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Magdalena Kurteu

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PhD student studying eco-evolutionary dynamics of hot spring microbial communities 🧫🧬🌋 She/Her 🏳️‍🌈

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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Such a great day of chatting about microbiology research across faculties at @manchester.ac.uk 🧫
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kicking things off for @atmicroverse.bsky.social with an introducing by @flanagella.bsky.social & our first keynote speaker @raveentank.bsky.social 🧫
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atmicroverse.bsky.social @atmicroverse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One week to go until #Microverse26 ! We're excited to shine a light on all the microbe-related research happening at UoM 🧬🧫 In addition to our talks and posters, we have some fun activities lined up; human bingo, a photo competition and a microbe artist 😄
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MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We’re at the Universally Manchester Festival today with colonies to count, bacteria to infect with phage & your very own microbes to create! 🧫 @socialresponuom.bsky.social
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Medical supply chains & climate change, measuring volcanic eruptions with drones and taking better care of our pets through tech! Night two of @pintofscience.uk was another great one! 💊🌋🐶 #Pint26
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Still tickets left for tomorrow’s event 🎟️ pintofscience.co.uk/event/planet... @pintofscience.uk #pint26
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Planet Earth: Through Binoculars
Focusing on the visible scale of human, animal and natural impacts on our planet. Which things do we do that we may not realise impact our environment? And…
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Learnt lots about space sustainability from our amazing speakers at @pintofscience.uk tonight 🚀🛰️🔭
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Why does antibiotic resistance evolution vary between patients? Come to @officialuom.bsky.social @mermanchester.bsky.social to help us find out! 2.5 year @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position in experimental evolution Closing 15 May. Apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Associate in Microbial Evolution:Oxford Road
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Science enthusiasts of Manchester listen up! We’ve organised three nights of exciting science talks about Planet Earth as part of @pintofscience.uk this May! Come and join us at @stationsouth.bsky.social for our planet from different perspectives 🌍🔭🔬
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Pint of Science UK @pintofscience.uk · 13/04/2026
✨Tickets for #pint26 are now on sale!✨ 🎟Book here 👉 pintofscience.co.uk 👈 🗓18-20 May 2026 📍45+ locations across the UK 🗣Nearly 450 events
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Feeling especially happy today to be part of a research group where we have arts & crafts breaks in the sunshine ☀️ @mermanchester.bsky.social MERcraft (started by @flanagella.bsky.social) has inspired me to dig out my watercolours and revisit Iceland 🎨
A small watercolour painting of an Icelandic landscape with a glimmering body of water in the centre surrounded by rocky mossy and grassy areas and a blue sky reflected in the water surface. The painting is laying on a weathered wooden surface with a brush to the left and the edge of a set of watercolours the the left of the brush  an Icelandic landscape with a glimmering body of water in the centre surrounded by rocky mossy and grassy areas and a blue sky reflected in the water surface
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Saying goodbye to Birmingham after a brilliant week of learning about microbial genomic analysis at #AMGDMar26 🧫🧬 @unibirmingham.bsky.social with the best teachers and cohort! And a special thank you to all of you for following along and helping me win the most coveted prize of the AMGD mug! ☕️
Magdalena is a white woman with short curly ginger hair and is wearing a bright yellow raincoat over a mint green top. She’s smiling at the camera with a mechanical bull statue of Ozzy the bull behind herA white mug with a dark blue logo and orange writing. The logo shows a laptop screen with a DNA and microbes, and code underneath, the writing above reads Analysing Microbial Genomic Data
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Day 5 of #AMGDMar26 🧬 we wrapped up everything we learnt this week (a lot!) and completed our sci-fi quest by successfully identifying the suspects! 🥳 And got a fantastic seminar by @pathogenomenick.bsky.social about the real world applications of many of the tools we learnt about! 🦠
Nick is a white man with a beard and dark hair, standing in front of a projector screen showing a pandemic curve plot
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Day 4 of #AMGDMar26 🧬 Learning about the cutest way to analyse pangenomes (panaroo) 🦘 and a windy walk around campus while waiting for it to run @unibirmingham.bsky.social An afternoon of phylogenetic trees in action @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social 🌳 and encouraging tools (thanks snippy!)
