If you weren’t able to join #IMMEMXIV in Porto this year, don’t miss this chance to hear the poster presentations made available by @escmid.bsky.social on their YouTube channel. @esgem-sg.bsky.social

It's time to go home after #IMMEMXIV. It's been 4 days of great sessions, people, and food. Thanks to the organizers and participants. I hope to see so many colleagues and friends again soon.

This has been an incredible week, one I will hardly forget. It started with a hackathon with a brilliant group of people. Followed by a cutting-edge meeting, #IMMEMXIV organized by @esgem-sg.bsky.social and @escmid.bsky.social which turned out to be one of my highest points this year.

Now that #IMMEMXIV has ended, I can say that it was one of the best conferences I have ever attended. Fantastic and diverse (!) speakers, incredibly good posters, good food and enough wine to make the experience truly unforgettable. Happy to have met so many inspiring scientists!

Terrific new feature presented by @theo.io on @pathoplexus.org called SeqSets for generating DOIs for sequence subsets used in publications, that can then be tracked for impact via CrossRef that will allow data generators to track impact! #IMMEMXiV

We’re very happy to support the Microbial Bioinformatics Hackathon with @climb.ac.uk resources at #IMMEMXIV - lots of useful projects being born!

Third day of #IMMEMXIV starts with a session on environmental surveillance and its importance for infectious diseases and AMR control. Before starting the day, together with the shark I got to explore truly stunning Porto.

Matthijs S. Berends continues #IMMEMXIV bioinformatics session with the presentation of AMRgen that combines genotype and phenotype data and interpretation. It definitely should save hours of manual labor (at least for bacteria with known resistance mechanisms).

The most anticipated session at #IMMEMXIV is, of course, about bioinformatics. It starts with presentation of the hackathon that took place prior to the conference. All the code is on GitHub (link in the pictures).

Continuing #IMMEMXIV with Benjamin Howden and genomic surveillance and how it can help control and prevent outbreaks and make informed decisions. However, for it to work we need to ensure that not only the infrastructure is there but also that the insights can be used for decision making.

Rewrite of Scicommander in Go with much improved algorithm | Living Systems_

Registered too late for a poster for @escmid.bsky.social #IMMEMXIV but happy to discuss SciCommander with anyone interested 😊 See: livesys.se/posts/rewrit...

Captures provenance of ad-hoc commands while skipping already computed steps - "The benefits of a pipeline tool without the pipeline tool".

Which diseases will you have in 20 years? This AI accurately predicts your risks A modified large language model called Delphi-2M analyses a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more than 1,000 diseases.

Not so related to #immemxiv but I am still unsure how I feel about Delphi-2M even though the authors try to make the model explainable. Also, I’m curious how the model performs in real life situations, not only in high income countries and mostly white people.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Having a blast at the #IMMEMXIV @escmid.bsky.social conference on microbial typing in Porto, Portugal. So much to learn as a newcomer in the field and so many knowledgeable people in the same place! #microsky

A nice illustration of the usefulness of our tool #MSTclust for handling bacterial population structures by @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social during #IMMEMXIV in Porto 🇵🇹

gitlab.pasteur.fr/GIPhy/MSTclust

The second day of #immemxiv in Porto starts with GTDB taxonomy by Maria Chuvochina. NCBI often lacks species assignments and, from my personal experience, can be incorrect often than expected. Also, ~2% of all species are fuzzy/hard to discriminate by ANI.

...and the poster Is up!!
#IMMEMXIV

Excited to kick off #IMMEMXIV in Porto, Portugal with the first session focusing on #plasmid typing for surveillance! A fantastic session thanks to our 5 great speakers and now we are going into the first debate session on strain typing in high-income vs low-resource settings. #IDSky #clinmicro

🧠 Straight from one of the programme committee members, Angela offers what she is looking forward to most at #IMMEMXIV starting tomorrow in Porto, Portugal! You can review the programme and follow along during the conference days on social media.
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#IMMEMXIV starts in one month in Porto 🇵🇹 @escmid.bsky.social

Don't miss the chance to be a part of this exciting conference on microbial typing & genomics #IMMEMXIV. The theme this year is Microbial typing: from fundamental to daily microbiology.

@escmid.bsky.social @esgem-sg.bsky.social

Register today and see you in Porto!
www.escmid.org/congress-eve...

Invited & Abstract Programme Learn more about the congress and events hosted by ESCMID in the fields of Clinical Microbiology (CM) and Infectious Disease (ID).

There is still time to submit an abstract for #IMMEMXIV so don’t miss this chance and join us in Porto! Link for submission: www.escmid.org/congress-eve...