No! You're a toxic burden?! 😅 Ever wonder how bacteria become more toxic via phages? & how public health dealss with this 🤔 this project could be for you🦠🏥🧬 The @langridgelab.bsky.social is looking for #PhD candidates to join the group in October 2026 - please share! Apply by 6 Jan🗓️ #PhDposition

Well it's 100% official now! #IAmABiologist! So delighted I was chosen by the @biochemsoc.bsky.social to have myself & my work with the @langridgelab.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social be showcased Biology Week #IAmABiologist campaign! keep eyes peeled for #WhatIsAScientist? updates soon🤞

Celebrating #IAmABiologist we hear from Emma Waters, Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Bacterial niche adaptation at the Quadram Institute. #BiologyWeek

Are you, or someone you know, looking for a PhD, starting in Oct 2026? Do you like bacteria, genomics & puzzles?🦠🧬🧩 Do you wanna work in a cutting edge of science, with some awesome people @quadraminstitute.bsky.social? Please apply or share by 2 Dec 🗓️ #PhDposition #academicsky Find out more ⬇️

No! You're out of order?! 😅 Ever wonder what happens if bacteria follow the rules of life, but in a different order? 🤔 this could be the project for you🦠🧬🧩 The @langridgelab.bsky.social is looking for #PhD candidates to join the group in October 2026 - please share! Apply by 2 Dec 🗓️ #PhDposition

🚨 Funded PhD alert 🚨 We are recruiting for a PhD student to join the @langridgelab.bsky.social in October 2026 - please share! If you like bacteria, genomics and puzzles, this could be the project for you 🦠🧬🧩 Apply by 2 Dec 🗓️ #PhDposition Find out more ⬇️ www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

We are so pleased to share that our @stevenrudder.bsky.social passed his viva with flying colours today 🥳 👏🎉 Congratulations Dr Rudder!! Huge thank you to Adrain Egli & @alisonmather.bsky.social for examining #PhDone #AcademicChatter You have definitely left your mark on the group & will be missed🦆

Delighted to celebrate with @stevenrudder.bsky.social, who has passed his viva today!! Cannot believe your time with the @langridgelab.bsky.social is already over but this is a long time coming & you deserve this so much! Go forth & do your 💩 but please stay in touch #PhDone #academicsky #PhD

Delighted to share that @stevenrudder.bsky.social has passed his viva today!! Congratulations Dr Rudder, and a huge thank you to @alisonmather.bsky.social and Prof Adrian Egli for examining. Steven, this is so well deserved, we're all super proud of you #PhDone

It has been a blast 💥!Awesome atmosphere, networking & knowledge exchange at @biophychrom.bsky.social Huge thanks 🙏 to all the Participants, Rachel & Kinga from @biochemsoc.bsky.social & the Sponsors @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social @lumicks.bsky.social @emanuellissek.bsky.social @ei-science.bsky.social

Well that's a wrap @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025 thank you to the organisers & everyone here for contributing to a wonderful week. Looking forward to hopefully seeing you all again in Paris 🇫🇷 @danielabarilla.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social

We couldn't really let this #postdocappreciationweek pass without pointing out that we've doubled our awesome postdoc quota this year 💪💪 Between Claire and @emmabeansworth.bsky.social this group runs like a well oiled machine and we can't thank you enough for it 🤩 #NPAW2025

The @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social's Hospitium was such a lovely location for the @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025 conference dinner. Gorgeous gardens, fabulous food & captivating conversations Thank you to the organisers for creating a great program & friendly interdisciplinary environment

That’s a wrap for The Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes VII 2025. A big thank you to all those who attended 🧪 #BioPhyChrom2025 #BiochemEvents

It's #postdocappreciationweek! this year for the 1st time I have a special shout out to the @langridgelab.bsky.social's other VIP (Very Important Postdoc). Claire Hill you are immense addition with your CHill nature. Thank you for taking a good share of the load in looking after the group🐧 #NPAW2025

What a great 2nd day @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025. Who else is excited for another day of discussing #Prokaryotic #Chromosomes? Love #outreach? I recommend visiting the National #STEM learning centre's resource library! A wealth of ideas for inspiring the next generation of scientists