A red brick building against a cloudy grey sky A whiteboard in the centre of a lecture room, a white man is writing on the whiteboard Lines of code in black in a white background, a highlighted line reads “This analysis is totally hard-core!”
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Day 3 of #AMGDMar26 🧬 learning about alignments through song lyrics, loops starting to make sense, a trip the market in the sunshine & shiny microbe stickers thanks to @helenmcneil.bsky.social @microbesng.bsky.social 🧫
A pack of stickers in front of a computer screen with blurred code. The sticker pack is branded MicrobesNG and the visible sticker at the front reads: Relax it’s just a phage A fruit stall with a blue sky and clouds above, the building behind read Queen Elisabeth Hospital Birmingham
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Day 2 of #AMGDMar26 🧬 was a lovely sunny day on campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social ☀️ Which alongside cake and the aim of saving the world (see Day 1) provided ample motivation for learning a whole lot about what to do with Illumina sequencing outputs 💻
A blue sky with some clouds above a red brick building to the left and a grey building in the centre with the university of Birmingham crestA computer screen showing a terminal inside a browser running fastqc on a number of samples
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Day 1 of #AMGDMar26 🧬 started with an icebreaker that was actually fun 😱! And I cannot wait to live my science fiction dreams over the next few days 🤩 Oh and a tote bag?! Great start to the week!
Flat lay of a tote bag and booklet branded with the Analysing Microbial Genomic Data logo (a laptop showing a DNA double helix and microbes) and a sheet of paper that reads Human Bingo A folded letter marked as classified with portions blacked out, suggesting the participants of the course must solve a fictional act of bioterrorism
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Made it to Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social for a week of microbial genomics fun! 🧫🧬💻 #AMGDMar26
Mags is a white woman and has short curly ginger hair and is wearing a yellow raincoat, she is smiling at the camera and pointing upwards with her left hand. She is pointing at a brick building behind her with a railways sign, university, and the university of Birmingham crest
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Had so much fun chatting about my PhD work from year one in our seminar today! Such great feedback and interesting discussions from everyone at @mermanchester.bsky.social 🧫
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two really great talks this week!
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Fantastic talk by @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social about Bdellovibrio biocontrol 🧫🍅 #UoM_EEday
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Excited to learn and chat about ecology & evolution today at #UoM_EEday 🌱🧬
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MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We had two fantastic visiting speakers today MERMan alumnus @rowancallumg.bsky.social spoke about his current work with viral cheating in influenza with @asherleeks.bsky.social And @lavishaparab.bsky.social talked about phage infection trade-offs Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for our snacks!
Rowan standing in front of a title slide reading “defective viral genomes in natural infections”Lavish standing in front of a title slide reading “trade-offs in bacterial evolution in the context of temperate phage infection”
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
P.S. if you were at #MicroEvo25 and didn’t get chance to scan the QR code on my poster, but would like to see some videos from our Iceland fieldwork 🌋 you can find them all here linktr.ee/magdalenakur...
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Microbiologist, PhD student studying eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities in hot springs 🧫🧬🌋
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Winning the poster prize was an amazing way to end #MicroEvo25 🎉 Absolutely loved sharing (the start of!) my PhD research! Thanks to @brockhurstlab.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social and Sophie for the encouragement & to @microbiologysociety.org for organising such a fantastic event!
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Had the best day at #MicroEvo25 yesterday! Excited for day two and to be chatting more about hot spring microbial community coalescence 🌋 find me at poster 62 (likely with a coffee in hand)
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MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Learn about hot spring microbial communities from @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social at poster 62 🌋 #MicroEvo25
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Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Go Team! Deeply honoured that the MERMan lab reps won an @manchester.ac.uk‬ "FMBH heroes" award - thanks ‪@fbmh-uom.bsky.social‬ and @mermanchester.bsky.social for nominating us ❤️❤️❤️
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Incredibly honoured to have won the @fbmh-uom.bsky.social Heroes Award for sustainability with the wonderful @mermanchester.bsky.social lab reps team! 🥳🌟
Six people stood outside in the sunshine holding up a star shaped glass trophy
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Really enjoyed the challenge of presenting my PhD project in three minutes for the @fbmhdocacad.bsky.social summer symposium & winning the jury prize for best talk! 🧫🧬🏅 Had so much fun capturing the project in a creative way for a diverse audience 🥳
Magdalena is wearing a green boiler suit and stood in front of a white screen showing a slide. On the slide there is a drawing of a mountainous Icelandic landscape. Dotted around are blobs showing different stages of the project; sampling hot spring microbes, growing them in the lab, their DNA and a computer showing a diagram of them interacting.
