Happy to share this story from my PhD Foster Lab & Steve Renshaw - with Rebecca Hodges (she/her) in Ken Bayles’ lab & Josie Pyrah - we show that oxacillin & tetracycline display synergy against S. aureus biofilms & during infection in zebrafish! Molecular Microbiology Sheffield University of Nebraska Medical Center link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Super opportunity to join Giusy in Glasgow!

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers in Europe and around the world. Apply here (next cut-off date is 14 February): embo.org/funding/fellow… #ResearchFunding #LifeSciences

Latest out from the lab. Crazy amounts of #diversity in #T6SS #effectors #pseudomonas out now in Nature Communications @MPI_EvolBio NHLI imperial.ac.uk/news/260613/ba… evolbio.mpg.de/3804447/same-b… nature.com/articles/s4146…

New preprint of our work investigating the ability of enteric pathogens to utilise D-ribulose as a nutrient source and improve fitness is out now! Check it out below!

Love phage-bacteria interactions, anti-phage systems, and a sprinkle of evolutionary biology? There’s still time to apply and join our team in Glasgow at UofG Sii !

The lab is now up and running at New England Biolabs New England Biolabs! I'm looking for a postdoc to study phage defence systems. If you'd like the academic freedom to publish but the resources of industry, then take a look 🤓😃 neb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NEB_Care…

Nanopore sequencing-based measurement of paramyxovirus RNA editing reveals virus-specific differences in editing efficiency of mRNA, ... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio

It’s not too late to apply for a postdoc position with Giusy in Glasgow! Super supportive lab doing some really exciting science!

We have extended the deadline for this! If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions, check this out and join us!

Pleased to share that my main Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship project is now published! This study provides mechanistic insights into Zorya II function. Grateful to all who contributed! Read it here:tinyurl.com/ZoryaII

And here it is, the completed BASEL collection finally published as early access in PLOS Biology - see the thread for more details. 🤗🧬🎣

.José R Penadés (Imperial College London) and colleagues published a new review on #phage satellite genetics, ecology and #evolution, diving into how these elements impact bacterial evolution and virulence. buff.ly/GTeAxVg

Some really cool work from Jake Colautti in the John Whitney lab on a family of contact-independent, broad spectrum protein toxins that target Gram-positive bacteria.

A broad-spectrum, contact-independent antimicrobial that is neither a nonribosomal peptide nor a BGC- assembled small molecule from Jake Colautti Stephen Garrett John Whitney

New preprint from McMaster Biochemistry Graduate Program and McMaster MD/PhD student Jake Colautti and McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences and McMaster IIDR Postdoc Stephen Garrett!

Latest BREX story from the lab - turns out there is a nuclease after all! Congrats to Jenny Readshaw and the whole team, including wonderful collabs Barry Stoddard, Brett Kaiser and Darren Smith. Nucleic Acids Res New England Biolabs Durham BioSciences academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨 We are looking for an enthusiastic student to join Giuseppina Mariano, Donal Wall and me for an exciting project investigating the impact of environment on anti-phage systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Details here: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/d… Come and join us!

🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me,Suzie Humphrey and Donal Wall to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Apply here: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/d…