For decades, the exact cause of noma, a devastating disease that destroys the facial tissues of malnourished children, has been a mystery. Now, scientists have discovered a species of bacteria strongly linked to it that could aid early detection and treatment. The latest: bit.ly/4e5DsZL

Nature Outlook: Antimicrobial Resistance "Death by paper cut. The consequences of unfettered antimicrobial resistance are as absurd as they are sinister..." 🦠 www.nature.com/immersive/an...

Data manipulation at a breathtaking scale by commercial providers of crucial research reagents. As if the few remaining lab scientists didn't face enough obstacles already.

📣 POSTDOC position available in the Feschotte Lab at Cornell to work on #TRANSPOSONS! More details below. Pls send informal application or inquiry ASAP by DM or email to cf458_at_cornell.edu. Pls spread the word 🙏 #TEsky www.thefeschottelabatcornell.com

Researchers have pinpointed the genotypic and phenotypic changes that take place when colonising bacteria in a patient’s gut invade and infect the bloodstream. The team aimed to determine what changes lead to becoming invasive bloodstream pathogens. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/scienti...

Great metagenomics work here journals.plos.org/plosntds/art... Shotgun metagenomic analysis of the oral microbiomes of children with noma, suggesting a role for a novel Treponema species in the disease.

My main postdoc paper is now out in @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Antimicrobials and Resistance! www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Using flow cytometry, we show that the nucleoside analogues azidothymidine, didanosine, stavudine, and trifluridine reduced transfer of AMR plasmids pCT and pKpQIL (1/3)

Pleased to share our new paper on the metagenomics of #noma, a devastating #NTD of children. Brilliant collaborative work with researchers at the University of Liverpool, Médecins Sans Frontières and the Noma Children’s Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria. journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

I’m pleased to share our latest paper which presents the first shotgun metagenomics of the oral microbiomes of children with noma. We found a distinct microbial composition associated with the disease, which has led to further funding to identify the organisms behind this devastating disease.

Very pleased to see this work published. We analysed the oral microbiomes of children with noma and found that previously uncharacterised Treponema bacteria were both prevalent and highly abundant. journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Looking forward to working with all the different stakeholders and members of the PathNoma Alliance on this project to try and understand the microbiological causes of, and the immune response to, this terribly neglected disease.

Are you interested in being the first biologist in our new team? Come join our small but growing group. Deadline for applications is 3rd March. #Tuberculosis 🧪🦠 #TBDrugDiscovery

New PDRA position with @knightjar.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social & me Community assembly processes in soil microbiomes with focus on bioinformatics and computational modelling of data from field and lab experiments www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Interested in MGE-host coevolution? Like sunny #Porto? Apply to #LaCaixa doctoral #INPhINIT fellowships with me and explore the hidden world of mobile genetic elements🧬 DM or email in case of interest. Please RT! lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... #MicroSky

Really happy to see this published, fab international collabotation and excellent analysis led by Richard Goodman www.nature.com/articles/s42...

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How will population shifts affect the future burden of #AMR? 👶👩‍🦳 🧫 We use a new modelling framework to explore future projections of #AMR by age and by sex, as well as interventions for control, building on our earlier findings that AMR isn’t uniform across demographics. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🧬Join us for the next TARGetAMR webinar! 💊Dangerous Miracle: A Brief History of Antibiotics 🗓️Wednesday 19 November🕐 1–2pm 💻 Online 🎙️With Liam Shaw, Computational Biologist at University of Bristol 🔗Register now! www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...

New paper on AMR, mortality and ESBLs. bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Do plasmids really move around that much? Well, maybe not always Thrilled to have contributed to this story with two of my favourite microbiologists: @jrpenades.bsky.social & @sanmillan.bsky.social This great work was led by Akshay Sabnis & @wfigueroac3.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Overcoming barriers to NHS adoption of innovative IPC products: A qualitative study of SMEs in the Liverpool city region journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Environmental hazards from pollution of antibiotics and resistance-driving chemicals in an urban river network from Malawi www.nature.com/articles/s44...

AMR sentinels: Freshwater snails across Africa and the UK carry bacteria containing a wide range of AMR genes, including those predicted to confer resistance against last-resort antibiotics, according to a new study led by Adam Roberts and Angus O'Ferrall. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/freshwa...

Time to feast on the microbial goodness!

