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Posts by Xena Dyball

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Phage Cocktail Designed for Wastewater Bioremediation Has Limited Effect on Crustacean Filtrator Microbiome Diversity and Health Phage cocktail designed for wastewater bioremediation is safe for freshwater filtrators. D. magna cultured with phages showed no significant changes in life-history parameters and minor shifts in the...

Excited to share our latest publication from the PhageLand project which investigated the effects of a phage cocktail, designed for wastewater bioremediation, on Daphnia magna microbiome and life-history parameters! 🌊💧

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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I’ve had an amazing time (as always) at VoM-UK this week! A big thank you to the organisers for putting on such a great meeting and allowing me to present my PhD research 😊

2 months ago 10 2 1 0
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Great first day of VoM-UK 2026, including three top presentations from the @evelienadri.bsky.social lab (I am only a bit biased) ( @xenadyball.bsky.social @rapher97.bsky.social @deuskamya.bsky.social ) #IDoBelieveInPhages

2 months ago 18 5 1 0
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💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥

Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠

Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition

Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC

4 months ago 13 21 1 1
A photo of pigs in a field with the text "Project Scientist, to work on a project designing combinations of phages against Enterotoxigenic E.coli (ETEC) in swine, Salary: £29,890, Contract length: 1 year, Apply by 16 November 2025

A photo of pigs in a field with the text "Project Scientist, to work on a project designing combinations of phages against Enterotoxigenic E.coli (ETEC) in swine, Salary: £29,890, Contract length: 1 year, Apply by 16 November 2025

⏰ Closing soon! We're looking for a Project Scientist to work on a project designing combinations of phages against Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) in swine.

💷 £29,890
🗓️ Apply by 16 November 2025
➡️ buff.ly/wEGroUj

5 months ago 1 2 1 0

I’m delighted to have been awarded with a grant to support this new and exciting project, which is a proud career milestone for me! 😆 I’m now recruiting a Project Scientist to help on this project 🐷 Please see the recruitment advert below and apply via the link: shorturl.at/rIT8D

5 months ago 7 5 1 0
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🚨 Funded PhD alert 🚨

We are recruiting for a PhD student to join the @langridgelab.bsky.social in October 2026 - please share!

If you like bacteria, genomics and puzzles, this could be the project for you 🦠🧬🧩

Apply by 2 Dec 🗓️

#PhDposition

Find out more ⬇️

www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

6 months ago 7 11 1 2
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Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

6 months ago 186 75 7 3

Was great to chat with @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social about bacteriophages today! #phages

6 months ago 11 2 0 0

Happy to say this has now been published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🫁🦠 #Phages #Viromics

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

6 months ago 17 9 1 0
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Looking forward to presenting the latest results from the PhageLand project during the ‘Phages in Health and Remediation’ session at 4.30pm in Brown 1&2 at @femsmicro.org #FEMS2025 #phagesky #microsky

9 months ago 15 9 1 0

New pre-print alert! 🚨🫁

COPD affects millions worldwide. While we know bacterial dysbiosis drives disease, the role of bacteriophages remains unexplored. We re-analysed 135 COPD metagenomes to characterise the lung virome for the first time 🫁 1/9

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

10 months ago 73 29 4 3
A social card with an illustration of a bacteriophage and bacteria and the text "Research Scientist to join Dr Evelien Adrianssen's group to study bacteriophage, drug resistance and genetic evolution of Salmonella, Salary: 36,720 to 39,750, Contract length: 1.5 years, Apply by 2 July 2025

A social card with an illustration of a bacteriophage and bacteria and the text "Research Scientist to join Dr Evelien Adrianssen's group to study bacteriophage, drug resistance and genetic evolution of Salmonella, Salary: 36,720 to 39,750, Contract length: 1.5 years, Apply by 2 July 2025

🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join Dr @evelienadri.bsky.social‬ 's group to study bacteriophages, drug resistance and genetic evolution of Salmonella 🦠

💷 £36,720 to £39,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 July 2025
➡️ buff.ly/7M2mDaa

10 months ago 6 6 2 2
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Life-Stage Transitions Drive Distinct Gut Viral Communities in Dairy Cattle Ruminant gut microbial communities profoundly influence host health and environmental impacts, yet their viral components remain poorly characterised across developmental transitions. Here, we analyse...

