Save the date! The 27th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting is coming to Canada for the first time in its history! 🦠 🧬 📅 July 25 - 29, 2027 📍 University of Guelph, Guelph, ON More info to follow...

Delighted to see our work featured as a Research Highlight in @natecoevo.nature.com 🧬 Ancient strep throat 🦠 nature.com/articles/s41... 😷 Strep throat is nothing new – a 700-year-old mummy proves it 🙌@msabrysarhan.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social #aDNA #Genomics #StrepThroat #ScienceNews

New preprint! 🚨 Phage proteins don't act alone. Phages rely on homooligomerisation to assemble identical protein subunits into functional forms. But figuring out those exact configurations experimentally is tough. Learn about our approach in our new preprint! 👇 (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Postdoc position available within Malick Gibani’s team at Imperial College London, part of a Wellcome-funded project focused on the microbiota associated with the 2025 CHANTS Salmonella human challenge study. #microbiome #jobs www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Happy to have played a small role in this cool piece of work led by Teagan Brown in the lab of @evelienadri.bsky.social. She looked at the impacts of using a phage cocktail in a batch-culture fermentation colon model 🦠 #phages www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Great piece and cover @science.org about how our field is uncovering the evolutionary and mechanistic connections between bacterial and eukaryotic immunity ! www.science.org/content/article/ancient-wars-between-microbes-gave-us-key-immune-defenses

🎊 New Preprint from phagefoundry.org ! Super excited to share our latest work on generating systematic phage-MDR P. aeruginosa interaction dataset & use of ML to predict phage susceptibility & phage cocktails from target genome sequences alone, w validations www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Revised story Systematic receptor mapping in acapsular Klebsiella www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

During my PhD, @milja001.bsky.social and I started counting phage genomes, and tried to make them available in useful formats with useful metadata. We also described the extent of sequenced phage genomes at the time. Five years on, we've had a look at what's changed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

From 18 to 20 May researchers from across Norwich Research Park will be sharing their exciting science at pubs and venues across our fine city of Norwich as part of @pintofscience.uk 🍺 Here’s some of the exciting science our researchers will be talking about⤵️ buff.ly/JnbTkhq

Do you have a PhD in a subject area such as Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, Bioinformatics, or Biochemistry? Check out our current vacancy ⤵️ 💷 £37,500 to £43,350 🗓️ Apply by 15 May 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/aailNBq

Why does antibiotic resistance evolution vary between patients? Come to @officialuom.bsky.social @mermanchester.bsky.social to help us find out! 2.5 year @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position in experimental evolution Closing 15 May. Apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🚨Another Langridge lab paper is hot off the press!🚨 We are excited to share the 1st paper from @nisbetalice.bsky.social, exploring the #genomic epidemiology of #entericfever in England & Wales (2004–23). But the hidden story is all about carriage... Now out in @plos.org Neglected Tropical Diseases!

⏰ Closing soon We’re looking for a Research Scientist (Metaproteomics) to join Dr Kai Cheng's group to develop and apply computational and analytical methods for metaproteomics 💻️ 💷 £37,500 to £45,350 🗓️ Apply by 6 May ➡️ buff.ly/8sZPg1T

Very glad to see this out. A huge effort by a lot of people. Well done everyone!! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Can vouch that this is an insanely cool project & dataset to work on

Really happy to have played a small part in this cool piece of work led by @guido-valverde.bsky.social and @msabrysarhan.bsky.social. We characterised S. pyogenes in a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy (suggesting circulation before European contact) #VivaBolivianMummies www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited for @microbiologysociety.org #microbio26 to begin but also to share the fantastic news that our @eh-hayles.bsky.social's latest paper is now preprinted. If you wanna hear about temporal dynamics & acquisition of Shiga toxin subtype stx2a within #STEC in England go see her poster at A39

The second, I’m at #microbio26 in Belfast presenting the next stages of the project, looking at the gene, genome and phage variation of #stx2a. Come see me at poster A039!

What a wonderful start to @microbiologysociety.org #microbio26 with an interactive session on celebrating & promoting actions advancing #EDI followed by @prideinmicro.bsky.social lecture on From visibility to belonging. Its been wonderful to see this network grow. Read more here: microb.io/4mnraQc

Absolutely stellar start to #Microbio26 with the EDI prize lecture to @prideinmicro.bsky.social ! Well done and so well deserved @landongetz.bsky.social @edelplopez.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social 👏

And the poster is up at #microbio26! Come and find me at A037 to talk all things biofilm :) @microbiologysociety.org

Excited to share our latest publication from the PhageLand project which investigated the effects of a phage cocktail, designed for wastewater bioremediation, on Daphnia magna microbiome and life-history parameters! 🌊💧 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Two exciting updates! The first, our new preprint assessing the dynamics of Shiga toxin subtype #stx2a in #STEC across England, 2016-2024 is now live! Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

First preprint from my PhD research under the supervision of Ed Galyov and @milja001.bsky.social We developed a novel bacterial minicells platform combined with #metagenomics to selectively enrich cognate #phages from complex environmental samples and investigated phage-host interactions #phagesky

Whenever I presented Phold, I was frequently asked "can you do the same beyond phages?" We ( @oschwengers.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @binomicalabs.org et al) finally did it with Baktfold github.com/gbouras13/ba... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Really enjoyed working with @emmabeansworth.bsky.social and @gemma-langridge.bsky.social on this one! Am loving the inevitable phage-ification of the Langridge lab group #phages

Massive thanks to Claire, @gemma-langridge.bsky.social' @ryancook94.bsky.social and @ukhsa.bsky.social's @mariechattaway.bsky.social, Beata Orzechowska and Frieda Jorgensen for getting this one over the line & in such quick time after there previous publication on this dataset!

