Today wraps up an inspiring week in Heidelberg, Germany at @embl.org for the Human Microbiome Conference, where I shared my first #PostDoc project from @halllab.bsky.social Thank you to @amiposts.bsky.social for awarding me a travel grant to facilitate attending the conference! #EESMicrobiome

Such an engaged audience at #EESMicrobiome with lots of great questions after my talk! Big thanks to the organisers for inviting me to present some of the teams recent early life #microbiome work. Conference has been AMAZING so far!

A little tool I've developed: ExpEvoAnalyzer (github.com/samhorsfield...) - a snakemake pipeline that compares isolate paired-read data from an experimental evolution study to a reference isolate, producing functionally-annotated SNPs in a presence/absence matrix.

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... #microsky #microbiome

There are half a million cases of invasive non-Typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) every year and while you might know S. Typhimurim and Enteritidis, you may not have heard of S. Panama 💩 🩸 🧫 💊 Check out our latest in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.la... and the 🧵 below to find out more 1/n

Day 2 of IMI Summer school 2025 kicks off with some funky images from @contamclub.bsky.social and Mathematical modelling of an infectious disease with Rowland Seymour 🦠🦠🤢🤢

Practicing pipetting and making dilutions - great start to IMI Summer school 2025 with @hannahtriv.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social

And so it begins! IMI Summer school 2025 follow us for all the fun this week 🦠🦠

🌍 #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2025 At @halllab.bsky.social we’re uncovering how microbes - right from day one - help shape the gut, strengthen immunity, and protect against infection. We're exploring how, when, and which microbes colonise - in order to develop interventions for a healthier start to life.

🚨New Article🚨 Can next generation sequencing help us better understand the human #microbiome? Speaking with @halllab.bsky.social and @gilbertjacka.bsky.social we explore how #NGS is transforming microbiome research for health and disease. tinyurl.com/4awcpwz2 #Genomics #Microbiology #PublicHealth

(1/6) 🌟 Excited to share our new paper! Advancing microbiome safety assessments: opportunities, challenges & recommendations 🧫🦠 This work came out of an academic–industry workshop hosted by @microbiologysociety.org in early 2024. 🔗 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

1/12 🎉 We're excited to announce our Genome Medicine paper benchmarking 1000+ metagenomes (DNA) and metatranscriptomes (RNA) from infectious intestinal disease patients against pathogen diagnostics. The full dataset is public to accelerate pathogen discovery & surveillance: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

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A very nice example of the use of #metagenomics for diagnosis of rare #infections "Woman's eyesight saved by cutting-edge test after mystery infection" It was "a rare strain of the bacterial infection leptospirosis" #MicroSky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy to share the first preprint from my lab. Great work by Lewis Fisher and collaboration with Jukka Corander www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Importantly, the metagenomic tests provide results within 6–8 h" That's quick! #metagenomics #IDSky #ClinMicro #medsky @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our preprint on the bystander effect of antibiotics on the microbiome in severely ill adults with sepsis in Blantyre, Malawi 🇲🇼 is out! doi.org/10.1101/2025... We used metagenomics 🧬 + Bayesian modelling 📊 to track microbiome & resistome changes pre-, during, and post-treatment. (1/2)

Excited to share that my first chapter of my #PhD has been published! This was a real labour of love, using qualitative research to set the scene for current #infectiousdisease diagnostic landscapes and how #metagenomics could fit into clinical settings to diagnose infections 🥳 rdcu.be/efTsE

Fantastic talk from @raymondkiu.bsky.social on preterm infant gut microbiome in the Knocking Out AMR session this afternoon! Proud to be part of @halllab.bsky.social surrounded by great scientists and research 🧫🧬🥼 #Microbio25 @microbiologysociety.org

Well deserved Lindsay!! @halllab.bsky.social Amazing public engagement prize lecture at #Microbio2025 from my boss 😀 A role model in science comms #MicrobiomeSky @imibirmingham.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org

Find out what my amazing colleagues are working on at #Microbio2025 Luke: poster 263 (Iron transporter in Bifidobacterium) and Charlie: poster 255 (therapeutic Bifidobacterium for IBD). @lukeacton.bsky.social @charliejones17.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @imibirmingham.bsky.social

As part of British Science Week I was invited back to my sixth form to host a careers session with year 12 and year 13. It was great to go back and catch up with everyone, share insights into career opportunities in biological sciences and talk about my research! #BSW25 #careers #STEM

It was great to be back in Liverpool for the HPRU-GI conference, where I presented the conclusions of my PhD project. Thank you to everyone for the feedback, and those who identified opportunities to collaborate in the near future @livuni-ives.bsky.social #metagenomics #gastrointestinalinfections

UK Policy Engagement – Your Chance to Influence Science & Innovation 🧫 AMI invites you to contribute your expertise to key UK policy discussions. There are several ways you can get involved and make a difference:

🚨PhD Opportunity - please share!🚨 We’re hiring a PhD student to start Sept 2025: how do bacteria ‘tame’ phage parasites, and turn them into deadly Tailocins? Come join me, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, Patrick Cai & @raveentank.bsky.social as we study ZOMBIE PHAGES! findaphd.com/phds/project...

Microbiologist's latest article, "The True Cost of Science" explores the challenges of running a sustainable science business, including financial challenges, regulatory demands & the effect of AI Crobio 🔎 Medtechtomarket 🔎 @microbesng.bsky.social www.the-microbiologist.com/careers/the-...

Excited to share my latest article, delving into the multifaceted expenses that scientific companies face beyond research and laboratory costs, exploring how these enterprises balance innovation, investment, and sustainability to achieve success! #microbiology #diagnostics #sustainability #genomics🧬

Happy to finally share my first preprint from my PhD, looking into the drivers of implementing metagenomics into clinical laboratories 🧬 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #PhD #metagenomics #interpretivephenomenology #infection #microbiology #qualitativeresearch