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Dr Jess Buttress @jbuttresssci.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

An amazing week at the Bacterial Cell Surfaces GRC in Portland, Maine! Such a supportive and engaging community, and a great opportunity to present some of my postdoc work investigating the protective role of LiaH in B. subtilis. @henrikstrahl.bsky.social @avertproject.bsky.social #microsky

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Tim Overton @overtonlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

PhD alert! We are advertising an exciting PhD opportunity as part of the BBSRC-funded BARRIΣR project, investigating how molecules get into bacteria with the aim of improving solvent tolerance. Please share with any (home) students you think might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Improving the solvent tolerance of E. coli by understanding the rules of accumulation at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Improving the solvent tolerance of E. coli by understanding the rules of accumulation at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Caro Kobras 🐍 @carokobras.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Super exciting news 🚨 I am hiring a technician to join my brand new lab at the University of Birmingham! @imibirmingham.bsky.social Come and support my BBSRC-funded research on understanding how staphylococci survive antibiotics. Please share! 🧫🧪 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH271/a...

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Assistant Technical Specialist at University of Birmingham

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Technical Specialist opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

An SPFH Protein Couples Membrane Stress to Differentiation in Bacillus subtilis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Alasdair Hubbard @dralhubb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🔔Collabator Alert🔔 I’m putting together a project on UTIs and the urogenital microbiome and am looking for a collaborator with solid metagenomic sequencing/analysis experience. If you’d be interested in joining the work, I’d love to talk #MicroSky #UTISky

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Syma Khalid @sykhalid.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A gift of an article from the inimitable Colin Kleanthous as he says a moving farewell to his laboratory. A brave, unrepentant and scientifically brilliant journey is described - please have a read, friends. www.jbc.org/article/S002...

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Bacteriocin biophysics: From protein-protein interaction models to navigators of the bacterial cell envelope

Bacteriocins are toxins deployed by bacteria to kill their competitors. Here, I reflect on my laboratory’s work on protein bacteriocins and their immunity proteins from Gram-negative bacteria. We unco...

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Charles Winterhalter @winterhalterlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

E. coli is the leading bacterium causing death from AMR infections worldwide. If you'd like to explore approaches to exploit the DNA damage response as alternative antimicrobial, please apply to the following PhD studentship available in my lab starting October 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Exploiting the bacterial DNA damage response as an alternative antimicrobial at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Exploiting the bacterial DNA damage response as an alternative antimicrobial at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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AVERT project @avertproject.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

💼JOB OFFER: There is a great opportunity for #PDRAs to join the #KathrynLilley #UniversityofCambridge lab to work on an ancient set of effector proteins IM30 family, that promote membrane integrity. See: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc.... Apply by the 13th Feb

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Research Associate - Lilley Group (Fixed Term)

Postdoctoral Research Associate to apply proteomics technologies to an ancient universal bacterial membrane effector system The post is a key part of an existing major 5-year BBSRC sLoLa award to

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Henrik Strahl @henrikstrahl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Fabian was quicker :) But yes, we have an open postdoc position in bacterial bioenergetics and membrane biology, using on B. subtilis as the model. Come join us! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social is a great place to work, and we are a friendly, international lab. Visa+IHS fees covered. #microsky

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Prof Paula Salgado @pssalgado.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It was a pleasure to be an examiner of the latest @henrikstrahl.bsky.social PhD graduate Laura Dobby. Great work and a very nice discussion in her viva. Congratulations Dr Dobby! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 13/10/2025

Let’s stare into the far red 🏮. A stunning tour-de-force of high-resolution #CryoEM by Gio, Bill, & company reveals how the machinery of photosynthesis redshifts itself so cyanobacteria can live on far red light, deep in the cracks of rocks or under microbial mats. #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 🔬 🌍

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Dr Jess Buttress @jbuttresssci.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Possibly outing myself as the biggest nerd ever here but what a massive day for Ryan Sharpe, Oakville, Ontario, Canada appearing on both US Jeopardy and UK University Challenge!!

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Kevin Whitley @kevindwhitley.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Postdoc position available! This is a 2-year post funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. You'll be based in the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology here in Newcastle, using super-resolution microscopy to look at the bacterial cell wall. 🔬🦠 Please re-post 🙏 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY885/r...

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Research Assistant/Associate - Mapping the Bacterial Cell Wall with Super-resolution Microscopy at Newcastle University

Apply for the Research Assistant/Associate - Mapping the Bacterial Cell Wall with Super-resolution Microscopy role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View det...

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CBCB Newcastle @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We are happy to join the science community at BlueSky! #MicroSky

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Kate Beckham @kshbeckham.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

First post of the year to mark my return from maternity leave :) Excited to share the first open PhD position in my group. Deadline end of February. Please spread the word. www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=181239

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PhD studentship: Structural and functional characterisation of mycobacterial outer membrane proteins at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - PhD studentship: Structural and functional characterisation of mycobacterial outer membrane proteins at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Single molecule imaging of RecB in vivo reveals dynamics of DNA Double Strand Break repair in Escherichia coli www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Dr Jess Buttress @jbuttresssci.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This has been an ongoing collaboration with Michaela Wenzel’s group since my PhD days so a huge thank you to everyone involved @alansckoh.bsky.social @henrikstrahl.bsky.social and hopefully this provides some cool results/techniques for upcoming AMR research! (3/3) #microsky

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Dr Jess Buttress @jbuttresssci.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

ii) daptomycin’s ability to cluster fluid lipid domains requires cell wall precursor lipids whilst membrane depolarisation does not, and finally, the Bacillus IM30 protein LiaH seems to play an intriguing role in clustering these daptomycin-cell wall precursor lipid complexes. (2/3)

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Dr Jess Buttress @jbuttresssci.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

So happy our pre-print on daptomycin mechanism of action is now out! Here, we present three main findings: i) daptomycin does not form large membrane pores in either B. subtilis or S. aureus, (1/3)

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