microbiology // evolution // mobile genetic elements 🏫 University of Liverpool, UK 🦠 www.andthemicrobes.org 💻 www.jpjhall.net https://bsky.app/profile/jpjhall.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jpjhall.bsky.social/post/3m5vgxdlzr22o🚨#PhD studentship opportunity! Plasmids provide bacteria with antimicrobial resistance, but do they have more fundamental effects on behaviour? 🧫🦠💫🧟‍♂️ Apply for a 4y funded MRC DiMeN position with me and Jamie Wheeler @livuni-ives.bsky.social https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/mrc-dimen-doctoral-training-partnership-resistant-zombies-how-drug-resistance-plasmids-manipulate-the-behaviour-of-the-opportunistic-pathogen-pseudomonas-aeruginosa/?p18947418 Nov 2025 09:38 +0000at://did:plc:vsn3ikrug2bjs6h33imdfvbu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5vgxdlzr22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jpjhall.bsky.social/post/3lvbgvlpa4s22It was great fun writing this review with @gemccallum.bsky.social , even if our conclusions are rather scary. Lots of important pathogen evolution must be occurring outside of the infection context... [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Jul 2025 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:vsn3ikrug2bjs6h33imdfvbu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvbgvlpa4s22https://bsky.app/profile/jpjhall.bsky.social/post/3ls2b4adaik26🚨 Reminder! You have just over two weeks to submit an abstract, if you want to present at the @microbiologysociety.org meeting "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" in Liverpool in November! #microsky 🦠🧫🔬 [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jun 2025 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:vsn3ikrug2bjs6h33imdfvbu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls2b4adaik26https://bsky.app/profile/jpjhall.bsky.social/post/3lppaduy2fc2zCongratulations to Vicki for successfully defending her thesis yesterday! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2025 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:vsn3ikrug2bjs6h33imdfvbu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lppaduy2fc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jpjhall.bsky.social/post/3lo75qne4b22z‼️Update! Abstract submission is now open for the 2025 Liverpool UK @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics”! Deadline July 7th #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 https://microbiologysociety.org/event/society-events-and-meetings/understanding-and-predicting-microbial-evolutionary-dynamics-2025-meeting.html [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2025 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:vsn3ikrug2bjs6h33imdfvbu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo75qne4b22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jpjhall.bsky.social/post/3lm2g5cvw422wCongratulations to lab member @vickiorr.bsky.social for her #Microbio25 prize-winning poster on the evolutionary ecology of transposon-plasmid interactions! ✨💫🎉 [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Apr 2025 07:33 +0000at://did:plc:vsn3ikrug2bjs6h33imdfvbu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm2g5cvw422w