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Emma Denham

@gingermicrobe.bsky.social
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Running my lab of unruly 🧫🦠, trying to unravel the world of noncoding RNA and building a sustainable bioconcrete by day 🧬🧱 🍰🐎🧶 tea/gin, courgette 👩‍🌾 at all other times🦒😴👩‍🦰and OliCat😽💉

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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The final version of our paper looking at effects of RANK deficiency on gut function in zebrafish is now online!
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Rank-dependent control of tuft and BEST4 cell development in the intestine - Nature Communications
Here they provide evidence that RANK signaling contributes to specification of intestinal epithelial tuft and BEST4 cells, and that loss of RANK impairs the ability of the host to navigate infections ...
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
First mini insight that SpoVG is not just a Spo protein in Bacillus subtilis. Hopefully, the big set of data from @sgrannem.bsky.social and me will follow soon!
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience 3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social? www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...
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Bicentenary Early Career Research Fellowships | Biology, Medicine and Health | University of Manchester
Find out about and apply for a Bicentenary Early Career Research Fellowship.
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Not quite the summer I planned recovering from a hip replacement, but looking forward to being more mobile and pain free! My microsoc bag is making an excellent ice pack wrap! 20 days in and all going well!
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Clementine Delan-Forino @clemdf.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Thrilled to share my first last-author paper, just out in #mSystems! A work about #RBPs, #RNA and #sporulation in #subtilis. Special thanks to my brilliant student T. Kaboré who's signing hist first PhD paper and to the whole team @galinier-lab.bsky.social 👉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Remodeling of RNA-binding proteome and RNA-mediated regulation as a new layer of control of sporulation | mSystems
Understanding how bacteria survive extreme conditions is key to tackling challenges in health, food safety, and industry. This study reveals a previously unexplored layer of control in Bacillus subtil...
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Come and work with us in beautiful Bath.
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Come and work with us in beautiful Bath.
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Molecular insights into microbially induced calcite precipitation by Solibacillus silvestris - Michael Seidel @seamicha.bsky.social from @gebhardlab.bsky.social lab #BACELL2025
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Jessica Blair @jessicamablair.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
**NEW Doctoral Training Programme just launched!!** This exciting programme on Microbial Genomics for Health Protection is joint between @imibirmingham.bsky.social and UKHSA @ukhsa.bsky.social. 9 brilliant projects available!!
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Andrew Millard @milja001.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Interested in phages ? Want to work as team that will isolate, genome sequence and charachterise 1000s of phage to build a biobank . Come work with me and Martha Clokie at Leicester jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/va...
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Vacancy Search Results - University of Leicester Recruitment Team
View our Latest Vacancies
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Purple bacteria update - sadly it failed in our phenotypic screen - so no purple concrete on the horizon, but the undergrads and I wanted to know what it was - Janthinobacterium spp. - meaning violet. It is Gram neg and produces pigments that are purple/violet called jagaricin and violacien. 💜
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Grant rejection tradition - (should be a choc almond croissant, but they hadn’t made them 😡)Very sad that I wrote probably my best grant ever, reviewers had barely any criticism, but there’s just not enough money at BBSRC. The minor criticism from panel has received a WTF from everyone I’ve told 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Melanie Blokesch @mblokesch.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩 Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭! Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Job alert ‼️ 2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social - ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...
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Senior Lecturer/Reader/Chair in Ecology:Manchester
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Yves Brun lab @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to ML.Antibiotics@gmail.com. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
What's happened to Oligocalc? Website is no longer available - feeling lost with my primer design!
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James Connolly @ruamicro.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Fully funded PhD position available to join our team! We will focus on untangling the molecular mechanisms used by pathogenic, antibiotic resistant E.coli to colonise the host gut. Highly interdisciplinary project in collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and Manu Banzhaf. Please share
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Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Exciting day in the lab - welcome to the world Dr Andreas Lawaetz. Celebrated with Swedish cake for the Dane! Thank you to @graingerlab.bsky.social and Mark Lindsay for being excellent examiners! #proudsupervisor
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Purple bacteria update - it’s still beautiful and making me very happy! #happyfriday
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Super cool to hear Jose Penades talking about his new work using Google AI-co-scientist research.google/blog/acceler... this morning on #radio4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... chimeric infective phage particles!
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
How to make Emma happy on a Monday morning - the discovery of a purple bacteria isolated from our new rock samples! 💜
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Philipp Engel @pengellab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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Career Opportunities: Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics/gut microbiota ecology and evolution (22087)
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
🅲🅾🅾🅻 🆃🅴🅲🅷🅽🅾🅻🅾🅶🆈 “Bacterial-MERFISH” provides ~1000-fold volumetric expansion of individual cells, charts gene expression in hundreds of thousands of cells, deciphering bacterial single-cell heterogeneity, intracellular transcriptome organization, and bacterial adaptation to µm-scale niches in vivo
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Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria
Single-cell decisions made in complex environments underlie many bacterial phenomena. Image-based transcriptomics approaches offer an avenue to study such behaviors, yet these approaches have been hin...
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Jose Jimenez @jjimenez.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Exciting postdoc opportunity to join Orkun Soyer's lab at the University of Warwick!! More info in the ad below: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
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Research Fellow (109970-0125) - University of Warwick
Title: Research Fellow (109970-0125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
New mug powering grant rebuttal writing! #manifestingpostdocarrival
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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Most studied bacteria
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A good first day back - my PhD student Andreas Lawaetz (not migrated to bluesky yet!) just submitted his thesis.
