A study in Nature Microbiology shows that enzymes found in the gut resident bacteria, Akkermansia muciniphila, can convert both known and previously not recognized antigens on human red blood cells to make group O blood. go.nature.com/3QLIPTh

Delighted to share that we will be hosting the 2024 Galleria mellonella Workshop Brunel University London with the support of the The National Centre for the 3Rs and GMRC UK and led by Evgenia Maslova . Its free but places are limited! forms.office.com/e/1bgZ5sznm1?o…

Calling all University of Galway Research Staff!

We are excited to invite you to the first Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Research Staff Network.
Date: 03 May 2023
Time: 11:00–13:00 (Irish time)
Where: Alexander Boardroom (QA113) and online
forms.office.com/e/uwEqwYbe1c

Delighted to share the exciting programme for this year's Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms Workshop. It's been great to co-organise this with
Freya Harrison . Early bird price ends late June and the registration fee includes accommodation and meals #AMR

We are hiring! If you are fascinated by how bacteria manipulate immune cells then this is the PhD for you!

Thrilled to share new findings on S. aureus's response to organic acid stress!
In @elife: Staphylococcus aureus counters organic acid anion-mediated inhibition of peptidoglycan cross-linking through robust alanine racemase activity doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

I’m honoured, humbled (& shocked, to be honest) to receive a scientific award. It means a lot that it comes jointly from Microbiology Society & British Mycological Society

Thank you to all my colleagues who’ve supported me through my training & career to date

MRC Centre for Medical Mycology Exeter Biosciences Research at Exeter

#AccessMicro is proud to launch our negative results collection, celebrating the best negative results studies published since the platform’s launch. Read the introductory editorial by Elisabeth Bik Elisabeth Bik and browse the collection: microb.io/4afpQIj #OpenScience

We have a community problem journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

Open position for an Assistant Professor in Microbiology (5 year tenure track) at Trinity College Dublin. They are looking for a molecular microbiologist to join them over the summer.

jobs.ac.uk/job/DGO006/ass…

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…

Super nice work from Simon Schäper showing that septal peptidoglycan synthases in S. aureus are not driven by FtsZ treadmilling. Instead they follow a one track model and their processive movement is dependent on peptidoglycan synthesis. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Very happy to share our new paper on the in vivo function of streptolysin S doi.org/10.1371/journa…
Huge effort from Blake with big thanks to @jacklynrhurst Ron Flannagan Aanchal Rishi Heather Craig KatherineKasper Stephen Tuffs David Heinrichs Microbiology & Immunology Schulich WesternU

Excited to share our new pre-print describing a novel and seemingly clinically relevant pathway that broadly potentiates resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to compounds targeting the cell wall or cell membrane

Staph. lugdunensis produces lugdunin to eliminate nasal #S .aureus. Why are less than 10% of humans colonized by S. lugdunensis? It need specific support from other #microbiome members. With Ralf Rosenstein, Benjamin Torres, Simon Heilbronner, Bernhard Krismer,
Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections DZIF - Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung

🚨🚨Cool S. aureus lipid metabolism!🚨🚨
Our new paper in Mol Micro Editors shows an novel path to branched-chain lipids using aldehydes. Branched-chain lipids are essential for S. aureus viruelnce! Read it here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mm…
Marcelle Ferreira WonSik Yeo Shaun Brinsmade (he/him)

1/11 Ever wondered why men have more S. aureus infections than women? Check out how testosterone stimulates S. aureus through activation of quorum sensing in our @harristryonlab preprint. Led by M. Sindhura John PhD UTSW Dermatology. A #microbiome #staph#mrsa🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wellcome Trust Discovery Award of €5.3 million to investigate leading global cause of fatal bloodstream infection granted to APC & UCC Ireland Ruth Massey along with Dr Rachel Mcloughlin - TCD TBSI and researchers from UoEStudentEngagement & @bristoluni

Read More: bit.ly/42NGqMh

1/2. We are super excited to share our latest publication in Nature Communications, which identifies a new family of cell wall crosslinking enzymes broadly conserved in many bacteria: rdcu.be/dyypa

Accelerate real-time cell morphological analysis - pushing everything everywhere all at once! 💨👇🏻

*Real-time cell image acquisition + segmentation @10GB/s using FPGA (see top left)
*Real-time (subsampled) DL image classification (green vs yellow cell states) on RTX 4090 GPU