Jessica Blair

🔔Seminar Opportunity🔔

We're looking for (self)recommendations for a Postdoc who is working in the area of AMR (any area, any discipline) to give an online seminar in May.

Reply, DM or email me, there will more opportunities in the future as well so will be good to have a list.

#MicroSky #AMR

I am deeply saddened by Jeff's passing. Jeff lived and breathed microbiology, and was still very much part of the microbiology community in @imibirmingham.bsky.social until a few weeks ago. He was supportive to students and staff and will be sorely missed by many, here in Birmingham and elsewhere

New #AMR pre-print
Combining antibiotics with genotoxins can efficiently suppress bacterial in high throughput experimental models.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Fun collaboration with Nassos Typas lab led by @mulkern.bsky.social

A set of genetic tools for use in Clostridioides difficile and related species The Clostridia are a phylogenetically diverse group of anaerobic, spore-forming bacteria that include species of medical, veterinary and industrial importance. The last two decades have seen major adv...

New paper from us.

If you're interested in genetic manipulation of Clostridia, we have a few new tools for you! 36 new plasmids - all available from @addgene.bsky.social

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

#microsky

……and breathe!……😃

Sorry to hear that Alasdair. Hope you are ok.

Well done all @graingerlab.bsky.social ! What a cracking few weeks! 🤩

New PDRA position with @knightjar.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social & me

Community assembly processes in soil microbiomes with focus on bioinformatics and computational modelling of data from field and lab experiments

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Thanks so much for this Dr McNeil!! So wonderful to see you! x

Bacteriocin biophysics: From protein-protein interaction models to navigators of the bacterial cell envelope Bacteriocins are toxins deployed by bacteria to kill their competitors. Here, I reflect on my laboratory’s work on protein bacteriocins and their immunity proteins from Gram-negative bacteria. We unco...

A gift of an article from the inimitable Colin Kleanthous as he says a moving farewell to his laboratory. A brave, unrepentant and scientifically brilliant journey is described - please have a read, friends.

www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Three UK research councils suspend funding opportunities Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts

Scientists are concerned that curiosity-driven research is set to be further cut back after three research councils confirmed they have paused funding opportunities. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky #researchfunding
https://ow.ly/lpvO50Y67ku

wow! this is madness!!

MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates - Research Professional News Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls

Startling that this is being broadcast in the absence of any public communications by @ukri.org

The academic community has a right to expect to be told first hand what is happening with response mode funding and what the immediate future looks like

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

LinkedIn seems to work well now

Jobs View the current job vacancies at the Microbiology Society.

We are looking for new editors for Microbiology, the flagship journal of @microbiologysociety.org

Deadline for applications is 16 Feb 2026

microbiologysociety.org/who-we-are/j...

Aw thanks Jack! I've only just seen this - am clearly behind! Very lucky😀 to have such lovely colleagues!!

Application deadline for this postdoc position in my group closing next week 🦠 thank you all who have shared so far!

Well done Dr Pugh! Great to see this one out in the world!

The final one to come is pretty cool too! 😉

This will forever carry the title of my 150th Pubmed indexed publication..........

well done @jessicamablair.bsky.social and @hannahpugh.bsky.social I loved this story from the start

Thanks for all your help with this one Alan! It's been a fun one! 😃

New paper just out in Microbial Genomics @microbiologysociety.org! As always, a great team effort! Well done all. 🤩

@imibirmingham.bsky.social @hannahpugh.bsky.social @leahburgess.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social @astimeosa.bsky.social

Powering team science to unlock life’s secrets Four world-class teams awarded major BBSRC sLoLa grants to push the frontiers of discovery in microbiology, photosynthesis, gene regulation and quantum biology.

Congratulations, @jessicamablair.bsky.social, Sara Jabbari and Tim Overton on winning prestigious BBSRC sLoLa grant www.ukri.org/news/powerin...

Very excited to work with @morfdb.bsky.social on this! 😀

Celebrating!! 🤩🎉🍾

Powering team science to unlock life’s secrets Four world-class teams awarded major BBSRC sLoLa grants to push the frontiers of discovery in microbiology, photosynthesis, gene regulation and quantum biology.

Super excited to be part of one of these projects - and looking forward to working with an amazing team!

www.ukri.org/news/powerin...

@quadraminstitute.bsky.social
@jessicamablair.bsky.social @bugsinblood.bsky.social @overtonlab.bsky.social

Great timing of the press release for world antibiotic awareness week and also as we are having our kick off meeting!! #worldawarenessweek #waaw2025

Powering team science to unlock life’s secrets Four world-class teams awarded major BBSRC sLoLa grants to push the frontiers of discovery in microbiology, photosynthesis, gene regulation and quantum biology.

Delighted to say that we have been funded by BBSRC to do some exciting science on how bacteria prevent accumulation of antibiotics - www.ukri.org/news/powerin...

Powering team science to unlock life’s secrets Four world-class teams awarded major BBSRC sLoLa grants to push the frontiers of discovery in microbiology, photosynthesis, gene regulation and quantum biology.

Really excited to say that we have been awarded a BBSRC sLola! Really looking forward to kick off this project with such a fantastic team! @webberma.bsky.social @overtonlab.bsky.social @bugsinblood.bsky.social Sara Jabbari, Dong-Hyun Kim @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.ukri.org/news/powerin...

Yay!!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Absolutely phenomenal news for an awesome scientist!! Manchester are so lucky to have you Bex! 🤩