I'm really grateful to the McNally group for the Persian New Year surprise 🌻🌱🥰 As @nicolacumley.bsky.social said, sale noye shoma mobarak — happy new year! @izziepotterill.bsky.social @freyaallen.bsky.social

Great to have @dmarquez.bsky.social visit today for a fascinating seminar on water use efficiency and non-stomatal control of transpiration. Lots of interesting discussions afterwards with Plant Bio people, thanks for visiting Diego! @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social

Today is the start of the 5th Analysing Microbial Genomic Data course at @unibirmingham.bsky.social #AMGDMar26 - in the last three years we’ve trained nearly 80 attendees from six countries and multiple UK universities

The first preprint from @izziepotterill.bsky.social PhD. A clone within ST131 clade C with a totally unique capsule region.

Our latest is out tonight in @microbiologysociety.org MGen. Using long read seq to ID and then control hospital transmission of a CRKp we believe shows genomic and clinical signs of hypervirulence www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

So excited to share our new preprint! We used meta-transcriptomics and multiplex imaging to identify disease-specific signatures in liver tissues. We also detected viral signatures and immune activation pathways in seronegative hepatitis (SNH) patients. #Autoimmune_hepatitis #Seronegative_hepatitis

Excited to share a new preprint led by Alicia Perera-Castro! 🌿 Mosses actively regulate water loss without stomata, challenging the view of poikilohydry as purely passive—and hinting at a mechanism analogous (perhaps ancestral?) to nonstomatal control in angiosperms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share the updated version of my preprint on the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pangenome. We used Panaroo for protein-coding pangenome analysis and Pangraph for total pangenome analysis including non-coding regions 👇 🧬🧬🧬

Our work on Akkermansia muciniphila utilisation of host glycans is out today. Huge thanks to our team and wonderful collaborators. Super proud of this one! 💫 @lucyicm.bsky.social @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited to work on this project with @nicolacumley.bsky.social 👩‍🔬🧬