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John Clark-Corrigall
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Molecular Microbiology Research Technician in the MB Lab, MMB, University of Dundee. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Formerly BBSRC NLD DTP PhD student Khan Lab, MHD, University of Newcastle. 💙❤️
Fledgling molecular microbiologist.🧫🔬
From Newcastle-Gateshead, for the world.
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Funded 4-year PhD studentship alert! 📣

"Efficacy & Mechanisms of Novel Treatments for Antibiotic-Tolerant Infections" shorturl.at/ruD0t

Come join our vibrant and supportive group in St Andrews and undertake an industry placement @amprologix.bsky.social with @matupton.bsky.social.

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Eastbio: Efficacy and Mechanisms of Novel Treatments for Antibiotic-Tolerant Infections at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Eastbio: Efficacy and Mechanisms of Novel Treatments for Antibiotic-Tolerant Infections at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
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October 6, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Exciting news! As part of our Vacation Studentships, we're partnering with, New England Biolabs, who are funding two additional grants specifically for Black students. Learn more about how we’re working together: https://microb.io/4rIMPot
#BlackInMicro 
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October 2, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Great news for the Trust and research community - we welcomed our first Research Technical Professional Fellow daphnejackson.org/2026/09/a-se...
September 17, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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Happy international microorganism day!
Deck the halls with vials of agar...
Fa lalalalaa la la la la!

#IntMicroDay 🦠🐡🧪🧬🧫
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It’s International Microorganism Day! For a third year running, some of our Champions have told us about their favourite microbes and our very talented Champion, Eliza Wolfson, has brought these to life with her illustrations!

@eliza-coli.bsky.social @femsmicro.org
September 17, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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#InternationalMicroorganismDay
Ankita Priyadarshini (Parul University, India): “Pseudomonas putida and Pseudomonas fluorescens can't digest phthalate plasticizers alone, but together they form a resilient team that can do what no single microbe could!” Suchandra Gupta (SGT University, India): “Staphylococcus epidermidis is my favourite microbe because it shows that our relationship with microbes is built on cooperation, not conflict!” Moyinoluwa Akintunde (Aalen University, Germany): “Streptomyces violaceoruber, a filamentous bacterium that changes its colour from blue-violet to reddish-purple, depending on its metabolic state.” Mariam Bhadmus (University of Huddersfield, UK): “Mycobacterium tuberculosis is fascinating as it outsmarts the immune system, hijacks host cells and turns the host into fuel for its survival.”
September 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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It’s International Microorganism Day! For a third year running, some of our Champions have told us about their favourite microbes and our very talented Champion, Eliza Wolfson, has brought these to life with her illustrations!

@eliza-coli.bsky.social @femsmicro.org
September 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Have you completed our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion questionnaire on Mi Society? ✍️
Your responses are instrumental in supporting us to make the Society more inclusive. Log into Mi Society today to complete the questionnaire: https://microb.io/3UFqMCN

#EDI #Inclusivity #ScienceCommunication
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August 27, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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🔔 New preprint from our lab: how does the chemical composition of infection-like environments shape how costly (or not) antibiotic resistance mutations are? We find that efflux pump regulator mutants can have a selective advantage in synthetic human urine + identify likely component driving this.
biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Sep 9
Fitness costs of antibiotic resistance mutations in rich media do not reliably predict those in infection-like environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.08.750013v1
September 9, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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Happy 60th Star Trek 🎂
My faithful little companion that’s been with me all these years and has become such a large part of my work and social life. I’ll be celebrating with @rigb.org this Saturday. Join the livestream! www.rigb.org/whats-on/sci...
The science of Star Trek
Celebrate 60 years of Star Trek as Jamie Gallagher and host of speakers delve into the real science behind t
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September 8, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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Registration is now open for CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting 2026 - NUSBF
Registration for the 2026 CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is now open! Join us at Newcastle University from Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 November 2026 (now expanded to three days up from two last year). We’re expecting around 100 delegates from universities across the North of England and beyond, with talks from PhD students and …
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September 7, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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microbiologysociety.org
Peer review is essential to academic publishing but happens mostly behind the scenes.

Andrew Preston (MIC Editor-in-Chief) and Tom Sharp pull back the curtain in our Publishing Fundamentals webinar, 16 Sept.

