🎉📬 Hey Dropbox Users – Heads Up! Tomorrow, Wed 10th Dec 2025, is your last chance to get FREE DELIVERY from our Dropbox network before we take a little holiday break! 🎄 ✨ Collections resume on Wed 7th Jan 2026. Check the times of tomorrow's final collection here: microbesng.com/dropbox-netw... 💌

🧬OTD in 1952 Joshua Lederberg proposed the term "plasmid" for extrachromosomal hereditary genetic elements in bacteria 🦠 These tiny DNA molecules play a BIG role in #MolecularBiology, biotechnology & #MicrobialGenomics 🧫 Check out the original paper: doi.org/10.1152/phys... #Plasmid #MicroSky 🧪👨‍🔬📜

Look what I found! #Microbio25 @microbesng.bsky.social @plasmidsng.bsky.social

If need WHOLE PLASMID sequencing & you are in Norwich look no further! It's £10 per plasmid (ex VAT), we are a UK company & there's FREE shipping from our dropbox in JIC reception We have cool posters too 🤩 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social #CMINorwich25 #PlasmidSequencing

Looking for a UK company to validate your plasmid? Our @nanoporetech.com based WHOLE plasmid sequencing service costs £10, just send us a mini-prep 🧬 If you're in Manchester you can get free shipping too 📦 Chat to Carla & Olivija in AV Hill reception Feb 25th, 11-3pm— they're bringing 🧁 #MicroSky

I 💙 finding out what our customers do with the data that @microbesng.bsky.social send out! @meina.bsky.social et al have named 28 actinomycetes after amazing #WomenInScience 👩‍🔬 @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social are doing a post about each one & they're well worth a read! #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #IDsky

Is this not the finest lab crafted Christmas tree decoration you’ve ever seen? Courtesy of Amy Tooke!

Want a quick, easy & FREE way to post samples to us for sequencing?!? 📦 Look no further, we are rolling out DROPBOXES 🎉 Visit microbesng.com/dropbox to find the nearest box! Instructions are on the lid, fill in the form & we’ll take care of the rest! #MicroSky youtube.com/shorts/WMnjN...

Find out more about the inner workings of our oxford nanopore based whole plasmid sequencing service. Includes a prime example of why you should always validate your plasmids - even if they're commercial vectors! linkedin.com/pulse/high-q... #PlasmidSequencing #ProductDevelopment

Super cool research 👏 If you're using Reporter Assays check the plasmid is correct before starting 👉 plasmidsng.com Send a miniprep & for £10 get the WHOLE PLASMID sequence + interactive map, data delivery 1-5 days Want free delivery too 👉 microbesng.com/documents/dr... t.co/iQ6P1dF294 #Microsky

Want a quick, easy & FREE way to post samples to us for sequencing?!? 📦 Look no further, we are rolling out DROPBOXES 🎉 Visit microbesng.com/dropbox to find the nearest box! Instructions are on the lid, fill in the form & we’ll take care of the rest! #MicroSky youtube.com/shorts/WMnjN...

@drrebeccajhall.bsky.social presented some really cool work on transcriptional responses to MDR plasmid acquisition in E.coli at our Oxford Pop Up event #MNGPopUp @magdalenoxford.bsky.social 📽️ Watch the recording here & please share 👇 youtu.be/tQWLyk7q3Iw @alanmcn1.bsky.social @IMIBirmingham

10 years of plasmid finder 🎉🥰🤩 Loved hearing from Alessandra Carattoli! #ESCMIDGlobal2024 #ECCMID2024 #plasmids

Great talk from Alessandra Carattoli on plasmid typing, There are now over 60,000 available plasmid sequences 🎉 #ESCMIDGlobal2024 #ECCMID2024 #plasmids

It's getting busy in hall I, ready for “Decoding plasmids in diagnostics and infection control” #ESCMIDGlobal2024 #ECCMID2024 #plasmids

🌟 Dive into the fascinating world of plasmid evolution with Will Matlock's brilliant talk from our Oxford Pop Up event, now on YouTube 👉 'Gene essentiality shapes plasmid GC-content' youtu.be/snMchJCJQ5U @wtmatlock.bsky.social #ECR #MicrobialGenomics #MNGPopUp #Plasmids

Try our new Long-Read Sequencing service for improved de novo bacterial genome assemblies 🧬 Get 50X coverage for £85, with DNA extraction & bioinformatics included! 💰🦠🔍 Powered by @nanopore's latest technology 🚀 microbesng.com/request-quote/ #LongReadSequencing#MicrobialGenomics

Attention Birmingham! Easter changes to our dropbox collections (Biosciences & IBR stores) 📦 Last collection 27th Mar ❌ NO COLLECTION 3rd Apr 🔄 Pick up resumes 10th Apr EGG-citing changes coming soon! 🐣 Whole #Plasmid sequencing £10 plasmidsng.com Want a dropbox microbesng.com/documents/dr...

