Happy to share our paper “Public and patient involvement: exploring public partnership in pathogen whole-genome sequencing research and its data visualisation” is now published, highlighting the importance of PPI in research.

#PPI #Genomics #Pathogen

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

A great afternoon of discussions on how to communicate science in the news media, hosted by Science Media Centre. It’s really highlighted the value of effective science communication and collaboration with journalists to translate important science

The impact of phenotypic heterogeneity on fungal pathogenicity and drug resistance This review discusses the contribution of phenotypic heterogeneity in fungi to pathogenesis and antifungal drug resistance.

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The impact of phenotypic heterogeneity on fungal pathogenicity and drug resistance

#fungi #mycology #DrugResistance #pathogens

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🧬 Free @microbesng.bsky.social PopUp ECR symposium 🧬

UK-based MRes or PhD student, research assistant or postdoc working on microbial genomics or metagenomics?

Present your work and/or chair a session, plus excellent keynote speakers: @halllab.bsky.social and @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social.

#MNGPopUp

Research Fellow - Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes - 106849 - Grade 7 To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities as part of an Investigator project funded by Wellcome, focusing on understanding microbial and diet...

Happy New Year – new role! 🎉

We’re looking for a PostDoc to join us in @halllab.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social.

Full-time, fixed-term to March 2028. Note tight closing date: 11 Jan 2026. CV + cover letter (submit via portal).

Further details 👇

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Vacancy graphic showing a microbial microscopy image on a computer. The text reads "Bursting Bugs Summer Internship. To generate microscopy videos of bacteria bursting in response to administering antibiotics. Salary: £3,270 total. Contract length: 5 weeks. Apply by 5 January 2026."

We’re looking for a Summer Intern to generate microscopy videos of bacteria bursting in response to administering antibiotics as part of a public education video on the uses of antibiotics and risks of misuse 🔬

🗓️ Apply by 5 January
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To top off a great few days of science, I had the pleasure of presenting my work on liver disease at #MMEG2025, coming runner up for best 15 min talk! A big thank you to the organisers of MMEG2025 and their sponsors for hosting a great conference this week in Birmingham, looking forward to the next🧬

We are recruiting for a number of PhDs in the HPRU in Public Health Genomics, based at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, in collaboration with UKHSA. 🦠🧬

Apply below to work on cutting-edge science and public health priorities! (NB deadline of 9th January / UK only due to funding restrictions)
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Environment and physiology shape antiphage system expression Bacteria and archaea encode on average ten antiphage systems. Quorum sensing, cellular, or transcription factors can regulate specific systems (CRISPR-Cas, CBASS). Yet, a systematic assessment of anti...

Bacterial genomes encode a rich repertoire of antiphage systems, but we still know surprisingly little about when these systems are actually expressed.

In this preprint, Lucas Paoli et al, ask what shapes antiphage systems expression in native contexts.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Starting off day 2 at the Molecular Microbial Ecology Group meeting at Birmingham with a panel discussion on publishing with some great panelist’s this morning #MMEG2025 @amiposts.bsky.social

Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis - Nature Methods Nature Methods - Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis

The scikit-bio paper in online in Nature Methods! Many thanks to our collaborators, community contributors and reviewers! We couldn’t have done it without you. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Bioinformatics #OpenSource

Poster advertising a microbiology virtual escape room

Can you help my final year project student with her research please?

If you are a student, please try her virtual escape room! tinyurl.com/mr88k53k

If you are not a student, please share/repost to help us reach more students!

Decoding the microbiome and resistome of advanced chronic liver disease through long-read metagenomics Introduction - Patients with advanced chronic liver disease (ACLD) and underlying cirrhosis frequently require repeated courses of antimicrobial therapy, with both the frequency and spectrum of antimi...

@halllab.bsky.social
@matthewjdalby.bsky.social @raymondkiu.bsky.social @drvishalcpatel.bsky.social @richardmleggett.bsky.social @drmeriannem.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our work showed the value of long-read metagenomics for culture-independent taxonomic profiling of the gut microbiome and resistome in high-risk patients with ACLD.

