We are delighted to announce that NEOF funding has been renewed until 2031. This lets us continue to help NERC scientists address global challenges in climate change and train the next generation of environmental scientists Natural Environment Research Council UK Research and Innovation #neoftraining

Very pleased to support this through NERC Environmental Omics Facility with Liverpool Shared Research Facilities Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

We had a productive morning at our MIC affiliate event. Thanks to George Oikonomou Sharon Zytynska and Tobi Somerville for their great talks and thanks to all of our affiliates for joining the discussions about how we continue to build our microbiome research community

NEOF latest newsletter is out - the next round of pilot funding dedicated to Early Career Researchers opens 15 January and more...
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Come work with us. We are looking for a full-time bioinformatician to join our team. You'll have the chance to develop your bioinformatic skills and collaborate with researchers across the UK. Closing date 31/1/24 Liverpool Shared Research Facilities
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Come and lead a vibrant department full of bright and lovely people. And me.
Dept of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour is looking for a new head University of Liverpool University of LiverpoolHLS
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Deadline 21/1/24 Jane Hurst Greg Hurst 💙 or myself happy to discuss

Funded PhD studying the microbiome of the bovine GI tract and transcriptomics of key pathogens to enable development of novel products for digital dermatitis. 4 year studentship, includes placements at industrial partner’s lab in France. Further info: bit.ly/3RPg7BT

📢Job Alert📢

👨‍🏫👩‍🏫Lecturer in Animal Behaviour Biological Sciences - University of Chester University of Chester

🕑Full time, permanent, closing date 18th December

🐕🐆'Wild or captive animal behaviour...interest in animal training or neurological or genetic basis of behaviour'

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Job Alert. New role with me and Steve Paterson and the Microbiome Innovation Centre (MIC) It's initially short but 'highly likely' to be extended. Get in touch.
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Funded #PhDOpportunity with MIC affiliate Francesco Del Carratore, exploring the effects of biochar’s impact on barley-associated soil microbiomes, using cutting edge computational biology approaches.
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#ComputationalBiology #SoilMicrobiome #Biochar

125 anniversary fellow and Chair positions announced at Uni of Birmingham 👇🏻 would be great to see applicants from the field of microbiology - come join us!

According to my university’s new workload model, I only work 80% of a full FTE. Looking forward to working 9-5 four days a week. Insulting bulls*** #GIGO

Our director Prof Jo Fothergill @jojofoth attended a meeting at the House of Lords today about advancing UK-based microbiome research & translation. We're v excited to contribute to these discussion & help shape a national vision for microbiome science. Full news story to follow.

NERC Environmental Omics Facility has created 4movies that showcase the types of studies we support. @annajemmett from the Wild Camel Protection Foundation @wildcamels, Univ of Kent DICE Kent & the Inst of Zoology ZSL Science talks about her research youtube.com/watch?v=lcmAvM…

Flying through a virtual Liverpool in ⁦Digital Innovation Facility⁩ Very impressive hearing about the links with civic and health data, though raising some substantive questions on consent and inclusion

We hope to help early career researchers further their careers by gaining funding in their own name and to generate pilot data that helps future fellowship or other applications - NEOF Pilot Funding for ECR opens 15Jan24 #genomics #metabolomics #proteomics
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A huge team effort developing wastewater based epidemiology at a national scale. Very pleased to finally see this out Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences Matt Loose Aaron Jeffries Water Research UK Health Security Agency Environment Agency Franziska Brunner CGR Uni of Liverpool
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NEOF visitor Sarah Nichols from NHM_Students & EGI_Oxford wants to understand how birds disperse parasites during migration so she’s been conducting metabarcoding and high-throughput sequencing on blood and faecal samples collected in Australia last year! #NEOFTraining

Join us! Fantastic research opportunities and amazing colleagues :)

Great job opportunity at Faculty of Health and Life Sciences to be a future leader tackling AMR. Closes 19th

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