A reminder that this position closes in a few days time!
We are hiring! 🔬🧫 Join our lab at the Uni Southampton as a Research Technician working on bacteria-phage interactions to develop therapies for hard-to-treat infections.
2-year post
Deadline: 27 May 2026
Position start date: 1 July 2026 or shortly after
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#Genome-resolved #metagenomics reveals conserved, flexible and emerging #symbioses across global #leafhoppers
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Latest paper lead by Asia Hoile with @peterhox.bsky.social is out! 🦋
Nymphalid butterflies have reduced forelegs. Gene expression patterns show support for more palp-like genes involved in sensory processes in the forelegs relative to the walking legs.
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Great to see this published in the @microbiologysociety.org collection on Actinomycetes
Conserved regulator MtrA directly activates ectoine biosynthesis and expression of BldM and WhiI to trigger sporulation in response to hyperosmotic stress
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Dr Nela Nikolic receives Springboard funding to develop approaches to tackle bacterial infections
Transcriptome analysis reveals that the small non-walking front legs of a butterfly have distinct gene expression to the four walking legs. Reduced front legs express a gene with putative mechanosen...
The MtrAB two-component system is a master regulator of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces species. MtrA is also required for sporulation under certain growth conditions, which means that on some...
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Very excited to share our new preprint, led by Alyssa Henderson! We ask why auxotrophy is so widespread in bacteria, and find that phylogeny is the dominant predictor of autotrophy, as opposed to environmental context. Check it out! 👇
Amino acid auxotrophy, the loss of biosynthetic potential for an amino acid, is a highly prevalent feature of microbial life, yet the evolutionary processes driving its distribution in nature remain u...
