🦠🧪🧬 Excited to share that our GPS Pipeline, the portable and scalable genomic pipeline for Streptococcus pneumoniae surveillance, is now published in @natcomms.nature.com 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41... #GPS_project

It's likely the next pandemic will come from wildlife. But how can we prepare for the next spillover event, if we don't understand the diversity of viruses out there? 🦔🦠 Check out our Genomewatch article, where we discuss using meta-genomics to study viral diversity in wild mammals 🖥️🧬 rdcu.be/eHIBl

[New pre-print🚨] When a single genotype (pbp) confer resistance (penicillin, amoxicillin, cephalosporins) to multiple antibiotics, how do we make sense of genetic changes and their impact on AMR? A new concept - AMR cartography is invented. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

[🚨 New paper] The first nationwide, longitudinal WGS analysis of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Taiwan (2006–2022). 1,343 isolates from 27 hospitals, we track serotype, AMR, and genomic lineage before and after PCV13. #GPS_project #PCV13_impact #Taiwan www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

[New paper alert 🚨 ] What happens when pneumococci 'slip' and 'add' just one extra A in a promoter spacer of a sugar scavenging gene? 🧬 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Our team is hiring an ambitious senior bioinformatician to look into bacterial capsules . This position will closely collaborate with EMBL-EBI Stephen Bentley, John Lees, Steph Lo Closing date: 20 July 2025 sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco...

It’s my great pleasure to present the Global Pneumoocccal Sequencing project at #LISSSD25 I feel humbled to learn more about Group A and Group B streptococci and other species, and meet great minds to discuss science. #GPS_project

Dr Dorota Jamrozy presents a well-powered GWAS to identify genetic features associated with invasive #GBS disease as compared with carriage at #LISSSD25 Thanks to the >20,000 GBS genomes in the #JUNO_project funded by @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

Each year, over half a million of pneumococcal disease in children were reported in China Our paper showed 1) 94.3% serotypes covered by PCV13 2) 99.8% isolates resistant to ≥1 antibiotics Routine PCV in children will ↘️ pneumococcal disease and AMR! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

@sophiebelman.bsky.social carried out this spatiotemporal analysis to quantify how fast a pneumococcal lineage can travel across the country, and this work was published on pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #LISSSD25

@stephlo.bsky.social & global partners describe the extent (worldwide) of intra-country spread (<4 years) of pneumococcus through in silico genotyping, then outlines genotypic methods of predicting vaccine escape (capsules 33F -> 33E) using this in silico data. #LISSSD25 #idsky

Good morning Brisbane! What a nice view to prepare my very first talk at #LISSSD25 ! Looking forward to meeting people at the conference. #GPS_project #pneumococci #Genomics

Society Event Grant – applications for funding to attend EC Summer Conference 2025 are now open until 24 May at 23:59 BST. Check your eligibility and apply now- microb.io/3S9T6cO

The SeroBA(v2.0) is now available in the GPS pipeline github.com/GlobalPneumo... #GPS_project #pneumococci #serotype #bioinformatics

Keeping track on the number of hashtag#pneumococcal serotypes? SeroBAnk is an atlas of pneumococcal capsule to display its genetics, biochemical structure and serological profiles www.pneumogen.net/gps/#/serobank

Do you need a #bioinformatic tool to detect almost all serotypes in #pneumococci? The new SeroBA v2.0 can detect 102 of 107 known pneumococcal serotypes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share the first preprint from my lab. Great work by Lewis Fisher and collaboration with Jukka Corander www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🆕 Rates of AMR up to 3 times greater in outpatients with cancer compared to those without cancer, suggests USA data. Find out more in @thelancetoncol.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/2uy9ttvv

Do you need a #bioinformatic tool to detect almost all serotypes in #penumococci ? The new SeroBA v2.0 can detect 102 of 107 pneumococcal serotypes github.com/GlobalPneumo...

As part of the #GPS_project, @Abel_AberaN led us to understand the circulating #pneumococcal lineages (carriage and disease)!in Ethiopia after #PCV10 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

An up-to-date review on the evolving landscape of pneumococcal capsule - seroepidemiology -recently recognised novel serotypes -mitis expressed pneumo capsule -future research direction #pneumococcus #vaccine #PCV #NahmLab led by @FerozeGanaie pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39878373/

There are four (that's right four!) academic posts open at the School of Biological sciences at Cambridge University. Check them out here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?categor... Gr10/11 (AssocProf/Reader; now Prof) Closing 26/1/25. Looking for excellent, collaborative people. Spread the word!

A Portable and Scalable Genomic Analysis Pipeline for Streptococcus pneumoniae Surveillance: GPS Pipeline https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.27.625679v1