Microbial Evolution Research at The University of Manchester
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MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester)
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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
This week’s seminar featured a great talk by PhD student Zhou Chen about engineering phages for biocontainment ⚙️
Shoutout to @microbesng.bsky.social for our fabulous snacks!
In our recent seminars we heard from @mbottery.bsky.social about anti fungal resistance evolution 💊 and Dr Irma Vitonytė spoke about endosymbiont evolution (using samples from ponds across Manchester!)🔬
Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the best seminar snacks!
MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester)
MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester)
MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester)
Why does antibiotic resistance evolution vary between patients?
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Two great talks from last week's seminar by Emma Wright: Mutation rates depend on the presence and density of cohabiting species, and Matt Thomas: The elements of mobile elements in microbiomes.
Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for sponsoring refreshments at our seminars.
Two fantastic talks in our latest seminar: Kirsten Lim told us about her work on the effects of IgA on gut phage diversity, and Jeremy Dejardin shared his work mapping chromosome-plasmid interactions in E. coli
Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the best seminar snacks!
Last week's seminar featured excellent talks from @fionapoulter.bsky.social on understanding the evolution of epidemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Holly Richardson on why heterogeneity matters: predicting antibiotic resistance in cystic fibrosis.
Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the nice snacks!
We had two fantastic talks last week: Tom Butterfield talked about tailoring promoter sensitivity for fun and profit, and Deepanshi Kwarwall on understanding the disturbance potential of Bacillus spp. toward soil microbes.
Cheers to @microbesng.bsky.social for sponsoring snacks.
In last week’s seminar we heard from @rebeccawallis.bsky.social about her work on the ecology and evolution of pathogens in CF 🫁
And @flanagella.bsky.social taught us about the importance of strain context in antibiotic resistance 💊
Thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for our snacks!
In this week’s seminar we heard from Erika Hansson who shared work on the evolution of endosymbiosis 🔬 and our lab reps shared an update on our laboratory sustainability efforts, including a quiz on lab recyclables! 🧪♻️
Thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for the fantastic snacks!
