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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I couldn’t agree more😅 CitySprint was the best option for us last year!!

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Really cool work!!!! Congratulations 🥳

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Kathrin Tomasek @ktomasek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New in PLOS Pathogens 🎉 How does OM-89 (Uro-Vaxom) protect against recurrent UTIs? 🦠 Our paper: it activates lysosomes in bladder epithelial cells, pushing intracellular E. coli into acidic, protease-active compartments and improving antibiotic killing. 🧵 10.1371/journal.ppat.1014448 #UTISky #UPEC

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Really exciting project and a dream team! 🙌🏼 Please consider applying if you’re a UTI enthusiast! 🦠🧫

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Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨 NEW RESEARCH TECHNICIAN POST 🚨 👉 Interested in understanding the biology of recurrent UTI? 👉 Keen to work in my own and @jennyrohn.bsky.social research groups at UCL? Then please do take a look at new position available 👇. Informal enquiries encouraged. #UTISky www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our latest paper has been featured in Nature Comms' Editors’ Highlights page for Microbiology and Infection Diseases! Do check out the paper if you're interested in #UTI, #phage, #UPEC, advanced infection #models & treatment failure! #UTISky #MicroSky #IDSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Screenshot of this webpage - who knows how long our paper will last on it ;-)

https://www.nature.com/collections/jedgcgeija

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James Connolly @ruamicro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are you a motivated researcher interested in bacteria-host interactions? We have postdoc position available in my lab to join our Wellcome Trust funded collaborative team. We will study the role and regulation of the enigmatic sphingolipids in E. coli. Please share. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX115/r...

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Research Assistant/ Associate in Bacteria-Host Interactions at Newcastle University

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Assistant/ Associate in Bacteria-Host Interactions. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ecstatic to have contributed to this wonderful work of my fantastic colleague @microberamon.bsky.social ! Bottom line is that environment, including fluidics, matter for antibiotic treatment which might contribute to treatment failure. Precious collaboration with bioengineers!

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A huge thank you to all the co-authors and collaborators who made this work possible🔬🦠

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

(6/6) Building on these findings, my Urology Foundation Innovation & Research Award 2026 is enabling the next chapter of this research: the mechanobiological dialogue between host and pathogen that drives adaptation and treatment outcomes in the urinary tract.

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

(5/6) Most strikingly, flow promoted intracellular bacterial community formation, generating larger intracellular reservoirs within the urothelium.

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

(4/6) Using P-FLO and our image-analysis pipeline, we observed increased urothelial attachment and enhanced bacterial filamentation under flow conditions.

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

(3/6) To study infection under more realistic conditions, we developed: plug-flow link organoid (P-FLO). P-FLO incorporates physiological flow into our bladder microtissue model, allowing us to investigate how mechanical forces shape host-pathogen interactions.

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

(2/6) Quantifying intracellular bacterial communities in 3D models is challenging! We developed a reconstruction and segmentation pipeline that allows us to distinguish intracellular (green) from extracellular (orange) bacteria and quantitatively map bacterial reservoirs within the urothelium 🔬🦠

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications! 🎉 Using advanced human bladder models, we explored how the urinary microenvironment and fluid flow shape UPEC pathogenesis and treatment responses. The big message: the environment matters (1/6) 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Effect of human urinary microenvironment and fluid flow on antibiotic and phage therapy efficacy against uropathogenic Escherichia coli - Nature Communications

Maset et al. show that bladder conditions strongly influence how urinary tract infections respond to antibiotics and bacteriophages, highlighting the need for more realistic lab models to improve diag...