Beautiful paper we saw shared on the other place! "Table 1 has a straight-up list of golden gate overhangs that work well and play nice with each other, up to a 30-piece assembly. No more choosing four random bases and hoping". pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Dot's prize winning flash talk, from our #Oxford Pop Up event is now available! 🥇📽️ It's a fabulous talk so please like and share! 😍 'Risk factors for plasmid-mediated hospital outbreaks of CPE' by Dorottya Nagy from the Modernising Medical Microbiology group youtu.be/TQomyKoarbk #MNGPopUp #AMR

Our #microbiology stickers went down a storm at Pop Up Oxford last week  😍🦠 #Stickers #Science #shiny If anyone is still playing guess the microbe, 🤔 the answers are here! Got to love some lab swag! #MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics #ECR

Big shoutout to the amazing team at @microbesng.bsky.social on #InternationalWomensDay! ♀️ We've got lots of new people to introduce properly (and photograph!), but for now a heartfelt thank you for all that you do. #WomenInSTEM

@microbesng.bsky.social POP UP Oxford event has started! Great to be kicking off the session with a talk from @wtmatlock.bsky.social about #plasmids 🎉 and how they are evolving #MNGPopUp

This is going to be a great day! Lots of interesting talks involving plasmids as well 🎉🧬 Check out the agenda here; linktr.ee/microbesng Recordings of the talks will be available after the event, subscribe NOW youtube.com/@MicrobesNG #MNGPopUp

⏰ It's the LAST DAY to enter our GIVEAWAY! 🎁🎄🎅 You could win a set of GIANTmicrobes decorations for your tree. Our finance officer Ayodeji is very sad to see the little guys go! To enter go to www.linkedin.com/company/micr... 1️⃣ follow our page 2️⃣ like the post 3️⃣ tag a friend for an extra chance

If you are in Norwich and interested in rapid turn around whole plasmid sequencing for £10 (ex VAT) with a UK based company, drop by the Conference Centre tomorrow and chat to Helen about when our drop box collections take place 🎉

🚨 Reminder to submit your abstract for the microbesNG Pop Up Oxford conference 🚨 A (free!) day long conference on microbial genomics, on March 7th 2024 in Oxford. Submit your abstract here: www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Oxford_Abs...

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📽️ Check out Matt Jago's impressive research using deep sequencing to investigate 35 evolved populations of E.coli 🧬🦠👉 'Quantitative characterisation of antibiotic resistance mutation spectra' youtu.be/65uHgQ5r8C8 Our Pop Up events are designed to support ECR's linktr.ee/microbesng #MNGPopUp #AMR

Meet Yasir @yaasircheema Our Vice-Chair of #GGPakistan2023 National Selection Committee. Apply by 27th October 2023 getgenome.net/callforproje...

Did you know plasmids can form concatemers, dimers, trimers and tetramers?!? 🤯 You could check with a digest, but why not cut the faff & send it to us! We use nanopore long reads so you get the whole plasmid sequence FAST ⚡🧡⚡ Just send us a mini-prep! #MolecularBiology #cloning plasmidsng.com

Need to check your cloning has worked?!? 🏆💪 Our PlasmidSeq service uses nanopore long reads to give the sequence of your entire plasmid for just £10 ex VAT, all you need to do is send us a mini-prep! 🧪🧬 #MolecularBiology #PlasmidSequencing plasmidsng.com

🧬On the 1st October 1952 Joshua Lederberg proposed that we use the word "plasmid" for extrachromosomal hereditary genetic elements in bacteria 🦠. Plasmids are now indispensable tools for molecular biology🧫 Check out the original paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13003535/ #PlasmidPower 🧪👨‍🔬📜