Jai Mehat
@jaimehat.bsky.social
Lecturer in Molecular Bacteriology at University of Surrey.
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PhD opportunity! Join us in St Andrews to study the consequences of defence against conjugative plasmids (preprint coming soon on this!). Funded by EASTBIO, co-supervised by @mfwhite2.bsky.social. Please share & pass on to anyone interested! 🦠🧫 Deadline 16th November
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Eastbio: Mechanism and consequences of lethal zygosis in bacteria restricting AMR plasmids. at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Eastbio: Mechanism and consequences of lethal zygosis in bacteria restricting AMR plasmids. at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 8, 2026 at 9:48 AM
PhD opportunity! Join us in St Andrews to study the consequences of defence against conjugative plasmids (preprint coming soon on this!). Funded by EASTBIO, co-supervised by @mfwhite2.bsky.social. Please share & pass on to anyone interested! 🦠🧫 Deadline 16th November
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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This is a great opportunity for those who want to expand their microbiome research in the #OneHealth #OneMedicine field. Loads of opportunities!
Adding some tags for searchability: #VetMedSky #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🧬 🖥️ for bioinformatics
Looking forward to hear from candidates 👍
Adding some tags for searchability: #VetMedSky #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🧬 🖥️ for bioinformatics
Looking forward to hear from candidates 👍
June 4, 2026 at 10:31 AM
This is a great opportunity for those who want to expand their microbiome research in the #OneHealth #OneMedicine field. Loads of opportunities!
Adding some tags for searchability: #VetMedSky #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🧬 🖥️ for bioinformatics
Looking forward to hear from candidates 👍
Adding some tags for searchability: #VetMedSky #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🧬 🖥️ for bioinformatics
Looking forward to hear from candidates 👍
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Channel 4 News's Clare Fallon tracks down Nigel Farage who was absent from Parliament today avoiding questions about the £5m donation
She asks him about it
He jumps into his car and drives off
She asks him about it
He jumps into his car and drives off
May 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Channel 4 News's Clare Fallon tracks down Nigel Farage who was absent from Parliament today avoiding questions about the £5m donation
She asks him about it
He jumps into his car and drives off
She asks him about it
He jumps into his car and drives off
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We are hiring! 🔬🧫 Join our lab at the Uni Southampton as a Research Technician working on bacteria-phage interactions to develop therapies for hard-to-treat infections.
2-year post
Deadline: 27 May 2026
Position start date: 1 July 2026 or shortly after
Apply: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
2-year post
Deadline: 27 May 2026
Position start date: 1 July 2026 or shortly after
Apply: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Dr Nela Nikolic receives Springboard funding to develop approaches to tackle bacterial infections
Dr Nela Nikolic receives Springboard funding to develop approaches to tackle bacterial infections
www.southampton.ac.uk
May 18, 2026 at 8:36 AM
We are hiring! 🔬🧫 Join our lab at the Uni Southampton as a Research Technician working on bacteria-phage interactions to develop therapies for hard-to-treat infections.
2-year post
Deadline: 27 May 2026
Position start date: 1 July 2026 or shortly after
Apply: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
2-year post
Deadline: 27 May 2026
Position start date: 1 July 2026 or shortly after
Apply: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Immigration make Britain brilliant
May 17, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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This is A+ AI slop. I love it
May 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
This is A+ AI slop. I love it
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My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Assistant Professor x6 (111522-0426) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor x6 (111522-0426). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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April 20, 2026 at 12:40 PM
My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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A warm congratulations to Dr Lindsay Broadbent for winning the Outreach and Engagement Prize Lecture!
#Microbio26
#Microbio26
April 15, 2026 at 8:56 AM
A warm congratulations to Dr Lindsay Broadbent for winning the Outreach and Engagement Prize Lecture!
#Microbio26
#Microbio26
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Our lab is attending @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference in Belfast! I will be talking later today about new approaches to use phages against urinary tract infections caused by Proteus mirabilis. If you miss the talk or would like to learn more about this work, check the poster A224.
April 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Our lab is attending @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference in Belfast! I will be talking later today about new approaches to use phages against urinary tract infections caused by Proteus mirabilis. If you miss the talk or would like to learn more about this work, check the poster A224.
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Want to annotate a bacterial genome with structures?
