Ronan McCarthy
@McCarthy_Ronan
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Professor at @bruneluni Into all things #microbiology, #antibioticresistance, #drugdiscovery, #biofilm, #signalling @[email protected]
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Joined June 2012
RT @drtimothyli: Antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial tolerance and heteroresistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. .
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RT @Nature: A strain of bacterium that often causes infections in hospital can break down plastic.
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Nature - The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces an enzyme that breaks down biodegradable plastics.
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So happy to be able to finally share this story:.Can pathogens degrade plastic? Yes (some!).Does this impact virulence? Yes.Read the full story below:.
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Howard et al. demonstrate that clinical isolates of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa can encode functional plastic-degrading enzymes and that these enzymes can influence bacterial...
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RT @erhminlai: Excited to share our new work @mbiojournal reporting two #Agrobacterium DGC proteins control virulence and #T6SS interbacter….
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RT @gunnar_ns: Closing on soon - you have until the 14th to apply for our interdisciplinary PhD studentship - develop new cell-based infe….
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Delighted to share the latest from the lab, where we uncover the impact that the artificial sweetener saccharin has on bacteria
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RT @EBIC_Hub: Great to have EBIC's @McCarthy_Ronan work on microbial bioremediation featured in @Nature Self-driving laboratories, advance….
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Nature - Sustainability and artificial intelligence dominate our seventh annual round-up of exciting innovations.
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Fully Funded PhD studentship to work on engineering bacteria to degrade food associated plastic waste in collaboration with @CranfieldUni .Deadline: Feb 3rd.
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PhD Project - PhD Project at Brunel University, London: Engineering Bacteria for Enhanced Degradation of Food-Associated Plastic Waste at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
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RT @smani_lab: Today, we attended a new Acinetobacter Webinar Series organized by #EmmanuelleDe, #AgneseLupo, and #NabilKarah. There were i….
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RT @FLGenomics: We’re delighted that @McCarthy_Ronan (Professor in Biomedical Sciences, Brunel University London) will be at #FOG2025, tak….
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RT @EvolvedBiofilm: Engineering biology approaches to modulate bacterial biofilms. @TrendsinBiotech by Clodagh M. Carr et al from @McCarthy….
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Fantastic few days at the @BSACandJAC ARM workshop, a real honor to co-chair this meeting and congratulations to the fantastic poster winners
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Very excited to be co-chairing the @BSACandJAC Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms conference with @friendlymicrobe .Looking forward to 2 days of great talks and networking
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RT @laurenpalmerphd: THRILLED to share our recent work on dietary zinc deficiency worsening Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia, out today @S….
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RT @bondSSbond: You want to run antibiotic MICs according to best-practice clinical microbiology protocols, but you are not sure how? Our a….
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Last day to apply for this!.
We have an open postdoc position for those interested in using SynBio and biofilm engineering to tackle environmental challenges
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