Megan Bergkessel
@slow_going
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The Bergkessel Lab at the University of Dundee studies bacteria in the slow lane - subjected to conditions that prevent rapid growth.
Dundee, U. K.
Joined October 2019
RT @UoDOpenResearch: #OpenAccess.Recombinant production platform for Group A Streptococcus glycoconjugate vaccines..
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Congratulations to Findlay and thanks to examiners Dan Neill and Martin Welch for a successful viva! Findlay has worked so hard and accomplished so much while blazing the trail as the first PhD student from the lab :)
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RT @MOrmsby8: 🚨Fully funded #PhD position available with @TayaForde, @DrSuzieHumphrey and me, evaluating the health risks of #zoonotic dise….
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RT @BiottofnI: Have a look at the first complete Trypanosoma in vitro cell atlas: T. cruzi is a weird parasite, th….
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Congrats!.
Our cryptosporidiosis drug discovery work featured in @FarmersWeekly 🐄: @DDU_Dundee @UoDLifeSciences @WCAIRDundee.
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Very cool! Congrats on this impressive work!.
🚨🔬Excited to share our new paper now out in @NatureMicrobiol!. Using Tn-seq + live imaging in engineered airway organoids, we explored the fitness tradeoffs P. aeruginosa faces while growing and surviving antibiotic treatment on the mucosal surface. 🔗
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RT @MahimaSwamy: Our latest research on #LRRK2 has just been published in Nature Immunology with @SpringerNature where we show important ne….
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Congrats on this cool work - exciting to see it in print!.
Did you ever wonder about olfaction and anosmia in animals. Why do worms love some odors and avoid some. Here is us chasing C elegans in the wild and their microbiome. Dig in if you have time ( you may find Leucine and an olfactory GPCR within).
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Congrats on this very well-deserved award!.
Delighted to accept the 2024 @BiochemicalSociety Industry and Academic Collaboration Award on behalf of the @dundeeuni-@GSK Kinetoplastid Drug Discovery Team. Great recognition for our successful collaboration and for a fantastic team! @DDU_Dundee @LabWyllie @WCAIRDundee
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RT @WCAIRDundee: Registration and abstract submission for Drug Discovery Africa #Conference is open. Find out more, .
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Congrats to all the authors of this very cool paper- I feel lucky to have been involved, even if only in a very tiny way :).
Thanks to first authors Maud and Amanpreet @APC82236815, and to all the collaborative help we got from so many labs- Julian Pardo lab @iisaragon @jay_salsa @Edelblumlab @slow_going @Andersonbuglab, and to @Wellcome for funding @mrcppu @UoDLifeSciences.
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Had a fantastic time at the Glasgow Microbiology Collective symposium- thanks again for the invitation and it was great to hear about cool microbiology happening around Glasgow!
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RT @WCAIRDundee: We are proud to be hosting our conference with partners in Ghana. Drug Discovery Africa will showcase African led drug di….
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Congrats on this cool work! Impressive genetics and microscopy in such a difficult organism. .
@BacchettiRoss So excited to share @BacchettiRoss PhD work on COWPs! With lots of contributions from other lab members. We hope you especially enjoy all the microscopy! Thanks principally to @wellcometrust for supporting this work.
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RT @PradeepMadapura: Hurry up! Submit your abstract for this UK's top annual chromatin & transcription meeting. Invited speakers include We….
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RT @microBIOblog: International Microbiology Literacy Initiative @KennethTimmis @SEMicrobiologia #DDMVLC24. https://….
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