The Florey Institute

Now recruiting: enthusiastic postdocs to use advanced imaging methods to dissect biological processes. My group at Harvard has 2 Wellcome-funded positions examining the underlying mechanisms and resultant forces driving bacterial growth, division, and antimicrobial resistance.

Many congratulations to @TomDarton1, newly awarded a Future Leaders fellowship from UKRI, to establish a controlled human infection model for Staph. Aureus - very well-deserved! @ShefUni_ClinMed 75 new Future Leaders Fellows and upcoming rounds announced ukri.org/news/75-new-fu…

Looking for a PhD position to start in Oct. 2024? We have a wide range of fully funded studentships available in our research cluster at the moment. We'll update this 🧵 with more in the coming weeks. Please contact the supervisors directly for more information

Beautiful new paper from the @andrewkfenton lab, in collaboration with @corrigar1 (also @MM_Sheffield) and @sheppard_lab. Have a read to discover how Strep pneumo can begin to evolve resistance to a family of antibiotics commonly used to treat infection pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

#ThisTimeNextWeek @AndrewKFenton will give a public lecture on the History of Infectious Disease in the city of Sheffield @SheffieldUni. Join us to know more about the history of smallpox disease and treatment in our city @mmsheffield #SheffieldIsSuper heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/event…

More amazing funding news. @Laia_Pasquina has been awarded a @WellcomeTrust Early-Career Award to decipher the cell wall architecture and growth dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae at molecular resolution using #AFM and #STORM. Congratulations Laia and welcome to our cluster!

Tune in to @BBCRadio4 Inside Science this afternoon at 4.30 to hear @ClaireyBaggins talk about the Group A Strep surge in the UK

Here is the advert for our recently funded NC3Rs studentship with @EndreKissToth1 looking at macrophage phenotypes in zebrafish during infection. Please RT and encourage masters students to apply! @BatesonCentre @ShefUni_IICD @MDHGradSchool @NC3Rs findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

Congratulations Callum! Another new @MM_Sheffield and @FloreyInstitute PhD

Microbiology lectureships at Newcastle University! Come and join us jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-…

Today marks the start of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021 and @EAAD_EU. In order to help raise awareness of #AntimicrobialResistance and the work of microbiologists working in the field, we have updated our digital hub on #AMR. microb.io/2uHlz1o #WAAW2021

If you are looking for a PhD place for 2022 please check out this cool project with myself, @JPandhal and GSK through the WR-DTP iCASE on Community metaproteomics within the oral microbiome check this out and apply! @OMIG_BSODR_UK @ShefDentistry findaphd.com/search/Project…

Post-doc position available in my lab! Come join our team looking at #AMR, horizontal gene transfer, and Gram negatives! please RT! @IMIBirmingham @unibirm_MDS bham.taleo.net/careersection/…

The @MicrobioSoc are looking for a new Publishing Operations Editor. The role would really suit one of our Biosciences graduates looking to get into publishing microbiologysociety.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard…

There is still time to apply for a fully funded, exciting interdisciplinary PhD project on Antimicrobial resistance with @EpicFeil_ @benainsworth and myself #AMR @GW4AMR eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

@andrewkfenton @corrigar1 Meet Dr Claire Turner (@ClaireyBaggins #SpyLab). "We work on host-pathogen interactions and population genomics of Streptococcus pyogenes (#StrepA). We use tissue-engineered models of human tonsil to study how new streptococcal variants emerge and become successful"

@andrewkfenton @corrigar1 @ClaireyBaggins Meet Prof Simon Foster. The @foster_lab focusses on the antimicrobial resistant pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, all the way from basic cell structure and function through to infection and how this knowledge can be used to develop new control regimes pnas.org/content/118/44…

@andrewkfenton @corrigar1 @ClaireyBaggins @foster_lab @PerBullough Meet structural biologist Dr Patrick Baker whose group uses crystallography and EM to study the molecular basis of action of a range of proteins made by bacterial pathogens, including the assembly and function of the ClyA family of pore forming toxins. nature.com/articles/s4146…

@andrewkfenton @corrigar1 @ClaireyBaggins @foster_lab Meet Prof Per Bullough (@perbullough). We use CryoEM and X-ray crystallography to probe the molecular structure of cell envelopes - how they are assembled & how they can be penetrated. We are very interested in Clostridia, their remarkable cellular lifecycle & their phage enemies

PhD opportunity on the evolution of epidemic clones of Staphylococcus aureus with me and @pseudomoaner @EdinburghUni and @mtgholden @univofstandrews @EastbioDTP @BBSRC @roslininstitute Please RT. findaphd.com/phds/project/e…