Excited for all things phage over the next two days at #VoMUK26

Not long to go until the abstract deadline for #Microbio26 and we have a dedicated #phage session with a couple of super invited speakers - don’t miss it phage enthusiasts!

Really super talk from @nicholden.bsky.social this morning exploring all things E. coli #microbio25. Lovely to consider the big picture of our favourite bug!

Lovely poster by Emily from our group - a side project investigating the use of ClearColi for phage production

@strain9000.bsky.social group travel to VoM UK. Looking forward to listening to all things phage

And we have a second competition funded PhD studentship available - get in touch if you want to study #phage in beautiful Edinburgh. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

BBC Two - QI XL, Series V, Viral Rhod Gilbert, Ignacio Lopez and Zoe Lyons join Sandi and Alan as QI goes viral.

Phage makes mainstream tv - QI XL goes viral!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I think it will improve over time for traction - vicious circle as needs people to commit and engage with it. I find lack of bookmark most annoying as used that all the time of twitter to save papers etc

It’s evidently reposts you need on Bluesky - ‘likes’ don’t feed into the algorithm (or something like that!!)

Cartoon showing how aurodox can inhibit multiple gram negative pathogens. Image by Iris Floria

New paper from the group. Very proud to share our recent work for the first time here on Bluesky- give me 50 likes and it’s a permanent move!🤣.

doi.org/10.1098/rsob...

New MRC-funded postdoc with me on comparative bacterial genomics/phylodynamics @roslininstitute.bsky.social university of Edinburgh. Great multidisciplinary team and collaboration with partners at Shanghai Jao Tong University.
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We’ve looked at ompA presence in a set of UPEC (n =300) and it’s pretty much universally present in genome. We are looking in context of phage - our broadest range phage use OmpA as a receptor.

EASTBIO: Prediction of capsule type to improve efficacy of phage cocktails for eradication of multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli from the gastrointestinal tract of colonised livestock species at Un... PhD Project - EASTBIO: Prediction of capsule type to improve efficacy of phage cocktails for eradication of multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli from the gastrointestinal tract of colonised livestock...

Interested in a EastBio PhD studentship developing phage therapy to treat pathogenic E coli infections in farm animals then apply below to come and work with us at The Roslin Instute, University of Edinburgh www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Bacteriophages evolve enhanced persistence to a mucosal surface - PubMed The majority of viruses within the gut are obligate bacterial viruses known as bacteriophages (phages). Their bacteriotropism underscores the study of phage ecology in the gut, where they modulate and coevolve with gut bacterial communities. Traditionally, these ecological and evolutionary questions …

Bacteriophages evolve enhanced persistence to a mucosal surface.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2116197119

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35767643/

Early start for the second face-to-face @ukri.org Mental Health Platform meeting today

How invasive are different E .coli capsules and how many are there? Find out here and use the group 2 and 3 database to type your own!
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We've long been able to find new phages and figure out what they interact with. But what about the other direction: if you have a gene, like an antibiotic resistance efflux pump, or a phage defense system, and you want to find phages that do or do not interact with it?

Now you can!

@uoe-eid.bsky.social Winter lecture Alison Holmes giving a very timely talk for #WAAW ‘Protecting healthcare, preventing infections and preserving antibiotics’

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases has joined Bluesky! #micro

Starting the year off with a week in the sunshine. Beautiful view from the apartment to Mount Teide, Tenerife. Some good work news already this year so hoping 2024 will be a great one for our group!

New pre-print: study from our group addressing one of the hurdles of phage therapy - rapidly selecting the right phage cocktail to treat an infection - using bacterial genome sequence to predict effective phage cocktail design biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out the latest Microbiology Primer on using TraDIS to link genotype to phenotype www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

#starlab promoting sustainability at work - reusing empty tip boxes as mini plant pots

EASTBIO: Can phage therapy be used in aquaculture to tackle bacterial infections and AMR? at Univer... PhD Project - EASTBIO: Can phage therapy be used in aquaculture to tackle bacterial infections and AMR? at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

A fantastic PdD opportunity at The Roslin Institute studying phage In aquaculture. #phage #UniversityOfEdinburgh www.findaphd.com/phds/project...