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This #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek, hear from Dr Michelle Buckner and her team on the vital work they are doing to combat antimicrobial resistance, and the impact of this global health threat. Ilyas Alav Immunology and Immunotherapy UoB School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology UoB Biosciences Uni of Birmingham #WAAW2024

Passed my PhD thesis defence! Perk of online viva: Sitting at my own desk, with Taylor Swift cheering me on!🦸🏼‍♀️🧫🦠 Thanks to my amazing supervisors & mentors Chrissie Jones Robert Read Jay R Laver David W. Cleary Adam Dale Prof. Debby Bogaert 💙 #PhDone #SwiftieScientist

Publication day for us and a very first, first author review for Karanjot K Sandhu 🥳 publications.ersnet.org/content/errev/… Karan's summarised the respiratory microbiome in COPD, the importance of macrophages in the disease and how we think these might be interacting with each other.

All MIBTP and MRC AIM PhD projects that are currently available in MIM Dept College of Medicine and Health (UoB) UoB School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology can be found here: findaphd.com/phds/departmen… All fantastic people with great projects!

So so excited! And I feel so lucky to have been part of Brockhurst group and Microbial Evolution Research Manchester (MERMan), working with so many intelligent amazing and kind people. I am so happy to continue my journey here for the next stage of my career

Someone should probably check Liz is ok

New paper from the lab out today on Akkermansia muciniphila and how it breaks down host glycans! IMIBirmingham College of Medicine and Health (UoB) Very proud of my group, especially Cassie Bakshani who did an amazing job. Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

New paper out in Microbiology Society MGen with collaborators in Malaysia and Southampton (Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group) on #Acinetobacter baumannii epidemiology across 10 years in a tertiary healthcare center microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Inspiring day with Microbiology Society Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic, Virus and Irish Divisions planning the content for Annual Conference 2026, as we look forward to #Microbio25 in Liverpool in 53 days time!

Very proud supervisor; so well deserved Harriet! Watch this space for our recently accepted paper to learn more about our work on the gastric microbiome in gastric cancer

Fantastic output from someone to keep an eye on!

"We have come a long way in preventing disease through vaccination and we must not lose our progress" Reflections on the Successes of Pediatric Vaccines jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Took me a while to come across this one. The importance of blp in driving pneumococcal pneumonia pathology via pneumolysin release nature.com/articles/s4200…

Absolutely dumbstruck by what Trump and Vance have just done to Zelensky and Ukraine. To claim disrespect, demand a thank you and then say Zelensky is the barrier to peace is 🤯

Not long to go now. All set for Monday! #AMGDMarch25

🔥 PhD opportunity 🔥 Interested in a Moderna -funded PhD focused on deconvoluting the immunological mechanisms that protect against whooping cough to inform novel vaccine design with me, Andres F Vallejo 🧬 💻 & Jay R Laver? Apply here before 18.06.25! findaphd.com/phds/project/i…

Interested in pneumococci, genomics and metagenomics? Come and do a PhD with me. findaphd.com/phds/project/l…

Wonderful away day with Team Respiratory UoB today - we got big! Whilst we can't guarantee glorious sunny days all the time College of Medicine and Health (UoB) today proved we can offer sunny dispositions & collaboration 😊

Last highlight for this opportunity, open to UK home students. Deadline for applications is 31st July.