💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥 Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠 Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC

⏰ Closing soon! We're looking for a Project Scientist to work on a project designing combinations of phages against Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) in swine. 💷 £29,890 🗓️ Apply by 16 November 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/wEGroUj

I’m delighted to have been awarded with a grant to support this new and exciting project, which is a proud career milestone for me! 😆 I’m now recruiting a Project Scientist to help on this project 🐷 Please see the recruitment advert below and apply via the link: shorturl.at/rIT8D

🚨 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...

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

Was great to chat with @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social about bacteriophages today! #phages

Happy to say this has now been published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🫁🦠 #Phages #Viromics www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Looking forward to presenting the latest results from the PhageLand project during the ‘Phages in Health and Remediation’ session at 4.30pm in Brown 1&2 at @femsmicro.org #FEMS2025 #phagesky #microsky

New pre-print alert! 🚨🫁 COPD affects millions worldwide. While we know bacterial dysbiosis drives disease, the role of bacteriophages remains unexplored. We re-analysed 135 COPD metagenomes to characterise the lung virome for the first time 🫁 1/9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join Dr @evelienadri.bsky.social‬ 's group to study bacteriophages, drug resistance and genetic evolution of Salmonella 🦠 💷 £36,720 to £39,750 🗓️ Apply by 2 July 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/7M2mDaa

🧬🐄 NEW PREPRINT: Really happy to finally share the last big piece of work from my PhD! Spoiler: Cows are great and so are their viromes 🧵1/13 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What a week in Lisbon! 🇵🇹 ViBioM 2025 brought 150+ virus bioinformaticians from 34 countries to explore viral evolution, ML tools, & taxonomy challenges. 🌱 All plant-based thanks to @desafiovegetariano! Huge thanks to organizers, speakers, and community! #ViBioM2025 #Viromics

Had a great time attending the #ViBioM2025 meeting in Lisbon this week with @ryancook94.bsky.social 🇵🇹☀️

Less than a week left to apply for this #PhD position!

Happy to be presenting my poster titled ‘Exploring phage-mediated adaptation of Ruminococcus gnavus to the human gut’ at the Microbiology Society conference today! Come find me at B78 🦠 #Microbio25

🎓 #PhDPosition available in my group! 🫁 Understanding the microbiome and phageome in chronic lung infections for the development of phage therapy with me & Prof Eleanor Mishra 📅 Apply by Monday 14 April ➡️ buff.ly/7v9JVDU Happy to answer questions, but don't send your CV through email.

We had a great time representing @quadraminstitute.bsky.social at Norwich Science Festival! ✨ Our ‘Fantastic Phages!’ stall had lots of great engagement! It was exciting to share our passion for bacteriophages and their ‘superhero’ qualities with the public 🦸🦠

It was great to be interviewed about our latest publication ‘Phage Diversity in One Health’. In the interview we discussed the importance of expanding phage diversity to support One Health! 🌍 Read the full interview below ⬇️

If you're in Norwich in February, check out the #MarvellousMicrobes trail, a microbial treasure hunt through the city. The activity was developed by @rapher97.bsky.social and @norwichmicro.bsky.social More information: norwichsciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/mar...

Had an incredible time in Newcastle at the 3rd VoM-UK meeting this week! 🦠 It was a privilege to present my PhD project and connect with so many amazing people ✨

I’m excited to share our latest preprint in collaboration with @Halllab.bsky.social In this work, led by PhD student James Docherty, we investigated the presence of #prophages and anti-phage defence systems in human-associated #bifidobacteria: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/4)

Yesterday we held the Student Science Showcase, with some great talks and posters from the student community at @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

We also had Xena present her work on Ruminococcus gnavus prophages today. Watch this space for the prophage discovery pipeline she developed! Quadram Student Science Showcase