Free for members, register here: https://microb.io/publishing-fundamentals

#Microbiology
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September 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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#Engineering microbial systems capable of sensing host-derived stress hormones has proved technically challenging. This study reconstitutes adrenergic sensing in E. coli, creating a probiotic strain capable of sensing host #stress and secreting #therapeutics.
🧪 #AcademicSky
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A synthetic QseB-responsive promoter enables dose-dependent catecholamine sensing and controlled secretion of a CRF antagonist. Illustration depicting engineered EcN detecting NE and Epi via the QseBC two-component system, resulting in conditional expression and secretion of the defined biological output rCRF(9–41). Created in BioRender. Aggarwal, N. (2026) https://BioRender.com/z371w74.
August 28, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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Missed our Annual Conference this year? Want to re-watch the incredible Prize Winner Lectures and Hot Topic? Follow this link to catch up on all the sessions: https://bit.ly/4g7UgS7
August 20, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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If Zachary Blount had one dollar for every cell he plated in his dissertation looking for new Cit+ mutations, he could single handedly pay off the US debt of $40,000,000,000,000.

www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n...
Zachary Blount with giant stacks of petri dishes used in his research on historical contingency and the evolution of citrate use in the LTEE.
August 19, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Join APC as a Research Assistant on NourishMind with @harschellekens.bsky.social. Use cell culture, molecular biology and biochemical methods to support gut-brain research.

16 months | €34,129 to €44,311 | Apply by 12:00, 21 Aug 2026: buff.ly/63KPDcM

#ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs #ResearchAssistant
Hiring: Research Assistant for NourishMind, a postbiotic project targeting stress‑induced weight gain; 16‑month position at UCC Cork for candidates with neuroscience, physiology, nutrition, psychology, clinical research or biomedical background; supervisor Dr. Harriët Schellekens; apply by 21 Aug
August 20, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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It’s World Honey Bee Day! 🐝

Bees have long been a focal point of antimicrobial studies. 🍯

Check out a new paper on mānuka honey: https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001746

#AMR #WorldHoneyBeeDay #Microbiology #NewPaper
Honey bee on manuka flowers (Leptospermum scoparium). Auckland. New Zealand. Credit: iStock/Janice Chen.
August 15, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Fully funded PhD position available in my group at #UCD | Environmental metagenomics | Microbial dark matter - Apply here forms.gle/ms5kpYQQi1w7... #PhD #AMR #Metagenomics #Microbiology #Bioinformatics #MicroBiomica
August 15, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Proud to see our review "Anti-type VI tactics: bacterial defenses against T6SS attacks" featured on the Cover @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

Kudos to @nicrivard.bsky.social for creating this fantastic Cover illustration!
But… do do you recognize the original painting?
August 12, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Happy Noodlococcus Day! 🍜🦠🧫
August 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social Bacteriology Research Fellow Dr @liam-rooney.bsky.social has seen two separate research projects selected by @sciencecampaign.bsky.social (CaSE) as part of its policy engagement work for the @parliament.scot and @senedd.wales.

🔗 Full story: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...
Dr Liam Rooney smiles at the camera while standing in a University of Glasgow laboratory, with shelves of scientific equipment and sample bottles visible in the background.
August 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Congratulations to Victoria Orr, winner of a poster prize at Annual Conference 2026, whose research has just been published in Microbial Genomics!

Read the full paper: https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001789

#MGen #Microbiology #OpenAccess #Microbio26
August 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Registration is now open! Our Education and Outreach Winter Conference is back. Join us virtually on 21 October 2026 exploring innovation, collaboration and connectivity in microbiology. Free for members! Find out more: https://microb.io/EON2026 🔬🌍.

#Microbiology #SciComm #EON2026
July 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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TODAY'S THE DAY!

We can't wait to welcome you all to the National STEM Learning Centre later today for the start of this year's BIG Event!

#BIGEvent26
July 15, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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🆕 Blog! Improving inclusivity; Introducing our new EDI Committee Co-chair Dr Emma Waters @emmabeansworth.bsky.social
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Improving inclusivity; Introducing our new EDI Committee Co-chair Dr Emma Waters - Quadram Institute
Dr Emma Waters reflects on her new role, why improving inclusivity is so important and how the EDI committee works
quadram.ac.uk
July 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM