Centre for Microbial Interactions

📣 VACANCY: TSL Ventures Operations Officer Join us to support the TSL Ventures Executive translate ideas and discoveries generated at TSL into impactful innovations 🧬 ⏰ APPLY online by 31 March 2026 More info on our website: tsl.ac.uk/working-at-tsl…

Less than two weeks left to apply for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international and local speakers. ⏰ APPLY online by 30 March '26 ⬇️ tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-con…

🧵 New paper! How does the immune system shape the gut microbiome in wild animals? We used shotgun metagenomics to test how variation in MHC genes (key immune genes) influences the taxonomy and function of gut microbes. rdcu.be/e7Wxv Here’s what we found 👇

We are looking for new Champions! If you’re interested in promoting the Society and microbiology in your local area, find out more about the role and how to apply: microb.io/4beeFBf #MicrobioChamp

Do you know a microbiologist making a real-world impact on public health? Nominations are now open for the John Snow Public Health Innovation Prize - celebrating applied microbiology that is improving health, reducing disease risk, and improving access to safe water and sanitation. 🏆 Winners will receive £3,000 in prize money, a commemorative award, and the opportunity to present or chair a session at an AMI event. Submit a nomination today: appliedmicrobiology.org/submissions-ge… #HorizonAwards #OneHealth #CleanWater #UNSDG3 #UNSDG6

📣 VACANCY: Postdoc/Research Assistant in the Kamoun group @kamounlab Join the team to work on the biology and applications of plant immune receptors 🌱 Applications will be reviewed from 16 March 2026 onwards tsl.ac.uk/working-at-tsl… #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

📣 LAST WEEK to apply for a Lab Technician position in the 2Blades group with Kamil Witek Join the team to work on developing resistance traits in soybean 🌱 Apply online, deadline 15 March 2026 tsl.ac.uk/working-at-tsl… #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

Our AMR webinar goes live at 12:00 (GMT) with Sudaxshina Murdan & Kishore Alugupalli on: Vaccine products and Anti-fungal medicines Registration closes at 11:00 (GMT), last chance to join! Register now: microb.io/4rKlOAh #AMR #Webinar #RegulatoryAffairs #Biotech

Congratulations to Yixuan Li, winner of the People's Choice poster prize at @micronorwich Annual Conference 2026, supported by our journal Microbiology

Enjoying 2 days of thrilling science at the Centre for Microbial Interactions at the Norwich Research Park #CMINORWICH2026

@MicrobioSoc Great to have you there and thanks for all the support!

The Society was at the @micronorwich Annual Conference 2026. It was great to connect with the microbial research community! #MicrobialResearch #Microbiology

Excited to collaborate with @HassanSalem and @nobolly on this new Postdoc opportunity! If you're interested in the developmental biology of symbiosis, apply and join us @JohnInnesCentre and @TheSainsburyLab 🪲🦠🔬

Attending @micronorwich Annual Conference? ReSay Podcast organising micro-quiz / mega-impact. You can register here buff.ly/uP2iWNI There are prizes on offer, £2 entry fee will go toward @GetGenome supporting researchers across global south. Donations are matched too!

Join us for our next Policy Spotlight webinar: Maximising microbiologists’ impact in policymaking 🏛️ Chaired by SMI Policy Editor Professor David Oliver, with expert insights from Paul-Enguerrand Fady (Biosecurity Policy Manager, CLTR) and Professor Nicola Spence (UK Chief Plant Health Officer, Defra), this interactive session will explore how microbiologists can most effectively influence policy – in the UK and beyond. 1 April 2026 | 1pm-2:30pm BST Free to attend Find out more and secure your place: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-cale… #Microbiology #SciencePolicy #Policymaking #PolicyImpact

Just a reminder that our TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions is taking place this summer in Norwich! ⏰ APPLY by 30 March 2026 More info on our website: tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-con…

📣 VACANCY: TSL Ventures Operations Officer Join us to support the TSL Ventures Executive translate ideas and discoveries generated at TSL into impactful innovations. 🧬 ⏰ Apply online by 31 March 2026 tsl.ac.uk/working-at-tsl…

There is still time to apply for this Lab Technician position in the 2Blades group! Apply online, deadline 15 March 2026 tsl.ac.uk/working-at-tsl… #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

The Microbial Genomics ECR Symposium will return again this summer! Co-organised by @micronorwich and @GetGenome the symposium will take place on 15th July 2026 at the John Innes Conference Centre. Please register here: web.novogene.com/2026TheMicrobi…

Our new preprint co-led with colleagues from #IOCAS and #BGI: The genetic repertoire of the deep sea: from sequence to structure and function biorxiv.org/content/10.648… @uniofeastanglia @micronorwich