🔔We are recruiting!🔔 We are looking for an AIMI Pathway Fellow to conduct research that addresses significant questions in one or more of our research themes. More info in the link below! seek.com.au/job/70015319

Lovely article in the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society newsletter this month by Dr Emma Westlund Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection about her time in Bill Söderström lab. You have to be an AMMS member to find out more!

Genetic requirements for uropathogenic E. coli proliferation in the bladder cell infection cycle biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

E. coli division machinery drives cocci development inside host cells biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Amazing imaging, cracking open a new area here by Alaska Pokhrel Bill Söderström with @ariana_costas @Matt_Pittorino here!

Now published in Cell Reports we show that a repeat insertion sequence provides seed region for a mRNA-mRNA interaction, and this coordinates a reduction in cell wall crosslinking in a clinical S. aureus (VISA) isolate cell.com/cell-reports/p…

Our last study from the Iain Duggin lab on improving tools to study haloarchaea as well as investigating the impact of linkers and various FP on fusion functionnalities is now published open acces Microbiology Society go.shr.lc/3WVR2If - 🔬🌈🦠

Congrats Charlotte, for awesome work looking at different intracellular bacteria cozing up to each other in a UTI model system 🥳🎉🔬 Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection UTS Research academic.oup.com/femspd/article…

CetZ1-dependent assembly and positioning of the motility machinery in haloarchaea biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

"Bacteria have so many ways to outmaneuver us," UCL's Dr. Jennifer Rohn says of the growing and complex threat of #antibioticresistance. theguardian.com/science/audio/…

Check out this preprint by Aditya Bandekar. Using live imaging of N. gonorrhoeae, he figured out 1) why these cells grow as diplococci, and 2) why these bugs have sequentially perpendicular division planes: it arises from the cell having axial asymmetry! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Cell division protein A (CdpA) assembles and anchors the two FtsZ rings at midcell in haloarchaea biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

EXCITED to announce the preprint of our work on a NEW Cell division protein (CdpA) in FtsZ-based division system in Haloarchaea. Thanks for the collaborative efforts of our amazing team. Vinaya Shinde Dalong Hu, Zhuang Xu, Bill Söderström Michie Lab Iain Duggin Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection

Our researchers and collaborator in the news this week after securing funding to develop a much needed vaccine against UTIs using mRNA technology. Read more here! uts.edu.au/news/health-sc…

Catch up on the recent study from Bill Söderström’s group on multi-species urinary tract infections, featured on #FEMSmicroBlog fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblog-…

Join us for an exciting Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium, a joint initiative between Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection Mehrad Hamidian and ASM NSW ASM held at UTS on the 21st Nov 2024. Sign up, submit your abstract now! See flyer for info:

Quorum sensing and DNA methylation play active roles in clinical Burkholderia phase variation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

We're hiring! Join our friendly lab UCL UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences for this 3-yr, NIH-funded postdoc in collab with the fab Chelsie Armbruster & Dr. Nicole De Nisco. Work with our cutting-edge bladder microtissue model to study #UTI - contact me for informal chat if interested! jobs.ac.uk/job/DJZ846/res…

Tomorrow, Monday 21 October, at 2:00 pm, I will speak at the UTS in Sydney to give an ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology QUBIC seminar. Live and on zoom. Details: qubic.au/event/errors-a…

Thanks @PanKind_APCF for the continuing support for us! Hope we can leavarge this support to work towards exciting translational outcomes, together with our amazing collaborators Dannel Yeo from Centenary Institute and Bill Söderström from UTS. UTS Research UTS UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT

Need a break from the Christmas food? Check out the latest supercool ex-vivo UTI model from the ingersoll lab Molly Ingersoll biorxiv.org/content/10.110…