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's taken 12 years and a lot of work from many fantastic people, but we have published an analysis of how our reconstruction of Bald's eyesalve kills bacteria. This was driven by @tosinorababa.bsky.social & Jess Furner-Pardoe through their PhD work #MicroSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... [1/n]

Jess in the lab, holding an onion and a garlic bulb and talking; Tosin in the lab holding a petri dish and inspecting it; two glass bottles labelled "eyesalve 33/6/14"

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Massive congratulations Andy!!!! 🎉

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Really cool work! Congratulations to the team!!! 🎉🥳

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Apply here by the 17th August: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📢 We’re hiring a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford funded by The Urology Foundation (TUF). We aim to study how urination-like shear stress shapes uropathogenic E. coli behaviour, particularly bacterial filamentation, using an advanced human bladder model under flow

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Looks amazing ! Where I can sign up for the next grant writing workshop? 🤪

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I might be biased, but what an excellent presentation from my partner in crime in the lab! 👏 He shared part of his PhD work on tackling P. aeruginosa biofilms using a combination of ultrasound, antibiotics, and antibiofilm agents. 🦠

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Fascinating talk by Jing Yan on single-cell imaging/segmentation of microbial biofilm communities #Eurobiofilms2026

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Also of potential interest to #UTISky followers

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Well done!!! Massive congratulations Tosin 🥳🎉

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Honoured to have done my first viva as an external examiner yesterday in stunning Granada. What a special experience! Massive congratulations to Dr. @virpc.bsky.social 🎓🎉🍾

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thank you! Congratulations 🥳 for your award too

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thank you! From what I heard your project is super interesting 🦠🧬 Massive congratulations 🥳 to the team @jennyrohn.bsky.social @fratorelli.bsky.social

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Excited 🎉 to receive The Urology Foundation Innovation & Research Award 2026. We want to answer a simple question: does flow matters in UTIs? We will investigate how bacteria sense and respond to urinary flow, and how shear stress shapes host-pathogen interactions in a microtissue bladder model🔬🧫

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is so cool!! Mechanical sensing is fascinating 😉

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

No worries 🙂 wishing you a safe journey back home 🇺🇸

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Had a fantastic time at #ESCMICGlobal2026 presenting our work on polymicrobial communities in our bladder microtissue model. Really inspiring to be part of such a dynamic and engaging meeting. We’re hoping to submit a preprint soon. Stay tuned for more 🦠-🦠-🧫

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I might be biased but @jennyrohn.bsky.social absolutely crushed her talk 🥳 at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 🦠🧫 human bladder microtissue model to investigate how novel antimicrobial therapies and fluid dynamics affect UPEC survival!

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Unsurprisingly an amazing talk from @nicoledenisco.bsky.social on urobiomics 🦠🧬 rUTIs go beyond UPEC (~50% polymicrobial!), with the urobiome shaping disease, from protective Lactobacillus to distinct metabolomic signatures predicting relapse!!!

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Despite its worldwide prevalence, research about #UTI is sparse here at #ESCMIDGlobal2026. But managed to find a concentrated mini-population of researchers at the poster session niche—enriched for the London strain, but quite a small sample size, p values not reaching significance! #UTISky #IDSky

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Really grateful to be part of this amazing community. The conference has been absolutely fantastic, with incredible science, thoughtful discussions, and a great reminder of why we do what we do. Cherry on top: the poster award! 🎉 @globaluti.bsky.social 🙌

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Next, 4 posters about a wide variety of great stuff - bladder flow modelling, phage therapy, catheter UTI, virulence mapping, and the gut/bladder axis @murraybeno.bsky.social @microberamon.bsky.social @nickyuen.bsky.social @fratorelli.bsky.social #UTISky #UTICONF2026

Ramón explaining his poster to a fellow delegate

Ben explaining his poster to a fellow delegate

Francesca explaining his poster to a fellow delegate

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Pretty sure you did a great job! 🥳

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Its been umpety-ump years since I’ve actually presented a poster myself, but @microberamon.bsky.social had so much data we needed multiple posters! Needs must. Sorry Ramón if I get anything wrong! #UTICONF2026 #UTISky

A happy looking women gesturing at scientific poster

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Ramon Garcia Maset @microberamon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Excited to be in Nashville exploring my favorite topic: host–pathogen interactions 🦠 Our team integrates urinary microenvironment + mechanical cues (flow) in a bladder microtissue model to better evaluate antibiotic and phage therapies against UPEC Come check out poster 16! 👀 #UTICONF26 #UTISky

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Matilde Concilio @matildeconcilio.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

After climbing Mount Kinabalu (4095.2 m!), I’m ready for my next adventure. I’m excited to share that on Monday I’ll be starting my second postdoc in the @continiclau.bsky.social group at Imperial College London.

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