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Research Theme at Newcastle University Investigating microbial interactions in human hosts www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/rese…

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Kate Beckham @kshbeckham.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Starting the afternoon session with a fun, interactive talk from @kateduncan.bsky.social exploring the chemical language of microbes🦠
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Kate Beckham @kshbeckham.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Great talk from @kasiamic.bsky.social kicking off the Microbiology Research Celebration. @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social
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Lis Lowe @lislowe.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Time for @kateduncan.bsky.social to talk about chemistry and why microbes use it via some interactive questions
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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
We start of the ‘2026 Celebration of Microbiology’ event @newcastleuni.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social organised by PhD and Postdoc reps from @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social Chloe, Natalia, Rachel and Jean-Lou
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Exciting programme of talks today at today’s ’celebrate microbiology’ event
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
External speaker today at the MHD seminar Dr Becca McHugh @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social from Uni Glasgow. Great to more hear alternative antimicrobial agents.
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James Connolly @ruamicro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Want to research the basis of how drug resistant bacteria interact with human immune cells? Fully funded 4-year PhD position available (UK home students). Come and join our amazing interdisciplinary team at the intersection of microbiology, immunity, metabolism and the clinic! Please spread the word
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Hiding in plain sight: How a multi-drug resistant pathogen evades detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Hiding in plain sight: How a multi-drug resistant pathogen evades detection and killing by human neutrophils at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Kesha Josts @kjosts.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Want to work on iron uptake in fungi? Together with Prof Jan Quinn, we have a 4-year funded PhD studentship (UK only) to join us here in Newcastle. Get in touch if you are interested. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Molecular mechanisms of siderophore-mediated iron uptake in Fungi at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Molecular mechanisms of siderophore-mediated iron uptake in Fungi at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Lis Lowe @lislowe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We have a PhD studentship open! (UK only sadly) but if you are or know a student keen to work on some *really* weird mycobacterial enzymes then get in touch! #glycotime Advert below www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Uncovering a new class of toxins in pathogenic mycobacteria at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Uncovering a new class of toxins in pathogenic mycobacteria at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Postdoc @zmaw.bsky.social giving a seminar for our Microbes in Health & Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social research theme today #metabolomics #actinomycetes
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Beautiful work from @pmoyniha.bsky.social presented at today’s MHD seminar. 👏🏻
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Two great seminars today. First up Aaron Scott a PhD student with @kshbeckham.bsky.social and @winterhalterlab.bsky.social 👏🏻
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thanks @hobbslabmicro.bsky.social for a great seminar. 👏🏻
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James Connolly @ruamicro.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Early bird registration for VTEC 2026 ends this Friday (February 27th). Please share with your networks and consider registering for this great One-health conference covering all topics VTEC related, taking place in Aberdeen on the 10-13th of May.
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James Connolly @ruamicro.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Last chance to apply for this exciting PhD with us. Deadline tomorrow the 27th of February!
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Tracy Palmer @proftracypalmer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This project is joint with fab computational biologist @mattbashton.bsky.social - great opportunity to learn computational and molecular biology skills
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Lots of exciting opportunities to join us here in Newcatsle with the BBSRC Doctoral Landscape (NEEDL) phd programme 🤩 www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
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needl PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships - 56 PhDs Listed
FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in needl. Search for PhD funding, scholarships & studentships in the UK, Europe and around the world.
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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Isn’t it amazing that you can culture a microbe and see what chemistry it produces? Metabolite extracts by @zmaw.bsky.social #naturalproducts
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Fab afternoon at the MHD festive gathering 🎉 congratulations to the winning quiz team and @johncorrigall.bsky.social for most festive outfit.
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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Second talk from BvdB covering cell surface biology in Bacteroides. Always great to see the pedal bin and TonB plug. J’adore the pedal bin. Massive thank you to the #dreamtheme speakers, attendees and organisers. And to @winterhalterlab.bsky.social for chairing!
Busy seminar room, Bert behind the lectern to his right a white title slide, text reads Cell Surface Biology of Bacteroides.
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Another packed room at the MHD seminar for @jlreyre.bsky.social and Bert van den Berg 👏🏻
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Great to host Matthias Wilmanns for this week’s MHD seminar @embl.org @matthiaswilmanns.bsky.social
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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Fantastic to have Prof Matthias Wilmanns from EMBL Hamburg hosted by @kshbeckham.bsky.social to give a @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social seminar on mycobacterial infection #dreamtheme
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Congratulations Maisie! 🥂
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Welcome to Newcatsle Zach 😃
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CBCB Newcastle @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Big congratulations Neha!
