And it’s been a while since I dipped my toe into the questions of what ‘species’ might mean for bacteria, and how they relate to ecology. But still interests me! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Emerging models to study competitive interactions within bacterial communities www.cell.com/trends/micro... #jcampubs

Thrilled to announce that our work (w. with fantastic @neher.io and Liam Shaw) has been published on Molecular Biology and Evolution! 🎉 academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... Are you curious about how fast the genome of E.coli evolves structurally (gains, rearrangements...) ? 🧬 A summary thread [1/N]🧵

High-dose VE303, a bacterial consortium, reduced recurrent C. difficile infection risk by over 80% in phase 2 trials. Promising alternative to fecal transplants! #Microbiome PMID:39747680, Nat Med 2025, @NatureMedicine

New year, new assemblies! I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes! It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention. Check it out: github.com/rrwick/Autoc... (1/5)

Phylogenetic and functional diversity among Drosophila-associated metagenome-assembled genomes http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.12.19.629488v1

Published just in time for the holidays! I learned so much while writing about the past, present, and future of E. faecalis research with Gary. Check it out! 🦠🧫🧪🔬 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

End of year science thread: a few memorable papers that came out this year. 1) Beavan ft. @blackpassiflora.bsky.social and @jomcinerney.bsky.social found ML models predicted co-occurrence of many genes in microbial pangenomes. 🧪 1/7 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

relevant to a paper I just reviewed (and cited this paper bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....). Ppl seem resistant to this lesson...

A collaborative perspective on eco-evolutionary dynamics of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health.

Lovely week to finish the year for the @mossi-lab.bsky.social lab. @aidanfoo.bsky.social doing fantastic work at his viva and Ana Pitol securing a lecturer position @lstmnews.bsky.social!

Huge congratulations to Dr @aidanfoo.bsky.social who passed his viva yesterday! @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social @gemma-langridge.bsky.social

Thanks so much to the @unistrathclyde.bsky.social comms team to give us an extra shout-out on our recent #mosquito #microbiome bacterial isolate analyses! Extra gold star to @aidanfoo.bsky.social's outstanding coding & DataViz skills 🌟 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🧬💻 www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly...

If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while. So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet? Story here, 🧵 to come: 🧪#IDSky

Bactopia now supports AllTheBacteria assemblies! If you are planning secondary analyses, this feature allows you to seamlessly use Bactopia. To demonstrate this, here's a blog post using Bactopia to analyze 5400 L. pneumophila assemblies bactopia.github.io/latest/blog/...

on 𝕏: @PLOSBiology The #phylogenetic tree has been a core conceptual tool for #EvolutionaryBiology for nearly 200 years. @RoliRoberts explores the role of the tree as a metaphor, discussing two new #PLOSBiology Essays that look to the future plos.io/3VjDSU8

A new and very important study on the global evolutionary patterns of Yersinia pestis and its spread into Africa #MicroSky, #IDSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bifidobacteriaceae diversity in the human microbiome from a large-scale genome-wide analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39602306/

Lots of MosSI Lab representation at the LSTM 125th Scientific Symposium this week! @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social spoke about our Anopheles Wolbachia work.

Hot off the press - some light reading on Shigella sonnei! 🧪🧫🧬 With @ksbakes.bsky.social @yekwah.bsky.social @sydneylmiles.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social and a bunch of others not yet on bluesky
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I often get asked what is the best place to start to learn more about the human microbiome for those new to the field. I always default to this excellent collection that was put together by @npariente.bsky.social and Ashley York: www.nature.com/immersive/d4.... Any other good recommendations?

The @mossi-lab.bsky.social has several PhD projects on offer at LSTM. Flavours include Wolbachia in Anopheles, microbiome mosquito interactions, Wolbachia-microbiome interactions, & antiviral in mosquitoes. Students should apply to the LSTM PhD program - Applications close on the 4th of December!

Check out the new work from the MosSI lab in collaboration with @aidanfoo.bsky.social @laurabrettell.bsky.social @evaheinz7.bsky.social and heaps of others. MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Incredible graphic - the myriad of ways that bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics. 14 resistance mechanisms, summarised by Idan Yelin & Roy Kishony in Cell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...