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Do you want to come and do a PhD in beautiful Bath with @kevinpaine.bsky.social and me? Come and help us understand how to use bacteria to make bioconcrete. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"Over a decade of research indicates that contamination, typically from laboratory reagents, is the most plausible explanation for such findings, particularly when even supposedly ultrapure water has been shown to harbour DNA signatures and culturable microbes." www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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There’s little evidence of a ‘brain microbiome’ | Letter
Letters: Prof Mark Pallen, Dr Aimee Parker, Prof Nick Loman and Prof Alan Walker take issue with an article that discussed the existence of a brain microbiome and its impact on diseases
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Reading the intro to Andreas’s PhD and pleased to report the actual expert has arrived! #OliCat
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Mona Alzheimer @monaalzheimer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🧪We are hiring!!!🧪 2 postdocs in #RNAbiology #bioengineering for our @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social funded MOMENTUM project. Join us to study bacterial gene expression with #microfluidics and #microscopy. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/03290000/Jobs/2024/1_Postdoc_momentum_Sharma_2025-01_V0.pdf
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Do you want to come and do a PhD in beautiful Bath with @kevinpaine.bsky.social and me? Come and help us understand how to use bacteria to make bioconcrete. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A reminder that there just a few days left to apply to work with us as a post doc on DETECTIVE-II. MRC funded project to work on genomics and metagenomics of AMR in China and the UK edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Fellow - Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes - 104952 - Grade 7
To take a lead role in the development and delivery of an MRC funded UK-China research network on antimicrobial resistance epidemiology
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Method of the Year 2024: spatial proteomics - Nature Methods
Approaches for profiling the spatial proteome in tissues are the basis of atlas-scale projects that are delivering on their promise for understanding biological complexity in health and disease.
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Salvador Almagro-Moreno @bioetry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚨We have a "Scientist" position in my lab at @StJude 👉This position is stable and not dependent on external funding. 🗒️ Ideally, the candidate holds a PhD in Microbiology or related and +3 years experience post degree. See ad for job details. Please kindly repost! talent.stjude.org/careers/jobs...
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Scientist (Moreno Lab) in Memphis, Tennessee | St. Jude Careers
St. Jude Careers is hiring a Scientist (Moreno Lab) in Memphis, Tennessee. Review all of the job details and apply today!
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Too true @annayahprosser.bsky.social (great piece!) it was the most amazing night and I am really going to miss seeing her genius mash ups in the surprise songs #longliveeras theconversation.com/the-end-of-t...
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The end of Taylor Swift’s Era’s tour will be a loss for many – here’s how to handle it, according to experts and fellow fans
The tour has been going on for a long time and has been a source of stability for many.
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Last lecture of the academic year done! Lab work here I come!
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Olaya Rendueles @olayarendueles.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Flagellar rotation facilitates the transfer of a bacterial conjugative plasmid in Bacilli www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Flagellar rotation facilitates the transfer of a bacterial conjugative plasmid | The EMBO Journal
imageimageUnlike typical bacterial conjugation systems that are activated upon bacterial contact with solid surfaces, the pLS20 plasmid, prevalent in Bacilli, is predominantly transferred in fluid env...
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Train trips - I should do more of them - have got so much done in the 7 hours I have spent on them this past week. Including writing the lecture I have to give tomorrow - the last of this academic year!!
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
JOB CLAXON! I am recruiting a post-doctoral researcher on a BBSRC-funded project (36 months) on the genetics and functional genomics of vancomycin resistance in enterococci. Further details here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please DM or email me if you want to discuss this post.
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Research Fellow - Department of Microbes, Infections and Microbiomes - 104864 - Grade 7
This exciting BBSRC-funded project aims to mechanistically characterise the fitness costs associated with vancomycin resistance in the Gram-positive opportunistic pathogens Enterococcus faecalis and E...
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Microbiology is amazing - Sourdough Panettone done! #ChristmasReady
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Microbiology on the weekend! Sourdough Panettone!
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Lars Barquist @lbarquist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We recently built an interactive 3D exploration tool for bacterial #SingleCell RNA-seq, led by a master's student in design hosted by my group. Short video trailer below highlighting some of the features, or check out the paper for more details! 🧪🦠🧫🧬🖥️ academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...
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sCircle - Teaser
YouTube video by Max Seeger
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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Excited to share our latest, "Biofilm dispersal patterns revealed using far-red fluorogenic probes." @plos.bsky.social We developed a cell-labeling strategy using far-red dyes to image dense microbial communities (where fluorescent proteins often do not work well) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Romain Lacombe @rlacombe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
RhoFold+, nucleotide language model for accurate 3d structure prediction of RNA, from the Wyss institute: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Accurate RNA 3D structure prediction using a language model-based deep learning approach - Nature Methods
RhoFold+ is an end-to-end language model-based deep learning method to predict RNA three-dimensional structures of single-chain RNAs from sequences.
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Ben Neely @benneely.com · 24/11/2024
I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible! #proteomics #bioinformatics
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Dr. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
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Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Took a much needed break from marking to photosynthesise behind my favourite fluffy ears. We went to see the giraffes 🦒 as you do in wildest Wiltshire! #selfcareTuesday
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