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Leela Ghimire @leela-bg.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Happy to see work I contributed to during my MSc at @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social with Jennifer Tomlinson’s lab out in @pnas.org! Everyone Bluesky-less except @antoncalabrese.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AMR #MRSA #NMR
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Inhibition of fusidic acid resistance through restricting conformational flexibility in domain III of EF-G | PNAS
Fusidic acid (FA) is one of few remaining antibiotics active against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. FusB confers resistance to FA by ...
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Congratulations Marla 🌟
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Henrik Strahl @henrikstrahl.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Now properly published at @natcomms.nature.com with few additional experiments incl. demonstration of Daptomycin's ability to depolarise non-growing cells. See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky
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The last resort antibiotic daptomycin exhibits two independent antibacterial mechanisms of action - Nature Communications
The precise mechanism of action of the antibiotic daptomycin is controversial. Here, Buttress et al. provide evidence for two independent antibacterial mechanisms: membrane depolarisation and inhibiti...
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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Second talk was from another of M3031's finest, Finn Brady from @jmarlesw.bsky.social lab working on the general stressosome 🫡 Lovely to see how this story is moving along!
Photo of the seminar room with Finn on the left by the lectern, displaying a white title slide with title bacterial stressosome complexes and a structural diagram similar to a cauliflower. White in the middle with pink projections.
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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Busy week last week kicked off with another billy belter of a seminar from @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social First talk from James Haycocks from @banzhaflab.bsky.social with some cool work with chemical genomics on Vibrio. It's great seeing the high throughput plates in action. #dreamtheme
Busy seminar room, James on the far left in a grey jumper. Prof. Stewart between the lectern and the white title slide on the big screen.
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James Connolly @ruamicro.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Theres still time to apply for our PhD project on UPEC/immune cell interactions. Deadline December 4th
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Jon Marles-Wright @jmarlesw.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Pleased to see this collaboration with a great PhD student Pei Cing Ng, from Prof. Luning Liu's lab at Liverpool University published. Structure of the H. neapolitanus carbonic anhydrase and localisation in a mini-carboxysome: www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
An illustration of a carbonic anhydrase complex in a synthetic mini-carboxysome
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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Brilliant to have Prof Malcolm White from the University of St Andrews giving a Newcastle University Biosciences Institute seminar (hosted by @heathmurraylab.bsky.social) #microbiology #phage #bacteriology
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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Second talk was from Prof. Frank Sargent with an interesting talk on TXSS. Another set of brilliant talks from the #dreamtheme, with plenty of further reading, thanks to speakers, @dave-bolam.bsky.social chairing and the other organisers from the theme!
Same busy seminar room with Prof. Sargent at the computer on the left and a blue title screen.
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Two great seminars this week 👏🏻
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TJ McCorvie @allostericstate.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I am excited to share our new preprint on our structural and biochemical analyses of human methionine synthase (MTR). This was the hard work of Douglas Ferreira who carried out this research as a significant part of his PhD. #CryoEM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Structural insights into cobalamin loading and reactivation of human methionine synthase
Human methionine synthase (MTR) is an essential enzyme of one carbon metabolism. Consisting of a catalytic N-half and a cobalamin binding C-half, MTR utilises this intricate organometallic cofactor in...
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Kate Beckham @kshbeckham.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Beautiful work from @augustsilale.bsky.social 🤩 @nusbf.bsky.social
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CBCB Newcastle @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Looking for a PhD opportunity in Microbiology? Consider joining one of the UK's leading microbiology research clusters at Newcastle University. See the thread for MRC DTP studentships currently advertised. @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social #microsky
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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Looks like a great meeting :)
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Alessandra Dantas @alesdantas.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Want to work within a multidisciplinary group to combat antifungal resistance in Candida spp? Fully-funded MRC PhD studentship in collaboration with @nclfungalgroup.bsky.social and Francesco Del Carratore on the mode of action of a new class of antifungal drugs. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Targeting thioredoxin reductase to combat antifungal resistance in Candida spp. at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Targeting thioredoxin reductase to combat antifungal resistance in Candida spp. at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Kevin Whitley @kevindwhitley.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Interested in a PhD at the intersection of biophysics and microbiology? Apply for this MRC-funded opportunity at Newcastle University to do cutting-edge microscopy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis! 🔬🦠 Closing 4 Dec! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Molecular mechanism of slow growth and antibiotic tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using single-molecule microscopy at Newcastle University on FindAPhD....
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Molecular mechanism of slow growth and antibiotic tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using single-molecule microscopy at Newcastle Universit...
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Kate Beckham @kshbeckham.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Want to find ways to combat TB? Check out this PhD position 👇
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