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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Reuben College, Oxford, invites applications for the position of President, to succeed Professor Lord Lionel Tarassenko, who will step down as the ...

Funding is often secured through Wellcome Trust or MRC DTP Fellowships. Further information about this and specific projects studying under the supervision of Departmental supervisors who have obtaine...

AbstractObjectives. Notwithstanding the wide uptake of outpatient antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in the UK, there is a paucity of data on antimicrobial expos

The antibiotic polymyxin B requires bacterial metabolic activity to cause sufficient damage to the outer membrane to access the inner membrane, which it permeabilizes via an energy-independent mechanism to kill the cell.

The genomic epidemiology of Acinetobacter baumannii, which is rising in virulence and multidrug resistance, was explored. This study examined bloodstream infection isolates from Chinese patients in 20...

Fun agar plates from across the internet The diversity in microbes is breath-taking. Individual cells may not look like much under the microscope - they are just too tiny. But when they form visible ...

A new lasso peptide antibiotic exhibits broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, is unaffected by common resistanc...

PhD Project - Antibiotics from the abyss – assessing the impact of deep-sea mining on biodiscovery at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Healthcare environments have been identified as a significant source of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, particularly, in vulnerable patients…

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01155-0In this Review, Ahmad et al. examine how antibiotics influence bacterial metabolism and how metabolism, in turn, affects drug efficacy and the emergence and…

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...

Creators of the ESKAPE Model are putting it in scientists' hands now so they can use the tool to do in a moment what otherwise might take weeks, with the goal of accelerating the discovery of new drug...

Plasmids are vehicles for horizontal gene transfer between cells, but they also exchange genes with associated chromosomes in a process termed 'intracellular mobility'. I discuss a recent article by K...

This exciting BBSRC-funded project aims to mechanistically characterise the fitness costs associated with vancomycin resistance in the Gram-positive opportunistic pathogens Enterococcus faecalis and E...

Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Scott et al. review our current knowledge of Shigella sonnei, highlighting recent insights into this globally disseminated antimicrobial-resistant...

Find out about this studentship opportunity on Health inequalities which impact the treatment of urinary tract infections.

Author summary The persistence of non-typhoidal Salmonella following acute gastroenteritis is a significant challenge for public health but the causes that lead to such chronic infections are understu...

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Postdoctoral Position in Evolutionary Genomics The lab “Evolutionary Genomics of Complex Traits” led by Luisa F. Pallares is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team in beautiful Tü...

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PhD Project - BBSRC NLD Doctoral Training Partnership: Interplay between bacterial multidrug efflux and outer membrane permeability creates an unexpected vulnerability towards antibiotics at Newcastle...