🎉📬 Hey Dropbox Users – Heads Up!
Tomorrow, Wed 10th Dec 2025, is your last chance to get FREE DELIVERY from our Dropbox network before we take a little holiday break! 🎄 ✨
Collections resume on Wed 7th Jan 2026.
Check the times of tomorrow's final collection here: microbesng.com/dropbox-netw...
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🧬OTD in 1952 Joshua Lederberg proposed the term "plasmid" for extrachromosomal hereditary genetic elements in bacteria 🦠
These tiny DNA molecules play a BIG role in #MolecularBiology, biotechnology & #MicrobialGenomics 🧫
Check out the original paper: doi.org/10.1152/phys...
#Plasmid #MicroSky 🧪👨🔬📜
You start explaining:
✔️ Cooked food should be cooled ❄️ below 4°C within 6 hours
✔️ Store leftovers in the fridge
✔️ Always check the fridge temp 🌡️
But before you finish…
😵 They rush to the bathroom 🚽🤮
🕵️♂️ You swipe the rice and head to the lab!
🚑 Call an ambulance
💊 Offer indigestion tablets
😴 Recommend they go home
🤓 Give food storage advice
Look what I found! #Microbio25 @microbesng.bsky.social @plasmidsng.bsky.social
If need WHOLE PLASMID sequencing & you are in Norwich look no further!
It's £10 per plasmid (ex VAT), we are a UK company & there's FREE shipping from our dropbox in JIC reception
We have cool posters too 🤩
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
@norwichmicro.bsky.social #CMINorwich25
#PlasmidSequencing
Looking for a UK company to validate your plasmid?
Our @nanoporetech.com based WHOLE plasmid sequencing service costs £10, just send us a mini-prep 🧬
If you're in Manchester you can get free shipping too 📦
Chat to Carla & Olivija in AV Hill reception Feb 25th, 11-3pm— they're bringing 🧁
#MicroSky
I 💙 finding out what our customers do with the data that @microbesng.bsky.social send out!
@meina.bsky.social et al have named 28 actinomycetes after amazing #WomenInScience 👩🔬
@leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social are doing a post about each one & they're well worth a read! #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #IDsky
A reindeer crafted from epoendorf tubes and pipette tips
A reindeer crafted from eppendorf tubes and pipette tips
Is this not the finest lab crafted Christmas tree decoration you’ve ever seen? Courtesy of Amy Tooke!
Want a quick, easy & FREE way to post samples to us for sequencing?!? 📦
Look no further, we are rolling out DROPBOXES 🎉
Visit microbesng.com/dropbox to find the nearest box!
Instructions are on the lid, fill in the form & we’ll take care of the rest!
#MicroSky
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Find out more about the inner workings of our
oxford nanopore based whole plasmid sequencing service.
Includes a prime example of why you should always validate your plasmids - even if they're commercial vectors!
linkedin.com/pulse/high-q...
#PlasmidSequencing #ProductDevelopment
Super cool research 👏
If you're using Reporter Assays check the plasmid is correct before starting 👉 plasmidsng.com
Send a miniprep & for £10 get the WHOLE PLASMID sequence + interactive map, data delivery 1-5 days
Want free delivery too 👉
microbesng.com/documents/dr...
t.co/iQ6P1dF294 #Microsky
Want a quick, easy & FREE way to post samples to us for sequencing?!? 📦
Look no further, we are rolling out DROPBOXES 🎉
Visit microbesng.com/dropbox to find the nearest box!
Instructions are on the lid, fill in the form & we’ll take care of the rest!
#MicroSky
youtube.com/shorts/WMnjN...
@drrebeccajhall.bsky.social presented some really cool work on transcriptional responses to MDR plasmid acquisition in E.coli at our Oxford Pop Up event #MNGPopUp @magdalenoxford.bsky.social
📽️ Watch the recording here & please share 👇 youtu.be/tQWLyk7q3Iw
@alanmcn1.bsky.social
@IMIBirmingham
10 years of plasmid finder 🎉🥰🤩
Loved hearing from Alessandra Carattoli!
#ESCMIDGlobal2024 #ECCMID2024 #plasmids
Great talk from Alessandra Carattoli on plasmid typing,
There are now over 60,000 available plasmid sequences 🎉
#ESCMIDGlobal2024 #ECCMID2024 #plasmids
It's getting busy in hall I, ready for “Decoding plasmids in diagnostics and infection control”
#ESCMIDGlobal2024 #ECCMID2024 #plasmids
🌟 Dive into the fascinating world of plasmid evolution with Will Matlock's brilliant talk from our Oxford Pop Up event, now on YouTube 👉
'Gene essentiality shapes plasmid GC-content' youtu.be/snMchJCJQ5U
@wtmatlock.bsky.social
#ECR #MicrobialGenomics #MNGPopUp #Plasmids
Try our new Long-Read Sequencing service for improved de novo bacterial genome assemblies 🧬
Get 50X coverage for £85, with DNA extraction & bioinformatics included! 💰🦠🔍
Powered by @nanopore's latest technology 🚀
microbesng.com/request-quote/
#LongReadSequencing#MicrobialGenomics
Attention Birmingham! Easter changes to our dropbox collections (Biosciences & IBR stores)
📦 Last collection 27th Mar
❌ NO COLLECTION 3rd Apr
🔄 Pick up resumes 10th Apr
EGG-citing changes coming soon! 🐣
Whole #Plasmid sequencing £10 plasmidsng.com
Want a dropbox microbesng.com/documents/dr...
Beautiful paper we saw shared on the other place!
"Table 1 has a straight-up list of golden gate overhangs that work well and play nice with each other, up to a 30-piece assembly. No more choosing four random bases and hoping".
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Dot's prize winning flash talk, from our #Oxford Pop Up event is now available! 🥇📽️
It's a fabulous talk so please like and share! 😍
'Risk factors for plasmid-mediated hospital outbreaks of CPE' by Dorottya Nagy from the Modernising Medical Microbiology group
youtu.be/TQomyKoarbk
#MNGPopUp #AMR
Our #microbiology stickers went down a storm at Pop Up Oxford last week 😍🦠 #Stickers #Science #shiny
If anyone is still playing guess the microbe, 🤔 the answers are here!
Got to love some lab swag!
#MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics #ECR
Big shoutout to the amazing team at @microbesng.bsky.social on #InternationalWomensDay! ♀️
We've got lots of new people to introduce properly (and photograph!), but for now a heartfelt thank you for all that you do. #WomenInSTEM
@microbesng.bsky.social POP UP Oxford event has started!
Great to be kicking off the session with a talk from
@wtmatlock.bsky.social about #plasmids 🎉 and how they are evolving
#MNGPopUp
This is going to be a great day! Lots of interesting talks involving plasmids as well 🎉🧬
Check out the agenda here; linktr.ee/microbesng
Recordings of the talks will be available after the event, subscribe NOW youtube.com/@MicrobesNG
#MNGPopUp
Our finance officer Ayodeji is sitting at his desk holding a box of Christmas tree decorations.
⏰ It's the LAST DAY to enter our GIVEAWAY! 🎁🎄🎅
You could win a set of GIANTmicrobes decorations for your tree. Our finance officer Ayodeji is very sad to see the little guys go!
To enter go to www.linkedin.com/company/micr...
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