Huge preprint if you are interested in bacterial strain taxonomy! The why and how of cgMLST LIN codes: An extensively revised and expanded version doi.org/10.1101/2024... I will summarize it for you in this thread 👇

New PhD position in my lab at @uniofbath.bsky.social (with both @tweethinking.bsky.social & Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun)! We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution. Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We are hiring! 🎓🧫 🧬 #PhD studentship available in #Immunology at #CambridgeUniversity to investigate a new killer function of human T cells. 📅 Application deadline: 3rd December 2025 more information: lnkd.in/dxq6yMay #findaPhD @ERC_Research

🚨 Another funded PhD alert🚨 We are recruiting again! For a PhD student to start with us in the @langridgelab.bsky.social October 2026 - please share 👀 If you are interested in foodborne pathogens, public health and phage, look no further 🦠🏥🧬 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3zvavp2t ⬅️ Apply by 6 Jan 2026 🗓️

Fantastic paper: "Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria" out now in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols. Thread 1/n

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

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Come and work with Nicole Stoesser and I in Oxford with the fantastic team @modmedmicro.bsky.social - great opportunity for a postdoc in microbial genomics to do some creative research with great datasets as part of our HPRU. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Had a brilliant time in Liverpool at Edge Hill University for the Galleria mellonella Workshop 🐛 Grateful to be invited as a speaker, the great chats and new connections. Amazing to see the wide range of applications, hope our time lapse imaging work can add to the field!

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Our latest preprint is out describing amr.watch - a platform for monitoring AMR trends from global genomics data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)

Our review on recent advances in #PhageTherapy against Klebsiella pneumoniae is out! We analyze KP-phage interactions from an eco-evo perspective, summarize many lab and clinical trials, and discuss novel approaches like genetic engineering & machine learning. #microsky doi.org/10.1371/jour...

I've spent some time updating my two Nextflow-based bacterial QC pipelines (bacQC and bacQC-ONT). It'd be great to get some feedback. github.com/avantonder/b... github.com/avantonder/b...

Free #bioinformatics toolkit for #biologists! Master #Linux, basic scripting, and advanced Nextflow pipelines, with our #OnlineCourses that guide you through complete bioinformatics workflows. Gain deeper insights from your biological research🚀 📎 Info: bit.ly/4aMV22B

Brochado and Maier labs in Germany are looking for a PhD student to study horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. ENDAMR Marie Curie doctoral network (endamr.eu) - an amazing opportunity to work with top scientists in the field all around Europe! www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/mariecuriephd

We’ve just released a public Pathogenwatch collection of the MRSN Diversity Panel comprising 100 diverse K. pneumoniae clinical isolates: pathogen.watch/collection/8... #KlebClub

🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

✨ Excited to share our work in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles! ✨ We reveal a new family of virulence factors in gram-negative bacteria like P. aeruginosa that drive harmful OMV production. 🦠 isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sie suchen #Infektionsforscherinnen? Wir haben ein #StarterPack mit allen Infect-Net-Wissenschaftlerinnen auf BlueSky zusammengestellt: 🇬🇧 Curious about contributions of women in #infection research? We put together a StarterPack with all our Infect-Net experts on BlueSky 🦋 👉 go.bsky.app/JU8KaeQ

Great collection of papers on adaptive evolution of AMR

Don't know who to follow for the best in microbial bioinformatics? This is the Starter Pack you need! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Application review for the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Population Biology begins on Jan 20. Maximize your chance of acceptance and $ support by submitting your application with a poster abstract before that date! Details: www.grc.org/microbial-po...

I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e

Join us for a new season of #KlebCkub! @klebclub.bsky.social New speakers & new research! Registration is FREE but mandatory. Abstracts due by February 16! Please share ! Link below👇🏻👇🏻

It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!

Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.

Don't forget to join the #KlebClub Slack workspace! #Klebsiella #KLEBS2024 join.slack.com/t/klebclub/s...

A small history lesson in #Klebsiella genomics in honour of #KLEBS24… 2009 was a big year for Klebs! - First genome published - First description of ST258 KPC-producing clone pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19218573/ - First description of NDM-1 beta-lactamase pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19770275/

(1/6) Our new short paper on incidental bacterial domestication between patient isolation and creation of frozen stock. Geno/phenotype changes are obscured by rich media and more prevalent than we previously thought. #MicroSky

Excited to share this preprint where we’ve used genomic analysis of >3000 genomes to study Klebsiella pneumoniae in a One Health perspective 🦠🔬👩‍💻 #OneHealth #KLEBGAP #KlebClub #IrenLöhr @katholt.bsky.social #NORKLEBNET

Lots of people are missing, let us know if you want to be included by replying! You can also share to help us gain visibility #MicroSky go.bsky.app/EdereoU

New postdoc position in our lab for a project led by Marie Touchon (bioinformatics) and with O Tenaillon (experiments) on the evolution and dynamics of microbial genomes to understand their diversification by gene flow. Check research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Note to self: No need to remove read duplicates in RNA-seq experiments! "Samples of input amounts greater than 125 ng had a negligible PCR duplication rate and the number of PCR cycles did not have a significant effect on data quality" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PhD studentship (co-sup with Ed Feil, collaborators incl. Edze Westra): using GWAS to find bacterial susceptibility loci to phage infection, and machine learning for prediction. Amazing dataset, great application for machine learning www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

PhD opportunity with me and Mark Webber! Some microbial genomics, some molecular biology, all fun. Apply here: buff.ly/3FjzrzS