With evidence attached 😊 #BioPhyChrom2025 @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social @tamarabasta.bsky.social

Excellent day 2 at #BioPhyChrom2025 some great talks and discussions! So glad to present some of the work we’ve just started and get some excellent feedback 🧬And… I SAW LONGBOI @biochemsoc.bsky.social

Day two of #BioPhyChrom2025 is well underway! We have seen some great discussions so far during our networking and poster sessions #BiochemEvent

Do you have a favourite part of day 1 @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025. A particular talk? The poster session? Flashbacks of being a fresher? For myself, it was a friendly environment that facilitated open & lively discussions between experts from different disciplines👨‍🔬🧬👩‍🔬🦠 Let day 2 begin!

What a great 1st session @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BioPhyChrom2025. A great mix of talks & discussion points from all speakers I am looking forward to sharing my work showing that genome structure variation can influence #virulence & #AMR. Come see me at poster 009

Who's ready for an exciting week ahead in York @biochemsoc.bsky.social's Biology & physics of Prokaroytic Chromosomes?! #BioPhyChrom2025

Finally in York! Tomorrow is D-Day #BioPhyChrom2025 kicks off with a great program and posters! @danielabarilla.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social

A complete pleasure to have hosted @vslioy.bsky.social today @quadraminstitute.bsky.social! A great talk & discussions enjoyed by all explaining how chromatin remodelling & #Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands regulation go hand in hand. Next stop @biochemsoc.bsky.social's #BioPhyChrom2025 🌳🚆🫣🤞

Ready for a week of thinking about DNA's 3rd dimension @biochemsoc.bsky.social's #BioPhyChrom2025. But 1st I'm excited to be hosting @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social's @vslioy.bsky.social. I am sure her talk on Salmonella chromatin will bring exciting chats & opportunies to @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

UK mode ON 🇬🇧 #BioPhyChrom2025 ahead! First stop @quadraminstitute.bsky.social for some Salmonella chromatin chats with @emmabeansworth.bsky.social & @langridgelab.bsky.social

Need a non-science book to read? Struggling with anxiety? You are not alone! This is an awesome book by the amazing person/comedian Suzi Ruffell discussing life's big Qs from "How do you know you're not f**cking up your kids? to Has #LGBTQIA+ equality been achieved?" currently only £1.49 on kindle

Congrats everyone for making it through the 1st week after summer! I don't know about you guys but after 3 months packed with mini breaks I have found my "normal" 5 day working week tough! Think I am ready to tackle the last bit of this year... Remembering I'm doing it for these guys makes it easier

As we leave late summer behind & enter autumn & some normality, we have been able to get together to celebrate some awesome achievements by our @stevenrudder.bsky.social & @eh-hayles.bsky.social. In a Langridge lab tradition, both received their coasters of their 1st author papers in the group!🎉🥳🎊

Again delighted to see another 1 of our PhD students with their 1st 1st author paper out. @stevenrudder.bsky.social's paper revealing the limitations of single-colony #sequencing Congrats to you & all the co-authors👏Such a huge piece of work now in @microbiologysociety.org's #MicrobialGenomics

Waiting for the rain to stop? ⛈️ Need a good read? 📃 Our @eh-hayles.bsky.social has written a blog discussing her research exploring & understanding how SARS-CoV-2 spread & evolved in #Norfolk during the #COVID-19 pandemic 🦠 She shows the powers of #sequence surveillance & #epidemiology💪

We heard a lot about how #COVID impacted the nation, but what happened locally? Here @eh-hayles.bsky.social discusses her research exploring & understanding how #SARS-CoV-2 spread & evolved in #Norfolk during the #COVID-19 pandemic 🦠 & shows how we can use the past to be prepared for the future💪

Congrats @eh-hayles.bsky.social ! And it's always nice to see that one can run 30k genomes on iqtree!

