@friendlymicrobe.bsky.social
Reader (Associate Professor) in Microbiology at the University of Warwick, UK.
Biofilm, chronic infection and ancientbiotics.
https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingBiofilm
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialAntibiotic resistance mutations with fitness costs in rich medium can have no cost, or even a fitness benefit, in synthetic urine. Lovely preprint from @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social's lab, with data linking the growth advantage to the presence of oxaloacetate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #MIcroSky
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialBumblebees can carry phage to flowers during pollination, potentially providing a new delivery route for phage-based control of crop disease. Cool work from @mojganrabiey.bsky.social & colleagues at @warwicklifesci.bsky.social www.agnavigator.com/Article/2026...
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialLooking for a microbiology PhD at the interface between microbial community ecology and clinical micro? Interested in biofilms, medical devices, microscopy and/or antibiotic tolerance? I am advertising two projects that may interest you! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialWoohoo!!!
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialAwesome, thanks. We may give FITC-elastin a go too, using the same procedure.
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialDid you use it in any of your publications btw? (Apologies if I have totally missed this).
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialOh brill, thank you! I'd not seen that one, so good to have it flagged up with a review :)
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.social#Pseudomonas quorum sensing people - has anyone found a replacement for Sigma's elastin-Congo red for elastase assays, now that it's been discontinued? #MicroSky
@biology.ox.ac.ukReposted by @friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialWant to know more about vaccines? Rachel Tanner appeared on the ImmunoTea podcast to chat all about the vaccine development pipeline and vaccinating against Mycobacteria tuberculosis 👇
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialI never realised that people with sickle cell were prone to getting non-healing infected ulcers. #AMR #Biofilm amrnarrative.org/sickle-cell-...
@microbiologysociety.orgReposted by @friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialOur Education and Outreach Network Winter Conference is back. Join us virtually on 21 October 2026 for innovation, collaboration and connectivity shaping the future of microbiology. It's free for members and £26 for non-members. Secure your spot: https://microb.io/EON2026
#EON2026
@mikeachim.bsky.socialReposted by @friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialOK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
@vscooper.micropopbio.orgReposted by @friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialHow do Burkholderia multivorans bacteria adaptively evolve during infections of the cystic fibrosis airway?
A longtime collab and intensive study of 8 patients links bacterial adaptations to disease progression. Our findings also unite prior studies.
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialVery cool! Looking forward to reading this.
@rachelmwheatley.bsky.socialReposted by @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social🔊 Fully-funded 4 year PhD: How does the microbiome evolve under repeated pathogen exposure? 🦠
Project looking at how commensal microbes resist pathogen invasion, impact of antibiotics on these outcomes, and selective pressures in the microbiome. Come join us at QUB!
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialAre you seeing them around Brum? They successfully spread into north Shropshire (where my family are) from Wales, so you’re in a prime spot to get them moving in from both directions.
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialThanks! A friend also just said they’d seen juveniles with very pale undersides, so it seems likely. Having lived in Oxon for a while, I’ve probably seen approx. 3bn of them, but never a pale one 🤷🏻♀️ It’s brill to see them spreading, they’ve been infrequent but regular sights here for a few years now.
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialBird nerds, can red kites have a colour morph with a pale belly? Saw a large, kite-shaped raptor riding thermals very high up today but it had a whitish underside. Definitely not a buzzard. (Or had something interesting wandered from a falconry display at Warwick/Kenilworth Castle?)
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialFür jeder die Deutsch sprecht, und interessiert sich für #Ancientbiotics. @tosinorababa.bsky.social war der Kopf hinter dieser Forschung! #MIcroSky
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.socialIch hoffe sehr, dass es "nicht der jüngste viral gegangene Tiktok-Selbstmedikationstipp" ist 😆 Ein schön Artikel, danke!
