Two great talks from last week's seminar by Emma Wright: Mutation rates depend on the presence and density of cohabiting species, and Matt Thomas: The elements of mobile elements in microbiomes.

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for sponsoring refreshments at our seminars.

Last week's seminar featured excellent talks from @fionapoulter.bsky.social on understanding the evolution of epidemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Holly Richardson on why heterogeneity matters: predicting antibiotic resistance in cystic fibrosis.
Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the nice snacks!

Kirsten is stood to the left of a slide which reads “the three-way interactions between gut bacteria, phage and the host”

Jeremy is stood to the right of a slide reading “mapping chromosome-plasmid interactions: a genome-wide knockout approach”

Two fantastic talks in our latest seminar: Kirsten Lim told us about her work on the effects of IgA on gut phage diversity, and Jeremy Dejardin shared his work mapping chromosome-plasmid interactions in E. coli

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the best seminar snacks!

A screen in the centre shows a title slide in dark grey with microscope imagines of bacteriophages. The title in white reads “Regulatory Role of Lambda Q Protein in Late Gene Expression”. The speaker Xuan Chen is stood to the right of the screen.

In today’s seminar we heard about Lambda phage Q proteins and their role in gene expression from Xuan Chen 🧬

A huge thank you as always to @microbesng.bsky.social for the fantastic snacks! 🧁

Last week's seminar featured talks by Hannah on the culture enrichment of cystic fibrosis sputum samples and by Edoardo on the spatial and temporal tracking of antifungal resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus hyphal networks.

Cheers to @microbesng.bsky.social for their usual surprise snacks

A pack of stickers in front of a computer screen with blurred code. The sticker pack is branded MicrobesNG and the visible sticker at the front reads: Relax it’s just a phage

A fruit stall with a blue sky and clouds above, the building behind read Queen Elisabeth Hospital Birmingham

Day 3 of #AMGDMar26 🧬 learning about alignments through song lyrics, loops starting to make sense, a trip the market in the sunshine & shiny microbe stickers thanks to @helenmcneil.bsky.social @microbesng.bsky.social 🧫

Thank you for all the sticker love! If you would like some for yourself you can find out where our next exhibition stand will be here; microbesng.com/events/

We had an exciting talk at today's seminar, first on Polymicrobial interactions in Cystic Fibrosis @ambercutcliffe.bsky.social, and Coalescence in host spring microbial communities @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social.

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the snack!

We are excited to be at @ox.ac.uk today for the IDEU Symposium 2026

Would you like to know more about Microbial Sequencing? Come and chat to us in the break

Big thanks to Angela Brueggemann for inviting us!
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#MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky @oxpop.bsky.social

We had two interesting talks at today's seminar: Eric spoke about the multistep pharmacodynamics of multimodal antibiotics, and @laurasanrub.bsky.social spoke about the long-term evolution experiment in defenseless PA01.

Again, huge thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the snacks.

Today's seminar featured one of MERMan's PIs, @sarafederici.bsky.social, who discussed how phage therapy could be improved to target gut pathobionts in IBD.

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the snacks.

🚨 Calling all ECR's #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium in Nottingham (5th June)- present/chair/posters

Abstract submission is 5 pm TODAY!!!

Keynotes @halllab.bsky.social & @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social
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Calling all microbial genomics early-career researchers in the Midlands, great event in Nottingham (5 June)

Ryan is stood to the right of his title slide which reads: Smart-Phage: designing synthetic bacteriophage to defeat superbugs

Dolan is stood to the right of his title slide which reads: modelling the fallopian tube in a microfluidic setting

From phages to fallopian tubes - in last weeks seminar we heard about designing synthetic phages from Ryan ⚙️

And Dolan from the Tank lab @raveentank.bsky.social spoke about their microfluidic fallopian tube models 🧫

This week we kicked off the new year with a great talk about endosymbiosis evolution by Dan Malumphy 🔬

Thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for supplying us with snacks! 🍪

Great to see this published from one of our fav customers, Doug Browning highlighting need for better genomic surveillance & One Health approach to tackle #AMR

AMR & Comparative Genome Analysis of High-Risk E.coli Strains Isolated from Egyptian Children with Diarrhoea www.mdpi.com/3690382 #MicroSky

Loved being @ox.ac.uk last wk for OxBacNet & seeing so many past @imibirmingham.bsky.social friends!

Presented @microbesng.bsky.social's poster: “To long read or not to long read” showing how ONT long-read sequencing outperforms Illumina for plasmid de novo assembly & #AMR gene detection #MicroSky

🚨 Get your abstract in NOW for POPUP Nottingham with @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net deadline 9th Feb 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng

#MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium 5th Jun
Focus on #ECRs present/chair
Keynotes @halllab.bsky.social & @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social
#MNGPopUp #MicroSky

A screen in the centre shows a slide titled “Culture cycle dependent mutation rate”, Ziang Zhang stands to the right looking at a the audience

A very interesting talk about culture cycle dependence of mutation rates by Ziang Zhang 🧬

Accompanied by fantastic snacks thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social 🍰

Had a fantastic time at @uniofbath.bsky.social last week for the Dept. of Life Sciences Research Day!

Presented @microbesng.bsky.social's poster: “To long read or not to long read” showing how ONT long-read sequencing outperforms Illumina for plasmid de novo assembly & #AMR gene detection
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If you are at @uniofbath.bsky.social today drop by W4 and try our buzz wire game ⚡

here are the prizes on offer

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@rosieelliott.bsky.social is currently in the top spot with 14.34 seconds!
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Excited to be in Bath for the #LifeSciences Research Day 🎉
Make sure you come and see our poster designed by the amazing @pinkpetri.bsky.social showing the benefits of long read sequencing for plasmid detection 🧬🦠

@uniofbath.bsky.social #MicroSky

📢 MicrobesNG POPUP is coming to Nottingham! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium on 5th June 🦠🧬
We're accepting abstracts now! Focus on #ECRs Please RT

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@bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net
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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.

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We’ll be closing at the end of the day today for our Christmas break 🎄
Thank you so much for all your orders this year 🧬 🦠 💙

We’ll be back open on 7th January and can’t wait to see you then,
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year ✨

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Image of Aleksei answering questions following his talk.

Sophie starting her presentation next to her title slide.

The last seminar of the year was another set of exciting talks from visitor @alekseiagapov.bsky.social and merfolk @sophiesomerville.bsky.social !

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the 🍪!

Have a happy and safe holiday! 🤶🏻 🎅🏻 🎄

🎉📬 Hey Dropbox Users – Heads Up!

Tomorrow, Wed 10th Dec, is the last chance to get FREE DELIVERY from our Dropbox network before we take a little holiday break! 🎄 ✨

Collections resume Wed 7th Jan 2026

Check the times of tomorrow's final collection here: microbesng.com/dropbox-netw... 💌 #MicroSky

🎄✨ Christmas Shutdown ✨🎄

Make sure your samples arrive by 12th Dec…
because after that, our lab techs are officially on Santa duty! 🎅

🎄✨ Hurry! ✨🎄

Less than 2 weeks left to get your samples to our lab before the Christmas shutdown.

Make sure they arrive by Friday 12th Dec—after that, our lab techs will be busy helping Santa! ❄️🧪

Snacks + great science = our favourite combo 😄 🍪

Great to see such exciting science getting shared, thanks for having us involved 🙌