Truly delighted to see @eh-hayles.bsky.social have her 1st paper out! Not only 1st paper but 1st-1st author paper and 1st paper to ever come from the @mmbdtp.bsky.social!!! Congratulations to you & all the co-authors👏Such a huge piece of work now in @microbiologysociety.org's #MicrobialGenomics

Key Highlights: • 401 SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected across the pandemic • 5 Variants of Concern IDed with Alpha, Delta & Omicron dominating • 4 distinct regional epidemic waves • Clear variation in wave patterns between different regions • 1st paper to ever come from @mmbdtp.bsky.social 🥳🧬 #PhDlife

Our @eh-hayles.bsky.social's 1st 1st-author paper is now published in @microbiologysociety.org's #MicrobialGenomics It explores the #genomic #epidemiology of #COVID in Norfolk, UK Great job by @andrewjpage.bsky.social @drrobkingsley.bsky.social Javier Guitian #COGUK & @gemma-langridge.bsky.social!

Attended the @nnuh.bsky.social #Pride event yesterday, representing the #LGBTQ+ working group of Norwich Research Park's research institutes🌈 It is great to be forming stronger connections with LGBTQ+ groups of the hospital & @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, specially as we approach #norwichpride🏳️‍🌈

What a great movie reel of 3 incredible days of #Salmonella science & networking at #I3S #I3Scongress. A great highlight captured for us is @ukhsa.bsky.social's @mariechattaway.bsky.social vibrant keynote talk! ... & video evidence of our @emmabeansworth.bsky.social actually doing some work😮

Here's a blog from PhD student @carolinejarvis.bsky.social, reflecting on how myself & other researchers from the @quadraminstitute.bsky.social have been working with the charity @jidcuk.bsky.social to improve access to global health research & champion equitability of collaborations🧑‍🔬🌏

@stevenrudder.bsky.social's talk was 🔥 Extracting ultra-pure DNA from stool & bacteria—trickier than it sounds but critical for long-reads 🔍 Long-reads resolve repeat-rich genomes 🦠 Improve outbreak tracking & #AMR mapping 📈 Better study of mobile genetic elements #MicrobialGenomics #ECR #MNGPopUp

Next up from our group at @microbesng.bsky.social #MNGPopUp is @nisbetalice.bsky.social talking about #genomic insights into #ParatyphiA carriage, providing key evidence showing that this serovar must be studied as an unique pathogen and not be bundle together with other typhoidal #salmonella!

And finally at @microbesng.bsky.social #MNGPopUp our @nisbetalice.bsky.social is chairing the last session including the keynote from @pathogenomenick.bsky.social titled “Pathogen surveillance through #metagenomics: the next frontier?" Looking forward to some more great #Genomics #ECR talks first!

First up from our group at #MNGPopUp is @stevenrudder.bsky.social about his work on improving High Molecular Weight DNA extraction from stool for @nanoporetech.com's long read sequencing using Revolugen's FireMonkey kit. Who knew you could great such great 🧬 from 💩 for clinical #ONT diagnostics!

Next up from our group at @microbesng.bsky.social #MNGPopUp is Claire Hill talking about a novel pipeline she has developed for analysis of Transposon Insertion Sequencing #TraDIS data which looks at the raw signal to gain information of essentiality in absence of a fully annotate genome! 🤩🧬

Who is excited for an exciting day of #MicrobialGenomics with @microbesng.bsky.social #MNGPopUp #ECR conference? We are! Our students @stevenrudder.bsky.social & @nisbetalice.bsky.social will be giving talks on their #PhD in addition to our new Postdoc Claire Hill. Day full of great science ahead.

#I3S are you ready for the @langridgelab.bsky.social? After a long journey we are ready for a lovely few days listening to the latest in #Salmonella research, catching up with old friends & meeting new colleagues in St. Malo...

What a great key note presentation from @mariechattaway.bsky.social looking at the evolution of #AMR in #Salmonella over the lifetime of #publichealth surveillance. If you enjoyed Marie's talk, then there are many posters featuring work from others @ukhsa.bsky.social's surveillance team here at #I3S

Gotta say... It feels like our year! Keep an eye out for more Lagnridge Lab news coming soon! Thank you I3S for an fun few days full of salmonella science & networking with great colleagues & friends. Emma, Alice & @gemma-langridge.bsky.social have had an amazing time full of magnifique memories.