Great visit to the Biological Research Centre of Szeged in (a very happy) Hungary - excellent discussions on fungal developmental biology with László Nagy and team.

How genomics clarifies a complex Campylobacter picture - Quadram Institute Sequencing data generated in the Quadram Institute showed that 4 out 5 Campylobacter infections in the UK are associated with poultry meat

🆕 Sequencing data generated in the Quadram Institute showed that 4 out 5 Campylobacter infections in the UK are associated with poultry meat 🧬
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Martina and Stefan with collaborators in Nepal in a lab, wearing lab coat

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Martin and Stefan with Nepalese colleagues on a hike, with snowy mountains in the distance

🆕 Blog! Research Scientist Dr Martina Vidmar and PhD Student Stefan Harper reflect on a recent trip to Nepal collaborating with local researchers to share DNA sequencing expertise and learn more about the microbiomes of fermented foods 🦠

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Recalls for 7-Eleven subs, sandwiches issued in western Canada over listeria concerns The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced recalls due to possible listeria contamination affecting 7-Eleven brand sandwiches, subs and wraps.

Recalls for #subs, #sandwiches issued over #listeria concerns ...

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This position focuses on the development and application of computational and analytical methods for metaproteomics, including peptide & protein identification, taxonomic and functional profiling, & integration with other omics data

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
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Dark chocolate easter eggs

Did you know chocolate is a source of polyphenols? 🍫

These naturally occurring, plant-derived bioactive compounds have been linked in epidemiological studies to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease for people who consume polyphenol-rich diets.

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Thanks to Benjamin Evans, Dave Baker, Nefertiti El-Nikhely, Hazem Ramadan, Zeyad Elgamal, Ahmed El-Yazbi and everyone at Alamein International University who helped make the “Unlocking the key of… | ... Thanks to Benjamin Evans, Dave Baker, Nefertiti El-Nikhely, Hazem Ramadan, Zeyad Elgamal, Ahmed El-Yazbi and everyone at Alamein International University who helped make the “Unlocking the key of lif...

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The Green Status Assessment, which measures what that might lead to the recovery of an endangered species, has just been published for Ctenella chagius as 'Critically Depleted' for this endangered species.

Find out more here: www.iucnredlist.org/species/1337...

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Matthew Gilmour in the Quadram Institute atrium

🆕 We're pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Matthew Gilmour as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) following a competitive external competition.

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Day 3 of AMR of Bacterial Pathogens - Africa course at NICD Johannesburg. Split day into the lab for AMR disk testing, MICs and broth micro-dilution. On the computers and lectures on online and command line AMR tools, MLST and phylogeny. Busy day! @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @engagewcs.bsky.social

Alessia Buscaino describing the evoluytion of commensalism and pathogenesis in Candida albicans and the potential role of RNAi #CMINorwich26 @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Laboratory Support Technician to join our Science Operations team 🥼

💷 £24,250 to £26,500
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Microbiome stability in wild and rehabilitated insectivorous bats revealed by shotgun metagenomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Advance notice: Will be de-rigging the cameras today as hedgehog corner is being revamped over the next few days. Taking out a raised bed and putting in a wildlife-friendly pond. We’ll still be feeding the hedgehogs (and one cat) but cameras will be offline.

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⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for an ambitious and collaborative Group Leader or Career Track Group Leader to pioneer the development of next-generation microbiome assays and model systems

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⏰ Closing soon! We are looking for a Senior Research Scientist to support with day-to-day running of @dfigeys.bsky.social lab, including line management of staff, overseeing budgets, and leading the scientific direction.

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How’s your day going? My Saturday morning currently involves a game of escape and evasion from the resident tortoise, Carlos. He loves to have sex with my boots. Which is quite annoying.

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⏰ Closing soon! We are looking for a Research Scientist (Bioinformatics) to join @buscainolab.bsky.social to work on the interplay between Candida albicans and gut bacterial adaptation, with a focus on RNA interference.

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Nice to see solid genetic tool development being published in Microbiology @microbiologysociety.org

'Improving a Tn7-based luciferase reporter system for promoter activity studies'

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Oral bacteria play a role in chronic liver disease - Quadram Institute Dr Naiara Beraza contributed to a new study led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and King’s College London that has found strong evidence that bacteria from the mouth migrate to the gut in…

A new study published in the journal @natmicrobiol.nature.com shows that identical bacterial strains occur in both the mouth and gut of patients with advanced chronic liver disease and also reveals a mechanism by which oral bacteria affect gut health.

A New Cost Effective, Simplified Workflow for Transposon Insertion Sequencing (TIS)
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Large scale genomic rearrangements in selected Arabidopsis thaliana T-DNA lines are caused by T-DNA insertion mutagenesis
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A New Cost Effective, Simplified Workflow for Transposon Insertion Sequencing (TIS) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...

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🆕 Vacancy! We are looking for a Research Scientist to join an exciting multipartner consortium in the END2AMR project to help develop novel antimicrobials using high throughput transposon mutagenesis.

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⏰ Closing soon! We are looking for a Group Leader with a focus on nutrition and microbiome-based interventions for the prevention and management of obesity to join our Food, Microbiome and Health research programme as a Group Leader.

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Need a winter warmer? Groundbreaking gene-edited tomato soup trial with higher levels of 'Sunshine' vitamin recruiting now - Quadram Institute Human trial of gene edited food, to understand whether biofortifying tomatoes in this way leads to higher levels of vitamin D in the blood

🆕 Our scientists and those @johninnescentre.bsky.social are launching one of the first human trials of gene edited food, to understand whether biofortifying tomatoes in this way leads to higher levels of vitamin D in the blood after people have eaten them 🍅

New book shares Quadram’s Best Practice in Microbiome Research - Quadram Institute Researchers from the Quadram Institute have developed an open access book to help ensure best practice in microbiome research.

The Best Practice in Microbiome Research presents protocols covering the design of ethical, inclusive studies, sample collection and genomic sequencing, bioinformatics processing of data and statistical analysis.

END2AMR launches to accelerate innovation against drug-resistant bacterial infections - Quadram Institute The Quadram Institute is part of END2AMR, a major new public-private research initiative designed to tackle some of the most difficult-to-treat bacterial infections

The END2AMR consortium will focus on chronic and drug-resistant infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which are responsible for significant global morbidity and mortality.

What causes Candida infections? - Quadram Institute A new study will investigate Candida infections to understand how fungi adapt to the human gut and address the challenge of fungal infections

Supported by £2.7 million of funding from Wellcome’s Biology of Fungal Adaptation programme, a five-year research project leverages a network of leading international experts from the Quadram Institute, @dunnschool.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social.

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Be part of research at the Quadram Institute!

We’re running the ViTaL-D study to investigate whether @johninnescentre.bsky.social biofortified tomatoes developed through gene editing to be high in vitamin D leads to higher levels of active vitamin D in the blood 🍅

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Congrats @efosternyarko.bsky.social and team for this great work building capacity for public health genomics to investigate cholera and other enteric bacteria, across Africa 👏

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