Our new paper in MGen traces the evolution of a plasmid lineage associated with MDR in Enterococcus faecium, primarily driven by IS1216 For anyone interested in plasmid structures and the smaller MGEs that shape them 🧵👇 [1/14] @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

The first preprint from @izziepotterill.bsky.social PhD. A clone within ST131 clade C with a totally unique capsule region.

Maybe I am being grumpy, but can people please stop using poorly curated databases of antibiotic resistance genes (I am looking at you, DeepARG) on shotgun metagenomic data and then present these results without any reflection on their validity, or shortcomings of databases?

Happy Noodlococcus day to all those who celebrate! 🍜🧫🦠 We’re in 3 different continents now but all celebrating the 6th anniversary of the discovery of our noodle-y friend by eating some delicious noodles @prob91.bsky.social @biostan.bsky.social @gemccallum.bsky.social

🚨New pre-print 🚨 We introduce our new tool GOLD-GWAS and demonstrate its use by digging into the evolution of MRSA facilitated by SCCmec This work was led by talented PhD student @seungwonko.bsky.social who did most of the computational heavylifting 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New manuscript from the group 'IS1216 drives the evolution of pRUM-like multidrug resistance plasmids in Enterococcus faecium' www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... /1