Salmonella Genomic Markers for Risk to Food Safety https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.27.714810v1

Our @nisbetalice.bsky.social and @gemma-langridge.bsky.social are in Cambodia 🇰🇭 Powering through the jetlag, they are sharing their research on typhoidal #salmonella 🧬🦠 in collaboration with #ukhsa and #fijinationaluniversity #takeontyphoid #phnompenh

Two post-doctoral positions open in our lab. We're looking for people with expertise in molecular microbiology and/or genome-scale tools. Initially 3 yrs, posts could be extended for upto 8 yrs. If you'd like to know more about us take a look at www.graingerlab.com www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY475/r...

Check out our preprint on airway microbiome CF www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... Q: Can we predict clinical outcomes before the clinic? A: Yes! 🦠 Microbiome predicts Pseudomonas colonisation & AMR early 🦠 Resistance mechanisms mirror those seen in lab! #Microbiome #CysticFibrosis #Metagenomics

🚨PhD studentship alert! Join @gailmcconnell.bsky.social, @liam-rooney.bsky.social and I for an exciting imaging project characterising inter-species interactions in the oral microbiome. Details here: www.centreforbiophotonics.com/oralmicrobio... Application deadline 10th April 2026!

Had a bit of a break from the socials and forgot my Bluesky password, but really happy to belatedly share some great work from PhD student Jose Nakamoto on the diversity of toxin-antitoxin-chaperone systems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 The Whelan lab is hiring a bioinformatics postdoc 📣 Together with @fabricejpierre.bsky.social, we are offering a 1-year bioinformatic PDRA position in comparative genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. To find out more please visit whelanlab.co.uk/contact/. Applications close 3 April 2026!

A virus hiding inside bacteria may help explain colorectal cancer 🦠 "The broader implication is a shift in how we think about the gut microbiome and its relationship to disease. It may not be enough to ask which bacteria are present." 🗨️ Dr Ryan Cook, Research Scientist

📢 Opportunity to apply for a PhD fellowship to join our group and work on MGE-MGE interactions and phage defence systems! @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social See informations about eligibility and research project on this web page: graduate-plus.fr/immunology-v... Contact me if you are interested !

Scientists found an unexpected viral hitchhiker lurking inside a common gut bacterium – and it was twice as prevalent in people with colorectal cancer.

Really enjoyed writing a piece for @uk.theconversation.com - trying to write for a general audience, you suddenly realise how much jargon is deeply embedded in your brain #Phages #Microbiome #SciComm theconversation.com/a-virus-hidi...

📢 Hiring a Postdoc in Computational Phage Biology (Kraków, Poland) We study the evolution & structural modularity of prophage-encoded glycan-degrading enzymes in Klebsiella pneumoniae — combining genomics and AlphaFold-based analyses. Details in attached PDF 👇

Are you a post-doctoral microbiologist interested in characterising bacterial resistance evolution and want to apply your knowledge and expertise to developing new therapeutics for Klebsiella (and other Enterobacterales) infections? Then we need you! Apply now bit.ly/3MX39Ce close date March 13th 👀

📣 2026 PhD studentship 📣 Via @manchester.ac.uk 's President's Doctoral Scholar Awards, we are encouraging applications for a PhD on the effect of pollutant exposure on microbe-immune cross talk. This project will incorporate microbiology, immunology, & bioinformatics. Deadline: 16 March 2026!

📣new preprint from the phagefoundry.org team 🎉 Jessica Trinh and Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Laboratories)!! Systematic analysis of prophages from ~1000 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, induction & screening. We found this 😎 looking phage with bunch of 💍💍

Quadlytics, led by Dr Hannah Morelli, is developing technology that identifies combinations of bacteriophages, commonly called phages, which are helpful viruses that can be used as alternatives to antibiotics to kill bacteria in humans, animals and in the environment.

🔔Collabator Alert🔔 I’m putting together a project on UTIs and the urogenital microbiome and am looking for a collaborator with solid metagenomic sequencing/analysis experience. If you’d be interested in joining the work, I’d love to talk #MicroSky #UTISky

Only 2 more days to apply for this post as Research Fellow in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics at the University of Birmingham. Come and join us to exciting, cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics work to deliver public health benefits www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE112/r...

The effects of bacteriophage cocktail treatment on healthy gut microbiota: an in vitro human colon model study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.702202v1

We’re recruiting for an RA @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Support our #microbiome research - lab work + sample/data organisation & coordination. Looking for an organised, proactive & great team player. 🗓️ Closes 04/02/26 . To Mar 2028 Apply via UoB portal: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

⏰ Closing soon! The Webber group is looking for a Research Scientist to use high throughput transposon mutagenesis to help understand mechanisms of action, host susceptibility and resistance to antimicrobials. 💷 £37,500 to £45,350 🗓️ Apply by 28 January 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/8iXH22u

I’ve had an amazing time (as always) at VoM-UK this week! A big thank you to the organisers for putting on such a great meeting and allowing me to present my PhD research 😊