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With deep sadness, this post announces the passing of Dr. Firouz Naderi on Fri 6/9. In his last hours, Firouz was surrounded by love and admiration, as he was throughout his life. Information about memorial services celebrating his remarkable life will be shared as appropriate.

Registration is open for this year's BSAC Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms meeting! Fantastic line up of speakers, including Dr Julie McDonald Martha Clokie Craig MacLean Kate Baker @JoJofoth Raechelle D'Sa M. Harris, I. Gilbert + Limited places! bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-res…

Pleased to announce my review is now out in Taylor & Francis Research Insights! In this review, Michelle Buckner and I have critically reviewed existing literature on how non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals and environmental pollutants promote transfer of plasmids carrying AMR genes. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Why is there still zero flexibility in some workplaces regarding hybrid working when the role doesn’t require your physical existence 😡

New paper! Alex and I wrote a review on methods to measure the amount of recombinant protein in the periplasm, with a focus on rapid techniques that could be used for screening. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Fully funded PhD studentship @MIBTP1 available with me and Tim Overton looking at how we can harness the power of efflux to optimise industrial processes IMIBirmingham ChemEng Bham 🤩warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

Interested in studying AMR? Check out this cool project with me and @alanmcn1 to explore AMR transmission in Klebsiella biofilms! Join us at @unibirm_MDS and IMIBirmingham DEADLINE JAN 4th! findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

Funded PhD! Come join my team as we study #AMR transmission in the human gut microbiome with Dr Richard Horniblow and Willem van Schaik @[email protected]. Part of the U of Birmingham’s 125th anniversary scholarship open to Black British students. IMIBirmingham @unibirm_MDS. birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

There’s a PhD position available in my group starting September #glycotime with Hall Lab and industrial partners Ludger. 🧪🥼🧫 warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

Our new paper is now out in Scientific Reports. This was the result of a little collaboration between Rianne Lord, the Michelle Buckner Lab (Parisa Pordelkhaki, Pedro Ernesto de Resende, Frank Ker funded student Hannah Partington), and Simon Gibbons. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Exciting opportunity! 👇

⚠️ BREAKING: Sweden 🇸🇪 reports the first case of Mpox clade one outside of Africa, during a press conference with the government and public health agency.

Very pleased to have this out- this paper includes the efforts of many UG and PG students over the past few years! As well as Ilyas Alav Parisa Pordelkhaki and S Gibbons! Well done everyone! IMIBirmingham College of Medicine and Health (UoB) microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Plasmid conjugation drives within-patient plasmid diversity new bioRxiv by Fan Grayson, AliceLedda, PhD 💙 et al. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

New paper! What happens when you apply vibration to bacteria? We asked this question for E. coli and revealed that attachment decreases. This response requires live cells and involves membrane potential. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

I have two PhD projects listed on this scheme - please get in touch if you are interested!

PhD projects now open in Birmingham as part of MIBTP - funded and open to home and overseas students! Are you interested in bioprocesses, antimicrobial resistance, virulence, or biofilms?

MIBTP PhD applications are now open! There are three associated with my lab. 1) infant gut microbes and human milk oligosaccharides with Hall Lab 2) respiratory microbiome nutrition with Mike Cox 3) mucus-producing organoids with Amanda Eve Rossiter link below 🧪✨

This #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek, hear from Dr Michelle Buckner and her team on the vital work they are doing to combat antimicrobial resistance, and the impact of this global health threat. Ilyas Alav Immunology and Immunotherapy UoB School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology UoB Biosciences Uni of Birmingham #WAAW2024