@oschwengers.bsky.social bakta and @gbouras13.bsky.social phold got together, and the result is Baktfold: protein annotation across the microbial tree of life using structures
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky
@oschwengers.bsky.social bakta and @gbouras13.bsky.social phold got together, and the result is Baktfold: protein annotation across the microbial tree of life using structures
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky
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April 4, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Want to annotate a bacterial genome with structures?
@oschwengers.bsky.social bakta and @gbouras13.bsky.social phold got together, and the result is Baktfold: protein annotation across the microbial tree of life using structures
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky
@oschwengers.bsky.social bakta and @gbouras13.bsky.social phold got together, and the result is Baktfold: protein annotation across the microbial tree of life using structures
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky
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This is no April fools!!!
🚨 @langridgelab.bsky.social has a funded #PhD for UK candidates
Do you love #microbiomes, #bioinformatics & translational science?
Come & join us, & @andrewjpage.bsky.social at @originsciences.bsky.social & get stuck into a ton of #metagenomic data🧬
Apply by 8 April
🚨 @langridgelab.bsky.social has a funded #PhD for UK candidates
Do you love #microbiomes, #bioinformatics & translational science?
Come & join us, & @andrewjpage.bsky.social at @originsciences.bsky.social & get stuck into a ton of #metagenomic data🧬
Apply by 8 April
PhD A matter of gut instinct: from mucus to microbiome (LANGRIDGE_Q26MMBiCASE) 2026/27 | UEA
PhD A matter of gut instinct: from mucus to microbiome (LANGRIDGE_Q26MMBiCASE) 2026/27 | UEA
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April 1, 2026 at 9:14 AM
This is no April fools!!!
🚨 @langridgelab.bsky.social has a funded #PhD for UK candidates
Do you love #microbiomes, #bioinformatics & translational science?
Come & join us, & @andrewjpage.bsky.social at @originsciences.bsky.social & get stuck into a ton of #metagenomic data🧬
Apply by 8 April
🚨 @langridgelab.bsky.social has a funded #PhD for UK candidates
Do you love #microbiomes, #bioinformatics & translational science?
Come & join us, & @andrewjpage.bsky.social at @originsciences.bsky.social & get stuck into a ton of #metagenomic data🧬
Apply by 8 April
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Insights into how #Staph aureus adapts to the bovine host by unlocking nutrients from the dairy niche. Great work by Amy Pickering, Jamie Gorzynski and others in the group. Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution after a host switch.|Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution unlocks nutrient availability after a host switch
Staphylococcus aureus has undergone metabolic remodeling to adapt to the dairy niche.
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February 18, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Insights into how #Staph aureus adapts to the bovine host by unlocking nutrients from the dairy niche. Great work by Amy Pickering, Jamie Gorzynski and others in the group. Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution after a host switch.|Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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January 5, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
Interested in microbiology, phages & water security?
Join me and Prof Cindy Smith to test phages as a sustainable alternative to chlorine in drinking-water biofilters.
Metagenomics, phage discovery & ecology — all in one exciting project!
Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
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“Pathogens without borders: Multi-host veterinary infections” at #Microbio26 brings together bacteriologists, virologists, parasitologists, and mycologists at the intersection of veterinary microbiology.
Abstract submissions close on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
Abstract submissions close on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“Pathogens without borders: Multi-host veterinary infections” at #Microbio26 brings together bacteriologists, virologists, parasitologists, and mycologists at the intersection of veterinary microbiology.
Abstract submissions close on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
Abstract submissions close on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
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#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
October 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
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High-risk clonal groups of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) demonstrate heterogeneous phenotypic characteristics in vitro and in vivo https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.648166v1
April 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
High-risk clonal groups of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) demonstrate heterogeneous phenotypic characteristics in vitro and in vivo https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.648166v1
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Two more weeks to apply to join us in Paris !
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Call for applications 2025 - Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Research
The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe, tis...
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February 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Two more weeks to apply to join us in Paris !
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"UKHSA has confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in the West Midlands region. Bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza is rare and has previously occurred a small number of times in the UK."
"The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype"
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"The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype"
ukhsa-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/human-c...
Human case of avian flu detected in England
UK Health Security Agency News and Media
ukhsa-newsroom.prgloo.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"UKHSA has confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in the West Midlands region. Bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza is rare and has previously occurred a small number of times in the UK."
"The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype"
ukhsa-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/human-c...
"The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype"
ukhsa-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/human-c...
🚨An exciting #PhD opportunity in my group🧫 @UniSurreyBioSci with Linda Oyama @QUB to work on #phage modulation of the poultry #microbiome and suppressing AMR. Closing date for applications is 3rd Feb
Apply here: tinyurl.com/y57huecd
Please share!!
