So well deserved!!! Congrats @tmcoque.bsky.social and @sanmillan.bsky.social!!!

New paper about VVE, an emerging threat menancing #enterococcus diagnostics and infection control! @ucibio.bsky.social @bactdrugs.bsky.social

During World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, @Ana R. Freitas, UCIBIO researcher at the @BacT_Drugs, spoke on national radio about the rising challenge of antimicrobial resistance and the importance of informed public action. 🔗 Link (in Portuguese): www.rtp.pt/play/p15569/...

So happy to share this! Bacteriocins were first discovered over 100 years ago, but what do they actually do? We look at >1000 bacteriocin plasmids and find links to virulence and antimicrobial resistance, and frequent bacteriocin sharing in Enterobacteriaceae. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists need more time to think and so do I. So do you. Emails and messaging are the OG brainrot, and scrolling makes it so much worse. I've spent a lot of coaching time with clients on creating more distance from their phone, literally and figuratively. Much benefit.

The recordings of the 6-hour webinar on Bacterial Strain Taxonomy for Genomic Surveillance are now available through the @ecdc.europa.eu ECDC Learning portal: learning.ecdc.europa.eu/course/view.... - cgMLST, SNPs, K-mer based strain nomenclatures applications and more!

Great first day at the #IMMEM XIV occurring in Porto, Portugal! So happy to host and welcome you in our city! @escmid.bsky.social @esgem-sg.bsky.social

Congratulations Ana! 🎉 As you main supervisor, I am very proud of your journey ending in a European PhD title with a successful thesis on #enterococci. Huge Thanks to the jury opponents @GuidoWerner and @MariaMiragaia! @bactdrugs.bsky.social @ucibio.bsky.social

Still time to register and join us on Monday for the next @esgem-sg.bsky.social webinar together with EFWISG.

Excited to share the first beta release of AMRrules at #ABPHM! (Poster 42 tonight) interpretamr.github.io/AMRrules

#IMMEM XIV late-breaker abstract submission closes this Friday! Don't miss your opportunity to be a part of the scientific programme on microbial typing & #genomics. Learn more and submit your late-breaker by Friday, 23 May 2025: ow.ly/gBxl50VSlwr #IDSky #clinmicro

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

A huge, new resource for plasmid research - PlasmidScope is a database of 852,000 #plasmid sequences with a rich set of annotations, automated online analysis and interactive visualisation academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Please visit: www.icarecourse.org @ICARe_AMR has a great atmosphere and location @LesPensieres , with a unique faculty and a special session on #AMR #genomics with François Lebreton @flebreton.bsky.social and myself – great opportunities for networking and scientific discussions

Still speechless about this distinction!! As a new ESCMID Fellow, the responsability is even higher. Thank you to all that somehow contributed to it and to @escmid.bsky.social ExCom! I can only promise to continue dedicated to the society and the ESCMID community 🫶🏼 @ucibio.bsky.social

Last but not least: Today we presented the APPLE project assessing linezolid resistant enterococci carriage in hospitalized patients from different countries - a project funded by a @escmid.bsky.social study group grant and led by Jennifer Bender & Guido Werner.

Incredible start of the day at the #ESCMID Global 2025 with @aresarroyom.bsky.social talking about plasmids transfer 🙌🏼 we still have a lot to learn about these fascinating elements! @escmid.bsky.social

We are already here at the great ESCMID Global 2025! Looking forward to meet good friends and to learn a lot ☺️@natachacouto.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social

Let’s meet in Vienna!

Two journals tried paying peer reviewers and found increased acceptance, earlier reports, and no change in quality. WHAT A SURPRISE!

The latest discovery from the lab and great colleagues at McMaster and U Illinois, Chicago. Lariocidin, a new lasso peptide antibiotic that inhibits the ribosome. rdcu.be/efdha

👏 Kicking off the week with our latest publication by #AnaPereira et al.: "Insights towards the impact of subinhibitory chlorhexidine on antimicrobial susceptibility and horizontal gene transfer in Enterococcus faecium" published in the Science of The Total Environment. @ucibio.bsky.social