🧬🐄 NEW PREPRINT: Really happy to finally share the last big piece of work from my PhD!

Spoiler: Cows are great and so are their viromes 🧵1/13

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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What a week in Lisbon! 🇵🇹 ViBioM 2025 brought 150+ virus bioinformaticians from 34 countries to explore viral evolution, ML tools, & taxonomy challenges. 🌱 All plant-based thanks to @desafiovegetariano! Huge thanks to organizers, speakers, and community! #ViBioM2025 #Viromics

11 months ago 21 9 0 0
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Had a great time attending the #ViBioM2025 meeting in Lisbon this week with @ryancook94.bsky.social 🇵🇹☀️

11 months ago 7 1 0 0

Less than a week left to apply for this #PhD position!

1 year ago 8 9 0 0
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Happy to be presenting my poster titled ‘Exploring phage-mediated adaptation of Ruminococcus gnavus to the human gut’ at the Microbiology Society conference today! Come find me at B78 🦠 #Microbio25

1 year ago 11 1 0 0
Illustrations of the microbiome including bacteriophages with the text "Funded PhD, understanding the microbiome and phageome in chronic lung infections for the development of phage therapy with Dr Evelien Adriaenssens and Professor Eleanor Mishra. Apply by 14 April 2025" Logos of the Quadram Institute and Microbes Microbiomes Bioinformatics Doctoral Training Partnership

Illustrations of the microbiome including bacteriophages with the text "Funded PhD, understanding the microbiome and phageome in chronic lung infections for the development of phage therapy with Dr Evelien Adriaenssens and Professor Eleanor Mishra. Apply by 14 April 2025" Logos of the Quadram Institute and Microbes Microbiomes Bioinformatics Doctoral Training Partnership

🎓 #PhDPosition available in my group!

🫁 Understanding the microbiome and phageome in chronic lung infections for the development of phage therapy with me & Prof Eleanor Mishra

📅 Apply by Monday 14 April

➡️ buff.ly/7v9JVDU

Happy to answer questions, but don't send your CV through email.

1 year ago 17 16 0 1

A huge thanks to the festival organisers and everyone who helped make the stall a success!
@hannahvpye.bsky.social,
@deuskamya.bsky.social,
@rikhaagmans.bsky.social,
Nicholas Martin, and Gemma Beasy 😊

1 year ago 3 0 0 0
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We had a great time representing @quadraminstitute.bsky.social at Norwich Science Festival! ✨

Our ‘Fantastic Phages!’ stall had lots of great engagement! It was exciting to share our passion for bacteriophages and their ‘superhero’ qualities with the public 🦸🦠

1 year ago 10 4 1 0

It was great to be interviewed about our latest publication ‘Phage Diversity in One Health’. In the interview we discussed the importance of expanding phage diversity to support One Health! 🌍

Read the full interview below ⬇️

1 year ago 3 2 0 0
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Marvellous Microbes Trail | Norwich Science Festival

If you're in Norwich in February, check out the #MarvellousMicrobes trail, a microbial treasure hunt through the city.
The activity was developed by @rapher97.bsky.social and @norwichmicro.bsky.social

More information: norwichsciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/mar...

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Had an incredible time in Newcastle at the 3rd VoM-UK meeting this week! 🦠 It was a privilege to present my PhD project and connect with so many amazing people ✨

1 year ago 9 2 1 0

I’m excited to share our latest preprint in collaboration with @Halllab.bsky.social

In this work, led by PhD student James Docherty, we investigated the presence of #prophages and anti-phage defence systems in human-associated #bifidobacteria:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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1 year ago 30 12 1 1
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Yesterday we held the Student Science Showcase, with some great talks and posters from the student community at @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

1 year ago 2 3 1 1
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We also had Xena present her work on Ruminococcus gnavus prophages today. Watch this space for the prophage discovery pipeline she developed!

Quadram Student Science Showcase

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