Thanks to the Hall lab and co-authors for their support and guidance for this project

I hope you enjoy reading the preprint! 🤩🥼🧬

We found dominance of Enterococcus faecium in advanced cirrhosis was paired with collapse of commensal diversity and strong enrichment of clinically relevant resistance genes- these patterns closely linked to prior antimicrobial exposure 💊🧫

Decoding the microbiome and resistome of advanced chronic liver disease through long-read metagenomics Introduction - Patients with advanced chronic liver disease (ACLD) and underlying cirrhosis frequently require repeated courses of antimicrobial therapy, with both the frequency and spectrum of antimi...

I am pleased to share that my first postdoc paper from the @halllab.bsky.social is now on bioRxiv! 🎉

We used long-read #metagenomics to explore how the gut microbiome and #antimicrobialresistance landscape shift across advanced chronic #liverdisease (ACLD)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Introducing Dr. Hannah Trivett

Class of 2025- Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Microbiology 🧬🧫👩🏼‍🔬🎓

​Scientific Event Travel Grant: Hannah returns with renewed motivation and new ideas Dr Hannah Trivett, University of Birmingham, reports back from EMBL Human Microbiome Conference held in Heidelberg, Germany, where she presented her research with the support of AMI's Scientific Event...

@amiposts.bsky.social has published an article covering my travels to Germany to attend the Human Microbiome Conference 2025

A big thank you to AMI for supporting my attendance at the conference with their scientific travel grant!

#EESMicrobiome

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📢 #BSCSeminar: Integrating data-driven microbiome analysis with ex vivo gut models.

🗣 Mani Arumugam, University of Copenhagen

📆 27 November

➡ bsc.es/44C

@sommalliance.bsky.social @tonigabaldon.bsky.social

The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

New PhD position in my lab at @uniofbath.bsky.social (with both @tweethinking.bsky.social & Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun)!
We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution.
Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Using qualitative research to support quantitative research in AMR genomics YouTube video by TARGetAMR

Thank you @target-amr.bsky.social for inviting me to share the benefits using #QualitativeReasearch for AMR Genomics and my experience exploring academic and clinical perspectives of infectious disease diagnostics!
If you’re interested to know more, check out the talk below youtu.be/mQ_vwEhFhRM?...

⏰ 2 hours to go!
⌛️Until out Panel discussion on AMR genomics: What social science can do?
🎤 Dr Nchangwi Munung, Dr Jaime Garcia-Iglesias & Dr Hannah Trivett
🌱ECR Gregory McCallum on AMR in hospital sinks
📅Today @ 12pm GMT
🔗Register now: targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...

Today wraps up an inspiring week in Heidelberg, Germany at @embl.org for the Human Microbiome Conference, where I shared my first #PostDoc project from @halllab.bsky.social
Thank you to @amiposts.bsky.social for awarding me a travel grant to facilitate attending the conference!

#EESMicrobiome

Such an engaged audience at #EESMicrobiome with lots of great questions after my talk!

Big thanks to the organisers for inviting me to present some of the teams recent early life #microbiome work.

Conference has been AMAZING so far!

A little tool I've developed: ExpEvoAnalyzer (github.com/samhorsfield...) - a snakemake pipeline that compares isolate paired-read data from an experimental evolution study to a reference isolate, producing functionally-annotated SNPs in a presence/absence matrix.

Host-specific microbiome and genomic signatures in Bifidobacterium reveal co-evolutionary and functional adaptations across diverse animal hosts Bifidobacterium are beneficial members of the microbiota across animal hosts. Kujawska et al. demonstrate that bifidobacteria have likely co-evolved more closely with mammals, particularly primates, a...

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

#microsky #microbiome

There are half a million cases of invasive non-Typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) every year and while you might know S. Typhimurim and Enteritidis, you may not have heard of S. Panama 💩 🩸 🧫 💊 Check out our latest in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.la... and the 🧵 below to find out more 1/n

Day 2 of IMI Summer school 2025 kicks off with some funky images from @contamclub.bsky.social and Mathematical modelling of an infectious disease with Rowland Seymour 🦠🦠🤢🤢

Practicing pipetting and making dilutions - great start to IMI Summer school 2025 with @hannahtriv.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social

And so it begins! IMI Summer school 2025 follow us for all the fun this week 🦠🦠