Great turnout for our EngBio ECRs meet with excellent talks from Rui guan Rui MRC Toxicology Unit Kiran Raosaheb Patil and Pehuen P Gerber Medicine at Cambridge. Next meet on 15 July engbio.ac.uk/ecrs

Kathrin Wippel Kathrin Wippel on Intra-bacteria competition determines plant-beneficial potential of SynComs Lotus and Arabidopsis and host preference; see their Nature Microbiology (also mentioned yesterday): nature.com/articles/s4156… #PMS2024

New analysis from the The Royal Society shows just how high UK visa costs for researchers are compared to upfront costs for similar visa routes in 13 other countries. Here, we take a look at how the UK compares to countries in the G7 included in the analysis 🔍⤵️ 1/5

#SMBE2024 Microbial Communities moves forward with Pepe Flores on experimental evolution of Chlamydomonas phycosphere under different light conditions and carrying capacity.

2 weeks left to apply to this project ‼️ come do a PhD on multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens at Queen's University Belfast 🎓 ☺️ 🦠 🧬

Well. It REALLY happened. The plagiarized paper got published. my paper from 2021 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33915259/ new one from 2024 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38700052/ We'll look at figures in the 🧵 below.

A great afternoon showcasing some of the exciting research across the Organisms, Evolution and Planetary Resilience Research Theme! Find out more: bio.cam.ac.uk/research/organ…

Off-purpose activity of industrial and agricultural chemicals against human gut bacteria biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

We are excited to share our work assessing the impact of 1000+ industrial and agricultural pollutants on 22 gut microbiome species 🧪🧫🧬. A thread 🧵 Anna Lindell StephanKamrad Kiran Raosaheb Patil MRC Toxicology Unit doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… (1/9)

The work from my short postdoc at Molecular Sci-UWA Heng Chooi lab is now published in Microbial Biotechnology Microbial Biotechnology (MBT) 🧬🛠️🍄! We developed next-gen AMA1-plasmids for robust heterologous expression in filamentous fungi, great for genome mining (1/5)🧵 …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

>95% have forever chemicals #PFAS in blood. PFAS are linked to cancer, infertility, dev & immune issues. We now have a tool to sharpen to get rid of this poison of the century from body! Our preprint on PFAS bioaccumulation by human gut bacteria! 🧵(1/8) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

And obviously Sonja who is not on X #kefirforever

Pepe Flores Rui Thanks for pointing this. Here is link to our detailed (arguable the most detailed yet) study on the fascinating kefir microbiome: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Fantastic talk by Kiran Raosaheb Patil (MRC Toxicology Unit/Cambridge University). Testing the impact of 1076 pollutants with diverse chemistry on 22 prevalent commensal gut bacteria uncovered 588 interactions of 168 chemicals & revealed widespread off-target activity. Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are preparing "Microbiomes in Extreme environments" themed event (March 2025) and we need YOUR HELP in shaping the program of this special #MVIF event. Feel free to contribute with your ideas, we are listening! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The ECOGEN Lab is searching for 3! PostDocs to join us in the PATHOCOM ERCSyg project in Toulouse, investigating the impact of host and microbial genetics on plant pathogen-pathogen interactions. The links to apply are below. Deadline 29th of Nov!!

Did you know that it's World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week? So it's the perfect time to explore our new tutorial that explores the tools and resources that support AMR research. ebi.ac.uk/training/onlin… Available to access at any time, for free. #WAAW #AMR

Happy to be named in the Clarivate #HighlyCited 2024 list. Its a team recognition - thanks to all the fabulous current and past lab members and incredible collaborators that I have the honour to work with! clarivate.com/highly-cited-r…

I am proud to have represented EcoMicroLyon and our research #MicroRescue and THE MICROBES at the recent colloquium by the Fondation Pierre Verots My talk (in English!) is an accessible overview as to why microbes are important for climate change youtube.com/watch?v=QDmSTV…