#MicroSky #PhDSky #AcademicSky Details🔽
Apply here: tinyurl.com/y57huecd
Please share!!
#MicroSky #PhDSky #AcademicSky Details🔽
PhD Opportunities - FoodBioSystems
Four-year funded PhD projects are available in areas that span the food chain from farm to fork. Closing date: 3 February 2024 (10:00 GMT)
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January 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🚨An exciting #PhD opportunity in my group🧫 @UniSurreyBioSci with Linda Oyama @QUB to work on #phage modulation of the poultry #microbiome and suppressing AMR. Closing date for applications is 3rd Feb
Apply here: tinyurl.com/y57huecd
Please share!!
#MicroSky #PhDSky #AcademicSky Details🔽
Apply here: tinyurl.com/y57huecd
Please share!!
#MicroSky #PhDSky #AcademicSky Details🔽
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Sharing three fully funded PhD opportunities to join my lab at Queen’s to work on topics spanning bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, microbial interactions, & mobile genetic elements 🦠. Closing dates in January and February, and open to international candidates 🌍 Projects detailed below ⬇️
December 30, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Sharing three fully funded PhD opportunities to join my lab at Queen’s to work on topics spanning bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, microbial interactions, & mobile genetic elements 🦠. Closing dates in January and February, and open to international candidates 🌍 Projects detailed below ⬇️
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is the preprint! Metabolic modeling of Avian Pathogenic E. coli, great work from former PhD student Huijun Long and bioinformatician HuiHai Wu, with @jaimehat.bsky.social and Rob La Ragione.
This is the preprint! Metabolic modeling of Avian Pathogenic E. coli, great work from former PhD student Huijun Long and bioinformatician HuiHai Wu, with @jaimehat.bsky.social and Rob La Ragione.
Use of Genome Scale Metabolic Reconstructions of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) phylogroups for the identification of lineage-specific metabolic pathways
Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) are a genetically diverse pathotype primarily associated with extra-intestinal infections in birds. APEC lineages are predicted to have unique metabolic capabi...
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December 21, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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This is the preprint! Metabolic modeling of Avian Pathogenic E. coli, great work from former PhD student Huijun Long and bioinformatician HuiHai Wu, with @jaimehat.bsky.social and Rob La Ragione.
This is the preprint! Metabolic modeling of Avian Pathogenic E. coli, great work from former PhD student Huijun Long and bioinformatician HuiHai Wu, with @jaimehat.bsky.social and Rob La Ragione.
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🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, along w @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, are looking for a PhD student w bioinformatic experience/interest to investigate the evolution of transmissibility in bacterial pathogens, with a focus on P. aeruginosa. More info & link to apply below.
Please spread the word!
Please spread the word!
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December 3, 2024 at 12:49 PM
🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, along w @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, are looking for a PhD student w bioinformatic experience/interest to investigate the evolution of transmissibility in bacterial pathogens, with a focus on P. aeruginosa. More info & link to apply below.
Please spread the word!
Please spread the word!
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Global phylogenomic analysis of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius reveals genomic and prophage diversity in multi-drug resistant lineages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.06.611613v1
Global phylogenomic analysis of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius reveals genomic and prophage diversity in multi-drug resistant lineages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.06.611613v1
Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is the foremost cause of opportunistic canine skin and mucosal infec
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September 7, 2024 at 5:16 AM
Global phylogenomic analysis of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius reveals genomic and prophage diversity in multi-drug resistant lineages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.06.611613v1
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Fascinating paper on making new genes from random sequences!
Idan Frumkin & Michael Laub. Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein homeostasis pathways.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Microsky #Genetics #Evolution #Microbiology
Idan Frumkin & Michael Laub. Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein homeostasis pathways.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Microsky #Genetics #Evolution #Microbiology
Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein home...
Screening 100 million random genes, which lack homology to natural sequences, for their ability to rescue growth arrest of Escherichia coli cells caused by the toxin MazF, the authors find ~2,000 hi...
doi.org
December 4, 2023 at 4:21 PM
Fascinating paper on making new genes from random sequences!
Idan Frumkin & Michael Laub. Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein homeostasis pathways.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Microsky #Genetics #Evolution #Microbiology
Idan Frumkin & Michael Laub. Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein homeostasis pathways.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Microsky #Genetics #Evolution #Microbiology