Sharp global rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, WHO finds

Phages evolve fast, or do they? In oysters, some stay identical for years. With >1,200 phages & 600 Vibrio genomes, we reveal long-term stability and new mobile elements. Proud of this collaborative work across our teams (Roscoff-UdeM and @epcrocha.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Great to see this study out, huge amount of work from the team in acquiring samples and particularly from @angusoferrall.bsky.social in the detailed metagenomic analysis he carried out #AMR #OneHealth

chromids…awesome

For those who love bacterial replicons, The ultimate review, from our lab, signed by the master of their evolution. ‪@val-meve.bsky.social‬ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This work is finally published! 🥳🧬 Plasmids are associated with very variable fitness costs in their different bacterial hosts. But, what is the contribution of each of the plasmid-genes in these host-specific effects? Study led by @jorgesastred.bsky.social, @sanmillan.bsky.social and myself! 1/14

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨ Huge team effort! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Worldwide AMR Awareness Symposium at School of Medicine, University of Sunderland on Wednesday 19th November 2025. A free afternoon of talks, posters & networking focussed on AMR, infection control & antibiotic srewardship. Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/antimicrob... Please share!

"Closure of the Fleming Fund risks undermining UK leadership on AMR." BSAC is seeking urgent clarification from the Government regarding the UK’s future leadership on antimicrobial resistance (#AMR), following reports that the Fleming Fund – the UK’s flagship global AMR programme – is set to close.

Are you a UK-based PhD student passionate about #AMR and infectious disease policy? Do you have an interest in public health, environmental health, or the intersection of animal and human health? Applications for BSAC's Parliamentary Internship Programme. Please help us spread the word!

Happy Thursday 🧪🦠

First paper on our projects on #Klebsiella transmission in the hospital environment; I'm so lucky to get to work with the wonderful teams@ Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Program, Kamuzu University, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital🇲🇼 #MicroSky #IDSky #GlobalHealth 🧬💻🧪 (1/3) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 We're looking for a Professorial Research Fellow to join the IOI, focusing on antifungal resistance. 🧪Generous start-up package for research 📍 Excellent lab facilities 💼 Competitive salary 🔬 Share AMR and fungal biology expertise Find out more: www.ineosoxford.ox.a...

📣 Position available: Research tech in microbial experimental evolution! Working alongside postdoc Louise Flanagan (@flanagella.bsky.social) on understanding how Pseudomonas evolves resistance to antibiotics. 🦠🧫 Closing 9 July #Microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Our Northern Futures bursary helps keep the brightest graduates in the region, creating a pipeline of researchers and professionals ready to tackle global health challenges. The bursary equates to a 20% tuition reduction for eligible Master’s students. Learn more: lstm.ac/NorthernFutu...

"If you built this whole operation in Germany, nobody would question that it is feasible. But people are asking questions when you’re doing it in Africa … That narrative is terrible — we’re all fighting to show that we can do it in Africa." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 Reminder! You have just over two weeks to submit an abstract, if you want to present at the @microbiologysociety.org meeting "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" in Liverpool in November! #microsky 🦠🧫🔬

Happy to share a new commentary with @kirchhelle.bsky.social on reconceptualising #AMR as a signal of anthropogenically induced planetary stress. Comments welcome. rdcu.be/erOkR

New in #INTHEA: Yaqub et al study the nature of #multidrug-resistant organisms within the largest referral health facility in northern #Nigeria #GlobalHealth academic.oup.com/inthealth/ad...

⚠️ Jump in antibiotic-resistant strains of gonorrhoea, with more diagnoses seen in the first half of 2025 than in the whole of 2024 Read the news story, which contains the full report 🔽 🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Just published in Lancet Global Health, the Tanzanian-Norwegian ProRIDE controlled trial in 2000 newborn babies found that a 4-week course of probiotics did not reduce death or hospitalization, but reduced gut carriage of multidrug-resistant bacteria in the probiotic group. doi.org/10.1016/s221...

Interested in phages ? Want to work as team that will isolate, genome sequence and charachterise 1000s of phage to build a biobank . Come work with me and Martha Clokie at Leicester jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/va...

New opinion paper from the lab! www.cell.com/trends/micro...

This meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

Are they the same strain? Happy to share our latest preprint on the comparative genomics of E.coli and K. pneumoniae isolates from blood and faeces of the same children www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint; Environmental hazards from pollution of antibiotics and resistance-driving chemicals in urban river networks of Malawi #AMR www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...