🌱 Antibiotic resistance in the environment: From mechanisms to monitoring Explore how AMR develops, spreads, and can be monitored using genomic tools 🎤 Johan Bengtsson-Palme 🎓 ECR speaker: Romain Derelle 📅 Fri 22 May @ 12pm 🔗 Register: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/an...

The fortune cookie has spoken ✨

We are proud to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of our current doctoral researchers (pictured): Stephen Hughes, Shauna O’Shea-Boland, Eva Kilcoyne, and Damien Tansey.

Got awarded my first little grant!!

Two MU scientists from the Dept of Biology will lead projects worth €3.1 million to tackle the urgent challenges facing farmers, patients and the public: the rise of untreatable infections and a destructive disease threatening a key Irish tillage crop. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

⏳ Application deadline extended to 30 April! Hands-on training to strengthen your skills in bacterial pathogen genomics and epidemiology at #GenomeSurveilCourse26. 🗓️ 22–26 June 📍 Dublin, Ireland 💸 Bursary support available Apply now: bit.ly/40ZsjU6#GenomeSurveilCourse26#PublicHealth #Genomics #Epidemiology

New rapid, colorimetric #carbapenemase diagnostic method that's cheap and smart. 1) Take potential CPE and incubate with imipenem disk 2) Take disk and incubate with known carb sensitive isolate 3) Add resazurin as a live/dead indicator #AMR #IDSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

I love accessible science. I'm learning to do so many cool things with WGS on the galaxy platform - and the best part is I don't even need to learn code!

MENI is back! Join us in Dublin this August 2026 for our 3rd Meeting for Microbial Evolution in Ireland. We are delighted to have @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social @jpjhall.bsky.social and @tweethinking.bsky.social join us as keynote speakers this year. miniurl.com/MENI

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, it gives me a great pleasure to announce the start of the first Women Microbiologists Network in the UK, which I am leading, with the massive support of the Microbiology Society. Read the below article and join today!

Important perspective from Greenland.

💾 ABRicate 1.2.0 has been released! This 'oversight' lasted 6 years, but with help from @finlaym.bsky.social we got CI working and updated all the databases. #bioconda #conda #bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/abr...

This #WAAW I've taken upon myself the challenge of trying to engage with school kids on AMR. Kind of nervous. Kind of excited. 😁😬 wish me luck!

AsIAm, Ireland’s Autism Charity, has officially recognised RCSI as an Autism Friendly Higher Education Institution The award acknowledges RCSI’s commitment to supporting autistic students, ensuring that everyone has the chance to reach their full potential. More ➡️ www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-...

Final call! Abstract submissions for Annual Conference 2026 close at 23:59 GMT tonight. Submit your work and join us in Belfast: microb.io/AC26Abstracts #Microbio26

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?" "Rosalind Franklin's notes." "That's correct."

Ready to welcome our attendees at #MUAMRC today!

Joining us today for MUAMRC? Look out for our wobble boards and the infamous DANCE ball located just outside Iontas building. We look forward to welcoming you soon! @maynoothuniversity.ie #amr #amrresearch #muamrc #maynoothuniversity

Preparations are underway !! We are looking forward to welcoming our guests to @maynoothuniversity.ie for our annual antimicrobial resistance conference We have an exciting line up of speakers, posters and keynotes! #MUAMRC25 #MUAMRC #antimicrobialresistance #maynoothuniversity

✨ Full circle moment ✨ My first ever conference attendance and oral presentation was at the @microbiologysociety.org annual conference 2022 in the ICC, Belfast. I get to go back in 2026 as an ECR co-chair for the Knocking Out AMR session. Pinch me!! #microbio26

💥 Passionate about plasmids and AMR transmission? Join the ESGEM & ESGMAP webinar with Dr. Sandra Reuter on plasmid and clonal spread in Klebsiella pneumoniae! 🧬 Nov 11, 12:00 CEST 🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #AMR #Plasmids #Genomics

