Preprint online for some really nice collaborative work with Suzie Humphrey describing the prophages in an important gut microbiome commensal Clostridium clostridioforme. So many phages in one strain, so much left to discover about the gut microbiota...

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I hope everyone attending #Microbio24 had a great time. I did, apart from having lost the pen in the post below. I last used it in Fintry EICC yesterday just before lunch and have hunted high and low for it since. It obviously has significant sentimental (and other) value…

Last day at #MicroBio24 and looking forward to showing some of our recent work on biofilm oxygen sensing!

Want to hear more? Check out the Biofilm Prevention and Control session this morning! 🧫

Wee mid conference ceilidh to sweat out the wine and coffee at #MicroBio24

It's that time of year again...
If anyone would like to chat about aurodox or Citrobacter model of STEC my poster number is A224 #microbio24

So good to be back in Edinburgh for #microbio24 Microbiology Society Annual Conference… 7 years after my first one where it all began!

Lactate is an important substrate🍔for P. aeruginosa in infection sites. We show that PA’s “redundant” lactate dehydrogenases are used by different biofilm subpopulations and contribute to survival within macrophages🦠Great work by Lindsey Florek& collabs.biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great to see our chapter in AMP out today! Huge thanks to Chloe James for pulling the team together 💪

authors.elsevier.com/a/1imRqEs76COFr

Check out our latest paper in Nature Microbiology!
nature.com/articles/s4156…

Was great to have the RMS committee days feature crossover discussion meetings this year. Lots of good chat between RMS Early Career Researchers and DAIM committees on Monday, and then again with BioImagingUK, Life Sci and Flow committees yesterday!

📢 #elmi2024 : Full Scientific Programme is now *LIVE*

Check out all the sessions and talks - and plan your elmi2024 experience!

Find out more: rms.org.uk/resource/elmi2…

In work led by Kevin Whitley, we demonstrate that septal cell wall synthesis in Bacillus subtilis follows a one-track model, where both the motion and activity of the septal PG synthesis machinery is asynchronous with FtsZ dynamics nature.com/articles/s4156…

Our paper on Brightfield and Fluorescence Biological Imaging using 3D printed optics is now live and #OpenAccess at Biomedical Optics Express! Optica Publishing Group

Huge thanks to my co-authors for getting this here!

opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext.c…

📢'Introduction to Image Analysis' (Dublin, 24 - 25 April)

Apply now for this excellent workshop!

Designed to equip microscopists and researchers with the necessary skills and tools to confidently analyse their data!

Apply by 31 March: rms.org.uk/rms-event-cale…

We are pleased to share that our Early Career Forum Summer Conference 2024 will take place 8–9 July at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The theme this year is 'Microbiology in Society'. Find out more on our website: microb.io/4c1HXTu 👈 #ECConf24

📢RMS Early Career Award Competition - Applications Deadline *TOMORROW* (1 March).

Find out more and apply: rms.org.uk/opportunities/…

RMS Early Career Researchers Dr Liam Rooney BioImagingUK JournalofMicroscopy flowcytometryUK Euro-BioImaging ERIC Scottish Microscopy Society Microscopy Society of Ireland🔬 European Microscopy Society IoP_EMAG

📢RMS Awards application deadline: *29 Feb*

Just days left to apply for RMS Awards celebrating the very best in #microscopy , #imaging and #FlowCytometry

Do you know someone whose works deserves formal recognition?

Apply now!

rms.org.uk/resource/2024-…

Thanks to funding from the Technician Commitment Technician Commitment Collaboration Fund, the Technical Specialist Job Shadowing Scheme was a great success, enabling three job shadowing visits to core facilities… Thread

Just a few months to go before #elmi2024 takes place in Liverpool (4-7 June)!

elmi is now more than 20yrs old - and here's a throwback pic from 2018 in Dublin, the last time we hosted the event (in person). Fun times!

Submit your abstract before 1 Feb!
elmi2024.org/meeting/abstra…

🔬Our 5th Proof of Concept #funding call is now open for projects from interested parties who have the experience and knowledge to investigate and exploit areas in which #biofilm s play a central part.

Apply before 12 April 2024➡️tinyurl.com/26ddyxwm

#biofilm #funding