🚨 Exciting opportunity at Uni of Birmingham College of Medicine and Health (UoB)! 🚨 Offering a 2-year Springboard Fellowship designed to support high-calibre #PDRA researchers in developing strong proposals for fellowships like ERC Starter Grants, Future Leaders Fellowship, Wellcome/MRC CDA, and more.

Why is sharing your research with the media important? Sign up for the Microbiology Society free webinar on 24th October to find out more microbiologysociety.org/event/full-eve…

I feel so lucky to be included in this amazing project led by Alex Horsley and cannot wait to get started! Keep an eye on Whelanlab.co.uk/contact for details of an upcoming PhD studentship opportunity associated with this work.

There is still time to register for our SMBE satellite meeting on pangenomes and transmission in Tokyo (until 31st October) See our website for more details, and now a provisional schedule too! smbepangenomes.bacpop.org

See you tomorrow at 12pm Eastern (11am CT/9am PST) for the Pride in Microbiology Network Coffee Hour! We will discuss our upcoming LGBTQIA+ STEM Day Symposium! Make your voice heard and chat with some lovely members of our community🌈🌈 Sign up for our email list for Zoom Link 💌

🚨 New job alert 🚨 We are looking for a Clinical Research Fellow to support clinical studies for the new Manchester Cystic Fibrosis Innovation Hub. ⏰ Closes 18 October 2024 Find out more and apply here 👇 jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… Alex Horsley

So, this afternoon I got home to find a lovely letter from NORTHERN 🚆 telling me about how they wanted to prosecute me for using the below ticket to travel on the specified route at a peak time. I paid £1.90 less than the fare they say I should have paid. A thread 🧵

Big scandal brewing Loads of people are getting prosecuted by NORTHERN 🚆 for using 'Anytime Singles' at peak times with 16-25 railcards, which makes the ticket invalid This information is buried in the small print by Northern so people never see it Andy Burnham Louise Haigh

We have two opportunities for new PhD students to join the lab! If you want to do a PhD in mucosal immunology in a great division please get in touch. Projects with Madhvi Menon Fiona J. Whelan - details below. findaphd.com/phds/project/m… findaphd.com/phds/project/m… Deadline is soon 15/11/24!

A reminder that this job opening is open for 1 more week! Come join us!

Check out this 🚨PhD opportunity🚨 to study the impact of B cells on host-commensal #microbiome interactions in the oral mucosa led by Grainger&Konkel Labs with me & Madhvi Menon !

We have a fully funded PhD opportunity to start on Oct 2025 on "Harnessing Explainable AI to Identify Key Microbial Drivers of Reduced Ruminant Greenhouse Gas Emissions" funded by SUSTAIN (lnkd.in/eyYzTqp9) Closing date Sunday 27th October 2024! Please share.

🚨 The Whelan lab is hiring! 🚨 We are looking for a PDRA to join our lab at U of Manchester. We & collab The Mata Lab are seeking someone interested in interdisciplinary techniques to est a hydrogel biofilm model to study microbe-pathogen interactions jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

It’s also -3 on our train this morning. Were told the heating being turned on would be a fire risk. Can you please provide an explanation NORTHERN 🚆 ?

Interested in a PhD in Prokaryote Bioinformatics? Check out the Whelan Lab! A fun lab environment in a great city in the UK

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Myself, @JoJofoth , & Mike Brockhurst are looking for a PhD student to study how commensal bacteria modulate the virulence of P. aeruginosa using a fly infection model. More info & link to apply below. Please spread the word! findaphd.com/phds/project/b…

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan & Brockhurst labs are seeking a PhD student interested in investigating the ecol & evol of pathogens in cystic fibrosis exacerbations. This PhD is funded as part of pulse-cf.com w Alex Horsley et al. More info & link to apply below.

A lot of what looks like microbial engraftment after FMT might actually be noise. Using placebo sequencing and culture-enriched metagenomics, we sort signal from noise. Our latest from the Surette lab: nature.com/articles/s4146… mike surette Farncombe Institute IMAGINE SPOR Network McMaster Health Sciences