🎓 Neurodiverse Learners: Transitioning to Higher Education 🌟 Join us for an insightful event designed to help make that transition more confident, informed, and supported. 🗓 21 October 📍 49 Merrion Square 🎟 Register now on Eventbrite: lnkd.in/eCpq3Uwd

From 20-23 October 2025, MU invites the public in to hear about and engage with the rich body of multi-disciplinary research being undertaken right here in Maynooth, and the impact those discoveries are having across the globe. #ResearchWeek #MaynoothUni maynoothuniversity.ie/research-week

We have extended the abstract submission deadline! Submit by Friday 17th October for an opportunity to present at the annual AMR conference (MUAMRC) @maynoothuniversity.ie Scan the QR code or follow the link tinyurl.com/36v8jy5x Registration remains open until October 20th tinyurl.com/43ev6vzm

We are welcoming abstracts from all disciplines, including research scientists, clinical practitioners, policymakers, healthcare workers, psychologists etc... if you work in the field of AMR we would love to hear from you!

Introducing our first guest speaker, Prof. Gunilla Eklund @ec.europa.eu, an expert in veterinary AMR. Prof. Eklund will deliver a keynote at the @maynoothuniversity.ie Antimicrobial Resistance Conference (MUAMRC). Registration & abstract submissions will open soon. You don't want to miss out!

More stars to catch. A rich green and a lovely cyan.

Save the Date! Maynooth University will be hosting their Annual AMR Conference on 29—30 October. More details on registration and abstract submission will be announced soon. @maynoothuniversity.ie #MUAMRC #AMR

For those who work/study Antimicrobial Resistance we are delighted to announce the date for our Annual Conference on Wednesday 29th afternoon & all day Thursday 30th of October. Please share! 📍Maynooth University 🗓️ Wed Oct. 29th (from 2pm) to Thurs 30th, 2025. #MUAMRC #Antimicrobialresistance

More details on abstract submissions and event registrations are coming soon. Please follow us for the latest updates 😊

For those who have attended our conference before, you may notice we have changed the dates but we promise it’s the same conference, with the same goals in mind - bringing together all disciplines who work and research in the area of antimicrobial resistance!

Our lab has now joined BlueSky, please follow us and show some love 💖 exciting things are happening! #amr

My first poster(s) presentation as postdoc at the Biology Department Research Day at Maynooth University. Data intentionally blurred but happy to see my plasmid poster title being received well 🤣

Consider what you mean when you ask someone to be more resilient, “just ignore it”, or other similarly unhelpful comments.

Here's a tutorial I wrote on how I design detection and cloning primers using Primer3. Hopefully it's helpful for students. 💚 binomicalabs.notion.site/PCR-Primer-D...

I will let this photo of the Maynooth University library cat speak for itself 😴

MU-led report calls for research to focus on new treatments for superbugs 🦠 The report, which was launched by Minister Noel Grealish TD and Minister Jennifer Murnane O’Connor TD, identifies gaps in AMR research and will inform a national action plan. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-scie...

Great to see @maynoothuniversity.ie and namely @fiwalsh.bsky.social leading this report on gaps in AMR research in Ireland. Also well done to previous members of the ARM lab Yukta and Amy for their contributions!

@microbiologysociety.org I attended the first women in academia workshop at the annual conference, and provided contact details for a network that was to be organised. Wondering if there has been any updates on this? Thanks 🙂

Great to see this report published. We hosted one of these workshops at our annual AMR conference at @maynoothuniversity.ie and it was an insightful discussion on both the challenges faced and the strengths of our AMR community in Ireland!

You'd think with a bit more maturity and knowledge, the imposter syndrome would become easier to deal with, but that can't be further from the truth 🙃

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

Happy to announce that our „newest old tool“ autoMLST2.0 is out and published. You need an accurate and easy to use tool to build #phylogenetictrees from #bacterialgenomes: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

This is fascinating, but also terrible news regarding antimicrobial resistance in multidrug-resistant Gram-positives 'Emergence of transferable daptomycin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria' www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Alone in the office and smiling at my computer screen like this all week... (bacterial genomes are fun to screen)

Steve is special, but we still love him.