Thanks D-BIOL for highlighting our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper on intracellular Salmonella virulence. We hope these strains will be a useful resource for the field!

Excited to share our latest work, where we create Salmonella mutants deficient for cohorts of SPI-2 T3SS effectors. These strains can be used to efficiently identify particular effectors that contribute to SPI-2 phenotypes doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Many of you in #AcademicBsky in the northern hemisphere might not know the dire state of Australian academia. This essay by Andrew Dean is a fair snapshot of the state of the sector. Thinking today especially of academics in some Aus unis facing mass job cuts ~ 3,000 jobs on the chopping block now.

Great week of science in New Hampshire at the Salmonella GRS/GRC. Thanks to the chairs for their hard work. Really nice to see a strong Aussie cohort here too. Looking forward to 2027!

Excited to be traveling to New Hampshire USA for the GRC Salmonella meeting, looking forward to some great discussion. But, since I'm traveling on Swiss National Day, first a quick farewell Raclette 🇨🇭 🧀 🥂

Antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella exploits post-antibiotic microbiota disruption to achieve virulence-dependent transmission

We're happy to share this example of how antibiotic treatment can promote clonal transmission of an invasive gut pathogen. We also explore the importance of preserving microbiota during treatment. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this paper! #MicroSky #IDSky www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Really nice to be back in Australia for a couple of weeks, going through Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Nice to trade snow for sunshine and catch up with friends, family, and colleagues around the country 🇦🇺 🍻 🌞

Excited to share this story describing new tools for studying Salmonella virulence. We engineered six multimutant strains to be deficient for different sets of SPI-2 T3SS effectors. We think there's lots of potential for new discoveries using these strains www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Coming to the end of a big week in Liverpool, great to share some of our work on pathogen transmission and antibiotic persistence. Thanks @jayhinton.bsky.social for hosting me at @liverpooluni.bsky.social and thanks to the Microbiology Society for the support to present at #FISHIS24