Congratulations to Ciara Tobin (and my co-supervisor @AShkoporov) on conducting her PhD viva today. We’re so proud of what she’s done on crAssphage across multiple disciplines. @Pharmabiotic @UccMicrobiology
A new APC paper published in Gut Microbes emphasizes that bacteriocin thuricin CD is narrow spectrum unlike antibiotics fidaxomicin and vancomycin for their potential use as Clostridioides difficile infection treatments.
Read paper https://t.co/o7aqhPhmoy
New APC Review posted in @NatureRevMicro explores the diversity in bacteriocin structure and function, identification and optimisation methods and the reasons behind the lack of translation beyond the laboratory of these potentially valuable antimicrobials https://t.co/JJf3LCqCtZ
Well done @hibashareefdeen for giving a fantastic talk at todays School of Microbiology Seminar Series PhD Speaker Event!✨It was great to hear about all the creative ways to isolate phages🕵️♀️ and the influence of phages on bacterial community structure in the gut!
Bacteria and their viruses are the most abundant members of the gut microbiome.
.@colinhillucc & colleagues explore factors affecting variation of the human gut phageome:
https://t.co/sro5oWliad
Every virologist thinks they have the prettiest virus in their lab . Here is the beautiful crAss001, solved by Cryo-EM in a collaboration with Oli Bayfield and Fred Antson in York @UniOfYork. @Pharmabiotic @UccMicrobiology @AShkoporov @scienceirel
https://t.co/nFdXKzTXer
Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the women in Microbiology!
"I hadn't been aware that there were doors closed to me until I started knocking on them."
-Gertrude B. Elion, biochemist, pharmacologist, and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
I’m happy to announce the @UccMicrobiology PostGrad committee have organised a raffle in aid of @IrishCancerSoc at the Annual @Pharmabiotic Symposium on Oct 7th. Please see the attached for details on why we chose this charity for our fundraiser & some of our prizes up for grabs!