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Jai Mehat

@jaimehat.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Molecular Bacteriology at University of Surrey.

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Dutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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 👍
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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
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Nela Nikolic @nelani.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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...
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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
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 13/05/2026
This is A+ AI slop. I love it
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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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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Assistant Professor x6 (111522-0426) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor x6 (111522-0426). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 15/04/2026
A warm congratulations to Dr Lindsay Broadbent for winning the Outreach and Engagement Prize Lecture! #Microbio26
Dr Lindsay Broadbent receiving the 2026 Outreach and Engagement Prize from Professor Gordon Dougan, President of Microbiology Society
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Timofey Skvortsov @timskvortsov.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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
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Emma Waters @emmabeansworth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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
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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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Ross Fitzgerald @jrossfitz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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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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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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🔊 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...
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Giusy Mariano @giusym1990.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
🚨 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...
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 03/11/2025
“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
Night view of Belfast City Hall illuminated with colourful lights, promoting abstract submission closing for Annual Conference 2026 at ICC Belfast from April 13-16.
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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
#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
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
High-risk clonal groups of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) demonstrate heterogeneous phenotypic characteristics in vitro and in vivo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Romain Koszul @rkoszul.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Two more weeks to apply to join us in Paris ! research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...
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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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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"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...
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Human case of avian flu detected in England
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Jai Mehat @jaimehat.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🚨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🔽
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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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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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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Dutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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.
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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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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🚨 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!
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Global phylogenomic analysis of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius reveals genomic and prophage diversity in multi-drug resistant lineages www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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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
Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is the foremost cause of opportunistic canine skin and mucosal infec
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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
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
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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...
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Ronan McCarthy @ronanmccarthy.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Brunel has an open position for a Microbiology Lecturer with a focus on antibiotic resistance or drug discovery. May suit ambitious early career scientists seeking to transition to an independent position. Happy to discuss, just send me a message. t.ly/Lq9yF
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Lecturer in Biosciences - 13841-2 (4145) | Brunel University London
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