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William P J Smith

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I love science! I study how microbes survive and thrive. @wellcometrust Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow | All views my own | he/him | 🏳️‍🌈

Deep, deep underground with all the hot silicon. Katılım Ocak 2018
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William P J Smith@willpjsmith·
MEEHubs26 abstract deadline has been extended to April 26th. Show off your awesome microbiology with scientists worldwide! meehubs2026.oa-event.com 🦠 What: top conference in microbial ecology and evolution 🦠 Where: Manchester UK + hubs worldwide 🦠 When: 3rd-5th August 2026
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🚨 PhD Studentship available! 🚨 We're hiring a UK student to start in Oct '26. Full studentship plus £10k top-up PA. Come study the mysterious ZOMBIE PHAGES 🧟 🦠 with our fabulous MERMan and @UoMMIB communities! findaphd.com/phds/project/c…
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Go Team! Deeply honoured that the MERMan lab reps won an @OfficialUoM "FMBH heroes" award - thanks @FBMH_UoM and the MERMan PIs for nominating us ❤️❤️❤️
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William P J Smith@willpjsmith·
The Oxford U. Foster and Slack labs are hiring! A chance to work in bleeding edge microbiome science with some really great mentors fosterlab.uk/vacancies
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Michael Baym@baym·
What amount of eye disease research would have discovered the laser? How much virology would have discovered lipid nanobody mRNA delivery? How many disease genes would you need to find before you discovered CRISPR? Sometimes the hardest problems need discoveries in other fields
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.@hubermanlab

As a taxpayer (irrespective of whether you’re a scientist) would you would be in favor of more of the @NIH budget going to fund efforts to solve specific diseases at the expense of basic exploratory research? Which diseases?

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(1/6) Really jazzed to have this out - my first @wellcometrust fellowship paper! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Can bacteria evolve resistance to competitors' T6SS weaponry? We find that the answer depends on **how many toxins** competitors are using. A thread:
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🚨PhD Opportunity - please share!🚨 We’re hiring a PhD student to start Sept 2025: how do bacteria ‘tame’ phage parasites, and turn them into deadly Tailocins? Come join me, Mike Brockhurst, @caiyizhi and @RaveenTank as we study ZOMBIE PHAGES! findaphd.com/phds/project/b…
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William P J Smith@willpjsmith·
It's a rare Good News Monday! - Manuscript accepted 🗞️ - PhD studentship funded 💷 - 1 week until holidays! 🎄
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Warm congratulations to 🎓DOCTOR @TaoranF 🎓, who passed her viva yesterday! We're really stoked that you're staying on to PostDoc at @MERManchester 🎉
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Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology@UoMMIB·
Recruiting two Chair positions. Areas of interest incl. but not limited to: 🤖 advanced computation & AI 🌱 natural product biosynthesis & enzyme discovery 🧬 structural biology & mechanistic enzymology 🦠 microbial engineering CLOSING DATE: 31/01/25 jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…
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Katie MacGillivray@KAMacGillivray·
When you want to see your family for thanksgiving but the thesis is due in two days
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