❓ Do you know what is growing in this dish?
✅ It is a #Biofilm!
🎦 Watch our microbiologist @pirneote perform an experiment to see how we study biofilms which are communities of bacteria: https://t.co/f3ZXkFNP0T
Audio described video: https://t.co/OWdh4Wk9bX
#BiofilmWeek
Congratulations to Dr Mattie Pawlowic, who received the 2024 Early Career Research Award at Drug Discovery yesterday! Mattie discussed her journey so far as well as her latest research into cryptosporidiosis #BiochemAwards@goldenpipette
WHO lists #StrepA as pathogen for which we urgently need a vaccine. We are working on a universal glyco-conjugate vaccine together with the @IVIHeadquarters@LSHTM and @GIB - thanks to funding from @rightfund & @open_phil
Last few days to apply for a postdoc position in beautiful St Andrews! ☀️🏖️ Looking for a microbiologist, ideally with some background in bioinformatics. @StAndrewsBSRC@univofstandrews
Closes this Friday (19th).
https://t.co/kLyzTkIyWw
We are recruiting for an exceptional individual to join us as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Immunology (Teaching and Scholarship) within our D’Arcy Thompson Unit, to play a key role in delivering teaching across a range of degree titles.
https://t.co/t1md8boCV9
A team from @uodMedicine has completed Scotland's first ultrasound thalamotomy - a non-invasive operation that will allow people suffering from uncontrolled tremors due to Parkinson's disease to control their movements.
For patients like Ian Keir, this is life-changing.
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Reciprocal sharing of extracellular proteases and extracellular matrix molecules facilitates Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation
@MolMicroEditors by Thibault Rosazza/@Pirneote et al from @bacteriacities
https://t.co/vqQlXcZwGp
Join our #PublicEngagement team at LRCFS this summer as a paid intern & help develop new activities & materials that teach the public about forensic science.
https://t.co/npUoB7oNHJ
Professor Sarah Coulthurst @SarahCoulthurs1 (as seen in the photos) was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh at their recent admission ceremony.
Warming up! 1st International Conference on Emergent Functions of Bacterial Multicellularity. 06.-09. Jan 2025, Berlin. Confirmed speakers. #bacterial multicellularity, #conference#Berlin#multicellularity
3-year Grade 6 Laboratory Technician post just advertised in new microbiome lab at @dundeeuni working with me.
I'd appreciate any retweets of this and would be very happy to be contacted about this opportunity!
https://t.co/MblpEEmD4y
An opportunity has arisen for a senior research technician to support the newly set up child health research/gut microbiome laboratory at the University of Dundee.
https://t.co/xh6x0k4Ga5
Note in your calendar, the next #ASMBiofilms Conference will be organized in Portland on Nov 9-13, 2025
@2025ASMBiofilms
see details: https://t.co/z0yOmQx3YC