medicine and Health and Evolution, Infection and Genomics (EIG) UoM

I'm looking to recruit a bioinformatics postdoc to the group in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. We have hefty compute resource for coordinated omics (esp. genome-resolved metaG) & want someone to help optimise bioninf pipelines across a number of cool projects. DM me if interested. Pls RT!

Still time to apply for fully funded #PhD, starting 9/22, working on mathematical models and experiments to understand biofilms, #AMR & quorum sensing, with @Rok_Krasovec, Igor Chernyavsky, @pearce_maths and me The University of Manchester Microbial Evolution Research Manchester (MERMan) Deadline 16 May

Hiring a professor in Environmental Sustainability! Opportunity to join us in Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester, UoM Science and Engineering and The University of Manchester Seeking someone who uses advanced -omics and biotechnological approaches to investigate fundamental research challenges.

🔟days left to apply for this post! ✍🏻Get in touch if you are interested and have any questions 📨Submit your application here bit.ly/3Jvb4kb 🌐Check out adverts by Shai Pilosof and Manlio De Domenico if you are more into the theoretical/computational parts of the project

Exciting times ahead! Myself, @katcoyte, Dixon Lab, @BrockhurstLab, Chris Knight and @Hepworth_Lab have been awarded funds to establish The University of Manchester as an international centre for microbiome research! 🔬🦠🧬🖥️ Thanks for the support @SustainableUoM Digital Futures UoM 🙏

Funded PhD position The University of Manchester with Unilever, Andrew McBain and me: Modelling the effects of abiotic factors on probability of probiotic growth and tipping points in microbiomes now on FindAPhD: findaphd.com/phds/project/m… Opportunity to join Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester and Microbial Evolution Research Manchester (MERMan)

#SMBE2024 poster ready to go! Come and chat about mutation rate plasticity, h2o2, simulations, fluctuation assays and e.coli // e.faecalis cocultures. (Also Microbial Evolution Research Manchester (MERMan) visits teotihuacan with Louise Flanagan , feeling very lucky to be in Mexico).

Excited to advertise for Microbial Ecology Lab/Field tech – 4-years Grade5 with Richard Bardgett ( Soil Ecology Lab UoM ) Mike Brockhurst ( Evolution, Infection and Genomics (EIG) UoM ) and me on grant with Prof Sophie Nixon and @katcoyte: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… deadline now 22nd July UoM Biology, Medicine and Health Microbial Evolution Research Manchester (MERMan) Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester

Super excited that the final version of our paper on mutation rate plasticity and oxidative stress is out now at PLoS biology! This paper shows how mutation rates are a highly dynamic trait shaped by genotype, community composition and abiotic factors. 1/8 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

(1/6) Really jazzed to have this out - my first Wellcome fellowship paper! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Can bacteria evolve resistance to competitors' T6SS weaponry? We find that the answer depends on **how many toxins** competitors are using. A thread:

Scientists control bacterial mutations to preserve antibiotic effectiveness manchester.ac.uk/about/news/sci… Great work by Rowan Callum Green with @Rok_Krasovec several others and me: doi.org/m8zt x.com/RowanCallumGre…

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events We’re out in Nature!! doi.org/ntzk Very exciting – it’s been a long haul by a great team, led by Prof. Franciska de Vries 🦠🍄🪱🌱🍂🌍 Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester The University of Manchester with excellent collaborators, also Soil Ecology Lab UoM Microbial Evolution Research Manchester (MERMan)

Climate impacts on European soils predicted by scientists Our paper’s out nature ! Read about it here: manchester.ac.uk/about/news/cli… Or the original here: doi.org/ntzk With Prof. Franciska de Vries 🦠🍄🪱🌱🍂🌍 and many others