Tag Archives: AMR

Paper out: Zinc can counteract selection for ciprofloxacin resistance

Posted on March 20, 2020 by An Bollenessor

Pleased to have a paper (open Access) out with collaborators Uli Klumper, Elze Hesse and Will Gaze and former MSc students Louise Sibleyras and Lai Ka Lo (see Lai Ka in this old post). I cannot really say it better … Continue reading →

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Apply to the NERC GW4 PhD studentship “Context-dependent acquisition of antibiotic resistance mechanisms”

Posted on April 3, 2019 by An Bollenessor

Note: this position is now readvertised: application deadline April 29th! Together with collaborators Prof. Will Gaze (College of Medicine and Health, Exeter), Prof. Angus Buckling (Biosciences, Exeter) and Prof. Ed Feil (Milner Centre for Evolution, Bath) I have an advert … Continue reading →

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postdoc position available: “Context-dependent acquisition of antibiotic resistance mechanisms”

Posted on February 6, 2019 by An Bollenessor

A one-year postdoc position is currently available in my lab at the University of Exeter Cornwall Campus! The dramatic increase in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective treatment of a wide range of infections and forms a global challenge to … Continue reading →

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Paper Out: Patterns of cross‐resistance and collateral sensitivity between clinical antibiotics and natural antimicrobials

Posted on January 29, 2019 by An Bollenessor

Although having previously mainly worked in soil- and evolutionary microbiology and currently working in a Medical School, I started out as a marine biologist. After my move to Cornwall my love for the marine environment was rekindled by exploring some … Continue reading →

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Paper Out: Using the wax moth larva Galleria mellonella infection model to detect emerging bacterial pathogens

Posted on January 4, 2019 by An Bollenessor

A good start of the year by having a paper published. I blogged about the bioarxiv* version a while back so will keep it short this time: we injected environmental (water and sediment) samples in the Galleria caterpillar and, where … Continue reading →

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Apply to the NERC GW4 PhD studentship “Context-dependent acquisition of antibiotic resistance mechanisms”

Posted on October 29, 2018 by An Bollenessor

Together with collaborators Prof. Will Gaze (College of Medicine and Health, Exeter), Prof. Angus Buckling (Biosciences, Exeter) and Prof. Ed Feil (Milner Centre for Evolution, Bath) I have an advert up for a 3.5 year PhD position here in Penryn. … Continue reading →

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NERC ‘FRESH’ PhD studentship

Posted on January 12, 2018 by An Bollenessor

Applications are open January 15th – February 15th for a PhD studentship “Combining a novel phenotypic virulence screen with genomic approaches to uncover bacterial acquisition of multi-drug resistance and virulence in aquatic environments”. The studentship is organised through a NERC … Continue reading →

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