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Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Had a fantastic time at @pintofscience.uk last night! Here I am wobbling on a chair trying to turn a #Phage into a #T6SS. Thanks @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social‬ for the pic!
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Had the absolute best time at @pintofscience.uk talking about microbial evolution and some of the work I’ve been doing at @mermanchester.bsky.social with @flanagella.bsky.social and @dannagifford.bsky.social 🧫💊🧬
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Really enjoyed doing a trial run of my @pintofscience.uk talk for @mermanchester.bsky.social today! Come see me talk about experimental evolution next Monday 🧬🧫💊 pintofscience.co.uk/event/tiny-t...
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Tiny Tenants: Life With Our Microbes
You’re not alone in your body—billions of tiny tenants are living with you. From gut to skin, microbes shape your health, fight disease, and even evolve be…
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Pint of Science UK @pintofscience.uk · 14/04/2025
✨Tickets for #pint25 are now on sale!✨ 🎟Book here 👉 pintofscience.co.uk 🐝🧪👩‍🔬📚🔬👓🧠🐟🫀💫🥼👨‍🔬🔭🧫🦴 🗓19th-21st May 2025 📍45+ locations across the UK 🗣400 events
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Louise Flanagan @flanagella.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Excited to be presenting work from the Gifford Lab at #microbio25 on testing the effectiveness of combination therapy in E. coli in limiting antibiotic resistance spread 🦠🧫🧪 Come talk to me at poster A142 today!
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If you’re at the @microbiologysociety.org conference go and see @flanagella.bsky.social’s poster of some of our work at A142 🧫💊 #microbio25
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RaveenTank.bsky.social @raveentank.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Big moment for InViFlo — our first public outing at the Physics of Life conference! We’re building flexible, low-cost organ-on-a-chip tools for real-time, high-res science. Want a free chip? Take our quick survey at inviflolabs.com — and please share
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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚨 The Whelan lab is currently recruiting for a 6-week summer undergraduate student as part of the Lister Institute's Summer Studentship scheme. 🚨 The student will work along side a Postdoc to study interactions between pathogens from the cystic fibrosis microbiome. More info & to apply please see:
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Lister Summer Studentship on Pathogen Interactions in Cystic Fibrosis:Oxford Road
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thank you for the cupcakes @microbesng.bsky.social 🧁
A box of vanilla cupcakes with blue frosting and a round icing circle with “microbes NG” in blue writing
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Associate in Experimental Evolution:Manchester
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Loving these friendly microbes! Thank you @microbesng.bsky.social 🧫🦠
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Alejandro Marquiegui @amarquiegui98.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Very excited to share that my first publication is now out! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Genetic Bioaugmentation‐Mediated Bioremediation of Terephthalate in Soil Microcosms Using an Engineered Environmental Plasmid
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Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Some excellent Xmas #boardgames with @mermanchester.bsky.social tonite. Findings: - it is impossible to express the rules of Wavelength in english - Articulate is the best party game ever Team gold ftw
A meeting room full of smiling people, eating snacks and playing board games
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Chris Knight @knightjar.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events We’re out in Nature !! doi.org/ntzk Very exciting for my first bluesky post! – it’s been a long haul by an excellent team from across Europe, led by @frantecol.bsky.social
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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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Danna Gifford @dannagifford.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
📣 PhD on mutation rate and #AMR evolution in E. coli starting Oct'25 with me, @whelanfj.bsky.social & Mato Lagator at University of Manchester (MERMan Group @mermanchester.bsky.social) Please email me if interested. Open to UK and international students #MicroSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Magdalena Kurteu @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Had the best time talking about and showing everyone how cool bacteria are! 🧫
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